Ed Hagen
@edhagen.net
Professor of Anthropology at Washington State University. Faculty page: https://anthro.vancouver.wsu.edu/people/hagen/
Views expressed are my own and do not reflect those of my employer or other organizations I'm affiliated with.
Views expressed are my own and do not reflect those of my employer or other organizations I'm affiliated with.
...so that submitting a paper would auto-create a Bluesky account for the paper. Appviews like @chive.pub would pick these up and provide research-centric views of the network and add value like the ability to peer-review, comment, etc.
January 16, 2026 at 9:52 PM
...so that submitting a paper would auto-create a Bluesky account for the paper. Appviews like @chive.pub would pick these up and provide research-centric views of the network and add value like the ability to peer-review, comment, etc.
It's easy to run personal data servers (which host accounts) independently of Bluesky that seamlessly interact w/ Bluesky. The ideal solution would be for orgs like @cos.io & zenodo.org & other eprint servers, which already mint doi's, to run PDS services on top of their research archiving services
Zenodo
zenodo.org
January 16, 2026 at 9:52 PM
It's easy to run personal data servers (which host accounts) independently of Bluesky that seamlessly interact w/ Bluesky. The ideal solution would be for orgs like @cos.io & zenodo.org & other eprint servers, which already mint doi's, to run PDS services on top of their research archiving services
To answer this question you raise: because the network is open, it's possible to build services that provide content-specific views (termed "appviews"). @chive.pub is building one for academic papers, which can work with personal accounts or paper accounts: bsky.app/profile/chiv...
January 16, 2026 at 6:34 PM
To answer this question you raise: because the network is open, it's possible to build services that provide content-specific views (termed "appviews"). @chive.pub is building one for academic papers, which can work with personal accounts or paper accounts: bsky.app/profile/chiv...
For example, each paper account could have records that point to the DID of each author of the paper.
January 13, 2026 at 7:41 PM
For example, each paper account could have records that point to the DID of each author of the paper.
I agree, but remember, most papers have multiple authors, and so "belong" to multiple people. Right now, there is no unified way for individual researchers to keep track of all of "their" papers. By moving scientific publishing to this network it would be vastly easier to develop such a system.
January 13, 2026 at 7:41 PM
I agree, but remember, most papers have multiple authors, and so "belong" to multiple people. Right now, there is no unified way for individual researchers to keep track of all of "their" papers. By moving scientific publishing to this network it would be vastly easier to develop such a system.
Although paper accounts would be first class citizens, and thus visible to all Bluesky users, and to all other apps that engage with the network, custom feeds and applications could be developed that give more specialized "views" of the paper accounts specifically.
January 13, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Although paper accounts would be first class citizens, and thus visible to all Bluesky users, and to all other apps that engage with the network, custom feeds and applications could be developed that give more specialized "views" of the paper accounts specifically.
Paper accounts could then *become* the official publications, entirely replacing our troubled scientific publishing system.
January 13, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Paper accounts could then *become* the official publications, entirely replacing our troubled scientific publishing system.
Papers would then be first class citizens in the network. For example, users could follow a paper for updates, e.g., data, code, reviews, responses to reviews, revisions, news coverage, follow up papers, retractions.
Papers could also follow related papers, creating a rich knowledge graph.
Papers could also follow related papers, creating a rich knowledge graph.
January 13, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Papers would then be first class citizens in the network. For example, users could follow a paper for updates, e.g., data, code, reviews, responses to reviews, revisions, news coverage, follow up papers, retractions.
Papers could also follow related papers, creating a rich knowledge graph.
Papers could also follow related papers, creating a rich knowledge graph.
Accounts have a unique ID, termed a decentralized ID (DID), analogous to a DOI (digital object identifier): www.w3.org/TR/did-1.1/. By giving papers their own accounts, they would be assigned a DID that uniquely identifies the paper in the network.
Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.1
Decentralized identifiers (DIDs) are a new type of identifier that
enables verifiable, decentralized digital identity. A DID refers to any
subject (e.g., a person, organization, thing, data model, abs...
www.w3.org
January 13, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Accounts have a unique ID, termed a decentralized ID (DID), analogous to a DOI (digital object identifier): www.w3.org/TR/did-1.1/. By giving papers their own accounts, they would be assigned a DID that uniquely identifies the paper in the network.
This is your PDS: pdsls.dev/at://did:plc...
PDSls
Browse the public data on atproto
pdsls.dev
January 13, 2026 at 2:36 PM
This is your PDS: pdsls.dev/at://did:plc...
The idea is that publishing papers as atproto accounts becomes the new scientific publishing system, replacing traditional journals (and replacing preprint servers, for that matter). The account becomes the single source of truth for all things [my paper], including data & code.
January 13, 2026 at 2:32 PM
The idea is that publishing papers as atproto accounts becomes the new scientific publishing system, replacing traditional journals (and replacing preprint servers, for that matter). The account becomes the single source of truth for all things [my paper], including data & code.
Which you can see using this tool that allows you to browse the records stored on a personal data server (PDS), and which I've pointed at that particular record: pdsls.dev/at://did:plc...
PDSls
Browse the public data on atproto
pdsls.dev
January 13, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Which you can see using this tool that allows you to browse the records stored on a personal data server (PDS), and which I've pointed at that particular record: pdsls.dev/at://did:plc...
The Bluesky account IS the source. For example, this html version of the paper is stored on the sqlite database underlying that account: menopause-preprint.wisp.place
Menopause averted a midlife energetic crisis with help from older children and parents: A simulation study
menopause-preprint.wisp.place
January 13, 2026 at 2:32 PM
The Bluesky account IS the source. For example, this html version of the paper is stored on the sqlite database underlying that account: menopause-preprint.wisp.place
"Our results also highlight the need to pay more attention to cultural loss as a factor in cultural evolution."
Use it or lose it: A model-based assessment of the hypothesis that European Neanderthals relied on wildfires to create their campfires: open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-205
Use it or lose it: A model-based assessment of the hypothesis that European Neanderthals relied on wildfires to create their campfires: open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-205
open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu
January 12, 2026 at 2:40 AM
"Our results also highlight the need to pay more attention to cultural loss as a factor in cultural evolution."
Use it or lose it: A model-based assessment of the hypothesis that European Neanderthals relied on wildfires to create their campfires: open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-205
Use it or lose it: A model-based assessment of the hypothesis that European Neanderthals relied on wildfires to create their campfires: open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-205
If you haven't, check out Elon's posts on his profile. Pretty eye-opening.
January 9, 2026 at 11:55 PM
If you haven't, check out Elon's posts on his profile. Pretty eye-opening.
Engagement with my twitter posts has dropped dramatically, probably because many of the folks who followed me there are now here.
January 9, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Engagement with my twitter posts has dropped dramatically, probably because many of the folks who followed me there are now here.
Strongly agree that sustainable funding is key. Zenodo.org has that in place.
Zenodo
Zenodo.org
January 9, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Strongly agree that sustainable funding is key. Zenodo.org has that in place.
Strongly agree that sustainable funding is key. Zenodo.org has that in place.
Zenodo
Zenodo.org
January 9, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Strongly agree that sustainable funding is key. Zenodo.org has that in place.
For us evolutionary psychologists: web.archive.org/web/20120318...
January 8, 2026 at 10:45 PM
For us evolutionary psychologists: web.archive.org/web/20120318...