The new way we’ll do science

Papers should become human-readable views over a graph of data, tools, results, and certificates.

Researchers | alphaXiv

Browse researcher profiles on alphaXiv: publications, citation metrics, research areas, and the papers behind them.

A call for broadening the altmetrics tent to democratize science outreach

Common altmetrics indices are limited and biased in the social media that they cover. In this Perspective, we highlight how and why altmetrics should broaden its scope to provide more reliable metrics for scientific content and communication.

Social media promotion improves job market outcomes

Social media has transformed how academics disseminate research, but its effect on academic job outcomes remains unclear. Previous research has shown correlations between social media exposure and metrics like citation counts, but these relationships may be confounded by unobserved factors such as researcher quality or access to professional networks. We examine whether social media promotion causally affects job market outcomes in economics through a field experiment on Twitter (now X). We first collect tweets about job market papers from 519 candidates and post them from a dedicated account. We then randomize half of the posts to be quote-tweeted by established economists in the candidates’ fields, and measure the effects on both online visibility and hiring outcomes. We find that posts in the treatment group receive 441% more views and 303% more likes than those in the control group. Candidates whose posts were assigned to be quote-tweeted receive one additional flyout invitation compared to the control group average of 5.4 flyouts. Furthermore, women in the treatment group receive 0.9 more job offers than women in the control group, who receive 3 offers on average. Exploring mechanisms, we find that academic reputation drives these results, with stronger effects for quote-tweets from highly cited scholars and for candidates from top institutions. Our findings suggest social media promotion causally increases research visibility and improves academic job market outcomes.

Researcher Map · alphaXiv | alphaXiv

Explore the researchers on alphaXiv on an interactive field map — drag to pan, scroll to zoom, hover for details.

The Open Stack | LinkedIn

Notes from the field on sustainability, funding, and the systems we rely on

Open-science approach delivers a promising pre-clinical candidate for broad-spectrum coronavirus antiviral

ASAP-0017445 is designed to be a direct-to-generic, globally accessible treatment ready for future coronavirus pandemics.

Paper Skygest: Personalized Academic Recommendations on Bluesky

We build, deploy, and evaluate Paper Skygest, a custom personalized social feed for scientific content posted by a user's network on Bluesky and the AT Protocol. We leverage a new capability on emerging decentralized social media platforms: the ability for anyone to build and deploy feeds for other users, to use just as they would a native platform-built feed. To our knowledge, Paper Skygest is the first and largest such continuously deployed personalized social media feed by academics, with over 50,000 weekly uses by over 1,000 daily active users, all organically acquired. First, we quantitatively and qualitatively evaluate Paper Skygest usage, showing that it has sustained usage and satisfies users; we further show adoption of Paper Skygest increases a user's interactions with posts about research, and how interaction rates change as a function of post order. Second, we share our full code and describe our system architecture, to support other academics in building and deploying such feeds sustainably. Third, we overview the potential of custom feeds such as Paper Skygest for studying algorithm designs, building for user agency, and running recommender system experiments with organic users without partnering with a centralized platform.

ViewSift

The web's evidence-based discussion platform. Built on ATProto!

MIRA 2026 - Modular Interoperable Research Attribution

Catalyzing Modular Interoperable Research Attribution - A workshop to design and prototype interoperable frameworks for modular research attribution. June 7-11, 2026 in Ireland.

GitHub - eugenevinitsky/lea: bluesky portal for researchers

bluesky portal for researchers. Contribute to eugenevinitsky/lea development by creating an account on GitHub.

What It Means for Universities to Run Their Own PDS: The Potential of DID as Academic Infrastructure - Nightflight

Paperstars

Discover research based on scientific merit rather than citation counts.

Paper Trails

A social platform for academic papers

Hypercerts: Recognizing and Rewarding Impact – ATProto Implementation

Hi all, excited to share some of what we’ve been building and to introduce hypercerts to the ATProto community. Where we started The hypercerts project began at Protocol Labs with a simple goal: improve how we fund public goods. Many of the contributions society relies on most—open-source software, scientific R&D, and ecological regeneration—remain underfunded because their value is hard to see, coordinate around, and reward. What are hypercerts Hypercerts address this by serving as digital im...