Output isn’t design - Linearmodular research is happening already on social media (researchers are nanopublishing but just don't know it yet)
References mentioned in the talk at STAMINA lab at McGill University (April 28, 2026)
"nihilist neoliberalism - intensifies the dynamic of endless growth while doubling down on hierarchies of oppression that enable it" -- "AI, Decomputing and the Interregnum"
Steal This Story, Please! (2025)
More Versus Better: Artificial Intelligence, Incentives, and the Emerging Crisis in Peer Review | Organization Science
The Emotional Toll of Living With Institutional Betrayal - Dame Magazine
Eliot Higgins (@eliothiggins.bsky.social)
The Economics of Sovereign Media: A Roadmap for AT Protocol | ATmosphereConf VODs
We Need New Jewish Institutionsfor libertarians like Von Mises, lack of introspection was a feature, not a bug. Introspection tends to make people interested in crazy ideas like socialism and justice
Interesting content about the AI slop phenomena
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Content relevant to MIRA workshop (Modular Interoperable Research Attribution - https://www.mira.science/)
Outcomes Graph: A protocol for applied science coordination - DeepScience Ventures
What’s the best technology that doesn’t exist yet?
PRISM: Capturing the Invisible Art of Scientific Practice
Aram Zucker-Scharff (@chronotope.aramzs.xyz)
SE Gyges (@segyges.bsky.social)
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Human Thought
Large language memories: Psychosis and antisocial media
Ramin Saadat, Reasoning: From Biological Foundations to the Hidden Thread of Shared Understanding - PhilArchiveSycophantic Chatbots Cause Delusional Spiraling, Even in Ideal Bayesians
Machine learning political orders
Many Minds: Science, AI, and illusions of understanding
The homogenizing effect of large language models on human expression and thoughtThe Fragility Of Moral Judgment In Large Language ModelsArchitecting Trust in Artificial Epistemic Agents
The end of theory? AI and ignorance in financial markets
Shahan Ali Memon (@shahanmemon.bsky.social)
M.J. Crockett (@mjcrockett.bsky.social)People Defer to Ai Moral Advice, but Not Blindly
Software Stewardship Lab
Fund Your Internet
How open source projects need to adapt to the AI coding era | We Love Open Source • All Things Open
The Fair Share Clause
Open Source Endowment — World's First Endowment Fund for OSS
Tangled (@tangled.org)
Vlad-Stefan Harbuz (@vlad.website)
PRSMRelated to Big if True Science program (BiTS)
Vitalik Buterin - Introduction to d/acc | d/acc Discovery Day Berlin Keynote
Itai Yanai on Twitter / X
Zechen Zhang on Twitter / X
When Science Goes Agentic
Illusions of Understanding in the Sciences
M.J. Crockett (@mjcrockett.bsky.social)
The Peer Review Crisis Demands Radical Reform: Why Reviewers Should Become Paid Professional RefereesMore Versus Better: Artificial Intelligence, Incentives, and the Emerging Crisis in Peer Review | Organization Science
Can We Survive Technology
Rethinking AI for Science Funding
The network science of collective intelligence
Sentinel Bio
Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science
Together AI on Twitter / X
Science needs downvotesWhat’s the best technology that doesn’t exist yet?Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AIPublish and Perish: How AI-Accelerated Writing Without Proportional Verification Investment Degrades Scientific Knowledge
Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses
Renaissance Philanthropy Fellow: Dario Taraborelli
Registering DataCite DOIs for Awards
A quote by William H. Murray
Philanthropy 2.0: What the Evolution of For-Profit Investment Tells Us About the Future of Giving
Science is a strong-link problem
Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery
Designing AI for Disruptive Science
Reforming the products and processes of the IPCC to enhance its relevance
“The Third University of Cambridge”: BBN and the Development of the ARPAnet
Why SCI PHI, why now?
From Grants to Portfolios: Index Logic for Science
The one science reform we can all agree on, but we're too cowardly to do
A Beginner’s Guide to Scientific Roadmapping
The Power of Effective Agenda-Setting — Renaissance Philanthropy – A brighter future for all through science, technology, and innovation (V2)
Rebuilding the Architecture of Science
Chapter 2: Exploration & Field Mapping | NotionProjects practicing "cooperative business models where coordinating and sharing resources between individually-resource-constrained actors can produce economies of scale that can challenge incumbent capitalist monopolies" https://bsky.app/profile/meri.garden/post/3mbxswszmfc2s
examples of useful sensemaking happening on social media
Initiatives aimed at protecting against extractive data practices
Built on Shared Knowledge: What the World Wants from AI Wealth
The Paradox of Reuse in 2026: A Case of Quasi-Enclosure, or "Subsidized Club Goods that Sort of Look Like Public Goods"A Human-Centric Framework for Data Attribution in Large Language Models
Abundance vs. Scarcity: Who Controls the Internet After AI?Collective Bargaining in the Information Economy Can Address...
