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Chris Pym

@oapym.bsky.social
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Works in academic publishing #OpenAccess/OpenData. Not entirely stupid. Ex-practitioner scientist. Never a researcher. All views and opinions my own. No matter how poorly formed.

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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
You couldn't make it up...
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I 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...
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I am chaotic good, my daughter is chaotic evil.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 14/10/2025
Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month
ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancerWe made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Just 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.
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Storm 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.
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
I could listen to this almost all day.
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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 08/08/2025
Game-changing tech, I heard
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ASH TRAY The First, Popetato of wulferhampton 📎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @ashashman1.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Tough one today... Wordle 1,497 X/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟨⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Well worth a read.
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
In 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.com
US federal agency public access policy compliance | Open science | Springer Nature
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Very 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.
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Well worth a read.
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
In 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.
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Just got these as a belated fathers day gift. Wu-Tang Clangers and the other one speaks for itself.
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I 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.
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Move along. Nothing to see here.
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I am not sure if this is a terribly good idea. www.fda.gov/news-events/...
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FDA Announces Completion of First AI-Assisted Scientific Review Pilot and Aggressive Agency-Wide AI Rollout Timeline
FDA announced an aggressive timeline to scale AI across all centers by June 30.
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
NIH 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.gov
Accelerating Access to Research Results: New Implementation Date for the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy
Speeding access to research results will support NIH's goal of maximum transparency.
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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
As Liverpool win the Premier League for the second time, they complete the opening of a quite remarkable sequence, 33 years in the making. #Fibonacci
A table showing the number of imes teams have won the Premier League in ascending order. 
The sequence goes 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 - the first seven terms of the Fibonacci sequence.
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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.com
homiesondonkeys.com
Homies on Donkeys Tacos | Modern Mexican Cuisine in East London
Experience 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...
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I 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.org
EDP Sciences - Road to Open: Despite Challenges, Mathematics Journals Remain Open Access through Subscribe to Open in 2025
EDP Sciences Publishing partner of the scientific communities
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
@drcaroljasper.bsky.social this feels like it might have some cross-over interest for you.
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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 07/04/2025
The 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.
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Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I'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 #academia
katinamagazine.org
US Funding Cuts Imperil Open Infrastructure Globally
The 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...
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Anyone attending UKSG this year?
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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.com
Brain dopamine responses to ultra-processed milkshakes are highly variable and not significantly related to adiposity in humans
Darcey 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...
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
media.tenor.com
fry from futurama is shocked and says well not that shocked
ALT: fry from futurama is shocked and says well not that shocked
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Not happy at all.
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Heaven forbid anyone should use OpenAI's intellectual property without permission... OnlyAI businesses are allowed to do that. www.theguardian.com/business/liv...
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OpenAI reportedly claims it has evidence China’s DeepSeek ‘used its model’ to train AI chatbot – business live
White House advisor David Sacks says there is ‘substantial evidence’ of DeepSeek using OpenAI technology
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Excellent 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.org
Can science be both open and secure? Nations grapple with tightening research security as China's dominance grows
Amid 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...
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Joesferatu @makeitunclear.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
finally finished downloading my limewire wrapped after 20 years
LimeWire Wrapped

1. sistem_of_a_dowm_Zelda_song.flac
2. Nirvana - Glycerine.flv
3. track_8_(1)_(1)c.mp3
4. weird_al_Bert_and_Big_Bird_smoking_weed_FUNNY(parody).wav
5. jay-z_the-blueprint_FULL ALBUM_REAL.mp3.exe
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Apropos of nothing...
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Andrea Chiarelli @drachiarelli.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
If you think AI is going to steal your job, read this “scientific marsticupt” and then think again. 🤔😂 #genai
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Ooooh. That's interesting... bsky.social/about/blog/1...
bsky.social
Altmetric Is Now Tracking Bluesky Mentions! - Bluesky
Now, scientists and researchers can more easily track conversation around their research.
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Do not buy a TP-Link mesh system. They are a fucking nightmare regardless of whether you use Router or AP mode.
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I've just made a chicken stew that will last *days*
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I have literally no clue what this paper is meant to achieve. I assumed it was some sort of thought experiment, but upon reading....
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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
PLOS @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...
Figure 3 from the paper, showing 30 photos taken by transmission electron microscopy. Each panel shows colon cancer cells. I have marked two panels representing different time points with red boxes. These panels look identical if one of them is rotated 180 degrees.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0057218.g003
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Watching 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"
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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
On our way to steal yo mice (Northern Saw-whet Owl)
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Is it possible that some people have too much money? www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped banana artwork fetches US$5.2m at New York auction
Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun bought one of three editions of the viral 2019 work, describing it as ‘a cultural phenomenon’
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Made hard work of that... Wordle 1,251 4/6 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟨🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Is there a good app/plug-in that can export a list of followers from Twitter into Bluesky?
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