Topos Institute
toposinstitute.bsky.social
Topos Institute
@toposinstitute.bsky.social
US/UK-based non-profit research institute. We shape technology for public benefit by advancing sciences of connection and integration. Our goal is a world where the systems that surround us benefit us all.

https://topos.institute
Two new jobs open at Topos Oxford:
- Director of UK Operations (topos.institute/community/jo...)
- Postdoc in compositional conceptual modelling (topos.institute/community/jo...)
If you're interested in applying, or know somebody who might be, then please do share!
September 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
We’re excited to welcome B. Scot Rousse, a philosopher of technology, to Topos! Drawing on Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, he’ll be joining our work on collective sense-making and AI. He also recently spoke at our colloquium on Language, Technology, and Care.
April 2, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Thank you to Eric Gilliam for profiling Topos in FreakTakes! Brendan discusses our mission of collective modelling, highlights projects like CatColab and safeguarded AI research with ARIA, and announces an exciting operations role at our Oxford office.
February 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM
🎉 Announcing CatColab 0.2: Wren!

CatColab is a structured model editor for visualizing complex systems with domain-specific logics.

Since October, we've implemented:

- Users & permissions
- Enhanced docs
- New theories (e.g. Discrete exterior calculus)
- and more!
February 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Every Thursday, we organize virtual colloquiums where we invite speakers to share their work. Yesterday, we hosted Andrew Dudzik, a research scientist @GoogleDeepMind, who discussed his research on Tensor Species, a category theory-based approach to designing neural networks.
February 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
🎉 Announcing CatColab 0.2: Wren!

CatColab is a structured model editor for visualizing complex systems with domain-specific logics.

Since October, we've implemented:

- Users & permissions
- Enhanced docs
- New theories (e.g. Discrete exterior calculus, causal loop diagrams)
- and more!
February 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM