Digital Science, a technology company serving stakeholders across the research ecosystem, is pleased to announce the return of its long-running Speaker Series, creating a platform for engagement between leading thinkers, their research and the scientifically curious general public.

The 2023 series kicks off with “Ultra-processed people: The harsh reality of ultra-processed food” by Dr Chris van Tulleken – 7:00pm BST Tuesday 19 September, at The Royal Institution, London.

Dr Chris van Tulleken is an award-winning broadcaster, practising NHS doctor and leading academic, and author of Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food .. and Why Can’t We Stop?

Established in 2011 and held annually, Digital Science’s Speaker Series began as an initiative to hear from thought leaders and experts from various fields, to engage, educate, and inspire the company’s teams.

The 2023 series will be the first since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and builds on Digital Science’s new TL;DR initiative, which is focusing on wider community engagement through forward-thinking debate.

“The aim of our revitalized Speaker Series is to create a connection between researchers undertaking cutting-edge work and members of the public, on issues that matter to us all,” says Digital Science’s Director of Researcher and Community Engagement, Dr Suze Kundu.

“Chris van Tulleken is perfect for the return of the Speaker Series, as his research and advocacy impact the health and wellbeing of so many.

“We hope to generate a conversational platform where ideas can be shared and debated, leading to a greater understanding among the public of the value of research and what it means to their lives,” Dr Kundu says.

The 2023 Speaker Series continues with “Not Just for the Boys” by Dame Athene Donald – 7:00pm GMT Thursday 16 November 2023, at The Royal Institution, London.

Dame Athene Donald is Professor Emerita in Experimental Physics and Master of Churchill College, University of Cambridge. An expert in soft matter physics and physics at the interface with biology, she was the University of Cambridge’s first Gender Equality Champion and is the author of Not Just for the Boys: Why We Need More Women in Science.

The continuation of the Speaker Series follows on from the revival of another popular Digital Science event, FuturePub, which has now been held successfully this year in both London and San Francisco. In FuturePub, speakers from within the research and tech communities discuss ways in which technology is helping to make research and the communication of that research better.

“The Digital Science Speaker Series and FuturePub each have a different focus but they also complement each other – they’re both about having conversations with our communities, and helping those at the cutting edge show how their work can make an impact,” says Dr John Hammersley, Vice-President Researcher and Community Engagement with Digital Science, Founder of Overleaf and the original instigator of the FuturePub events.

“Digital Science is proudly playing its role in bringing these communities together.”

More about the Digital Science Speaker Series

About Digital Science

Digital Science is an AI-focused technology company providing innovative solutions to complex challenges faced by researchers, universities, funders, industry and publishers. We work in partnership to advance global research for the benefit of society. Through our brands – Altmetric, Dimensions, Figshare, ReadCube, Symplectic, IFI CLAIMS Patent Services, Overleaf, Writefull, OntoChem, Scismic and metaphacts – we believe when we solve problems together, we drive progress for all. Visit www.digital-science.com and follow @digitalsci on Twitter/X or on LinkedIn.

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The Digital Science team is getting ready to head off to San Francisco for the annual Science Foo Camp. This is a remarkable gathering of scientists, thinkers, technologists, creators and communicators, who come together over three days in mid-July.

‘Sci Foo’, as it’s affectionately known, is unlike any other science conference. Hosted by ‘X’ (formerly “Google X”), it is an ‘unconference’ with no fixed agenda, and is co-organized by Google, O’Reilly Media, Digital Science and Nature.

Since the first event in 2006, Sci Foo has aimed to do things differently – 18 years later it retains that original spirit and continues to attract some of the most prolific players on the world stage. Indeed, the British astrophysicist Lord Martin Rees has called Sci Foo the ‘Woodstock of the Mind’.

Forging an environment of openness and collaboration, attendees are encouraged to connect and share ideas with those around them. The schedule includes the always popular lightning talks but discourages keynotes and corporate overviews – and is dominated by unconference sessions that are proposed and organised by the attendees themselves. This format allows for unparalleled diversity of disciplines and thinking, with a rich seam of discussion, debate and insights running through the event. Conversations are encouraged to continue over mealtimes and into the evening.

