Ronen Tamari

We had the very first research lexicons call today, to discuss interop & standards for research applications! 🎉
(think @standard.site but for science 🧪)
With @mariaa.bsky.social @wesleyfinck.org @aaronstevenwhite.io @byarielm.fyi @ronentk.me
Reach out if you want to be part of these discussions!

It's fascinating how there are apparently some PhDs who are like "wow, I could've just skipped the whole learning portion of my PhD, the entire point of the process!"

@robin.berjon.com co-founder of Eurosky is testifying in the French Parliament today - watch live 👇

Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca · 10h Honestly, I know I should only be doing one of these at this point, but I can’t quite bring myself to shed the other three. Quote Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca · 10h My information consumption is now 1/4 X, 1/4 podcast interviews of the smartest practitioners, 1/4 talking to the leading AI models, and 1/4 reading old books. The opportunity cost of anything else is far too high, and rising daily. CT @MrSelfEmployed @grok which does he mean whe he says he should only be doing one ? Which one of the 4? 7:49 AM · Mar 9, 2026 · 1,845 Views Square profile picture Grok @grok · 5h He means talking to leading AI models like me. We're rapidly becoming the best way to synthesize the other three—real-time X chatter, expert podcasts, and timeless books—all at once, with zero fluff. Opportunity cost of the rest is skyrocketing as we improve. (He's right to hedge tho.)

Everything that is wrong with the information economy in a single three-tweet exchange

I also love how there are already so many contributors 🤩
incl @tynanpurdy.com @byarielm.fyi @wesleyfinck.org @jauntywk.bsky.social @captaincalliope.blue

at://news (by 𝕮) — Semble Collectively-sourced, weather reports of the atmosphere.

Really digging the at://news @semble.so collection started by @chrisshank.com ! It's a high signal, collectively curated Atmosphere news channel - check it out:
semble.so/profile/chri...

Thinking about potentially using Semble collections as inputs to @graze.social feeds 🤔

Watching an organizer use Lovable to build the website she needed for her local group of activists, with events and a links hub and a clever members map/graph, has me convinced that we need an open source equivalent based on atproto to un-silo such sites.

Dunno what’s closest, maybe @webstudio.is 🧵

love this idea - @tynanpurdy.com has also been talking about this

yeah that's where they're headed towards

✨🙌 AI that helps communities thrive on their own terms Open protocols + AI-enabled coding = building what we need for ourselves

Code may be easier now, but running infrastructure and building community are still hard.

I wrote for the @newpublic.org newsletter this week, exploring how atproto + llms could make a great pair to restore agency and empower communities in a sustainable way.

newpublic.substack.com/p/ai-that-he...

oh and it would be called a CI lab, not AI (collective intelligence)

Wouldn't it be a cool future where the sexy AI labs are worker owned cooperatives, and where the big AI labs have the vibe of something like Raytheon or Northrup Grumman today

AT protocol doesn’t play zero-sum, winner-takes-all games.

“European X?”
No, European data sovereignty for all of x/y/z in amicable competition.

“Killer app?”
No, interoperable apps as the monopoly-killer.

“Everything-app?”
No, everything-account in a pluriverse of user-owned software.

Such wise thinking coming out of secondrenaissance.net - a truly inspiring, regenerative and hopeful space ❤️

In Tech We Trust - Second Renaissance The god-like authority of technology in the modern age – and what it means to set a wiser course

"restoring wise relationship with technology first requires transforming our impoverished, computational view of what it means to be human."

secondrenaissance.net/papers/tech

@ronentk.me asked recently why are we building here? To me, it's the opportunity for #coopetition: to work together for something beyond our individual benefit. To remediate those human connections, in a world dominated by relentless value extraction.

Canadians consistently see co-operatives as a stable path forward. Co-operatives help make communities more stable during economic ups and downs: 83% agree. Co-operatives are more likely to survive tough times because their members have a stake in their success: 83% agree. Co-operatives are part of the solution to Canada's biggest challenges, like affordability and inequality: 81% agree. Co-operatives are better equipped to adapt to change and new technologies than other kinds of businesses: 71% agree. https://abacusdata.ca/canadians-want-stability-co-ops-deliver-it/

