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Capturing our Attention

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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

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

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…

Of Swarms and Sand Gods

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

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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

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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. …

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

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

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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

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…

Genspace

Bluesky’s new CEO wants a big tent, not a bubble

Luke Kanies | Building on ATProto

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Bluesky is a record store

Federation Has a European Legal Problem

Kat Tenbarge (@kattenbarge.bsky.social)

Mamdani Issues AI Moratorium In NYC Schools

Jeff Melnick on Twitter / X

Trying out the features in Claude for education. Join me as I see how it "helps" me write a research paper. My chosen topic: "AI and educati…

Generative AI without guardrails can harm learning: Evidence from high school mathematics

I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan

Luiza Jarovsky, PhD on Twitter / X

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

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