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."

"The Aster PDS is live and the invite phase is open. The hard part comes next" - a post I contributed to the Aster launch, covering the hard questions we'll need to answer regarding verificiation: "Who counts as a "researcher or and academic"? ... What exactly are we identifying" by giving someone an Aster ID and PDS, and "How do we indicate any …

Modular Open Science, AI & Collective Intelligence - "MOSAIC is an R&D program to build a new medium for networked research... integrates modular research tools, open social networks, and AI to solve crucial coordination bottlenecks, democratize science and radically accelerate breakthroughs."while Ai can multiple an individual scientist's product…

"Two types of Atmosphere toolkit are needed if ATScience is to help scientists do science and better communicate it to other audiences: one serving the researchers and their teams, the other focused on aggregation and synthesis."

The Continuous/Modular science pioneers have "taken the first step toward bringing scientific documents onto" the Atmosphere: "OXA now defines an AT Protocol lexicon ... This post introduces the lexicon, explains the design decisions behind it, and describes where we’re headed"It starts by pointing out that although atproto was developed for socia…

"My personal path through AtmosphereConf 2026 was all about making the web social; streams, gardens and communities; and science, AI & news. Welcome to the linkfest"

As my ATScience workshop in Vancouver wasn't streamed, I thought I'd throw together a quick video and publish some first thoughts and supporting notes, just to get a record of the content online before I turn to the rest of what was probably the best conference I've ever attended.