Ronen Tamari
@ronentk.me
Researcher & entrepreneur | Co-founder @cosmik.network | Building https://semble.so/ | collective sensemaking | https://ronentk.me/ | Ecosystem building @atproto.science | Prev- Open Science Fellow @asterainstitute.bsky.social
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Ronen Tamari
@ronentk.me
· Aug 15
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!
What a wonderful essay! Such timely questions around how we make social media into more than “just” social media, but also into information ecosystems that help us think better, together. Adding a few thoughts that came up while reading 🧵
Happy holidays, Bluesky! I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us.
www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...
www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...
Landslide; a ghost story
On March 27, 1964, a converted liberty ship named the SS Chena brought a shipment of supplies to the port of Valdez, Alaska. Valdez, which I need you to know is pronounced “valDEEZ,” sits at the end o...
www.wrecka.ge
December 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
What a wonderful essay! Such timely questions around how we make social media into more than “just” social media, but also into information ecosystems that help us think better, together. Adding a few thoughts that came up while reading 🧵
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Researchers: Aside from moderation and safety features, what would you want in a researcher-focused social app? Obviously a feed of shared papers, but what else?
We could make our own bsky client that does this by default? Maybe?
December 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Researchers: Aside from moderation and safety features, what would you want in a researcher-focused social app? Obviously a feed of shared papers, but what else?
Google scholar alerts are such an under-appreciated information wayfinding device
December 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Google scholar alerts are such an under-appreciated information wayfinding device
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after a fun chat with @laurenshof.online and @ronentk.me I finally made time to write up some more thoughts about interoperability in the atmosphere without needing to share lexicons!
notes.wesleyfinck.org/3maq3h26ook2h
notes.wesleyfinck.org/3maq3h26ook2h
Two Types of Interoperability Without Sharing Lexicons - Wesley's notes
Sharing lexicons is not the only way to leverage atproto’s interoperability
notes.wesleyfinck.org
December 24, 2025 at 10:49 AM
after a fun chat with @laurenshof.online and @ronentk.me I finally made time to write up some more thoughts about interoperability in the atmosphere without needing to share lexicons!
notes.wesleyfinck.org/3maq3h26ook2h
notes.wesleyfinck.org/3maq3h26ook2h
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If you’re looking for reading recommendations for the winter break - lots of gems here! Thanks to all the contributors and happy holidays ☃️
semble.so/explore/gems...
semble.so/explore/gems...
Gems of 2025 Collections — Semble
Gems of 2025 Collections
semble.so
December 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
If you’re looking for reading recommendations for the winter break - lots of gems here! Thanks to all the contributors and happy holidays ☃️
semble.so/explore/gems...
semble.so/explore/gems...
Newbie @graze.social question - how crazy is it to try and set up a feed where new messages get piped into a Discord channel? I imagine for highly active feeds this wouldn't make sense, but maybe for quieter ones it's possible?
December 24, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Newbie @graze.social question - how crazy is it to try and set up a feed where new messages get piped into a Discord channel? I imagine for highly active feeds this wouldn't make sense, but maybe for quieter ones it's possible?
These are really important concerns to address! The science community can play a pivotal role here in protocol governance, standards, sustainable infra hosting, etc
Primary concern is governance of the protocol in a company. Even though I note they plan to give up control, in practice the biggest player likely to dominate standards discussions. Secondary concern is abandonment if Bsky company fails. But I do think the experiment is interesting and worth trying!
December 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
These are really important concerns to address! The science community can play a pivotal role here in protocol governance, standards, sustainable infra hosting, etc
What if we used semble.so to collect bsky posts to feed into pol.is discussions? Often there are lots of great opinions being shared on bsky around a certain topic (for example atproto auth), but we lack ways to meaningfully aggregate them. pol.is is great for mapping convos, but isn't where ppl are
I went ahead and created a pol.is conversation about this, pls contribute! pol.is/7bdiwbvh2d
You can contribute by voting on statements and/or adding your own statements.
First time using it, hope it helps surface useful insight!
You can contribute by voting on statements and/or adding your own statements.
First time using it, hope it helps surface useful insight!
