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Ronen Tamari

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Researcher & entrepreneur | Co-founder @cosmik.network | Building @semble.so | collective sensemaking | ronentk.me | Ecosystem building @atproto.science @aster.id @cairos.network | Prev- Open Science Fellow @asterainstitute.bsky.social

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 9h
wtf
Screenshot of Google Photos Gemini onboarding screen on mobile (Android, 11:21 AM, 50% battery). The screen features a search icon with a sparkle and the heading "Use Gemini for new ways to search & create." Below, terms for enabling Gemini are listed: "Gain a deep understanding of your life" (highlighted with a green border), "Determine your location," and "Use your queries to improve." Fine print notes that Google Terms apply and these features can make mistakes about people. Links to Google Privacy Policy and Gemini features in Photos Privacy Hub are included. Two buttons at the bottom: "No thanks" (gray) and "Turn on" (green).
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 9h
Z-space :) @pouriade.com @wesleyfinck.org
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 19h
Or ultrasocial 🤓
link.springer.com
Human ultrasociality and the invisible hand: foundational developments in evolutionary science alter a foundational concept in economics - Journal of Bioeconomics
Advances in the study of social behavior require a revision in the economic concept of the invisible hand, which states that self-interested behavior leads to well-functioning societies without indivi...
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 23h
Yes thanks we corrected that to "web" :)
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pckt.blog @pckt.blog · 30/09/2026
write your pckt blog 🔴 LIVE on @stream.place then share it to be collected on @semble.so and maybe even read it on @standard-reader.app 😱💗 oh and don’t forget to tell your paranoid friends about it on @germnetwork.com 🦠 what a time to be alive
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Marisa @marisa.blacksky.team · 30/09/2026
we're reproducing mini corporations in every one of us via a culture that does not want us to see each other as full human beings with agency but instead see us as capital sees us - as bodies to be optimized, exploited, conquered.
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 01/10/2026
Such a great logo, love it!
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Richard Ferro, MD MSc @richferro.com · 30/09/2026
Proud to say the logo was my one small contribution to this project An aster flower made up of question marks!
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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 30/09/2026
Nowadays we tend to assume "social media" is the addiction, polarisation and misinformation cauldrons that surveillance adtech cartel managed to turn them into, but in reality its a technology that can be whatever we want it to be. The sky (aka the atmosphere) is the only limit 🌱
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 30/09/2026
Of course this is easier said than done, but similar to what @emily.space said - building on AT Protocol with the awesome collaborative community here opens up new opportunities for implementing these principles and creating truly resilient and democratic infrastructure!
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 30/09/2026
Yep that's a fair concern, a lot of open science ventures started open but then got enshittified like so many other startups. But we can learn from those cases and evolve more resilient organizational forms - we are following emerging best practices as described out here >
openscholarlyinfrastructure.org
The Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (v2.0, 2025)
POSI version 2.0 released October 2025 The POSI Adopters reviewed the version 1.1 principles and consulted with the community to create version 2.0, released in October 2025. The new/always-current ve...
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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 30/09/2026
Really excited for the future of science and research, bringing open science to more people via the open web. 🧪
modalfoundation.leaflet.pub
Incubating Aster
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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 30/09/2026
If you’ve seen me trying not to reveal what I’ve been working on the last few months, well, here it is 🎉 Our first big offering - aside from Atmosphere account hosting - is personal websites for researchers! Drop your must-haves, preferences, ideas, or questions about personal/prof sites below 🧪🧬💻
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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
Join us in Leiden in a couple of weeks if you can: @ronentk.me & @wesleyfinck.org from @semble.so, @byarielm.fyi, @tgoerke.bsky.social, @robin.berjon.com & I will be running a workshop for scientists exploring the Atmosphere www.iosp.science?ws=atproto#i...
iosp.science
Institute of Open Science Practices
Build the substrate open science depends on. An event, a community, and a coordinating institute.
