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Euan Adie

@mrstew.bsky.social
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Ex-bioinformatician, ex-@nature, founded @altmetric (until 2018) and now CEO @Overtonio (analyzing v large databases of public policy). Part nerd

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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
We've been reviewing the Overton micro-grant applications (www.overton.io/policy-impac...). Short, concrete projects funded up to £5k. A not-insignificant num of people ask for the cost of a new laptop - what's the deal? Is there guidance out there saying "always ask for new equipment in any grant"?
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Apply to Overton's Policy Impact Grant 2025/6
Get information about applying to Overton's Policy Impact Grant
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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
et tu Notepad :( CVE-2026-20841 - Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide...
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Overton @overton.io · 03/11/2025
Introducing Overton Engage’s NEW Opportunity Matcher… Automatically uncover policy engagement opportunities that are relevant to you. *this functionality is only available with a premium Engage subscription. If you’re already subscribed, it’s going live this week - so keep an eye out!
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Overton @overton.io · 29/10/2025
As a librarian, are you looking for more ways to support researchers, create impact and engage with policy? Well, we have some tips for you…
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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I don't get the "tech companies are pushing IDs as a route to total gov surveillance" thing. Surely the lesson of the past two decades is that tech *already* makes it easy to track who you are and what you're doing without your opt-in. Not carrying an ID card doesn't make you an untraceable ghost
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Overton @overton.io · 22/09/2025
It’s Global Goals Week! A week of action, awareness, and accountability for the Sustainable Development Goals. We’ll be sharing some discussions and insights around the SDGs, plus how our SDG classifier can help our users understand how their work has impacted policy around each specific goal.
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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
If the UK wants to cement itself as a leader in AI for scientific discovery it should create a text & data mining copyright exception for scholarly abstracts. It's frankly depressing that abstracts aren't by default open and readily available in the first place, but publishers are now rolling back
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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
What's the vibe like at the Royal Society Future of Scholarly Publishing conference you ask? We were told that after 16 years & $100M dollars with the ambition to 'revolutionize' science and win a Nobel prize ResearchGate... is pivoting to working with traditional publishers on journal homepages
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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
When asked about controversial topics Grok 4 sometimes searches for what Elon Musk thinks as background info - not something explictly asked for or necessarily intended by its developers. Fascinating and slightly depressing in equal measure simonw.substack.com/p/grok-4-sea...
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Grok 4: searching X for "from:elonmusk (Israel OR Palestine OR Hamas OR Gaza)"
Plus writing x86 assembly with Claude Code and so much more
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Counterpoint: new Public First research shows every UK resident working adult (on a full time equivalent basis) is £466 a year better off on average as a result of international students. So let’s just publicise that instead of levying them www.publicfirst.co.uk/calculating-...
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Calculating the positive impact of international students on domestic living standards in the UK - Public First
Public First is today publishing the second of two pieces commissioned by the University of York around the impact of international students – this time [...]
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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I got hearing aids today - it turns out I’ve been moderately deaf since having chickenpox as a kid but our brains just compensate and get used to it. I feel a bit like those babies on Instagram who get their first pair of glasses and can suddenly see faces in focus. But with more farts and snorts
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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I was intrigued by this, but maybe predictably it looks a bit rubbish in practice (much more 2012 video game cut-scene than licensed deepfake) www.ubs.com/microsites/n... - getting strong Ananova vibes news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/enterta...
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Can one be available for clients 24/7?
UBS explores the use of human digital assistants to help clients and client advisors find solutions on the spot.
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 16/05/2025
Incredibly valuable read in @issuesinst.bsky.social for scientists and academics looking to do more related to policy... 🧪sociology 📉demography policysky polisky 🛟medsky episky
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“R&D” Means Something Different on Capitol Hill
Scientists need to learn how information flows to congressional staffers—and the crucial role they play in setting policy.
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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
If you're a schoarly publisher not making abstracts freely available then you're failing at your job. Full text - license it. Abstract - open it. It's a straightforward scholary record / infrastructure vs nickel and diming call
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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Two biggest dangers to scholarly web infrastructure: 1) AI bots 2) Impatient PhD students who've just learned to automate web scrapes True DGAF behaviour
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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 12/05/2025
Really incredible story unraveling in this thread, where Amazon and other sites have seemingly been able to sell an academic textbook that was withdrawn in 2021 and never actually printed or published, without the knowledge of the press, editors or contributors. Something has gone deeply wrong!
