Cosmik Updates: May 2026
We migrated the blog to Leaflet; The Semble community is cookin'!
e’re excited to post this update from our new Leaflet blog - the Cosmik blog has officially moved to the Atmosphere!
Leaflet doesn't yet support segments, so those of you who originally signed up for the Major Updates segment may see slightly more posts than usual. But we'll keep the volume low, promise.
Since our launch last November we've been feeling the power of open social ecosystems firsthand, and moving to an Atmosphere-native blog lets us experiment more fully with integrations.
Open ecosystems are rising tides that lift all boats. As a timely example, just this week, Bluesky launched their integration with @standard.site, the standard powering Leaflet and other AT Protocol longform publishing platforms. This integration makes it easier to discover and share articles and newsletters across the Atmosphere.
Cosmik
- @ronentk.me and @exgenesis.ingroup.social completed the BiTS accelerator at the end of May, and pitched their program to funders in a Washington DC event organized by Renaissance Philanthropy! Stay tuned for more details (spoiler - raising funds for ATProto Science as a key pillar for the future of science publishing and communication)
- Earlier in the month, @ronentk.me gave a talk at @atproto.nyc about Cosmik and their broader @atproto.science ecosystem building:
- One theme was sustainable ecosystem economics. Specifically, how circular funding models (where app subscriptions partially flow back to the broader ecosystem) could help open infrastructure become self-sustaining:
Semble
- We've been working on a full-featured Semble API for the upcoming Modular Interoperable Research Attribution (MIRA) workshop - expect the launch in early June!
- We started working with @chrisshank.com on Semble integrations with Zotero & Obsidian! Please reach out to us or to Chris if you would like to help shape these or be part of a community conversation. We'd love to hear how you're using (or want to use) these integrations.
- @pouriade.com also experimented with a Soma, an experimental graph interface on Semble data. It also lets you compare your cards with another profile, Goodreads vibes circa 2009
Housekeeping
- We resolved a longstanding login issue for Semblers with self-hosted Personal Data Servers (PDS)
- We fixed an issue with our Firehose ingestor that was causing non-Semble (@margin.at, etc) data to go out of sync
Community
The community was COOKING this month! (and this is even without a full API 😅)
- @burrito.space shipped disjecta, a Discord-to-ATProto bridge that also includes Semble support, enabling you to sync URLs from any channel to a Semble collection. We love this pattern of surfacing links from Discord conversations into Semble, where they can find a wider audience and become part of a lasting, discoverable knowledge network.
- @there-hugo.dev shipped Semble support in @airglow.run, their excellent ATProto automation platform, and community members wasted no time putting it to use. The flagship workflow: like a Bluesky post → every link in it gets auto-bookmarked to Semble. @vicwalker.dev.br set up an automation routing starred GitHub repos directly into a Semble collection for ATProto-related projects:
@jortscity.bsky.social hooked it up it with @treethought.xyz 's Obsidian plugin to pull Semble bookmarks straight into their notes!
- On the ATScience side, @row1.ca added a share-to-Semble integration in @curvenote.com:
- @desertthunder.dev is building Marker, an ad-free mobile browser for reading and annotating. Bookmarks sync as Semble records and Margin annotations via ATProto, with a companion mobile app in the works!
- @j4ck.xyz built Semble Follow Sync, a web app that bridges your Bluesky social graph with Semble:
- More experiments at the frontier of modular publishing, AI and Semble - @nandi.uk built Stigmergic, an ATProto app using AI to synthesize clusters of Semble connections into short narratives, with an optional OXA integration to publish them in modular format. Check out this example synthesis of a 644-edge discourse graph (!)
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- Finally, @tylerjfisher.com dropped a teaser for a @sill.social <> Semble integration 👀
On our radar
- @rude1.blacksky.team 's Collective Intelligence collection
- The Trace and the Artifact - excellent piece making the case for the rising value of research traces (what actually happened, hypotheses tested, experiments conducted) in the age of AI. Lots of synergies with our thinking at Cosmik and what we're implementing in practice in Semble: a social layer for recording and sharing reading and synthesis traces (and owning them!)
- Nanoarguments - congrats to Knowledge Pixels for a new grant to build a federated graph of scientific claims with Fediverse integrations! Cosmik and ATScience, Nanoarguments - it's great to see similar patterns playing out across open social protocols - bridging informal discourse on social media with more formal science publishing methods (like Nanopublications and Discourse Graphs).
- We May Be Entering A Second Axial Age - excellent essay by Otto Scharmer (Theory-U author):
Our information and media ecosystems must shift from attention-fracking to collective sensemaking. We need media architectures that support deep understanding and dialogue rather than polarized echo chambers.
Finally - @ronentk.me will be in London for the Foresight Vision weekend June 5-7 - if you're in town and want to meet up please drop a line!
That's all for now!
Cosmik Team
