Trying out the features in Claude for education. Join me as I see how it "helps" me write a research paper. My chosen topic: "AI and education". /1

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

blog.cosmik.network

Open social has a well-known left-leaning bias

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · yesterday

Not here because it's a left-leaning site, here because I see this as a renewed vision of the internet.

Whoa!! *jumps into Semble to follow new collections*

Joel Chan@joelchan86.bsky.social · 21h ago

h/t @semble.so discovery trail via @zafarali.me

Really enjoyed this piece by @permadeath.com ! "Adversarial internecting" is my new favorite concept 🤓 I've been working on this for the past few years in the context of science social media (eg trying to get science twitter to move to bluesky) but have lacked the words for it

Adversarial internecting

How to move data to the Atmosphere and screw over someone else's valuation in the process

permadeath.com

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

Left, right, whatever, I just want graduate students posting their papers here

A lovely interview with the newish Bluesky CEO, @toni.bsky.team! I'm optimistic for the future of the platform and for AT Protocol as a whole. I think their support of devs and other projects on the ecosystem is only getting better, which is awesome.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

CEO Toni Schneider on protocols, community, and control. www.theverge.com/podcast/9743...

how many atproto people are asleep? discourse.atmosphere.community/t/in-which-a...

In Which A Book Lexicon is Born

Hi everyone, We recently held a sync to discuss creating a shared book lexicon for the Atmosphere Protocol. I’ve shared the full recording (thanks Ronen!) and notes from the meeting here: Fathom with...

discourse.atmosphere.community

24-year-old ex-OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner built a $20B AI hedge fund called Situational Awareness. He bet heavily on AI related stocks until this week’s selloff led to a margin call and he had to liquidate his public portfolio. Actually sounds like a lack of situational awareness.

AI investor Leopold Aschenbrenner forced to unwind all public stock positions after steep losses, sources say

Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund has sold all of its public stock holdings, according to people familiar with the matter.

cnbc.com

i still currently believe that free and open-source software bundled with self-hosted options are the only sustainable path forward for content creators longterm we should be educating and sharing knowledge on these tools now more than ever

"[Man] aspires to make robots as one of the greatest achievements of his technical mind, and some specialists assure us that the robot will hardly be distinguished from living men. This achievement will not seem so astonishing when man himself is hardly distinguishable from a robot." - Erich Fromm

ANNOUNCEMENT: I’ve been working on putting together something between a retreat and a hackathon for #atproto builders for the past several weeks. I’ve been in discussion with potential funders and some funding has become available to make this a reality. now, I need your help!! KEEP READING 👇🏽

🧵 Blacksky is looking to buy a server for $30k USD. We'd like the following specs or better: - 384 GB RAM - 80 TB NVMe; ZFS RAIDZ2 in 2 vdevs - 1 Gbps + 10 Gpbs burstable - at least 84 threads for the CPU(s) - Ideally somewhere in the eastern half of North America but open to North America and EU

The AI community is SLEEPING on atproto's potential. With all the "on-tap intelligence" we have these days you'd think they'd be faster to figure that out

Ohh love this! Now all we need is to figure out how to gamify modular research and knowledge using legos on atproto 🙃 >

Pieter Montoulieu@montoulieu.dev · 5d ago

A sneak peek at brick building on protocol 👀

Tynan is so good at this. Much respect 🫶

Tynan Purdy ⁂@tynanpurdy.com · 6d ago

You know what the best way to get somebody sold on the atmosphere is? Get them to a local meet up.

This is more than the NSF social sciences division - now on the chopping block - awarded in grants last year. Think about that: a single AI company has the money to fund more social science research than the US govt.

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 5d ago

Anthropic AI research fund offers $5m - $30m for social science research on themes of AI impact on workers; transition initiatives; income support; building worker stakes; and wider evidence on public investments. Total fund of $200m available www.anthropic.com/news/economi...

Last week I presented a keynote at #SIGIR2026 titled "Emancipatory Information Retrieval: Towards Critical IR Theories and Practices". Slides: bhaskar-mitra.github.io/files/emanci... I went in nervously excited but several people appreciated talking openly about this topic. A quick thread. 🧵 1/

I curated some readings for class on "data tensions" and the list felt worth sharing. Come on a tour of datasets, books, the web, and AI with me... We'll start with this piece on the Google Books project: the hopes, dreams, disasters, and aftermath of building a public library on the internet. 1/n

Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria

“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”

theatlantic.com

We're all very lucky to have @tessa.germnetwork.com in the Atmosphere builders community. Thank you for everything you do!

“…our sense that we are reading the work of another human being, someone with connections to others, to a time and a place like postwar Naples, someone to whom we might relate our own life stories, is our strongest reason not to cede too much ground to AI-generated text.”

Dan Cohen@dancohen.org · 6d ago

New issue of my newsletter Humane Ingenuity: “The Breath of the Author” — The palpable presence of someone else’s mind in our best writing should give us pause about the encroachment of AI text newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...

Colleagues with monetized Substacks: The future of publishing will be on atproto – at least the non-broligarch, moat-free, democratic future of individual publishing. Now @leaflet.pub is launching paid subscriptions. The best time to switch is now. Become an early adopter.

Leaflet@leaflet.pub · 6d ago

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!

@sjgreenwood.bsky.social talking algorithm research using Bluesky at @ic2s2.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

This is really cool! Grateful for the positive creative energy in the Atmosphere 😊

Pieter Montoulieu@montoulieu.dev · last wk.

New atproto app idea I demoed yesterday where you record what you’re grateful for and tag someone. Each orb is a recording, and is used to power a generative synth for a dynamic ambient soundscape. Definitely zoned out to this last night 👽

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

@mosermostly.bsky.social had what is likely the correct read: that they will use this to train a bot to seem less botlike

Tits McGee@scientits.bsky.social · 6d ago

Oh my God, this is not a drill - LinkedIn has added 'seems like AI slop' as an option on posts Genuinely thought it was a joke until I clicked on a few posts

ATProto builders, I've been having some really positive conversations with multiple funders who want to invest in the ecosystem. The tides are shifting, the interest is here. But, we need to talk. 👇

Me, combining the powers from @margin.at @semble.so @skysquare.app @mustardnotes.com @skyreader.app @standard-reader.app during my daily browsing, expanding my knowledge and contributing with shared knowledge too, all inside the open social web

Tim And Eric Mind Blown Universe Meme

Alt: Tim And Eric Mind Blown Universe Meme

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