Olly Rickard
@orickard.bsky.social
Product manager at Atypon exploring innovative ways to leverage technology in advancing research
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I thought this was an interesting take: spyglass.org/cynical-read...
A Cynical Read on Anthropic's Book Settlement
$1.5B. Damn. Who can afford to pay that?
spyglass.org
September 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I thought this was an interesting take: spyglass.org/cynical-read...
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Tim Vines, founder of @dataseerai.bsky.social, has been thinking about the future of research publishing for some time. His latest idea, what if publishers created AI-optimized versions of research articles and sold them as premium subscriptions?
Big Ideas in Publishing: Tim Vines on AI Subscriptions
How creating AI-ready research content could unlock entirely new revenue streams
open.substack.com
July 31, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Tim Vines, founder of @dataseerai.bsky.social, has been thinking about the future of research publishing for some time. His latest idea, what if publishers created AI-optimized versions of research articles and sold them as premium subscriptions?
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Should LLMs be used to review papers? AAAI is piloting LLM-generated reviews this year. I wrote a blog post arguing that using LLMs as reviewers can have bad downstream consequences for science by centralizing judgments about what constitutes good research.
bryanwilder.github.io/files/llmrev...
bryanwilder.github.io/files/llmrev...
Equilibrium effects of LLM reviewing
Equilibrium effects of LLM reviewing
bryanwilder.github.io
May 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Should LLMs be used to review papers? AAAI is piloting LLM-generated reviews this year. I wrote a blog post arguing that using LLMs as reviewers can have bad downstream consequences for science by centralizing judgments about what constitutes good research.
bryanwilder.github.io/files/llmrev...
bryanwilder.github.io/files/llmrev...
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FYI, new resource from the #DefendResearch team behind the Declaration--a public list of statements responding to threats from Trump & co. Check out the list and use the linked form to submit suggestions of additional statements to add. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
May 16, 2025 at 4:39 AM
FYI, new resource from the #DefendResearch team behind the Declaration--a public list of statements responding to threats from Trump & co. Check out the list and use the linked form to submit suggestions of additional statements to add. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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📉 Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince reveals AI's growing web traffic impact: Google now scrapes 6 pages per user click, OpenAI 250, and Anthropic 6,000! Undermining the traditional web business model, time to reevaluate how online content is monetized and accessed? Video: www.cfr.org/event/bernar....
Bernard L. Schwartz Annual Lecture With Matthew Prince of Cloudflare
Cloudflare Cofounder and CEO Matthew Prince discusses developments in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity technologies, countering national security threats and advancing technological research…
www.cfr.org
May 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
📉 Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince reveals AI's growing web traffic impact: Google now scrapes 6 pages per user click, OpenAI 250, and Anthropic 6,000! Undermining the traditional web business model, time to reevaluate how online content is monetized and accessed? Video: www.cfr.org/event/bernar....
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Love this! Institutional leaders please take note!!!
Coinciding with it's "No" letter Harvard has refashioned its university homepage into essentially an advertisement for the social benefits of university research. This is the current front page.
April 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Love this! Institutional leaders please take note!!!
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List rating AI search tools. Criteria can be found at doi.org/10.55999/joh.... "we determined that Consensus, Evidence Hunt, Lens,org, Semantic Scholar were the most useful tools, having a ranking of 9 out of 10. Elicit,Litmaps, OpenAlex & Scinapse closely followed with 8 out of 10" (1)
March 29, 2025 at 3:19 AM
List rating AI search tools. Criteria can be found at doi.org/10.55999/joh.... "we determined that Consensus, Evidence Hunt, Lens,org, Semantic Scholar were the most useful tools, having a ranking of 9 out of 10. Elicit,Litmaps, OpenAlex & Scinapse closely followed with 8 out of 10" (1)
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Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads
Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads
Anecdotal evidence suggests a rise in requests to take books off shelves, particularly LGBTQ+ titles
Requests to remove books from library shelves are on the rise in the UK, as the influence of pressure groups behind book bans in the US crosses the Atlantic, according to those working in the sector.
Although “the situation here is nowhere [near] as bad, censorship does happen and there are some deeply worrying examples of library professionals losing their jobs and being trolled online for standing up for intellectual freedom on behalf of their users”, said Louis Coiffait-Gunn, CEO of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (Cilip). Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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📝 A large-scale study finds OpenAlex comparable to Web of Science & Scopus in reference coverage with strengths in ORCID capture but mixed results in other metadata, supporting its promise as a trustworthy open-source bibliometric tool.