As one of the organizers, Digital Science is especially excited for Sci Foo 2023. With around 250 attendees, we have also provided travel support to a number of early-career scientists from South Africa, Ecuador, Brunei and other countries and we are looking forward to the energy they will bring to what promises to be a fantastic Sci Foo.

We would also like to thank our co-organizers including  Tim O’Reilly and Marsee Henon from O’Reilly Media; Raiya Kind and Laurie Wu from Google; Magdalena Skipper of Springer Nature; and Sci Foo veteran Cat Allman, as well as the many volunteers from across all these organisations – it would not be possible without them. 

If you want to know more about Sci Foo 2023 including who’s there and what’s trending, please look out for online chat about the event via the official hashtag #SciFoo and discussion on Twitter and LinkedIn from the Digital Science team.

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Amarjit Myers, Head of Strategic Events | Digital Science

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We’re really excited to announce that #FuturePub is BACK! We’ll be at the Royal Institution (the Ri to its friends) on May the 4th (be with you) for everything you know and love and SO MUCH MORE.

Join us for food, drinks, lightning talks from cutting-edge innovators in research tech, networking with a bunch of like-minded people, and even explore the historic building that is hosting us.

Hosted by Digital Science, the evenings are designed to be fun and informal – we aim to give opportunities to those working on new ideas and innovations a chance to present and get feedback on their ideas. There’s also free food!

We’ve hosted over a dozen #FuturePubs in the past and have been described as “a staple of the London science tech/publishing scene”.

In case you’re wondering how it all works, here’s a breakdown of how the night will look:

• Doors will open at 6:00 pm when you can grab some food, a drink, and meet fellow attendees. You can also explore the historic home of science communication and innovation with a walk through the Faraday Museum at the Ri.
• At around 6:30 pm there will be some quick-fire lightning talks covering a range of new and exciting developments in research technology. These will fit into an hour, to keep the evening fast-paced and fun!
• The rest of the evening is then open for discussions and conversations over drinks and any remaining food – we expect a great mixture of attendees from the research, publishing and start-up communities.
• From about 9:00 pm those who would like to continue conversations can start to wander over to the King’s Head pub down the road where we’ve reserved a space.

We’ll have a great selection of speakers lined up and will be announcing the first two shortly, with further announcements as we approach the event. Register now to be the first to hear the speaker announcements as they go out!   

We also still have a couple of speaking slots left, so if you’d like to speak at this event (or one in the future), please register your interest via this form.

And if you just want to turn up and enjoy the event, sign up here! Tickets are FREE, but limited, so grab yours NOW. We can’t wait to see you at #FuturePub!

WHEN: Thursday, May the 4th, 2023 from 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm (BST) 

WHERE: The Royal Institution of Great Britain, 21 Albemarle St, London W1S 4BS

Doors open at 6:00 pm and the talks will kick off at 6:30 pm. Space at the venue is limited, so please register for your free tickets now to reserve your place!

Speaker Update!

We’re excited to announce the following speakers for #FuturePub 2023!

• Ivy Cavendish, Founder of TooWrite; Head of Writing Solutions at Springer Nature
• Andrew Preston, Co-founder of Cassyni
• Elliott Lumb, Founder of PeerRef
• Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Director of Open Research Solutions, PLOS

Find out more about our speakers at the EventBrite registration page.

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Sci Foo, as it’s known, is an “unconference” with no fixed agenda, and brings together researchers, innovators, technologists, communicators and policy makers from around the world who are doing groundbreaking work in diverse areas of science and technology. Attendance is by invitation only.

Since the first event in 2006, Sci Foo has aimed to do things differently. Tim O’Reilly, of O’Reilly Media, had created a format to bring together thinkers from different fields in the Friends of O’Reilly (FOO) Camp format, but it was Linda Stone who suggested that Timo Hannay (of Nature), Chris DiBona (of Google) and Tim should come together in creating a camp that brought computer scientists together with researchers and technologists.

