informal review in the wild

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Chris Olah on Twitter / X

The Public Accountability Initiative –LittleSis –

The Uncensored Library – Reporters without borders

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Frameshifter

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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

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…

"... 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

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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

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conrad house on Twitter / X

Creative Reading: Scaffolding Reading for Transformation

Wikipedia (@wikipedia.org)

Semble: Rediscovering the Magic of Trails - ATmosphereConf 2026

TrailMarks

Genspace

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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

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

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

Governing Together: Toward Infrastructure for Community-Run Social Media

The community-first software era

Building for Organizers - The People Layer

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Introducing Acorn: Community Infrastructure That Grows With You

Relational Tech Project — Build what we need

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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

Catalyze

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

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We May Be Entering A Second Axial Age

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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. …