Mastodawn

In case people missed it I thought I'd cross-post in Substack my recent @makedatacount guest blog where I vented my thoughts (and explained my motivations) on the topic of scholarly metadata, and covered a number of new reports and schemes demonstrating the importance of quantitative data in demonstrating the benefits of #OpenScience.

Check it out here: https://scedmunds.substack.com/p/mdc-blog-cross-post-the-road-to-open

Scott C Edmunds Apr 9

Nice to have a piece featured on the SciStarter blog for #CitizenScienceMonth

Ten Asian Citizen Science Projects To Keep You Busy in Citizen Science Month
https://pages.scistarter.org/citizenscience-asia-ten-asian-citizen-science-projects-to-keep-you-busy-in-citizen-science-month/
#ActsofScience

Scott C Edmunds Apr 3

Happy #citizensciencemonth!

Wearing my CitizenScience.Asia hat I've put together a list of 10 Asian #CitizenScience projects you can participate and contribute small acts of science this April https://substack.com/home/post/p-192826137

Scott C Edmunds Mar 27

Final two @gbif / TDR vectors of human disease series papers published this week. I told the sponsors at WHO we'd publish 12 papers in this final call, so it's nice to see papers 11 and 12 finally out in @GigaByte

https://doi.org/10.46471/gigabyte.175
https://doi.org/10.46471/gigabyte.177

Scott C Edmunds Mar 8

Michael Downey

Mar 8

🇹🇭 Just 15 minutes until the kick off for day 1 of #FOSSASIA 2026 in Bangkok Thailand. Best of all, you can watch live where-ever you are:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6DwkvsqpwE

#FOSS #FLOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Bangkok #Thailand

Scott C Edmunds Mar 8

Attending the #FOSSASIA community data in Bangkok today. Nice to see Prof Jun Iio from Chuo University stressing the importance of #opensource and transparency in research. This is particularly timely as AI-coding is creating new challenges in doing this (see my piece covering this challenge https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/28/guest-post-code-plagiarism-and-ai-create-new-challenges-for-publishing-integrity/)

Scott C Edmunds Feb 23

Second part of my write-up on our recent #MachineLearning standards paper, where I muse on the big-picture implications of using ML standards in journal review and benchmarking, discuss their costs v benefits, and how they may relate to sustainability and wider economics of AI.
https://scedmunds.substack.com/p/throwing-light-on-machine-learning

Scott C Edmunds Feb 19

Just published a “making of the paper” post on our recent Data Science Journal article on transparency in Machine Learning, which provides a hands-on case study in how journals can try to address the meteoric rise in the use of AI-methods (and resulting black boxes).

https://scedmunds.substack.com/p/throwing-light-on-throwing-light

And if you hadn't read the paper it's here: https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2026-001

Scott C Edmunds Feb 6

Thanks BridgeCrossBio for asking me to contribute to this piece on the rise of Chinese research outputs (papers + data), and where to find them.

Read more (and subscribe to them on substack) to find out. https://substack.com/home/post/p-186978524

Scott C Edmunds Feb 4

Last week I was privileged to attend (and present at) the first #CharlestonAsia Conference in Bangkok, so I thought I would share some of thoughts and experiences from this noisy and fun scholarly publishing gathering.

https://scedmunds.substack.com/p/the-first-charleston-asia-goes-off

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