Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 18/11/2025I am currently sitting on the sofa, reading a report on global open access, while my 11 week old puppy sleeps on my lap. This is nice. Of course she'll wake up and start biting me relentlessly in 20 mins... 120
Reposted by Chris PymDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 14/10/2025Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month 1193233855
Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Just home from meeting the puppy that will be joining our family in a few weeks... Coco is adorable and the breeder is the very best that I have ever met. 010
Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 04/10/2025Storm Amy has left me stranded in Dublin. I called BA to find an alternative flight home and they offered me a flight back to London from Inverness if I could make it there. How in God's name do they expect me to get to Scotland. Have a flight from Dublin now that will get me home 24hrs late. 010
Reposted by Chris PymASH TRAY The First, Popetato of wulferhampton 📎🏴 @ashashman1.bsky.social · 04/08/2025 81059155
Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Tough one today... Wordle 1,497 X/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟨⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 000
Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 01/07/2025In a surprise to no-one Springer Nature and T&F are now publicly requiring all NIH supported papers to go down the gold OA route. I imagine Elsevier and Wiley will follow in the coming days/hours. www.springernature.com/gp/open-scie...springernature.comUS federal agency public access policy compliance | Open science | Springer Nature 110
Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Very happy with the east Asian inspired salad that I made for dinner. If only I had been able to find some green papaya. Still for what was basically a slaw, the dressing was excellent. 000
Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 19/06/2025In the most British way possible, I'd like to ask the weather gods if it could please cool down. I was working in a room at 35degC at 3pm. 000
Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Just got these as a belated fathers day gift. Wu-Tang Clangers and the other one speaks for itself. 030
Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 29/05/2025I recently upgraded to the latest version of Android and the new Gemini driven Assistant is *terrible*. Tried to swap back to the old Assistant as it claims you can, but it is borked. Google are approaching Microsoft levels of shit. 010
Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 12/05/2025I am not sure if this is a terribly good idea. www.fda.gov/news-events/...fda.govFDA Announces Completion of First AI-Assisted Scientific Review Pilot and Aggressive Agency-Wide AI Rollout TimelineFDA announced an aggressive timeline to scale AI across all centers by June 30. 010
Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 01/05/2025NIH has brought the effective date for zero embargo public access forward, from 31 Dec 2025 to 1 July 2025. www.nih.gov/about-nih/wh...nih.govAccelerating Access to Research Results: New Implementation Date for the 2024 NIH Public Access PolicySpeeding access to research results will support NIH's goal of maximum transparency. 000
Reposted by Chris PymKit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 27/04/2025As Liverpool win the Premier League for the second time, they complete the opening of a quite remarkable sequence, 33 years in the making. #Fibonacci 16498148
Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 25/04/2025@dankaszeta.bsky.social found a good Mexican place in London. My US-citizen wife (albeit from NJ, not AZ/NM/CA/TX) agreed that it was great. It is a taqueria in Leytonstone, owned by a Mexican man and his British wife. Details here: www.homiesondonkeys.comhomiesondonkeys.comHomies on Donkeys Tacos | Modern Mexican Cuisine in East LondonExperience a modern take on Mexican cuisine where flavour science pushes tradition forward. Produly Mexican-owned and independent, visit Homies on Donkeys in East London for the best tacos and unforge... 110
Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 23/04/2025I think that the next couple of years will be an interesting test of sustainability for S2O journals. EDP have described the support for S2O in their Maths journals as "increasingly fragile". Given the global economic outlook I can see increasing budget pressure. www.edpsciences.org/en/news-high...edpsciences.orgEDP Sciences - Road to Open: Despite Challenges, Mathematics Journals Remain Open Access through Subscribe to Open in 2025EDP Sciences Publishing partner of the scientific communities 000
Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 09/04/2025@drcaroljasper.bsky.social this feels like it might have some cross-over interest for you. 120
Reposted by Chris PymDan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 07/04/2025The thing that always stuck with me is that there's only 11 years between the publication of the last ever Holmes story and the debut of Batman in Detective Comics, and they both perform basically the same pop culture function. 814044
