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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 · 19/09/2026
@mikemorrison.bsky.social would give an amazing and inspiring keynote. :)
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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
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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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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 31/07/2026
Oooh... Yes.
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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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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 24/07/2026
It absolutely is, thank you for taking the time. Just getting started with this. :)
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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 24/07/2026
Mobile is for sure an area we want to improve. :)
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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 24/07/2026
Overall lots to do and improve, but glad you still enjoy the first cut. Thanks for the feedback as always!!!
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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 24/07/2026
Citations are an area we are planning to improve, first cut was showing the data that is actually stored (so only if there is a doi or url in the references that were processed). Next is to infer and improve the citation data or pull in what downstream providers assume (i.e. CrossRef).
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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 24/07/2026
Will look into the missing supplementary table and let you know!
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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 24/07/2026
Same with the equations, the original data **we** are working with rasterized the equations. We have some ideas on how to improve this over time!!
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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 24/07/2026
If you have a place/screenshot of the 2 that isn't squared, that would be really helpful. We do recognize and respect the original transformed content, and superscript does work! So I suspect there is a bug in the original transform.
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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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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 11/06/2026
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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 11/06/2026
Right! It is a big deal. :) 🚀
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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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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 11/06/2026
All good, just want to make sure you know we are listening and looking to improve the reading experience. Would love more feedback and ideas however you want to get them to us!!
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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 11/06/2026
Thanks tracking here: github.com/openrxivlabs... We will make this smoother! Thanks for the feedback, appreciate it a lot.
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Jarring switch to enhanced reference · Issue #7 · openrxivlabs/curvenote-reader
On first hover over a reference, there's a quick display of the full citation, and then there seems to be a retrieval of the abstract, which then changes what is shown in the hover-overlay. It's a ...
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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 11/06/2026
Thanks! Tracking here: github.com/openrxivlabs... We have seen that authors often do use their initials in the author contributions section, and a hover for those that displays the author/orcid information would be awesome.
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Author Contributions & Author Initials · Issue #6 · openrxivlabs/curvenote-reader
I'm not sure if Author Contributions is a standardized field, but it could be useful to use a table display, as having to cross-reference initials with the author list at the top is a little tediou...
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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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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 11/06/2026
Thanks @byarielm.fyi. I am beyond excited, it is really opening up a tremendous amount of possibilities for science and #atscience as well. Really appreciate you helping get the word out. 🚀
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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 11/06/2026
So excited for our partnership with @openrxiv.bsky.social on bringing new connected reading experiences without rebuilding any infrastructure.
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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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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 11/06/2026
It has been so exciting to work with the team to launch a new reading experience under openRxiv labs! Thanks @richardsever.bsky.social @tracykteal.bsky.social @gabestein.com for all of your support! Excited for feedback. 🚀
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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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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 05/06/2026
Working very hard to make this a reality for 500k preprints. :) More to come next week!!
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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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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 01/06/2026
Very excited that @curvenote.com is going to be the first experiments in openRxiv Labs. Can't wait to share more soon! 🔜🚀
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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 01/06/2026
So excited to see openRxiv launching openRxiv Labs! Congrats to the whole @openrxiv.bsky.social team!! 🚀
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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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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 · 21/05/2026
Right... :) You will be excited for next week as well when we announce our first partner. 🚀
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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 · 03/05/2026
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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 02/05/2026
Yeah, agree. It is necessary - and might as well get goin' :)
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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 01/05/2026
There is a social norm that is broken. For all of history the **writer** put in more effort than the **reader**. Flipping that norm changes so many things.
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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 01/05/2026
You talking about category theory in the OXA discord makes me ... want to know more about my dads work.... 😳
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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 01/05/2026
And just to be clear. This is an awesome idea for all sorts of scientific/technical content!! e.g. corporate reports, blogs to users, substack like things, internal documents, etc. etc. so many cool applications of the stack you described!!!
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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 01/05/2026
(1) make it possible; (2) make it normative; (3) make it required. We rapidly need to move from 1 -> 2 by allowing science to be more than just a PDF in large swatch of the literature, then improving those to include more data/code.
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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 01/05/2026
IMO the intersection of paying for scientific **content** is a business model that is not aligned to scientific ideals (i.e. APCs and paywalls at the moment). But paying for **services** that help sharing and creation and curation — those are really valuable and are aligned to the ideals of science!
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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 01/05/2026
I think my thoughts are all on public open-science content, and circles of trusted people who you share with before it is public. There are room for lots of services that help in those two spaces.
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Rowan Cockett @row1.ca · 01/05/2026
Science needs to stop just publishing advertisements of the work, and actually publish the work.
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