Helen King - Innovation Ideas
@innovationideas.bsky.social
Publishing Innovation & AI Strategy, Founder, Future Thinking, Systems Thinking, Easily distracted by anything new.
Newsletter: https://pubtechradar.substack.com/
Newsletter: https://pubtechradar.substack.com/
A new report from Scholastica and Maverick Publishing surveyed 83 small and medium journal publishers from 21 countries about their tech challenges: lp.scholasticahq.com/technology-n...
Some stats:
* Current AI adoption is limited. Only 8% of publishers are using AI tools extensively.
Some stats:
* Current AI adoption is limited. Only 8% of publishers are using AI tools extensively.
2025 Report: Technology Needs of Small and Medium Journal Publishers
Insights into smaller-sized publishers' technical priorities, from research integrity to AI adoption.
lp.scholasticahq.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
A new report from Scholastica and Maverick Publishing surveyed 83 small and medium journal publishers from 21 countries about their tech challenges: lp.scholasticahq.com/technology-n...
Some stats:
* Current AI adoption is limited. Only 8% of publishers are using AI tools extensively.
Some stats:
* Current AI adoption is limited. Only 8% of publishers are using AI tools extensively.
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Maverick’s Q4 Insider newsletter is out now – themed “Building a Foundation for Technical Success” with details on how a systematic audit and prioritized roadmap can provide a managed way to improve systems and the workflows that depend on them.
Read the insider: bit.ly/47vtn6q
Read the insider: bit.ly/47vtn6q
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Maverick’s Q4 Insider newsletter is out now – themed “Building a Foundation for Technical Success” with details on how a systematic audit and prioritized roadmap can provide a managed way to improve systems and the workflows that depend on them.
Read the insider: bit.ly/47vtn6q
Read the insider: bit.ly/47vtn6q
Why did Monday do this to us?
youtu.be/5Hkcw_j8js0?...
🎵 AI had the time of my life,
AI never felt this way before...🎵
Sometimes AI should stay in the corner!
youtu.be/5Hkcw_j8js0?...
🎵 AI had the time of my life,
AI never felt this way before...🎵
Sometimes AI should stay in the corner!
Meet monday sidekick - AI you’ll love to use
YouTube video by monday.com
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Why did Monday do this to us?
youtu.be/5Hkcw_j8js0?...
🎵 AI had the time of my life,
AI never felt this way before...🎵
Sometimes AI should stay in the corner!
youtu.be/5Hkcw_j8js0?...
🎵 AI had the time of my life,
AI never felt this way before...🎵
Sometimes AI should stay in the corner!
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New interview in the newsletter: Jonathan Woahn on how his startup Cashmere gives publishers control over their content in AI systems. As Jonathan puts it, they provide tools to manage entitlement, security, access, reporting, and turn-key RAG infrastructure. open.substack.com/pub/pubtechr...
Big Ideas in Publishing: Jonathan Woahn on AI Licensing Infrastructure
New interview: Jonathan Woahn on how his startup Cashmere gives publishers control over their content in AI systems. As Jonathan puts it, they provide tools to manage entitlement, security, access, re...
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
New interview in the newsletter: Jonathan Woahn on how his startup Cashmere gives publishers control over their content in AI systems. As Jonathan puts it, they provide tools to manage entitlement, security, access, reporting, and turn-key RAG infrastructure. open.substack.com/pub/pubtechr...
I built this quiz for an AI Safety Collab - Summer 2025 Program project. Takes 2 mins and tells you your AI safety personality
mine's pictured - try it? innovationideas.co.uk/aisafetyquiz/
mine's pictured - try it? innovationideas.co.uk/aisafetyquiz/
November 7, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I built this quiz for an AI Safety Collab - Summer 2025 Program project. Takes 2 mins and tells you your AI safety personality
mine's pictured - try it? innovationideas.co.uk/aisafetyquiz/
mine's pictured - try it? innovationideas.co.uk/aisafetyquiz/
I found Musk's discussion of how they’re building Grokipedia interesting in the latest All In podcast: youtu.be/j6_VfR-CyuM. Grok is teaching itself reasoning, then rewriting ~1M Wikipedia pages. The goal: a self-updating, “maximally truth-seeking” AI that fixes errors and filters bias.
