Dutch Universities are jointly exploring Mastodon as an open source platform for education and research in the Netherlands. Exciting, and hopefully just the start of a much bigger trend! (that ofc also includes #atscience!)

Mastodon pilot for research and education

SURF and Universities of the Netherlands are jointly exploring Mastodon as an open source platform for education and research in the Netherlands.

surf.nl

Great survey of the "scholarly interface design" frontier that also highlights the emerging role of the atproto.science and modular research ecosystems - @chive.pub @paperstarsorg.bsky.social @cosmik.network @semble.so @margin.at @discoursegraphs.bsky.social @curvenote.com and many more!

leotrs@leotrs.bsky.social · 6d ago

1/ Scholarly publishing spent thirty years arguing about access. It has barely started arguing about what readers do with the paper once they have it. That second argument is turning into a field, forming around how science gets read and judged. Here is the map as I see it: aris.pub/blog/scholar...

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.

My first cellosophical exploration as a field reporter for @leaflet.pub & my first foray into @atproto.science via synthetic biology as reported in @quantamagazine.bsky.social and stored on @semble.so. 1st of N updates on Spudcells. Do point me towards people worth talking to/handles to follow!

Cellosophical Explorations #1

cellosophy.leaflet.pub

As an academic, this is also why I plan to move completely to @leaflet.pub for my website: powerful, easy to use and easy to customize, versatile, no maintenance, and most importantly, *you* keep full control of your data.

Debbie Ridpath Ohi@debbieohi.com · 2w ago

For creatives wondering why some of us are switching to or starting to use @leaflet.pub to highlight art, writing, & photography, I encourage you to read @norbertwoehnl.com's post. Side note: I discovered Norbert's photo blog thru @standard-reader.app. www.norbertwoehnl.com/3mr7le7546s24

2/ First - science communication! @atproto.science anyone? If social media discussions are so important to science and we value open science, how can this discourse be happening on opaque, closed platforms? see also bsky.app/profile/rone...

Ronen Tamari@ronentk.me · 2w ago

This is why @atproto.science is so relevant rn This compilation of essays indicates that scientists are most frustrated by insufficient “community tools and resources... Essential infrastructure for sharing, maintaining and building on existing work and data is also badly underdeveloped." >

Question to @atmosphere.community: What’s the (official?) best way to get an atmosphere / @atproto.com working group going on environmental data? We have reached critical mass! 🌱🦋

Just installed the Zemble plugin for Zotero. To test it, I shared some literature linked to the "Democracy at work" report we wrote for the Spanish government. Literally one click in Zotero. @semble.so is going places. #atproto #atprotoscience See here: semble.so/profile/benb...

𝕮@chrisshank.com · 3w ago

Just released an early preview of Zemble, a @zotero.org plugin for @semble.so! - Augment you Zotero library with all of the activity happening on Semble/Atmosphere. - Easily save and view items in Zotero on Semble. - Publish Zotero collections as Semble collections.

This is why @atproto.science is so relevant rn This compilation of essays indicates that scientists are most frustrated by insufficient “community tools and resources... Essential infrastructure for sharing, maintaining and building on existing work and data is also badly underdeveloped." >

What Scientists Said: Results from Astera's First Essay Competition

Astera recently hosted its first essay competition, focused around metascience.

asterainstitute.substack.com

New project added to our project list! @tiles.run Local first AI using atproto for data sharing - seems esp. useful for labs interested in sovereign compute or working on sensitive data

Tiles: Own your AI

Local-first private AI assistant for everyday use

tiles.run

Would you like an easy personal research website generator backed by @sifa.id and other atmosphere apps/data? ( @semble.so for library, @standard.site for blog, etc ) Inspired by the academicpages.github.io template all of us researchers use 😅

Sifa ID 🪿@sifa.id · 3w ago

Here's an early POC for a "personal website" run entirely on Sifa (and more atproto) data: sifa.id/p/gui.do/site (just append /site to your own profile to see it in action) You can also self-host it: github.com/singi-labs/s...

Just released an early preview of Zemble, a @zotero.org plugin for @semble.so! - Augment you Zotero library with all of the activity happening on Semble/Atmosphere. - Easily save and view items in Zotero on Semble. - Publish Zotero collections as Semble collections.

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 · 4w 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 👇

Wow, awesome! Massive thank you to the comms & PR team @icmlconf.bsky.social 🤩 ✅️ Multiple update posts per day ✅️ Posts with photos!! 📷 ✅️ Great use of hash tags #icml2026 ✅️ Schedule and QR links at the local mall ✅️ Setting the gold standard for academic Bluesky 👍 🙏

Michael Chesnut@michaelchesnut.bsky.social · 4w ago

ICML International Conference On Machine Learning Not attending this conference, but wandered through COEX Mall in Seoul, saw crowds moving about, then saw this poster, and realized what was going on! Neat to then see skeets about this conference on Bluesky!