🔓 Details: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#OpenScience
🔓 Details: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#OpenScience
Reference coverage analysis of OpenAlex compared to Web of Science and Scopus - Scientometrics
OpenAlex is a promising open source of scholarly metadata, and competitor to established proprietary sources, such as the Web of Science and Scopus. As OpenAlex provides its data freely and openly, it...
link.springer.com
April 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
📝 A large-scale study finds OpenAlex comparable to Web of Science & Scopus in reference coverage with strengths in ORCID capture but mixed results in other metadata, supporting its promise as a trustworthy open-source bibliometric tool.
🔓 Details: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#OpenScience
🔓 Details: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#OpenScience
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An interactive map shows where IMLS funding is / was by state. I found this info very helpful for sharing locally about what such "invisible" support infrastructure provides for our communities. 2// www.imls.gov/map
IMLS Interactive Map
www.imls.gov
April 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
An interactive map shows where IMLS funding is / was by state. I found this info very helpful for sharing locally about what such "invisible" support infrastructure provides for our communities. 2// www.imls.gov/map
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New from me: Creating the Publishing Platforms that Next-Gen Professionals Expect scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/02/27/c... @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social @scholarlypub.bsky.social #PubTech #Workflow #NextGenProfessionals
Creating the Publishing Platforms that Next-Gen Professionals Expect - The Scholarly Kitchen
Will the next generation of professions be impressed with the content platforms and workflow tools we currently have? Angela Cochran imagines a world where we meet the challenge of modernized systems.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
February 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
New from me: Creating the Publishing Platforms that Next-Gen Professionals Expect scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/02/27/c... @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social @scholarlypub.bsky.social #PubTech #Workflow #NextGenProfessionals
Brilliant comprehensive review of the spiteful chaos inflicted on the scientific community by the new US "administration"
This blog post examines how recent policies threaten not just individual researchers, but scientific inquiry as a whole. In an era where misinformation masquerades as policy, the distinction between truth and lies has never been more consequential.
tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/truth...
tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/truth...
Truth vs Lies
Scientific progress has long been built on a foundation of truth; objective evidence, rigorous peer review, and open discourse. But when political interference distorts research funding, censors langu...
tonyhopedale.com
February 25, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Brilliant comprehensive review of the spiteful chaos inflicted on the scientific community by the new US "administration"
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I talk about this a lot with my consulting hat on. The financial pressures on libraries to cover the costs of the ever-increasing article output, and the drivers of research misconduct, are driven in large part by the way we incentivise and measure researchers (1)
February 25, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I talk about this a lot with my consulting hat on. The financial pressures on libraries to cover the costs of the ever-increasing article output, and the drivers of research misconduct, are driven in large part by the way we incentivise and measure researchers (1)
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NEW: The Washington Post has pulled out of an agreement to run an ad in its newspaper criticising Elon Musk. This is despite signing an agreement to publish it.
Democracy dies in darkness.
Here is the ad. Let’s share it far and wide! Screw the Post.
Democracy dies in darkness.
Here is the ad. Let’s share it far and wide! Screw the Post.
February 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
NEW: The Washington Post has pulled out of an agreement to run an ad in its newspaper criticising Elon Musk. This is despite signing an agreement to publish it.
Democracy dies in darkness.
Here is the ad. Let’s share it far and wide! Screw the Post.
Democracy dies in darkness.
Here is the ad. Let’s share it far and wide! Screw the Post.
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Resist the assault on research and education! Sign the open Declaration To #DefendResearch Against US Gov Censorship! Sign now! Share everywhere! Help make this action go viral! #scholcomm #academisky #academichatter #sciencesky #openscience #resist tinyurl.com/3bwuc38f
Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship
This Declaration is a call to action for the scholarly communication community and additional stakeholders to condemn and resist recent acts by the U.S. government to censor scholarly research.
We ca...
tinyurl.com
February 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Resist the assault on research and education! Sign the open Declaration To #DefendResearch Against US Gov Censorship! Sign now! Share everywhere! Help make this action go viral! #scholcomm #academisky #academichatter #sciencesky #openscience #resist tinyurl.com/3bwuc38f
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It’s insight like this which justifies the power these men wield.
February 16, 2025 at 10:53 AM
It’s insight like this which justifies the power these men wield.
