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Owlstown @owlstown.com · 19/09/2026

10 more until the Owlstown Academic Gallery will have 2000 featured academic websites! academic.gallery

Owlstown @owlstown.com · 22/08/2026

There are now 1950 academic websites featured in the Owlstown Academic Gallery! These are websites by students, postdocs, faculty, and labs that I reviewed and selected to feature in the gallery. Looking forward to reaching 2000 🚀

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Owlstown @owlstown.com · 06/11/2025

Congratulations to the winners of the Best Personal Academic Websites 2025! theacademicdesigner.com/2025/winners... Check out the websites of the winners and get inspired to share your research online. Hosted by Owlstown, @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social, and Brittany Trinh

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Owlstown @owlstown.com · 22/08/2025

I also reduced the image sizes on the Owlstown home page. I measured the site’s performance on pagespeed.web.dev and got a 93. Woohoo!

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Owlstown @owlstown.com · 05/06/2025

6) Best Personal Academic Websites Contest 2025 We’d love to celebrate the work you put into your academic websites. The 3rd annual Best Personal Academic Websites Contest is now open for entries. theacademicdesigner.com/2025/best-pe...

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Owlstown @owlstown.com · 05/06/2025

4) Improved editing interface The Owlstown editor has an improved interface for editing a page. - Edit a block by just clicking on it, instead of clicking on an edit button. - New location for move up and down buttons. - Delete button is inside the block editor to reduce accidental clicks.

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Owlstown @owlstown.com · 10/01/2025

Here's a video of the old way that editing works. Notice the number of clicks just to edit a block.

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Owlstown @owlstown.com · 10/01/2025

✨ NEW FEATURE ✨ The Owlstown editor has an improved interface for editing a page. - Edit a block by just clicking on it, instead of clicking on an edit button. - Move up and move down buttons are in a new location. - Delete button is inside the block editor to reduce accidental clicks.

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Owlstown @owlstown.com · 07/01/2025

Here's a video that illustrates having to click the edit button to edit blocks in Owlstown. I mentioned it in this post: bsky.app/profile/owls...

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Owlstown @owlstown.com · 12/12/2024

✨ Text-only versions of Owlstown websites are now available! Just go to an Owlstown website, hover over the Tools button in the bottom right corner, and click “Text Only”

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Owlstown @owlstown.com · 06/12/2024

Here's the current progress on building text-only versions of Owlstown websites. Visitors will be able to switch to the text-only version via a button on the original website or a URL change.

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Owlstown @owlstown.com · 25/11/2024

To add Bluesky to your Sharer widget, go to the Sharer section in the Owlstown Editor. Add Bluesky to the list of Sharer options.

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Owlstown @owlstown.com · 25/11/2024

You can now add Bluesky to the Sharer widget of your Owlstown website.

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Owlstown @owlstown.com · 26/01/2024

✨ NEW FEATURE ✨ Owlstown now has inline editing. This feature will make it even easier to update your academic website. Edit directly on the webpage instead of editing on the sidebar. Your changes are also saved automatically.

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Owlstown @owlstown.com · 06/01/2024

✨ New addition to the Owlstown Academic Gallery ✨ Dr. Rodrigo Medel @medel.bsky.social Universidad de Chile rmedel.academicwebsite.com See more academic websites at academic.gallery

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Owlstown @owlstown.com · 04/01/2024

✨ New addition to the Owlstown Academic Gallery ✨ Abriana M. Gresham Experimental Psychology Ph.D. Candidate abrianamgresham.owlstown.net See more academic websites at academic.gallery

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Owlstown @owlstown.com · 04/01/2024

✨ New addition to the Owlstown Academic Gallery ✨ Dr Andrew E. Ekpenyong Associate Professor of Physics at Creighton University www.andrewekpenyong.com See more academic websites at academic.gallery

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Owlstown @owlstown.com · 03/01/2024

✨ New addition to the Owlstown Academic Gallery ✨ Zhaoning Li @lizhn7.bsky.social PhD student at University of Macau zhaoning.li See more academic websites at academic.gallery

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