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New Preprint Alert!

We're excited to share our latest work on #ChemRxiv! MARCUS (Molecular Annotation and Recognition for Curating Unravelled Structures) is a web-based platform for extracting chemical information from scientific papers.

📄 Preprint: doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2025

🔗 Try it out: marcus.decimer.ai

ChemRxivMARCUS: Molecular Annotation and Recognition for Curating Unravelled StructuresThe exponential growth of chemical literature necessitates the development of automated tools for extracting and curating molecular information from unstructured scientific publications into open-access chemical databases. Current optical chemical structure recognition (OCSR) and named entity recognition solutions operate in isolation, which limits their scalability for comprehensive literature curation. Here we present MARCUS (Molecular Annotation and Recognition for Curating Unravelled Structures), a tool to aid curators in performing literature curation in the field of natural products. This integrated web-based platform combines automated text annotation, multi-engine OCSR, and direct submission capabilities to the COCONUT database. MARCUS employs a fine-tuned GPT-4 model to extract chemical entities and utilises an ensemble approach integrating DECIMER, MolNexTR, and MolScribe for structure recognition. The platform aims to streamline the data extraction workflow from PDF upload to database submission, significantly reducing curation time. MARCUS bridges the gap between unstructured chemical literature and machine-actionable databases, enabling FAIR data principles and facilitating AI-driven chemical discovery. Through open-source code, accessible models, and comprehensive documentation, the web application enhances accessibility and promotes community-driven development. This approach facilitates unrestricted use and encourages the collaborative advancement of automated chemical literature curation tools. We dedicate MARCUS to Dr Marcus Ennis, the longest-serving curator of the ChEBI database, on the occasion of his 75th birthday.

In this blog post, I share my recent experiences with #Bluesky as a platform for scientific exchange. I see both advantages and risks: #Bluesky offers new opportunities, but I also miss key aspects of #Mastodon that have grown important to me (#privacy, #sustainability, #community, #opensource). For now, I use both. In the post, I reflect on what each platform gets right (and wrong) for science.

🌍 fabriziomusacchio.com/blog/202

🚨 Event for the Stanford open source community!

Your research code matters. Let’s treat it that way.

On Aug 7, pyOpenSci + OpenSource@Stanford (#OSPO) will share how open peer review supports better tools, cleaner code, and academic credit.

🗓 Thursday, Aug 7
⏰ 11AM MT / 10AM PT
🔗 www.pyopensci.org/events/pyopensci-stanford-ospo-peer-review.html

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🔓 Open research information is key to our work at Open Knowledge Maps. It powers our AI-driven discovery services and allows us to provide an open, community-owned infrastructure.

That’s why we support the Barcelona Declaration (@BarcelonaDORI) - because we believe that open, reliable, and interoperable research information is essential for building inclusive and equitable knowledge infrastructures 🛠️.

Excited to join this growing community of like-minded organisations! 🤝

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In our latest article, #CURIOSS members outline how their #academicOSPOs are strategically leveraging events to build the relationships and institutional support necessary for sustainable #opensource success in academia.

Members share proven approaches from "piggybacking" onto larger conferences, showcasing students’ work, to securing both sponsorship and senior leadership buy-in.

📖Read article: bit.ly/4kMXFVu

🔹CURIOSS patterns: bit.ly/45eldxW

Nature has become the most hyporcritical for-profit publisher on the planet. They have never been about the idea that writting is thinking. They have long promoted that writting is to get them more papers more efficiently so they turn more profit. Corporate public relations is designed to sell the customer on the corporation and thats what this is.

nature.com/articles/s44222-025

@academicchatter #science #publishing #OpenAccess #openscience #profiteering #pr #academicpublishing

NatureWriting is thinking - Nature Reviews BioengineeringOn the value of human-generated scientific writing in the age of large-language models.

We're delighted to welcome David Pérez-Suárez of #UniversityCollegeLondon to the #CURIOSS community!

We're looking forward to learning more about David's work with the Advanced Research Computing Centre (ARC) and to future collaboration together.

ℹ️ Learn about ARC: ucl.ac.uk/advanced-research-co

🔍 Find out more about our members: curioss.org/about/members/

Advanced Research Computing · Advanced Research Computing CentreARC is UCL's research, innovation and service centre for the tools, practices and systems that enable computational science and digital scholarship.

🚀 How do you build a strong Open Science culture?

It's not just about tools — it's about people, care & community. 💬💡

In her new piece for The Experimentalist, @HeidiSeibold shares lessons and values that shape our work at DRA.

📖 A must-read for anyone passionate about better, fairer research.

🔗 theexperimentalist.org/sci-com
#OpenScience #FAIRdata #ResearchCulture #SciComm #DigitalResearchAcademy #TheExperimentalist