From Digital Science, I as Head of Strategic Events and our CEO Daniel Hook are co-organisers of the event, along with Cat Allman at Google, Tim O’Reilly and Marsee Henon from O’Reilly, and Magdalena Skipper from Nature. We are ably assisted by many stalwart colleagues from across all four collaborators, who freely give their own time to support the event each year.

The topics of discussion are truly wide-ranging, and include: climate, medicine and disease, machine learning, AI, food systems, astrophysics, sustainability, neuroscience, digital society, and the various health, social, political, technological and economic impacts of the pandemic. No matter what area is being discussed, this diverse group brings a unique level of insight and expertise to the discussion, often sparking new thinking and ideas that can help to drive each individual to continue their work with renewed passion.

At Sci Foo 2022, we’re looking forward to many conversations, “lightning talks” and catching up with our fellow organisers and attendees, old and new. For those attendees unable to attend in person, there will be opportunities to join some sessions virtually. It’s our first ‘hybrid’ event, and if successful we hope to continue with this approach.

To understand more about Sci Foo, see this video from 2018 in which we asked a number of scientists what the future might hold. You can also read about past events, such as Sci Foo 2018, 2019, or the virtual Sci Foo 2021.

If you’re lucky enough to be attending this year’s event, please don’t hesitate to say hi to our Sci Foo crew, including Daniel, Amarjit, Suze Kundu from Dimensions L&C, Steve Scott, Leslie McIntosh from Ripeta, and John Hammersley and Jessica Lawshe from Overleaf.

Look out for online chat about the event via the official hashtag #scifoo and discussion on Twitter and LinkedIn from the Digital Science team.

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After a warm welcome from the organisers and the traditional lighting of the eternal flame (“surely if it is eternal it is already alight,” I hear you say – and it is, in our hearts. But it needs plugging in for the festival…) the delegates got down to business. Just over 24 hours worth of identifier-related treats had been packed into concurrent streams, with many sessions taking place in languages local to the least sleepy time zone at any given point in the programme, adding to the inclusive nature of the conference. But what is PIDapalooza all about?

Where there are data, there are persistent identifiers. Whether that data is related to research information, or whether it is related to other items that need classification, categorisation or organisation, persistent identifiers are a form of metadata that allow us to better understand the context of a single piece of information.

Think about it in the context of your favourite music library. When you import your music, each individual file is organised by track number and album. There is however a whole raft of additional metadata that you may not be aware of. These additional layers of detail allow you to collate your songs in different ways. Let’s say I wanted to kitchen-disco dance to the songs that soundtracked my undergraduate years. All I need to do is search my music by the year 2005, and my library will return all the songs I own that were released then. Perhaps I’m in the mood for some epic prog-rock to power me through these long pandemic days. No problem, as the genre tag will do the hard work for me. All this is possible thanks to rich and accurate metadata; the information that describes a file with fine details that add context.

PIDapalooza is a conference unlike any other. From the aforementioned tour t-shirts, to the PIDaparty sessions, the conference allows people to naturally network, communicate and collaborate, and interact with speakers and other delegates. This year I hosted a frantic session of Jeo-PID-y, a game show all about PIDs based on the US show with a very similar name. Devised by Alice Meadows of NISO, Helena Cousijn of DataCite and myself, the game was an opportunity to test your PID knowledge, meet others via hosting platform Crowdcast and in Slack, and learn about some ‘new PIDs on the block’ (I’m not even sorry). Thanks to a combination of enthusiastic participants and four excellent team captains in the form of Maria Gould from ROR, Matt Buys from DataCite, Gabriela Mejias from ORCiD, and Rachael Lammey from CrossRef, the game was educational and entertaining. Rachael’s team, the Glorious GUPRIs, took the crown after some strategic betting of entirely fictional money in Final Jeopardy.

PIDapalooza brings together users of persistent identifiers from a range of different professions, each facing similar challenges, all sharing best practice and novel ways to overcome these hurdles. This year’s programme featured a session led by Jonathan Clark from The DOI Foundation and Raymond Drewry from MovieLabs and the Entertainment Identifier Registry, or EIDR. They shared the successes and challenges of creating and maintaining PIDs for the entertainment industry. Complete with movie quiz, the duo answered questions about how to attach unique identifiers to different versions of movies, such as director’s cuts and extended editions, and how to categorise movies in different languages. When we think about research information, it is clear to see the parallels between the challenges that other industries face and those we encounter within research. One message shone through multiple sessions, however; the better the metadata, the more we can do with that incredible depth of information.

