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I see a huge opportunity for how the AT Protocol could reshape academic publishing. Imagine researchers publishing continuously and atomically — before, during, and after research projects — in public connected continuous streams of discovery and insight.

Sorry about the obvious question, but what's AT Protocol and why is that a huge opportunity?

Great question. #ATproto is the open, decentralised social web protocol that powers Bluesky. It’s built around a portable identity, personal data servers (PDS) where *all* *my* stuff is stored, and “lexicons” (definition of any “thing” that can be written/read by anyone/anything on the network).

A “book” lexicon has a title, author, ISBN, date published, cover art, license, and content… so anyone could create/sell/share/read it on AT. The data stays *in the author’s PDS*. Authors, publishers, book reviews, book collections, licenses, etc could also be defined and reused widely.

For science, that’s a huge deal. It means researchers *could* share data, ideas, and insights, and collaborate, with ownership, credit, and integrity preserved.

They *could* use any combo of apps to share research content, peer review it, curate it, discuss it, reuse it, transparently, without any one platform or company controlling it all (which is a problem today).