Corran
@corranmac.bsky.social
Indie RSE
BSc in Environmental Science
Working opensource in extracting and classifying entities from academic texts and on enabling reproducible open research flows @ https://github.com/corranmac/SesameFlow
𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑙𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒
BSc in Environmental Science
Working opensource in extracting and classifying entities from academic texts and on enabling reproducible open research flows @ https://github.com/corranmac/SesameFlow
𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑙𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒
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@corranmac.bsky.social
· Mar 6
Just wanted to share the small project I'm working on, aiming to provide an open workspace to hone literature searches with a visual interface. This will allow for searches to be shared in an interpretable and easy to rerun form with their own UID and hosting.
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I really have to emphasize that this is how generative ai/llms do *everything*
April 30, 2026 at 2:16 PM
I really have to emphasize that this is how generative ai/llms do *everything*
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A statement published by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology on the same day said UKRI “will also support recognised career frameworks for research software engineers, data scientists and ethics specialists—supporting the high-paying jobs of the future”.
Linguistics, anyone?
Linguistics, anyone?
UKRI pledges to ‘invest at scale’ in research fields underpinning AI.
Agency to channel funding to mathematics, computer science and engineering, alongside major skills push.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Agency to channel funding to mathematics, computer science and engineering, alongside major skills push.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
UKRI pledges to ‘invest at scale’ in research fields underpinning AI - Research Professional News
Agency to channel funding to mathematics, computer science and engineering, alongside major skills push
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
February 20, 2026 at 9:02 AM
A statement published by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology on the same day said UKRI “will also support recognised career frameworks for research software engineers, data scientists and ethics specialists—supporting the high-paying jobs of the future”.
Linguistics, anyone?
Linguistics, anyone?
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From @science.org Breakthrough of the Year: Solar Energy
December 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
From @science.org Breakthrough of the Year: Solar Energy
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
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Burns me up that we have to keep saying this to #AcademicSky #ScienceSky #Polisky #SciSky and anyone else who will listen: We are along way from a truly equitable scientific enterprise. Full stop. Dr. Armenteras nails it. tinyurl.com/4y8yt3nx
September 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Burns me up that we have to keep saying this to #AcademicSky #ScienceSky #Polisky #SciSky and anyone else who will listen: We are along way from a truly equitable scientific enterprise. Full stop. Dr. Armenteras nails it. tinyurl.com/4y8yt3nx
@yourparty.scot A wee branding idea of mine for the Scottish branch, in this example using a Your Party red RGB(216,81,75) and the Holiday School Font
September 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
@yourparty.scot A wee branding idea of mine for the Scottish branch, in this example using a Your Party red RGB(216,81,75) and the Holiday School Font
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The 2025 Catalyst Grant is now live. Our theme this year, Data Visualization, relates to any technique that helps automate the way people interrogate, interpret and act on research-related data. If you have an idea, or an early prototype, we want to hear about it.
Please share!
Please share!
📢 Great news: Applications are now open for the 2025 Digital Science Catalyst Grant! #CatalystGrant
💡 Our theme this year is #DataVisualization
🌱 Your innovative idea could win a grant of up to £25,000.
🔗 See our announcement: www.digital-science.com/blog/2025/08...
💡 Our theme this year is #DataVisualization
🌱 Your innovative idea could win a grant of up to £25,000.
🔗 See our announcement: www.digital-science.com/blog/2025/08...
August 19, 2025 at 9:13 AM
The 2025 Catalyst Grant is now live. Our theme this year, Data Visualization, relates to any technique that helps automate the way people interrogate, interpret and act on research-related data. If you have an idea, or an early prototype, we want to hear about it.
Please share!
Please share!
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Who's writing about interface design from first principles? I'm looking for designers who blog about going beyond just making things look good and explore interaction logic and the conceptual model behind UI.
August 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Who's writing about interface design from first principles? I'm looking for designers who blog about going beyond just making things look good and explore interaction logic and the conceptual model behind UI.
