Cosmik: Collective Sensemaking Networks

Two weeks into Semble's open alpha and there is a lot going on! Now featuring: PDS-as-API for easy integrations, Similar Cards discovery tab, improved Bluesky post rendering, and our first community PR.

How "circular attention economies" can transform research discovery from individual overwhelm into collective superpower, "co-augmented reality" glasses surfacing previously hidden trails of knowledge and insight.

We’re proud to announce that Cosmik has been awarded a total of $1M in grant funding from Open Philanthropy and the Astera Institute! These generous 2-year grants will support the next chapter of Cosmik and our work at the intersection of next-generation collaborative knowledge tools, AI and science social media. Specifically, the grants will support the development of Semble, a micro-knowledge sharing and discovery network for researchers on Bluesky/ATProto.

Semble, our social knowledge network for researchers, is in open alpha now, and we’d love for you to try it out!

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. 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.

Semantic cross-posters for re-integrating science social media

Hello sensemakers! We’ve been hard at work over the past few months preparing the first alpha release of Sensemaking Networks. We’ll share more update...

End of the Astera fellowship, beginning the next chapter in our journey. TLDR; there has never been a better time for researcher-governed science social media

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

In September we wrapped up a focused release of v0.1 of the SenseNets app to around a dozen alpha testers. Our intrepid testers were mainly academic researchers who were already active on science social media and interested in open science and novel publication methods.