@Stew

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

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Joined March 2007
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I name him... Botlington
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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
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Euan Adie retweeted
Overton@overtonio30 Oct 2024
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Overton connects research with public policy. We give you a global view of the policy landscape, with the tools to study it in depth. Find, evidence and grow the real-world impact of your work. Our...

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/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 🤞
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Euan Adie retweeted
Overton@overtonio16 Oct 2024
AI for policy: scoping new tools & data for evidence synthesis eu1.hubs.ly/H0d24b20
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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!
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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
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I think start-ups and entrepreneurs need more future CGT clarity too - but f*ck Revolut. Pay your damn (current) taxes
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Just in case anybody was wondering if London tech start-ups are as one on this
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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_8 Oct 2024
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”. 🧵
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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
Table showing that the number of English language policy documents containing the word "delve" has almost doubled in 2023 & 2024

ALT Table showing that the number of English language policy documents containing the word "delve" has almost doubled in 2023 & 2024

Jeremy Nguyen ✍🏼 🚢
@JeremyNguyenPhD17 Apr 2024
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:
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Change is even more pronounced if you zoom into 2023, first half of year is 0.24% and second half 0.43%
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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
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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:
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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? cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi…
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Upcoming Masterclass! 📝 Join us on 25th Sept, for a session on navigating the politics and ethics of research-policy engagement, looking at how facts and values are inseparable and how to approach this dilemma. Sign up here 👇 eventbrite.co.uk/e/mastercla…
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Free training alert! 📣 @profmarkreed is making his popular Influencing Policy course available for free. Secure your place now and learn how to use tools to plan policy impacts more effectively and efficiently 🔗 buff.ly/46wyLUQ
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Euan Adie retweeted
Overton@overtonio29 Jul 2024
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!
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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)
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Just noticed their Twitter account: @BuildingLloydsD
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📢 Calling all academics! We would love to hear you views on interacting with the Government, including the types of engagement you have had and the factors impacting this. Have your say by filling out this survey: dsit.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/…. Deadline: 5pm on 16.08.
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