Commercial operator supporting deep tech and life science startups from idea to Series A | Advisor to founders and investorshttps://bsky.app/profile/phillbjones.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/phillbjones.bsky.social/post/3mlseztn3qs2yI'm spending the moring at the @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social for a Creative Tech Scotland Event. Looking forward to some interesting discussions on how innovators and entrepreneurs can be better supported in Scotland.14 May 2026 08:19 +0000at://did:plc:m22hdoowrb2s5caxbvxw4vr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlseztn3qs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/phillbjones.bsky.social/post/3mhb2ixb5ks2tI'm delighted to announce that I'm joining @authentisci.bsky.social as a trustee. There's a need to push back against misinformation on the web. What inspires me about AuthentiSci is the opportunity to improve quality and accountability of scientific journalism by empowering researchers themselves. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7439588885296377856/17 Mar 2026 13:14 +0000at://did:plc:m22hdoowrb2s5caxbvxw4vr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhb2ixb5ks2thttps://bsky.app/profile/phillbjones.bsky.social/post/3mfoxewcjok2dIt's taken until now for someone to note that in a discussion about researcher incentives and guidelines for AI use in academia, Funders are conspicuously absent. HT Simone Ragavooloo from @frontiersmedia.bsky.social #r2rconf25 Feb 2026 15:05 +0000at://did:plc:m22hdoowrb2s5caxbvxw4vr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfoxewcjok2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/phillbjones.bsky.social/post/3mfow5trvhc2dResearchers don't report or share AI failures because there's a stigma against its use. #r2rconf.25 Feb 2026 14:43 +0000at://did:plc:m22hdoowrb2s5caxbvxw4vr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfow5trvhc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/phillbjones.bsky.social/post/3mfovzp466c2dSolutions from @nikeshgo.bsky.social #r2rconf.25 Feb 2026 14:41 +0000at://did:plc:m22hdoowrb2s5caxbvxw4vr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfovzp466c2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/phillbjones.bsky.social/post/3mfovwfuz5k2dAI isn't inherently unfair, it's optimised for a very narrow user group. Each iteration will become more biased, unless we intervene. #r2rconf This. If we refuse to engage with AI, we lose our ability to influence the outcomes. It's irresponsible to try to wait until the tech goes away.25 Feb 2026 14:39 +0000at://did:plc:m22hdoowrb2s5caxbvxw4vr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfovwfuz5k2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/phillbjones.bsky.social/post/3mfovngz5c22dA brilliant presentation by @nikeshgo.bsky.social from @cactusglobal.bsky.social #r2rconf Outlining the many ways in which AI amplifies the biases built into scholarly publishing.25 Feb 2026 14:34 +0000at://did:plc:m22hdoowrb2s5caxbvxw4vr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfovngz5c22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/phillbjones.bsky.social/post/3mfodocimok23Why isn't Peer Review Commons more popular than it is even though it helps researchers by reducing the number of review cycles and time to publish? Researchers publish strategically. They make conscious choices about where to publish based on audience and career considerations. #r2rconf #r2r202625 Feb 2026 09:12 +0000at://did:plc:m22hdoowrb2s5caxbvxw4vr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfodocimok23https://bsky.app/profile/phillbjones.bsky.social/post/3mfmf2in7gk2cThere are claims that DeepSeek and other Chinese models are 'better' than US models like GPT and Claude depite being smaller. It's worth noting that there is a live debate in AI circles about how to benchmark LLMs and many who say that the evals do not reflect real-world usefulness well. #r2rconf24 Feb 2026 14:32 +0000at://did:plc:m22hdoowrb2s5caxbvxw4vr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfmf2in7gk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/phillbjones.bsky.social/post/3mfmehhgv322oGovernance of AI is chaotic with various governments actively regulating while others retreat to a laissez-faire position. #r2rconf24 Feb 2026 14:21 +0000at://did:plc:m22hdoowrb2s5caxbvxw4vr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfmehhgv322ohttps://bsky.app/profile/phillbjones.bsky.social/post/3mfmdjf4i6c2oWhich future are we building by @cmkeithw.bsky.social #r2rconf. Opens by describing the zero-click 'problem' and asks if it is a problem? Does it matter?24 Feb 2026 14:04 +0000at://did:plc:m22hdoowrb2s5caxbvxw4vr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfmdjf4i6c2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/phillbjones.bsky.social/post/3mflvugep3225Keynote by @mcintold.bsky.social at #r2rconf Focusing on impostors and impersonators, showing how insecure the scholarly record has become. Our security and QA processes are inadequate because they rely on a definition of trust that predate information warfare.24 Feb 2026 10:00 +0000at://did:plc:m22hdoowrb2s5caxbvxw4vr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mflvugep3225https://bsky.app/profile/phillbjones.bsky.social/post/3mdfoufr6lk2cMeasles is no longer officially eliminated in the UK There's no cure or effective treatment for measles. 