ATScience 2026
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ATScience 2026

Fri, Mar 27, 2026 at 3:30 PM - Sat, Mar 28, 2026

Join us for a full-day of scientific explorations on the AT Protocol. Taking place as a side event to ATmosphereConf 2026 (March 26-29, 2026), this gathering will bring together researchers, developers, and builders who are using ATProto for science, education, and open knowledge work. The event will feature presentations, panel discussions, project demos and an unconference. From academic researchers using Bluesky in innovative ways to new infrastructure for collaborative research and credentialing, we’ll explore how ATProto can support transformative new science applications. Join us in Vancouver, BC, Canada at the AMS Student Nest building.

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Empowering science communities with open, democratic, researcher-owned infrastructure.

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ATProto Science Projects

Projects using ATProto for science applications

papers.club The Internet's Reading Group papers.clubAster ID An account and hosting for researchers on the open web — a place to build and own your identity, website, data and conne… aster.placeTrail of Crumbs Peer review reduces a whole provenance trail — the observation, the evidence, the reasoning, the disagreement along t… breadcrumbs.runfray — Bluesky thread factions fray-bsky.fly.devUnderlay Publish structured data as versioned, permanent collections with schemas, provenance, and content addressing built in. W… www.underlay.orgLichen Build a knowledge base with friends. Wikis owned by you, built on ATProto. lichen.wikiSkyreader Read everything from everywhere. Make sense of it all. skyreader.appMeitheal · SensorThings on ATProto Meitheal: live environmental sensor data published to the AT Protocol. sensorthings.devPodium — open data search Podium: a search engine for open data published on the AT Protocol — Matadisco datasets, Astrosky transient events, and … podium.mycopunk.itHypercerts — Collective Intelligence for Funding Impact Hypercerts create shared context—evidence, expert input, and community trust—for better resource allocation. hypercerts.orgGainForest — Biodiversity Observations & Nature Projects Explore field observations, biodiversity records, and nature projects from communities and organizations using GainFores… www.gainforest.appLea - A calmer Bluesky for researchers A curated garden for researchers on the AT Protocol lea.acHabitat A unified layer for your organization's data. habitat.networkTiles: Own your AI Local-first private AI assistant for everyday use www.tiles.runRRGI · Discourse Graph — lens switch RRGI publishes research as a graph of signed, IPFS-archived records. Questions, claims, evidence, and sources join into … graph.scios.techSkysquare — Public conversation, anchored to the web Skysquare is a Chrome extension that brings public Bluesky conversation back to the articles, passages, and source pages… skysquare.appco/core — an AI cooperative co/core is a cooperative for AI inference — people pooling the Macs they already own to run open models for each other, … console.cocore.devSifa — Portable professional identity on the open web Replace your LinkedIn URL with a portable profile that updates itself from your real activity across the open web. EU-ho… sifa.idAgentis — coming soon — BioKEA An AI-first scientific journal built on the AT Protocol. Fast, verifiable peer review and publications as interactive St… biokea.ai/agentisGreenEarth Social | Jonathan Stray | Substack Open-source AI-driven Social Media Feeds for Everyone. Click to read GreenEarth Social, by Jonathan Stray, a Substack pu… www.greenearth.socialscience.latha.org science.latha.orglexicons.bio lexicons.bioObserv.ing - Observe nature. Own your data. A decentralized platform for biodiversity observations, built on the AT Protocol. observ.ingthe-astrosky-ecosystem/nebra Stream or send time-critical scientific data live and for free on the ATProtocol. github.com/the-astrosky-ecosystem/nebrajohnwarden/open-community-notes Community Notes on AT Protocol github.com/johnwarden/open-community-notesMatadisco — Decentralized Data Discovery An open, decentralized network for data discovery built on ATProto. Publish metadata, build portals, find data. matadisco.orgPaperstars Discover research based on scientific merit rather than citation counts. paperstars.orgLayers Composable lexicons for linguistic annotation on ATProto layers.pubHome - Octosphere Octosphere bridges the gap between academic publishing and the social web. It automatically syncs your research publicat… octosphere.socialViewSift The web's evidence-based discussion platform. Built on ATProto! viewsift.comSeams - Wisdom is made Together seams.soThe Astrosky Ecosystem We're building social media tools for the astronomy & space science communities. From feeds to hosting, we're billionair… astrosky.ecoChive | Decentralized Eprint Service Decentralized eprints on ATProto. chive.pubMargin - Write in the margins of the web Margin - Write in the margins of the web. Comment on any URL with AT Protocol. margin.atBroadening Access to Data Science Education in High School and Higher Education … Equitable data science education requires a multifaceted approach, involving high school and higher education, community… zenodo.org/records/17369780Semble — A social knowledge network for researchers Follow your peers' research trails. Surface and discover new connections. Built on ATProto so you own your data. semble.soGroundmist groundmist.xyzHypgen Infinity hypgen.aiPaper Skygest Team (@paper-feed.bsky.social) Building personalized Bluesky feeds for academics! Pin Paper Skygest, which serves posts about papers from accounts you'… bsky.app/profile/paper-feed.bsky.social
Introducing #Assemblage 🧡

Add
@semble.so cards and collections and @margin.at annotations to an infinite canvas, draw connections between them to create context, expand your understanding and see the bigger picture!

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assemblage.renderg.host

#ATscience 🧪 #ATmosphere 🌀 #ATproto 🪿 #ATberlin

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At the end of #IOSP2026 we did a round of "what are you excited for?"

