It’s no secret that Taylor Swift has inspired a lot of research - most recently, the rise of ‘Swiftonomics’ or the influence that Taylor Swift has had on the economy, has been a hot topic of discussion. What if she has influenced more than we realise? Welcome to Taylor Swift's Research Eras Tour!

AI, federated learning and vast swathes of research data available at our fingertips represent paradigm shifts for drug discovery. Our VP Open Research, Dr Mark Hahnel, discusses the serendipity and the science.

We're thrilled to be hosting engineer, innovator and the godfather of street skating Rodney Mullen at the Royal Institution in September as part of our Speaker Series Live programme of events. So, to get us in the mood and give us a taster of what to expect, Suze and Huw popped by Rodney's place while they were out working in Los Angeles to bring you this month's Speaker Series episode - a conversation about culture, community and creativity in science and skateboarding.

What are universities for? With pressures on funding, academic freedoms under scrutiny and volatile global demographic changes, the need to prove new knowledge can have tangible outputs has never been greater. Simon Linacre looks at one university in the UK which is leading the way in research transformation.

Today's episode of TL;DR Shorts takes us back to the West Coast and Courtney Hohne who is talking about how we need more engaged innovation, whereby members of our broader society are involved in creating and implementing new ideas in the real world.

It's TL;DR Tuesday and this week's TL;DR Shorts episode features Dr Ernest Mwebaze, Executive Director of Sunbird AI, who talks about the impact that his community engagement initiatives have had on the research landscape in Uganda.

Discover the methodology behind the new Altmetric 500 - our initiative to highlight the impact and influence of academic articles.

This TL;DR Tuesday we're talking about civic science - the democratisation of knowledge production through engaging with impacted communities to co-produce scientific solutions - as a tool for building trust in research with Boston University's Mariette DiChristina, Dean of the College of Communication.

The Barcelona Declaration is perhaps the first document to begin to frame community responsibility with regards to consuming open metadata. Yet, it is just that, a beginning - we believe that understanding with granular detail what should be expected from each part of our ecosystem is critical in making Barcelona actionable, to drive us forward into a more open data landscape. Let's begin the conversation...

In this week's TL;DR Shorts episode we hear Dr Astro Teller's thoughts on climate change. As the co-founder and Captain of Moonshots at X, the Moonshot Factory at Alphabet based in California, USA, it is perhaps no surprise that Astro approaches the challenge of climate change in an holistic manner, calling it a systems problem that can only be overcome with a suite of innovative solutions.