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"Elsevier’s median pay gap for 2024 is 32.8%, maintaining its position as worst performer among peers over all eight years of mandatory reporting, and tracking only a slight improvement of seven percentage points over time. "
June 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
"Elsevier’s median pay gap for 2024 is 32.8%, maintaining its position as worst performer among peers over all eight years of mandatory reporting, and tracking only a slight improvement of seven percentage points over time. "
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"Every science publisher pays men more than women. In 2024, the lowest median pay gap favouring men was 9.5% (Springer-Nature), followed by Sage (13.3%), Wiley (17.7%), and Informa (formerly Taylor & Francis) (22.7%)."
The world's largest science publishers - which enjoy huge power & profits - consistently pay men more than women
We analysed 8 years of #genderpaygap data & contrast staggering pay inequities w/ the warm glow publishers often get for #EDI #genderequality
Pls share our new paper & Call to Action
We analysed 8 years of #genderpaygap data & contrast staggering pay inequities w/ the warm glow publishers often get for #EDI #genderequality
Pls share our new paper & Call to Action
Gender pay gaps and inequity at science publishers
journals.plos.org
June 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
"Every science publisher pays men more than women. In 2024, the lowest median pay gap favouring men was 9.5% (Springer-Nature), followed by Sage (13.3%), Wiley (17.7%), and Informa (formerly Taylor & Francis) (22.7%)."
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Does ChatGPT help with students' learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking? We re-analyzed a recently published meta-analysis and found that the original conclusion is almost entirely driven by publication bias.
May 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Does ChatGPT help with students' learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking? We re-analyzed a recently published meta-analysis and found that the original conclusion is almost entirely driven by publication bias.
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How I'm (mostly) beating ChatGPT in my Quant 2 MA course:
1. online videos lectures - no textbook or in-person lectures
2. open-handwritten note quiz to start class
3. group work: replicating results from readings, assisted by lecture notes videos given out after quiz
4. final: Replication Games
🧵
1. online videos lectures - no textbook or in-person lectures
2. open-handwritten note quiz to start class
3. group work: replicating results from readings, assisted by lecture notes videos given out after quiz
4. final: Replication Games
🧵
May 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
How I'm (mostly) beating ChatGPT in my Quant 2 MA course:
1. online videos lectures - no textbook or in-person lectures
2. open-handwritten note quiz to start class
3. group work: replicating results from readings, assisted by lecture notes videos given out after quiz
4. final: Replication Games
🧵
1. online videos lectures - no textbook or in-person lectures
2. open-handwritten note quiz to start class
3. group work: replicating results from readings, assisted by lecture notes videos given out after quiz
4. final: Replication Games
🧵
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Back in early march I was lucky enough to share the #fossbackstage stage with Christoph (github.com/GBKS) of bitcoin.design to speak about contributing to the opendesign.guide
#opensource #oss #opensourcedesign #designersinfoss #foss #floss #usercentereddesign #design
#opensource #oss #opensourcedesign #designersinfoss #foss #floss #usercentereddesign #design
May 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Back in early march I was lucky enough to share the #fossbackstage stage with Christoph (github.com/GBKS) of bitcoin.design to speak about contributing to the opendesign.guide
#opensource #oss #opensourcedesign #designersinfoss #foss #floss #usercentereddesign #design
#opensource #oss #opensourcedesign #designersinfoss #foss #floss #usercentereddesign #design
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⏳ 2 weeks to go! ⏳
Don’t miss the #ENVRIHubNEXT & @eosc-everse.bsky.social webinar:
🛠️ Research Software Quality Assessment
📅 21 May | 11:00 CEST
🔗 go.egi.eu/qblxA
Key details:
First hour: Open to all!
Hands-on session: Limited seats 🪑
GitLab CI pipelines + expert trainers
Don’t miss the #ENVRIHubNEXT & @eosc-everse.bsky.social webinar:
🛠️ Research Software Quality Assessment
📅 21 May | 11:00 CEST
🔗 go.egi.eu/qblxA
Key details:
First hour: Open to all!
