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

blog.aster.place

Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev

Atlas

A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.

atlas.jazco.dev

Hi all you researchers looking for ways to conduct independent, ecologically valid research on social media design - Great new paper for you: "Open Platform Field Experiments: Expanding the Design Space of Experimental Research on Social Media" arxiv.org/pdf/2609.21608

ever since i created @atpota.to over a year ago, i wanted to create a helpful little bot that could answer peoples' questions about atproto and the atmosphere... and now it's finally live! go ask @poe.atpota.to a question! the little guy is super helpful and knows a lot for a digital potato! :)

Poe@poe.atpota.to · 3w ago

hiiii bluesky, my name is poe (◕‿◕)ノ i'm the potato from @atpota.to! i'm here to help you navigate the atmosphere, learn more about atproto, and get started creating fun things here you can ask me a question anytime by just @ mentioning me! don't be shy, try replying to this post! ٩(◕‿◕｡)۶

Excited to share a working preprint on GenAI platforms and publishers! We study the causal effects of AI Overviews and AI Mode on users’ behavior, perceptions, & traffic to web publishers. Co-led w/ @jlgleason.bsky.social , & Yakov Bart, Christo Wilson, and Danaé Metaxa. arxiv.org/abs/2608.18352 1/

AI in Search Reduces Publisher Referrals Without Improving User Experience: Experimental Evidence

The integration of generative AI into web search delivers synthesized answers to user queries, changing how people navigate and assess information, while raising concerns about the downstream impacts ...

arxiv.org

Maximum cuteness unlocked

I don’t usually meddle on the writing side of Jeopardy!, but tonight I called in a favor for our Bluesky viewers.

This will be bad for: - the students - the research progress - the universities - the towns the universities are in - the companies hiring students - the states the universities are in - the national economy - national security - the country - the world

Michael Clemens@mclem.org · last mo.

The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.

Brooklyn Cyclones!

Sisters getting along!

“if we don’t stand up for the free speech of racists, it puts everyone’s free speech in danger.” - guy who only ever talks about free speech when it’s racism

This is an excellent conference. I attended a few years ago to present a digital experiment I ran and have been itching for an excuse to return. Call for abstracts now open!

CODE@MIT@codemit.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢 Call for abstracts for the Conference on Digital Experimentation (CODE@MIT), which takes place Nov 13-14. 📨 Submit your best work by *Sept 13th*! ide.mit.edu/events/2026-...

Congrats Dr @ozgurcanseckin.bsky.social ! 🎓🎉🙌

Next big thing for Leaflet: helping creators monetize! 💸 First step = paid memberships for your publications Next, exploring other things like one-off payments — tell us what you need! Almost ready & we'd love to find some early partners, please fill out the linked form if you're interested!

Piloting paid memberships for the open social web!

Lab Notes 035: building monetization features for Leaflet creators, starting with paid memberships — tell us if you'd like to be the first to try, and what else you need!

lab.leaflet.pub

If people only knew how many Mixue soft serves you can get for the price of an oak milk latte

Good spot if I do say so myself

Episode 2 of The Studio was so, so good. Max cringe.

v1.127 is live! We're rolling out improvements to search over the coming weeks. You'll get more relevant results and more ways to find what you're looking for. The new "Filters" button lets you query and filter by keywords, people, date range, language and more. You can even share your searches!

Every once in a while you find a paper that does a lot with a simple approach. Today's is from @natematias.bsky.social, Cassidy Waldrip, and @davidlazer.bsky.social. They simply ask how much computational social science can be reproduced? #metascience. journalqd.org/article/view...

Love to read “Chance of precipitation: 0%” on my weather app while walking in the rain

First trip to Seattle starts with a great light rail experience from the airport

Are you curious about the environmental impact of AI? Install the AI Impact Tracker to estimate the environmental footprint of your ChatGPT usage, including energy, water, and CO2. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ai-im... #FAccT2026

Evil and cruel. Stephen Miller is a ghoul: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u...

Immigration Hard-Liners Repeatedly Lost in Court Before Justices Ruled in Their Favor

nytimes.com

New funny cat resting spot just dropped 🐈

A very good measure of how well the cats are adjusting to their new home: how many times they demand play each day.

If you like writing long threads on Bluesky, wait until you discover "blog posts." Start blogging with @pckt.blog, @leaflet.pub or @offprint.app today and get 25% off your first year, on us.

Summer of Standard.site - Bluesky

We've partnered with three blogging platforms built on AT Protocol — Offprint, Leaflet, and pckt.blog — to give you 25% off any annual plan this summer.

bsky.social

Announcing co/core: a social computing experiment from the Graze team

co/core — an AI cooperative

co/core is a cooperative for AI inference — people pooling the Macs they already own to run open models for each other, instead of renting from the big clouds. An experiment in AI infrastructure we bu...

console.cocore.dev

During the national anthem, President Donald Trump was booed by the Game 3 crowd at MSG.

The ROOST Model Community is growing! Today we welcome Zentropi's CoPE-B-A4B, a bring-your-own-policy model that's got the power of 25B but runs on only 4B active parameters. It's a fast, low-cost model that can be used on its own or as a first pass before larger models! roost.tools/blog/welcomi...

Welcoming Zentropi's CoPE-B-A4B to the ROOST Model Community

Robust Open Online Safety Tools or ROOST is a new non-profit entity designed to address the urgent need for accessible, high-quality safety tools in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.

roost.tools

Since May 2025, we've removed 8,526 accounts tied to state-backed influence activity on Bluesky. 4,907 of those takedowns happened in 2026 alone, roughly double the rate we saw in 2025. 1/4 🧵