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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Don't do this, is my strong suggestion, in a microgrant. It doesn't immediately invalidate your proposal but neither does it suggest max impact from the funding which is what we're going for

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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

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

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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

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

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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

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)

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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

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

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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 · 14/06/2025

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%

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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

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

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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

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

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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

And that’s just me, etc.

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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

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

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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

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

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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

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

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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

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

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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

Which doesn't sound like an unreasonable request to anybody outside of academia who has been through this before. The relevant language is v broad, so how much of an issue it'll be comes down to who is defining and then implementing it... Latest bill draft is iga.in.gov/pdf-document... (2/2)

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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...

Logos for The British Academy and Green Park
Job title: Director of Communications
Location: 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, SW1Y 5AH
Reports to: Chief Executive

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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! 👇🏻

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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 · 13/03/2025

Crime doesn't pay (there's probably a Future Shock about that too)

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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

Good q! I assume the former as it’s “PubMed/MEDLINE” in the EuroPMC interface and the MEDLINE bit has to come from the NLM. But I guess if it came to it you could break out the two bits…

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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

On that note loads of groups will have local copies of PubMed - we do, just like OpenAlex / Scite / Dimensions do (I imagine) along with probably every AI start-up in the world - so wouldn't worry too much about everything just vanishing a la EPA

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Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I mean, I get it. The scenario's plausible which is scary enough. I wonder if EuroPMC is tweaking any policies about how it handles deletions in the daily snapshots

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