😍 So happy to see this. HHMI is going to create so much positive change in scientific publishing with this. Now that big funders are embracing the preprint, we can focus on upgrading the preprint to be better than the journal article ever was. Born #openacces makes so much possible.

better than average science day? • sperm whale eating a giant squid confirmed • HHMI policy: preprints as most important form of publication

HHMI adopts Plan U journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Across two studies, we found that short conversations with ChatGPT led climate sceptics to report lower confidence in their sceptical views and small increases in pro-environmental intentions. You can read the article here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

As a species, can we please agree to write all dates like "Sep 10" instead of 10/9 or 9/10? Signed, – An American expat in Hong Kong who is not sure if this Australian yogurt is expired.

What do you think will be the short- and long-term consequences of these new payment limits in #AcademicPublishing? Do you think publishers will just raise their rates to the new cap? 🧪

2, please 2.

This is also why, whenever I eventually manage to get a recipe I like, I hold on to it for dear life (and so I save the actual recipe part in my phone's telephone book - as if it were a person)

Which would you prefer? 1. ChatGPT 2. Google & The entire internet --- but without ads, spammy content, etc. Like recipe sites would just give you the recipe with photos.

This is fascinating but frustrating to hear. I already wrote my paper. I am waiting to see if it is accepted by the journal. The conclusion is extremely abstract and counterintuitive without carefully laying out the reasoning that built it. My first book follows this pattern though. #writersky

Doctors Without Borders goes #betterposter! 🥳 Our #ScienceUX community created an evidence-based poster template to improve science communication at the MSF Pediatric conference this year. Video explains design choices: youtu.be/1QoYDeYu59k

I want this now. Everywhere! It didn't used to be so necessary, when each paper reported ~1 result. But now a single paper can include many results, sometimes of variable robustness. So, we should either return to ~1 result/paper, or cite individual results/figures.

It is really surreal how hard most scientific publishing sites fight to prevent you from downloading even a single graph. Figure embeds with authorship chains can't happen soon enough. youtu.be/A2JpI-5NIsc?...

💯 This is exactly what I've been trying to say in like 100 workshops and videos on research posters. State a conclusion, then defend it. Versus working up to it over 500 words that people won't spend the time to read.

Announcing a key addition to our team: @buildwithjill.bsky.social, our Product Lead. With Jillian’s leadership, we’re evolving Curvenote into a platform where scientific work—figures, code, data, text—can be easily created, connected, reused, and shared. Read more: curvenote.com/blog/jillian...

Thrilled to be on this amazing team and be part of the mission to help science move beyond the PDF! 🚀

This new video by @mikemorrison.bsky.social is relevant to my interests…. In conference posters! youtu.be/ErTfb2plrrU

Underrated science tools startup trap: If your users are trained to expect bad UX, good UX feels disorienting. But if you copy existing patterns, you can't differentiate. Designing science tools is a bigger puzzle than most founders think. Curious how other science/tech folks navigate this.

If we want to improve scientific poster sessions, we have to get good at measuring them. So I went to Europe's largest liver science conference and attempted to measure how scientists browse posters. Findings soon. Watch the walkthrough: youtu.be/ErTfb2plrrU #ScienceUX #betterposter #EASL2025

Love to see this @elife.bsky.social article using short titles for the thumbnail card and also a takeaway-title for the full article. This helps you skim & decide on thumbnails faster, and learn from the article itself sooner (if people only read the title, make the title a lesson). #scienceUX

The biggest publishers pulled profit margins in 2023 that rival Big Tech. And they still charge you to publish and your library to read. When are we going to start seriously thinking of alternatives to reform #PeerReview? 🧪 #SciPub #AcademicPublishing

#oss #floss #Adobe subscription is expensive Alternatives: Inkscape, GIMP, Audacity. Please quote and share what you use. Use #oss to keep it going. #graphicdesign #gameDev #digitalArt #pixelArt #photography

Delighted to be sharing some work we have been working on for sometime: Cetuximab Vs Pantitumumab - we found no efficacy difference but did find different side effect profile. Presenting at #ESMOGI25 this week doi.org/10.6084/m9.f... I'll be near the poster Friday PM if anyone wants to talk

For anybody considering it, it's been 4 months since I broke up with Adobe after nearly 30 years designing with Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, and After Effects for animations. It's...fine? Figma & Davinci Resolve handle 95% of what I need with better #UX, and I save $100s/year.