Elon Musk: 3 Years of X, OpenAI Lawsuit, Bill Gates, Grokipedia & The Future of Everything
YouTube video by All-In Podcast
youtu.be
November 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I found Musk's discussion of how they’re building Grokipedia interesting in the latest All In podcast: youtu.be/j6_VfR-CyuM. Grok is teaching itself reasoning, then rewriting ~1M Wikipedia pages. The goal: a self-updating, “maximally truth-seeking” AI that fixes errors and filters bias.
Very interested in this and already have my ticket 🎟️. Looking forward to it 🧠🤖: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Book Launch Event - Psychology of AI - London | BCS Publishing
Join us in London next Tuesday, 28 October for the launch of The Psychology of AI Decision Making by Chris Ambler BSc (Hons) FBCS GMBPsS
The event is being hosted by The British Psychological Societ...
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October 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Very interested in this and already have my ticket 🎟️. Looking forward to it 🧠🤖: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
📢 A British start-up, Books By People, is introducing an 'Organic Literature' certification to help readers identify books written by humans rather than machines. The first certified title, Telenovela by Gonzalo C Garcia, is due out next month, published by Galley Beggar Press.
🔗 booksbypeople.org
🔗 booksbypeople.org
Books By People | Defending Organic Literature in an AI world
Books by People's mission is to safeguard human creativity in modern literature by helping publishers and authors to certify their books as human-authored, with a process readers can trust.
booksbypeople.org
October 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
📢 A British start-up, Books By People, is introducing an 'Organic Literature' certification to help readers identify books written by humans rather than machines. The first certified title, Telenovela by Gonzalo C Garcia, is due out next month, published by Galley Beggar Press.
🔗 booksbypeople.org
🔗 booksbypeople.org
New #GenerativeAIforCuriousPeople post inspired by Sam Altman’s comment that OpenAI is processing 3.15 quadrillion tokens. I had to look up what a quadrillion was (15 zeros) & then I wondered what else is counted in Quadrillions…
generativeaiforcuriouspeople.substack.com/p/quadrillio...
generativeaiforcuriouspeople.substack.com/p/quadrillio...
Quadrillions of tokens
Quadrillions?
generativeaiforcuriouspeople.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
New #GenerativeAIforCuriousPeople post inspired by Sam Altman’s comment that OpenAI is processing 3.15 quadrillion tokens. I had to look up what a quadrillion was (15 zeros) & then I wondered what else is counted in Quadrillions…
generativeaiforcuriouspeople.substack.com/p/quadrillio...
generativeaiforcuriouspeople.substack.com/p/quadrillio...
Periodic Labs: A new $300 million seed-backed startup aiming to build “AI scientists” — autonomous systems that hypothesise, run physical experiments, gather data, learn, iterate — especially in the physical sciences. They’re starting with materials/superconductors.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FoW...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FoW...
Building an AI Physicist: ChatGPT Co-Creator’s Next Venture
YouTube video by a16z
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October 1, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Periodic Labs: A new $300 million seed-backed startup aiming to build “AI scientists” — autonomous systems that hypothesise, run physical experiments, gather data, learn, iterate — especially in the physical sciences. They’re starting with materials/superconductors.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FoW...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FoW...
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"The research community doesn’t necessarily want ‘peer review’ — it wants quality assurance, fraud detection, constructive feedback, ethical oversight, and credible validation." @innovationideas.bsky.social / @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social
Peer Review in Transition: Helen King and Christopher Leonard on AI and the Future of Peer Review - The Scholarly Kitchen
Today, we talk to thought leaders Helen King and Chris Leonard, who offer a nuanced look at how peer review might adapt, fracture, or reinvent itself in the AI era.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
September 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
"The research community doesn’t necessarily want ‘peer review’ — it wants quality assurance, fraud detection, constructive feedback, ethical oversight, and credible validation." @innovationideas.bsky.social / @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social
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Maverick’s copywriting services help scholarly publishers use the written word to reach their audience in a variety of ways. Learn more and see examples in our new blog post
“Get the Message Out with Maverick’s Copywriting Services” bit.ly/3UZ3NzC
“Get the Message Out with Maverick’s Copywriting Services” bit.ly/3UZ3NzC
September 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Maverick’s copywriting services help scholarly publishers use the written word to reach their audience in a variety of ways. Learn more and see examples in our new blog post
“Get the Message Out with Maverick’s Copywriting Services” bit.ly/3UZ3NzC
“Get the Message Out with Maverick’s Copywriting Services” bit.ly/3UZ3NzC
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A new post for Maverick’s Insider blog provides complete details of our Interim Placement services, including examples of how we’ve solved staffing challenges for numerous publishers.
Read “Solve Staffing Challenges with Interim Support” bit.ly/3JkuBb1
Read “Solve Staffing Challenges with Interim Support” bit.ly/3JkuBb1
August 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
A new post for Maverick’s Insider blog provides complete details of our Interim Placement services, including examples of how we’ve solved staffing challenges for numerous publishers.
Read “Solve Staffing Challenges with Interim Support” bit.ly/3JkuBb1
Read “Solve Staffing Challenges with Interim Support” bit.ly/3JkuBb1
Fascinating - both the story and the robot. Is this Marketing or Art?
thenomadsalon.substack.com/p/ai-da-and-...
thenomadsalon.substack.com/p/ai-da-and-...
Ai-Da and the Art of Storytelling: Reflections on Art, AI, and the Market
When a robot sells art for over $1M, what is the collector really buying? A reflection on Ai-Da, authorship, and the art market’s blurred lines.
thenomadsalon.substack.com
August 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Fascinating - both the story and the robot. Is this Marketing or Art?
thenomadsalon.substack.com/p/ai-da-and-...
thenomadsalon.substack.com/p/ai-da-and-...
From @pressgazette.co.uk: A PR agency is flogging an AI that auto-generates expert quotes with fictional bios and pre-written charm aimed at Journalists. It’s fast and it's scalable, but do we really want to live in this kind of world?
🔗 pressgazette.co.uk/news/pr-agen...
🔗 pressgazette.co.uk/news/pr-agen...
PR agency sells AI tool which sends out automated expert comment to journalists
A PR agency is selling an AI tool which automatically answers pitches from journalists on services such as ResponseSource, HARO and Qwoted.
pressgazette.co.uk
July 23, 2025 at 8:37 AM
From @pressgazette.co.uk: A PR agency is flogging an AI that auto-generates expert quotes with fictional bios and pre-written charm aimed at Journalists. It’s fast and it's scalable, but do we really want to live in this kind of world?
🔗 pressgazette.co.uk/news/pr-agen...
🔗 pressgazette.co.uk/news/pr-agen...
Interesting listen - This episode of The Inquiry discusses the trade-offs between productivity and mental acuity in the digital age: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Inquiry - Is AI eroding our critical thinking? - BBC Sounds
Are we allowing AI to make our brains lazy?
www.bbc.co.uk
July 22, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Interesting listen - This episode of The Inquiry discusses the trade-offs between productivity and mental acuity in the digital age: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
A reminder of how pervasive gender bias can be. This study found that when given identical profiles, ChatGPT’s o3 model recommended a $280,000 target salary for a woman versus $400,000 for a man solely based on gender:
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...
ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds
A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.
thenextweb.com
July 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
A reminder of how pervasive gender bias can be. This study found that when given identical profiles, ChatGPT’s o3 model recommended a $280,000 target salary for a woman versus $400,000 for a man solely based on gender:
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...
New study from the Max‑Planck Institute: ChatGPT has begun influencing human speech. Analysis of over 740,000 hours of academic podcasts and YouTube lectures shows a significant surge in ChatGPT‑preferred vocabulary such as “delve,” “comprehend” and “meticulous” since 2022.
arxiv.org/pdf/2409.01754
arxiv.org/pdf/2409.01754
July 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
New study from the Max‑Planck Institute: ChatGPT has begun influencing human speech. Analysis of over 740,000 hours of academic podcasts and YouTube lectures shows a significant surge in ChatGPT‑preferred vocabulary such as “delve,” “comprehend” and “meticulous” since 2022.
arxiv.org/pdf/2409.01754
arxiv.org/pdf/2409.01754
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Think Selection Managing Director, Danny Parnes, explains how he goes about identifying and recruiting candidates with the skills and expertise that reflect the new landscape of publishing.
