Steve Purves

It's great to have @buildwithjill.bsky.social on board for the journey with us! Jill dove straight into helping us hone our product focus and we're all excited for the months ahead.

Only a few days left to register to the Amsterdam Replication Games on July 19. Virtual participation is possible and coauthorship to a meta paper is granted.

Register: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...

Screen that allows configuration of automated checks on different article kinds within the Curvenote publishing system.

It was great to be getting some improvements to our checks UI into production yesterday! automated checks are run whenever something is submitted from the CLI or GitHub automations, and apply rules to the document structure - now with an improved surface for configuration @curvenote.com

Laying the Groundwork for Continuous Science - undefined Scientific work today is collaborative, computational, and evolving — yet we still communicate it through static, disconnected formats. Continuous Science Foundation is building a movement to reflect ...

Continuous Science Foundation is a new non-profit to advance tools, standards, and communities for iterative, integrated, collaborative, and continuous science.

articles.continuousfoundation.org/articles/gro...

GenZs bucking the expected younger-is-fitter trend there! Or maybe just more of them went for it without the training? pity strava didn't actually release the data, would love to see distributions and how the bonk kicked in. Dataframe plz 🙏 ?

Ariane Loisel presents her poster about hydrothermal alteration at Teide volcano at #EGU25 🌋 She’s here now if you want to talk to her! @egu-gmpv.bsky.social

Adoption of preprinting per discipline and region

Preprinting helps accelerate dissemination of scientific knowledge. To what extent do researchers adopt preprinting? How does this vary by discipline and region?

Together with Narmin Rzayeva and @stephenpinfield.bsky.social, I just published article answering these questions. osf.io/preprints/so...

I found out about EPOS the other day - I have not been in their data data portal to look but it reportedly covers geological surface maps and modelled datasets www.epos-eu.org/tcs/geologic...

Feickert Awarded Early-Career Fellowship DSI Research Scientist Matthew Feickert is an inaugural recipient of a URSSI fellowship for advancing research software development practices.

Congratulations to DSI Research Scientist @matthewfeickert.com on receiving an inaugural URSSI Early-Career Fellowship for advancing scientific software development practices. dsi.wisc.edu/2025/04/30/f...

A contour enhanced funnel plot demonstrating publication bias

The 'datasauraus' plot series, demonstrating the need to visualise data

A slide demonstrating that bar plots can hide important information, such as outliers and skewness

A description of raincloud plots for illustrating mean differences

Today I'm delivering an open science lecture for our master students. These kind of lectures are one of the most enjoyable parts of my job

Embracing Reuse in Scientific Communication - Curvenote Blog The ability to build upon existing knowledge is fundamental to the process of science. Yet, despite the rapid advancement of science, the methods for citing and referencing content have remained surpr...

@pevohr.bsky.social that's what we're working on - there is plenty of ux to work on still but some more examples here: curvenote.com/blog/open-sc... - easy reuse with attribution. Tying into formal citation/dois still ongoing. Linked/networked publications is how we should be publishing in science.

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...

This is painfully accurate.

#SciPy2025 submission deadline has been extended a week to 2025-03-05! I'll note that you **can edit your proposal after you submit it up until the deadline passes**. So "submit early, revise often"! www.scipy2025.scipy.org

White board labeled “Insect Mating Rituals” with two axes, disturbing -> romantic and boring -> hilarious. Various insects arrayed in different parts of the graph.

Valentines Day lab meeting in the UT Insect Collection was unconventional.

Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries – the TISP dataset - Scientific Data Scientific Data - Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries – the TISP dataset

This is fantastic: a 68 country data set with perceptions of science, science communication and climate attitudes. Featured in @nature.com Led by the formidable @nielsmede.bsky.social

What a resource!

