Bonfire

Federate with Mastodon and Bluesky and integrate your social graph with scholarly data. Transform any conversation into citable FAIR data with persistent identifiers. The future of scholarly communication is open, community-owned and interconnected.

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What is included

Professional identity

Sign in with ORCID, Zenodo or your institutional SSO. Your publications, affiliations, and research interests are imported directly from sources like ORCID and OpenAlex, no manual entry required.

Archive meaningful content

Posts and conversations can receive DOIs and become citable FAIR objects. Through integrations with a growing list of repositories, meaningful exchanges can be preserved as part of the scholarly record, not lost in private threads.

Data sovereignty

Each community can run their own instance. Data remains under your control. Connect globally while preserving local governance and values.

Connected knowledge

Share a paper and see it come alive: metadata, co-authors, datasets, and related works appear instantly. Colleagues can join the conversation no matter what platforms they use.

Extensible

Modular by design. Add repository connectors, peer review workflows, or research tools as your community evolves. Built on Bonfire's modular framework for total customisation.