Scott C Edmunds
@scedmunds
Iranian-Scottish Londoner lost in the East, trying to get his head around scientific data and publishing
After previous "wobbles" I don't know if its permanently gone (especially as the entire @gigascience.bsky.social gigasciencejournal.com domain is also down) but GigaBlog no longer loads. To access back content I made sure everything was archived in Rogue Scholar rogue-scholar.org/communities/...
Please try out theSindex and give us feedback on our tool that measures the network impact of datasets thesindex.org
Great to see a #GIGAVI keynote by Marcela Uliano-Silva @marcelauliano.bsky.social on an atlas of molluscan genomics. Marcela has a long history working on these species, you can see her 2018 TEDtalk on crowdfunding the golden mussel genome that we loved at #BauhiniaGenome youtu.be/IOPEPnQYoOE?...
Agostinho ending talking about the potential of huge harmonized resources of venom genes, coupled with ML/AI to facilitate classification and the design of peptides with desired pharmacological properties. See @gigascience.bsky.social papers doi.org/10.1093/giga... & doi.org/10.1093/giga... #GIGAVI
Blast from the past here in Boracay watching Agostinho Antunes give a keynote at #GIGAVI setting the scene presenting many genomes I helped publish at @gigascience.bsky.social including the avian phylogenomics project (academic.oup.com/gigascience/...) and the giant squid doi.org/10.1093/giga...
#FORCE2026 may be over, but the collocated #DataCiteConnect2026 workshop is now kicking off to discuss all things @datacite.org
That went fast. Closing #FORCE2026 remarks now from conference host and co-Chair Bella Ratmelia from SMU. Seeing myself from the organising committee, Bella and the local team did an incredible job. It really felt a like lot of the original "Beyond the PDF" spirit and energy finally made it to Asia
Contrasting FAIR data, Ginny Barbour introducing us to the concept of BADDR data - relating to negative discourse for First Nations people. Blaming data Aggregating data Decontextualising data Deficit, government priority data Restricted Access data #FORCE2026
Jinny saying medical journals need to tell uncomfortable stories. Examples of Editorials from MJA on the inhuman treatment of asylum seekers, how they’ve handled indigenous health (when it was historically a settler journal) with series handled by indigenous guest editors #FORCE2026
Cool to hear Ginny Barbour’s origin story with a “tale of 3 journals” in her #FORCE2026 keynote. Hearing about her time (and the journal history) at Lancet, PLOS Medicine, and the Medical Journal of Australia
Sean Mooney now talking at #FORCE2026 about Reusable, Interoperable, Scalable digital ecosystems for AI-driven biomedicine. Speaking with his experience as the first scientist to Direct the NIH Centre for IT
Day 2 of #FORCE2026 ending with a panel on recognising research data in tenure and promotion. @kristiholmes.bsky.social starting off talking about @makedatacount.bsky.social and IDEA (Institutional Data Evaluation and Assessment)
Up now at #FORCE2026 Susanna Sansone is presenting the TIER2 interventional study looking at journal policy checklists and developing a handbook. It was great to participate in this for @gigascience.bsky.social
Just finished an interactive #FORCE2026 BoF with @danielskatz.org discussing the challenges of AI+software+ethics with a great audience. This covered the issues outlined in our (and @mhmdhsini.bsky.social) Scholarly Kitchen guest post scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/28/g...
Aster Zhao from HKUST now presenting a comparison between human, AI-assisted and AI-dominant systematic review production. Funny she used an Elsevier paper to benchmark as it was useful using work in the most closed access publisher as it likely wouldn’t have been crawled #FORCE2026
Ian Mulvaney keynote on AI at #FORCE2026 very nicely setting up a lot of good background for the AI software ethics BoF @danielskatz.org and I are hosting this afternoon
Excited #FORCE2026 kicking off in Singapore, @chodacki.bsky.social welcoming us and giving some background on the story so far with @force11.bsky.social for the newbs among the >130 attendees
At #FORCE2026 @force11.bsky.social meeting in Singapore, the pre-conference workshops are now kicking off and I’m helping Evgeny Bobrov run the Data Usage Typology WG workshop. We want this to be hands on with attendees data
The write-up of the #MedHackathon Asia 2025 gathering in Burapha Uni I attended is out now. Great OUP managed to get collaborative authorship to work for this as they've messed this up in the past doi.org/10.1093/giga...
Why have I never come across BOSS before? My new #1 target journal. The Biannual Online-Journal of Springsteen Studies (ISSN:2368-4712). boss.mcgill.ca
Cool to see GigaScience Press (AKA @gigabytejournal.bsky.social) is still the GOAT in metadata quality. #1 ranking out of 28,379 publishers in this Nexus Score ranking nexus-score.vercel.app/member/23445
In this post I end with a plug of the Sindex DataRank tool, which is Kuan-lin Huan team's submission to the NIH Data Sharing Index (“S-Index”) Challenge. It was great to work with Kuan and Zehra on this, and please have a play and give any feedback here thesindex.org
Nice to see Prof Jun Iio at #FOSSASIA stressing the importance of #opensource and transparency in research. Particularly timely as AI-coding is creating new challenges in this (see my piece on the topic scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/28/g...)
The #fossasia Community Day kicking off here in Bangkok. Convenient that an #opensource conference coincides with and celebrates #IWD2026 and women coders
Dr Namtip Wipawin saying at #CrossrefBangkok that her ThaiJO (Thai Journals Online) project has tracked 1,198 journals from Thailand but only 20% of these use DOIs www.tci-thaijo.org
Another day, another workshop. At the #CrossrefBangkok meeting today. Good turnout as @crossref.bsky.social currently have 94 members in Thailand
Interesting use cases from Asia for uses cases of open cross reef metadata. A few companies in Hong Kong (OS2SCI) and Mainland China (Alibaba) using this to train LLMs and produce research integrity tools #CharlestonAsia
Now insight into the local DOI registry ecosystem. Lots of use of Crossref and DataCite, but Asia has the most other local providers in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan #CharlestonAsia
Interesting insight into the Thai metadata space at #CharlestonAsia. Many use journals use DOIs but theses, while using Darwin core are generally not using DOIs yet. Now a push to rectify this