It was great to hear one of the participants say "my new
@aster.id !"

Let's do this!!
Reach out to us if you want to help out with organizing the event! (part of @atmosphereconf.org April 29-May 2, Amsterdam)
Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me
Already starting to work on the 2027 edition of @atproto.science , this time in collaboration with @scios.tech , it's gonna be epic!

In Leiden w/
@tgoerke.bsky.social @gui.do @wesleyfinck.org @byarielm.fyi @salteelee.aster.id and friends
@mattakamatsu.aster.id kicking us off today with an overview of @mira.science - a new modular medium to improve coordination in research!
#IOSP2026
Speaker presenting on coordination through modular knowledge exchange, with a slide diagram showing connections between scientists, discourse graphs (MIRA), and science publications and modules.
MIRA enables humans and agents to collaborate more effectively, and supports a growing ecosystem of tools and protocols including @atproto.science !
@ronentk.me demoes @semble.so — there's so much cool stuff on here — and explaining that it's 2026 and people still need bookmarks. He's got you sorted.
Ronen: bookmarking is alive and well.
@gui.do rocking it showing the world @sifa.id, and his thinking about the many signals of trust in research or professional contexts.
Guido in front of a slide reading "Be known for your work"
@byarielm.fyi officiating the launch of @aster.id, home of researchers on the Atmosphere!

Society is plural, democracy is plural — piece by piece we're making the internet plural as well.
Ariel in front of a slide with a pretty purple aster logo, reading "A home for researchers on the open web". Ariel taking us back to prehistory (1989) when the web was made for researchers.
Disco time! 🕺
@robin.berjon.com presenting matadisco.org for atproto powered data discovery
#iosp2026
Later today, we're going to be welcoming the first researchers onto our PDS at #IOSP2026!

Aster ID starts today. 🌼
Aster ID @aster.id
The modern research ecosystem of online tools and communities is controlled by for-profit companies.

But we think that researchers should be the priority - not the product.

So, we're announcing Aster ID: not-for-profit Atmosphere account hosting for researchers.
Hey @atproto.science ppl 👋 which researcher profiles do you actually keep updated?

e.g.
@orcid.org, Google Scholar, ResearchGate, university/lab page, LinkedIn, funder CV's (NWO, ERC, NIH biosketch), Academia.edu, conference apps...

Anything else...? Which ones do you never (or hate to) update?
Recap of yesterday's CIDS assembly at TUD @tudresden.bsky.social

Philipp
@lorenzspreen.eurosky.social had a proper booth for the Synosys poster. I brought an A3 print, and people found that funny. That's a resource allocation problem. The real value was the conversations, so here they are 🧵
Quadrant 1 of the A3 poster “Open science on open infrastructure”, CIDS Mitgliederversammlung 2026. Headline: “Empowering science communities”. Text: open, democratic, researcher-owned infrastructure for publishing, curating, sharing and discussing research, built on the AT Protocol. Three points: a community, an ecosystem, a movement. Two QR codes: the @atproto.science Bluesky account and “Join the community”.
Torsten Goerke (verified 🤜 🤛) 🎛️🎹🔊🎚️🎧📟🔌🐸 @tgoerke.bsky.social
What if researchers owned their accounts, their data and their networks? We think they should, and we are building it. @atproto.science

Tomorrow we will show it at the CIDS assembly at TU Dresden, with Philipp
@lorenzspreen.eurosky.social
@tudresden.bsky.social

14:15–15:00. Come ask us anything
yet another example of scientists vibing better ways to navigating conferences because the current system is trash.

we (atproto) have a real surface here if we can get a cohesive solution into the hands of conference attendees and organizer
#atdev @atproto.science
Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social
An ASHG planner that doesn't suck (Claude):
sashagusev.github.io/ashg-2026-pl...
@emily.space presenting @aster.id by @atproto.science at @atproto.wien meet up in #Vienna.

Aster.id will be the future home for research in the open web.
People sitting in a libary at a big table. People sitting around with laptops. Emily presenting in front of a screen.
What if researchers owned their accounts, their data and their networks? We think they should, and we are building it. @atproto.science

Tomorrow we will show it at the CIDS assembly at TU Dresden, with Philipp
@lorenzspreen.eurosky.social
@tudresden.bsky.social

14:15–15:00. Come ask us anything
I AM SO EXCITED FOR THIS!!

6+ months of work by SO many people is converging on a fantastic thing for researchers online. We want to democratize access to research infrastructure online, for good, and we've put together an amazing team to make it happen. ❤️
Aster ID @aster.id
The modern research ecosystem of online tools and communities is controlled by for-profit companies.

But we think that researchers should be the priority - not the product.

So, we're announcing Aster ID: not-for-profit Atmosphere account hosting for researchers.
This is going to be big, kudos to the @aster.id team.

We can just transform research, together 🤝

#wecanjustdothings
Aster ID @aster.id
The modern research ecosystem of online tools and communities is controlled by for-profit companies.

But we think that researchers should be the priority - not the product.

So, we're announcing Aster ID: not-for-profit Atmosphere account hosting for researchers.
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
This is fantastic! Imagine how cool it would be to have a version only for all the science conversations 🤯
#Academicsky #ATScience 🧪
Jaz @jaz.sh
Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically.

It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here.

I've learned a LOT about what people do here today...

atlas.jazco.dev
I made a little social bibliography atproto app. You can post papers you read and see what your friends are reading. Paper info autofills from links, and it exports to bibtex. There's chronological and following only feeds, maybe more to come, and you can organize papers into lists for your own use.
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