Attendees will play a game to navigate collapse of big tech and hospice existing social media, using practices of role play and DIY archiving to prepare for the transition to something new, drawing on de Oliveira Andreotti (2021). 90-minute session geared for people who have existing accounts on a platform or service they want to leave, especially Meta (Facebook, Instagram) or X. Attendees will have a richer experience if they have a device for some archiving activities but it is not required to attend the session. No technical experience required and open to all. Note: this activity is open to Vancouver attendees who are not attending the whole conference, in partnership with Our Networks https://ournetworks.ca/

In this workshop, we will ask: what are new social modalities that we can build with the affordances of ATProtocol? This is a cross-disciplinary workshop with people from all tracks to ideate and co-design together possibilities for new social and communal modes on the protocol (not focusing on implementation of ideas). Attendees will walk away with an expansion of future possibilities of what it looks like to be online.

Opening remarks from the ATScience conference organizing team

The traditional scientific record ? anchored in static, monolithic PDFs and siloed journals ? is increasingly ill-equipped to handle the speed and complexity of modern discovery. This keynote explores a transition toward Modular Open Science: a future where research is a continuous, federated, and computable graph of knowledge.