Attribution-Based Control (ABC) for Safe AI
Cloudflare's Matthew Prince has a plan to get Google and the AI oliigarchs to pay for your content even though many are used to getting it for free. He might have enough leverage to make them.
Introducing Brolly; An Idea For The New Web
daniel 🫠 (@dholms.at)
Licensing terms for data in the Atmosphere
bryan newbold (@bnewbold.net)
Anna Ciaunica PhD (@annaciaunica.bsky.social)
Obeying Nobody: Public Service and the Ordinary Evil of Administration - Roy L. Heidelberg, 2026
On the Garden (against Citrini)The brain is a computer is a brain: neuroscience's internal debate and the social significance of the Computational MetaphorUnplugging a Seemingly Sentient Machine Is the Rational Choice -- A Metaphysical Perspective
combat LLM spam by building a web of trust
@scios.techScience needs downvotesPublish and Perish: How AI-Accelerated Writing Without Proportional Verification Investment Degrades Scientific KnowledgeOpen Source Endowment — World's First Endowment Fund for OSS
luna (@l4.pm)
AI slop is drowning communities. Verifiable track records can fix it.
The virtuous circleVlad-Stefan Harbuz (@vlad.website)
Open Source Power
Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement
Ronen Tamari (@ronentk.me)
AI creates asymmetric pressure on Open SourceIn theorizing around AI capabilities
Fund Your Internet
The Economics of Sovereign Media: A Roadmap for AT Protocol - ATmosphereConf 2026The Economics of Sovereign Media: A Roadmap for AT Protocol | ATmosphereConf VODs
𝕮 (@chrisshank.com)
Patrick Singletary (@psingletary.com)
B. Prendergast (@renderg.host)
Why Knight Foundation Invested in Bluesky - Knight Foundation
The Purpose of Protocols
Rudy wants revolution. (@rude1.blacksky.team)
AT Protocol Community (@atprotocol.dev)Tangled (@tangled.org)
Lyre Calliope 🧭✨ (@captaincalliope.blue)
JP (@byjp.me)
Request for Proposals: The Launch Sequence | IFP
Ronen Tamari (@ronentk.me)
Nighthaven⛺︎ (@moja.blue)You can just review things: A digital ethnography of informal peer reviewPublish and Perish: How AI-Accelerated Writing Without Proportional Verification Investment Degrades Scientific Knowledge
Publish | Review | Curate
Coordinating Research Assessment And Publishing Reform: Action Groups – ASAPbio
Science should be machine-readable - Marginal REVOLUTION
Muskism Is the Specter Stalking Our Present
Decapitation and the End of Politics
Not a new Weimar, or new 1930s: “We live in a period without a real precedent”. Interview with Anton Jäger
Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example | Fortune
The Old World Order is Dead
Liberalism Did Not Fail, Conservatism Did
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social)
Infinite midwit
Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers?
AI is turning research into a scientific monoculture
Chief people officers—and Jamie Dimon—say AI can’t learn ‘human skills.’ The world's youngest self-made billionaires want to prove them wrong | Fortune
Performance of a large language model on the reasoning tasks of a physician
Dare Obasanjo (@carnage4life.bsky.social)
The Problem With AI Is Shitty Human Beings
Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of TechnologyChief people officers—and Jamie Dimon—say AI can’t learn ‘human skills.’ The world's youngest self-made billionaires want to prove them wrong | Fortune
A Data Utopia for Science-of-ScienceFrom Grants to Portfolios: Index Logic for ScienceThe one science reform we can all agree on, but we're too cowardly to doPRSM
Can anyone fix science?
The BBN Fundrepeated pattern of larger companies buying another smaller startup and closing its services down.
