#FuturePub is back in London for our first event of 2024 and, by popular demand, we are thrilled to be hosting this at the awesome ping ping club Bounce in Farringdon once again!

The focus of this FuturePub is to create a platform for conversation around inclusion, from gender imbalance in research and tech to intersectional challenges faced by people across the world, and how a more diverse research workforce and tech designed with everyone in mind will ultimately lead us through some of the challenges we face as a global society and towards a better quality of life for all.

See the speakers for this event (details below):

What is FuturePub and how does it work?

We’ve hosted over a dozen #FuturePub events, since our first back in January 2014, and quickly became known as “a staple of the London science tech/publishing scene” (thanks Eva!).

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. And did we mention the free food and drink?

In case this is your first time, here’s how it works:

1. Five or six quick-fire talks cover a range of new and exciting developments in science and publishing technology
2. These all fit into a one-hour slot (from around 7 pm to 8 pm) to keep the evening fast-paced and fun. Arrive from 6 pm for pre-talk food and drinks and to play a few games of ping pong or shuffleboard
3. The rest of the evening is open for discussions and conversations over the remainder of the drinks and food. We get a great mixture of attendees from the research, tech, publishing and start-up communities, so there will be plenty of people to meet and chat with, especially around such an exciting topic.

Timings for the evening

Here’s the confirmed schedule for 4th March:

• 6 pm – doors open, drinks available, and opportunities to play ping pong or shuffleboard
• 6:30 pm – food served (a selection of bite-sized starters and heaps of pizza, with vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options available)
• 7 pm – Lightning Talks start
• 8 pm – Lightning Talks end, remaining food to be consumed, ping ping duels to be thrown down
• 8:30 pm – food cleared, drinks still available for the continuing conversations
• 11 pm – that’s a wrap! Though if you would like to continue conversations, you are welcome to find a nearby pub. Just let us know which one you’re going to. Suze will have a whisky-ginger-generous squeeze of lime please.

Speakers & Talks

Subhadra Das – The History We Deserve

I’ll be telling the story of Edward Drinker Cope, a nineteenth-century American scientist whose research ran the gamut from dinosaur hunting to false notions of the sex binary and what it means to be civilised. I’ll be considering how this highly influential but relatively lesser-known figure in the history of science left a legacy we need to be mindful of today in the interests of greater social justice.

Subhadra Das is a writer, historian, broadcaster and comedian who looks at the relationship between science and society. She specialises in the history and philosophy of science, particularly the history of scientific racism and eugenics. For nine years she was Curator of the Science Collections at University College London. She has written and presented podcasts and stand-up comedy shows, curated museum exhibitions, and has appeared on radio and TV. Her first book Uncivilised: Ten Lies That Made The West is out now.

Dr Hélène Draux – Digital Science – What The Decline in Women’s First Publications Means For Research

Despite past progress, including women in the US surpassing men in doctoral degree attainment, the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected women, potentially halting or reversing their academic advancements. Based on data from dimensions.ai and Gender API, we explore the trend from 2000 onwards, noting a significant drop in women’s first publications in recent years. This presentation highlights the importance of recognising and addressing the systemic challenges faced by women in academia, emphasising a call to action for institutions and funders to support and retain women in research, ensuring their contributions continue to enrich and diversify the field.

Dr Hélène Draux is a Senior Data Scientist at Digital Science. She creates bespoke bibliometrics analyses and visualisations for clients in the research sector, using data from the Digital Science portfolio (e.g. Dimensions, Altmetric, Figshare, Elements, IFI Claims, and GRID), clients’ data and external data. Her specialties include gender analyses, geographic analyses, topic modelling, network analyses, and interactive visualisations. She has published a book chapter on Visualisation of Research Metrics, her work was featured in Nature, and during the pandemic she has published a peer reviewed article about the speed of publishing and gender differences in publication.

Professor Jennifer Rohn – UCL – Outsmarting urinary tract infection

Urinary tract infections (UTI) affect a staggering 400 million people each year, and the gold-standard treatment, oral antibiotics, often fails. This is because the bacteria which cause UTI have clever ways of evading antibiotics, but therapy innovations in this “mostly women” disease space have been hampered by lack of interest, urgency and research funding. In this talk, you’ll learn more about how bacteria hide from drug attack, and one possible solution to get around it.

