V interesting twist on MCP! “user data is often fragmented across services and locked into specific providers, reinforcing user lock-in” - enter Human Context Protocol (HCP): “user-owned repositories of preferences designed for active, reflective control and consent-based sharing.” 1/

Very excited to participate in the Ownership Economy Summit today in NYC! Learning the ropes for how to create new data economies and community stewarded protocols + platforms for researchers @cosmik.network

If you’re interested in ATProto for science communications, join the forum & introduce yourself.

ATProto has huge potential for supporting new ways of doing science, but to get there we need discussion & coordination spaces - we opened a new Discourse space for ATProto x Science at discourse.atprotocol.community/c/atproto-sc... 🧪 (w/ @bmann.ca @tgoerke.bsky.social ) Please join! 😄

👀 dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

I have a whole folder of ATProto apps on iOS (plus a select few directly on my Home Screen). Today we call them “ATproto” apps. In the future … they’re just a better way to build a wide range of apps, where users own their data, login in anywhere, and choose different interfaces.

4/ At @cosmik.network We’re inspired by Are.na, hypertext and more intentional meaning-making processes as well, we’re designing semble.so around them! As we wrote in our recent blog post - tools like Are.na are fundamentally different ways of eliciting knowledge that feeds do not support.

1/ Exciting paper by @sh1m.bsky.social & Sophia Liu 🔥 “hypertext systems emphasize provenance, associative thinking, and user-driven meaning-making, while algorithmic systems tend to obscure process and flatten participation” arxiv.org/abs/2507.235...

Had a great time today IRL brainstorming with @nickmvincent.bsky.social around collective bargaining x researcher-owned data x semble.so @cosmik.network @pouriade.com @wesleyfinck.org

Jazzed for some IRL co-working time with the @cosmik.network Vancouver crew (@wesleyfinck.org @pouriade.com) and @bmann.ca at @z-space.ca ! ✨

Met up with @bmann.ca and met some of the folks behind @cosmik.network @wesleyfinck.org and @pouriade.com today in Vancouver. Love hearing about all the new things going on in the #atproto community. Also @z-space.ca is pretty sweet. Thanks for having me! Hopefully see y’all again soon!

Micropublishing -> Mycopublishing 🍄

@cosmik.network is building a new network for scientific research on top of AT Protocol — leveraging both the growing science community on Bluesky and its open source, decentralized infrastructure. Semble is worth keeping an eye on! 👀 cosmik.network

Answer (b) of course! "commitment to build a system of our own" 💪

Extremely life affirming week at #ATProto_NYC. Some quick, scattered thoughts about where all this is heading. tl;dr: we are going to fix the internet, we're going to outcompete the freaks that we're up against, and we're going to do it together. 🧵

On the way back from #ATProto_NYC - what a friendly, fun, collaborative and inspiring community! Super excited to be building @cosmik.network in the ATmosphere. We win by out co-operating the competition 🤝 Props to @bmann.ca @knowtheory.net @chadkoh.com & everyone else who made this happen 👑

bluesky and atproto news of the last 2 weeks: - A new ToS and community guidelines for bsky - @anisota.net pushes boundaries of what a bsky client can be - @cosmik.network gets 1M funding to build a knowledge network for researchers on atproto connectedplaces.online/reports/atmo...

Congrats to the @cosmik.network team for landing a grant showing conviction in science communications and sense making on #ATProto It’s been exciting watching the team explore and with this funding they can build out a great network and grow the ATmosphere with all of us.

Great news for science communications on #ATProto: the @cosmik.network is announcing their $1M grant to build out tools for researchers of all kinds.

1/ 📢 @cosmik.network has been awarded $1M in grant funding by Open Philanthropy and @asterainstitute.bsky.social These generous grants will support our development of Semble - a social "micro-knowledge" network for researchers on Bluesky/ATProto. Think Are.na + Goodreads for research!

An important piece on #AI generated #preprints and why it's important to consider their impact on scientific ecosystem. Some other important considerations related to this that are not covered in the article 👇 🧵1/14 #AI4Science #AI4Research #ScAISci #SciSci

"Funders, this is the time to flip the script on what science we support. We must move from primarily funding individuals to funding coordinated efforts that “lift all boats” in agent-led discovery systems." 🎯 seemay.substack.com/p/from-syste...

