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Show HN: Octosphere, a tool to decentralise scientific publishing (octosphere.social)
verdverm 7 hours ago [-]
Are you aware of the current efforts by researchers on Bluesky to build a new researchers platform on ATProto? (Forget the project name at the moment)

If not, same handle over there, I can get you in touch with them. Or hit up Boris, he knows everyone and is happy to make connections

There's also a full day at the upcoming conference on ATProto & scientific related things. I think they com on discourse more (?)

crimsoneer 7 hours ago [-]
Ooh no, please do, but would love to hear more!
verdverm 7 hours ago [-]
Go chime in and share your work here: https://discourse.atprotocol.community/t/about-the-atproto-s...

That'll get us connected off HN

I think Cosmik is the group I was thinking of that has also put out some initial poc like yourself

Johnny_Bonk 7 hours ago [-]
id also be curious to follow this if you have any links or resources
verdverm 7 hours ago [-]
rsolva 2 hours ago [-]
@criomsoneer: Check out Open Science Network (Bonfire), they are also doing interesting work in this space! https://openscience.network/
gnarlouse 6 hours ago [-]
Integrate them peer review process and you’ve got a disrupter
mlpoknbji 5 hours ago [-]
Peer review should be disrupted, but doing peer review via social media is not the way to go.
perching_aix 4 hours ago [-]
Has a bit of a leg up in that if it's only academics commenting, it would probably be way more usable than typical social media, maybe even outright good.
crimsoneer 6 hours ago [-]
Right? This is kind of the dream.
naasking 5 hours ago [-]
Calling it peer review suggests gatekeeping. I suggest no gatekeepind just let any academic post a review, and maybe upvote/downvote and let crowdsourcing handle the rest.
staplers 5 hours ago [-]
While I appreciate no gatekeeping, the other side of the coin is gatekeeping via bots (vote manipulation).

Something like rotten tomatoes could be useful. Have a list of "verified" users (critic score) in a separate voting column as anon users (audience score).

This will often serve useful in highly controversial situations to parse common narratives.

11101010010001 3 hours ago [-]
Yes publishing is broken, but academics are the last people to jump onto platforms...they never left email. If you want to change the publishing game, turn publishing into email.
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