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Curvenote @curvenote.com · 1d

We’re proud to launch our SCMS — a platform that turns data, code, and figures into living, connected research ready to share and build on. Read the announcement here → bit.ly/3KGqHK8

Curvenote founder, Rowan Cockett CEO on the left, and Steve Purves CTO on the right.

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Steve Purves @opensci.dev · Jul 23

It's great to have @buildwithjill.bsky.social on board for the journey with us! Jill dove straight into helping us hone our product focus and we're all excited for the months ahead.

Curvenote @curvenote.com · Jul 16

Announcing a key addition to our team: @buildwithjill.bsky.social, our Product Lead.

With Jillian’s leadership, we’re evolving Curvenote into a platform where scientific work—figures, code, data, text—can be easily created, connected, reused, and shared.

Read more: curvenote.com/blog/jillian...

From PDFs to Possibilities - Curvenote Blog

Welcoming product visionary Jillian Hale as we build a modular, dynamic future for research. Jillian’s background spans product strategy, communication, and platform design. She brings a unique blend ...

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · Jul 1

Only a few days left to register to the Amsterdam Replication Games on July 19. Virtual participation is possible and coauthorship to a meta paper is granted.

Register: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...

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Steve Purves @opensci.dev · Jun 5

It was great to be getting some improvements to our checks UI into production yesterday! automated checks are run whenever something is submitted from the CLI or GitHub automations, and apply rules to the document structure - now with an improved surface for configuration @curvenote.com

Screen that allows configuration of automated checks on different article kinds within the Curvenote publishing system.

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Continuous Science Foundation @continuous.foundation · May 21

Continuous Science Foundation is a new non-profit to advance tools, standards, and communities for iterative, integrated, collaborative, and continuous science.

articles.continuousfoundation.org/articles/gro...

Laying the Groundwork for Continuous Science - undefined

Scientific work today is collaborative, computational, and evolving — yet we still communicate it through static, disconnected formats. Continuous Science Foundation is building a movement to reflect ...

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Steve Purves @opensci.dev · May 8

GenZs bucking the expected younger-is-fitter trend there! Or maybe just more of them went for it without the training? pity strava didn't actually release the data, would love to see distributions and how the bonk kicked in. Dataframe plz 🙏 ?

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ROTTnROCK @rottnrock.bsky.social · May 2

Ariane Loisel presents her poster about hydrothermal alteration at Teide volcano at #EGU25 🌋 She’s here now if you want to talk to her! @egu-gmpv.bsky.social

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Ludo Waltman @ludowaltman.bsky.social · May 1

Preprinting helps accelerate dissemination of scientific knowledge. To what extent do researchers adopt preprinting? How does this vary by discipline and region?

Together with Narmin Rzayeva and @stephenpinfield.bsky.social, I just published article answering these questions. osf.io/preprints/so...

Adoption of preprinting per discipline and region

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Steve Purves @opensci.dev · May 1

I found out about EPOS the other day - I have not been in their data data portal to look but it reportedly covers geological surface maps and modelled datasets www.epos-eu.org/tcs/geologic...

Data & Services | EPOS

Distributed infrastructure targets to provide Virtual Access to data, products, and services relying mainly on an infrastructure provided by the Geological Surveys of Europe.

www.epos-eu.org

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UW–Madison Data Science Institute @uwdsi.bsky.social · May 1

Congratulations to DSI Research Scientist @matthewfeickert.com on receiving an inaugural URSSI Early-Career Fellowship for advancing scientific software development practices. dsi.wisc.edu/2025/04/30/f...

Feickert Awarded Early-Career Fellowship

DSI Research Scientist Matthew Feickert is an inaugural recipient of a URSSI fellowship for advancing research software development practices.

