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What happened to Science Goodreads and how do we rebuild it? A 65 million dollar question (at least)

The story of the rise and fall of Mendeley

February 13, 2026

Cosmik January Updates

One of our New Year’s resolutions was to start sharing monthly updates, so here’s one for January!

February 03, 2026

Cosmik New Year: 2025 in Review, and Looking Forward to 2026

As we begin 2026, we want to share some thoughts for the upcoming year and also take a moment to reflect on 2025 which has been an exciting year for Cosmik.

January 13, 2026

Introducing CAIROS: Collective Augmented Intelligence for Research and Open Science

New year, new initiatives!

January 09, 2026

Just before you log off for the holidays, we’re excited to share news about ATProto Science, a new initiative we’re launching that we’ve been partnering on with collaborators in the ATProto ecosystem.

December 23, 2025

Cosmik December Lab Notes: 'Tis the season for sharing your best finds, and other Semble updates

Curate your picks of 2025, spreading attention karma with new Semble notifications, and some cool indie Semble integrations

December 16, 2025

Cosmik Lab Notes 002: Semble Updates - Community Tinkering, Basic API, and New Discovery Features

Happy Friday everyone,

November 21, 2025

Cosmik Lab Notes 001: Semble Alpha

We’re excited to start Cosmik Lab Notes, where we’ll be working in the open and sharing thoughts as we build Semble and the wider Cosmik Network.

November 10, 2025

The Fork in the Road: AI Horseless Carriages or Collective Intelligence for Science

Last month I attended an in-person gathering of scientists, technologists and field-builders at the intersection of AI and metascience. This post is an extended version of a talk I gave there. It contains some themes you might be familiar with if you’ve read previous posts, but hopefully with some interesting new frames. The prompt for the talk was an invitation to explore one of the main discussion topics at the event - metascience threats and opportunities posed by AI acceleration.

October 15, 2025

Cosmik awarded $1M grant from Open Philanthropy and Astera Institute for new social knowledge network for researchers

The grants will support the development of Semble, a new knowledge sharing and discovery network for researchers

August 15, 2025

Overcoming information overload with circular attention economies

Herbert Simon, in the oft-quoted passage from the 1971 piece “Designing Organizations For An Information-Rich World”, foresaw how information overload would transform attention into one of the most valuable resources:

May 30, 2025