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Rowan Cockett

@row1.ca
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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 · 18/09/2026
Always enjoy @mikemorrison.bsky.social videos. :) Take a look at him talking about his new journal, ScienceUX!!
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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 14/09/2026
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! 🚀
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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
💭 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
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Modular Peer Review Working Group
A 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 · 30/07/2026
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 👇
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Curvenote on the Data Engineering Podcast
Rowan Cockett joined the Data Engineering Podcast to talk about reproducibility, open science, and the future of scientific communication.
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openRxiv @openrxiv.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The Curvenote Reader button is live on bioRxiv! 😎 Click it to explore papers in a new way—zoom figures, pull up references without leaving the page. Button appears 48 hours after papers drop. Feedback? DM us or hit the GitHub repo. openrxivlabs.org/articles/rea...
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Why we’re expanding the openRxiv Labs Curvenote Reader experiment
Read on for early results and what we’ll be looking at in the next phase.
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B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 14/06/2026
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.
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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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-...
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Preprints and Papers Come to Life at FORCE2026
The 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 · 11/06/2026
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 · 04/06/2026
okay but actually y’all should be hype about this! #OpenScience 🧪
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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 11/06/2026
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 🧪
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Curvenote® @curvenote.com · 11/06/2026
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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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Excited to launch the first openRxiv labs experiment: an interactive reading experience powered by @curvenote.com - this will evolve but you can get a taster of what's to come from the dynamic references & figure call-outs, in-line abbreviation expansions, etc. 1/2 reader.openrxivlabs.org
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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 11/06/2026
It is always really exciting to see people just fixing and improving their manuscripts based on automated metadata feedback that @curvenote.com provides. @scipyconf.bsky.social is submitting their annual proceedings and it is always awesome to see them roll in..!!
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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 05/06/2026
Super excited to see some of this move from "the future" to the present with the upcoming @curvenote.com lab in @openrxiv.bsky.social 🧪 If you're in the #OpenScience #ModularResearch space and have questions about how #AtScience can help, reach out!
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Shareouts from ATScience 2026 in Vancouver
Since when do science conferences have such wild energy?
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openRxiv @openrxiv.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
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
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Launching openRxiv Labs - openRxiv
Over 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 · 21/05/2026
Let's go!! 🌉
A historic black-and-white photograph with a green tint showing the Sydney Harbour Bridge under construction, with two incomplete arches reaching toward each other from opposite shores. Overlaid on the image are several logos and text boxes: a white box on the left reading "Cutting edge publishing tools," the Curvenote logo (blue icon with the word "Curvenote") in the center-left, the Semble logo (orange stacked circles above the word "semble" in orange) in the center-right, and a white box on the right reading "ATScience."
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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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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 13/05/2026
You missed a lot if you missed #ATscience! 😎 This is from one of the keynoters, @row1.ca : articles.continuousfoundation.org/articles/tow...
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Towards Modular Open Science
Science 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...
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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 01/05/2026
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.
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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 01/05/2026
How to create scientific figures with AI! #prompt-engineering #nailed-it
A chatgpt prompt saying "create a bioscience figure that I might find in nature, multiple panels" which responds with a very convincing looking figure... that is probably nonsense.
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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 30/04/2026
@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 · 21/04/2026
"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
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Scientific Documents as First-Class Objects on AT Protocol
OXA 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-...
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Steve Purves @opensci.dev · 12/04/2026
built a thing at-tracker.opensci.dev - I wanted a way to do discovery on the #atproto network which was bottom up, and also was experimenting with building an indexer. Already found new cool things I didn't know about otherwise 😍
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AT Proto Collection Tracker
Discover AT Protocol activity from the bottom up — live record counts by collection type from the Jetstream firehose, grouped by namespace.
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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 02/04/2026
My keynote at the @atproto.science conference about Modular Science last week! The recording and writeup are here: articles.continuousfoundation.org/articles/tow...
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Towards Modular Open Science
Science 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...
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👩‍💻 tbd @mokkenstorm.dev · 27/03/2026
oxa.dev looking really cool #ATScience
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Open Exchange Architecture
A specification for representing scientific documents and their components as structured objects.
