Rowan Cockett

Rowan Cockett

@row1.ca

I talk about computational #openscience communication and science publishing. On the jupyterbook.org & @mystmd.org teams, co-founder of @curvenote.com & @continuous.foundation.

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Rowan Cockett
@row1.ca

Scientific publishing is still organized around bundles built for print. We use music’s shift from albums to streaming to argue why access and unbundling aren’t enough. Shared standards are the missing layer for reusable, trustworthy science. articles.continuousfoundation.org/articles/how...

Continuous Science Foundation@continuous.foundation

Access removes locks. Structure creates movement. Why modular science changes everything. We unpack it here 👇 articles.continuousfoundation.org/articles/how...

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Radish Press a.k.a Zoe Wake Hyde
@radishpress.bsky.social

Branching out from my usually book-y corner of the universe, I'm helping organise a new conference to push beyond the bounds of open science. And it just so happens to be in my favourite city in the world!

Convergence Open Science Conference@convergenceconf.bsky.social

Join us for 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, a multidisciplinary gathering designed for researchers, funders, technologists, and policymakers to meet, exchange ideas & make new connections. 📅 June 16–18, 2027 | Montreal 👉 𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘁 | 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘂𝘀 www.convergescience.org #𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳 #OpenScience #CallFor…

Rowan Cockett
@row1.ca

So so so so excited about this new #openscience conference. Signup for updates as we develop out the program, and save the date: June 16-18 in Montreal 🇨🇦. 🚀

Convergence Open Science Conference@convergenceconf.bsky.social

Join us for 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, a multidisciplinary gathering designed for researchers, funders, technologists, and policymakers to meet, exchange ideas & make new connections. 📅 June 16–18, 2027 | Montreal 👉 𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘁 | 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘂𝘀 www.convergescience.org #𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳 #OpenScience #CallFor…

Rowan Cockett
@row1.ca

Always enjoy @mikemorrison.bsky.social videos. :) Take a look at him talking about his new journal, ScienceUX!!

Curvenote®@curvenote.com

Lead UX designer, @mikemorrison.bsky.social also studies interface design for scientists. He used @curvenote.com SCMS to host his own journal, Science UX: real DOIs, Google Scholar indexing, + more, published in one command. Same platform for a single researcher or a large publisher. Here's how 🎥

youtube.comWhy I Started My Own Scientific Journal with the Curvenote SCMSYouTube video by curvenote
Rowan Cockett
@row1.ca

Have two or three months now of posting our changelog every Thursday. It is fun to look back and see everything the team @curvenote.com is up to! 🚀

Curvenote®@curvenote.com

We ship in the open. Our Changelog is public and written for the people actually using Curvenote products - new features explained, UX improvements and product updates. If you have ever wondered what we are up to go check us out curvenote.com/changelog

curvenote.comChangelog | CurvenoteThe latest updates and improvements from Curvenote.

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PREreview
@prereview.bsky.social

💭 What might peer review look like if it evolved alongside the research lifecycle? That’s what the #ModularPeerReview WG convened by @continuous.foundation & PREreview explored through Jan-July 2026. The groundwork is laid—and the invitation to shape what comes next is open: bit.ly/4x3INZY

articles.continuousfoundation.orgModular Peer Review Working GroupA working group hosted by Continuous Science Foundation (CSF) and PREreview exploring how peer review can evolve in a modular publishing ecosystem.

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Curvenote®
@curvenote.com

Our CEO @row1.ca joined the Data Engineering Podcast to talk about why science has outgrown the paper and what it will take to fix it. Data, code, narrative - brought together all the way through to publication. It's a hard problem and it's exactly what our team is solving. Worth a listen 👇

curvenote.comCurvenote on the Data Engineering PodcastRowan Cockett joined the Data Engineering Podcast to talk about reproducibility, open science, and the future of scientific communication.

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B. Prendergast
@renderg.host

Most publishers are too complacent to change. It’s up to the contenders to aggressively disrupt and reform academic publishing, because we can’t rely on the publishers. @continuous.foundation and @curvenote.com working with preprints with #ATscience activists are the best chance we have imho.

