Mark Hahnel
hahnel.org
Mark Hahnel
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Figshare Founder, Digital Science, DataCite, DOAJ, re3data #openscience #openaccess #openresearch #desci #stemcells #genomes
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🌟 Blog posts of the week: "To go further, faster... we need to move past human-powered knowledge discovery," writes our VP of #OpenResearch, Mark Hahnel.

Mark says academic research should be prioritized for machines, not humans.

🔗 See why: https://ow.ly/WGTg50Xvf2S

#FAIRdata #AcademicSky
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance
The Make America Healthy Again summit, attended by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr and vice-president JD Vance, gave a sense of what’s driving US health policy.
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:37 AM
What GenAI does well—and where it needs an ecosystem webinar - Dec 4th

www.digital-science.com/events/what-...
What GenAI does well — and where it needs an ecosystem - Digital Science
Exploring how hybrid AI approaches blend creativity with structured knowledge for more transparent and trustworthy decision-making.
www.digital-science.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Now on Substack: "Machine-First FAIR: Realigning Academic Data for the AI Research Revolution" - by our VP of Open Research, Mark Hahnel.

Why should we prioritize machines over people when sharing data?

🔗 Read Mark's post: https://ow.ly/Z24y50Xu7qk

#FAIRdata #OpenData #OpenResearch #AcademicSky
November 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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📣 NEW: Why should we prioritize machines over humans when it comes to making research FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable & Re-usable)? #FAIRdata

Our VP of #OpenResearch, Mark Hahnel, says academic data should be realigned for the #AI research revolution.

🔗 https://ow.ly/uq4r50XsNsg
November 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The best way for humankind to benefit from research is to prioritize machines over people when sharing data.

Machine-First FAIR: Realigning Academic Data for the AI Research Revolution:

hahnel.substack.com/p/machine-fi...
Machine-First FAIR: Realigning Academic Data for the AI Research Revolution
The best way for humankind to benefit from research is to prioritize machines over people when sharing data.
hahnel.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
"While a degree of self-citations is expected as researchers build upon their existing body of work, excessive self-referencing in some cases can obscure the true impact of research, making the work seem more broadly important than reality warrants"

fosci.substack.com/p/self-citat...
Self-citation patterns among researchers
What's normal? What's unusual?
fosci.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Digital Science's own Maria Cotera on stage with @joyowango.bsky.social (TCC Africa), speaking to a large and engaged crowd in Nairobi, Kenya for #KLISC2025.

This conference for professionals & practitioners in library & information science is proudly sponsored by Figshare.
November 13, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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3. Monash University (Figshare)’s "Young people’s perspectives on missing out on being young" (Education, Youth Studies) - Altmetric Score: 589.00

doi.org/10.26180/261...

@monashuniversity.bsky.social @figshare.com

5/7
November 10, 2025 at 11:09 AM
How is AI changing scholarly publishing?

COPE Publication Integrity Week webinar next Monday

publicationethics.org/events/publi...
Publication Integrity Week 2025
Publication Integrity Week is an opportunity for all involved in publication ethics to gain insights from peers, share practical solutions, and learn from experts in their field.
publicationethics.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
AI Scientists

Can they iterate when things fail?
Can we solve the reproducibility problem?
What about breaking down disciplinary walls?

Great to see ARIA picking this up

www.aria.org.uk/ai-scientist
AI Scientist
AI Scientists are emerging systems designed to generate hypotheses, run experiments in automated labs, and interpret results – without continuous human intervention. Could they help unlock breakthroug...
www.aria.org.uk
November 3, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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🚨 Coming soon: Have you reserved your spot for the Symplectic & Figshare EMEA User Meeting?

🗓️ 13-14 November 2025
📍 London, UK

With case studies from institutions, product roadmaps, #REF2029 & more!

🔗 Register now: https://ow.ly/U1WT50XigOS
October 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
"In this constellation, bioRxiv & medRxiv serve organizing and empowering functions for bringing the ecosystem together linking with repositories, data stores, open APIs, and supporting platforms for replication, verification, validation, and peer review"

curvenote.com/blog/czi-ope...
A Constellation of Open Research
The openRxiv community came together to share plans for the future of the preprint ecosystem. We reflect on the vision and community energy that will shape the next few years, and how technologies lik...
curvenote.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Only 2.3% of traffic to BMJ coming from "AI tools"

world.hey.com/ian.mulvany/...
October 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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"Geoffrey Bilder has made immense contributions to scholarly communications infrastructure over many decades, and his career shows no signs of slowing down. This volume is a collection of writings by a wide range of contributors to showcase the range and diversity of his enduring legacy."
Brown, Browsers, Back-ends, Boards, Beards, and a Bibliography: A Festschrift in Honour of Geoffrey Bilder
Geoffrey Bilder has made immense contributions to scholarly communications infrastructure over many decades, and his career shows no signs of slowing down. This volume is a collection of writings by a...
zenodo.org
October 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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It’s #OpenAccessWeek! 🌍

Karolinska Institutet is reimagining how research is shared by integrating Symplectic Elements + Figshare - streamlining workflows, boosting visibility, and advancing open science.

🔗 www.symplectic.co.uk/case-studies...

#OAWeek #OpenAccess #OpenData #OA
Karolinska Institutet: Transforming Research Visibility and Accessibility
Karolinska Institutet has transformed how it manages and shares research information by adopting an integrated solution powered by Symplectic Elements and Figshare.
www.symplectic.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
"Women’s participation in research authorship continues to grow, but the balance between inclusion and autonomy varies sharply across fields."

substack.com/inbox/post/1...
Gender mixing: the 'erosion' of women-led research teams?
Research data bite: 26.
substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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How FAIR is shared data in psychology?

We analyzed 11,384 datasets (2013–2024): They're findable, but less reusable!

What relates most to differences in FAIRness? #Repository choice.

👉 Preprint: doi.org/10.23668/psy...

@mariogollwitzer.bsky.social @kaisassenberg.bsky.social #metascience #SciSci
October 21, 2025 at 5:48 AM
The coming life expectancy tug of war:

AI-enhanced health for those who make it into their silver years,

and AI-elevated vulnerability for the young and middle-aged

www.ft.com/content/eac9...
Will AI lengthen lifespans or shorten them?
New science advances may offer longer life to some, but the socio-economic effects may push others to die sooner
www.ft.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Claude enters the lab: Anthropic bets big on life sciences

AI group tailoring its chatbot to integrate with biomedical databases and coding tools

www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...
Claude for Life Sciences
Discover how Claude accelerates life sciences research with new scientific connectors, skills, and improved performance for drug discovery and clinical work.
www.anthropic.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Could LLMs be model organisms?

substack.com/inbox/post/1...
From fruit flies to silicon brains: the evolving idea of a model organism (part 1)
Research thoughts bite: 08.
substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Figshare 101: Been a while? Fresh tools, looks and flows

Webinar Date October 8 2025 2:00pm

The newest features in Figshare and how they streamline research publishing

Practical tips for navigating Figshare’s redesigned interface and enhanced workflows

info.figshare.com/webinar/figs...
Figshare 101: Been a while? Fresh tools, looks and flows - Figshare
info.figshare.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Had a great time talking open data, AI and a perpetual research cycle with Jessica Miles on her new "Informed Frontier" podcast

Go and have a listen, all her other guests are great too

open.spotify.com/episode/0Z6k...
Open science meets AI with Mark Hahnel
open.spotify.com
October 1, 2025 at 9:17 AM