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Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Interested to learn how AI is changing academic search? In this 1.5 hr. "master class", I will share what I have learnt studying this area for the last 3 years. Register at eventregistration.smu.edu.sg/event/AISear... . Please help share!
Aaron Tay's Master Class on Understanding the fundamentals of AI in academic search engines. Register at https://eventregistration.smu.edu.sg/event/AISearch/
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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
If you haven't been following the State of Indiana vs Indiana University face-off currently happening (some legislators really doesn't like the sexuality studying Kinsey Institute) - the latest development is mandating "productivity" checks on tenured profs (1/2) eu.indystar.com/story/news/p...
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'Complete takeover': Lawmakers exert control over university policy in 11th hour
They appeared near the bottom of the 220-page budget bill Wednesday evening, and rose to the forefront of the heated debate Friday morning.
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Kirsty Grainger @kirstygrainger.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I'd be super grateful if you could share this vacancy, and tap people on the shoulder if you think they'd be a good fit (e.g. they understand data and REF) and encourage them to apply. www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...
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CC12656 Deputy Director for Research Performance, Information and Insights - Jobs at Bath
Deputy Director for Research Performance, Information and Insights
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
OK folks - will you please help me spread this far and wide. A really exciting opportunity to be the new Director of Comms at @britishacademy.bsky.social - the national academy for humanities and social sciences. £100k. Lovely team. Reports directly to me micro.green-park.co.uk/thebritishac...
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Job title: Director of Communications
Location: 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, SW1Y 5AH
Reports to: Chief Executive
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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Austin
Photo taken outside of church in Austin, Texas. Next to a stop sign there’s a church sign reading “love the foreigner as yourself - lev 19:33-34”
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Association of Medical Research Charities @amrc-uk.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
We're #hiring! Apply to become our Evidence and Impact Manager - you'll lead, shape and deliver AMRC’s work to collect and collate data and evidence to understand, report and showcase medical research charity funding. Find out more ⬇️ bit.ly/41DTN1C
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Evidence and Impact Manager
Salary: c. £45,000pa full-time Location: Hybrid working (home and office in central London, WC1) Deadline: 8am, Monday 14 April 2025 About the role This is an exciting opportunity to join AMRC&r...
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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Academia.edu has finally made it
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Elizabeth Gadd @lizziegadd.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Yay! You can now follow @coarassessment.bsky.social on Bluesky! 👇🏻
CoARA bluesky profile screenshot.
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Bori @borinasredes.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
We sign our new partnership with @overton.io based in the UK, which has the largest database of policies and grey literature! Our shared purpose will be to produce a series of reports exploring the reach and influence of Brazilian science research on decision-making. Isn't that wonderful?
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Overton @overton.io · 19/03/2025
We’ll be in Austin at the ER&L conference in just a few days! Come on by our exhibit to meet @mrstew.bsky.social and find out how Overton can be a key e-resource for your library!
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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Thanks I hate it
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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I lovvvved Tharg's Future Shocks. Shamefully, aged 13 or so I handed in some English homework that was, er, "heavily inspired" by my favourite story about a temporal weather report. Things escalated uncomfortably when the impressed teacher suggested submitting it to a short story competition
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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I'm going to ER&L (libraries conference) in Austin this year and they have an amazing sounding gig planned where every band has at least one librarian in it. Why haven't we done this at STI before and are there any bibliometrician bands already
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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
We started this project in Oct '22 - it proved ridiculously (though maybe predictably) difficult to build something that could be applied consistently across different countries and policy settings. Great work from @kat-hart.bsky.social !
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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
re: PubMed being DOGE'd / censored - don't see any evidence of this. You can't compare e.g EuroPMC searches with PubMed ones directly (saw @franknorman.bsky.social point this out on LinkedIn). By default EuroPMC searches lots of indexes: if you specify PubMed the numbers are much closer
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British Science Association @britsciassoc.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
We're looking for a new Head of Policy & Public Affairs! It's a key strategic role leading our policy and advocacy activities, incl. For Thought, Future Forum, and our secretariat to the APPG for Diversity & Inclusion in STEM. Closes 20 March: www.britishscienceassociation.org/head-of-poli...