ATmosphere → Noosphere Bluesky → Noosky These are communities waiting to be created... Spaces to plot how tools-for-thought connect into a global noosphere using ATProto 🤓

How 'bout we do this for science too? 🧪

Imagine trying to land a plane in the fog without a heads-up display. Pilots used to do it but “flying blind” meant frequent disasters. Today, we're browsing the web in that same fog. >

Imagine trying to land a plane in the fog without a heads-up display. Pilots used to do it but “flying blind” meant frequent disasters. Today, we're browsing the web in that same fog. >

"Lack of Open Peer Review is Weird... A troubled scholarly article is similar to a contaminated head of lettuce: despite having inspection schedules and reporting mechanisms, the object and its warnings are too often separate from each other." aj-boston.pubpub.org/pub/c7z6gkb1...

Watch this space 👀

Human data makes AI better, but does AI make humans better? Unfortunately this is far from obvious (for example cognitive atrophy due to over-outsourcing) Hybrid intelligence is a useful concept: co-evolving AI-augmented collective intelligence where both humans and AI improve each other over time

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” What is the role of human researchers in the age of AI? Great synthesis here, with many thought-provoking ideas that deserve broader discussion. Thoughts🧵 > cadmusjournal.org/article/volu...

Interesting exchange @besttrousers.bsky.social @nathantankus.bsky.social that raises an important meta issue about discourse: *We need better ways of surfacing quality arguments!* With @cosmik.network we're working on ways to filter for those 10% of arguments that really deserve our attention

"Collective intelligence via structured contextualization." This is what we're building towards!

Brainstorming science x ATProto with @mariaa.bsky.social @nickmvincent.bsky.social ‬ @ronent.bsky.social ‪‬at #FAccT2025 🧪 🦋 #ScienceATProto #SciSky

Brainstorming science x ATProto with @mariaa.bsky.social @nickmvincent.bsky.social ‬ @ronent.bsky.social ‪‬at #FAccT2025 🧪 🦋 #ScienceATProto #SciSky

❔ Question for #ScienceSky! 🧪 Bluesky is rad, but so much more can be built on #ATProto - what kind of ATproto science apps/services would *you* like to see? (bsky doesn’t have polls yet so feel free to vote by liking the options below, or add your own!) 👇

❔ Question for #ScienceSky! 🧪 Bluesky is rad, but so much more can be built on #ATProto - what kind of ATproto science apps/services would *you* like to see? (bsky doesn’t have polls yet so feel free to vote by liking the options below, or add your own!) 👇

We had a great onsite in NYC last week w/ @sharef.bsky.social @ronent.bsky.social @wesleyfinck.org - product brainstorming, strategy, bouldering and homebrewed kombucha! 🍻 Also inspiring convos w/ @exgenesis.ingroup.social @clinamenic.com & many more! IRL sensemaking is the best ✨

We had a great onsite in NYC last week w/ @sharef.bsky.social @ronent.bsky.social @wesleyfinck.org - product brainstorming, strategy, bouldering and homebrewed kombucha! 🍻 Also inspiring convos w/ @exgenesis.ingroup.social @clinamenic.com & many more! IRL sensemaking is the best ✨

For all the web annotators, curators and bookmarkers out there, stay tuned. We’ll have something for you to play around with soon 🔖 👀 #atproto

For all the web annotators, curators and bookmarkers out there, stay tuned. We’ll have something for you to play around with soon 🔖 👀 #atproto

We had an amazing meeting in Banff this week with 22 open sci nice advocates. More to come soon! articles.continuousfoundation.org/articles/ban...

Collective intelligence is only as strong as our collective attention.

📢 New @cosmik.network‬ blog post! Herbert Simon told us that information consumes attention. For 50 years, we've accepted that as a one-way street: attention as a scarce resource. This is the *linear* attention economy: we feel it as acute info overload, too many browser tabs open >

Nice to see a mention of @cosmik.network in this!

We're happy to be part of the movement working towards a researcher-owned global science communication ecosystem! 🪐 We're also excited to leverage #atproto 's composable nature to explore lexicons that go beyond discussions- for example, curation and review. Think Science Goodreads on ATProto 🤓

We've reached the end of a chapter, but our journey has only just begun. Read more about our reflections on an amazing year with Astera, our rebrand, and what's ahead. Hint: a lot more #atproto! paragraph.xyz/@sense-nets/...