True #scicomm joke: A friend of mine is a professional science illustrator, and was helping a scientist design a poster. The poster had 65 graphs on it. 📊 She asked the scientist "Which graph is the most important?" The scientist replied "All of them." Which, technically, is true?

Relatedly, even though it’s free for you to post a preprint, does anybody know the operating cost-per-preprint that a place like @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social is covering for us?

New kiki/bouba test just dropped

It's not just academia that will be affected by the disruptions to research funding https://go.nature.com/4khYPIA

Hi, in case your phone didn't pick up the QR code to the slides of my Hitch-Hikers Guide to Computational Metabolomics talk this morning at #Metabolomics2025, featuring #xcms, #massbank, not #metfrag but #CASMI and #MetFamily, please find them at doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Next week! On 3 July, Rainbow Trap is launching in Edinburgh (and online) @lighthousebks.bsky.social 🌈 Excited to explore how categories and classifications shape the possibilities of LGBTQ lives! 🎟️ Some tickets still available: lighthousebookshop.com/events/rainb... #LGBTQ #books #booklaunch

Got to work with 120 Early Career Researchers on poster + presentation design at NSF EPSCoR. Nearly exploded Google Docs with 120 simultaneous people playing presentation slide & poster design games. After 5 years, still my favorite group! #ScienceUX #betterposter

“We found that scientists are increasingly using writing components that reduce cognitive load and improve reader understanding” Happy finding from an analysis of 70 years of medical publications! #sciPub #scienceUX

Has our scientific writing gotten better or worse since the 1950s? Some cool data here. #acwri #scipub link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In May we hosted a convergence in Banff, Canada. The group gathered to ask better questions of science communication. Not just what’s broken?—but what could be? We surfaced stories, tools, and a hunger for something more open, more connected. articles.continuousfoundation.org/articles/ban...

💯 Glad to see others give up publishing in journals. The alternative — self publishing your science — is so freeing, creative, AND rigorous. Communicate your science how you think is clearest, bare flaws in your study openly, include all data/methods, & improve with feedback faster. #scipub ♾️

I wondered what WORKED about this in their smaller trail that they felt confident scaling it up. Apparently, support. 46% of authors were up for publishing reviews (with lots of per-field variation). That's...pretty good? #SciPub www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I don't think this will be the final iteration of how this process looks, but I love this step. We can't keep ignoring the impact of the public's perception of what science is doing. #SciComm

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Nice. Now do data and code please #ScientificPublishing #OverlyHonestEditor www.nature.com/articles/d41...

PCI Psychology is here!! 🎉🥳 After over a year of hard work by so many people, we are thrilled to announce that we are open for submissions! Join us in making publishing more efficient, equitable, and open: psych.peercommunityin.org #PsychSciSky #scipub

We have a hideously-ugly 3D printed prototype! 🎉 Major update on our quest to create an #OpenHardware people counter to measure & improve how scientists forage for information in poster sessions. Prettier, better device to follow. All designs/code on GitHub. youtu.be/7RgjXVU8XGU #betterposter

Can you help in my hunt for new research posters? I run a workshop on academic poster design & presentations and I’m looking for new examples to share. If you have a poster I can use please get in touch. Good, bad and ugly examples are all more than welcome.

Maybe interesting on this topic is this vid by Mike Morrison, who is advocating for a design called #betterposter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYk2...

Important article. Thanks. “I cannot think of a worse return-on-investment for scientists, science funders, and society than continuing to enable journal publishing.”

"By removing journals as an option...Our researchers became more creative and collaborative..." One of the most exciting articles on #ScientificPublishing I've read in a while. A step closer to a self-publishing revolution in science. 🧪✊

SJSU has announced AN ENTIRE CONFERENCE on @defendresearch.bsky.social 's 📜 to #DefendResearch against US Govt censorship 😱 This is what grassroots advocacy can do. Call for papers is open! #academicsky #sciencesky #scholcomm #openscience friends - submit! scholarworks.sjsu.edu/oa-un-confer...

Here's how to do more useful searches in Bluesky, like finding posts to or from a specific user: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Excited to see what comes out of the Continuous Science summit this week! @continuous.foundation #♾️science

Science is also haunted by ghost innovations: Revolutionary new tools for doing science that died and faded when grant funds ran out.

If you care about improving scientific publishing, definitely follow the new nonprofit Continuous Science Foundation @continuous.foundation