







Sensemaking Networks is a project aiming to address three interrelated limitations of the current science publishing and communication infrastructure: (1) poor reach and feedback, (2) knowledge fragmentation, and (3) rigid formats. To address these issues, Sensemaking Networks combine two promising trends in science publishing and communication: science social media and semantic nanopublishing. While science social media significantly impacts scientific processes and public engagement, it lacks formal recognition and accessibility. On the other hand, nanopublications offer the benefits of formal scientific publishing and machine-readable knowledge representation. Their integration represents a promising direction that could serve as a transformative sensemaking layer for science, enhancing the collective synthesis, dissemination, and evaluation of research.
Sensemaking Networks: Project Introduction - Cosmik Labs
Incorporating science social media into the scientific process
Part 2: Sensemaking Networks Project Plan - Cosmik Labs
Integrating fragmented science social media and reducing the barriers to semantic publishing with NLP
Sensemaking and Science Publishing | Ronen Tamari
Sensemaking as a new framework for understanding why science publishing/peer review is broken, and how to fix it
Sensemaking Networks Part 3: building partnerships and prototypes - Cosmik Labs
Semantic cross-posters for re-integrating science social media
From Social Network to Sense Making
Science Communication as a Collective Intelligence Endeavor: A Manifesto and Examples for Implementation
Effective science communication is challenging when scientific messages are informed by a continually updating evidence base and must often compete against misinformation. We argue that we need a new program of science communication as collective intelligence—a collaborative approach, supported by technology. This would have four key advantages over the typical model where scientists communicate as individuals: scientific messages would be informed by (a) a wider base of aggregated knowledge, (b) contributions from a diverse scientific community, (c) participatory input from stakeholders, and (d) better responsiveness to ongoing changes in the state of knowledge.

NLnet; Nanoarguments
Scientific knowledge is currently scattered across papers, repositories, and disconnected platforms, with no structured way to trace how claims connect to evidence or how arguments develop. Nanoarguments builds a framework and tools for creating, browsing, and contributing to a global, federated graph of scientific discourse and evidence. Researchers and their communities can collaboratively structure claims, evidence chains, and discussion as nanopublications, which are small, cryptographically signed Linked Data snippets with precise provenance and authorship, published to a decentralized peer-to-peer network. The project builds upon the Nanodash interface to help users browse, edit, and aggregate discourse and evidence graphs, and integrates with dokieli to enable in-context authoring of nanopublications as inline annotations while reading or writing a document. A bidirectional ActivityPub connector bridges the nanopublication network and the fediverse, allowing discourse threads to start as social exchanges and crystallize into persistent, machine-readable evidence records. The project will be piloted with early adopter research groups in discourse and evidence modeling. All components will be released as open-source modules that other systems can build upon.
Science Live: Platform for FAIR Nanopublications
Science Live Platform - Transform research into connected knowledge


Metagov x Future of Science Seminar - Discourse Graphs with Matt Akamatsu
Science Live - The Platform for FAIR Research
Transform research into FAIR nanopublications. Create, discover, cite, and embed structured knowledge bricks.
The Astrosky Ecosystem: An independent online platform for science communication and social networking
While almost everything that astronomers study occurs in the vacuum of space, astronomy itself does not `happen in a vacuum'. Interactions between scientists, as well as outreach to members of the public, improve extensively from access to good communication tools. Social media has become a key tool for communication in astronomy, being widely used by individuals and organizations alike for networking, outreach, and more. However, traditional social media is reliant on benevolent corporations providing a free service without compromising on quality, and the recent takeover and decline of Twitter has shown how vulnerable these platforms can be. In this proceeding, we present The Astrosky Ecosystem, which is an initiative to develop open-source tools and integrations for social media, principally the Bluesky social network. We explain how our project enables the astronomy community to operate its own social media infrastructure, independent of for-profit corporations. We also discuss some of the project's technical aspects, including its use of the AT Protocol for social networking, before concluding with ideas for the future.

Cosmik Network
@cosmik.network
Transforming social networks into sensemaking networks cosmik.network | Building @semble.so a social knowledge network for research | Co-organizing @atproto.science @cairos.network
Frontiers In Research webinar on changes in science communication, the role of social media, and new infrastructure/tools - tomorrow (7/18) at 2 pm ET Looking forward to chatting with @ronentk.me & @joelchan86.bsky.social luma.com/7l18yyg4
Frontiers In Research: Open Science · Zoom · Luma
luma.comfray — Bluesky thread factions
samantha.wiki/fray
Mu for democracy - Erlend’s notes
social-protocols/jabble

Dan Singleton 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Twitter / X

No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior