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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What happens to unpublished research once it's typed into ChatGPT or Codex? A look at OpenAI's public statements and terms and conditions to see what they cover and what they leave unclear: www.linkedin.com/pulse/specul...
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Speculation on how OpenAI uses research content entered into ChatGPT and Codex
Did Buckmaster and Alpöge’s use of Codex contribute to OpenAI's Navier–Stokes result? Initially, OpenAI said it had not accessed their specific user data, but added that it could not rule out “de-iden...
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Have registered for this webinar: Building capacity with AI tools you already have: practical applications for scholarly publishing. (Sept 16 at 10:30 AM ET). marketing.scholasticahq.com/building-cap... Hosted by @scholasticahq.bsky.social and Samast AI.
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Building capacity with AI tools you already have: scholarly publishing
Publishing experts share case studies on secure ways to use general-purpose AI tools to increase your capacity for a range of publishing activities.
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LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Help @librarything.com hire a Boston book lover! blog.librarything.com/2026/08/bost...
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Simple Pangram testing exercise for academic content to explore how well it works. Takes around 15 min & follows the same passage as it is generated by AI, processed by a humaniser, and then copy-edited by another AI tool. innovationideas.co.uk/wp-content/u...
Pangram AI detected image: 22% of this text is AI
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Mark Hahnel @hahnel.org · 31/07/2026
Great paper from Natasha Noy et al of Google Dataset Search Do Data Agents Need Semantic Metadata? A Comparative Study in Agentic Data Retrieval arxiv.org/html/2605.28... Similar to my thinking here www.openresearch.wtf/machine-firs... and here: www.openresearch.wtf/fairdata-ai-...
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Do Data Agents Need Semantic Metadata? A Comparative Study in Agentic Data Retrieval
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The Future Newsrooms Study 2026 is worth a quick skim to see how news organisations are responding to AI disruption. It has an interesting chart about ‘Community as the differentiator in an age of content abundance’. www.ftstrategies.com/en-gb/insigh...
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Future Newsrooms Study 2026: A global benchmark of how newsrooms are changing, what they are prioritising and where they are going next
Explore the Future Newsrooms Study 2026, revealing key gaps in editorial strategy and insights for newsrooms to thrive amid technological change and audience shifts.
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Tommi Somersuo @tommis.fi · 01/07/2026
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Claude Science beta | Claude by Anthropic
Claude Science is your AI workbench for scientific research. Works through your research like a skilled scientist, running the analysis and tracing every step. Spend less time stitching pipelines toge...
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
🚨 New issue of PubTech Radar is out: substack.com/@pubtechrada...
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PubTech Radar Scan: Issue 43
Usual mix of academic publishing tech news, launches, interesting stats, AI developments, and longer reads that caught my attention.
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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
For example, reviewer invitations sent by journals via ScholarOne rose from 9M in 2018 to nearly 21.5M in 2025 (some caveats around that stat in the report). Despite working in academic publishing for years and understanding the scale, I still find the size of numbers like this staggering.
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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The ScholarOne Future of Peer Review 2026 report is out. I'm one of the interviewees, which gives me a vested interest in flagging it, but it does contain some interesting data. www.silverchair.com/news/future-...
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REPORT: 2026 Future of Peer Review - Silverchair
The second annual report on trends and transformation brings a comprehensive analysis to what's working and what isn't in peer review.
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
New issue of PubTech Radar: pubtechradar.substack.com/p/pubtech-ra.... Fabricated citations, the AI detection delusion, 35 novels about research integrity, and more...
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PubTech Radar Scan: Issue 42
Usual mix of academic publishing tech news, launches, AI developments, and longer reads.
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Small rant. What on earth has happened to #ChatGPT? Conversation with 9 straightforward questions, 8 incorrect & 1 partially correct answer. 7 links to supposedly verified sources (after problems in the previous round of conversation) - all hallucinated. Every conversation I have seems problematic ☹️
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Worth spending time with this article from Scott Cunningham: Summary and my thoughts here: substack.com/@pubtechrada... Original article here: substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Helen King (@pubtechradar)
Worth spending time with this article from @scott cunningham: https://causalinf.substack.com/p/claude-code-27-research-and-publishing According to Scott's thinking: Economists currently submit a...
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Martijn Roelandse @martijnroelandse.dev · 11/02/2026
I’m working on a small, experimental tool that creates narrative, multi-signal overviews for scholarly books (citations, usage, attention). Looking for a few (university) presses (and others) to test an MVP and give candid feedback. Open data. No black boxes. DM me. #scholarlypublishing #books
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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Please fill out my AI usage survey if you work in publishing. Which models are you using? How often? What's delivering value? Takes under 5 minutes. Contributors get early access to results before I share them more widely towards the end of the month: ai-and-me.innovationideas.co.uk
AI & Me - a snapshot of how people in publishing are using AI right now.
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Love this demo of Crixet (now Prism). For all the talk of robotic labs and AI accelerating science, the reality is Victor Powell, the developer, in his kitchen, minding the baby (the high-value work), while talking to an AI tool to handle the writing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce-S...