Reposted by Chris PymPaul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 18/03/2025I've said it before but remember a year ago when people were saying that you don't need publishers because the federal government could act as the repository for research? Good times. If you're not planning for uncertainty now, you will be shortly. #scholarlypublishing #academiakatinamagazine.orgUS Funding Cuts Imperil Open Infrastructure GloballyThe impacts of funding cuts to research in the US extend far beyond their immediate targets. We see a chain reaction that could indelibly alter the education and research landscape, including the futu... 15526
Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 05/03/2025@captainscience.bsky.social Thought that this might interest you re: UPF. www.cell.com/cell-metabol...cell.comBrain dopamine responses to ultra-processed milkshakes are highly variable and not significantly related to adiposity in humansDarcey et al. used standard PET methods in 50 adults to measure their brain’s dopamine responses after consuming ultra-processed milkshakes high in fat and sugar. The milkshakes elicited no statistica... 120
Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 11/02/2025media.tenor.comfry from futurama is shocked and says well not that shockedALT: fry from futurama is shocked and says well not that shocked 000
Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Heaven forbid anyone should use OpenAI's intellectual property without permission... OnlyAI businesses are allowed to do that. www.theguardian.com/business/liv...theguardian.comOpenAI reportedly claims it has evidence China’s DeepSeek ‘used its model’ to train AI chatbot – business liveWhite House advisor David Sacks says there is ‘substantial evidence’ of DeepSeek using OpenAI technology 000
Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Excellent article on the tensions between Open Science, and international restrictions on knowledge and technology transfer. This will be a tough circle to square, I suspect. phys.org/news/2025-01...phys.orgCan science be both open and secure? Nations grapple with tightening research security as China's dominance growsAmid heightened tensions between the United States and China, the two countries signed a bilateral science and technology agreement on Dec. 13, 2024. The event was billed as a "renewal" of a 45-year-o... 000
Reposted by Chris PymJoesferatu @makeitunclear.bsky.social · 04/12/2024finally finished downloading my limewire wrapped after 20 years 369257184842
Reposted by Chris PymAndrea Chiarelli @drachiarelli.bsky.social · 04/12/2024If you think AI is going to steal your job, read this “scientific marsticupt” and then think again. 🤔😂 #genai 031
Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Ooooh. That's interesting... bsky.social/about/blog/1...bsky.socialAltmetric Is Now Tracking Bluesky Mentions! - BlueskyNow, scientists and researchers can more easily track conversation around their research. 010
Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Do not buy a TP-Link mesh system. They are a fucking nightmare regardless of whether you use Router or AP mode. 100
Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 23/11/2024I have literally no clue what this paper is meant to achieve. I assumed it was some sort of thought experiment, but upon reading.... 020
Reposted by Chris PymElisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 23/11/2024PLOS @plos.bsky.social is still working on the papers-of-concern that I sent them in 2014 and 2015. Today, this paper from 2013 received an Expression of Concern. I reported this concern in August 2014! Now, the authors state the original data is no longer available 🙁 pubpeer.com/publications... 511815
Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Watching people outside publishing reflect on the economic realities of the OA movement (whether by green/gold/diamond) is endlessly concerning. There is so little appreciation of the costs incurred when you scale. It is not "just posting a PDF online" 130
Reposted by Chris PymDan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 21/11/2024On our way to steal yo mice (Northern Saw-whet Owl) 1036423
Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Is it possible that some people have too much money? www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...theguardian.comMaurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped banana artwork fetches US$5.2m at New York auctionCrypto entrepreneur Justin Sun bought one of three editions of the viral 2019 work, describing it as ‘a cultural phenomenon’ 220
Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Made hard work of that... Wordle 1,251 4/6 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟨🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 000
Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Is there a good app/plug-in that can export a list of followers from Twitter into Bluesky? 101