This week’s recap highlights compendium of human gene functions derived from evolutionary modelling from the Gene Ontology Consortium, an AI reasoning model applied to rare disease diagnosis, an agentic AI for scRNA-seq data exploration, and applying FAIR principles to scientific workflows.

Aiming to spot some Open Access trends in scholarly publishing 2015–2024, on May 13, I retrieved publication volume data—specifically article-level outputs, excluding other document types—from OpenAlex, focusing on Open Access (OA) publishing trends and their respective modalities. Here, I share a brief overview of the results.

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1 Overview OLMo 2 1B is a new generation of open-source language models launched by the Allen Institute for AI, with a parameter scale of about 1 billion. It provides excellent natural language understanding and generation capabilities while maintaining a small size, and is suitable for a variety of downstream tasks.

What are the Europe PMC content sources? Europe PMC provides access to a wide range of over 46 million life science literature records, including: Europe PMC also includes full text author manuscripts supported by Europe PMC funders.

To be part of the rOpenSci Champions program has been an experience of professional growth and an opportunity to contribute to the rOpenSci community . I learned about R package development while working on a tool to facilitate access to census data from Argentina.

Ensure your scholarly-record is future proof — in this post learn what preservation means for various stakeholders and join us to learn about the PKP Preservation Network in a free webinar on May 20th, 8 AM PDT. Promotion of this event started during Preservation Week.

In early 2023, CWTS introduced a new organisational structure of so-called focal areas to address the challenges outlined in its knowledge agenda. As discussed in a previous post, the knowledge agenda is not another research agenda, but rather combines research and intervention around the mission of CWTS to better understand how research is practiced and governed, and how it serves society. The focal area Evaluation &

By Matt Boyd (Adapt Research Ltd & Islands for the Future of Humanity) (15 min read) TLDR/Summary Introduction In 1983 US President Ronald Reagan viewed two commercial films that influenced his thinking and subsequent US policy on nuclear weapons. The films were The Day After and WarGames. After watching WarGames, in which a computer hacker … Continue reading "Fictional Catastrophes, Reel Lessons: What 12 Critically Acclaimed Films Reveal About Surviving Global Catastrophes"

Lost in a dance of reactivity. Recalling some modified adages from previous notes: If a country shows you who they are, believe them. and Combine Occam’s Razor with ‘if it looks like a duck…’ to make: If it looks brutally stupid and/or stupidly brutal, then that is most likely what it is. To which can be added: Fool me first term, shame on you.

As a 2024-5 Open Future Fellow, I explored AI across the research and publishing lifecycle. The output of this research is available as a report here: https://openfuture.eu/publication/governing-the-scholarly-ai-commons Summary: In recent years, commercial publishers and information analytics companies have increased their reliance on AI-based technologies to conduct a range of tasks across the research lifecycle.