1 in 5 kids that get it require a hospital visit. Since its introduction in 1968, the vaccine has saved an estimated 4,500 lives Anti-vax nonsense costs lives https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgjw0xegxglo27 Jan 2026 11:48 +0000at://did:plc:m22hdoowrb2s5caxbvxw4vr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdfoufr6lk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/phillbjones.bsky.social/post/3mc7pjjpz3s2c26 months since the cyberattack on @britishlibrary.bsky.social Only now have some services been restored with launch of Alma & PrimoVE from @clarivate.com 1) Well done to both teams on getting this done, and 2) This is a cautionary tale of the dangers of not having a proper tech / security strategy12 Jan 2026 09:19 +0000at://did:plc:m22hdoowrb2s5caxbvxw4vr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mc7pjjpz3s2chttps://bsky.app/profile/phillbjones.bsky.social/post/3ma6kk5eekk2aLast week I attended the #STMInnovation and #STMIntegrity days in London. I believe the scholarly research ecosystem needs to change in a pretty substantial way if we're to face in to the societal threats that have emerged. https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/12/17/why-we-must-work-together-to-harden-the-scholarly-supply-chain/17 Dec 2025 11:27 +0000at://did:plc:m22hdoowrb2s5caxbvxw4vr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3ma6kk5eekk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/phillbjones.bsky.social/post/3m7kp2apz222yCongratulations to this year's winners of the #vessaliusinnovationawards 1. Profectus.academy 2. Safespace research 3. Thesify Well done to everyone on the #kargerteam. This year's award was the best yet and the hardest to judge.09 Dec 2025 13:54 +0000at://did:plc:m22hdoowrb2s5caxbvxw4vr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7kp2apz222yhttps://bsky.app/profile/phillbjones.bsky.social/post/3m7ke3w3gsc22A lot of #scholcomm #publishing startups focus on using #AI to detect bad manuscripts at the point of review. Publishing is a late stage step in the scholalry supply change. Trying to detect what has happened at each upstream step is a fool's errand. The whole chain needs hardening #STMinnovation09 Dec 2025 10:38 +0000at://did:plc:m22hdoowrb2s5caxbvxw4vr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7ke3w3gsc22https://bsky.app/profile/phillbjones.bsky.social/post/3m7kcatbyxs22The opening keynote at #STMInnovation, Rachel Gubermann-Hill of U Bristol and UKCORI says there's no real evidence that the public doesn't trust scientists Here's the key article she recomended: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-02090-509 Dec 2025 10:05 +0000at://did:plc:m22hdoowrb2s5caxbvxw4vr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7kcatbyxs22https://bsky.app/profile/phillbjones.bsky.social/post/3m7i5dzlonc22I'm at the STM trends meeting this morning. Thanks to @springernature.com for hosting us. I used to work in this office and it's nice to be back.08 Dec 2025 13:32 +0000at://did:plc:m22hdoowrb2s5caxbvxw4vr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7i5dzlonc22https://bsky.app/profile/phillbjones.bsky.social/post/3m4uqszspz22hI really like Google's pageless layout feature. Unless it's intended to be printed, page breaks are a distraction from the semantic structure of the doc. I only wish somebody had told them that line lengths longer than about 100 characters are really hard to read 'Narrow' should be 'Medium'05 Nov 2025 09:37 +0000at://did:plc:m22hdoowrb2s5caxbvxw4vr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4uqszspz22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/phillbjones.bsky.social/post/3m4sm77ri6k2kBig news. @kargerpublishers.bsky.social to be acquired by Oxford University Press @oxfordacademic.bsky.social https://corp.oup.com/news/oxford-university-press-announces-agreement-to-acquire-karger/04 Nov 2025 13:09 +0000at://did:plc:m22hdoowrb2s5caxbvxw4vr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4sm77ri6k2khttps://bsky.app/profile/phillbjones.bsky.social/post/3m4bcfs2jrc2zResearch security is an under-discussed topic in #scholcomm and #academicpublishing circles. I think it's time to pay a bit more attention because the mandates and requirements will be coming. Could research security measures reshape open science? https://open.substack.com/pub/scholarlyfutures/p/could-research-security-measures?r=q4ng4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false28 Oct 2025 15:58 +0000at://did:plc:m22hdoowrb2s5caxbvxw4vr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4bcfs2jrc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/phillbjones.bsky.social/post/3m3tycmkwws2uTwenty years after publishing their first #OA article @royalsociety.org are going full #OpenAccess using #SubscribeToOpen as the funding model. https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/royal-society-moves-to-subscribe-to-open23 Oct 2025 08:53 +0000at://did:plc:m22hdoowrb2s5caxbvxw4vr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3tycmkwws2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/phillbjones.bsky.social/post/3m33fcmqebc25A new substack from @jontreadway.bsky.social @roobina.bsky.social Sarah Greaves and @pgarner.bsky.social I've already subscribed and you should too. https://scholarlyfutures.substack.com/p/launch-of-scholarly-futures13 Oct 2025 14:09 +0000at://did:plc:m22hdoowrb2s5caxbvxw4vr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3m33fcmqebc25https://bsky.app/profile/phillbjones.bsky.social/post/3m336xkhzjc25I have a new post out on @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social where I look at the evolving AI tools market in scholarly publishing. Spoiler: It's still maturing and is a little bit messy. https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/13/three-years-after-the-launch-of-chatgpt-do-we-know-where-this-is-heading/13 Oct 2025 12:16 +0000at://did:plc:m22hdoowrb2s5caxbvxw4vr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3m336xkhzjc25