Euan Adie

Ex-bioinformatician, ex-@nature, founded @altmetric, now @Overtonio (helping think tanks, NGOs and unis track policy impact). Nerdy. Also @mrstew.bsky.social

[Euan Adie @Stew]

I name him... Botlington

[Euan Adie @Stew]

Occasionally (like when the data centre burned down) I question our committment to hosting bare metal at OVH. Then I try to interact with AWS support and I remember

[Overton @overtonio]

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[Calgie @christiancalgie]

/r/London is currently love-bombing Angus Steakhouse in the hope that AI google scrapers start recommending it in listicles so influencers and tourists stay away from actual nice places 🤞

[Overton @overtonio]

AI for policy: scoping new tools & data for evidence synthesis https://t.co/pi3C43BcW6

[OpenAlex @OpenAlex_org]

We're hiring a senior frontend developer! Build the modern library of Alexandria, but with a better UI! Remote, great salary. More formal announcement coming soon, but wanted to get the word out now!

[Alice Lowe @alicelowe]

cannot believe TIMESTALKER has it's release TOMORROW in cinemas. please do ask your local cinema to show it if they're not. RT if you like this cat

[Euan Adie @Stew]

Just in case anybody was wondering if London tech start-ups are as one on this

[Euan Adie @Stew]

I think start-ups and entrepreneurs need more future CGT clarity too - but f*ck Revolut. Pay your damn (current) taxes

[Euan Adie @Stew]

V interesting, pragmatic brief. Am bit wary of one of the underlying studies (does quality *really* drop if you weigh up risks of rejection/handling time and publish in a lower JIF venue before deadlines?) and reframing quality q as "what somebody else has £ to pay for" 🪑🪑🚢🧊

[Sanjush Dalmia @SanjushDalmia_]

We should scrap the REF.

We could save universities £430 million, improve research financial sustainability, increase support for spinouts and drive technological diffusion to support regional productivity growth by switching to a system focused on “external research income”. 🧵

[Euan Adie @Stew]

No judgement, but I was surprised. I'd assumed the use in Pubmed abstracts was partly driven by researchers whose first lang isn't English being forced to submit English manuscripts, but this policy dataset is docs from the UK, US, Canada etc

[Euan Adie @Stew]

Ah, loved this. Generative AI overuses certain words like "delve" & you can use this to guess at how often ChatGPT was used in e.g pubmed abstracts.

It's a thing in policy too! Looked at English language policy docs from @overtonio and occurrences have pretty much doubled

[Jeremy Nguyen ✍🏼 🚢 @JeremyNguyenPhD]

MYSTERY SOLVED!

Why does ChatGPT use the word "delve" so much? We've seen a 10x increase in the proportion of medical studies using the word "delve" from 2022 to 2024. But why?

@alexhern at The Guardian might've just solved it. Thread below, complete with the trail of clues:

[Euan Adie @Stew]

Change is even more pronounced if you zoom into 2023, first half of year is 0.24% and second half 0.43%

[Jeremy Nguyen ✍🏼 🚢 @JeremyNguyenPhD]

MYSTERY SOLVED!

Why does ChatGPT use the word "delve" so much? We've seen a 10x increase in the proportion of medical studies using the word "delve" from 2022 to 2024. But why?

@alexhern at The Guardian might've just solved it. Thread below, complete with the trail of clues:

[Euan Adie @Stew]

What's the story behind "retractions" like this - more of a withdrawl, I guess? Similarly Cochrane has things like a review withdrawn because it's been replaced by 2+ more specific reviews. Shouldn't the orig article be left intact wherever possible?
https://t.co/ecxGYPL1qW

[Euan Adie @Stew]

@Dr_W_E_Bulmer Yeah, I did this in covid times - def a significant investment over a shed but insulated office 100x better (warm in winter, secure, power, no damp - better insulated than the actual house), a much nicer environment and wouldn’t underestimate the psychological value of that!

[Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN) @PolicyUpen]

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Sign up here 👇 https://t.co/oEmVB9R6aZ

[Methods For Change @methods4change]

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[Overton @overtonio]

Our Director Euan will be speaking at @FORCE11rescomm conference this week. Don't miss his talk 'Building an open database of policy engagement opportunities' at 1:30PDT on Friday 2 August.

We're excited to meet all the attendees!

[Euan Adie @Stew]

Just noticed their Twitter account: @BuildingLloydsD

[Euan Adie @Stew]

Shedding a tear for LloydsDirect, which had the best UX for any health related service I've ever used (now closed down & sold by private equity owners to Pharmacy2U which... needs work. Pharmacy2U please hire the LloydsDirect web team)