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Capturing our Attention

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

Governing Together: Toward Infrastructure for Community-Run Social Media

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Building for Organizers - The People Layer

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W — Trust your feed

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W Social is a textbook case for everything wrong with digital sovereignty

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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…

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

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Arts & Deeptech, A Codependency

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

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The University As We Know It Is Finished

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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

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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD on Twitter / X

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

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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…

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Reason Commons | Reason Commons — Issue Trees & Logical Thinking Process

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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

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…

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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

AI Use Disclosure resources

The Robyn Dawes Institute for the Improvement of Science

What stories should we tell about scientific progress now?

Open Science Foundation

Science Works

Flywheel

The Dissemination of Scholarly Information: Journals, Open-Access and Distributed Filtering

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Unlocking Dataset Value for AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery (AI Datasets)

Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable Open Science (FAIROS)

Supporting ambitious external research through the Anthropic Economic Futures Research Fund

Open Access - Arcadia

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