apepe

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: alberto.pepe@sagebase.org

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.

https://sagebionetworks.org/careers/senior-product-designer

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?

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: hi@authorea.com

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: jobs@authorea.com

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 jobs@authorea.com and “HN” in the subject line.

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.

Unlike what most LaTeX users may think, LaTeX is actually not even widely adopted in academia, with less than 20% of scholarly articles published every year written using LaTeX (https://www.authorea.com/107393-how-many-scholarly-articles-...). That said, it is the only powerful option to professional typeset mathematical notation. And for that reason, it is used by few in some non-academic research fields (military, gov, pharma, tech, HN readers).

You may want to try authorea.com - open format, based on Git, and it supports LaTeX and Markdown in addition to a WYSIWYG similar to Dropbox.

Authorea | https://www.authorea.com/ | Full time | Onsite | Brooklyn, New York (NYC)

Authorea was spun out of CERN by a group of astrophysicists who were frustrated with the cumbersome process of collaborating on scientific research. Think Github for research papers with a mission to change academic publishing and Open Science. Our team is small, but our tool is already being used at all 100 of the top 100 (Leiden Ranking) research universities. We also just closed a substantial funding round with brand-name VCs. More info at: https://www.authorea.com/jobs

We're looking for:

* (SENIOR) FRONT END ENGINEER - We're looking for an engineer with strong front end skills who will take our product to the next level. Needs to have: JS/CSS/React/Rails as well team and project management experience. Nice to have: previous experience working with editors.

Contact: jobs [at] authorea [dot] com

Authorea | https://www.authorea.com/ | Full time | Onsite | New York, NY (Flatiron)

Authorea is building GitHub + Google Docs for researchers. We were spun out of CERN by a group of astrophysicists who were frustrated with the cumbersome process of collaborating on scientific research. Our team is very small, but our tool is already being used at all 100 of the top 100 (Leiden Ranking) research universities. We also just raised a substantial seed round with brand-name VCs. All positions require a passion for startups and for Open Science! More info at: https://www.authorea.com/jobs We're looking for

* (SENIOR) FRONT END ENGINEER - Authorea has a robust backend but it did not receive all the love it deserves on the front end. We're looking for an engineer with strong front end skills who will take our product to the next level. Needs to have: JS/CSS/React/Rails and obsession over product and pixel perfection. Nice to have: previous experience working with editors.

* (JUNIOR) USER HAPPINESS ENGINEER - We have a lot of users that experience technical difficulties. We need someone who will be in charge of user happiness, respond to support tickets, assign and manage them. Will update and mantain FAQs and How-tos. The position requires technical knowledge, especially of LaTeX, Markdown, Git and scholarship. Can be remote.

Contact: hi [at] authorea [dot] com

(Also, we're always hiring interns!)

Authorea | https://www.authorea.com/ | New York, NY

Why Authorea? - A unique opportunity to change the face of academia and scholarly collaboration - We're a small team. You'll have the opportunity to make impactful decisions from day 1 - We're backed by investors with experience and reputation in the scientific space - We are driven by a social mission to make science more open and transparent

Hiring: Web Designer (also: UI/UX Engineer and Growth marketer) https://www.authorea.com/jobs

* WEB DESIGNER We’re looking for someone to help shape the look and feel of our product, i.e., make us look good. Really good.

- Requirements. --Great taste, great design skills, and an eye for web graphic design. Someone who can tell a story through design. --Proven web design skills (please send a portfolio of examples of past work, e.g. mockups and live sites) --Knowledge of CSS and JS --Experience designing and building interfaces informed by user testing --Interest in typography and publishing

- Nice to haves. --Past experience with user onboarding, experience, interfaces and interaction.

- Desirable: passion for Open Science

- Extra desirable: passion for Edward Tufte, Bret Victor and data visualization.

