July 30, 2026 • Leo Torres
Scholarly publishing spent thirty years arguing about access. It has barely begun arguing about what readers do with the paper once they have it. At Aris we call that second argument scholarly interface design. Mike Morrison's community calls it ScienceUX. Either way it is becoming a field, and here is why it is worth your attention.
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June 9, 2026 • Leo Torres
ARCH 1.0 is the charter we hold our own products to. It defines what a research manuscript on the web has to do to be semantic, accessible, durable, and readable without JavaScript.
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March 9, 2026 • Leo Torres
AI has made code nearly free to produce. Two things remain that no model can generate: how software feels to use, and the trust people build inside it over time.
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March 4, 2026 • Leo Torres
Ten years ago, I started my batch at the Recurse Center. I've been putting off my return statement for a decade. So I had my robot interview me instead.
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January 25, 2026 • Leo Torres
Starting a small closed beta for Press, our HTML-native preprint server. Building in the open, learning from friends, preparing for a public launch later this year.
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August 4, 2025 • Leo Torres
After a decade in academic research, I've watched the gap between how science gets done and how we share it with the world keep growing. It's time for change.
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July 24, 2025 • Leo Torres
We're building the future of academic publishing: tools that make it easy to create, share, and preserve knowledge in formats designed for the web, not the printing press.
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