At Digital Science, we have overcome our own PID-related challenges and continue to work with our community to best integrate PIDs in our work. When creating the Dimensions database, the team needed a disambiguated research organisation identifier in order to categorise research outputs by institution. Enter GRID, the Global Research Identifier Database. This free-to-use identifier adds another layer of metadata to your research outputs, and can also be incorporated into new systems. As part of the curation process, GRID brings together other persistent identifiers, and even adds more richness to the metadata available about each institute by including geographic location, NUTS3 region codes, and much more for greater analytical potential of research information.

GRID is used in Altmetric, Dimensions, Figshare, and Symplectic Elements, but its reach doesn’t stop there. Where there is PIDapalooza, there is a pride of ‘ROR-ing’ lions close by. GRID seed data was used to help build the Research Organization Registry, or ROR. ROR’s first annual community meeting took place in Dublin just before PIDapalooza in January 2019. As one of the newest PIDs, it made sense for a stakeholder-governed identifier community to meet around PIDapalooza, as the same people would attend both events. The ROR community meeting allowed users and future adopters to learn more about how the ROR project is progressing, and what the next steps are. Being driven by the community, it was another great opportunity to hear about new use cases and learn about the priorities of different users in between the quarterly community calls.

Though ROR and GRID are well known within the PID community, it is easy to forget that researchers may not know much about them. Just over two years ago, fresh out of academia, I had to Google what a PID was when I joined Digital Science and started working with the ROR project team. Little did I know that everything, from the names I assigned to my individual experiments to the digital object identifiers (DOIs) attached to papers, were forms of persistent identifier. As Kathryn Kaiser said in her excellent wrap-up, perhaps researchers don’t need to know the ins and outs of the infrastructure of research information. They just need to know that good metadata means that the rest of the research world can make better connections between pieces of research information, and we need to continue to understand our research community in order to know how best to support them in adopting these.

The eternal flame may have been unplugged for another year, but I already look forward to reconvening with this community in January 2022 to celebrate the progress that has been made and share what we have learned along the way.

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October 13-15, 2020

Digital Science is sponsoring Transforming Research Online for a fourth successive year, bringing research leaders across the globe together to discuss research policy, evaluation, portfolio management, funding, dissemination, and impact. 

Mike Taylor, Head of Metrics Development at Digital Science, will chair the conference which includes a keynote from Dr Charlene Le Fauve, Senior Advisor to the Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity, on the opening day. Infectious disease and vaccine research leader Carlos del Rio, Executive Associate Dean for Emory at Grady, will follow on day two. Brian Nosek, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Open Science will offer opening remarks the final day.

“We worked with academics in the USA to develop the Transforming Research conference because we wanted to bring together various communities we felt were working separately, on the same things,” says Taylor.  “For example, funders and publishers, or librarians and data visualisation people. There are very few places where these communities meet.

“The focus of the conference is about using evidence and data to transform research portfolios and focus, and to improve decision making. The nature of the conference is to support conversations. So presentations don’t dominate, we allow as much time for discussion as we do the presentation. We encourage active debate.”

Registration is open and the program committee is inviting proposals for presentations from those shaping research policy and evaluation at their own institutions and more widely. Perspectives from people in government and private funding organizations, research institutes, and academic, non-profit, and commercial organizations are welcome.