Hands-on session: Limited seats 🪑
GitLab CI pipelines + expert trainers
May 7, 2025 at 7:41 AM
⏳ 2 weeks to go! ⏳
Don’t miss the #ENVRIHubNEXT & @eosc-everse.bsky.social webinar:
🛠️ Research Software Quality Assessment
📅 21 May | 11:00 CEST
🔗 go.egi.eu/qblxA
Key details:
First hour: Open to all!
Hands-on session: Limited seats 🪑
GitLab CI pipelines + expert trainers
Don’t miss the #ENVRIHubNEXT & @eosc-everse.bsky.social webinar:
🛠️ Research Software Quality Assessment
📅 21 May | 11:00 CEST
🔗 go.egi.eu/qblxA
Key details:
First hour: Open to all!
Hands-on session: Limited seats 🪑
GitLab CI pipelines + expert trainers
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🛠️ Calling all open source developers!
COS is looking to fund small dev projects that help improve the Open Science Framework (OSF).
Python, Django, Angular.js devs—this one’s for you.
Proposals due: May 14th, 2025.
🔗 http://cos.io/pose
#DevGrants #OpenSource #OpenScience
COS is looking to fund small dev projects that help improve the Open Science Framework (OSF).
Python, Django, Angular.js devs—this one’s for you.
Proposals due: May 14th, 2025.
🔗 http://cos.io/pose
#DevGrants #OpenSource #OpenScience
Funding for Open-Source Development to Advance OSF Integrations
The Center for Open Science (COS) is seeking proposals for open-source development projects that will improve usability, interoperability, and research workflows on the Open Science Framework (OSF)—a free, open-source platform maintained by COS to support researchers throughout the entire research lifecycle.
cos.io
May 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🛠️ Calling all open source developers!
COS is looking to fund small dev projects that help improve the Open Science Framework (OSF).
Python, Django, Angular.js devs—this one’s for you.
Proposals due: May 14th, 2025.
🔗 http://cos.io/pose
#DevGrants #OpenSource #OpenScience
COS is looking to fund small dev projects that help improve the Open Science Framework (OSF).
Python, Django, Angular.js devs—this one’s for you.
Proposals due: May 14th, 2025.
🔗 http://cos.io/pose
#DevGrants #OpenSource #OpenScience
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The movies have trained us to think of criminals as smart and refined but the Tech Bosses are instead so brazenly dumb that it feels almost unreal to watch.
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's chatbots will supplement your real friends: "The average American has fewer than 3 friends ... but has demand for ... 15 friends" (h/t x.com/romanhelmetg...)
May 1, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The movies have trained us to think of criminals as smart and refined but the Tech Bosses are instead so brazenly dumb that it feels almost unreal to watch.
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How could any researcher think that an LLM would be an appropriate tool to *peer* review a paper? As Carl says in the great 🧵, the very things that the author wants to short cut are the most valuable to the process and LLMs do not have the ability to do them
Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail.
I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review
Tired of spending countless hours on peer reviews? An AI-assisted workflow could help.
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 6:51 AM
How could any researcher think that an LLM would be an appropriate tool to *peer* review a paper? As Carl says in the great 🧵, the very things that the author wants to short cut are the most valuable to the process and LLMs do not have the ability to do them
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Quick #oss #design #ossdesign poll
Do open source design tools that aim to 'empower' developers in the design processes give you the confidence that those tools are not angling to replace human designers with automated and software based design assertions?
Do open source design tools that aim to 'empower' developers in the design processes give you the confidence that those tools are not angling to replace human designers with automated and software based design assertions?
April 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Quick #oss #design #ossdesign poll
Do open source design tools that aim to 'empower' developers in the design processes give you the confidence that those tools are not angling to replace human designers with automated and software based design assertions?
Do open source design tools that aim to 'empower' developers in the design processes give you the confidence that those tools are not angling to replace human designers with automated and software based design assertions?
It seems like a lot of people still opt to use Mastodon more than or rather than Bluesky so Id love to be able to follow some mutuals and get started over there too.
You can find me at @[email protected] 🙂
You can find me at @[email protected] 🙂
April 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
It seems like a lot of people still opt to use Mastodon more than or rather than Bluesky so Id love to be able to follow some mutuals and get started over there too.
