The modern research ecosystem of online tools and communities is controlled by for-profit companies. But we think that researchers should be the priority - not the product. So, we're announcing Aster ID: not-for-profit Atmosphere account hosting for researchers.

Announcing Aster - a home for researchers on the open web

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New post on the @cosmik.network blog! A creative new use of @semble.so by @paperpilot.dev inspired a sequel to "Sensors, not Bookmarks" from the writer's perspective - the Connections you make on Semble can help your writing find its natural audience

Connecting with your readers on Semble [Patterns of Sensemaking #2]

On how the references you make help your writing find its natural audience

blog.cosmik.network

Notes from our kick-off workshop in Ireland this June 🍀 @scios.tech worked with @discoursegraphs.bsky.social to facilitate a fantastic workshop of 20+ researchers, technologists, and open science leaders to design and build a new modular medium for research! Participating people/orgs >

What we built at the MIRA Kickoff

Four days in Ireland. Three user stories. Six working prototypes, a tested schema, and the demos to show for it.

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I'm convinced that open social protocols like #atproto have a crucial role to play in the future of science. Excited to share MOSAIC - our best effort at articulating the thesis, why it matters, and how to build and fund it (in collab w/ @exgenesis.ingroup.social ) 🧵

MOSAIC — Modular Open Science, AI & Collective Intelligence

MOSAIC is an R&D program to build a new medium for large-scale, AI-augmented networked research.

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I’ve got a @semble.so Collection of #AI tools I’ve come across specifically for academic research. Most of these Ive tried and found them user-friendly-ish. If you use something not on the list, please share it :) semble.so/profile/rafm...

AI Tools for Academic Research (by Rafael M Batista) — Semble

View Rafael M Batista's collection on Semble

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We're happy to help support these exciting extensions to @roomy.space ! Federate all the things 🤝

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend.sh · last mo.

Developed by @meri.garden, sponsored by @cosmik.network on behalf of the @atproto.science Roomy community, we present to you: Cross-space federation of channels 💞

Check out our August update! The theme this month is - Atmosphere apps, organizing. Also, a new ecosystem map for @atproto.science and new additions to @semble.so - onboarding flow, browser extension and new Connection types.

Cosmik Updates: August 2026

Atmosphere apps, organizing. Also, a new ecosystem map for ATScience and new additions to Semble - onboarding flow, browser extension and new Connection types.

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"Several decentralized social-network protocols are increasingly being taken up by platforms for scholarly collaboration" 🚀 @semble.so and @atproto.science in knowledgepixels.com/nanopub-ecos... by @tobiaskuhn.bsky.social

"Our hypothesis: at this point in the overall progression of science, network sciences can be revolutionized by networks of people; we just need to figure out how to choose, organize, and facilitate these people." Sounds like open social protocols could help!

Ronen Tamari@ronentk.me · last mo.

"what if engineering a scientific revolution is, at least in part, a problem of organizing humans and coordinating effort?" uniconq.substack.com/p/the-ground... h/t @ranganaut.bsky.social

IOSP is a wonderful event by @scios.tech focused on building the open science stack of the future: modular research, community owned infra, novel funding. And we’re putting on an #ATScience workshop at the upcoming meeting - join us Leiden, Oct 12-15! Details in thread 👇 www.iosp.science#iosp2026

"Researchers don’t have to send papers by the tens of thousands to conferences where no one reads anything. They can collectively design better systems to generate, evaluate, and share knowledge. Employees can use the power of their labor to steer their companies" 🎯

Ben Recht@beenwrekt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The arms race of deferring agency and the dark acquiescence to robotic bureaucracy.

Did we hear someone say sense making

Cat Ears Perk Up

ALT: Cat Ears Perk Up

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Boris@bmann.ca · 2mo ago

Sometimes I have to stop myself and realize "oh yeah, we have a fully on protocol toolkit for streaming video, VOD video storage" ...which can be remixed and translated and linked together. Now all we have to do is catch up on the sense making!

Our July update is out! Semble MCP and Subscriptions shipped, Zotero libraries start roaming on Semble, and lots of exciting community contributions (we love being able to say this every month and really mean it 😇)

Cosmik Updates: July 2026

Cosmik at DWeb Camp Berlin, Semble MCP and Subscriptions shipped, Zotero libraries start roaming on Semble, and a new blog series on the sensemaking patterns we're seeing on Semble. Plus an interactive map of the Sembleverse by @davidgasquez.com, and lots more community contributions

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New post on the @cosmik.network blog: who ever heard of bookmarks that can help *shorten* your reading list? On how bookmarks, combined with social curation networks like @semble.so, can be much more than bookmarks - they can be sensors! blog.cosmik.network/sensors-not-...