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Crixet Voice Mode
YouTube video by Victor Powell
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
🚨 New issue of PubTech Radar is out: lnkd.in/eaCsVfja
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Anna Aslanyan @anna-aslanyan.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
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Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line
On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
From Pietro Schirano (@skirano) on X writing about Nano Banana Pro: "Here’s my favorite use case so far: take papers or really long articles and turn them into a detailed whiteboard photo." How to video: x.com/skirano/stat...
Photo of an AI-generated white board  about the LLama 3 herd of models paper
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Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Google Scholar gets into "AI powered" space Assuming this can use all the full-text they have indexed this might be a game changer. The timing of this release maybe suggests Gemini 3 is being used? scholar.googleblog.com/2025/11/scho... . Apparently some hit a waitlist, I have access though (1)
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Scholar Labs: An AI Powered Scholar Search
Research questions are often detailed. Answering them can require looking at a topic from multiple angles. Today, we are introducing Scholar...
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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
A new report from Scholastica and Maverick Publishing surveyed 83 small and medium journal publishers from 21 countries about their tech challenges: lp.scholasticahq.com/technology-n... Some stats: * Current AI adoption is limited. Only 8% of publishers are using AI tools extensively.
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2025 Report: Technology Needs of Small and Medium Journal Publishers
Insights into smaller-sized publishers' technical priorities, from research integrity to AI adoption.
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
New interview in the newsletter: Jonathan Woahn on how his startup Cashmere gives publishers control over their content in AI systems. As Jonathan puts it, they provide tools to manage entitlement, security, access, reporting, and turn-key RAG infrastructure. open.substack.com/pub/pubtechr...
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Big Ideas in Publishing: Jonathan Woahn on AI Licensing Infrastructure
New interview: Jonathan Woahn on how his startup Cashmere gives publishers control over their content in AI systems. As Jonathan puts it, they provide tools to manage entitlement, security, access, re...
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Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Amazed by the volume of last minute submissions... Still a little birdie tells me unofficially the form will be open for a few more days...
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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I found Musk's discussion of how they’re building Grokipedia interesting in the latest All In podcast: youtu.be/j6_VfR-CyuM. Grok is teaching itself reasoning, then rewriting ~1M Wikipedia pages. The goal: a self-updating, “maximally truth-seeking” AI that fixes errors and filters bias.
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Elon Musk: 3 Years of X, OpenAI Lawsuit, Bill Gates, Grokipedia & The Future of Everything
YouTube video by All-In Podcast
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Andrea Chiarelli @drachiarelli.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Yay, let’s swap bad metrics for more bad metrics! 🤩 And with a twist - as shown by a browser extension. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors
Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.
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Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Join my second run of "AI powered search for libraries: A crash course on understanding fundamentals for library professionals". We have a Fully virtual option: $75 USD or a Hybrid option - first two sessions are online & the third will be face to face in Bangkok for the Charleston Asia Conf (1)
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Research output has increased 212% since 2004, but reviewer capacity hasn't kept pace. At the AI Publishing Collective meetup, Chris Leonard, Wiley's Sam Parker and Rebecca Windless, and Digital Science's Leslie McIntosh explored how AI might address this challenge. www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-pee...
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AI in Peer Review: Highlights from the AI Publishing Collective Meetup
The recent AI Publishing Collective event at BCS London, hosted by BCSWomen, and BCS Publishing, brought together experts from across scholarly publishing to discuss how AI is shaping peer review and ...
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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Very interested in this and already have my ticket 🎟️. Looking forward to it 🧠🤖: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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Book Launch Event - Psychology of AI - London | BCS Publishing
Join us in London next Tuesday, 28 October for the launch of The Psychology of AI Decision Making by Chris Ambler BSc (Hons) FBCS GMBPsS The event is being hosted by The British Psychological Societ...
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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
📢 A British start-up, Books By People, is introducing an 'Organic Literature' certification to help readers identify books written by humans rather than machines. The first certified title, Telenovela by Gonzalo C Garcia, is due out next month, published by Galley Beggar Press. 🔗 booksbypeople.org
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Books By People | Defending Organic Literature in an AI world
Books by People's mission is to safeguard human creativity in modern literature by helping publishers and authors to certify their books as human-authored, with a process readers can trust.
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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Periodic Labs: A new $300 million seed-backed startup aiming to build “AI scientists” — autonomous systems that hypothesise, run physical experiments, gather data, learn, iterate — especially in the physical sciences. They’re starting with materials/superconductors. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FoW...
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Building an AI Physicist: ChatGPT Co-Creator’s Next Venture
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
📅 How is AI reshaping peer review? Join the AI Publishing Collective, hosted by BCS Women & BCS Publishing, for insights on efficiency, fairness, and research integrity. Speakers: Chris Leonard, Sam Parker, Leslie McIntosh. Mon, September 22, 6 - 8:30pm London 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1642733864...
