Cosmik Labs
Transforming social networks into sensemaking networks
Cosmik Updates: June 2026
Semble API launched, and the community didn't waste a minute. Plus share-outs from ATScience, the MIRA (modular research) workshop and a Frontiers of Open Science panel.
Lab Notes #008: Semble Connections
A new way to organize, curate and discover content in the open social web
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
Lab Notes #006: Open Collections and Community Stewardship
Details on our first step towards supporting community stewardship and collaborative curation
Cosmik January Updates
One of our New Year’s resolutions was to start sharing monthly updates, so here’s one for January!
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.
Introducing CAIROS: Collective Augmented Intelligence for Research and Open Science
New year, new initiatives!
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.
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
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
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!)
Cosmik Lab Notes 002: Semble Updates - Community Tinkering, Basic API, and New Discovery Features
Happy Friday everyone,
Cosmik Lab Notes 002: Semble Updates - Community Tinkering, Basic API, and New Discovery Features
Happy Friday everyone,
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.
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.
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
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:
From Genius Science to Scenius Science
Why personal AI tools might not be all we need to revolutionize science
Sensemaking Networks Part 3: building partnerships and prototypes
Semantic cross-posters for re-integrating science social media
Part 2: Sensemaking Networks Project Plan
Integrating fragmented science social media and reducing the barriers to semantic publishing with NLP
Sensemaking Networks: Project Introduction
Incorporating science social media into the scientific process
Sensemaking Networks: Project Introduction
Incorporating science social media into the scientific process