Sensors, not just bookmarks [Patterns of Sensemaking #1]

First of a new series on sensemaking patterns we're observing on Semble

blog.cosmik.network

@kissane.myatproto.social is a great inspiration for our work and we're very happy we can support her Cloud Atlas initiative to make the value of the Atmosphere more legible for the broader public! ✨

Atmosphere Community@atmosphere.community · 2mo ago

We are joined by Bluesky @bsky.app as a Presenting Supporter and Cosmik Network @cosmik.network as a Major Supporter Both individuals and organizations can support Erin’s work on open collective opencollective.com/atprotocolde...

Products like @margin.at and @semble.so have the potential to change scientific publishing as we know it today. These are early-stage products but they're clearly ahead of the curve when it comes to new ways to organize and share knowledge.

“Hey Semble, what’s the newest and coolest atproto app?” AKA Semble MCP is here 🤖

More sense-making tech, not sense-dulling tech

Introducing: Semble Subscriptions 🔔 You can now subscribe to collections and to people, and their updates reach you as notifications, not just another item in your feed, so you don't miss the ones you especially care about. >

Introducing Semble Subscriptions 🔔 - Cosmik Labs

Tune in to the curators you trust and receive notifications on their activity or collections

blog.cosmik.network

Check out this exciting workshop at @acm-cscw.bsky.social in October! Calling #ATScience builders and researchers to participate and share your work - lots of synergies with what we're doing here ✨

Joel Chan@joelchan86.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Friends! I'm bad at advertising but better late than never! I'm co-organizing a workshop at #CSCW2026 exploring the future of infrastructure, in conversation with its deep roots in CSCW scholarship. Please join us! cscw2026-infrastructure-workshop.github.io My short pitch below 👇

Thanks for the nice write-up @sensemaker.computer - we're on the same wavelength ;)

Our June update is out!

ATMentions: a web component that pulls how the ATmosphere reacted to any page. Bluesky, @margin.at , @semble.so , @frontpage.fyi , standard.site compatible. Easy to setup: one tag you drop on a page; it surfaces how the ATmosphere reacted to the page — likes, reposts, Margin notes, Semble saves...

"The truly visionary AI for Science company is not automating experiments or AI-generating Nature papers, but building technology to improve the collective sensemaking ability of scientists @cosmik.network and alphaXiv are both examples of startups trying to build new sensemaking infrastructure"

Science as Collective Sensemaking

What is Science?

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Just pushed a bunch of cards to my @semble.so collection via the API from my bookmarks! thank you opus and thank you @cosmik.network team for the API! tab sanity 🤝 contributing to the knowledge commons 🎉

eLife Pathways has joined @cairos.network, a dedicated space for open science projects to collaborate & solve problems together. We'll collaborate on a future of knowledge sharing centred on modular publishing, structured discourse & collective intelligence.🌐👇 elifepathways.org/blog/post-18...

Frontiers In Research webinar on changes in science communication, the role of social media, and new infrastructure/tools - tomorrow (7/18) at 2 pm ET Looking forward to chatting with @ronentk.me & @joelchan86.bsky.social luma.com/7l18yyg4

Frontiers In Research: Open Science · Zoom · Luma

Catalyze (catalyzernd.com), the ultimate platform for discovering and funding scientific research, will be talking to leaders in the Open Science movement…

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Just came across @semble.so and am very excited! It’s like a way of having personal knowledge bases (think Notion/Obsidian) that are connected into a broader social network. So curative action - classification, collation - can shift from individual to a collective/social sense-making.

Wesley Finck@wesleyfinck.org · 4mo ago

the community knowledge garden has long tables, not tall fences ;) come plant some seeds, harvest some produce, till the soil, or simply sit back and watch the bees pollinate. Our collective attention is an ecological system, let's tend to it that way 🐝🌼🌱🍄🍃

How to create reading experiences that "go beyond information transmission and toward reader transformation.” Great paper by @blue-phia.bsky.social @lepidopterane.bsky.social @yijunliu.bsky.social Sarah Sterman @sh1m.bsky.social @maxkreminski.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2606.04308 >

Excited to invite you to a panel I'll be on next week w/ @richardsever.bsky.social @joelchan86.bsky.social! We’ll discuss the future of open-access, new modular research tools (eg @discoursegraphs.bsky.social) and the role of social media in scientific discourse (@cosmik.network @atproto.science ..)

Frontiers In Research: Open Science · Zoom · Luma

The Catalyze team will be talking to leaders in the Open Science movement discussing frontier research, technology, andd movements to broaden access to…

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