As ill health prevented me from attending the Aster launch on 12th October 2026, I decided to provide attendees with something they can take back to their colleagues about how the increasing number of scientists on Bluesky can be turned into "win-wins" for scientific institutions and the scientists working within them.Bluesky accounts are in fact …

I contributed to the launch of Aster in October 2026 (both the actual website and the thinking behind it, and the launch event at IOSP 2026: "An account and hosting for researchers on the open web: a place where you build and own your identity, website, data and connections. Independent, not-for-profit, and built by researchers, for researchers."

My atproto.science workshop in Vancouver, end March, will involve founders of three of the most important apps on the Atmosphere (Leaflet for longform publishing, Semble for curation, Sill for knowledge discovery via social graph), as well as some newcomers to be unveiled on the day (Skysquare).We'll meet to unpack, discuss, tear apart and rebuild…

"How would MyHub.ai evolve to become part of the ATmosphere?" - One of my suggested conversation topics at the Ahoy conference, April, 2025.