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co-founder, Authorea (https://authorea.com)
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Comment · 11 months ago
Sage Bionetworks (https://sagebionetworks.org/) | Principal SWE | Java, Python, TypeScript, Node.js | Remote (US) | Full time
Sage Bionetworks, a nonprofit focused on open science and accelerating biomedical research, is hiring a Principal Backend Research Software Engineer (US-remote). We build platforms like Synapse.org that enable global scientific communities to responsibly share data and generate insights, and we value people who thrive in collaborative, interdisciplinary environments.
In this role, you’ll lead architecture and backend development across our platforms. You’ll have broad autonomy to shape system design, prototype new capabilities, and work closely with scientists and product teams on tools that support cloud-based data workflows, large-scale computation, and emerging AI/ML use cases. Strong production engineering experience, deep Java skills, and comfort with cloud environments, CI/CD practices, and containerized systems are key; interest in scientific or data-driven applications is a plus.
Full post: https://sagebionetworks.org/careers/software-engineer-backen... Email: [email protected]
Comment · 2 years ago
Sage Bionetworks | Senior Product Designer | REMOTE (US) | Full-Time
Sage is a renowned nonprofit in biomedical and life sciences, headquartered in Seattle but operating remotely across the U.S. We develop web-based software to support scientific research in areas like cancer, Alzheimer's, and Neurofibromatosis. We believe in open science, and we've been practicing it for over 15 years. We're seeking a Senior Product Designer with strong user research experience, and graphic design skills as well. In addition to a competitive salary and great benefits, this role offers the opportunity to contribute to meaningful work that advances science and improves lives.
Comment · 3 years ago
The report seems to be mostly concerned with the market economy nature of scientific publishing, which is fair. That said, I find that obsession with publisher profit margins and boycotts is not constructive.
On the one hand, the important roles of journals (evaluation, archival, dissemination, etc) come at a cost (and are crucial to science). Running a journal costs time and money. That money must come from somewhere. Publishers don't have to be for profit, but if they are, they will naturally attempt to maximize margins. That is just capitalism. But, it doesn't have to be that way. Alternative, non-capitalistic business models for publishing science are possible. They should emerge and compete with for-profit models (1).
On the other hand, boycotts and illegal solutions (e.g. Sci-hub) are non constructive simply because they offer no solution. Sci-hub is made of 88 million published articles, "published", indeed, by those same publishers it is fighting against. What is the end goal?
I personally support an open, innovative, and transparent publishing infrastructure, but one that is sustainable in the long term and solution-driven. My two cents!
(1) Note: just being non-profit is not enough, if you don't have a scalable and sustainable solution. Also... if you are non-profit and your business plan is to be funded by charitable foundations created by billionaires via capitalistic means, what is the whole point of changing the system?
Comment · 4 years ago
Authorea.com | Ruby on Rails / React Engineer | Contractors | REMOTE
Looking for an experienced developer for a 3–6-month project (initially) to extend current codebase capability and build integrations with third party services. Stack: Ruby on Rails, React, Faye, Redis, Resque. Knowledge with preprints, scientific publishing, pandoc, JATSXML, etc a plus.
Contact: [email protected]
Comment · 7 years ago
Authorea / Atypon | Full stack engineer | Full time | New York Area, Remote ok.
We're looking for a web developer / engineer to work on a modern Open Research publishing platform for scholarly and scientific content. NYC-area ideal but open to remote positions. Competitive salary and benefits.
Requirements: - 5+ years of web development experience. Our stack: Rails, React + Redux, Redis, PostgreSQL, Faye, and Resque - DevOps and AWS experience a plus. - History of completing projects on time and to spec - A great team player with a positive attitude willing to help the team accomplish ambitious goals
About us: We're part of an emerging technology ecosystem for open science and modern publishing. We are researchers, engineers, designers, and product people. Our goal is to advance substantially the pace of scientific publishing. We are excited about making science more open, transparent, collaborative, reproducible, data-driven, and web-based.
Email: [email protected]
Comment · 8 years ago
Authorea | Web Developers and Engineers | Brooklyn, NY | Remote possible | Visa possible | www.authorea.com
We are a close group of researchers, engineers, and product people fixing some enormous fundamental problems in science. Our goal is to advance substantially the pace of scientific innovation by delivering a superior editor built for the web. We are excited about making science more open, transparent, collaborative, reproducible, data-driven, and web-based.
We recently received a substantial line of funding and we're part of an emerging technology ecosystem for open science and modern publishing. We're looking for strong web developers and engineers / 2 positions. NYC-area ideal but open to remote positions. Competitive salary and benefits.
Requirements: 3+ years of web development experience - Extensive knowledge of the modern front end stack, CSS/JS, React, Redux, Node - Familiarity with Rails - History of completing projects on time and to spec - A great team player with a positive attitude willing to help the team accomplish our ambitious goals
Please say hello with a note to [email protected] and “HN” in the subject line.
Comment · 9 years ago
That first article and how it looks when imported into Authorea in one click: https://www.authorea.com/users/3/articles/208068-automatic-e... (just a couple of labels and si units which do not render). Note: it is forkable and can be commented upon.