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 30/09/2026
The social internet — for science! I'm super excited to see @aster.id launching. It's an Atmosphere service provider (like @eurosky.social) for researchers, hosted by your friends at the @modalfoundation.eurosky.social. Why does it matter? Thread time! 🧵
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 30/09/2026
and so many more! Our planning conversations have been in @roomy.space and we hope to use as many atmosphere tools as possible :)
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Modal Foundation @modalfoundation.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
Thrilled that Aster.id has launched, and very happy for the Modal Foundation to be supporting in an incubation role. modalfoundation.leaflet.pub/3mwqgvxl5a22a
modalfoundation.leaflet.pub
Incubating Aster
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 30/09/2026
So excited for this!! The idea for Aster was sparked in conversations in Vancouver at @atmosphereconf.org and now after a few months we're launching it! It's a real labor of love - grateful to be part of the wonderful team spanning @modalfoundation.eurosky.social @eurosky.social @atproto.science
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 30/09/2026
"One of the important skills of the professional scientists... is to know what to read and what not to read. This is narrow community knowledge built up through extended face-to-face socialisation in expert groups."
link.springer.com
Large language models eroding science understanding: an empirical study of ‘malignment’ - AI and Ethics
Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly provide scientific information to non-specialist users, yet their linguistic fluency can create an impression of expertise that exceeds their capacity for sci...
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Subvert @subvert.fm · 29/09/2026
30,000 artists, labels and supporters collectively own Subvert. Join and become a co-owner today. subvert.fm
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 29/09/2026
atproto becomes the protocol of choice for science. I spend a lot of time thinking about this so either it's crazy or I am 😅
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Sophie Greenwood @sjgreenwood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you're searching for PhD opportunities, check out this feed I created using @graze.social! ➡️ bsky.app/profile/sjgr...
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Things are getting weird
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 29/09/2026
Expecting researcher taste and judgement to become increasingly valuable (this is from Anthropic's Opus 5.5 system card) anthropic.com/claude-opus-...
This is highly uncertain, but we expect that full automation of AI R&D
will require large improvements in foresight, prediction, creating
one’s own feedback loops, and generally other skills that might
typically be referred to as researcher “judgement” or “taste”.
○ The evidence we have does not suggest that [Claude Opus 5.5]
represents a large improvement over Fable 5.1 in these
“judgement” skills.
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Sona @stau.space · 29/09/2026
I made a semble collection with absolutely all of the permacomputing links I know about: semble.so/profile/stau... Next time I have some time to kill I'll actually organize it all into subcollections about projects, documentation, artworks etc
semble.so
Open Permacomputing Collection (by Sona) — Semble
Permacomputing is both a concept and a community of practice oriented around issues of resilience and regenerativity in computer and network technology inspired by permaculture. ପໄଓ☾☼✫ -☆:*´
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 29/09/2026
lol this is going viral over on the other site. kinda strange how much attention it's actually getting... x.com/tofuafficion...
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Phillip Isola @phillipisola.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Students sometimes ask me if it still makes sense, in this accelerating age, to pursue a PhD in AI. Perhaps counterintuitively, I think it's a great time to do so. I wrote up some thoughts on this here: web.mit.edu/phillipi/www...
web.mit.edu
On the Value of Doing a PhD in the Age of AI
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 29/09/2026
Beautiful essay. "Perhaps capitalism’s greatest strength–its ability to produce inconceivable material abundance while fundamentally altering our social chemistry–produces its weakness. Its waste products are the friction of emotion .. it cannot commoditize & the language to acknowledge unfreedom"
planetcritical.com
Feeling (un)freedom
Escaping capitalist amnesia through the voice of the soul
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Sovereign Tech Agency @sovereign.tech · 28/09/2026
Reminder: We're currently hiring for several roles across the team. Join the Sovereign Tech Agency and help shape the digital infrastructure of the 21st century: #Hiring #OpenSource #PublicInterestTech #DigitalSovereignty 1/
A recruitment graphic for Sovereign Tech Agency featuring a group of people sitting together in a workshop or meeting. The headline reads “We’re hiring!” and the bottom text says “Sovereign Tech Agency” and “Join our team!”
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 28/09/2026
Maybe relevant @ntnsndr.in in context of inference.coop (congrats on the launch!)
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you're attending COLM, @mariaa.bsky.social has built you an atproto app... - Build your paper schedule - See the ongoing discussion around papers and active discussions - Create and find events - COLM-specific feed Join us! lea.ac/conferences/...
Ranked list of most-discussed papers at COLM
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 28/09/2026
Yeah agreed! For me personally I feel like looking at a map like that could be pretty useful as a ~daily habit to stay on top of discussions, esp if it had some markers of activity for each cluster/discussion
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 28/09/2026
And sorry for assuming familiarity with Semble! It can be tricky to find the balance so I don't bore the newsletter audience who mostly already knows what it is. Happy to answer any questions you have
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 28/09/2026
Thanks for the feedback! Like @zicklag.dev said, we can probably learn from Bluesky about similar patterns for blocking/filtering out bad-faith actors.