Read “Recruitment trends in publishing: Adapting to a changing landscape” bit.ly/40aTJ9D
Read “Recruitment trends in publishing: Adapting to a changing landscape” bit.ly/40aTJ9D
July 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Think Selection Managing Director, Danny Parnes, explains how he goes about identifying and recruiting candidates with the skills and expertise that reflect the new landscape of publishing.
Read “Recruitment trends in publishing: Adapting to a changing landscape” bit.ly/40aTJ9D
Read “Recruitment trends in publishing: Adapting to a changing landscape” bit.ly/40aTJ9D
A long and interesting read from Nicholas Carr. A historical critique of our obsession with 'informational compression'. He makes a compelling case that the tech world’s love of efficiency risks draining the richness, soul, & meaning from the world: www.newcartographies.com/p/against-co...
Against Compression
Let me not boil it down for you.
www.newcartographies.com
July 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
A long and interesting read from Nicholas Carr. A historical critique of our obsession with 'informational compression'. He makes a compelling case that the tech world’s love of efficiency risks draining the richness, soul, & meaning from the world: www.newcartographies.com/p/against-co...
Fame at last! Really touched to get a shoutout from @georgewalkley.com during his fantastic talk, AI: Threats and Opportunities for Publishers, at the PLS conference today. Great insights and perspectives.
Link to AI in academic publishing case studies list: coda.io/d/AI-Powered...
Link to AI in academic publishing case studies list: coda.io/d/AI-Powered...
July 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Fame at last! Really touched to get a shoutout from @georgewalkley.com during his fantastic talk, AI: Threats and Opportunities for Publishers, at the PLS conference today. Great insights and perspectives.
Link to AI in academic publishing case studies list: coda.io/d/AI-Powered...
Link to AI in academic publishing case studies list: coda.io/d/AI-Powered...
The web is no longer an open picnic for AI. Cloudflare’s new Pay-Per-Crawl feature lets publishers charge bots per request, dusting off the HTTP 402 code and handing creators more control: blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-...
Introducing Pay per crawl- enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access
Pay per crawl is a new feature to allow content creators to charge AI crawlers for access to their content.
blog.cloudflare.com
July 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The web is no longer an open picnic for AI. Cloudflare’s new Pay-Per-Crawl feature lets publishers charge bots per request, dusting off the HTTP 402 code and handing creators more control: blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-...
“Afterlife” is a wonderfully creative yet utterly disturbing example of AI storytelling. It's evocative, unsettling, and well-crafted. It pulls you into a world where bots and avatars feel eerily human and alive. #AI #Veo3
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Iig...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Iig...
Afterlife: The Unseen Lives of AI Actors Between Prompts
YouTube video by BinaryImagination AI
www.youtube.com
June 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM
“Afterlife” is a wonderfully creative yet utterly disturbing example of AI storytelling. It's evocative, unsettling, and well-crafted. It pulls you into a world where bots and avatars feel eerily human and alive. #AI #Veo3
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Iig...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Iig...
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A nice starter AI-Scholarly Publishing list here from Helen King @innovationideas.bsky.social - including @clearskiesadam.bsky.social, Tim Vines @dataseerai.bsky.social Thad, @ianmulvany.bsky.social and @jayaisdg.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/pulse/30-peo...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/30-peo...
30 People to Follow at the Intersection of AI and Academic Publishing
These 30 people are navigating AI's impact on academic publishing from the front lines. Whether they're technologists experimenting with new workflows, librarians exploring new research assistants, or...
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June 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
A nice starter AI-Scholarly Publishing list here from Helen King @innovationideas.bsky.social - including @clearskiesadam.bsky.social, Tim Vines @dataseerai.bsky.social Thad, @ianmulvany.bsky.social and @jayaisdg.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/pulse/30-peo...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/30-peo...
Westminster seems to have finally remembered that the creative industries exist. Proposal for a new "Creative Content Exchange as a marketplace for selling, buying, licensing, and enabling permitted access to digitised cultural and creative assets":
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/685943...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/685943...
June 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Westminster seems to have finally remembered that the creative industries exist. Proposal for a new "Creative Content Exchange as a marketplace for selling, buying, licensing, and enabling permitted access to digitised cultural and creative assets":
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/685943...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/685943...