B. Prendergast@renderg.host

It’s so much worse than you can imagine. 6m papers published a year and I would say half of all submitting authors and reviewers will be using a ~30 year old piece of software to contribute to publication. Yes that’s right. 30 years old. Three decades. Pre-broadband. Maybe pre-web.

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Scott C Edmunds
@scedmunds.bsky.social

The future of interactive preprints and papers were on display at the #FORCE2026 conference and here I discuss what was presented and what the future of "living figures" might hold. As well as raving about the @openrxiv.bsky.social labs and @curvenote.com demos scedmunds.substack.com/p/preprints-...

scedmunds.substack.comPreprints and Papers Come to Life at FORCE2026The future of interactive preprints and papers were on display at the FORCE2026 conference in Singapore, and here I discuss what was presented and what the future of "living figures" might hold

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Pierre-Paul Axisa
@ppaxisa.bsky.social

Replying to @richardsever.bsky.social

This is really cool! I hope it helps move science away from the ever static pdf. There are so many opportunities to make reporting more interactive.

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Ariel M. (she/her)
@byarielm.fyi

okay but actually y’all should be hype about this! #OpenScience 🧪

openRxiv@openrxiv.bsky.social

Introducing openRxiv Labs! 🔬 Growing from the strong foundation of bioRxiv & medRxiv, Labs is an experimental space for working with collaborators to push the boundaries of open scientific communication. 👉 Check it out and learn more: openrxiv.org/openrxiv-lab... #OpenScience #Preprints #Scicomm

openrxiv.orgLaunching openRxiv Labs - openRxivOver the last thirteen years, bioRxiv and medRxiv have grown into widely used infrastructure for rapid research sharing in biology and medicine. The reliability and researcher-first values that have d...

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Ariel M. (she/her)
@byarielm.fyi

So hyped I even posted on LinkedIn to make sure people in my network who aren't active here know (1) this is so cool, (2) they can watch @row1.ca's keynote with @mattakamatsu.bsky.social on @stream.place which shows just how cool this is gonna get #AtScience #OpenScience #OpenResearch 🧪

Curvenote®@curvenote.com

Our first Curvenote Reader implementation is with our partners at @openrxiv.bsky.social bringing a connected reading experience to 500k bioRxiv preprints. Curvenote Reader keeps citations, figures, and references connected directly in the flow of reading. Learn more curvenote.com/news/openrxi...

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openRxiv
@openrxiv.bsky.social

Introducing openRxiv Labs! 🔬 Growing from the strong foundation of bioRxiv & medRxiv, Labs is an experimental space for working with collaborators to push the boundaries of open scientific communication. 👉 Check it out and learn more: openrxiv.org/openrxiv-lab... #OpenScience #Preprints #Scicomm

openrxiv.orgLaunching openRxiv Labs - openRxivOver the last thirteen years, bioRxiv and medRxiv have grown into widely used infrastructure for rapid research sharing in biology and medicine. The reliability and researcher-first values that have d...

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Semble
@semble.so

Let's go!! 🌉

Rowan Cockett@row1.ca

So so excited about this and some of the opportunities to connect this into the #ATScience ecosystem. Shipped some small hints of that last week with @ronentk.me for (lite, v1) @semble.so integration.

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Curvenote®
@curvenote.com

🚀 Today we’re launching Curvenote Reader Curvenote Reader transforms existing research into connected, web-native reading experiences layered onto the systems repositories and publishers already use. No rebuilds. No workflow disruption. → curvenote.com/products/rea...

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Mathew Lowry
@mathewlowry.eurosky.social

Replying to @robin.berjon.com

You missed a lot if you missed #ATscience! 😎 This is from one of the keynoters, @row1.ca : 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...
Rowan Cockett
@row1.ca

Just to be clear, this is the whole conversation. No data, no code, no context and you can make something up that looks like science, but has no depth or reality to it. When the output of science is a pdf, it is hard to tell the difference between what is real and what is made up.

Rowan Cockett@row1.ca

How to create scientific figures with AI! #prompt-engineering #nailed-it

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Rowan Cockett
@row1.ca

The delta from vibe-coding to actual engineering is vanishing fast because software tooling is computationally reproducible, connected, transparent, and huge amounts are fully open. Science is falling on the other side of the distribution. AI is being trained to fake it, not do it.

Rowan Cockett
@row1.ca

Just to be clear, this is the whole conversation. No data, no code, no context and you can make something up that looks like science, but has no depth or reality to it. When the output of science is a pdf, it is hard to tell the difference between what is real and what is made up.

Rowan Cockett@row1.ca

How to create scientific figures with AI! #prompt-engineering #nailed-it

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Rowan Cockett
@row1.ca

The answer is probably a combination of the two. Changing norms of what science "looks like" and reinforcing them. "Data available upon reasonable request" is no longer defensible in the age of AI. If we can't inspect the code that you used to create a figure, I start to trust it less...!

Rowan Cockett
@row1.ca

If AI starts to get trained that science should "looks like" a interconnected, reproducbile, interactive, research product. Then the "make me a science figure" prompt produces something is a lot closer to what actual science is. Right now it is only veneer.

Rowan Cockett
@row1.ca

Just to be clear, this is the whole conversation. No data, no code, no context and you can make something up that looks like science, but has no depth or reality to it. When the output of science is a pdf, it is hard to tell the difference between what is real and what is made up.

Rowan Cockett@row1.ca

How to create scientific figures with AI! #prompt-engineering #nailed-it

Rowan Cockett
@row1.ca

I think there are two ways out of the problem: (1) more defences — integrity checks, better screening, forensics, **higher walls**; (2) raising the bar of what we consider science — not just the pdf, but show the work, protocols, data, code, supplements, reproducible figures.

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Ariel M. (she/her)
@byarielm.fyi

Replying to @scarnecchia.net

@chive.pub is doing preprints! and oxa.dev — which is schema for research, watch the atsci keynote — is being supported by arxiv lots and lots of cool potential and (quiet) action happening here ☺️

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Ronen Tamari
@ronentk.me

"The properties that make AT Protocol compelling for social networking are the same properties the research community has been asking for" Exciting vision for the future of science publishing on ATProto @row1.ca @opensci.dev @nokome.bsky.social #ATScience

oxa.devScientific Documents as First-Class Objects on AT ProtocolOXA now defines an AT Protocol lexicon for publishing scientific documents to the Atmosphere. The `pub.oxa.*` namespace lets documents live in any Personal Data Server, making scientific content user-...
Rowan Cockett
@row1.ca

The Open Exchange Architecture is a new standard for science that we are aiming to bring this to life!! Read more and get involved at: oxa.dev (We have an at-proto implementation!) #ATscience

Rowan Cockett
@row1.ca

I am excited about more continuous ways to share between these states (on the floor, in buckets, and on the shelf). Would love to chat more with folks working on #ATscience and scientific schemas to make changes towards more modular and continuous ways of sharing!!

Rowan Cockett
@row1.ca

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

Rowan Cockett
@row1.ca

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

Rowan Cockett
@row1.ca

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

Rowan Cockett
@row1.ca

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

Rowan Cockett
@row1.ca

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

Rowan Cockett
@row1.ca

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

Rowan Cockett
@row1.ca

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

Rowan Cockett
@row1.ca

This is a really exciting development for posting scientific content on at-proto. Looking forward to more steps soon. :)

Steve Purves@opensci.dev

Just made my first post from @curvenote.com to my PDS using the AT Proto variant of OXA 🚀🚀🚀. was still working on this when @row1.ca was giving his #ATScience talk yesterday. More about OXA and links to the PDS record in my post. opensci.dev/articles/hel...

opensci.devHello OXA:AT - opensci.devA post about publishing from Curvenote on AT Proto with OXA, published on AT Proto with OXA
Rowan Cockett
@row1.ca

I was showing someone @curvenote.com editor, and had to clarify that we did most of it in 2021 and meant that we did it by hand. So real blood sweat and tears in there. :) In the olden-days....

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Scott McGrath
@smcgrath.phd

🧪 @row1.ca shows off the power of what this modular approach to science can look like, by creating papers that are more interconnected. #ATScience #AcademicSky #OpenScience