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · Mar 5

Today I'm delivering an open science lecture for our master students. These kind of lectures are one of the most enjoyable parts of my job

A contour enhanced funnel plot demonstrating publication bias

The 'datasauraus' plot series, demonstrating the need to visualise data

A slide demonstrating that bar plots can hide important information, such as outliers and skewness

A description of raincloud plots for illustrating mean differences

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Steve Purves @opensci.dev · Mar 3

@pevohr.bsky.social that's what we're working on - there is plenty of ux to work on still but some more examples here: curvenote.com/blog/open-sc... - easy reuse with attribution. Tying into formal citation/dois still ongoing. Linked/networked publications is how we should be publishing in science.

Embracing Reuse in Scientific Communication - Curvenote Blog

The ability to build upon existing knowledge is fundamental to the process of science. Yet, despite the rapid advancement of science, the methods for citing and referencing content have remained surpr...

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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · Feb 28

I am working with @samteplitzky.bsky.social on a working group in @force11.bsky.social for:

Preserving Executable Research Content

If you are interested in joining or following along, learn more here:
curvenote.com/blog/force11...

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Feb 26

This is painfully accurate.

Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Feb 26

RNA xkcd.com/3056

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Matthew Feickert @matthewfeickert.com · Feb 25

#SciPy2025 submission deadline has been extended a week to 2025-03-05! I'll note that you **can edit your proposal after you submit it up until the deadline passes**. So "submit early, revise often"! www.scipy2025.scipy.org

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · Feb 14

Valentines Day lab meeting in the UT Insect Collection was unconventional.

White board labeled “Insect Mating Rituals” with two axes, disturbing -> romantic and boring -> hilarious. Various insects arrayed in different parts of the graph.

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Feb 5

This is fantastic: a 68 country data set with perceptions of science, science communication and climate attitudes. Featured in @nature.com Led by the formidable @nielsmede.bsky.social

What a resource!

Now we ‘just’ need a 2025/26 update given how it’s all changing.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries – the TISP dataset - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries – the TISP dataset

www.nature.com

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Steve Purves @opensci.dev · Feb 4

Found new #musictocodeby: One Arc Degree open.spotify.com/playlist/37i... (still ❤️ Solar Fields, Carbon Based Lifeforms too)

This Is ONE ARC DEGREE

Playlist · Spotify · 50 items · 25 saves

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Elemental Microscopy @elementalmicrosc.bsky.social · Feb 2

Hey there 🦋🧪, we're a new open access microscopy journal and wanted to introduce ourselves! EM aims to modernize scientific publishing for microscopy, by prioritizing open science, transparency, and accessibility and using open-source formats and interactive notebooks 🙌

@curvenote.com @mystmd.org 🚀

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Mike Morrison @mikemorrison.bsky.social · Jan 24

If you've been and Editor of a journal, DM me if you'd be up for a zoom to tell me all about your frustrations with journal software.

Trying to design better tools!

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Peter Suber @petersuber.bsky.social · Jan 26

As recently as January 2, 2025, #NASA had five modules for teaching #OpenScience on its web site. The #Trump administration has taken them down.
science.nasa.gov/open-science...

Thank goodness for the @archive.org Wayback Machine.
web.archive.org/web/20250102...

#TrumpAntiScience #USPolitics

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Steve Purves @opensci.dev · Jan 20

embeds bring fragments of a cited work into the citing article, so when we are reading it on the web (its 2025) the content is available in place, with appropriate attribution.

with some further UX tweaks this could be the basis for citations++ on the web!

Mike Morrison @mikemorrison.bsky.social · Jan 16

Want to see a quick demo of the technology that might replace citations in scientific papers?

Goodbye citations, hello embeds.

I was just hoping for links in scientific papers, but this is even better!

The future of academic citations: Embeds

Citations are dead. Long live embeds! In the future, you won't use traditional citations in scientific articles. You'll directly embed the snippet of science...

youtu.be

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Steve Purves @opensci.dev · Jan 19

Exploring in-text visualization of nucleotides 🧬 in markdown—using color-coded sequences to highlight patterns for data storytelling. Looking for ideas and pointers! Next, extending to highlight mutations, functional regions and trying protein sequences. #biology #ComputationalBiology #genomics

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Jan 16

Important Covid editorial @science.org by Maria Van Kerkhove
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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