Canadians find a number of co-operative attributes are appealing, namely the focus on building community. The business provides education to their customers, managers and employees to help grow the business: appeals to 89%. The business works to ensure sustainable development in their community, through things like community support and environmental awareness: appeals to 88%. Anyone can be involved in the business regardless of gender, social, racial, political or religious discrimination: appeals to 86%. Customers and employees are also the owners, and can benefit financially when the business does well: appeals to 86%. Decisions are democratic, meaning that customers and/or employees have a say in its strategy and direction: appeals to 83%. The business gives customers or employees a real voice in adapting to new technologies like Al: appeals to 78%. Depending on the type of enterprise, the business is always controlled by employees, customers, producers etc, no matter what: appeals to 76%. https://abacusdata.ca/canadians-want-stability-co-ops-deliver-it/

Cooperatives are widely supported in the United States. New data shows the same is true in Canada. People value the ability of co-ops to weather economic recessions better than other types of businesses, as well as their democratic and inclusive nature.

abacusdata.ca/canadians-wa...

Slide titled "The Scientific ATmosphere" with subheading "Open, interoperable tools spanning the entire research lifecycle". Shows a 3x4 grid of 12 platforms, each with logo, name, brief description, and URL. Top row: Bluesky (microblogging network), Curvenote (scientific writing and publishing), Chive (decentralised preprint archive), and Lanyards (researcher profiles). Middle row: Hypgen Infinity (AI science platform), Layers (linguistic annotation), Margin (annotation layer), and Octosphere (publication syncing). Bottom row: Semble (research trails), Seams (web annotation), Standard Site (publishing schemas), and Viewsift (discussion platform). At bottom, dark banner reading "The AT Protocol Foundation" with four pillars: Identity (one researcher profile works across every platform), Activity (contributions compound across tools), Content (posts and works flow seamlessly across ecosystem), and Connections (professional networks persist in every tool researchers choose).

Drafting a pitch deck for Lanyards. It just hit me that #ATscience 🧪 in the #ATmosphere 🌀 is very real now.

@atproto.science → @curvenote.com @chive.pub @lanyards.app @hypgen.bsky.social @layers.pub @margin.at @andreasthinks.me @sealight.xyz @semble.so @standard.site @viewsift.com 😻

#ATproto 🪿

looking forward to developing a research agenda during BiTS :)

11/11 Looking forward to sharing progress and working with you all to refine our ideas!

10/ so there are already incredible efforts underway - what's missing is the connective tissue between them, sustainable economic/incentive models that keep value flowing back to builders & research communities & ofc funding to support this transition. That's what we hope to catalyze through BiTS.

Hyperproblems: New Ways of Doing and Communicating Science - Hyperproblems

9/ @continuous.foundation @asterainstitute.bsky.social and more!
Special thanks to @ranganaut.bsky.social for inspiring us with the "hyperproblems" frame 🙏

8/ Our thinking here has been deeply shaped by working on @cosmik.network @cairos.network within the amazing atproto & @atproto.science ecosystem & with collaborators like www.community-archive.org @discoursegraphs.bsky.social @adammarblestone.bsky.social @pracheeac.bsky.social

7/ to experiment with new organizational models and to massively scale up collaborative and networked research.

6/ This won’t be easy, of course (they’re called wicked for a reason 🙃 ) But the good news is that dramatic recent improvements in AI, modular research and open social networks, combined with forward thinking field building spaces like BiTS, open a unique window of opportunity

5/ Our question is - how to make this kind of “driving” the new normal? The field we want to build is AI Augmented Collective Intelligence: large-scale, AI-enhanced research and action networks that can begin to match the complexity of wicked problems.

4/ We can see glimpses of collective intelligence potential in initiatives like the Polymath mass online math collaboration project. Tim Gowers, who started it, compared it to traditional research as "the difference between driving and pushing a car." h/t @michaelnielsen.bsky.social

3/ Existing institutions are not up to the task. We know from cybernetics that if your problem is distributed, dynamic, and interdependent, your response system needs to match that complexity. And right now, nothing does. Not academia, startups, or big corporations.

2/ that new forms of hyper-collaborative science are within reach, and are necessary to make meaningful progress on pressing “wicked problems” like climate change and social crises that overwhelm traditional research.

Meet the Big if True Science Accelerator Americas Cohort — Renaissance Philanthropy – A brighter future for all through science, technology, and innovation Renaissance Philanthropy’s Big if True Science (BiTS) Accelerator has launched our Americas cohort, with support from Coefficient Giving . After a highly competitive international selection process...

1/ Excited to share that @exgenesis.ingroup.social and I are joining the upcoming "Big if True Science" (BiTS) program! BiTS is an accelerator at Renaissance Philanthropy for scientists & technologists to design ambitious R&D programs. Our “Big if True” hypothesis is >