In May 2025, a diverse group of researchers, funders, technologists, and advocates gathered in Banff to reimagine the future of scientific communication. Through case studies, system mapping, storytelling, and creative exercises, we surfaced the shared values, cultural shifts, and infrastructure needed to make science more modular, iterative, and inclusive. This workshop laid the groundwork for a movement toward composable science—where research is shared in smaller, reusable parts; trust and credit are distributed across teams; and collaboration is the foundation of progress.

Six key personas represent the diverse groups shaping the scientific ecosystem: Researchers, Institutions, Tools & Infrastructure, Journals & Societies, Funders, and the Public. Each offers a distinct perspective on how science is created, communicated, supported, and used—revealing opportunities to design systems that serve the whole.

The transition from rigid waterfall methods to Agile and continuous software development reshaped how software is built. Inspired by lean manufacturing, developers introduced small, incremental changes, automated testing, and continuous integration, unlocking massive improvements in delivery speed, quality, and team collaboration. The key takeaway: change isn’t a disruption, it’s a constant to be designed for—by adopting iterative, continuous practices, we can accelerate progress while maintaining rigor and resilience.

In the 1970s and '80s, disability advocates fought for curb cuts—small ramps on sidewalks that allowed wheelchair users safe passage. Once implemented, these seemingly niche accommodations transformed public spaces for everyone: parents with strollers, delivery workers, travelers, and runners alike. The big idea is simple: when we design for the margins, we create systems that are more inclusive, resilient, and beneficial for all.

Preserving the integration between code, data, narrative, and computational environments is essential to communicate and encourage reproducible and reusable research. A seamless, interactive approach to research communication is an important goal to help addresses the fragmentation in today’s scholarly publishing infrastructure.

Core concepts and definitions behind continuous science — a modern approach to research that emphasizes iteration, integration, reuse, and automation across the full research lifecycle. This evolving glossary defines key terms that support more open, connected, and reproducible scientific communication.

Continuous Science Foundation is hosting a gathering in May 2025 in Banff, Canada to inspire a movement around sharing and communicating science that is more complete, rapid, iterative, reusable, and integrated. We expect to leave Banff with a shared vision — one that reflects the needs of researchers and the realities of modern scientific work and prioritizes rapid, complete and reusable ways to share science. Alongside that vision, we will begin shaping communications materials with our storytelling and marketing teams as well as a practical roadmap to guide collaborative efforts over the coming year.

Scientific work today is collaborative, computational, and evolving — yet we still communicate it through static, disconnected formats. Continuous Science Foundation is building a movement to reflect how research actually happens: iterative, integrated, collaborative, researcher-driven, and continuous. We outline a vision for a system where tools, standards, and publishing practices support the full arc of scientific progress — not just its final product.

JATS is a NISO standard for Journal Article Tags Schema, which is a way to define the XML structure of a scientific article semantically. Unfortunately JATS is hard to create, use, parse and has limited tooling around it to support open-science builders to do the right thing. We provide a set of utilities for working with JATS to make that easy, discoverable, and parse from external sources like PubMedCentral, bioRxiv and others. The utilities are written in typescript and also provide command-line tools for conversion and validation.