Transforming Research conference format will be a series of short pre-recorded presentations followed by interactive discussion with presenters. Themes for the 2020 meeting are:

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Research: What helps and hinders the creation of opportunity and equity for women and other underrepresented minority groups in the process of research? We will explore DEI from several perspectives
• Basic, Applied and Translational Research: Connections, Collaboration and Community:  We will discuss practices of interdisciplinarity and collaborative approaches to address societal and scientific challenges.
• Open Science – Opportunities and Challenges for the Research Enterprise: Open science promises to accelerate reproducibility and research, and promote efficiencies, exemplified by the ‘completely new culture of doing research’ in response to COVID-19. From endeavor to practice, we invite discussion on costs, emerging roles, technology, incentives, competitiveness, as well as policies and regulations.
• Rigor, Reproducibility, and Integrity in Research: Research is a human endeavor: with the usual characteristics of humanity, with its strengths and weaknesses. Solutions can come about through technological improvement, behavioral change and increased transparency: but they have to be ethical, community-led, and they have to be seen to be effective – by the research community, by funders, politicians and the general populace.

Sandra Franklin, Director of Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University, Kim Powell, Research Impact Informationist and Jeremy Kupsco, Research Informationist, will serve as conference virtual hosts, along with the 2020 Organizing Committee.  Sponsoring organizations include Digital Science, Clarivate, and Elsevier.

Visit: www.transformingresearch.org

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Wikipedia has an average of 18 billion page views per month. It is a font of knowledge for many millennials, yet in 2011 only 10% of Wikipedia contributors were women, and in 2018 only 17% of entries on this online encyclopaedia were about women. We desperately wanted to do something about Wikipedia’s gender imbalance, especially as there are so many incredible women achieving the impossible in STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) that deserve to have their stories told and heard by the next generation of STEM superstars. Last month, InnovateHer) teamed up with STEMettes and Digital Science to inspire a group of women and teenage girls to become Wikipedia Editors and sing the song of these unsung ‘Sheros’.

The team introduce the Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon to attendees

InnovateHer is a social enterprise on a mission to improve the gender balance in the technology sector by getting girls ready for the tech industry, and the industry ready for girls. We currently run an 8-week industry-led programme in schools around the North West where we teach girls digital skills and showcase the range of career opportunities in the technology sector. We aim to expand our work further, and run our programmes in schools across the whole of the United Kingdom. We also work closely with a network of organisations to help them diversify their recruitment process and culture, ensuring that they go on to attract a diverse range of talent. Like ourselves, STEMettes are a community interest company on a mission to inspire the next generation of women in STEM. They do this through a series of inspiring panel events, hackathons, exhibitions and mentoring schemes. We have long admired the work STEMettes do and couldn’t wait to write history with them.

During our three hour Edit-a-Thon we introduced the concept and basic skills required of editing to a group of 20 women and girls. We made a total of 10 edits to pages of notable women in STEM, including Ann Hornschemeier, Anita Sengupta and Ruth Payne-Scott, adding images and infoboxes, as well as amending the inaccuracies on some of the pages. 9 out of these 10 edits remain live on Wikipedia today, which we are extremely proud of.

The attendees of the event celebrate their achievements as new Wikipedia Editors

Much like Digital Science’s Edit-a-Thon for Ada Lovelace Day back in October 2018, our ultimate aim was also to inspire a group of diverse Editors to embark on their Wikipedia editing journey, and encourage them to continue to help improve the gender balance on Wikipedia one small edit at a time. After attending the Edit-a-Thon we were pleased to hear that all of the women and girls were confident in their editing ability and would continue to edit Wikipedia after the event. Following the event, one of our Editors said:

“I now know where to start and what is an appropriate source. Thanks for a super fun evening!”

We were so inspired by the women and girls who attended the event and we hope this newly formed group of Editors go on to publish an array of diverse articles, improving the representation issue both online and in real life.

These Edit-a-Thons are just one way in which you can help us achieve our mission. Find out more about how you can get involved here and follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. To see more Tweets about the event view our Twitter moment here.

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Researchers and other scholarly lifecycle stakeholders are seeking new and efficient ways to streamline workflows, and more easily account for and maximize the reach and impact of their research. ORCID serves as a crucial component in this complex process, key to improving how we track and associate outputs with authors and their networks. When used in tandem with the data and services offered via integrations with Digital Science tools like Dimensions, Elements, Altmetric, Overleaf, and Figshare, those producing and supporting research are able to chart complete pathways from awarded grants through citations, to downstream impact across academic and public spheres in sources like mainstream news, policy, and patents.

