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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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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 21/05/2026

So so excited about this and some of the opportunities to connect this into the #ATScience ecosystem. Shipped some small hints of that last week with @ronentk.me for (lite, v1) @semble.so integration.

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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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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 02/04/2026

I am excited about more continuous ways to share between these states (on the floor, in buckets, and on the shelf). Would love to chat more with folks working on #ATscience and scientific schemas to make changes towards more modular and continuous ways of sharing!!

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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 02/04/2026

The Open Exchange Architecture is a new standard for science that we are aiming to bring this to life!! Read more and get involved at: oxa.dev (We have an at-proto implementation!) #ATscience

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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 02/04/2026

This allows you to import content from an existing composition: ``` import figure from paper ``` Not **solely** focusing on "packaging figures" (although that is still important!!) #ATscience

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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 02/04/2026

The core philosophy is not requiring modularity as a precondition to sharing — separating it into different spaces to deposit it. But to allow the packaging to expose the modularity through the ways that researchers are already working. #ATscience

Table:

Dimension First Wave Second Wave
Core Philosophy Break apart to share Package and compose
Researcher Action File separate deposits Work natively, modularity emerges
Output State Disconnected pieces Connected, navigable graphs
Provenance Lost or manually added Inherited and travels with object
System Result Floor covered in Lego bricks Multiplicative, compounding progress

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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 02/04/2026

The floor — Lego scattered everywhere, ready for building. To pull from someone else’s data bucket in Tokyo and pull a protocol from Germany and **remix** them with your ideas to build something new, to learn something new, to discover something new. #ATscience

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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 02/04/2026

The 2010’s prescription was to break research into parts, share each one first. But they are also largely designed for after the work is done. The bar is still too high to share continuously — those small things that add up to all of the tacit knowledge of science. #ATscience

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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 02/04/2026

The shelf — composed artifacts, like Lego trophies. But today status quo demands they are glued together. #ATscience

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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 02/04/2026

I see modular research as oscillating between three states: the floor, the buckets, and the shelves. #ATscience

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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 02/04/2026

Our mission at @continuous.foundation is to move towards more utility and reuse from those **pieces** of research. #ATscience

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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 02/04/2026

Today science is trapped in a paper-shaped box. We might have open-access to read it, but the contents is locked away or not provided (the scripts, methods, visualizations). #ATscience

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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 02/02/2026

Very different intended audience/depth with the @continuous.foundation article!! Another one that I am working on, but tries to actually go into what a "Knowledge Object" is and also the importance of these standards from a social perspective: oxa.dev/articles/sci...

chat is currently a black box, it should be a gateway in science to discovering and interacting with scientific objects.

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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 08/01/2026

colab.stanford.edu/articles/mat... This is written in MyST Markdown @mystmd.org. Multiple pages, hover cross-references to figures and equations, embedded interactive content.

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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 03/11/2025

Tutorial starting soon by the Turing way!

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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 28/02/2025

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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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 02/12/2024

Lots of examples in SciPy Proceedings and Elemental Microscopy! proceedings.scipy.org elementalmicroscopy.org

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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 02/12/2024

Which means that you should be able to attach live computation as well, so that you can dig into analysis in a reproducible way.

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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 02/12/2024

Where we *should* be getting to is linking 1.5 TB files as supplemental info and having those be in a hover. Also .. very possible today.

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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 28/11/2024

Thinking about how to improve metadata on top of a paper that already exists... Abbreviations can probably be auto populated. What other information can we pull in to make richer links and reading experiences? cc @madubs.bsky.social @mikemorrison.bsky.social

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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 25/11/2024

So many attention to details in the SciPy Proceedings (@scipyconf.bsky.social), including showing hover-previews of GitHub pull requests. Probably not too many journal articles that do that .. ! proceedings.scipy.org/articles/ger...

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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 15/11/2024

What if scientific articles were a bit more like IDEs? See where abbreviations or words are used?!

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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 20/04/2024

New release of @mystmd.org out! - CSV Tables: mystmd.org/guide/tables... - HTML Tables! mystmd.org/guide/tables... - Code cell visibility improvements: mystmd.org/guide/intera... - Topic directive: mystmd.org/guide/asides - Aside, margin, and sidebar improvements: mystmd.org/guide/asides

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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 18/04/2024

Documenting @curvenote.com is fun when you use @mystmd.org. 🚀

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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 17/04/2024

Excited that @curvenote.com is a sponsor of SciPy Proceedings this year. curvenote.com/news/curveno...

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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 06/07/2023

Excited that Curvenote is partnering with Scholar Nexus, a spin out from Neuromatch. Read more in our announcement: curvenote.com/news/curvenote-joins-…

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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 03/07/2023

Interactive figures using JupyterLite and MyST Markdown (mystmd.org)! Starting to work well. 🚀 This is showing embedding from a long notebook into a markdown document as a figure.

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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 29/06/2023

👋 exciting to be here. I mostly post about open science & authoring tools like MyST Markdown which I work on with @choldgraf.com ++ Just released a new version of JupyterLab MyST: executablebooks.org/en/latest/blog/…

Using MyST in JupyterLab, showing proofs and exercises.

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