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AI Publishing Collective: AI, Publishing and EdTech Meetup
Join us at the AI Publishing Collective meetup to discuss all things AI and Peer Review!
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
New issue of PubTech Radar Scan: pubtechradar.substack.com/p/pubtech-ra... Covers: Wiley’s journal migration to Research Exchange, Trusted Reviews scraping incident, IOI 2025 report on open infrastructure, call for US adoption of DOIs and ORCIDs, Crossref systems moving to the cloud...
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PubTech Radar Scan: Issue 37
Somewhat delayed ‘back to school’ edition. Usual mix of launches, news, AI, and longer reads, somewhat haphazardly collected and curated.
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Mark Hahnel @hahnel.org · 14/08/2025
Has anyone launched a Diamond Open Access Journal that is open for humans, but charges fees for AI re-use rights?
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Initial thoughts about ChatGPT 5. There is a certain 'shock of the new', it's a bit like getting a new colleague that you need to get to know - some of the shortcuts I used/lazy prompts no longer work. It's very fast - so fast I find myself doubting the responses. Overall experience so far is 👎.
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Crossref @crossref.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS––Got a #metadata story, case study, or insight to share? Flash talks and posters are part of our Annual Meeting and Board Election. Submit by 20 Sept. All languages welcome! bit.ly/Crossref2025-CFA
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Tim Vines, founder of @dataseerai.bsky.social, has been thinking about the future of research publishing for some time. His latest idea, what if publishers created AI-optimized versions of research articles and sold them as premium subscriptions?
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Big Ideas in Publishing: Tim Vines on AI Subscriptions
How creating AI-ready research content could unlock entirely new revenue streams
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Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
[Blogged] The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search - From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...
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The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search
From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Enjoyed this podcast from @nikeshgo.bsky.social, interviewing Kent Anderson and Joy Moore, co-authors of How the Internet Disrupted Science. Lots I don't agree with but interesting challenges - need to read the book when it comes out. music.youtube.com/watch?v=MrF6...
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Rethinking Science Communication: Beyond Technology Trends
YouTube video by Cactus Communications
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Fascinating - sources that are ok/not ok to use for third-party RLHF training of Anthropic’s models. More at: www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-su...
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Jason De Boer @jasondeboer.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Are you ready to grow… but could do with a little help? Let’s talk about how I can support you, whether it’s a short-term project or a longer-term relationship #Growth #Consultancy #Sales #SaaS #PaaS #ScholarlyPublishing #InformationServices
Are you ready to grow?Business Development, GTM Strategy, Thought Leadership, Sales Coaching, Competitive AnalysisLet’s talk! jason at deboerconsultancy dot com
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 25/07/2025
This is a really exciting metadata development. Collaborative stewardship and distributed assertion models are the right way to go and some smart people are working on it.
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 24/07/2025
Gotta love economists. This is from a paper about researcher views on open peer review:
If the journal is myopic about b(r, t), it treats s as follows:
s = q + ε′, with ε′ ∼ N (0, σ2
s ) and σ2
s = σ2
ε (e) + σ2
b(r,t)
The journal’s posterior belief about q is therefore:
E[q | s] = λs + (1 − λ)¯q, where λ = σ2
q
σ2
q + σ
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Interesting insight from Dustin Smith @humworks.bsky.social about the need for orchestration infrastructure that connects AI models, prompts, data, and interfaces to allow publishers to harness AI: blog.hum.works/posts/the-al...
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The Alchemist Future
AI orchestration - not AI tools - will determine winners. Hum is building Alchemist to be the orchestration layer for publisher AI.
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Cabells, the US-based academic intelligence firm, has announced the launch of CompassAI, an AI tool to assist researchers in selecting appropriate/avoiding predatory publications: blog.cabells.com/2025/07/23/p...
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
New issue of Pub Tech Radar Scan: open.substack.com/pub/pubtechr... Lots in this issue, new launches include Sleuth AI, Featured Notebooks in NotebookLM, LLM Citation Verifier, and CC Signals from Creative Commons.
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PubTech Radar Scan: Issue 35
New launches include Sleuth AI, Featured Notebooks in NotebookLM, LLM Citation Verifier, and CC Signals from Creative Commons. Also in the mix: AI-written peer review, publisher–AI partnerships, crawl...
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Adam Day @clearskiesadam.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
New blog post. How to investigate with Oversight clearskiesadam.medium.com/red-alert-ho...
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RED ALERT! How to avoid misconduct and how to investigate if you have to.
This post provides an update on some recent new features in Oversight and walks through an investigation. Given the pace of development of…
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Joe Wass @joewass.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Things will get really interesting with @cometadata.bsky.social in the mix!
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
BMJ Best Practice put their tool up against ChatGPT and Grok in real clinical scenarios, and (unsurprisingly) their carefully curated, evidence-based guidance came out well ahead. The AIs sounded convincing, but missed the nuance, depth, and safety insights. 👉 bestpractice.bmj.com/info/us/blog/
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Blog | BMJ Best Practice
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