Todd Toler

Science publisher & Product Management leader. UX geek forever.

[Katie Parrott @kplikethebird]

What finalizing a draft looks like in the year of our lord 2026

[Todd Toler @solidstateux]

I’m thinking it’s time to rebrand my nickname from Solid State UX to Solid State Evidence. AI don’t care about my hover states and modals, yo.

https://t.co/K9rrhf0FNr

[Todd Toler @solidstateux]

AI doesn’t care about articles. It cares about tasks and chunks.

But in those chunks, it often loses the plot—like forgetting a paper was retracted.

This is a must read from @aarontay
https://t.co/cOWMfeNFvF

[Todd Toler @solidstateux]

Great piece by Katie Parrott on how to keep your writing weird in the age of AI. Be your own goddamn arbiter of texture and give your erudite idiot scribe a style guide!

[Katie Parrott @kplikethebird]

What does Bible criticism have to teach us about writing with AI? A lot, actually.

I wrote all about it for @every 👀

https://t.co/xcZHYCdr99

[Katie Parrott @kplikethebird]

What does Bible criticism have to teach us about writing with AI? A lot, actually.

I wrote all about it for @every 👀

https://t.co/xcZHYCdr99

[Todd Toler @solidstateux]

Today’s platforms shine for human eyes. Tomorrow’s will shine for LLMs. Scrapeable, readable, reason-ready. The AI Gateway is opening — are we ready to step through? #ScholarlyPublishing #AIGateway

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

PSA It’s a new era of ergonomics.
The primary audience of your thing (product, service, library, …) is now an LLM, not a human.

LLMs don’t like to navigate, they like to scrape.
LLMs don’t like to see, they like to read.
LLMs don’t like to click, they like to curl.

Etc etc.

[Todd Toler @solidstateux]

Geek out on the history (and future!) of scholarly publishing infrastructure in my first ever podcast appearance.

https://t.co/zZ8OsyuoTI

[Todd Toler @solidstateux]

Keep Miami Pervious! https://t.co/a02DqvzNaX

[Todd Toler @solidstateux]

My side hustle as a Miami investigative reporter is officially underway. I contributed Best Manatee Viewing spot to the 2024 BOM. https://t.co/WWTaaLvSPr

[Lior Alexander @LiorOnAI]

This is a game changer. You can use ChatGPT to transform equations to python functions.

Wish I had this 5 years ago.

[Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian]

One thing I appreciate about Projekt Deal/@ColleenCampbe11 is the absolute focus on speeding the transition. No messing around with anti-hybrid. No trying to change where researchers should publish (e.g. commercial vs non-comm). Just get the hybrids to be fully OA over time.

[Roger C. Schonfeld @rschon]

Please join our all-star April 12 panel for a discussion about "The Nelson Memo... Now What?" featuring Colette Bean (@APSPhysiology), @acochran12733 (@ASCO), @StevenInchcoom1 (@SpringerNature), @b_rockenbach (@yalelibrary) and me as @scholarlykitchn host. https://t.co/EIw1n60w5Z

[Roger C. Schonfeld @rschon]

MDPI news: "The second largest journal in the world just lost its impact factor."

[Roger C. Schonfeld @rschon]

"it's still the gold standard. But it is a not easy-to-use tool. It's clunky. And as a result, we've allowed some ankle biters to come in around the edges." Does Clarivate see Elsevier's Scopus as an "ankle biter"? Or what else would this be referring to? https://t.co/vlEVzPszHu

[Roger C. Schonfeld @rschon]

"Web of Science is absolutely the gold standard... Over the last 10 years, we allowed that product to become a little dusty in terms of user interface, in terms of analytics...I would call that an own goal. We are in the process of making investments." Clarivate earnings call

[Todd Toler @solidstateux]

Loving this SK series. "Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing's Top Table -- Jay Flynn https://t.co/EosJILXgQY via @scholarlykitchn

[regular steve albini @electricalWSOP]

I will always be the kind of punk that shits on Steely Dan

[Todd Toler @solidstateux]

@rschon Leadership integrations are like soufflés. Loud noises, humidity can affect them. They are justifiably proud.

[Todd Toler @solidstateux]

Or maybe it's because I'm going to be discussing the real inside baseball of M&A strategy with @rschon ;-)

[Researcher to Reader Conference @R2RConf]

Website hits and registrations still booming for #R2RConf as people suddenly realise that a genuinely interactive hybrid conference might actually deliver 98% delegate satisfaction rates, like last year.
https://t.co/lyoEefXCg6