You can find me at @[email protected] 🙂
You can find me at @[email protected] 🙂
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Dear #OpenSource folks, I'd like to offer #UX help to your teams. I've tried "making a small PR" on projects and it turns out that's TERRIBLE advice for a UX designer. The PR is usually misunderstood or ignored. I don't fault the teams for this! It's just the wrong tool for the job.
April 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Dear #OpenSource folks, I'd like to offer #UX help to your teams. I've tried "making a small PR" on projects and it turns out that's TERRIBLE advice for a UX designer. The PR is usually misunderstood or ignored. I don't fault the teams for this! It's just the wrong tool for the job.
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Re-upping this, as I would keen to develop something on AI empathy & construct validity with someone who is interested in the nexus between AI and empathy research. Deadline is April 10
#psychscisky #socialpsychology
@affectscience.bsky.social
@spspnews.bsky.social
@psychscience.bsky.social
#psychscisky #socialpsychology
@affectscience.bsky.social
@spspnews.bsky.social
@psychscience.bsky.social
A lot of my scientific & ethical interests in AI empathy have to do with how scientists value participant experiences, and think about construct validity of mental states like "empathy". I'd gladly try to support a post-doc on the study of AI & empathy, or AI & moral judgment, through this program.
Sloan Foundation announced a program to support postdocs in philosophy, sociology, and metascience who want to understand how AI will affect science.
Pass it along to anyone who might be interested, the Institute for Complex Social Dynamics might be interested in hosting
sloan.org/programs/dig...
Pass it along to anyone who might be interested, the Institute for Complex Social Dynamics might be interested in hosting
sloan.org/programs/dig...
March 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Re-upping this, as I would keen to develop something on AI empathy & construct validity with someone who is interested in the nexus between AI and empathy research. Deadline is April 10
#psychscisky #socialpsychology
@affectscience.bsky.social
@spspnews.bsky.social
@psychscience.bsky.social
#psychscisky #socialpsychology
@affectscience.bsky.social
@spspnews.bsky.social
@psychscience.bsky.social
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Looking for entry level research based roles in metascience and scholarly data processing available for UK citizens. Me: First Class BSc in Environmental Science, experience scraping and processing academic data, finetuning models for scholarly tasks and working with academic data apis. #MetaScience
January 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Looking for entry level research based roles in metascience and scholarly data processing available for UK citizens. Me: First Class BSc in Environmental Science, experience scraping and processing academic data, finetuning models for scholarly tasks and working with academic data apis. #MetaScience
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Hello, I would still be grateful for any input on this. Thank you!
#AcademicSky #Science #MetaSci #Research #Publishing #Academia 🧪
#AcademicSky #Science #MetaSci #Research #Publishing #Academia 🧪
To the journal editors here: What is your approach for selecting reviewers for a submitted paper?
What minimal requirements should the reviewer fulfill (e.g. years of experience, numbers of publications)? Do you have tools for finding reviewers?
I would be grateful for every answer. Thank you!
What minimal requirements should the reviewer fulfill (e.g. years of experience, numbers of publications)? Do you have tools for finding reviewers?
I would be grateful for every answer. Thank you!
March 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Hello, I would still be grateful for any input on this. Thank you!
#AcademicSky #Science #MetaSci #Research #Publishing #Academia 🧪
#AcademicSky #Science #MetaSci #Research #Publishing #Academia 🧪
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🚀 #AI is revolutionising scientific discovery! Excited to share our latest paper on AI-driven research hypothesis generation. Integrating #DeepLearning and scientific #KnowledgeGraphs can lead to outstanding insights!
🔗 Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#DataScience #ML #Research
🔗 Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#DataScience #ML #Research
March 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
🚀 #AI is revolutionising scientific discovery! Excited to share our latest paper on AI-driven research hypothesis generation. Integrating #DeepLearning and scientific #KnowledgeGraphs can lead to outstanding insights!
🔗 Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#DataScience #ML #Research
🔗 Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#DataScience #ML #Research