Professor Jennifer Rohn is a research group leader in the Division of Medicine at University College London, and the Head of the Centre for Urological Biology. Her team studies the biology of urinary tract infections (UTI) and seeks to develop new cures for treatment-resistant and chronic UTIs. She works in cross-disciplinary collaborations with clinicians, engineers and materials scientists, and her research interests include cell biology, microbiology, antimicrobial resistance, immunology, tissue engineering, and the development of novel therapies and human cell-based model platforms. She is also a novelist, journalist, public speaker, science communicator and pundit.

Joe Twyman – Deltapoll – Sex with Strangers: Why Data Context Matters

A research study from the 1970s became a definitive work on the differences in sexual behaviour between men and women. The study was so significant it inspired a dance hit in the 1990s that made the top ten across Europe. But all was not as it seems…

One of Britain’s best known political pollsters, Joe Twyman is Co-Founder and Director of the global public opinion consultancy Deltapoll and is a pioneer of using the internet for conducting opinion research. Previously he was a director at the founding of YouGov back in 2000, holding a variety of senior positions within that company and was responsible for building their online research operations. He also spent two and a half years in Baghdad as a director of YouGov’s Iraq operation from 2007 to 2010. He has published a number of academic research papers, worked as project director for five British Election Studies and frequently provides expert analysis for TV, radio and newspapers both at home and abroad. You can find him on twitter @joetwyman.

Dr Kate Devlin – King’s College London – Navigating the AI ‘Sea of Dudes’

In 2016, computer scientist Margaret Mitchell described AI as a “sea of dudes”. What has the discipline done in that time to improve things and make it fairer and more representative of the world? Hahaha. Nothing. This is 5 minutes on the lack of – and need for – women in AI. (Yes, we know and celebrate Ada Lovelace. No, that doesn’t fix things.)

Dr Kate Devlin is Reader in AI & Society at King’s College London, and is a co-investigator on the Responsible AI UK programme – a network that conducts and funds research into AI to benefit people, communities and society and that unites the responsible AI ecosystem in the UK and beyond. She also does work on sex robots but for once she’s not talking about that.

Don’t forget to register!

Tickets are limited, so please don’t forget to sign up, and feel free to share this event with your friends that would like to attend and possibly even speak at this or future events.

See you on 4th March at Bounce in Farringdon!

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The event will feature presentations from both the Symplectic Team and the Figshare Team, including themes across Open Access and Open Data, research funding workflows, and updates looking forward to ERA and PBRF.

We can’t wait to see you in person again and are currently working on building out the program for the event. We will communicate further details in the coming weeks. If you’d like to present and share your experiences on a particular topic, we welcome client talks and would love to hear from you – please let us know your ideas when registering.

Attendance is free but we ask that you register, as places are limited.

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Join Dame Athene Donald as she explores, using her own experience and those of other top scientists who are women, the factors that drive women to give up on a career in science. From societal expectations, prejudice, hostility, and condescension to unconscious and systemic bias, particularly in science research, as evidenced by recent studies.

In this talk, discover how diversity is crucial to solving the problems of today, and why women should have their proper place as equals, in the lab, and in the committees where top-level decisions are made.

Copies of Athene’s latest book ‘Not Just for the Boys: Why We Need More Women in Science’ is available to purchase after the event.

Doors to the theatre will open at 6.30pm. The event will begin at 7.00pm.

Dame Athene Donald is Professor Emerita in Experimental Physics and Master of Churchill College, University of Cambridge. She has spent her career in Cambridge, specializing in soft matter physics and physics at the interface with biology. She was the University of Cambridge’s first Gender Equality Champion and has been involved in numerous initiatives concerning women in science. Athene has served on a variety of committees at the Royal Society, chaired its Education Committee from 2010-14 and currently serves on its Council (as she has before) and is a member of the Science Policy Committee. She served on the Scientific Council of the European Research Council from 2013-18 and was a Trustee of the Science Museum from 2011-16.

She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1999 and appointed DBE for services to Physics in 2010.

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#FuturePub is heading to Berlin for our fourth and final event of 2023 🙂 We’re excited to be here during Berlin Science Week and ahead of the inspiring Fallings Walls Science Summit.

