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Curvenote® @curvenote.com · 17/09/2026

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 🎥

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Why I Started My Own Scientific Journal with the Curvenote SCMS

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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 18/09/2026

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

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Mike Morrison @mikemorrison.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Can we make ePoster presentations actually readable at a distance? Conferences are (happily) starting to let you use slides and/or zoom-in. Watch for good/bad examples: youtu.be/YJGEgv_jPqE

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How to present an ePoster that people can actually read

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Mike Morrison @mikemorrison.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I was reconnecting my AirPods to my PC like 10 times a day via settings until I got frustrated enough to search (and find!) this fantastic little app: magicpods.app Posting because I feel genuinely over-benefited paying $2 for this much time savings and want to help the creator out.

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MagicPods — hub of your Bluetooth headphones for Windows

Check AirPods battery on Windows with popup animation, noise control, hotkeys & more. Works offline, private, no ads.

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Mike Morrison @mikemorrison.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Wanna help improve science with better design? Join us in the ScienceUX community! Here's a tour of the projects you could join: youtu.be/XVM86B8VNz0 Discord invite: discord.gg/q5r2W2Hs2

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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Mike Morrison @mikemorrison.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Ever had to scroll up in a scientific article to find where some abbereviation was defined like Jargon Word (JW)? No more! youtu.be/E_0yEzIM5ac

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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Curvenote® @curvenote.com · 05/06/2026

Good conversations at @force11.bsky.social FORCE2026 this week. Thanks to everyone who came to Curvenote's @mikemorrison.bsky.social session on "Connected Publishing" More to come on Curvenote Reader...... #Force2026 #Curvenote

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Curvenote® @curvenote.com · 21/05/2026

🚀 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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Steve Purves @opensci.dev · 08/05/2026

Wrote the missing "how to wrap a JS viz in an anywidget" tutorial for @curvenote articles opensci.dev/articles/con... includes a companion repo

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Convert any Javascript Module to an AnyWidget - opensci.dev

A tutorial on how to create conformant AnyWidget front end modules for use in Curvenote articles

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B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 06/05/2026

@mikemorrison.bsky.social 's vision for #ScientificArticles www.youtube.com/shorts/76gEY... builds upon @worrydream.com who asked us to lean into how alive the #web can be with data, and to 'stop drawing dead fish' www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfyt... Both authors are essential #ATscience viewing!

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Bret Victor - Stop Drawing Dead Fish

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Mike Morrison @mikemorrison.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Apparently when you listen to star wars music on Spotify, the play bar turns into a lightsaber?!

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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 27/03/2026

Excited to talk about modular science, Open Exchange Architecture, @curvenote.com and @continuous.foundation tomorrow. Will be a fun day learning all that is going on in this space. 🚀🚀

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Steve Purves @opensci.dev · 28/03/2026

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...

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Hello OXA:AT - opensci.dev

A post about publishing from Curvenote on AT Proto with OXA, published on AT Proto with OXA

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Mike Morrison @mikemorrison.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

For those of you who've published 30+ scientific papers, how confident are you that you could recognize each one by the first 5 words of the title?

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Mike Morrison @mikemorrison.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I used to judge the government in Terminator for giving full control over to Skynet. After 2 days with Clawbot, I kind of get it.

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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Can you spot the overlapping panels? Tell me which ones! The first three correct answers (either by illustration or a good description) will win that shiny Emoji Award. It will look so good on your resume! #ImageForensics

Screenshot of panel "B" from a scientific paper, showing grey rectangular panels in two rows, three columns, with purple blueish cells in random patterns

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Mike Morrison @mikemorrison.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

The scientific article is the album. What is a song?

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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 31/01/2026

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...

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Courtney Babott @cbabott.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

In a digital world, we are increasingly constrained by boundaries that no longer make sense. In a world of artificial intelligence, what does the bundle prevent us from seeing?

