Cosmik Labs

Transforming social networks into sensemaking networks

Lab Notes #009: Semble (alpha) API

Making it even easier to build with Semble.

June 09, 2026

Cosmik Updates: May 2026

We migrated the blog to Leaflet; The Semble community is cookin'!

June 02, 2026

Cosmik Updates: April 2026

"Sense is being made"

May 10, 2026

Lab Notes #008: Semble Connections

A new way to organize, curate and discover content in the open social web

April 08, 2026

Cosmik Updates: March 2026

Hello everyone,

April 08, 2026

Cosmik Updates: February 2026

Hey everyone,

March 04, 2026

Lab Notes #007: Semble Following

The Cosmik Network social graph launches

February 26, 2026

What happened to Science Goodreads and how do we rebuild it? A 65 million dollar question (at least)

The story of the rise and fall of Mendeley

February 13, 2026

Lab Notes #006: Open Collections and Community Stewardship

Details on our first step towards supporting community stewardship and collaborative curation

February 10, 2026

Lab Notes #005: Semble <-> Margin Interop

Details on how we interoperate with Margin data

Lab Notes #005: Semble <-> Margin Interop

February 04, 2026

Cosmik January Updates

One of our New Year’s resolutions was to start sharing monthly updates, so here’s one for January!

February 03, 2026

Cosmik New Year: 2025 in Review, and Looking Forward to 2026

As we begin 2026, we want to share some thoughts for the upcoming year and also take a moment to reflect on 2025 which has been an exciting year for Cosmik.

January 13, 2026

Introducing CAIROS: Collective Augmented Intelligence for Research and Open Science

New year, new initiatives!

January 09, 2026

Introducing ATProto Science

Just before you log off for the holidays, we’re excited to share news about ATProto Science, a new initiative we’re launching that we’ve been partnering on with collaborators in the ATProto ecosystem.

December 23, 2025

Cosmik December Lab Notes: 'Tis the season for sharing your best finds, and other Semble updates

Curate your picks of 2025, spreading attention karma with new Semble notifications, and some cool indie Semble integrations

December 16, 2025

Lab Notes #004: Semble Updates - Notifications, Provenance and Indie Integrations

Spreading good attention karma with new Semble notifications and provenance, and some cool indie Semble integrations

December 12, 2025

Cosmik Lab Notes 003: Semble Updates - Discover, Collection Preview, Sorting, and more

An overview of some recent enhancements to Semble (with a poll for next features!)

November 28, 2025

Cosmik Lab Notes 002: Semble Updates - Community Tinkering, Basic API, and New Discovery Features

Happy Friday everyone,

November 21, 2025

Cosmik Lab Notes 002: Semble Updates - Community Tinkering, Basic API, and New Discovery Features

Happy Friday everyone,

November 21, 2025

Cosmik Lab Notes 001: Semble Alpha

We’re excited to start Cosmik Lab Notes, where we’ll be working in the open and sharing thoughts as we build Semble and the wider Cosmik Network.

November 10, 2025

Cosmik Lab Notes 001: Semble Alpha

Welcome everyone!

November 07, 2025

Semble Setup Guide

Making the most of Semble: Bookmarklet, Progressive Web App, and iOS shortcut

November 07, 2025

The Fork in the Road: AI Horseless Carriages or Collective Intelligence for Science

Last month I attended an in-person gathering of scientists, technologists and field-builders at the intersection of AI and metascience. This post is an extended version of a talk I gave there. It contains some themes you might be familiar with if you’ve read previous posts, but hopefully with some interesting new frames. The prompt for the talk was an invitation to explore one of the main discussion topics at the event - metascience threats and opportunities posed by AI acceleration.

October 15, 2025

Cosmik awarded $1M grant from Open Philanthropy and Astera Institute for new social knowledge network for researchers

The grants will support the development of Semble, a new knowledge sharing and discovery network for researchers

August 15, 2025

Overcoming information overload with circular attention economies

Herbert Simon, in the oft-quoted passage from the 1971 piece “Designing Organizations For An Information-Rich World”, foresaw how information overload would transform attention into one of the most valuable resources:

May 30, 2025

From SenseNets to Cosmik

End of the Astera fellowship, beginning of a journey

March 20, 2025

SenseNets alpha launch retrospective

Experiments at the bleeding edge scientific publishing

November 06, 2024

From Genius Science to Scenius Science

Why personal AI tools might not be all we need to revolutionize science

July 30, 2024

Sensemaking Networks Part 3: building partnerships and prototypes

Semantic cross-posters for re-integrating science social media

March 10, 2024

Part 2: Sensemaking Networks Project Plan

Integrating fragmented science social media and reducing the barriers to semantic publishing with NLP

December 25, 2023

Sensemaking Networks: Project Introduction

Incorporating science social media into the scientific process

December 12, 2023

Sensemaking Networks: Project Introduction

Incorporating science social media into the scientific process

December 07, 2023