Dr's appointments mainly

I say all this as somebody who grew up in Belgium (where everybody has an ID card)

I can see a v valid "UK gov is not good at big IT projects" argument. Then again maybe it'll be like the new passport renewal service and we'll all be pleasantly surprised

to be clear: (1) not just STEM journals (2) for both commercial and non-commercial use (3) the abstracts or summary of the work, not the full output (for which if it's not open access you should pay, that's fine)

I realise that this isn't new news and that absolutely nobody was pinning any hopes on ResearchGate in the first place. It just felt apt. It's 2025, would be nice to have a bunch of success stories

Not sure article is correct - it’s 80% of grants from the ten funders the cited WHO study looked at data from, I think, rather than 80% of all funding (funding data is notoriously hard to collate / analyze). I mean, it’s got to be a big chunk, maybe even the biggest chunk - but not 80%

Anyway, please know that if I didn’t laugh at a joke you once told at a conference this was why

Genuinely though, it was like that feeling when your glasses prescription changes and you come out of the optician going… oh, I’ve actually been missing quite a lot

And that’s just me, etc.

In case you forgot what the dotcom boom was like Ananova got bought by Orange for £95M

Again - full text is different. I can even see the argument for references. But abstracts! Come on guys

Moral angle aside, you just end up locking out academic, non-profit and open infrastructure use so that you can sell to a bunch of VC funded AI companies who are about a year and a half away from royally screwing you over

Next on the list is people who don't put <meta> tags on webpages but suspect that ship has sailed