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 28/09/2026
Could we do a version just for science conversations? 😇 Maybe it could use @paper-feed.bsky.social for research paper detection? also tagging @mariaa.bsky.social @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 28/09/2026
Seems relatively straightforward to filter the firehose using @paper-feed.bsky.social 's research paper detection?
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 28/09/2026
This is fantastic! Imagine how cool it would be to have a version only for all the science conversations 🤯 #Academicsky #ATScience 🧪
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
behold! #colm2026 with a new filter 👀 on lea.ac
A screenshot of Lea showing the COLM conference page with the "Papers" tab selected. The listed papers are filtered to those with authors whom I follow on Bluesky / ATProto.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Semble @semble.so · 27/09/2026
Say hello to Semble Reader 📖 🤓 An in-app article reading experience designed for focus and link foraging 🌱 🫐 Available for all links on the Semble page by clicking the 'Reader' button in the top left corner.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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devin ivy 🐋 @divy.zone · 25/09/2026
we've been doing some early building with atmospheric groups, and all i can say so far is that this is something completely new and exciting. everyone who has been involved should be proud. the future of the web might just rule
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 25/09/2026
I thought this was about the open tab problem lol
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 25/09/2026
New post on the @cosmik.network blog! A creative new use of @semble.so by @paperpilot.dev inspired a sequel to "Sensors, not Bookmarks" from the writer's perspective - the Connections you make on Semble can help your writing find its natural audience
blog.cosmik.network
Connecting with your readers on Semble [Patterns of Sensemaking #2]
On how the references you make help your writing find its natural audience
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 25/09/2026
Not yet, but we're working on permissioned spaces!
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gabby @fullmoon.id · 25/09/2026
all of us people sick of fixing others' LLM slop need to form a union or something
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 25/09/2026
I don't know of any ATScience connections either, I just found the paper on Google Scholar
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 25/09/2026
You might be interested in checking out @semble.so , we also do social bookmarking on atproto and have a Zotero integration (cc @chrisshank.com who developed it)
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 25/09/2026
New AT Proto architectural diagram just dropped 👀 arxiv.org/abs/2609.21608
Schematic diagram of the AT Protocol architecture, with modifiable components and data access
infrastructure highlighted. This representation is a simplified adaptation of the architecture presented in
the original paper [78]. We refer readers to that work for more comprehensive technical details. Open Platform Field Experiments: Expanding the Design
Space of Experimental Research on Social Media
JORDI GUILLEM CONDOM-TIBAU∗, University of Pisa, Italy and Institute for Informatics and
Telematics, National Research Council (IIT-CNR), Italy
GIOVANNI PUCCETTI, Institute of Science and Technologies of Information “A. Faedo”, National
Research Council (ISTI-CNR), Italy
CLARA BACCIU, Institute for Informatics and Telematics, National Research Council (IIT-CNR), Italy
MATTEO ABRATE, Institute for Informatics and Telematics, National Research Council (IIT-CNR), Italy
STEFANO CRESCI, Institute for Informatics and Telematics, National Research Council (IIT-CNR), Italy
Despite a growing demand for causal evidence about social media, independent researchers remain severely
constrained in their ability to conduct experiments directly on online platforms. To cope, multiple method-
ological workarounds have emerged—from controlled surveys and simulations to client-side overlays and
platform partnerships—each requiring distinct trade-offs between desirable experimental properties. The
recent emergence of open social media platforms offers a qualitatively different methodological opportunity.
Here we propose a design space of social media experimentation and discuss Open Platform Field Experiments
(OPFEs). OPFEs represent a distinct class of experimental approaches that enable independent researchers
to directly intervene on functional platform components—such as clients, recommendation systems, and
moderation services—within live social media environments. Through a comparative analysis of experimental
archetypes, we show that OPFEs occupy a previously unexplored region of the design space. We then bridge
theory and practice by characterizing the architectural and governance elements that enable OPFEs, mapping
them onto Bluesky and the AT Protocol, and illustrating the end-to-end lifecycle of a complete OPFE design.
Overall, this work establishes OPFEs as a practical methodol…
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 24/09/2026
Oh this is cool! It would be fun to see how this could interop with what we have in @semble.so Then each app could see the others data, and we help each other find new users :)
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