discourse around claims that "cloud sovereignty will trickle down to everyone"
on the study of ignorance, particularly how and why it's created, spread, or maintained
The network science of collective intelligenceWhat’s the best technology that doesn’t exist yet?Philanthropy 2.0: What the Evolution of For-Profit Investment Tells Us About the Future of GivingScience is a strong-link problemTerence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discoveryReforming the products and processes of the IPCC to enhance its relevanceFrom Grants to Portfolios: Index Logic for Science
npmx (@npmx.dev)
Ronen Tamari (@ronentk.me)PRSMAI is turning research into a scientific monocultureRebuilding the Architecture of ScienceThe BBN Fund
A Knowledge Commons for the 21st Century
atShare — One button to reach them all
Steve Simkins (@stevedylan.dev)
blento
Hopefully Beautiful: Free, public business profile pages powered by Bluesky
Florian Schepp (@scheppening.com)
Tynan Purdy (@tynanpurdy.com)
My leaflets now show on my personal blog
Adding Bluesky-powered comments to any website in five minutes
Ronen Tamari (@ronentk.me)
Patrick Wyman (@patrickwyman.bsky.social)On the Garden (against Citrini)On the Cunning of Imperialist Reason - Pierre Bourdieu, Loïc Wacquant, 1999
The Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create a Dangerous "Educated Proletariat”
The new way of the world : on neoliberal society : Dardot, PierreRudy wants revolution. (@rude1.blacksky.team)
Startup Punditry’s 25 Years of Failurenpmx (@npmx.dev)
daniel 🫠 (@dholms.at)
Ariel M. (she/her) (@byarielm.fyi)
Rudy wants revolution. (@rude1.blacksky.team)
The Everything Account
Orion Reed (@orionreed.com)Tynan Purdy (@tynanpurdy.com)
Tynan Is Typing | Tynan Purdy | Offprint
squƐ≡ͣ🮲🮳y from:me (@skeet.best)
Ronen Tamari (@ronentk.me)
𝕮 (@chrisshank.com)
Ronen Tamari (@ronentk.me)𝕮 (@chrisshank.com)Infinite midwit
Response to commentators on the blind spot: why science cannot ignore human experienceSense-making reconsidered: large language models and the blind spot of embodied cognitionAnna Ciaunica PhD (@annaciaunica.bsky.social)
The Cynefin Company on Twitter / XThe brain is a computer is a brain: neuroscience's internal debate and the social significance of the Computational MetaphorAre Biological Systems More Intelligent Than Artificial Intelligence?Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology
Learning To Be Me
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing (@simonsinstitute.bsky.social)Epistemological Fault Lines Between Human and Artificial IntelligenceOn the need for more diverse knowledge creation and discovery interfaces beyond feeds
WayFinder Philosophy | WayFinders Network
Beyond Community Notes: A Framework for Understanding and Building Crowdsourced Context Systems for Social Media
The rise of community-curated knowledge networksA Knowledge Commons for the 21st CenturyFrom Users to (Sense)Makers: On the Pivotal Role of Stigmergic...
Landslide; a ghost storyTraditional corporations can already be seen as a form of artificial intelligence, current AI amplifies this
on connecting personal tools for thought into collective networks
Building good products is crucial, but let's not underestimate the power of movements, especially in an age of cheap software
The Cassandra metaphor relates to a person whose valid warnings or concerns are disbelieved by others. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra_(metaphor))
Critiques of the meta-crisis framework
Gareth Icke on Twitter / XA quote by William H. Murray
Ronen Tamari (@ronentk.me)𝕮 (@chrisshank.com)
Ursula K. Le Guin Bot (@leguinbot.bsky.social)Ronen Tamari (@ronentk.me)
Ronen Tamari (@ronentk.me)
A quote by Garry Kasparov
Marshall McLuhan Quote: “Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.”Content related to the thesis of the book "The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World" by Iain McGilchrist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_and_His_Emissary)
Content I've especially enjoyed in 2025
Landslide; a ghost story
The InterBrain - How Collective DreamWeaving Can Heal the World
Why We Fear AI — Common Notions Press
Pirate Care: Against the Criminalization of Solidarity - Notes - e-flux
The West Must Die
John Brown, abolitionist : the man who killed slavery, sparked the Civil War, and seeded civil rights : Reynolds, David S., 1948-
Reality Roundtable #19 — Dark Triad Personality Traits: How Psychopathy, Narcissism, and Machiavellianism Impact Our Cultures & Social Systems - The Great SimplificationOpen Source PowerAgency Among Agents: Designing with Hypertextual Friction in the...
Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used
Bellingcat CEO Eliot Higgins, on how disordered discourse is destroying democracy
Claude Design is a "clock time" solution for a "calendar time" problem
Impeccable: Design skills for AI harnesses
We mourn our craft
hypercontext — spatial context awareness
On Programming with Agents
No Vibes Allowed: Solving Hard Problems in Complex Codebases – Dex Horthy, HumanLayer
Doll (@dollspace.gay)
Agent Driven Project Management and Issue Refinement with gh-issue-sync
AI Is Forcing Us To Write Good Code
A new way to extract detailed transcripts from Claude Code
Hedgie on Twitter / X
Chris Hayes on the attention economy
Mobile phone short video use negatively impacts attention functions: an EEG study
Dec 2020 -- Jelle Bruineberg -- Embodied cognition and the attention crisis
Rethinking the cognitive foundations of the attention economy
The attention market—and what is wrong with it
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
Collective action strategies in the age of AI w/ Nick Vincent from Data LeverageThe Paradox of Reuse in 2026: A Case of Quasi-Enclosure, or "Subsidized Club Goods that Sort of Look Like Public Goods"A Human-Centric Framework for Data Attribution in Large Language Models
Molly White (@molly.wiki)
“Wait, not like that”: Free and open access in the age of generative AI
The FBI is hunting for the archived website that's making the media u…Collective Bargaining in the Information Economy Can Address...
A Polycentric Governance Lens on Data Infrastructures
Money for mutual resilience: Introducing Blacksky Cash
👊💰 We need a revolution in social media business models
From an Extractive to a Non-Extractive Economy: Disentangling the Building Blocks of Non-Extractive Economic Practices
Why we need to reform the startup business model | Melanie Rieback | TEDxBerlin
Pivot to People: It’s Time to Build the New Economy
John Fullerton: “Regenerative Economics: New Economic Paradigms, Living Systems, & Holistic Thinking” - The Great SimplificationHow can we make it easier to follow account content across different formats and apps?
