Hello everyone,
March was an action-packed month!
AtmosphereConf and ATScience
We just got back from AtmosphereConf and ATScience in Vancouver, which we sponsored and have been busy co-organizing for the last few months. ATScience was fantastic - registration was maxed out at 125% and the day was full of great presentations, discussions and new connections sparking every which way. More details to follow in a separate post!
AtmosphereConf in general was a delight - the ecosystem is fun, vibrant and diverse. We also really appreciated the opportunity to engage with Semble users and hackers in real life. So many interesting leads and ideas to follow up on!
Check out our 2 talks here:
Semble: Rediscovering the Magic of Trails (main conference)
Cosmik
Ronen and friend-of-Cosmik Francisco were accepted to the Big If True Science (BiTS) program! BiTS is a part-time accelerator by Renaissance Philanthropy aimed at helping scientists and technologists to design and pitch ambitious R&D programs. BiTS will provide a great space to refine and advance Cosmik’s existing field-building initiatives such as CAIROS and atproto.science, and will hopefully aid us in bringing more funding into the ecosystem. We’re actively mapping out the network so please reach out if our program resonates with you and you’re involved in building these spaces.
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 >
Semble
We’ve been hard at work on a new Connections feature we’re really excited about, inspired by our collaborations with the modular research and Discourse Graphs initiatives - more to follow soon!
Based on community feedback, we did some performance optimizations on card saving to make the core curation flow a lot snappier. Shout out to Roberto for his suggestion.
Following specific collections unlocks a new pattern we’re calling "faceted following" — instead of following someone wholesale, you can follow specific facets of their work. Faceted following also serves as a signal for curators: as a curator, you can see which facets people are gravitating toward. If a subtopic you've explored quietly keeps attracting followers, that's an interesting signal from your community to dig deeper into that subject.
Community
“Living libraries” are an exciting pattern emerging from the community: personal links pages or research literature reviews powered on the backend by Semble collections. For example, Nick Vincent's Data Counterfactuals site pulls from his curated Semble collections at build time, creating a reference shelf with dozens of papers that stays current as he adds and reorganizes content on Semble. What makes this powerful is that the content now lives on Semble rather than in static HTML files. Contributors can add references to a shared collection without pull requests or HTML editing. And because it's on Semble, you get all the affordances that come with it: anyone can follow the collection, get notified when new papers are added (coming soon!), and discover the content through Semble's network alongside everything else being curated there. The website becomes just one view of a living, collaborative resource. We're excited to see more of these.
One more wonderful emergent pattern has been collectively curated Semble collections that feed into newsletters. Shout out to Chris (again) who started at://news which is powering a Leaflet publication called Atmospheric weather report, with contributions from several regular contributors.
Tim Disney added Semble and Margin integration to their SkyReader RSS reader app!
You can now save articles from @skyreader.app to your @semble.so and @margin.at collections!
Chive shipped a Semble intergration so you will be able to curate publications on Chive and mirror the collection to Semble.
Testing @chive.pub <> @semble.so integration 🔥 Interop is the future exhibit #23610 #ATScience
Communities coming together to curate content of interest is a simple but highly effective way to build shared knowledge, and we’re excited to be seeing early signs of this on Semble
The articles that people are bookmarking on @semble.so are high quality. It's quickly becoming my go to place to consume dev content
That’s all for now, happy Spring, touch grass and may our community gardens (real and digital) bloom 🌻
#AtmosphereConf was absolutely epic but we really needed to get outdoors touch granite today 🏔️ Sembling in the wild @ronentk.me @pouriade.com @wesleyfinck.org
