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

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

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

The floor — Lego scattered everywhere, ready for building. To pull from someone else’s data bucket in Tokyo and pull a protocol from Germany and **remix** them with your ideas to build something new, to learn something new, to discover something new. #ATscience

The core philosophy is not requiring modularity as a precondition to sharing — separating it into different spaces to deposit it. But to allow the packaging to expose the modularity through the ways that researchers are already working. #ATscience

This allows you to import content from an existing composition: ``` import figure from paper ``` Not **solely** focusing on "packaging figures" (although that is still important!!) #ATscience