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Chris Pym

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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
That would mean giving power to a tool that constantly invents mistruths and confidently lies about 50% of the time? Given the run of politicians that the UK has seen in power over the last decade and a half, I'm not convinced that this didn't happen some time ago.
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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 · 12/11/2025
Just as an aside on this... Please do double check with the journal's homepage for information on their policies. The Open Policy Finder is (I believe) based on the old SHERPA-ROMEO data, which were of rather mixed quality.
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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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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
I'd agree and find myself in a similar place, but I really dont see the problem that mass market AI is trying to solve. I can see the benefits of something like AlphaFold, but Grok? Currently, its main purpose seems to be for dunking on people on Twitter with whom you disagree.
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Me too. I used to live near(ish) to Leuven as a teenager and always welcome the opportunity to return to Belgium.
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
I know at least one publisher (a large corporate) that has tried to do this, so I think that some publishers at least recognize the issue here.
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
The latter, obviously!
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
As a publisher that knows both of them, I am conflicted!
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
This isn't my logic, but rather that of Coalition S.... And they know a thing or two about unintended consequences.
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I would also note that APC caps are likely to cause all journals below the cap to raise their APCs to the cap. Meanwhile, nature is absolutely not going to drop to the cap because the US is but one market. So overall, I anticipate this raising the cost of publishing should the US follow this path
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Worth noting that Dr Bhattacharaya is an editor on the Journal of the Academy of Public Health which charges an APC of $2000 (but may also may receive financial support from Real Clear Foundation who, I believe, funded its creation).
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Maybe worth noting that Dr Bhattacharaya is an editor on the Journal of the Academy of Public Health (I am not getting into the potential biases of that particular journal here...) which charges an APC of $2000 (but may also receive financial support from Real Clear Foundation).
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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 · 03/07/2025
Ivan Orangecatsky needs to set up a tracker for this vital issue.
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
And I am not for a second saying that Grok is an LLM that is well trained because I dont know what the hell it was trained on. Which is *exactly* my problem with AI tech.
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
You can see some elements of this with Grok on Twitter (it pains me to say) where "Normies" are sometimes changing their position based on Grok prompts.
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Wiley have updated their website... the only route to compliance with the NIH policy is via paying an APC or using a transformative.
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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
Thank you. Very enlightening, and useful 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 · 19/06/2025
Leucistic moose.
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Preach!
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Bluey and Bingo are struggling.
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
It is maddening!
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
And... there have already been a bunch of studies that do that, the largest of which was this one (300,000 Scottish NHS workers), I believe. The paper was pushed in NEJM, IIRC. www.gla.ac.uk/research/cov...
gla.ac.uk
Covid-19 vaccine linked to a reduction in transmission
Vaccination of Scotland’s healthcare workers offers some protection against transmission of Covid-19 to their household contacts.
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
That is an observational trial to all intents and purposes and comes with a shit ton of uncontrolled variables.
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
That is an almost impossible RCT to design without using a challenge study, which, prior to vaccines, would have been hugely unethical.
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Europe pays less largely because of universal healthcare giving a huge economy of scale to any purchasing negotiation In the UK this is enshrined in the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme between the UK government and the ABPI (the UK equivalent of PhRMA) It is voluntary, but it's 50 years old
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
It would be nice if EudraCT was opened up publicly too.
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Chris Pym @oapym.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Iggy Pop was headlining the very first gig that I went to un-chaperoned by my, or someone elses, parent. The 1991 Reading Festival. He was *outstanding*
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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
Community did a whole episode on this horror.
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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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