December 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
What if we used semble.so to collect bsky posts to feed into pol.is discussions? Often there are lots of great opinions being shared on bsky around a certain topic (for example atproto auth), but we lack ways to meaningfully aggregate them. pol.is is great for mapping convos, but isn't where ppl are
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Excited for all the possibilities 🙂↕️🧪
Announcing atproto.science! #ATproto has huge potential for supporting new ways of doing research, so we started @atproto.science to help bring together researchers, build community, and explore what's possible when science meets cutting-edge open social network protocols! 🧪 >
Empowering science communities with open, democratic, researcher-owned infrastructure.
We’re building communities and tech for publishing, curating, sharing, and discussing research online using ATProto and other decentralized protocols.
atproto.science
December 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Excited for all the possibilities 🙂↕️🧪
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Got a project, code, app, movement, tech, community or anything else that you’d like to present at #ATmosphereConf?
Get your submissions in - we’d love to hear from you and will have lots of opportunities to share your work, even if it’s a lightning talk.
Get your submissions in - we’d love to hear from you and will have lots of opportunities to share your work, even if it’s a lightning talk.
We're at nearly 50 submissions! If you've been debating on a proposal then this is your sign. Especially interested in proposals on private data, moderation/trust/safety, or fighting disinformation to fill some interest gap. #ATProtocol #ATmosphereConf
ATmosphereConf 2026 Call for Proposals Now Open - ATmosphereConf News
Send in your proposal for presentations, workshops, and discussions. This is your community conference.
news.atmosphereconf.org
December 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Got a project, code, app, movement, tech, community or anything else that you’d like to present at #ATmosphereConf?
Get your submissions in - we’d love to hear from you and will have lots of opportunities to share your work, even if it’s a lightning talk.
Get your submissions in - we’d love to hear from you and will have lots of opportunities to share your work, even if it’s a lightning talk.
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Reposted by Ronen Tamari
When I was in Berlin I spoke about how 3 sectors - news, science & government - can best use Bluesky and #atproto.
But the feedback was almost exclusively about #ATscience. And so...
But the feedback was almost exclusively about #ATscience. And so...
Announcing atproto.science! #ATproto has huge potential for supporting new ways of doing research, so we started @atproto.science to help bring together researchers, build community, and explore what's possible when science meets cutting-edge open social network protocols! 🧪 >
Empowering science communities with open, democratic, researcher-owned infrastructure.
We’re building communities and tech for publishing, curating, sharing, and discussing research online using ATProto and other decentralized protocols.
atproto.science
December 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
When I was in Berlin I spoke about how 3 sectors - news, science & government - can best use Bluesky and #atproto.
But the feedback was almost exclusively about #ATscience. And so...
But the feedback was almost exclusively about #ATscience. And so...
We started @atproto.science , check it out!
Wishing us an exciting new year for science on open social media ✨
Wishing us an exciting new year for science on open social media ✨
Announcing atproto.science! #ATproto has huge potential for supporting new ways of doing research, so we started @atproto.science to help bring together researchers, build community, and explore what's possible when science meets cutting-edge open social network protocols! 🧪 >
Empowering science communities with open, democratic, researcher-owned infrastructure.
We’re building communities and tech for publishing, curating, sharing, and discussing research online using ATProto and other decentralized protocols.
atproto.science
December 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
We started @atproto.science , check it out!
Wishing us an exciting new year for science on open social media ✨
Wishing us an exciting new year for science on open social media ✨
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made this real quick just bc i couldn't get it out my head. obviously it could be prettier, might change based on dev / community /user discussion / research, etc etc etc.
Unified ATProtocol Signup/Create Account UI Mockup
just one right now. might add more later.
notesbyarielm.leaflet.pub
December 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
made this real quick just bc i couldn't get it out my head. obviously it could be prettier, might change based on dev / community /user discussion / research, etc etc etc.
We can just do things ->
We can just do things *that other platforms can't*
We can just do things *that other platforms can't*
Yes. The route is not *just* the moral argument of ATProto, it is actually to take *what the ideology and morals of ATProto allows us to build that others cannot or will not*.
December 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
We can just do things ->
We can just do things *that other platforms can't*
We can just do things *that other platforms can't*
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I went ahead and created a pol.is conversation about this, pls contribute! pol.is/7bdiwbvh2d
You can contribute by voting on statements and/or adding your own statements.