This webinar will feature real-life examples of how these collaborative tools benefit the research and publication lifecycle, helping those conducting and supporting research accurately and fully account for their influence — and make more strategic decisions going forward.

Eric Olson, Engagement and Partnerships Lead, North America, ORCID emphasized: “how important it is for ORCID to partner with organizations like Digital Science where values align, as our community aims to better support the broader research landscape.”

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Changing Perceptions of Women in Science – The key role of TV and New Media

There are few more powerful ways of changing perceptions than via a good film. The most accessible presentations are through television programmes or series, and via WEB or other video productions. But equally, popular TV series can reinforce out of dare stereotypes, so the decisions of broadcasters and producers are of key importance. In the area of science, there is a parallel responsibility on scientists to be in this loop and present ideas, role models and scenarios that are the bedrock of most science-based productions.

The European Science TV and New Media Festival awards ten prizes each year both to celebrate successful productions and to help spread good practice. The Awards are for the different genres of TV and New Media, for different Science in Society themes like the Environment and Women in Science, and for specific subject strands. A further aim of the annual Festival is to encourage new audiences to watch good science based productions, and part of that process involves creating a new type of event with screenings and discussion of the best films from the festival in different European Cities. In June there was a well attended event in Geneva on World Environment Day featuring the Festival’s winning film of the Environment Prize. At ESOF 2018 the Festival is pleased to present 3 very diverse films on the Women in Science Theme, with a panel of experts to raise and answer pertinent questions.

Digital Science’s Katy Alexander will be joining a group or remarkable panelists including the producer of the winning Women in Science programme from the series Ocean Heroines, and the scientist behind an innovative series of short TV films bringing together young girls and accomplished women scientists and engineers. The issues surrounding casting women in scientific roles in TV will also feature illustrated by a successful new series for German television. The background to a change of culture in this genre in Germany will help shape a discussion of how attitudes can be shifted by the right initiatives.

Full programme here

Follow the conversation on #ESOF2018. Katy tweets @KLA2010

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With rapidly increasing advances that extend across science, researchers are applying artificial intelligence (AI), often in the form of neural networks, to tackle big challenges. Unlike earlier AI projects, such systems don’t need to be programmed in advance with human expert knowledge. They learn independently and unsupervised, discovering patterns or anomalies in data sets that are far larger and noisier than human researchers can cope with.

In a way that mirrors the way our brains function, the outputs of these neural networks are based on computations that currently can’t be explained. How does this align with the scientific method? Can ‘AI neuroscience’ unlock this black box? At the sharp end of the industry, some are using AI to design and carry out experiments as well as interpret the results, opening up the prospect of AI itself becoming a scientist.

Hiroaki Kitano, Director of Sony Science Laboratories, has a grand challenge for science: “To develop an AI system that can make major scientific discoveries in biomedical sciences that is worthy of a Nobel Prize and far beyond.”

Join our expert panel as they explore these issues. Attendees will be introduced to the basic tenets of AI and hear about practical examples of the technology in research, as well as the ethical implications all this brings.

Tune into our webinar, “ Scientific Research in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” on Thursday 24 May at 4pm BST (11am EDT).

From Digital Science, Steve Scott will be moderating the panel and Cameron Shepherd will be hosting the webinar.

Steve tweets @manuscript  and Cameron @cameron_jms.

Thought leaders speaking on the webinar:

Jeffrey Ng is Chief Scientist at Founders Factory and brings experience as a serial technologist, start-up founder, venture due diligence and deep R&D strategist on Big Data, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, state-of-the-art Deep Learning and deployment of AI platforms at internet scale for Tier1 Silicon Valley companies. Jeff has a doctorate in Machine Learning. During 7 years of research at Imperial College, he reverse engineered the human visual cortex. He has co-founded two startups and acted as technology and strategy advisor to startups in the AI web design, medical image analysis and fashion-centred social platforms. He has authored over 45 scientific articles and 3 granted patents. Jeff tweets @jeffreynsk