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Mike Morrison @mikemorrison.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

When you submit a paper to a conference/journal how do you find all your coauthors' emails to enter/copy into the form? 1. Make authors organize their info all in one place before submission to make it easier 2. Copy-paste from our last email thread together 3. Other?

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Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Who would like google scholar to give us a sleek "Your Year in Citations" replay like music apps do?

Three “Scholar Replay” 2025 recap cards displayed side by side on a light background. Left card shows “Replay’25” and “Your Top Citations in 2025,” with a circular illustration of two people shaking hands and a footer panel listing “Most cited Paper: The Trust Game Goes to Hollywood” with “+218 citations this year.” Middle card titled “Your Citation Highlights in 2025” lists top citing fields with percentages (Computer Science 41%, Psychology 25%, Public Policy 18%, Economics 9%), then a “New Field Unlocked!” section reading “First cited in Urban Planning,” and a bottom “Biggest Mover” panel for “AI Ethics in the Age of Automation” with “185 citations this year.” Right card titled “Your 2025 Research Badges” shows two badge tiles: “Method Magnet” (high impact in methods research) and “Policy Whisperer” (influential in policy studies).

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Mike Morrison @mikemorrison.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Instead of every app in your life doubling monthly prices for AI features, would you rather just hook apps to your OpenAI account and pay a 'gas bill' based on your usage?

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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

You should be able to respond to reviewer comments with memes to liven up the peer review process.

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Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA - INTIFADA against all #Colonialism @serenissimaj.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Is there a word-phrase to describe citations that are meaningful, ones that understand the context in which what they are citing was written & that use the cited work in ways that enhance their own - the opposite of 'vanity referencing' [1/2] #AcademicSky #AcWri #AcademicWriting #AcademicPublishing

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Mike Morrison @mikemorrison.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Play a little game and choose the right icon for each role in science. Play our CRediT Roles icon game/survey, and help make scientific authorship clearer and more accessible! creditsurvey.sciux.org #OpenScience #ScienceUX

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Mike Morrison @mikemorrison.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

How we've started doing weekly meetings in our #ScienceUX volunteer lab: Presenting new designs to each other in a virtual scientific conference hall. Come join the discord if you want to help improve science with better design! discord.gg/rNjNv2Ss

ScienceUX weekly lab meeting showing off a simulation of crowd movements at a scientific conference

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14/11/2025

I've been on the road so I'm behind the times—but if you wanted to destroy US science, I can think of no more expedient action. Blatant unconstitutionality aside, fuck this backwards forwards and sideways. www.science.org/content/article/u-s-congress-considers-sweeping-ban-chinese-collaborations

The Securing American Funding and Expertise from Adversarial Research Exploitation (SAFE) Act would deny federal funding to any U.S. scientist who collaborates with anyone “affiliated with a hostile foreign entity,” a category that includes four countries: China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Hu & Bentler (1999) with >130k citations selected for huge citation and moderate actual impact--see Nils' rationale that a lot of citation use is unthinking or to stop thinking. What then is the prototype of prototypes for the moderate citation impact and moderate actual impact?

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Valerie Benti @valeriebenti.com · 11/11/2025

#SciComm community, I can use your help! Please share: 1. Any resources or publications about developing a hands-on tabletop science outreach activity. 2. Any personal tips & tricks based on your experiences running this type of activities! Thanks!

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Jay Patel @infotainment.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I've never seen a qualitative research paper with excellent figures (relevant, eye-catching, etc.). They only rely on text and photos/screenshots to communicate. #dataviz + #qualitative research seem opposed, no? #scicomm #AcademicWriting

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Mike Morrison @mikemorrison.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

What are some other "actually kind and not evil" software companies you've had a pleasant experience with? I'll start: @blackmagicdesign.bsky.social video editor gives so much for free Eagle.cool is DAM perfect for $30 lifetime @obsidian.md - Happily pay $8 for cloud sync on their free app.

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Eagle - Organize design files has never been easier

A better way to collect, search and organize your design files in a logical way and all in one place.

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Mike Morrison @mikemorrison.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

PSA: Last week, Affinity Studio (major Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop alternative) went completely 'free forever'. Pro design software, now accessible to all PhD students. May start recommending this in my workshops. www.affinity.studio/graphic-desi...

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B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 31/10/2025

I see a huge opportunity for how the AT Protocol could reshape academic publishing. Imagine researchers publishing continuously and atomically — before, during, and after research projects — in public connected continuous streams of discovery and insight.

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Mike Morrison @mikemorrison.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

PI's of BSky: If you had to guess, What percentage of 2nd+ year PhD students in your lab have an @orcid.org?

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Cracking Shells @crackingshells.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Last week at #ICSB2025, we shared how #MCP can make LLM-based agents reliable for #SystemsBiology. MCP was barely known there. All the more reason for Cracking Shells to exist: simplifying onboarding for researchers. #AIForScience

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Sara Kobilka (she/her) @renwoman.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

@mikemorrison.bsky.social will be sharing how #scientists and #SciComm folks can combine design and psychology principles to create engaging visual science communication tools. Join this Friday, Oct 17 @ 2pm ET for this FREE webinar. Sign up for Zoom link. waterwhys.org/seminar/fall...

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Curvenote® @curvenote.com · 07/10/2025

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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Mike Morrison @mikemorrison.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Looking forward to speaking at Water Whys on Friday about applying psychology & design to improve science communication!

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Mike Morrison @mikemorrison.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Could use a few more participants in our study of scientific slide design. Got a sec to go through some example slides then rate them? 🙏 nimble.li/p9lxzlz9 As a bonus, you get to learn some random facts. #scienceUX

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Sara Kobilka (she/her) @renwoman.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

It's time to talk visual science communication again! @waterwhysua.bsky.social is back with unique conversations around visual science communication including @mikemorrison.bsky.social Oct. 17. Free talks every other Friday on Zoom start tomorrow. Register now waterwhys.org/seminar/fall... #SciComm

Flyer for Water Whys Visual SciComm Seminar Fall 2025 Series with pictures of speakers and their talk information. October 3 at 11am noon / 2pm ET, Celeste Frazier Barthel's talk is Visual Science Communication Goes 3D. October 17 (same time) Mike Morrison's talk is Design, for Scientists: Help people pay attention to research and love it. October 31 (same time) Shiloe Fontes' talk is Where Science Meets Art: Sparking Curiosity Through Creativity. November 14 11am AZ time/1pm ET Megan Roxbury's talk is Creative Negotiation: Navigating Interdisciplinary Teams and Projects. Register for each session separately to receive Zoom link, registration link in post.

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Peter N. Dudley @conservation.bio · 13/08/2025

Big believer that posters are better than talks at conferences. After presentating my first #BetterPoster at #ESA2025, that has only been reinforced.

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Mike Morrison @mikemorrison.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

😍 So happy to see this. HHMI is going to create so much positive change in scientific publishing with this. Now that big funders are embracing the preprint, we can focus on upgrading the preprint to be better than the journal article ever was. Born #openacces makes so much possible.

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Ben de Bivort @debivort.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

better than average science day? • sperm whale eating a giant squid confirmed • HHMI policy: preprints as most important form of publication

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

HHMI adopts Plan U journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Jarren Nylund @jarrennylund.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Across two studies, we found that short conversations with ChatGPT led climate sceptics to report lower confidence in their sceptical views and small increases in pro-environmental intentions. You can read the article here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

A mock-up of what the first spread of “The promise and limitations of using GenAI to reduce climate scepticism” (Hornsey et al., 2025) article would look like printed.

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Mike Morrison @mikemorrison.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

As a species, can we please agree to write all dates like "Sep 10" instead of 10/9 or 9/10? Signed, – An American expat in Hong Kong who is not sure if this Australian yogurt is expired.

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