







1RG is a container for experiments in reimagining the relationship between community and technology. In the first half of this year we dipped our toes into the world of incubators. Here’s how it went – in the form of experimental design. Because it was fun the first time. Background Traditional
Public Spaces Incubator | New_ Public
The Public Spaces Incubator is an international partnership between six public service media organizations and New_ Public to develop new, useful tools that improve online conversation.

Germ Theory: Why We Chose a Provocative Name for a Safer Messenger — Germ Network
Our company name Germ Network emerged from a brainstorm off of the word “grassroots.” Embracing complex systems and autonomous coordination, it names a network that will grow from the ground up, rather than be delegated from the top down. As germination, it evokes the root systems, mushrooms, and rh

About Stanford AO
An incubator and research program for autonomous organizations, housed at Stanford OpenLab.

Developmental Spaces: Cultural incubators for a time of transformation | Conscious Communities
The whitepaper. Rosie Bell, Boaz Feldman and Rufus Pollock, September 2025.
Roomy joins Modal incubator - Roomy
Rigorous institutional structures make for credible purpose-orientation.
Feral Labs – A network of temporary dislocated hubs for research in art, technology and communities.
The Feral Labs Network is a network of temporary dislocated hubs for research in art, technology and communities. It’s members share a common interest in art-science research and contemporary do-it-yourself (DIY) & do-it-with-others (DIWO) communities.
Human-Scale AI Incubator: Call for proposals
Calling all builders of small models, intentional systems, and tailored solutions. Receive up to $500,000 USD in funding over three years from Mozilla Foundation.

The Atmosphere as research infrastructure - MyHub Experiments Wiki
Powerful communities, simple sites Event co-creation use case MyHub on the ATmosphere intro to atproto
All product ventures incubated in the Muni collective (like Weird inc.) are designed first and foremost to Do Good by means of radical openness.
Genspace
Genspace is the world’s first community biology lab—a place where anyone can learn and work on biotechnology.

Emergence: A unifying theme for 21st century science
By David Pines, Co-Founder in Residence, Santa Fe Institute

Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science
In Reinventing Discovery, Michael Nielsen argues that w…

A Research Lab for Open Source ✸ Software Stewardship Lab
Today, we're launching a world-class research lab dedicated to Open Source sustainability with a team of some of the most experienced people in the world.

Science in the Age of Algorithms
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

So I'm going to miss @atproto.nyc community day but I've been playing with a new testing tool that I'd love you all to check-out tangled.org/chris.pardy.family/vivarium Vivarium is an Atmosphere in a box. Literally PDS+Relay+PLC+Microcosm+Auto complete all in one executable. Still very experimental.
chris.pardy.family/vivarium
tangled.orgA funny idea that bubbled up over dinner one night. Here is a mockup explaining the framework, which also includes some suggestions on pre-existing at proto technologies that could be used to build it. ( @germnetwork.com and pub-search by @zzstoatzz.io )
smile protocol :: AT Proto Dating
whereditgo.leaflet.pub