Tracking hypercapitalism trend of financializing everything
More Than Half of Men Aged 18 to 49 Have Already Fallen Into Online Sports Betting
Why Almost Everyone Loses—Except a Few Sharks—on Prediction Markets
Maggie Harrison Dupré (@mharrisondupre.bsky.social)
Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story
Ronen Tamari (@ronentk.me)
Yeah, so... Substack, I'm out.
From Pill Mills to Prop Bets: Prediction Markets and Mobile Sports Betting Apps Are Fueling America’s Next Addiction Crisis
We are all going to regret Kalshi and Polymarket.
Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com)
Ranganaut (@ranganaut.bsky.social)
Ben Wurgaft (@benwurgaft.bsky.social)
More Perfect Union (@moreperfectunion.bsky.social)References shared during the December 2025 Scenius panel "Making Sense of Open-Source: Ideals, Reality, and What's on the Horizon" https://luma.com/z9ivf64k?tk=EdRp1q
License Agreement
Contributor Covenant | Contributor Covenant 3
The cell membrane as the ‘missing link’ for the evolution of consciousness
The Hippocratic License: Hippocratic License 3.0
FSL
Ali Alkhatib: Defining AIOpen Source Power
Actualités/Essais/Documents
Mutualism
Project MUSE - Technology and Below-the-Line Labor in the Copyfight over Intellectual Property
Braiding Sweetgrass | Milkweed Editions
The Stallman Paradox: How Web3 Became the Ultimate Open Source Theater
Reclaiming the Computing Commons
You Deserve a Tech Union — ethanmarcotte.comM.J. Crockett (@mjcrockett.bsky.social)Rethinking AI for Science Funding
Hypercerts — Collective Intelligence for Funding Impact
How We're FundedRenaissance Philanthropy Fellow: Dario TaraborelliRegistering DataCite DOIs for Awards
eLife receives Wellcome boost to build open publishing ecosystem
Robin Berjon (@robin.berjon.com)
BiTS Americas Webinar 25 November 2025Michael Nielsen – How science actually progressesCoordinating Research Assessment And Publishing Reform: Action Groups – ASAPbioWhy SCI PHI, why now?From Grants to Portfolios: Index Logic for ScienceA Beginner’s Guide to Scientific RoadmappingThe Power of Effective Agenda-Setting — Renaissance Philanthropy – A brighter future for all through science, technology, and innovation (V2)Chapter 2: Exploration & Field Mapping | NotionThe BBN Fund
Where are the field builders?BiTS Americas Webinar 25 November 2025
Collective Action School𝕮 (@chrisshank.com)
Radical Interoperability is a Political AgendaInformation Access of the Oppressed: A Problem-Posing Framework for Envisioning Emancipatory Information Access Platforms
skysquare (@skysquareapp.bsky.social)
Emancipatory Information Retrieval (Invited Talk at UCC)
Kjetil Kjernsmo (@kjetil.kjernsmo.net)Hype, financial narratives, and self-fulfilling prophecies in surveillance capitalismEmpathy, Thick and Thin
Dr. Casey Fiesler (@cfiesler.bsky.social)
How Shifting Responsibility for AI Harms Undermines Democratic Accountability | TechPolicy.Press
AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking
Critical AI
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher EducationBuilt on Shared Knowledge: What the World Wants from AI WealthThe network science of collective intelligence
A Multiscale Logic of Collective Intelligence" by Donald Hoffman and Chetan Prakash
Agentic AI and the next intelligence explosionThe virtuous circle
Some tools for collective epistemicsBeyond Community Notes: A Framework for Understanding and Building Crowdsourced Context Systems for Social MediaKnowledge infrastructures for the AnthropoceneReasoning Models Generate Societies of ThoughtA Knowledge Commons for the 21st Century
What Makes Us Smart?Collective action strategies in the age of AI w/ Nick Vincent from Data LeverageA Human-Centric Framework for Data Attribution in Large Language ModelsA Data Utopia for Science-of-ScienceCollective Bargaining in the Information Economy Can Address...
Reflections on the Cooperative AI Conference | Platform Cooperativism Consortium
AI Commons - One Projectapproaches promoting epistemic diversity, challenges to big tech platform monocultures
"(rapidly) growing gap between on the technological and social complexity, and our "wisdom" i.e. our capacity to manage that complexity well." (https://lifeitself.org/blog/2020/06/22/bridging-the-wisdom-gap)
(PDF) The sensemaking process and leverage points for analyst technology as identified through cognitive task analysisRealization experiences: a convergent account of insight and mystical experiencesOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social)The Cynefin Company on Twitter / X
Cosmik Network (@cosmik.network)Shahan Ali Memon (@shahanmemon.bsky.social)WayFinder Philosophy | WayFinders NetworkFrom Users to (Sense)Makers: On the Pivotal Role of Stigmergic...Landslide; a ghost story
How May the ‘Anthropocene’ Enable and Constrain Cybersystemic Governance? The ‘Anthropocene Problematique’
Wisdom in a World in Crisis: The Counterintuitive Need to Slow Down and Find Spaciousness with Iain McGilchrist
EP 336 Rufus Pollock on the Wisdom Gap and the Second RenaissanceRonen Tamari (@ronentk.me)
Scale deep — The Systems Sanctuary
Can Religions Be Reborn?| Over The Mountains #9Big AI is accelerating the metacrisis: What can we do?