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Head of Policy and Public Affairs
The British Science Association is looking for a Head of Policy and Public Affairs - a key strategic role in the BSA, leading our policy and advocacy activities.
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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Sad (and a bit shocked) to hear about Jan Vandamme's passing - you ended every call with him with new ideas www.eurofound.europa.eu/en/news/2025...
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Jan Vandamme RIP | European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
People think the hardest part of a start-up is product or maybe people. It's not. It's registering as a new supplier on large org procurement portals
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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
An excellent reply
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Mark Hahnel @hahnel.org · 13/02/2025
M-A-W-S-O-N www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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The Scientific Literature Can’t Save You Now
You can cite peer-reviewed research in support of almost any claim, no matter how absurd.
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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I've been watching Prime Target. Why does it big up Baghdad so much?! Do the Iraqi tourist board have some dirt on the producers? Is it a paid promotion? www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Prime Target review – this stylish thriller is like Good Will Hunting meets The Bourne Identity
Utterly preposterous and brilliant fun, Leo Woodall’s turn as a maths genius hunted by shadowy forces is glorious, confident escapism. It’s as enjoyable as it is ludicrous
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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
"We are destroying software" antirez.com/news/145 ... agree with lots of these but it becomes much more nuanced if you think about each one in terms of "what should you do instead and what are the trade-offs". Is ignoring a bad standard in favour of creating your own really a good choice? etc
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We are destroying software - <antirez>
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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I only watch films with Nicholas Hoult in them now. But skipping Garfield
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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal — theonion.com/think-tank-c...
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Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal
WASHINGTON—In an effort to assuage any fears over the constitutionality of the Trump administration’s flurry of executive actions, a D.C.-area think tank called The Himmler Institute reportedly assure...
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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I wonder if AI companies will start poisoning the CommonCrawl / web scrapes used for training - like how you used to get misguided SEO people put loads of keywords in white text on a white background on webpages, but instead it's the wrong answers to benchmarking questions
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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Is there any research quantifying the degree to which biomedical AI advances have relied on training data from PubMed Central, GenBank and other open (& specifically directly NIH/CDC/NSF supported) corpora? I assume it's high
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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Determinedly sliding into the new week with all the enthusiasm of this 18th-century sea-lion Hope it finds you similarly blessed
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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Today's first world problem: I bought a cream whipper without realizing that the gas for it is a controlled substance (commonslibrary.parliament.uk/nitrous-oxid...) that catering companies are not keen to sell to individuals. I just want to make a fancy mousse
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Nitrous oxide becomes a Class C drug
Nitrous oxide used to be controlled under the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016 but it was reclassified as a Class C drug in 2023, making possession illegal.
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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I really thought this was going to be “they watch you play Factorio for six hours when you should be sleeping” and got excited
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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
"How hard can it really be to build a better journal management system, everybody hates them" strikes again scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/01/29/m...
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Molecular Connections Buys Morressier
Molecular Connections has purchased Morressier. Analysis from Roger C. Schonfeld.
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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
V pleased to be joining the OpenAlex advisory board - thank you for voting (for me or anybody else)! It's a critical bit of infrastructure run by v smart people - the next couple of years will hopefully cement it further into the scholarly landscape. Looking forward to helping out wherever useful
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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I say this as somebody running a start-up. When entrepreneurs suggest that a sector (perhaps correctly) needs more money and more appetite for risk it’s hard for it not to sound like we’re saying please give us more cash and stop asking so many questions. Am not sure what the best framing is
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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I’m at the British Science Association #forthought event. Coffee done, the madelines are nice. Can I live-skeet? Probably not as I can’t thumb type fast enough
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Date for the diary - I'm planning a new meetup in Central London on 11 Feb about #AI, #Publishing & #EdTech Meetup to explore the latest trends and innovations. If you would like to come along please register at: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-publish... Speakers and location coming soon!
AI, Publishing & EdTech Meetup
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