I recently spent some time looking up metadata for DOIs in the Crossref API at work. Here a few takeaways in case you ever need to do it too: it looks like the most you can look up at a time is 49 using the https://api.crossref.org/works/?filter=doi1,doi2,… endpoint. when looking up 40 at a time the responses take on average 8.08 seconds to return (std dev 5.97) if any of your DOIs fail to match this regex the entire request will fail with a HTTP 400 error r”^doi:10.)/.+$“ the server ca...| inkdroid
Start your blog with an exultant tone, pompous words, and gratuitous alliterations and I know I'm not so much in for an exciting journey to a fascinating world as a rapid descent into the wastelands of utter mediocrity. I recently came across some obvious LLM-generated slop on science blogging aggregator Rogue Scholar. Here I write up why synthetic text has no place in scholarly blogging.| The Ideophone
I had a very weird exchange with Oxford University Press the other day that made me realise how deeply they are implicated in the surveillance capitalism we’ve grown accustomed to from Elsevier and the like. The good news: there are plenty of alternatives. I already favoured open access diamond publishers and have in recent years declined many invitations to contribute to this or that handbook (as my colleagues can attest — sorry, Oxford Handbook of Iconicity editors). I won’t be publis...| The Ideophone
Adding COL releases as works to your ORCID profile| COL
I saw a thing fly by on PsyArxiv and must write about it. Warning: snark detected. This is a new paper by Green, Kong, Brysbaert, and Keogh with the following abstract:| The Ideophone
Nithikul Mimjulrath’s process of translating a hand-knotted cup into a digital representationKnots are fascinating: they tie together topology, embodied experience, and material culture. As Thai textile artist and designer Nithikul Nimkulrath (2024) has pointed out, knots are the kind of thing we come to know “through and in making”. One of her artworks (see photo) explorers the materiality of knots by translating a physical, hand-knotted container into a 3D render. | The Ideophone
Like anyone active in the space of LLMs and generative AI, I get a growing amount of invitations to speak at conferences and colloquia on something or other LLM-related. A subset of these invites is about the relation between LLMs and academic writing. Recently I had the occasion to respond to such an invite.| The Ideophone
I have been blogging at The Ideophone since 2007, and not all of it has been as ephemeral as my PhD promotor once feared. My short post documenting the etymology of Zotero is apparently the only scientific documentation of where Zotero’s name comes from; it has served as a source in Wikipedia for ages and has received over 15 scholarly citations. It was also a blog post on here that became my first academic publication (a commentary in Science), which definitely did something to change my p...| The Ideophone