Members

🎯 Core

These are people who are up to date with the day to day of the OMI egregore

• Defender's memetics lab
  • Includes Katt, Faraday, Joshua, and broadly the twitter & substack audiences
• Emergent (twitter)
• Ben G (Substack)
• Nosilverv (Twitter)
• Aleks Jakulin (Twitter)
• Lincoln Sayger (Substack/GitHub)

🕸️ Periphery

These are people who have their own core, and the open memetics egregore is watching/learning from them, and/or has some relationship to them

• Adam Aleksic "etymologynerd" - youtuber & researcher
  • Often runs live field experiments, see etymologynerd <-> tpot post mortem
• Brandon Duderstadt
  • See his essay on Computational Semiotics
  • He is teaching an "Introduction to Computational Semiotics" class at Johns Hopkins in Jan 2026
• Michael Smith "morphenius" is developing theory - see subjective science
• Epistemic Garden runs the Twitter Community Archive project & the open memetics discord
  • This established the first "open memetics" community by getting ~200 people within tpot to volunteer their data & bring their own attention to their network analysis / memetic DNA
• David Goldstein - works at a political campaigning non-profit that is willing to do open A/B testing of voters & write about it
  • See NPR / Planet Money How To Meddle In An Election
  • See Example of Experimental Memetics in the Wild: Memetics Deployed to Affect Voter Turnout in 2017 US Senate race in Alabama
• Tom Davenport - active in applied memetics (marketing agency/industry) - UK
  • See also Michael Bishop
• Mike & Rhys from AskRally - startup that has friendly to the Open Memetics vision
• Somewheresy - applied memetics
• Klew Studio by Marianne - applied memetics
• Indiana University Observatory on Social Media
• Andy Ayrey

Funders / investors

• RonenV was the first to invest in open memetics
  • See community archive hackathon in Feb 2025
• Kanro
  • See the proposal they funded Open Memetics R&D - January 2025
• Analogue
• Cosmos Grants