We’re hosting this special edition FuturePub to encourage conversations on the Future of Global Research; in many ways, the world now feels more divided than ever, despite the advances in technology that connect our daily lives together. We have a lovely venue — Hotel Palace Berlin — located in the vibrant heart of the city between the Ku’damm and Zoological Garden, just a few stations away from the Brandenburg Gate, and we hope you’ll join us for a thought-provoking evening!

We still have some SPEAKING SLOTS AVAILABLE! If you’re interested in speaking at this or a future #FuturePub, please let us know by filling out this short proposal form.

What is FuturePub and how does it work?

We’ve hosted over a dozen #FuturePub events, since our first back in January 2014, and quickly became known as “a staple of the London science tech/publishing scene” (thanks Eva!).

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. And did we mention the free food and drink?

In case this is your first time, here’s how it works:

1. Five or six quick-fire talks cover a range of new and exciting developments in science & publishing tech.
2. These all fit into a one-hour slot (from around 7-8pm), to keep the evening fast-paced and fun! Arrive from 6pm for pre-talk food and drinks!
3. The rest of the evening is then open for discussions and conversations over the remainder of the drinks and/or food! We get a great mixture of attendees from the research, tech, publishing and start-up communities, so there will be plenty of people to meet and chat with, especially around such an exciting topic.

Timings for the evening

Here’s the schedule for November 6th:

• 6pm – doors open, drinks available, conversations start
• 6:30pm – food served (tbc)
• 7pm – lightning talks start!
• 8pm – lightning talks end! Remaining food to be consumed
• 8.30pm – food cleared, drinks still available for the continuing conversations
• 10pm – that’s a wrap! Usually a group or two will head to a nearby pub! 🙂

Speakers & Talks

We’ll be announcing our first speakers soon – watch this space!

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#FuturePub is back in London for our third event of 2023 🙂 And this time it’s at the amazing Bounce Farringdon – a ping pong club and so much more!

We’re hosting this FuturePub to kick off some interesting conversations around AI and research – the good, the bad and the ugly – ahead of the UK Government’s AI Safety Summit taking place in Bletchley Park on 1st and 2nd November. That’s a pretty closed event, but luckily the AI Fringe, a programme of events that we are proud to be featuring in, is taking place across London and the UK all week, with a range of exciting events that everyone can get involved with.

Speaker announcement on Monday! If you’re interested in speaking at a future #FuturePub, please let us know by filling out this short proposal form.

What is FuturePub and how does it work?

We’ve hosted over a dozen #FuturePub events, since our first back in January 2014, and quickly became known as “a staple of the London science tech/publishing scene” (thanks Eva!).

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. And did we mention the free food and drink?

In case this is your first time, here’s how it works:

1. Five or six quick-fire talks cover a range of new and exciting developments in science & publishing tech.
2. These all fit into a one-hour slot (from around 7-8pm), to keep the evening fast-paced and fun! Arrive from 6pm for pre-talk food and drinks, and to play a few games of ping pong or shuffleboard!
3. The rest of the evening is then open for discussions and conversations over the remainder of the drinks and/or food! We get a great mixture of attendees from the research, tech, publishing and start-up communities, so there will be plenty of people to meet and chat with, especially around such an exciting topic.

Timings for the evening

Here’s the confirmed schedule for October 30th:

• 6pm – doors open, drinks available, opportunities to play ping pong or shuffleboard!
• 6:30pm – food served (a selection of bite-sized starters plus a lot of pizza!)
• 7pm – lightning talks start!
• 8pm – lightning talks end! Remaining food to be consumed
• 8.30pm – food cleared, drinks still available for the continuing conversations
• 10pm – that’s a wrap! Usually a group or two will head to a nearby pub! 🙂

Speakers & Talks

First speaker announcement now out — see below! We also have a couple more speakers to add, so watch out for a final speaker line up later this week 🙂

Don’t forget to register!

Tickets are limited, so please don’t forget to sign up!

See you on October 30th in Farringdon! 🙂

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Agenda

Thursday, June 29, 6:00pm – 8:00pm: Welcome & introductions
Friday, June 30 8:30am – 12:30pm: Breakfast and symposium

Opening Keynote:

Gigi Shafai, Senior Medical Communications Professional/Life Science Executive – ‘The current state of Medical Affairs: and where are we headed?’
Panelists:
Mike Taylor, Head of Data Insights at Digital Science – Share of voice, Digital Influencer & Thought Leadership
Whitney Morris, Practice Lead at Medical Affairs Recruiting – Contextualization of Clinical Data
Rachel Kennedy, Senior Director, Head of Scientific Communications at Moderna – Latest updates on Digital Tools for Medical Affairs

Closing Keynote:

Jonathan Ploeger, Director, National Team Lead Health Evidence and Outcomes Liaisons at Genmab ‘The Future (Crystal Ball) for Medical Affairs’

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The evenings are designed to be fun and informal — like meeting up for drinks with friends after work. And at the same time giving people the opportunity to showcase the new and exciting things they’ve been working on in science & publishing tech.

