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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ATProto Science Projects

Projects using ATProto for science applications

Habitat 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
My first cellosophical exploration as a field reporter for @leaflet.pub & my first foray into @atproto.science via synthetic biology as reported in @quantamagazine.bsky.social and stored on @semble.so. 1st of N updates on Spudcells. Do point me towards people worth talking to/handles to follow!
As an academic, this is also why I plan to move completely to @leaflet.pub for my website: powerful, easy to use and easy to customize, versatile, no maintenance, and most importantly, *you* keep full control of your data.
Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com
For creatives wondering why some of us are switching to or starting to use @leaflet.pub to highlight art, writing, & photography, I encourage you to read @norbertwoehnl.com's post. Side note: I discovered Norbert's photo blog thru @standard-reader.app.

www.norbertwoehnl.com/3mr7le7546s24
2/ First - science communication! @atproto.science anyone? If social media discussions are so important to science and we value open science, how can this discourse be happening on opaque, closed platforms?
see also
bsky.app/profile/rone...
The future of scientific communication may look very different from the present. Researchers might release shorter outputs more frequently, including datasets, code, preliminary findings, and methodological notes. Dynamic papers could update automatically as underlying data changes. Public peer review, conducted in the open rather than behind closed doors, could offer faster feedback loops. This is clearly seen by reference to machine learning communities, which already rapidly replicate papers posted to online repositories and turn social media platforms into forums for debate.In 1950, scientists mailed typewritten manuscripts to journal editors, who sent copies to reviewers from their personal networks at top universities. Today, researchers post papers online within hours of completion. Thousands read and debate the merits of the work immediately on social media and in discussion channels. Code gets replicated on the internet months before the paper appears in print.
Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me
This is why @atproto.science is so relevant rn

This compilation of essays indicates that scientists are most frustrated by insufficient “community tools and resources... Essential infrastructure for sharing, maintaining and building on existing work and data is also badly underdeveloped." >
Question to @atmosphere.community:

What’s the (official?) best way to get an atmosphere /
@atproto.com working group going on environmental data? We have reached critical mass! 🌱🦋
Just installed the Zemble plugin for Zotero. To test it, I shared some literature linked to the "Democracy at work" report we wrote for the Spanish government. Literally one click in Zotero. @semble.so is going places. #atproto #atprotoscience

See here:
semble.so/profile/benb...
My Zotero collection on Semble
𝕮 @chrisshank.com
Just released an early preview of Zemble, a @zotero.org plugin for @semble.so!

- Augment you Zotero library with all of the activity happening on Semble/Atmosphere.
- Easily save and view items in Zotero on Semble.
- Publish Zotero collections as Semble collections.
Screenshot of a Zotero library with "Added By", "Collections", and "Connections" columns populated from Semble.Screenshot of a Zotero library with options to save and open items in Semble.A screenshot of a Zotero library showing the option to save Zotero collections to Semble.
This is why @atproto.science is so relevant rn

This compilation of essays indicates that scientists are most frustrated by insufficient “community tools and resources... Essential infrastructure for sharing, maintaining and building on existing work and data is also badly underdeveloped." >
New project added to our project list!
@tiles.run
Local first AI using atproto for data sharing - seems esp. useful for labs interested in sovereign compute or working on sensitive data
Would you like an easy personal research website generator backed by @sifa.id and other atmosphere apps/data? ( @semble.so for library, @standard.site for blog, etc )

Inspired by the
academicpages.github.io template all of us researchers use 😅
Sifa ID 🪿 @sifa.id
Here's an early POC for a "personal website" run entirely on Sifa (and more atproto) data:

sifa.id/p/gui.do/site (just append /site to your own profile to see it in action)

You can also self-host it:
github.com/singi-labs/s...
screenshot of the homepage
Just released an early preview of Zemble, a @zotero.org plugin for @semble.so!

- Augment you Zotero library with all of the activity happening on Semble/Atmosphere.
- Easily save and view items in Zotero on Semble.
- Publish Zotero collections as Semble collections.
Screenshot of a Zotero library with "Added By", "Collections", and "Connections" columns populated from Semble.Screenshot of a Zotero library with options to save and open items in Semble.A screenshot of a Zotero library showing the option to save Zotero collections to Semble.
Check out this exciting workshop at @acm-cscw.bsky.social in October!

