Guest post: If you’re going to critique science, be scientific about it
Loren K. Mell Editor’s note: This post responds to a Feb. 13 article in The Atlantic, “The Scientific Literature Can’t Save Us Now,” written by Retraction Watch cofounders Adam Marcus and Ivan Oran…
Decolonising Science Reading List
In the last couple of weeks, a lot of people have been asking me about what I’ve been reading as reference points for my commentary on the…
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ATScience 2026 Presentations
math bio methods
re-commoning science
participatory research
Why Modular Research
Content relating to how modular research addresses issues in traditional science
reimagining science
AI and/for science
IOSP 2026
Shared reading list for conference participants. Drop your favorite references or cool links that come up in chats. Add any Semble collections you create during the ATScience workshop.
Science reform initiatives/proposals
accessibility
Philosophy for Scientists
atproto explanations 💡
AI mediated science
Semble use for research
exploring ways Semble can be used for research
Matadata! Publishing scientific data straight to AT - ATmosphereConf 2026
Skysquare is context as a service - Travis Simpson - @skysquare.app - ATmosphereConf 2026
The Atmosphere as research infrastructure
Reigniting the Party: Lessons from a Stalled Migration to Bluesky - ATmosphereConf 2026
Building decentralized AI on atproto - ATmosphereConf 2026
Making wisdom together - seams.so - @hyl.st - ATmosphereConf 2026
A Nonparametric Approach to Practical Identifiability of Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models
ci.acm.org
Grand Challenges for the Convergence of Computational and Citizen Science Research Workshop Report
From Access to Participation: Opening the Evaluation of Knowledge
An epistemology for democratic citizen science
Cool example of participatory research from The Long Haul. Different from many citizen science projects where scientists bring the questions…
How can citizen science reduce psychological distance to science? Insights from three projects in contested environmental contexts
Profit, cost, price, learned societies; further thoughts on Samuel A. Moore's Publishing Beyond the Market
Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons
Authorship, division of labour, material and digital form; thoughts on Samuel A. Moore's Publishing Beyond the Market
Bioregionalism, Commoning, and Relationalized Finance | David Bollier
Reclaiming the Computing Commons
The Drain of Scientific Publishing
Becoming a stranger in my own field
John Horton on Twitter / X
Gautam Kamath on Twitter / X
Talia Ringer 🕊🪬 on Twitter / X
Andy Matuschak on Twitter / X
Big Tech’s War on Human Achievement | Compact
The release of #ClaudeDesign left me wondering what a tool like this could look like for academics (rather than designers) I then used Claud…
What if paper reading and reviewing was interactive and visual? Tools today assume a very passive way of engaging with a paper: you open a…
Unsimple Truths: Science, Complexity, and Policy
The Easy Intro to the APCA Contrast Method
It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
InclusiveColors - Accessible color palette creator
MIRA-science/linkedopendata-at
Reclaiming Data Autonomy as a Peasant
Reclaiming Data Autonomy as a Peasant
The 34th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization
Metaudits
LaborTrail — The Trail of Your Blood on Circuits - a Hugging Face Space by sage-lollipop
Hyperproblems: New Ways of Doing and Communicating Science - Hyperproblems
Nathan Skene on Twitter / X
ScienceIDE: Turning World's Scientific Codebase into Agent Learnable Environments
Where does the rigor go? Research software and the future of trustworthy science.
Is the scientific paper still a fraud?
I have a friend who replicates every study he wants to follow up on before starting his follow up, just to make sure he's not chasing phanto…
Convergence · Gathering open science · Montreal, June 16–18, 2027
Science Works on Twitter / X
Science, with agency. — UK Agentic Science Network
From Access to Participation: Opening the Evaluation of Knowledge
How contemporary academic structures constrain scientific creativity and hold back early-career researchers
The Robyn Dawes Institute for the Improvement of Science
Open Social — overreacted
The Everything Account · augment
Introduction to AT Protocol
The Last Social Account You'll Ever Need. - Interlinked
a practical guide to decentralization (for my friends) - tim's tinkerings
Atmosphere Account
Widget
Related work | Data Counterfactuals
I’ve got a @semble.so Collection of #AI tools I’ve come across specifically for academic research. Most of these Ive tried and found them…
borgr/ATProto-links-bot
I've been experimenting with a workflow for @semble.so. After I read an article, I send it to Johnson, my PA bot and ask it to use the Sembl…
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Claude Science (beta)
Lacuna: A Research Map for Machine Learning
Agentic Laboratories of the Future: Towards World Models for Scientific Discovery
Early science acceleration experiments with GPT-5
Reimagining research papers as interactive and reliable AI agents
The Alien Space of Science: Sampling Coherent but Cognitively...