Despite the seemingly quiet summer a lot has happened in the background on AI and research software policies and best practice, with much guidance published (including by me) that I will cover here

Twenty years ago, data-sharing policies mostly asked researchers to promise that files would be available. Today, sharing is built into the machinery of research funding. The US National Institutes of...

GIGA, the Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance, had their 6th meeting in Boracay last week and I have a write-up on the latest goings on in the wonderful world of squishy spineless creature genomics

Policy research and outreach is a high-risk/high-reward effort, and coming across a recent article on improvements to authorship policies in China has made me think about some lessons here.

The future of interactive preprints and papers were on display at the FORCE2026 conference in Singapore, and here I discuss what was presented and what the future of "living figures" might hold

When the FORCE11 manifesto predicted the Future of Research Communication in 2011, the 15th Anniversary FORCE meeting in Singapore has been great to look back at how many predictions came true.

The final papers coming out in the GigaByte-GBIF-TDR Vectors of Human Disease series provides a nice opportunity to look back at the lessons learned from this targeted data mobilization approach

The International Society of Managing and Technical Editors (ISMTE) serves a unique niche within the academic, scientific, medical, technical, and professional publishing industry—editorial office sta...

This is a cross-post from the Make Data Count blog covering a number of new reports and schemes demonstrating the importance of quantitative data in demonstrating the benefits of Open Science.

SciStarter connects people to citizen science projects, citizen scientists, and resources. Real science we can do together.

Today is the start of Citizen Science Month, a global celebration held every April that highlights the public's role in scientific research. To celebrate I have a list of 10 projects to join in Asia.

Spatial temporal distribution of Anopheles mosquitoes in different ecological zones of Ghana

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Explore this photo album by Scott Edmunds on Flickr!

Musings on the big-picture implications of using Machine Learning standards in journal review and benchmarking, their costs v benefits, and how they may relate to sustainability and economics.

Being open isn't enough - true "research information citizenship" requires a robust, genuinely open research infrastructure.

Here is a “making of the paper” post on my recent Data Science Journal article on transparency in Machine Learning, a case study in how journals can handle the meteoric rise in the use of AI-methods.

Messages from ex-wife of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to sex offender, sent after his conviction, came to light last month