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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · 6h

Probably Kowloonside then. I’ve a soft spot for the hipster bits of West Kowloon but if you just want to stay in the thick of It then look at places from TST up to Prince Edward (Eaton, Luxe Manor, etc)

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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · 11h

depends on your budget and what you want to see (how close to the action or if you want more relaxing countryside and beaches)

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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · 14h

Samuel Spencer presenting at #IDW2025 on the MAST Methodology and the IDEAL Metadata Framework working to measure organisational data maturity aristotlemetadata.com/about/mast-m...

Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · 17h

Interesting to hear about new work on a new FAIR4ML vocab and model development doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Will need to look out for a new automated checking tool coming our shortly. Dan mentioned DOME, which have been the standards and tools we've been testing (and I presented on yesterday) #IDW2025

Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · 17h

Watching along to @danielskatz.org presenting an update on the RDA FAIR for Machine Learning (FAIR4ML) IG. The focus today being FAIR for ML models: seeing how FAIR principles fit with the ML lifecycle at #DW2025 www.rd-alliance.org/groups/fair-...

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Mike-ghoul Half-man @michaelhoffman.bsky.social · 18h

"There is no such thing as sauciety." —Margaret Thatcher, probably #ASHG25

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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · 1d

Mind-blowing talk from Lynn Woolfrey in the #IDW2025 "Rigorous, responsible and reproducible science in the era of FAIR data and AI" session on how DataFirst's expertise in data rescue projects in Africa has lead to it stepping in to rescue data from US government funded education projects

Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · 1d

You can read the associated preprint covering this topic in more detail here doi.org/10.31222/osf... #IDW2025

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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Kristi! Was a good session I thought, though I would have much rather done it in person and been able to see and talk to the audience. And go to the "social billabong" with you after

Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting research lifecycle model for Agentic AI in the RDA Plenary Session of #IDW2025, Microsoft working with RDA and are asking for input on roles and where to prioritize development of AI agents in research

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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · 1d

Nice there’s another ML standards case study in this #IDW2025 “long-tail of supplemental data” session, Slava Tykhonov presenting on Croissant ML docs.google.com/presentation...

croissant-deem-slides

Croissant: A Metadata Format for ML-Ready Datasets June 9, 2024 8th Workshop on Data Management for End-to-End Machine Learning (DEEM) 2024 SIGMOD/PODS 2024 Mubashara Akhtar, Omar Benjelloun, Costanza...

docs.google.com

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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · 1d

Have the video of case-study on standards and tools for publishing ML research I've just presented in the #IDW2025
"Bridging the FAIR gap" track available here youtu.be/O0GuaHiOl8c?...

Publishing Machine Learning research case study for the Bridging the FAIR gap session at IDW2025

YouTube video by GigaScience Press

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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · 1d

Will be presenting a case-study in the #IDW2025
"Bridging the FAIR gap: transforming the long tail of supplementary data & generalist repositories into FAIR datasets" session currently underway in M3. Starting with setting on the challenges of supplemental files scidatacon.org/event/9/cont...

Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · 2d

It's nice still being able to keep up with what is going on online but wish I was there too!

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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · 2d

Another plug of @makedatacount.bsky.social metrics in the #IDW2025 GREI track by @mjbuys.bsky.social. Stressing the need for normalised usage counts across repositories, which is great as MDC and DataCite have created a standard tool for this

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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · 2d

Mark Hahnel presenting on GREI work on metadata. As a NIH funded project its no suprise they recommend MESH for subject headings. It makes sense for NIH funded work, but not necessarily for other fields. If PANGAEA was included in GREI would probably see different recommendations #IDW2025

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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · 2d

Nice to see @kristiholmes.bsky.social being a good @makedatacount.bsky.social Advisor and giving the MDC best practices a plug in the GREI #IDW2025 track. The GREI repositories integration of the MDC/DataCite Usage Tracker has been very useful to align and standarise metrics

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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · 2d

Watching the #IDW2025 GREI "Stronger together: Advancing the data repository ecosystem through strategic coopetition" track online, and very disappointed I couldn't participate in person in the end (I was supposed to present a case study for Dryad) scidatacon.org/event/9/cont...

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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting #IDW2025 talk from Jennifer Gu from HKUST Library studying Data Availability Statements in their institutions papers. Interesting they see a clearer citation advantage having a DAS than #OA compliance

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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · 4d

Just seen the SCMP journalist who attended our @cassyni.bsky.social webinar last month just published on it www.scmp.com/news/china/s...

This is a great use case for Cassyni, as both times we promoted linked webinars in Press Releases we got journalists attending and writing articles on the papers

Chinese scientists find gene that determines central bearded dragon’s sex

Researchers warn climate change could affect the future of a species heavily influenced by temperature.

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Crossref @crossref.bsky.social · 10d

ICYMI: GigaScience Press is showing how strong metadata boosts transparency and impact. Their practices make research easier to index, track, and reuse. https://doi.org/10.64000/z2qhj-7nd90?mtm_campaign=blog%20post&mtm_source=BS&mtm_medium=social

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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · 11d

Help Tackle the Asian Biodiversity Data Gap with Asia Nature Challenge medium.com/citizenscien... #AsiaNatureChallenge #ANC2025

Asia Nature Challenge 2025 is Go!

This weekend is the second installment of the Asia Nature Challenge, so go outside and observe our biodiversity because nature in Asia…

medium.com

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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · 12d

First day of #AsiaNatureChallenge, and my highlight has to be the giant water monitors sunning themselves in Lumpini park www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ANC2025

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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you OBF (and especially Taz) for this lovely post about the GigaScience team. I've been going to your #BOSC meetings since 2011 and will miss catching up with you all each summer, but hopefully it's not goodbye!

Open Bioinformatics Foundation @openbio.bsky.social · 14d

An open letter about the recent cuts at GigaScience: www.open-bio.org/2025/09/30/2...
(open for signatures until the end of October)

#OpenScience #OpenData #GigaScience

Scott Edmunds cuts the cake at the 2025 GigaScience birthday party at ISMB/ECCB 2025

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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · 21d

Only just noticed @crossref.bsky.social posted their interview with me talking about winning one of the inaugural Crossref Metadata awards was finally published on my last day of work. It's always good to end on a high!

www.crossref.org/blog/raising...

Raising the standard: GigaScience Press on metadata and discoverability - Crossref

To mark Crossref’s 25th anniversary, we launched our first Metadata Awards to highlight members with the best metadata practices. GigaScience Press, based in Hong Kong, was the leader among small publ...

www.crossref.org

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