Disclaimer: This is a video teaser for Authorea

Authorea.com - New York City, NY - https://authorea.com

We make Authorea, a place for collaborative writing. Right now, we are mostly interested in supporting scholarly and scientific content. We have been referred to as "a hybrid between Google Docs and Github, for scientists". We recently raised a seed round: http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/22/authorea-seed/ and were mentioned today in a Nature article: http://www.nature.com/news/scientific-writing-the-online-coo... Yay!

We're a small team - mostly recovering academics - so you'll have the opportunity to make impactful decisions from day one. We also work in an exciting field (scientific publication, scholarly authoring, data-driven science, open science): it's a unique opportunity to change the face of academia and scholarly collaboration. We're based in SoHo (New York City) but we're open to remote options. Our current investors include ff Venture Capital and NY Angels.

Open positions:

* Full Stack Engineer * Front End Designer/Engineer * Marketing and Communication Associate * Sales Associate

More info at https://www.authorea.com/jobs

Apply and say hi at hi@authorea.com

It'd be nice to see this working in Authorea as well: https://www.authorea.com/ Have you had any luck rendering Patoline to HTML5? Via Pandoc?

You could do it in Authorea (Git+LaTeX) and actually show us what you are writing too!

Why are you not optimistic? It takes time, yes, but 7 years is a long time. I personally am optimistic wrt what HTML+CSS can do in terms of typesetting (even PDFs): https://authorea.com/users/3/articles/4675/_show_article

Will the next "TeX tuneup" be in HTML rather than PDF? One can only hope.

piacere mio!

Thank you. I will join the discussion. And wow, hackpad looks so good.

hey yuchi- I talked to the Substance guys just a few days ago. Great guys. We hope to collaborate with them soon. I am not sure why Authorea is not "ethical" though. Ciao!

great point about MS Word use.. see my other comment. And yeah our name is prone to explosive jokes... :)

hi, great point. It is true that at the moment our userbase is mostly physicists/astrophysicists and computer scientists who heavily use LaTeX. But we are not super committed to LaTeX. (In fact, I am annoyed by LaTeX as much as the next guy.) We already fully support Markdown and soon AsciiDoc and MediaWiki. An HTML5 wysiwyg is coming soon as well.

You are wrong, however, when you say that for academic publications almost no one uses MS Word. In fact, only 5% of academic submissions (in all academic journals) are received in LaTeX. 95% is Word.

In academia though, most scholars tend to stick to PDF for reading papers, see e.g. http://www.quora.com/Why-do-scientists-tend-to-prefer-PDF-do...

Thanks, yes! We know and are in touch with all these guys (writelatex, mendeley, and peerj). Great stuff coming out of London in this space. Digital Science and Figshare are also there. We are very excited that there's a movement to change/improve academic publishing.

thanks! I did come across substance.io a few months ago. Seems like they made a lot of progress. Looks beautiful. It's time to get in touch with them again.

hi fiddlosopher, we love Pandoc! We use it extensively and find it to work very very well with most TeX content. The only problematic part is tables (e.g. captions do not render in the latest pandoc version).

Agreed. That is one reason why most technical and scientific documents are still perused in PDF. In Authorea you can export each document to a journal format (Export). Soon we will have a printer-friendly style which is basically CSS.

hi @kmatzen/@mallyvai! Adding briefly to Nate's comment (my co-founder at Authorea), I would like to point out that we do support many popular LaTeX packages. One big reason why we do not support custom LaTeX packages is that some of them are really intended for the printed page and cannot be easily ported to the web- and the point of Authorea is to create web-native documents, which render in the browser, first, and can then be ported to print formats. In other words, we support a safe subset of LaTeX which we can easily convert back and forth into other web formats (such as Markdown). Do let us know if you have a LaTeX package in mind and we will see if we can add it for you.

I partly agree with your supervisor. While publications are indeed milestones and are great for obtaining recognition in the scholarly community, they can still exist and accomplish their function alongside their "rich" counterparts: online versions of those publications with live, dynamic, executable data and images, to allow forking, cloning, and interaction. We now produce research in a much more dynamic environment than even just a decade ago. My hope is that 10 years from now a scientific paper "locked" in a PDF format will look obsolete. I may be wrong, but I sincerely hope that.