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Incubating Aster - Updates from the Modal Foundation

Announcing Aster - a home for researchers on the open web - Aster Blog

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

VC isn’t VC anymore — understanding the rise of Cancer Capital - Anil Dash

Venture Capital Status

Arts & Deeptech, A Codependency

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…

Reams

www.sciencedirect.com

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

riding the internet subway to recent links people have visited..

conrad house on Twitter / X

Creative Reading: Scaffolding Reading for Transformation

Wikipedia (@wikipedia.org)

Semble: Rediscovering the Magic of Trails - ATmosphereConf 2026

TrailMarks

Genspace

Laura Matsue on Twitter / X

Attention and the Relevance Problem

"... 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

Interestingly, as the digital sublime emerged, feminists like Joanna Russ were early on in recognizing this sublime as (male) addiction and…

Feminist Computing (by 𝕮) — Semble

Data Feminism

TasteVal: Measuring the Experimental Research Taste of AI Systems Against Human Experts

Agentic Laboratories of the Future: Towards World Models for Scientific Discovery

Large language models eroding science understanding: an empirical study of ‘malignment’

Where’s the “intelligence explosion”?

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

Carl T. Bergstrom (@carlbergstrom.com)

Do Drunk Mice Sire Weird-Looking Offspring? – Quentin André

Curious about the competing interests statesments for @i4replication.bsky.social’s @pnas.org paper. 1) funding for i4r comes heavily from an…

Dan Singleton 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ on Twitter / X

Is the map of global bat distribution in this paper (Nov 2025, ‘Sustainability’ journal) AI nonsense? Comments from experts on LinkedIn are…

Trans Journalists Association Stylebook and Coverage Guide

The new way we’ll do science

Why we’re expanding the openRxiv Labs Curvenote Reader experiment

Curvenote Reader brings a better reading experience to half a million openRxiv preprints

Launching openRxiv Labs - openRxiv

Universal Scientific Protocols, Inc.

The Micro-Paper: Towards cheaper, citable research ideas and conversations

Where Should Science Go Next

Dr. Casey Fiesler (@cfiesler.bsky.social)

Crossmark - Crossref

SemRepo.org

W Social has a page where they tracked European MPs accounts: europetalking.wsocial.news It's a cool study, but they have an indicator sayin…

Just 18 unverified VIP accounts produce more than half of all W Social content. | W Don't Have Time | Offprint

“European public voices choosing W” —But are they? - aiueo

@cristinacaffarra.bsky.social FYI you are listed as one of a list of "European public voices choosing W" on this web page: europetalking.wso…

W Social: Key Allegations & Answers - Alt Text

How not to build trust - Mathew's newsletter