Post

My keynote at the @atproto.science conference about Modular Science last week! The recording and writeup are here: articles.continuousfoundation.org/articles/tow...

articles.continuousfoundation.orgTowards Modular Open ScienceScience is trapped in a paper-shaped box. In this talk at the ATProto community, Rowan Cockett introduces the structural states of scientific components — the floor, the buckets, and the shelf — and m...

Today science is trapped in a paper-shaped box. We might have open-access to read it, but the contents is locked away or not provided (the scripts, methods, visualizations). #ATscience

2/4/26, 7:05 pm0 reposts0 likes

Our mission at @continuous.foundation is to move towards more utility and reuse from those **pieces** of research. #ATscience

I see modular research as oscillating between three states: the floor, the buckets, and the shelves. #ATscience

The shelf — composed artifacts, like Lego trophies. But today status quo demands they are glued together. #ATscience

The 2010’s prescription was to break research into parts, share each one first. But they are also largely designed for after the work is done. The bar is still too high to share continuously — those small things that add up to all of the tacit knowledge of science. #ATscience