The Conservative Mind

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

Where Should Science Go Next

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

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

Home

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

Catalyze

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

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…

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

"... 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

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

AI Use Disclosure resources

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. …

Genspace

The case against efficiency: friction in social media

Eurosky is collaborating with SPRIND to test a non-toxic algorithm for the first time - Eurosky

Mu for democracy - Erlend’s notes

social-protocols/jabble

GreenEarth Social | Jonathan Stray | Substack

Bloom

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

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)

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