Exciting new @atproto.science project! Congrats on the launch 🙌 Also see the #ATScience '26 talk by founder @simpsontw.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-pN...

Skysquare is context as a service - Travis Simpson - @skysquare.app - ATmosphereConf 2026

YouTube video by AT Protocol Development, Tech Talks, and Events

youtube.com

Skysquare@skysquare.app · last mo.

🇺🇸 Happy Fourth of July! On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we're opening the public beta of @skysquare.app. Read Bluesky conversations alongside the articles you're reading. Current build is fully functional; an updated release is awaiting Chrome Web Store approval. 🥁🥁🥁🎇

1/3 May I present "Cellosophy" - a new @semble.so collection on the origins of intelligence in unicellular organisms. Soon to be a @leaflet.pub! semble.so/profile/rang... We tend to think of intelligence as something abstract but in reality, you can't divorce it from its material substrate.

Cellosophy (by Ranganaut) — Semble

Exploring the origins of intelligence and agency, starting with unicellular organisms such as bacteria, choanoflagellates and other protists.

semble.so

"If you’re in the business of knowledge, broadly conceived, ignore #atproto at your peril." 🎯 and #ATScience ;)

Benjamin Braun@benbraun.eurosky.social · last mo.

Just do it. For two distinct reasons: 1. Your data moves to Europe. 2. The act of migrating is educational: It’ll help you understand what the AT protocol is and why it’s a hugely promising technology. If you’re in the business of knowledge, broadly conceived, ignore #atproto at your peril.

@tedunderwood.com This could be an interesting use case for your idea about alternatives to universities cutting seven-figure checks to OpenAI.

Graze Social@graze.social · 2mo ago

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

Ey #geoscience and #earthscience people! Thinking about starting a go’ old webring about geoscientist/earthscientists blogging on atproto. There should be more then just me blogging on @leaflet.pub @offprint.app or @pckt.blog, no? Wave pls 👋

Reminder - happening tomorrow! Based on the pre-call prep - this should be a fun discussion, with lots of #ATScience topics :)

Ronen Tamari@ronentk.me · 2mo ago

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 ..)

Forgot to include the all important #atscience & @atproto.science when I posted direct from leaflet.

Mathew Lowry@mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 2mo ago

Super cool demo of graph.scios.tech at the mira.science conference this week by Jon from @scios.tech ✨ A system for extracting @discoursegraphs.bsky.social from papers with AI, human in the loop editing, and the backend is atproto 🔥 #ATScience in action!

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…

luma.com

With #ATScience, it turns out the hype was the floor, not the ceiling. I got so much more out of both it and the #AtmosphereConf that I wish I had scheduled more time for it. This is worth reading up on so perhaps you can join us at the next one!

ATProto Science@atproto.science · 2mo ago

Very excited to share our (long overdue) writeup from ATScience 2026 in Vancouver! Tagging our long list of credits/mentions in the thread - huge thanks to everyone who made this happen!

Very excited to share our (long overdue) writeup from ATScience 2026 in Vancouver! Tagging our long list of credits/mentions in the thread - huge thanks to everyone who made this happen!

Shareouts from ATScience 2026 in Vancouver

Since when do science conferences have such wild energy?

atscience.leaflet.pub

New grant awarded to the Nanopublications project to build a federated graph of scientific claims with #Fediverse integrations! Great to see similar patterns playing out across open social protocols - bridging informal discourse on social media with more formal science publishing methods #ATScience

"experiments to be in the realm of search and discovery, enabling curation, trust signals, and other approaches that build on the modular elements of science" #modularscience #atscience Congrats to the whole @openrxiv.bsky.social team!! So exciting.

openRxiv@openrxiv.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Introducing openRxiv Labs! 🔬 Growing from the strong foundation of bioRxiv & medRxiv, Labs is an experimental space for working with collaborators to push the boundaries of open scientific communication. 👉 Check it out and learn more: openrxiv.org/openrxiv-lab... #OpenScience #Preprints #Scicomm

Paging #Medsky…. You can now experience a whole atmosphere of healthcare workers on medsky.social. And as of today, we’re officially opening the doors of our new PDS, powered by @blackskyweb.xyz’s Acorn system. Follow the link below to transfer your account and get a new .medsky.network handle!

Move to Medsky

Transfer your AT Protocol account to Medsky in minutes.

move.blacksky.community

It was a joy to chat with Ronen, get some insight into the direction Cosmik and co are going, and explore all the shared vision we have (which only seemed to increase as we went!). Also inspired some exciting concepts for the future of participatory research (including with @atproto.science!)

Ronen Tamari@ronentk.me · 2mo ago

Great conversation today with @luxaritas.com ! So cool to learn more about games for participatory science, feels like we are barely scratching the surface of the potential in research gamification. I learned about the Eterna project where video gamers became core contributors and authors on papers

Cool new #ATScience projects by @rwell.org ! 👀 ~ atproto iNaturalist observ.ing lexicons.bio