Mapping an Ecology of Integrative Approaches to Addressing the MetacrisisThe InterBrain - How Collective DreamWeaving Can Heal the World
Dudes thinking big thoughts: Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson and the lure of the rabbit holeBellingcat CEO Eliot Higgins, on how disordered discourse is destroying democracy
Reimagining Ourselves at the End of Our World: Kinship, Interconnection, and Spirituality in the Metacrisis - The Great SimplificationWayFinder Philosophy | WayFinders Network
Reed Harmeyer (@reedharmeyer.bsky.social)Agency Among Agents: Designing with Hypertextual Friction in the...From Users to (Sense)Makers: On the Pivotal Role of Stigmergic...
Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning
Directing the Herd
Episode #130 - Dewey and Lippmann on Democracy — Philosophize This!Eliot Higgins (@eliothiggins.bsky.social)
Democracy and the Epistemic Commons - The Consilience ProjectBellingcat CEO Eliot Higgins, on how disordered discourse is destroying democracy
Verification, Deliberation, Accountability: A new framework for tackling epistemic collapse and renewing democracy
Democracy has Hamlet’s Problem: The Search for Relevance in a Complex World"Hyperproblems are scientific challenges whose scale, complexity, novelty and interdependence overwhelm traditional research models, requiring new forms of collective intelligence, modeling, coordination and communication." https://hyperproblems.com/3m5tkmhnof224
Why we need community stewarded research commons
Ted Underwood (@tedunderwood.com)AI is turning research into a scientific monoculture
Google Scholar Is Doomed
The “Terrible Engine of Destruction” That Inspired Federal Science Funding
Introducing Prism
Unlocking a Million Times More Data for AI | IFPA Knowledge Commons for the 21st CenturyReclaiming the Computing CommonsThe Drain of Scientific Publishing
Profit, cost, price, learned societies; further thoughts on Samuel A. Moore's Publishing Beyond the Market
Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the CommonsAuthorship, division of labour, material and digital form; thoughts on Samuel A. Moore's Publishing Beyond the MarketReclaiming the Computing CommonsThe Drain of Scientific Publishing
Rudolph Fraser. (@rude1.blacksky.team)
Introducing Acorn: Community Infrastructure That Grows With You
Relational Tech Project — Build what we need
✨🙌 AI that helps communities thrive on their own terms
Defining groupcore
First Four Tools Join Schema for InteroperabilityThe Drain of Scientific PublishingOpen Source Power
Fiscal Sponsorship – Hack ClubAI slop is drowning communities. Verifiable track records can fix it.The virtuous circle
What We’re Looking for at All Things Open 2026 • All Things Open
Journalism lost its culture of sharingRonen Tamari (@ronentk.me)AI creates asymmetric pressure on Open Source
Open Source Pledge ⇌ (@opensourcepledge.com)
The Missing Middle of Open Source
Funding Open Source for Digital Sovereignty
Emanuele (Ema) (@ematipico.xyz)
Prosperous Software Movement | Open Source ObserverLicense AgreementFSLReclaiming the Computing CommonsThe Hippocratic License: Hippocratic License 3.0Open Source PowerMathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI
Science Needs Scientists
Alexander Doria (@dorialexander.bsky.social)
Tiptree Systems | AI Agent Runtime Platform
Claude Code 27: Research and Publishing Are Now Two Different Things
How do authors want to use AI for review?Shahan Ali Memon (@shahanmemon.bsky.social)
Refine
Guest Post – The Next Era of Reference Management: An Interview with William Gunn - The Scholarly KitchenAccelerating Scientific Research with Gemini: Case Studies and Common TechniquesIntroducing Prism
Kenneth Harris (@kenneth-harris.bsky.social)
Artificial intelligence tools expand scientists’ impact but contract science’s focus
AI-powered research talks
Context Widows
LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem
AI reviewers are here — we are not ready
Kosmos: An AI Scientist for Autonomous Discovery
Mathematical discovery in the age of artificial intelligence(it can be argued that even the question itself is a trap - https://artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/context-widows) Tracking discussions around which aspects can be automated, under what circumstances and assumptions
M.J. Crockett (@mjcrockett.bsky.social)Infinite midwitScience Needs ScientistsProject Rachel: Can an AI Become a Scholarly Author?