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Folks, this is a great opportunity to come together. See you there? In the meantime, please SIGN and amplify this public call to #defendresearch from censorship, re-segregation: All welcome irrp of field, language, location, level of expertise. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
February 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Folks, this is a great opportunity to come together. See you there? In the meantime, please SIGN and amplify this public call to #defendresearch from censorship, re-segregation: All welcome irrp of field, language, location, level of expertise. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Proud to be playing a small part in resisting US government censorship of research along w/ @rouhiroo.bsky.social @camitchell.bsky.social @petersuber.bsky.social & esp @lschiff.bsky.social whose idea this was. If you care about what’s happening please sign the Declaration! #DefendResearch
RE the Trump admin’s assault on academic freedom we call on the #scholcomm community to sign this Declaration To #DefendResearch Against US Gov Censorship: tinyurl.com/2dyadwzr | @lschiff.bsky.social, @alicemeadows.bsky.social, @camitchell.bsky.social @rouhiroo.bsky.social, @petersuber.bsky.social
Declaration To Defend Research Against Government Censorship
Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship, V.1.1 Drafted by Lisa Schiff (@lschiff.bsky.social), Alice Meadows (@alicemeadows.bsky.social), Catherine Mitchell (@camitchell.bsky....
tinyurl.com
February 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Proud to be playing a small part in resisting US government censorship of research along w/ @rouhiroo.bsky.social @camitchell.bsky.social @petersuber.bsky.social & esp @lschiff.bsky.social whose idea this was. If you care about what’s happening please sign the Declaration! #DefendResearch
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Does having the best song make you the most attractive whale? And do whales have 'pop music'?
Why whale song is like pop music | The Royal Society
Does whale song spread like pop music? 🐋🎸 Why do humpback whales sing and how far do their songs travel around the world? Subscribe to our channel for exci...
buff.ly
February 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Does having the best song make you the most attractive whale? And do whales have 'pop music'?
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🔖 New guide covers what to include in your journal update policies and technical procedures for handling updates per the latest guidelines from COPE, @crossref.bsky.social, and @nisoinfo.bsky.social.
#SciencePublishing #ResearchIntegrity
#SciencePublishing #ResearchIntegrity
How to report journal article updates: the policy recommendations and technical practices editors need to know
Is your journal prepared to handle situations where an article may require a correction? Learn the current research integrity policy and procedure guidelines to follow in this blog post.
blog.scholasticahq.com
February 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
🔖 New guide covers what to include in your journal update policies and technical procedures for handling updates per the latest guidelines from COPE, @crossref.bsky.social, and @nisoinfo.bsky.social.
#SciencePublishing #ResearchIntegrity
#SciencePublishing #ResearchIntegrity
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Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic.
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
globalnews.ca
February 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic.
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
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Can we measure the impact of political ideology on research? Yes! By analyzing publications data in Dimensions.
Senior Data Scientist @helenedraux.bsky.social writes, "The politics of genetics: how ideology shaped science in the former Soviet Union".
🔗 researchmusings.substack.com/p/the-politi...
Senior Data Scientist @helenedraux.bsky.social writes, "The politics of genetics: how ideology shaped science in the former Soviet Union".
🔗 researchmusings.substack.com/p/the-politi...
The politics of genetics: how ideology shaped science in the former Soviet Union
Research data bite 15.
researchmusings.substack.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Can we measure the impact of political ideology on research? Yes! By analyzing publications data in Dimensions.
Senior Data Scientist @helenedraux.bsky.social writes, "The politics of genetics: how ideology shaped science in the former Soviet Union".
🔗 researchmusings.substack.com/p/the-politi...
Senior Data Scientist @helenedraux.bsky.social writes, "The politics of genetics: how ideology shaped science in the former Soviet Union".
🔗 researchmusings.substack.com/p/the-politi...
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AHA exec director @jgrossman.bsky.social, @oah.org president @dblight.bsky.social, & OAH exec director Beth English co-authored an article, "Trump May Wish to Abolish the Past. We Historians Will Not" for @newrepublic.com on the executive order, “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling.” 🗃️
Trump May Wish to Abolish
the Past. We Historians Will Not.
Commentary from the heads of two prominent historical associations on Trump’s recent executive order on “radical indoctrination” in schools.
newrepublic.com
February 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
AHA exec director @jgrossman.bsky.social, @oah.org president @dblight.bsky.social, & OAH exec director Beth English co-authored an article, "Trump May Wish to Abolish the Past. We Historians Will Not" for @newrepublic.com on the executive order, “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling.” 🗃️
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"facts are under attack...The purpose of journalists is to establish them... these methods are similar to those used by scientists...it is no coincidence these professional categories are the ones that have the most been exposed to Trump's wrath" www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
Fighting for facts in the era of Trump and Musk
EDITORIAL. The alliance between Donald Trump and social media platform bosses such as Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg represents a global threat to free access to reliable information. Le Monde has ther...
www.lemonde.fr
January 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"facts are under attack...The purpose of journalists is to establish them... these methods are similar to those used by scientists...it is no coincidence these professional categories are the ones that have the most been exposed to Trump's wrath" www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...