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Digital Science
Company blog · digital-science.com/tldrsciencedata
Digital Science is the company blog at digital-science.com, writing about science and data. Since 2012, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 74 times, most often “The Lone Banana Problem”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked mostly for Digital Science's GRID database of research organisations, plus a Dimensions data science job listing and a TLDR article. The comments do not judge any writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Digital Science is a trusted partner providing research workflow solutions, and data and analytical insights for the research community
Most-linked posts?
- The Lone Banana Problem2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-06-27
- Research on Artificial Intelligence – the global divides2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-01-04
- GRID – Global Research Identifier Database – Launched2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-10-12
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-05-04
What Hacker News says?
Still a long way to go, but this is a huge step forward. It's also not the first time Macmillan have tried something new - their whole Digital Science arm (which includes ReadCube) is focused on innovation and disruptive publishing tech: http://www.digital-science.com/
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on “Nature makes all articles free to view”Submitted How to build a data mining pipeline using Amazon Web Services as a story · 4 points
HN discussionDigital Science | Data Scientist on Dimensions ( https://dimensions.ai / https://app.dimensions.ai ) | Europe | REMOTE - need to be available during typical hours for Europe generally With 128M scientific/research related documents, over $1.2T in funding data, patents and clinical trials data with 4 billion links, we want to bring in more data scientists to join our data science team to work on analysing and enrichi…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)”Submitted Research Twitter – where everybody knows your name as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis is because we are part of Digital Science ( https://www.digital-science.com/ ) which currently has a corporate presence in those countries (plus the UK).
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024)”Submitted If you're a researcher, do you care about all the new technology developments? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://grid.ac It's a free, entirely manually curated, database of research organisations around the world with associated metadata and other linked IDs (wikidata/geonames/NUTS/crossref/fundref/ucas/ukprn...). Everything has a persistent ID so it doesn't matter if a university changes name. It's awesome because this is the kind of thing you assume exists but actually doesn't, and is really quite hard to build yours…
Comment linking /blog/tech/north-south-divide-uk-university-pay/
on “Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL”Submitted Macmillan opens up treasure chest of scientific knowledge to society as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWe've been building this for a while and now have our first public release! It's a database of 48,598 research organisations around the world, many with added metadata. CC-BY, so you can grab it and use it in commercial applications. It's been useful internally and we wanted to share it. You can download the full db here: https://www.grid.ac/downloads (the JSON version has all the metadata, the CSV is there for ease…
Comment linking /blog/news/digital-science-launches-grid-a-new-global-open-database-offering-unique-information-on-research-organisations/
on “Show HN: GRID, a free database of the world's research organisations”Submitted SciWalker – bringing together fragmented literature as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWe've been building this for a while and now have our first public release! It's a database of 48,598 research organisations around the world, many with added metadata. CC-BY, so you can grab it and use it in commercial applications. It's been useful internally and we wanted to share it. You can download the full db here: https://www.grid.ac/downloads or explore what's present here: https://www.grid.ac/institutes An…
Comment linking /blog/news/digital-science-launches-grid-a-new-global-open-database-offering-unique-information-on-research-organisations/
on “Show HN: GRID, a free database of the world's research organisations”Submitted Implications of AI for Science: Friend or Foe? Falling Walls 2023 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://www.digital-science.com/tldr/article/the-lone-banana...
Comment linking /tldr/article/the-lone-banana-problem-or-the-new-programming-speaking-ai/
on “Magic123: One Image to High-Quality 3D Object Generation”Submitted CERN 2070 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionand in case anyone's interested in the meandering thoughts of two start-up founders in the scholarly comms space, Mark and I had a nice chat following a recent figshare milestone :) [1] [1] https://www.digital-science.com/tldr/article/seven-million-o...
Comment linking /tldr/article/seven-million-open-research-objects-and-counting-a-conversation-with-mark-hahnel/
on “How to make your scientific data accessible, discoverable and useful”Submitted CERN 2070 – The Next Generation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Effect of HN front page posts on early WriteLaTeX (Overleaf) usage as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Discovering ‘galaxies’ of research within universities as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tinker, Researcher, Prompter, Wizard as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Which Papers Got the Most Attention Online This Year? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted GRID – Global Research Identifier Database – Launched as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are We Heading for a Librarian vs. Publisher Data Sharing Space Race? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What would happen if you lost all of your research data? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Protovision. Imagining the laboratory of the future as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Research on Artificial Intelligence – The global divides as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The State of Open Data: From theory to practice as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Research on Artificial Intelligence – the global divides as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Research on Artificial Intelligence – the global divides as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implications of AI for Science: Friend or Foe? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seven million open research objects and counting as a story · 1 points
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