We’ve hosted over a dozen FuturePub events, since our first back in January 2014, and quickly became known as “a staple of the London science tech/publishing scene” (thanks Eva!).

In case this is your first time, here’s how it works:

6pm – doors open, drinks and food available, conversations begin!
6:45pm – lightning talks start — usually 5-6 talks all fitting within an hour.
8:00pm – continued networking and drinks.
9:30pm – people start to head off to continue the conversation elsewhere.
and by 10pm we’ll need everyone to have left the LDAC, either home or to a bar!

Here’s the highlights video from our recent #FuturePub London to give you a flavour of the evening 🙂

Speakers & Talks

We’re excited to announce a fantastic line up of speakers for the lightning talks:

• Measuring the Ukraine economy through the war using alternative data sources, Apurv Jain, Founder and CEO of MacroXStudio
• Data data data… everything, everywhere, all at once, Suze Kundu, Director of Community at Digital Science
• Push Button Publishing — demoing Kotahi’s production interface, John Chodacki, member of the Coko Foundation Advisory Board.
• The History and the Future of Academia.edu, Richard Price, Founder and CEO, Academia.edu
• Can a Grey parrot pass the “Marshmallow Test”?, Irene M Pepperberg, Adjunct Research Professor at Boston University and president of The Alex Foundation.

We will also have some posters on display showcasing Simon Porter’s work on mapping out “What does a university look like?“!

If you’re interested at speaking at future #FuturePub, please let us know by filling out this short proposal form.

Location

The Skywalker Room and Sessions Bar at Letterman Digital Arts Center (LDAC) – 1 Letterman Drive, San Francisco, CA 94129

When you get to LDAC, please head for The Skywalker Room and Sessions Bar / Café. Someone will also be at reception to help guide you if needed. The venue is fully accessible.

LDAC is the headquarters of Lucasfilm, and houses Industrial Light & Magic, LucasArts, and Lucasfilm’s marketing, online, and licensing units.

There are plenty of things to do in Presidio Park, and there are good transport links from across the city. The venue boasts a classic view of the Golden Gate Bridge. Food is locally sourced and much of it comes from Skywalker Ranch and Skywalker Vineyards located in Marin County.

Timings

Doors open at 6 pm and the event will kick off at 6:30 pm and run until 10pm.

If people would like to continue the science-themed fun, they can head to the Exploratorium’s After Dark event, taking place that evening.

Space at the venue is limited, so please register for your free tickets now to reserve your place!

See you on July the 13th!

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Digital Science APAC Data & Analytics Hub Forum 2023

We are delighted to announce that we are hosting an in-person meeting for academic and government organisations throughout the APAC region on Tuesday 5 September at the Aerial UTS Function Centre in Sydney, Australia.

By attending the forum you will have the opportunity to:

• See demonstrations on recently launched Digital Science initiatives
• Learn how your peers are using Dimensions & Altmetric
• Shine a spotlight on research integrity best practices

Registration

Please note, if you cannot attend you can nominate a proxy in your place.

Registration will close at 11:00pm AEST on Friday, 18th August.

We are very much looking forward to seeing you in Sydney!

Agenda and Speakers

NB: The agenda is subject to change

Location

Aerial UTS Function Centre – Broadway Room

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This event has now ended, but if you would like to view the full programme and/or gain access to the recordings then please click on the relevant buttons below.

Join us on Wednesday 6 September 2023 from 9:00 am – 2:00 pm ET / 2:00 pm – 7:00 pm BST to hear more on our theme “A shift in focus.”  You’ll get the latest news on – Altmetric, Dimensions and Figshare, as well as insights from our invited speakers.  

Register now to save your spot. If you are unable to make the live event, you can still register and receive the recording links to watch at your leisure afterwards.

If you would like more information please contact us at events@digital-science.com or read our Event FAQS and Code of Conduct (links below).