First time using it, hope it helps surface useful insight!
You can contribute by voting on statements and/or adding your own statements.
First time using it, hope it helps surface useful insight!
December 22, 2025 at 7:20 AM
I went ahead and created a pol.is conversation about this, pls contribute! pol.is/7bdiwbvh2d
You can contribute by voting on statements and/or adding your own statements.
First time using it, hope it helps surface useful insight!
You can contribute by voting on statements and/or adding your own statements.
First time using it, hope it helps surface useful insight!
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Much of SF lost power last night. Waymos blocked intersections across the city, even though they are Wayless than 1% of cars on the roads. They accumulated at their failure points--intersections with no green lights, in busy areas, and shut down traffic there.
December 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Much of SF lost power last night. Waymos blocked intersections across the city, even though they are Wayless than 1% of cars on the roads. They accumulated at their failure points--intersections with no green lights, in busy areas, and shut down traffic there.
Feel like this deserves more attention. Big tech, with its centralized control of markets and information, is actually similar to the centralized socialist planner that Hayek rejected so vehemently?
(from the excellent summit.sfu.ca/item/39967)
(from the excellent summit.sfu.ca/item/39967)
December 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Feel like this deserves more attention. Big tech, with its centralized control of markets and information, is actually similar to the centralized socialist planner that Hayek rejected so vehemently?
(from the excellent summit.sfu.ca/item/39967)
(from the excellent summit.sfu.ca/item/39967)
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It would be awesome to use a collective deliberation tool like polis for making sense of atproto ecosystem-wide discussions like sign in branding / terminology. Bsky threads are not the appropriate format. plus many more voice can contribute meaningfully.
December 20, 2025 at 11:24 AM
It would be awesome to use a collective deliberation tool like polis for making sense of atproto ecosystem-wide discussions like sign in branding / terminology. Bsky threads are not the appropriate format. plus many more voice can contribute meaningfully.
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I'm really surprised he didn't mention the Enclosure Movement: this process of privatizing public goods goes WAY back to the the Middle Ages, when nobles took land that had been community property for centuries--land on which everyone relied to avoid starvation--& seized it as private property.
December 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I'm really surprised he didn't mention the Enclosure Movement: this process of privatizing public goods goes WAY back to the the Middle Ages, when nobles took land that had been community property for centuries--land on which everyone relied to avoid starvation--& seized it as private property.
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2026 is gonna be the atmosyear
December 19, 2025 at 12:45 AM
2026 is gonna be the atmosyear
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we just launched the oakland collaborative syllabus! a living, evolving guide to the media of this place
also experimenting with a version on protocol (thanks @ronentk.me) and would love to collaborate with other folks interested in participatory local archiving tools semble.so/profile/oakl...
also experimenting with a version on protocol (thanks @ronentk.me) and would love to collaborate with other folks interested in participatory local archiving tools semble.so/profile/oakl...
Introducing, Oakland Review of Books's Oakland Syllabus! of Books! And of other things! www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/introducing-...
Introducing the Oakland Review of Books Syllabus
How do you really know this place?
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
December 19, 2025 at 1:04 AM
we just launched the oakland collaborative syllabus! a living, evolving guide to the media of this place
also experimenting with a version on protocol (thanks @ronentk.me) and would love to collaborate with other folks interested in participatory local archiving tools semble.so/profile/oakl...
also experimenting with a version on protocol (thanks @ronentk.me) and would love to collaborate with other folks interested in participatory local archiving tools semble.so/profile/oakl...
Agreed, and at the same time I feel we have barely scratched the surface on the power of movements: there is something important in what my friend Ida wrote here
idajosefiina.com/services-1
idajosefiina.com/services-1
December 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Agreed, and at the same time I feel we have barely scratched the surface on the power of movements: there is something important in what my friend Ida wrote here
idajosefiina.com/services-1
idajosefiina.com/services-1
Added "Why we fear AI" by @hagenblix.bsky.social to my picks of 2025! semble.so/profile/rone...
December 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Added "Why we fear AI" by @hagenblix.bsky.social to my picks of 2025! semble.so/profile/rone...