Now that the birch pollen season is definitely over, I can draw some conclusions from a two-year experiment with the impressive sample size of one - myself. As you will see, my topic is not so much the experiment itself, but the circumstances in which it happened.
Pollen - A place for things to spread
A gentle place for things to spread. Share GIFs, thoughts, and moments on a decentralized social network built on the Atmosphere.
Brazil’s highland forest has been shaped by climate change and Indigenous people for 6,000 years
Prehistoric pollen records show that forest dynamics were driven by more than just broad-scale climatic changes.
Atmospheric events commons - open self
In the very early days of the atmosphere we only had Smoke Signal. Made by @ngerakines.me it clearly demonstrated how events could work on the atmosphere, c…
Pollen – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-CA)
Download Pollen for Firefox. Surface image provenance claims on Bluesky
What stories should we tell about scientific progress now?
In search of the mysterious fruits of basic science
The one science reform we can all agree on, but we're too cowardly to do
OR: the long overdue forest fire
Nate on Twitter / X
OSTP just released 'Science: A New Golden Age' — 72 pages modeled on Vannevar Bush's 1945 report. I read the whole thing. It's remarkably good.The sharpest insight is on page 60. AI could do to science what fire suppression did to forests: make each individual tree safer while…— Nate (@NateWBradford) July 21, 2026
Science has been in a “replication crisis” for a decade. Have we learned anything?
Bad papers are still published. But some other things might be getting better.
The Next Decade of Preprints Needs Experiments, Not Opinions
Lately, I have spent a considerable amount of time writing about my concerns regarding the direction of the preprint ecosystem and the behaviour of some of the actors within it. Increasingly, I wor…
Small Telescopes - Uri Simonsohn, 2015
This article introduces a new approach for evaluating replication results. It combines effect-size estimation with hypothesis testing, assessing the extent to w...
Oshima Science
Break down papers into claims, experiments, and evidence. See how they connect across papers.
Everything is In-Between — Douglas Rushkoff
I’ve begun this piece maybe twenty times in the past three weeks. By the time I’ve finished the first paragraph, some new thing happens that obsolesces whatever event I’m writing about. And I’m not even writing about the news, so much as using one shared moment as a “peg” for a piece about some larger phenomenon or strategy.
Fun fact: Tempo, as an idea, started long before we knew what the #atmosphere was. We wrote this short #leaflet #blog text to introduce the people who have been following us from our CENTECH accelerator days to this concept.
One Account For The Entire Web
tempo.leaflet.pub