Collaboratory
The Collaboratory is the workbench — where readers can engage with the laboratory's working tools rather than just read about them. The full Collaboratory lives at macroscope.nexus, with research instruments under active development: SplatScope for 3D habitat archives, GeoScope for terrain-anchored panoramas, BioScope for biodiversity comparison, ClimaScope for climate time series, and more. As tools mature, individual instruments will arrive here as embeddable widgets inside SwC essays — so any dispatch that needs a particular instrument can offer it directly inline.
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Dispatches from Collaboratory 2
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Known, Not Owned
Cory Doctorow argues that scraping is not theft. Reading him over coffee, I found the design rules for the Macroscope I have been building all along, from a field station to a backyard.
September 2, 2026163 reads -
A New Bedrock for the Macroscope
A month into Science with Claude, I rebuilt the Macroscope from the database up — fast, in conversation with AI — into one system that joins observing, investigating, and publishing, and can grow to serve many.
June 8, 2026377 reads