The concluding part of the highly-acclaimed science fic…
Guest post: If you’re going to critique science, be scientific about it
Loren K. Mell Editor’s note: This post responds to a Feb. 13 article in The Atlantic, “The Scientific Literature Can’t Save Us Now,” written by Retraction Watch cofounders Adam Marcus and Ivan Oran…
Decolonising Science Reading List
In the last couple of weeks, a lot of people have been asking me about what I’ve been reading as reference points for my commentary on the…
When the Scientists Showed Up: Notes from ATmosphereConf 2026 - Nightflight
What stories should we tell about scientific progress now?
In search of the mysterious fruits of basic science
Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses
Banff 2025, Open Science Meeting — Continuous Science Foundation
We’ve got to a big idea—and now it’s time to get practical. CSF is looking for curious, committed individuals to help us tackle some of the toughest (and most exciting) questions around how to make Composable Science real.
Triggers: Introducing the Technosphere | Peter K. Haff
Dark-Moneyed Denialists Are Running 'Fixing Science' Symposium of Doubt
The “Fixing Science” symposium, which is hosted by the National Association of Scholars and kicks off today in Oakland, California, includes credible speakers who want to improve some areas of science hurt by the use of poor statistical methods or making irreproducible claims. Unfortunately, they are outnumbered by people who have often cast doubt on mainstream climate, environmental, and health sciences. For […]
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
In the twenty-first century, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding—and at ...
ATmosphere Report #147 - Year's end reflections - Connected Places
Some themes I'm watching for 2026: censorship resistance, the politics of interoperable spaces, and who gets to shape how atproto talks about itself.
The Birth of the Gentle Meme - Nightflight
The Daily Planet #122: More on Deep Time - The Daily Planet
“Open, Collaborative and Participative Science: Rethinking the Legitimacy of Knowledge, the Policies and the Future of Science.” - looks like an interesting track during the Eu-SPRI Forum Annual Conference 2026 (10–12 June 2026, Valencia) euspri2026.webs.upv.es
reimagining science
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…
