mira.science community reading recommendations

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 hardest working font in Manhattan

The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing
Goudy Oldstyle in use

Steve Simkins

A corner of the web for builders.

The 1960s Art School Experiment That Redefined Creativity
Kanjun 🐙 on Twitter / X
Hiring and firing a DBA

LLMs and performative productivity

Collaborative AI Engineering: One Dev, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment — Maggie Appleton, GitHub

We are Changing our Developer Productivity Experiment Design

Agents want flexible schemas

Unsimple Truths: Science, Complexity, and Policy
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…
Quit Omarchy (DHH) (by あ) — Semble
Yeah so maaaaaybe dont use DigitalOcean omarchy.org/news/2026/09...

AI Had Better Work Out
What Shall I Teach My Son?
LLMs are not like manufacturing machines - Ross Wintle
If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how the fuck do you even know whats going on?

Neural Networks Are Already Clean

Resilience, Risk, and Transformation
aturi.to — Tour the Atmosphere

atpotato

Dripline: We built you a garden 🌼 | Hypha
Lichen
Smoke Signal

Germ Network
The Trace and the Artifact | shishyko!
Curvenote® (@curvenote.com)

The new way we’ll do science
Zotero - InPeeR Ethi-quette (by Jay Patel) — Semble

Science: A New Golden Age
Plan S
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Malone Scott
Radical Respect: How to Work Together Better by Kim Scott
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security by Scott Galloway
Today · Standard Reader

atproto-comments
Semble Setup Guide - Cosmik Labs
What is the Atmosphere? · Leaflet Lab Notes

Planning with Agents: Divided Worlds, Boundary Objects, and Thicker Interfaces

Nova Scotia’s Experiment in Research That Solves Real Problems

How can citizen science reduce psychological distance to science? Insights from three projects in contested environmental contexts

Nova Scotia’s Experiment in Research That Solves Real Problems

Genspace
Citizen science games (by Ronen Tamari) — Semble
particpatory science (by Ronen Tamari) — Semble

AI and The Enclosure of the Scientific Commons

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

Inference Cooperative — AI, governed together
AlignmentJournal on Twitter / X
I’ve been quiet on social media lately, but today I’m launching Audit Clinical Evidence (ACE), an initiative I’ve been developing over the…
A New Paradigm for Scientific Publishing, Peer Review, and Impact Assessment

Nova Scotia’s Experiment in Research That Solves Real Problems

datasetpapers — a public research experiment
The Ground Truth Institute
How Infrastructure Works: Transforming our shared systems for a changing world