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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 27/03/2026
If you couldn’t make it in person, you can check out our live stream of the #ATscience talks on stream.place - just login below with the account you’re seeing this from! stream.place/stream1.atmo... #OpenScience #AtmosphereConf 🧪💻🧬👩🏻‍🔬
Rowan Cocket presenting on Modular Open Science at ATscienceMatt Akamatsu presenting on modular science and discourse graphs at ATscienceFull crowd excited for ATscience before Ronen Tamari presents on SembleMaria Antoniak presenting on Lea, a bluesky  client for scientists, at ATscience
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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 28/03/2026
This is a really exciting development for posting scientific content on at-proto. Looking forward to more steps soon. :)
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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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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 27/03/2026
#atscience is an awesome house. Need to throw a better party and bring people over. :)
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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 27/03/2026
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 · 27/03/2026
🧪 @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
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Scott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 27/03/2026
@row1.ca describes how modern science is a collaborative effort, where we build off prior work, but our communication efforts create artifacts that are “glued” together, making it harder to repurpose and build from 🧪 #ATScience #AcademicSky
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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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ATProto Science @atproto.science · 16/03/2026
We're very honored to have @row1.ca & @matsulab.com as keynote speakers at #ATScience! Rowan & Matt will share their vision "Towards Modular Open Science" on moving beyond isolated papers toward a world of modular & interoperable research objects, leveraging #atproto as a decentralized backbone 🧪✨
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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 11/03/2026
Really looking forward to the @atproto.science keynote from Rowan of @curvenote.com and Matt of @matsulab.com on what atproto offers Open Science. Hopefully they'll stick around for the rest of the day... atscience.leaflet.pub/3mfz526irfs2...
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ATScience 2026 Agenda - ATScience Notes
Join us for a full-day of scientific explorations on the AT Protocol
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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 05/03/2026
Oh no, Zenodo!
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Steve Purves @opensci.dev · 21/02/2026
Made some #bluesky profile cards for @mystmd.org via the widget interface (widget doesn't feel like right interface, but a handy starting point). Just needed a fetch call to api.bsky.app 🤩 wrote more about it here. more #bsky / #atproto experiments coming. opensci.dev/articles/blu...
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Steve Purves @opensci.dev · 06/02/2026
Adding an `anywidget` style/based directive & renderer into the core @mystmd.org stack is a big win for custom interactivity and extensibility. My contribution this week: to round off the first cut implementation - based on what've had in prod at @curvenote.com. opensci.dev/articles/ups...
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Upstreaming `anywidget` into the MyST Markdown core - opensci.dev
A techbit on upstreaming the anywidget directive to the MyST Markdown core stack, enabling first-class support for embedding JS widgets in MyST Markdown documents.
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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
🚀 To move beyond end-point peer review, PREreview & @continuous.foundation are co-leading the Modular Peer Review Working Group. 60+ people from diverse backgrounds and regions have joined this space for co-creation. Take a look at their first session outputs and follow along👇 bit.ly/modular-wg
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Modular Peer Review Working Group
A 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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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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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 02/02/2026
Deleted Prime, Audible, ChatGPT, Instagram. www.resistandunsubscribe.com
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Resist and Unsubscribe
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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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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 30/01/2026
Nice to see all of the updates to myst-theme being pushed forward over the last few weeks. Congrats to the team and thanks to @choldgraf.com for leading a lot of these changes. 🚀
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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 21/01/2026
Exciting developments for running @mystmd in @jupyter.org hubs.
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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Special thanks to @row1.ca , @tracykteal.bsky.social , Roseline Dzekem Dine, @rosariorogel.bsky.social and Noemi Gonzalez-Rocha for their contribution to our Annual Report! 👉 Learn more: content.prereview.org/2025-annual-report
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2025: A year of collective resolve and growing momentum
Today, we published our 2025 Annual Report, sharing our achievements from last year and renewing our commitment to work in collaboration with you to shape an equitable, open, and transparent scholarly...
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Steve Purves @opensci.dev · 17/12/2025
I (and we @mystmd.org) have been working on releasing new version of the MyST Markdown AST. A foundational change to the representation of Jupyter outputs that sets up a lot of future possibilities - notes and thoughts are here: opensci.dev/articles/on-...
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On the MyST Markdown V3 AST - opensci.dev
A post exploring the new MyST Markdown V3 AST and the changes it brings to the MyST Markdown stack.
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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 04/12/2025
Very excited to be working with @prereview.bsky.social on Modular Peer Review in 2026! 🚀 Sign up to be part of the working group: continuousfoundation.org/peer-form
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Continuous Science Foundation @continuous.foundation · 26/11/2025
Real change happens when people build together. In San Diego, @openrxiv.bsky.social and CSF brought tool builders and researchers into one room to share a keyboard, test ideas, and prototype modular, machine readable publishing. Learn more: articles.continuousfoundation.org/articles/sci...
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Incentivizing Open and Collaborative Research (ICOR) @icoropen.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
📣 NEW PUBLIC WEBINAR: From Tools to Adoption: A Path to Modular and Interactive Scientific Publishing 📅 December 1st | 8 AM PDT / 11 AM EDT / 4PM GMT / 5PM CET Learn the outcomes from a recent meeting that focused on laying the foundation for machine-readable research publishing. Schedule:
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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 03/11/2025
Huge milestone for the team to see this go live!!
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