Ronen Tamari
@ronentk.me
Researcher & entrepreneur | Co-founder @cosmik.network | Building @semble.so | collective sensemaking | ronentk.me | Ecosystem building @atproto.science @cairos.network | Prev- Open Science Fellow @asterainstitute.bsky.social
Inspired by bsky.app/profile/tedunderwood.com/post…
as we get further into the end of days, I'm reminded about how much of research taste, values and judgment is bound up in the taste, values…
Chris Olah on Twitter / X
College admissions insanity is substantially explained by this fact: The number of elite entry level jobs (e.g. McKinsey, Goldman Sachs…

Alternative Universities: Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher Education

Opinion | AI Is the Future. Higher Ed Should Shape It.

The University As We Know It Is Finished

Opinion | Why Universities Should Be More Like Monasteries (Published 2023)
Where Should Science Go Next
Dr. Casey Fiesler (@cfiesler.bsky.social)

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

iNaturalist accelerates biodiversity research
Why Do We Call It Participatory Science? | Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Peer Production in Citizen Science: A Community-Centered Approach on the Example of Personal Science
Practical recommendations from a multi-perspective needs and challenges assessment of citizen science games

Citing Less Critically: LLMs Reshape the Rhetoric and Reach of Scientific Citation
Arvind Narayanan on Twitter / X
AI Research Evaluation: Negative Findings and Failure Modes | Arvind Narayanan posted on the topic | LinkedIn

Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics

Can AI agents conduct open-ended AI research? Early evidence from two case studies
What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work…

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
Arvind Narayanan on Twitter / X
Arvind Narayanan on Twitter / X

Large language models are not the problem

AI Is Not Conscious, But It Is Our Unconscious

AI Is Not Conscious, But It Is Our Unconscious

Technology is a Siren Song
Update: The external AppView is stable again, so W has switched back. All AT Protocol users are now visible again. Our own AppView worked…
Some W users experienced problems today because W was relying on Bluesky’s AppView. When their AppView went down, parts of W went down with…

W — Trust your feed
Even as @wsocial.eu onboards more and more users, they can’t seem to get them to talk to each other 🤐 This atrocious engagement rate (~9…

W Social is a textbook case for everything wrong with digital sovereignty
We have exciting news: the 🇪🇺 State of the Union speech will be broadcast live on W. And there’s more coming around live video on W. …
Alex Imas on Twitter / X

What Humanity Needs To Flourish In The Next Decade

Pax Machina — Institutions in a World with Powerful AI

Science: A New Golden Age
How AI Agents are transforming scientific discovery

We May Be Entering A Second Axial Age
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…

How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
First impressions: Delta - Cameron's writing
Introducing Delta

On genAI: Was prototyping really a bottleneck?
My impression is that AI coding is on a "pick two of three" triangle: scope, ship speed, and correctness. Small tools are (speed + correctne…

Devtools must be open source - exe.dev blog

Of Swarms and Sand Gods

Inducing language models to assert their own consciousness restores human beliefs and values

The Public Accountability Initiative –LittleSis –

The Uncensored Library – Reporters without borders

Journal publishes paper by video-gamers who derived scientific rules from Stanford online RNA game

Frameshifter
Practical recommendations from a multi-perspective needs and challenges assessment of citizen science games
"... our desire and attention falls to certain things because of the way that we feel about the person, place, or thing that introduces it…

Capturing our Attention
www.sebastianwatzl.com
It's getting harder to focus every day

Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself and bloom

Movements of the Mind: A Theory of Attention, Intention and Action

See what you think
Reason Commons | Reason Commons — Issue Trees & Logical Thinking Process
What's the point of a note-taking app?

Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management — Unattributed
Logial Thinking Process (LTP) / Issue Tree App and Exploration - Issue Trees & Logical Thinking Process

Own the source. Compose with anything. - The Way of Markdown