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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…

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

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

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

Venture Capital Status

Arts & Deeptech, A Codependency

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

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

Greta Thunberg incident (2018) (by あ) — Semble

Very sad to see Rick get driven off of Bluesky by sharing a report of using Claude Code to do something cool and useful. The absolute vitrio…

The Problem With AI Is Shitty Human Beings

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

Crossmark - Crossref

SemRepo.org

Incubating Aster - Updates from the Modal Foundation

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

Explore the ATmosphere — internect.info

Postcard · Paste a post, get a clean image

PDS OS

trueberryless/awesome-atproto

SkyTrace

atmoBB Forums

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

Where Should Science Go Next

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

Development Beyond Information: Human Becoming in the Age of AI

FOURTH REPORT: Former Alpha School students speak out

FOLLOW-UP REPORT: Alpha School Speaks!

SPECIAL REPORT Last month, Alpha School invited people to follow student social media accounts "if curious about life in our high schools…

Mamdani Issues AI Moratorium In NYC Schools

Jeff Melnick on Twitter / X