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1/ 📢 @cosmik.network has been awarded $1M in grant funding by Open Philanthropy and @asterainstitute.bsky.social These generous grants will support our development of Semble - a social "micro-knowledge" network for researchers on Bluesky/ATProto. Think Are.na + Goodreads for research!

2/ Why now? Because the stars are aligning for new kinds of social media for researchers ✨

3/ Bluesky has become a major science social media hub, and data is open 💙 Bluesky now regularly eclipses Twitter for research sharing despite being much smaller. bsky.app/profile/did:...

4/ But we can do more than just recreate the Twitter look and feel on Bluesky! Existing social media spaces aren’t designed for science: they’re noisy and are prone to collective attention warping due to hype and misguided amplification bsky.app/profile/shah...

5/ Some of this is inherent to feeds - they’re linear, ephemeral and biased toward virality. Nuanced insights get buried. We’re inspired by curation tools like @are.na: creative, intentional and non-linear. bsky.app/profile/dana...

7/ Judging by posts like this, it isn’t for lack of interest … x.com/sanjehorah/s...

8/ AI is also a huge factor. While the idea of “micro-knowledge” has been around for a while (nano/micropubs), AI progress is driving a crucial realization that models need access not just to "sanitized" papers, but also the messy thought processes by which we arrived at them @seemaychou.bsky.social

9/ Finally, the silver lining in all the recent chaos (Science Twitter's decline, extractive platforms selling data to AI companies, funding cuts, etc) is the new space being created for rethinking everything, from how we publish to who owns our data