Doug Raymond: Doug is the General Manager for Semantic Scholar, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. He previously served in product management and general management roles at Amazon and Google, and was a founder of two venture-backed startups. He received his MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Economics from the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Anita Schjøll Brede is CEO and co-founder of Iris AI. She is a serial entrepreneur, tech geek, and storyteller. Prior to co-founding Iris in 2015, Anita co-founded uLabs Ventures and became a board member at Venture Advisory Board. The past 10 years of her career has spanned 9 industries including developing an e-learning tool in Silicon Valley, performing theatre for babies, reducing energy consumption in the process industry through heat exchanger network optimization and more. Anita tweets @twitnitnit

Roman Gurinovich is a CEO at Xpansa and a Systems Architect at sci.AI. Implementation of enterprise-scale systems for corporates was just a start. To add to the fun, Roman initiated the development of the sci.AI platform on a mission to create “Artificial Scientist” that will augment global biomedical research. Roman holds MS in Engineering and BA in Economics degrees. Roman tweets @gurinovich

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Delivering Powerful Insights and Business Intelligence Across the Scholarly Research Lifecycle

Developed over a two-year period by the team at Digital Science, in partnership with over 100 leading research intensive organizations around the world, Dimensions brings together over 124 million records from across the research lifecycle for the very first time enabling you to gather timely, actionable insights from across the research landscape.

Join us for this one hour webinar to learn how Dimensions can deliver real business and editorial benefits to publishers while increasing the discoverability and usage of their content.

When: 4:00 PM GMT February 15

Registration Closed

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The 2017 theme was ‘What makes a great scientist, tools and skills’.

A huge amount of information was covered ranging from communication, mentoring and diversity to the importance of community in research. Expert speechwriter, Simon Lancaster, delivered an informative and entertaining keynote talk on ‘The Rhetoric of Research’.

What was clear was that researchers need to work on developing a wide range of skills throughout their career to effectively communicate their work and therefore progress and thrive in a digital world. A researcher’s work does not begin and end on the lab bench!

Below I summarise three key takeaways from SpotOn17:

1. There’s no universal recipe for being a great researcher

There are a plethora of ways to be a great researcher. Tools exist to help researchers develop and grow but are never the end-all. One must explore the options and start by doing what they will enjoy while taking pride in their work.

2. There is an almost infinite list of tools available!

Technology can be overwhelming but it’s also a researcher’s best friend. The Tech Slam at SpotOn showed the audience many ways in which technology can assist scientists in conducting their research more efficiently.

Here are three examples of a scientist’s everyday problems:

Problem: ‘I can’t do communication on top of my cell culturing work that takes 3h/day’

Answer: No problem, give the cell culturing job to a robot and use the time to work on letting the world know about your work. Hackscience provides affordable automated cell culture technologies.

Problem: ‘I wish I could do that experiment, but the equipment is too expensive’

Answer: Clustermarket can help you find relevant equipment at a location near you and you can then rent it!

Problem: ‘I wrote a paper but I’m not sure what impact it had online and in the media’

Answer: Altmetric allows you to monitor all the attention your work has received online!

   3. The academic community will bridge the gender, minority and LGBQT gaps in STEM

This point resonates with me because it’s a personal issue that I faced when I was a researcher.

At one point I believed that being a woman in STEM wasn’t that bad, but after two postdocs I realised I was treated differently than my male lab mates and not in a good way. But, I’m happy to see more and more people focussed on making a change. I was unlucky, but hopefully younger generations won’t have to experience the same thing and that’s great!

SpotOn is an event not to be missed. It has something for everyone and provides a platform for a wide range of voices to be heard. All the content generated on the SpotOn17 day (videos, photos, live sketching and twitter story) are available here  https://events.biomedcentral.com/spoton17/.

Follow @SpotonLondon and look out for future updates and content.

Elodie is a scientist that has worked on Epilepsy in London and Paris (where she got her PhD). She’s the international director of Pint of Science and the founder of the French branch of the festival. Over the past five years she’s been involved with Pint of Science she has realised how important science communication is and has recently made the decision to leave academic research in order to fully commit to science communication and public engagement.

Elodie tweets @EloCha19.

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