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Knight Foundation
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1. My new preprint has its own bluesky account. Why? The problems facing social media & scientific publishing are similar: both are dominated by powerful oligopolies. The @atproto.com tech underlying bluesky that aims to solve the social media prob might also help solve the scientific pub prob 🧪 🧵
Menopause evolution preprint
1. Preprint: Menopause averted a midlife energetic crisis with help from older children and parents: A simulation study. zenodo.org/records/18149332 Menopause is rare, known to occur only in humans and toothed whales: 🧵
Bluesky needs its own complete YC atproto stack - accelerator, seed funding, founder network, investor pipeline, mentorship, demo days, startup discovery ATproto-native, so the ecosystem becomes the distribution, reputation, intelligence, and funding layer for the next generation of open social web
Bluesky needs its own complete YC atproto stack - accelerator, seed funding, founder network, investor pipeline, mentorship, demo days, startup discovery ATproto-native, so the ecosystem becomes the distribution, reputation, intelligence, and funding layer for the next generation of open social web
"As a Bluesky user, you own your data and have greater control over the algorithms that serve you content. Also, the platform is extremely publisher friendly and aims to ... be a quality partner to high-quality news sources." Love to hear it, @sf.gazetteer.co sf.gazetteer.co/reflections-on-a-year-of-gaze…