Anshul Kundaje on Twitter / XCan AI Replace Social Science Researchers?RefineCan anyone fix science?AI is turning research into a scientific monoculture
Teaching AI How Science Actually Works | IFP
The Age of Academic Slop is Upon UsKenneth Harris (@kenneth-harris.bsky.social)
Sung Kim (@sungkim.bsky.social)Context WidowsAI reviewers are here — we are not readyKosmos: An AI Scientist for Autonomous DiscoveryMathematical discovery in the age of artificial intelligenceDudes thinking big thoughts: Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson and the lure of the rabbit hole
Against the brainrotDemocracy has Hamlet’s Problem: The Search for Relevance in a Complex World
The Dance with Big Tech is Different under Trump 2.0 | TechPolicy.Press
alive internet theory
Cognitive Capitalism - Public Seminar
The Authoritarian Stack"The risk is not machines thinking like people, but people thinking like machines"
Obeying Nobody: Public Service and the Ordinary Evil of Administration - Roy L. Heidelberg, 2026On the Garden (against Citrini)The brain is a computer is a brain: neuroscience's internal debate and the social significance of the Computational Metaphor
The Cybernetic Hypothesis
Notes On Epstein's Emails
The Creature in the Machine | Frankly 120Learning To Be MeThe West Must DieAI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Predictive Capital – Roads to terminal alienation, soil to server farm, reason to vibe
Towards the Post-Naive Internet
Octosphere, an experiment in decentralised science with ATProto – Andreas VarotsisThe Astrosky Ecosystem: An independent online platform for science communication and social networking
Chive (@chive.pub)
Peter W🤓 (@wang.social)
Altmetric (@altmetric.com)
Ed Hagen (@edhagen.net)
sōm (@hyl.st)
Lanyards — for Researchers 🧑🚀 (@lanyards.app)
B. Prendergast 👋 (@renderg.host)What’s the best technology that doesn’t exist yet?
Open Sourcing Scientific Research with Lab Discourse Graphs
WarmHub | WarmHub is more than a platform. It's a movement.A Knowledge Commons for the 21st CenturySteps Towards an Infrastructure for Scholarly Synthesis
Discourse Graphs and the Future of Science | Protocol Labs Research
A look back at a pilot of the citation typing ontologyPRISM: Capturing the Invisible Art of Scientific Practice
ByceliumScience should be machine-readable - Marginal REVOLUTIONOctosphere, an experiment in decentralised science with ATProto – Andreas VarotsisWarmHub | WarmHub is more than a platform. It's a movement.AI-powered research talksA Knowledge Commons for the 21st CenturyA Data Utopia for Science-of-Science
Metagov x Future of Science Seminar - Discourse Graphs with Matt AkamatsuGenAI slop content applied to science
M.J. Crockett (@mjcrockett.bsky.social)More Versus Better: Artificial Intelligence, Incentives, and the Emerging Crisis in Peer Review | Organization Science
How AI slop is causing a crisis in computer sciencePublish and Perish: How AI-Accelerated Writing Without Proportional Verification Investment Degrades Scientific KnowledgeRonen Tamari (@ronentk.me)
Mel Andrews (@bayesianboy.bsky.social)
Okay so, we just found that over 50 papers published at @Neurips 2025 have AI hallucinations by @alexcdot(Alex Cui) | Twitter Thread ReaderThe Age of Academic Slop is Upon UsThe junkification of research - Carl Rhodes, Martina K Linnenluecke, 2025Dr. Casey Fiesler (@cfiesler.bsky.social)
Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI
Philip N Cohen (@philipncohen.com)
Preprint site arXiv is banning computer-science reviews: here’s whyIllusions of Understanding in the Sciences
NAS 163rd Annual Meeting - Awards CeremonyThe Peer Review Crisis Demands Radical Reform: Why Reviewers Should Become Paid Professional Referees
Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
"I've got an idea!" On pluralism and resisting deskilling
Metropolis divided. - Kenna Wong Ghaill
"Anti-Fascism" is the Leftism of Fools
The politics of decentralization and the libertarian allure of Mastodon
The third golden age of software engineering – thanks to AI, with Grady Booch
AI as a Fascist Artifact
Writers Who Use AI Are Not Real Writers
Tyler Cowen is an Information Monster
Nothing to Declare
Cyber-Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High Technology Capitalism
Exocapitalism: economies with absolutely no limits
AI and the Future of Science
There Is No Antimemetics Division
Willow - Protocols for an uncertain future (FOSDEM'26)A Multiscale Logic of Collective Intelligence" by Donald Hoffman and Chetan Prakash
Google’s broken link to the web
From judgment to calculation: the phenomenology of embodied skill
Elon Take the Wheel - BenBella Books
Compete or kill Cooperate and Succeed! - ATmosphereConf 2026Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses
Against the dark forestMyopic memory: Capitalism's new continuity in the age of AI
Towards the Symbiocene: Building an Eco-Civilisation with thought-leader, Jeremy LentLarge language memories: Psychosis and antisocial media
Review: THE AI DOC: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist
Is ubiquitous A.I. writing "inevitable"?
