Thread tools

Three pages that turn a contributor’s draft into posted content. All static, all run entirely in the browser — nothing is uploaded and no login is needed.

Only /submit/ goes in the email to contributors. The other two are unlisted — not in the site nav, reachable by direct URL.

/submit/ — for contributors

Send this link with the invitation email.

They draft the thread wherever they like, then fill in one card per post here. Each card has a post type, the text, a link box, and an optional image.

• 275 characters for the text of every post. Paper links go in their own box and don’t count against it.
• The counter matches Bluesky exactly, including emoji and shortened links.
• Post types: introduction, paper post, context/commentary, closing. Only paper posts need a link, and only they count toward the 4 research + 1 review minimum.
• Media is required on Post 0 only. Files are checked for format and size in the browser, and the page tells them the correct Post0.jpg, Post3.png … filename.
• The checklist on the right must be all green before they send.

They finish with Download .txt and email you that file plus the images.

Drafts save to their own browser, so tell them to keep their word processor document as the master copy.

/helper/ — posting the thread

Pick the .txt they sent you. It splits into one card per post.

Work down the list: Copy, paste into the Bluesky composer, attach the file it names, add the alt text, then press + in the composer for the next post. Copied posts grey out and a progress bar tracks how far you’ve got.

Paste rather than retype — Bluesky resolves @handles and links on paste, so mentions actually notify people.

Anything over 300 characters is flagged in red. That should be rare, since the builder already checked, but a contributor editing the .txt by hand can break it.

At the bottom, Paper links in this thread gives you every link, deduplicated, one per line. Copy that straight into /cite/.

/cite/ — the daily paper posts

Paste paper links, one per line — DOIs, doi.org, nature.com, bioRxiv, science.org, PMC links, most things. Press Generate.

For each one you get the finished post: APA citation, the link, and the hashtag, already trimmed to fit 300 characters. If the author list is too long it shortens with …, always keeping the first authors and the last two. Copy puts it on the clipboard ready for the composer.

Set the hashtag with Default hashtag, and override any single row with its own dropdown. There is no automatic review detection — Crossref doesn’t record whether an article is a review, so guessing it did more harm than good.

Below the cards is a table (title, journal, year, URL, chars, post text) with Download CSV and Copy for Excel.

Metadata comes from Crossref. If a row fails, its link is clickable so you can go and find the DOI yourself, then paste that instead. cell.com links are the usual culprit — they use internal IDs with no DOI in the URL.

The loop, end to end

1. Contributor drafts in Word, fills in submit, downloads the .txt
2. They email you the .txt plus the images
3. You open helper, load the file, and copy the posts into Bluesky one by one
4. You copy the link list from the bottom of helper into cite
5. cite gives you the individual paper posts to schedule over the following days