Paul Guinnessy

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Director of Digital Experience, American Institute of Physics. All views are my own and not that of my employer
Paul GuinnessyNov 3, 2024
Amy Diehl, Ph.D.Nov 3, 2024
17 states have never had a woman senator; 18 have never had a woman governor. 5 have had neither: Colorado, Idaho, Indiana, Pennsylvania. Virginia. There are 25 current woman senators & 12 governors. Only 60 women have ever been a senator & 49 governor.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/11/01/17-states-havent-had-a-female-us-senator-and-18-havent-had-a-woman-governor/
17 states haven’t had a female U.S. senator, and 18 haven’t had a woman governor

Five races for U.S. Senate and two for governor feature a major-party nominee who, if elected, would be the first woman in their state to hold the office.

Pew Research Center
Paul GuinnessyOct 24, 2024
"Our findings reveal that Wikipedia relies on open access articles at a higher overall rate (44.1%) compared to their availability in the Web of Science (23.6%) and OpenAlex (22.6%)." They also get scraped more. #ScholarlyPublishing https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-024-05163-4
Open access improves the dissemination of science: insights from Wikipedia - Scientometrics

Wikipedia is a well-known platform for disseminating knowledge, and scientific sources, such as journal articles, play a critical role in supporting its mission. The open access movement aims to make scientific knowledge openly available, and we might intuitively expect open access to help further Wikipedia’s mission. However, the extent of this relationship remains largely unknown. To fill this gap, we analyse a large dataset of citations from the English Wikipedia and model the role of open access in Wikipedia’s citation patterns. Our findings reveal that Wikipedia relies on open access articles at a higher overall rate (44.1%) compared to their availability in the Web of Science (23.6%) and OpenAlex (22.6%). Furthermore, both the accessibility (open access status) and academic impact (citation count) significantly increase the probability of an article being cited on Wikipedia. Specifically, open access articles are extensively and increasingly more cited in Wikipedia, as they show an approximately 64.7% higher likelihood of being cited in Wikipedia when compared to paywalled articles, after controlling for confounding factors. This open access citation effect is particularly strong for articles with high citation counts or published in recent years. Our findings highlight the pivotal role of open access in facilitating the dissemination of scientific knowledge, thereby increasing the likelihood of open access articles reaching a more diverse audience through platforms such as Wikipedia. Simultaneously, open access articles contribute to the reliability of Wikipedia as a source by affording editors timely access to novel results.

SpringerLink
Paul GuinnessyOct 18, 2024
"Various animal species can make a priori decisions about the passability of openings, based on their own size knowledge. So far no one has tested the ability for self-representation in cats." Inspiration must be from his cat. Where did it crawl into? https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(24)02024-8
Paul GuinnessyOct 16, 2024

"I’m torn. Both Galadriel and Sauron say the other is a threat to Middle-earth. One has to be wrong, so whom am I to trust? Should I trust the Dark Lord who attempted to topple the White City of Gondor, dominate all life, and attempt to stay in power for eternity? Or do I trust the Elf Queen representing the coalition of Men and Elves who defeated Sauron when he tried to enslave the Free Peoples… but could maybe do more meet-and-greets?"

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-an-undecided-hobbit-torn-between-a-dark-lord-who-promises-an-age-of-chaos-and-an-elf-queen-whom-i-just-wish-i-knew-more-about

I’m an Undecided Hobbit, Torn Between a Dark Lord Who Promises an Age of Chaos and an Elf Queen Whom I Just Wish I Knew More About

I’m a well-informed Hobbit—a Boffin from Overhill, thank you very much—who is in a kerfuffle about whom to throw my Hobbit-sized support behind. Fo...

McSweeney's Internet Tendency
Paul GuinnessyOct 16, 2024
The Royal Society has unsealed more than 1,600 peer review reports dating from 1949 to 1954, including Dorothy Hodgkin’s review of Watson and Crick’s manuscript of the structure of DNA and warring comments from two reviewers on a 1951 paper by Alan Turing #Academia #ScholarlyPublishing https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03287-4?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=2833530517-nature-briefing-daily-20241016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-2833530517-50179668
The early days of peer review: five insights from historical reports

A crop of referee reports from the Royal Society’s archive reveal discussions about cutting printing costs, reviewer holidays and even editing images.

Paul GuinnessyOct 9, 2024
James Muldoon questions the safety of AI companions for lonely, vulnerable users — particularly after the founder behind Replika AI admitted she was inspired by an episode of dystopian TV series Black Mirror. Its odd how what were warnings are taken as 'features' https://theconversation.com/sex-machina-in-the-wild-west-world-of-human-ai-relationships-the-lonely-and-vulnerable-are-most-at-risk-239783
Sex machina: in the wild west world of human-AI relationships, the lonely and vulnerable are most at risk

A growing number of people (mostly men) find AI relationship apps addictive and alluring. So what are the likely effects of this technology on us as human beings?

The Conversation
Paul GuinnessyOct 9, 2024
Which is the least-worst form of #democracy? This year roughly two billion voters will go to the polls, a real life experiment for political scientists to find out. The big question of course, is whether some approaches are more likely to promote democratic resilience? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03258-9?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=d712154d5f-nature-briefing-daily-20241008&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-d712154d5f-50179668
Which is the fairest electoral system? Mega-election year sparks debate

Proportional representation or winner takes all? Here’s how researchers compare the merits of contrasting voting methods.

Paul GuinnessyOct 9, 2024
An analysis of 400K researchers papers in Scopus shows that a third of researchers quit science within five years of authoring their first paper and almost half leave within a decade. Women were more likely than men to stop publishing, though this varied between disciplines. #AcademicChatter #Academia https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03222-7?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=d712154d5f-nature-briefing-daily-20241008&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-d712154d5f-50179668
Nearly 50% of researchers quit science within a decade, huge study reveals

Twenty years of publishing data across many countries and disciplines show women are more likely than men to leave research.

Paul GuinnessyOct 2, 2024

“The [AI] market is crazy right now. Seventy per cent of Series A [early-stage start-up] investment is coming from the hyperscalers, and the majority of that goes back to the hyperscalers,” she says, referring to cloud companies Microsoft, Google and Amazon. “It’s like a Potemkin market, it’s not a real market.” #artificialintelligence

https://www.ft.com/content/799b4fcf-2cf7-41d2-81b4-10d9ecdd83f6

Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: ‘I see AI as born out of surveillance’

The head of the encrypted messaging service on why she’s a privacy absolutist — and breaking Big Tech’s hold over AI

Paul GuinnessySep 23, 2024
Before you get your hopes up "The ideas were blind evaluated by reviewers, who scored #AI-generated concepts as more exciting, but slightly less feasible, than those from people." Which means the people didn't submit ideas that wouldn't work. #artificialintelligence https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03070-5?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=1ffdbc77b3-nature-briefing-daily-20240923&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-1ffdbc77b3-50179668
Do AI models produce more original ideas than researchers?

The concepts were judged by reviewers. They were not told who or what had created them.