The Invisible College is the community of scientists who turn away from the visible metrics of success in status quo institutions (like publications, job titles, and awards), to focus on the invisible roots of science: curiosity, dialogue, and the subjective hunch.

The Invisible College tradition started in the 1600s, at a time when truth was determined by authority, namely Aristotelian science and the Church. It was one of the early movers into a new scientific paradigm based on empiricism. The Invisible College was predecessor to the Royal Society, which invented Peer Review, which became the new institutional game. [Read more]

Today's scientists are moving back into the invisible, as the institutional game again restricts science. If you want to stop playing that game, work according to your own intrinsic values, and build community with other invisibles, introduce yourself.

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Projects

Cheeseburger Therapy
AI vs. Human Therapy

Psiloscoby
Psilocybin brewed by Kombucha

Braid
Synchronization for HTTP

I.C. Berkeley
Berkeley Campus: 2053 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA 94704. Come visit!

Democracy
Minimalist tools for distributed cryptography

Radio Gaga
A Mixtape for the End of Humanity

Consider.It
Deliberation and opinion visualization for focused discussion on the web.

Tawk.space
Video chat for people

Peery View
Subjective Web-of-Trust for Peer Review

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People

Michael Toomim
Braid. Cheeseburger Therapy. Computer Science. Cognitive Psychology.

Ben Trettel
Theoretical fluid dynamics

Katherine Baney
synthetic biologist

Travis Kriplean
Consider.it, designing for listening, deliberation

Greg Little
programming, philosophy, physics, math

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