On The Enshittification of Audre Lorde: "The Master's Tools" in Tech Discourse
Reflections on AtmosphereConf
New paradigm for psychology just droppedBringing experiments down to earth - Jack Stilgoe, 2026
Designs for the pluriverse: radical interdependence, autonomy, and the making of worlds
The Engine of Scientific Discovery: How New Methods and Tools Spark Major BreakthroughsResponse to commentators on the blind spot: why science cannot ignore human experience
On-protocol Organizing
Positive obsession: the life and times of Octavia E. Butler
Big Mother: The Technological Body of Evil
Revisiting creative behaviour as an epistemic process: lessons from 12 computational artists and designers | Proceedings of the 35th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference
Our Approach to Artificial IntelligenceChasing RATs: Tracing Reading for and as Creative Activity
The Irrational Decision
Yeah, We're Going to Have to Tax the Middle Class
How Standards Are Made
Epistemic Alienation and the Division of Labor
The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex
Digital Topology & Economic Power
THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS
LLMs break the internet. Signing everything fixes it.Kami of the Commons: Towards Designing Agentic AI to Steward the CommonsDec 2020 -- Jelle Bruineberg -- Embodied cognition and the attention crisis
Vibe Coding: The Final Form of Hyper-Individualism
Capitalism Without Humans
The web was always about redistribution of power. Let's bring that back.
Network Punk Welcome to the Jungle Blaine Cook AtmosphereConf Seattle 2025
Insurgent Tooling and the Collective Making of Slave RevoltsTowards a Liberatory Technology
ATProto (Bluesky) is a Lie
all of this is temporary: Mark Fisher
What is Technology?
Why Context Matters: Or, Where Did Anglo-American Philosophy Go Wrong? - Imprint Academic
Debunking the science of advertisingThe Cybernetic HypothesisThe “Terrible Engine of Destruction” That Inspired Federal Science FundingDemocracy and the Epistemic Commons - The Consilience Project
Research DebtDario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology
He’s Spent the Last 13 Years Walking the Globe - Here’s What He’s Learned | Amanpour and CompanyThe Old World Order is Dead
LLMs have Main Character SyndromeLearning To Be Me
Waging a good war: a military history of the civil rights movement, 1954-1968
Same Radio, Different Citizens
What comes next, if Claude Code is as good as people say.
How to Break the Academic Silo Mindset - The Community Solution Education SystemSimons Institute for the Theory of Computing (@simonsinstitute.bsky.social)
The Gist: The Abuse Factory
Robin Berjon (@robin.berjon.com)
X Is a Power Problem, Not a Platform Problem
Life Under a Clicktatorship
The Case for Blogging in the Ruins
A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox
The Entangled Brain: How Perception, Cognition, and Emotion Are Woven Together
Description not evaluation - The Cynefin Co
Charlie Kirk, Ezra Klein, and the Cost of Civility-Theater Liberalism
The scent of Musk: Power, charisma and paranoia in Silicon Valley
dan (@danabra.mov)
Decentralized Social Media for 40 Million+ Users (with Bluesky’s Jay Graber)
Cybernetics is the science of the polycrisis
Four Ps for Building Massive Collective Knowledge Systems
The Philosopher in the Valley
Contextualizing the 2024 Election: It's the (Knowledge) Economy, StupidEmpathy, Thick and Thin
The Digital Services Act and Theories of PowerThe Digital Services Act and Theories of Power
Building Digital Public Spaces for Good
Open tabs are cognitive spacesReimagining Ourselves at the End of Our World: Kinship, Interconnection, and Spirituality in the Metacrisis - The Great Simplification
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Mindless Machines, Mindless Myths | Los Angeles Review of Books
Prophecy And Future Coding
aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?
Thank God for Bluesky
Morality vs. Politics as a Framing Problem: How (Not) to Misunderstand the Fight Against Climate Change
From information free-riding to information sharing: how have humans solved the cooperative dilemma at the heart of cumulative cultural evolution?
Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones - Carole Boyce Davies | Are.na
The New Control Society
Open Source is Broken
Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System | International Organization | Cambridge Core
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San D…
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United …
Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come
Opinion | The Sad and Dangerous Reality Behind ‘Her’
Matter and DesirePredictive Capital – Roads to terminal alienation, soil to server farm, reason to vibe
Human Intelligence, the Secret of Artificial Intelligence
Why "Solutions" Fail | Dave Snowden
The Unbearable Brightness of Seeing
All you need is links
Hallucinated Gods
How can we develop transformative tools for thought?The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Human ThoughtAI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent PerformanceThe homogenizing effect of large language models on human expression and thought
How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt
The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says
A World UnobservedAI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical ThinkingExperimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learningOpinion | The Sad and Dangerous Reality Behind ‘Her’
Thick practices for AI tools
Reality Roundtable #20 — Hacking Human Attachment: The Loneliness Crisis, Cognitive Atrophy and other Personal Dangers of AI - The Great Simplification
All that is solid melts into code
Augmented human intelligence goes beyond the AGI mirageHuman Intelligence, the Secret of Artificial IntelligenceThick practices for AI tools
Workshop Labs PBCReality Roundtable #20 — Hacking Human Attachment: The Loneliness Crisis, Cognitive Atrophy and other Personal Dangers of AI - The Great Simplification
passports.social
Open Market - Buy, Sell, and Trade Locally
Airglow (@airglow.run)
Avails — Group Scheduling
RPG Actor Registry
Keytrace - You be you, everywhere.
Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한 謝雪矢 (@youronly.one)
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Carbonadoks (@carbonadoks.bsky.social)luna (@l4.pm)
Skycord Bluesky Discord Bot
OpenMeet Survey - Create and Share Surveys with ATProto
Rudy wants revolution. (@rude1.blacksky.team)
at://wormhole - Chrome Web Store
Theo Sanderson (@theo.io)
Atmos — A new space for your work
Skyreader: A RSS Reader on the AT Protocol
Chronosky - Bluesky Scheduled Posting
Docs.surf
Modal Foundation
ViewSift𝕮 (@chrisshank.com)
AT CIRCLE - Home
あさだ (@asadaame5121.bsky.social)
Aether OS (@aetheros.computer)
Standard.site - One schema. Every platform.
Aturi (@aturi.to)𝕮 (@chrisshank.com)skysquare (@skysquareapp.bsky.social)
Bluenotes
sidetrail
Pieter Montoulieu (@montoulieu.dev)
granary: the social web translatorsōm (@hyl.st)
matprotocol (@mmatt.net)
ATProto PDS Network Map
AI slop has hit the science creators
Do Science Kardashians Get Citation Premium? Self‐Fulfilling Effects of Social Media on Scientific ImpactOctosphere, an experiment in decentralised science with ATProto – Andreas VarotsisThe Astrosky Ecosystem: An independent online platform for science communication and social networkingChive (@chive.pub)Peter W🤓 (@wang.social)Altmetric (@altmetric.com)Ed Hagen (@edhagen.net)
How Elon Musk’s X Shapes the AI Boom
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 (@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social)
Beyond the Page: Enriching Academic Paper Reading with Social Media Discussions | Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
Cosmik
Open Science Network
Science Must Decentralize
Federation Has a European Legal Problem
Kat Tenbarge (@kattenbarge.bsky.social)
Ryan Moulton (@moultano.bsky.social)
Bluesky COO Rose Wang On Building a Better Social Network
Proof of Work - The Marshmallow Test got a response. Now the real test begins.
The Marshmallow Test - Bluesky signals it's willing to eat its youngThe Marshmallow Test - Bluesky signals it's willing to eat its youngB. Prendergast (@renderg.host)Why Knight Foundation Invested in Bluesky - Knight FoundationComing Off the Bench for Bluesky
Mark (@uppy-hacker.bsky.social)Rudy wants revolution. (@rude1.blacksky.team)ATProto (Bluesky) is a Lie
Bluesky And X Users Plummet Year After Trump’s Election Win—Truth Social Makes Small Gains
Trump Administration's Arrival on Bluesky Highlights Growing Pains for Open Networks | TechPolicy.PressIdeas for how we can use the Bluesky / ATProto for improving science discourse, publishing and communication
Soma
Victoria (@vicwalker.dev.br)
Explore · PouriaRonen Tamari (@ronentk.me)
Mosh Lee (@mosh.bsky.social)
Antti Kääriäinen (@antti.kaariainen.info)
Medsky Network (@medsky.network)
José González - Head On (Official Music Video)Ronen Tamari (@ronentk.me)
Matadata! Publishing scientific data straight to AT - ATmosphereConf 2026
Automated Intimacy
SembleIt — A fast, local-first client for semble
Using semble for link blogging
Erlend Sogge Heggen (@erlend.sh)
In the Atmosphere
Rewilding the internet with ATProto
Bluenotes: Community Notes for ATProto
Roomy and community organizing for system change
Ronen Tamari (@ronentk.me)
Groundings with my Siblings: Lessons Learned Building for CommunityRonen Tamari (@ronentk.me)
Folk Tech Futures Workshop & Atmospheric Afterpartea · Luma
AtmosphereConf Afterparty @ Junction
Bluesky announces $100M Series B after CEO transition | TechCrunchAT Protocol Community (@atprotocol.dev)
Jay 🦋 (@jay.bsky.team)
brendan (@schlage.town)
Semble (@semble.so)Ariel M. (she/her) (@byarielm.fyi)
Tom Sherman (@tom.sherman.is)
OpenSearch description format - XML | MDN
Has AI Killed Education? (w/ Vlasta Sikimić)
Muni BlogATProto Isn't What You Think
Saving democracy for the price of a swimming pool — Open Indie
Licensing, Levies, and the Limits of Copyright – Open FutureNew_ Public
Ink & Switch
OpenAI's o3 Model Beats Master-Level Geoguessr Player - SlashdotPresence Engineering: Designing for an explosion of intelligence.
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