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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. And did we mention the free food and drink?

We’ve hosted over a dozen #FuturePub events, since our first back in January 2014, and quickly became known as “a staple of the London science tech/publishing scene”  (thanks Eva!).

In case this is your first time, here’s how it works:

1. Five or six quick-fire talks cover a range of new and exciting developments in science & publishing tech.
2. These all fit into a one-hour slot (from around 6:30-7:45 pm), to keep the evening fast-paced and fun! Arrive early for pre-talk food and drinks or to look around the amazing Ri! 🙂
3. The rest of the evening is then open for discussions and conversations over the remainder of the drinks and/or food! We get a great mixture of attendees from the research, publishing and start-up communities.

Then at around 9 pm we’ll all head to The King’s Head where we continue the conversation!

Speakers & Talks

We’re delighted to announce a fantastic & provocative starting line-up of speakers for the evening:

The future of publishing is video

Andrew Preston, Co-founder of Cassyni

Every year, millions of academic seminars and thousands of research conferences take place. This large scale dissemination of knowledge has been happening for centuries, is complementary to the published literature, and much of it is now recorded.

However, sifting through millions of hours of recorded research isn’t very practical. How can we make these videos searchable, citable, and a core part of the future of academic publishing? In this talk I explore cutting-edge ideas and concepts.

Speaker bio: Andrew is one of the co-founders of Cassyni, the tool that helps researchers to discover, run, publish, and cite academic seminars. Previously, he was an active researcher in physics, first as a PhD student at Victoria University of Wellington, then as postdoctoral fellow at Boston University. Andrew went on to found Publons, which was acquired by Clarivate in 2017 and now serves more than 2 million researchers. At Clarivate, Andrew was also product director for Web of Science.

TooWrite; the scientific method for scientific writing

Ivy Cavendish, Founder of TooWrite

TooWrite is a digital platform that seeks to transform the process of scientific writing into an experience that is faster, healthier, and more accessible to researchers at all career stages. This lightning talk follows our founder journey and the creation of TooWrite – starting with two academics with a problem to solve, all the way to being acquired and hired by world-leading publisher, Springer Nature, and looking ahead at what’s coming next!

Speaker bio: Ivy Cavendish is the founder of TooWrite and current Head of Writing Solutions at Springer Nature. And as she wrote in this article for Research Information:

“I was writing a PhD at the University of Sussex on the intersection of anti-theistic absurdist philosophy and the unheimlich – the uncanny – when I was rudely interrupted by discovering the thing that I wanted to do with my life: solve the centuries-old problem of scientific writing.”

“At the same time my friend, Algernon, was writing his thesis in computational biology. We were co-working one day – and, like many scientists have found, he was getting incredibly frustrated with the process of writing up…”

…and to find out how that story continues, join us at the Royal Institution on May the 4th — register for your free ticket today!

Doors open at 6pm and the talks will kick off at around 6:30pm. And if you’re interested at speaking at a future #FuturePub (!) please let us know by filling out this short proposal form.

Look out for the second pair of speakers to be announced on April 11th, and we look forward to seeing you in London on #StarWarsDay! 🙂

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Digital Science APAC Showcase 2023

With travel restrictions easing globally, we are delighted to host an in-person meeting for the APAC region with our Digital Science Showcase in Melbourne. It will have been three years since we last met in person, so it will be wonderful to see you again and enjoy presentations from our portfolios Altmetric, Dimensions, Figshare, Ripeta and Symplectic. For those of you unable to join us in-person, we are also offering the opportunity to join us online via Zoom. Please indicate when you register if you would like to do this and we will send you a joining link the week prior to the event.

To see the full agenda and all speakers please visit the Digital Science APAC Showcase programme page . Here is an overview of what we will be covering.

Day 1 – Digital Science Showcase: Spotlight on Research Integrity

Day 2 – Altmetric & Dimensions

Day 3 – Symplectic & Figshare

We look forward to seeing you in Melbourne very soon.

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We’re excited to be back for our first in-person Figshare Fest since 2019!

Join us at the University of Melbourne as we hear from Figshare Founder and CEO Mark Hahnel on the results of the 2022 State of Open Data survey, Figshare Product Director Chris Blumzon on the future of Figshare as a repository, and from users of Figshare on their use cases, workflows, and best practices.

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