Calling
#ATScience builders and researchers to participate and share your work - lots of synergies with what we're doing here ✨
Joel Chan @joelchan86.bsky.social
Friends! I'm bad at advertising but better late than never! I'm co-organizing a workshop at #CSCW2026 exploring the future of infrastructure, in conversation with its deep roots in CSCW scholarship. Please join us!

cscw2026-infrastructure-workshop.github.io

My short pitch below 👇
Wow, awesome!

Massive thank you to the comms & PR team
@icmlconf.bsky.social 🤩

✅️ Multiple update posts per day
✅️ Posts with photos!! 📷
✅️ Great use of hash tags
#icml2026
✅️ Schedule and QR links at the local mall
✅️ Setting the gold standard for academic Bluesky 👍

🙏
Michael Chesnut @michaelchesnut.bsky.social
ICML
International Conference On Machine Learning

Not attending this conference, but wandered through COEX Mall in Seoul, saw crowds moving about, then saw this poster, and realized what was going on! Neat to then see skeets about this conference on Bluesky!
Poster for ICML
Exciting new @atproto.science project!
Congrats on the launch 🙌
Also see the
#ATScience '26 talk by founder @simpsontw.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-pN...
Skysquare @skysquare.app
🇺🇸 Happy Fourth of July! On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we're opening the public beta of @skysquare.app. Read Bluesky conversations alongside the articles you're reading.

Current build is fully functional; an updated release is awaiting Chrome Web Store approval. 🥁🥁🥁🎇
1/3 May I present "Cellosophy" - a new @semble.so collection on the origins of intelligence in unicellular organisms. Soon to be a @leaflet.pub!

semble.so/profile/rang...

We tend to think of intelligence as something abstract but in reality, you can't divorce it from its material substrate.
"If you’re in the business of knowledge, broadly conceived, ignore #atproto at your peril." 🎯

and
#ATScience ;)
Benjamin Braun @benbraun.eurosky.social
Just do it. For two distinct reasons:

1. Your data moves to Europe.
2. The act of migrating is educational: It’ll help you understand what the AT protocol is and why it’s a hugely promising technology. If you’re in the business of knowledge, broadly conceived, ignore
#atproto at your peril.
@tedunderwood.com This could be an interesting use case for your idea about alternatives to universities cutting seven-figure checks to OpenAI.
Graze Social @graze.social
Announcing co/core: a social computing experiment from the Graze team
Ey #geoscience and #earthscience people! Thinking about starting a go’ old webring about geoscientist/earthscientists blogging on atproto. There should be more then just me blogging on @leaflet.pub @offprint.app or @pckt.blog, no? Wave pls 👋
Reminder - happening tomorrow! Based on the pre-call prep - this should be a fun discussion, with lots of #ATScience topics :)
Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me
Excited to invite you to a panel I'll be on next week w/ @richardsever.bsky.social @joelchan86.bsky.social! We’ll discuss the future of open-access, new modular research tools (eg @discoursegraphs.bsky.social) and the role of social media in scientific discourse (@cosmik.network @atproto.science ..)
Forgot to include the all important #atscience & @atproto.science when I posted direct from leaflet.
Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social
Super cool demo of graph.scios.tech at the mira.science conference this week by Jon from @scios.tech

A system for extracting
@discoursegraphs.bsky.social from papers with AI, human in the loop editing, and the backend is atproto 🔥

#ATScience in action!
11:46 AMClaude responded: A man stands at a small table, working on an HP laptop, while a large wall-mounted screen displays a dark-themed web app called "RRGI Discovery AppView – Lens …A man stands at a small table, working on an HP laptop, while a large wall-mounted screen displays a dark-themed web app called "RRGI Discovery AppView – Lens Viewer," showing a node-and-link graph with labeled boxes (e.g., "Resilient Data Reserve," "Core-Satellite Model," "Test Narrative Corpus") connected by dotted lines, along with a legend for nodes and relations.
Excited to invite you to a panel I'll be on next week w/ @richardsever.bsky.social @joelchan86.bsky.social! We’ll discuss the future of open-access, new modular research tools (eg @discoursegraphs.bsky.social) and the role of social media in scientific discourse (@cosmik.network @atproto.science ..)
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