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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 1h
Fair point, but the original tweet did make it sound like GPT-5 had actually solved those problems, which it hadn’t. The constant AI boosterism is wearing thin. At this point, every “breakthrough” just makes me ask, what’s the catch this time?
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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 1h
Very interested in this and already have my ticket 🎟️. Looking forward to it 🧠🤖: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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 · 2d
📢 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.
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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 · 21d
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.
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Building an AI Physicist: ChatGPT Co-Creator’s Next Venture
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · Sep 9
📅 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
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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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Maverick Publishing Specialists @maverick-os.bsky.social · Sep 3
Maverick’s copywriting services help scholarly publishers use the written word to reach their audience in a variety of ways. Learn more and see examples in our new blog post
“Get the Message Out with Maverick’s Copywriting Services” bit.ly/3UZ3NzC
Copywriting word cloud in an open tablet next to a pen and a cup of coffee.
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Maverick Publishing Specialists @maverick-os.bsky.social · Aug 18
A new post for Maverick’s Insider blog provides complete details of our Interim Placement services, including examples of how we’ve solved staffing challenges for numerous publishers.
Read “Solve Staffing Challenges with Interim Support” bit.ly/3JkuBb1
Rendering of a woman standing in the middle of a dark maze with lights guiding the way for her.
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · Aug 28
...Martin Delahunty interview on AI in publishing, article on the future of PDFs by Hetzscholdt and ChatGPT-4o, Timo Hannay interview on Midnight at the Casablanca, and finally Hannah Shelley’s “Google Scholar Is Doomed”.
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · Aug 28
...Paradigm AI-powered spreadsheet, Academic Search on Bluesky by Aaron Tay, fake citations involving Liudmila Zavolokina, Wiley–Anthropic content deal video, em dash satire piece, Roald Dahl’s “The Great Automatic Grammatizator”, Rick Anderson on Subscribe-to-Open challenges...
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · Aug 28
...FT CMS auto-generated image descriptions, Science Advances study on AI-influenced biomedical language, membership inference vs dataset inference, WASP 2025 workshop on AI in scientific publishing, publication alert systems NEP and BIMs, responsive vs static digital publishing models...
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · Aug 28
... OSF Preprints submission suspension, Near Missives newsletter launch, KGX3 engine from Thomas Kuhn Foundation, posters.science launch, Copilot Mode in Edge with multi-tab RAG, AlphaXiv blog-style summaries for arXiv papers, Pangram GenAI detection in Oversight, Veracity tool from GroundedAI...
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · Aug 28
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...
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 · Aug 14
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 · Aug 10
My overwhelming initial thoughts are somewhat cynical - this model is the result of someone being asked to reduce costs dramatically. They've hobbled the search, and you only drop into more sophisticated models when deemed absolutely necessary... (ok, often this was a waste of compute, but still).
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · Aug 10
Some of my Custom GPTs 'helpers' are now problematic - notably, I can't ask questions within the chat, especially if I have tight formatting rules in place. I can't work out how to get the model to respond sensibly other than by cutting and pasting into a new chat.
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · Aug 10
I had gotten into the habit of using ChatGPT as a search engine - that's not working like it used to. I asked for info about model parameter sizes - response "Meta's LLaMA 4 and xAI's Grok 4 reaching up to 4 trillion parameters" [incorrect info] No mention of ChatGPT 5, even when pushed, no search.
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · Aug 10
For example, I asked for a common citation in a certain format, but it told me it couldn't access the internet. I said 'yes, you can' and it did what I wanted. I'm not seeing the enhanced writing capabilities yet - these seem to be triggered in certain situations.
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · Aug 10
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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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · Aug 10
Interestingly I asked for a APA format reference to a tweet mentioned in something I was writing. ChatGPT5 returned ‘since I don’t have access to the internet…’

My initial ChatGPT5 impression is that it’s not reaching out to external sources like 4 which makes it fast but less valuable for me.
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Crossref @crossref.bsky.social · Aug 7
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! https://bit.ly/Crossref2025-CFA
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · Jul 31
This is the first post in Big Ideas in Publishing, an occasional series exploring concepts that could reshape research communication.
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · Jul 31
I caught up with Tim to discuss this concept, which emerged from his thinking about what happens when artificial intelligence becomes a primary consumer of research literature.

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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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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · Jul 31
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?
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 · Jul 29
[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
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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 · Jul 28
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.

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Rethinking Science Communication: Beyond Technology Trends
YouTube video by Cactus Communications
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