A (Mostly) Personal Journal
The Journal of Scientific Integrity
by Laura Luebbert and Lior Pachter Background (by LL) Four years ago, during the first year of my PhD at Caltech, I participated in a journal club organized by the lab I was rotating in. I was assi…
Perfectly Imperfect is the ‘social magazine’ (and nerd’s paradise) remodelling the online sphere
Split between a platform to profile figures from Charli XCX to Francis Ford Coppola, and a social network that refuses to serve the algorithm overlords, this magazine is breaking necks.
Branch Magazine Issue 8: Finding beauty in the imperfect
Branch is an online magazine written by and for people who dream of a sustainable and just internet. Issue 8 out now: Finding beauty in the imperfect.
The Imperfectionist: Navigating by aliveness
I’m amazed and very pleased to say that the UK paperback of Meditations for Mortals entered the Sunday Times bestsellers at number 9 this week, after being selected as a Waterst...
When Nature Calls: The Enshittification of Science and Its Enablers
Proof-of-work papers, policy laundering, and the collapse of self-correction
“Paging Dr. Fraud”: The Fake Publishers That Are Ruining Science
For years, spurious journals have proliferated online, promising academic credibility in exchange for cash.
The Imperfectionist: Interest is everything
Interest is everything Each time I sit down to choose a topic for this newsletter, there’s a moment when my self-important inner judge – who loves to involve himself in such mat...
Publishing is fucked. The ATmosphere could save it. | Paul Stephenson | Offprint
Building a future for publishing that keeps authors and readers at its heart.
ATProto Reputation
Self-declaration of what you are. Published once, describes your nature. Necessary but not sufficient.
Had to put some thoughts to digital paper on my recent journey.
The Power of a Well Built Community
mihaizaurus.leaflet.pub"I" may have just found a fundamental flaw in a "dense, high-prestige paper". Problem is, I don't have a clue what I did and how to verify any of this. I asked Gemini to perform a review of an interesting paper and it was skeptical and proposed a data analysis that should be performed.
a south park poster with a boy scout and the words what are you guys doing in there
media.tenor.comFinally had some time (to attempt) to catch up on reading the articles published on Offprint. Wanted to share a few that were fun reads First article is by @bunniesin.space. They’re exploring the world of atproto and reading their thoughts and confusion on @mu.social’s lex extension was a good read
Some thoughts on extending lexicons
amybunny.offprint.appatproto-reads
blogs and writing about atproto (maybe also open social generally)
Researcher Pages
All things related to personal pages for researchers on atproto
Personal Journal Club
Papers papers papers
The Bluesky ecosystem has the juice (ATProto for normies) - Nate Spilman
nothin' but blue skies from now on
What It Means for Universities to Run Their Own PDS: The Potential of DID as Academic Infrastructure - Nightflight
From Attention to Intention - The Open Garden
Practical Decentralization
Cognitive Architectures for Language Agents
Thinking—Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender
Warnings for pattern matching
Retrieval-Augmented Code Generation: A Survey with Focus on Repository-Level Approaches
Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts
TDOP Pratt
Sifa — Portable professional identity on the open web
Lanyards - Researcher Profiles on AT Protocol
Ronen Tamari (@ronentk.me)
Mosh Lee (@mosh.bsky.social)