Now we ‘just’ need a 2025/26 update given how it’s all changing.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This Is ONE ARC DEGREE Playlist · Spotify · 50 items · 25 saves

Found new #musictocodeby: One Arc Degree open.spotify.com/playlist/37i... (still ❤️ Solar Fields, Carbon Based Lifeforms too)

Hey there 🦋🧪, we're a new open access microscopy journal and wanted to introduce ourselves! EM aims to modernize scientific publishing for microscopy, by prioritizing open science, transparency, and accessibility and using open-source formats and interactive notebooks 🙌

@curvenote.com @mystmd.org 🚀

If you've been and Editor of a journal, DM me if you'd be up for a zoom to tell me all about your frustrations with journal software.

Trying to design better tools!

As recently as January 2, 2025, #NASA had five modules for teaching #OpenScience on its web site. The #Trump administration has taken them down.
science.nasa.gov/open-science...

Thank goodness for the @archive.org Wayback Machine.
web.archive.org/web/20250102...

#TrumpAntiScience #USPolitics

embeds bring fragments of a cited work into the citing article, so when we are reading it on the web (its 2025) the content is available in place, with appropriate attribution.

with some further UX tweaks this could be the basis for citations++ on the web!

Exploring in-text visualization of nucleotides 🧬 in markdown—using color-coded sequences to highlight patterns for data storytelling. Looking for ideas and pointers! Next, extending to highlight mutations, functional regions and trying protein sequences. #biology #ComputationalBiology #genomics

Important Covid editorial @science.org by Maria Van Kerkhove
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

AI deals underscore importance of open access (opinion) For those feeling queasy about academic publishers’ AI deals, Günter Waibel and Dave Hansen argue the way forward is not more restrictive licenses—it’s open access.

Good article on the consumption of scholarly articles by LLMs and how authors should think about this w/r/t open access. But it doesn't make the explicit point that CC BY NC ND (considered an OA license in most circles) could end up being a pitfall. 🧵
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

The use of OpenAlex to produce meaningful bibliometric global overlay maps of science on the individual, institutional, and national levels The Social Systems Citations Theory (SSCT) is the most recent theory of citations integrating previous theories. It focuses on communications in science that are formally manifested as publications an...

🗺️ Ever wondered how citations map the network of science?

The Social Systems Citations Theory (SSCT) tackles this, and a new study by Robin Haunschild & Lutz Bornmann uses #OpenAlex to create overlay maps.

Full paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

#openscience

The #SciPy2025 Call for Proposals is live (as of mid December 2024, sorry forgot to share) over on scipy2025.scipy.org! Deadline for submissions is 2025-02-26, so get submitting!

We've completed a 3-year field study on scientific poster design. But poster science doesn't really fit into an established journal.

This is why I started my own journal with @Curvenote.com. Niche research, published for impact, with public peer review.

The image shows a scientific poster titled “Modeling the Stability and State of Stress of Dynamic Magma Mush Reservoirs.” The poster is divided into several sections: 1. Title and Authors: It includes the title, authors (Lorenzo Mantiloni, James Hickey, Rami Alshembari), affiliations, and session details (V43D-3230, AGU24). 2. Dynamic Magma-Mush Reservoirs (DMMs): Explains the system studied, challenges in modeling magma mushes, and their significance in magmatic processes. 3. Methods: Outlines the modeling approach, focusing on magma failure criteria and numerical simulations under specific conditions. 4. Numerical Tests: Results: Displays graphs and visualizations showing principal effective stress and volumetric strain in simulated scenarios. 5. Take-Home Points: Summarizes key findings, implications for volcanic systems, and future research directions. 6. Side Quest: Porous Media and Gravity: Discusses the role of gravity and porous media on stress and pore pressure, with an example application to ground deformation at Campi Flegrei caldera, Italy. Includes detailed graphs and illustrations. 7. References and Contact: Provides references and the contact email for Lorenzo Mantiloni. The layout includes charts, graphs, and diagrams to support the findings, and it visually explains the methods and results comprehensively. Comment if you remember Zima.

I love the “side quest” ancillary poster by Lorenzo Mantiloni et al on magma reservoirs. We all have fun offshoot projects like this. Maybe we should have a “Science Side Quests” session for pet projects! #AGU24

Very interesting ideas behind GeoAI and the combination of LLM / GenAI and graph reasoning - especially aspects of using LLMs to generate graphs from specific datasets. #AGU24