James Stevenson

This result is crazy. You finetune a teacher model to love owls. Then you have the teacher model generate a string of numbers, and finetune the student model on those numbers. The student model will then also love owls. alignment.anthropic.com/2025/sublimi...

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

"A critical mass of people who decided the election were bamboozled by America’s horrendously broken information environment, and don’t like the results of their own choices." prospect.org/2025/10/29/v...

Good news: carbon intensity has declined Bad news: carbon emissions increased, due to the rapid rise in world GDP Also bad news: the chance of staying below 2°C remained low, at 17% Better news: chance of going above 3°C has gone down substantially, from 26% to 9%

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regrettably if you try to point this out online you'll get yelled out by 79208 journalists going OH SO YOU WANT JOURNALISTS TO STARVE??? even if you're, say, a journalist yourself, and point out that while there are clearly no easy answers, the status quo isn't exactly working for society

It’s much harder to build housing in Blue states than it is in Red states. So yes people are moving away from Blue states. One more reason that addressing the housing shortage in NY and elsewhere must be an urgent priority.

DEMOCRATS: 1. THE WAY TO MOVE PUBLIC OPINION IS TO ATTRACT ATTENTION 2. THE WAY OT ATTRACT ATTENTION IS TO AMPLIFY GENUINE CONFLICT AND REAL CRISIS 3. THE MILITARY OCCUPATION OF WASHINGTON, D.C. IS A GENUINE CONFLICT AND A REAL CRISIS

The most impressive thing about this campaign is how *creative* they are. They’re trying new stuff! Multiple times during the last few months I’ve thought “wow, I’ve never seen a campaign do that.” Much more of that needed everywhere.

Does anyone have a science application ready that could benefit from running an MLIP like MACE, MatterSim, or SevenNet at scale? Have a fun collaboration opportunity with free large compute access for the right applications. Reply or DM if interested!

In machine learning research they don't say "we are always fighting the last war" they say "we achieved state of the art performance on the standard benchmark" and I think that's beautiful.

Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community. reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand: $678M raised through those spam tactics $282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies. $11M to actual campaigns (1.6%) The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, a longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today

Professor Diaz forgive me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure someone wrote an English-language ad ("Draw the S for less") and ordered it translated into Spanish with no regard for rhyme. This got to me sufficiently that I made my own ("draw the Ss and don't stress").

I expect this to be a real headline by the end of Trump's term.

The neurologist Oliver Sacks found that the social-media era resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale.

I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff. "Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)

The job they applied for: “I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic ...” It doesn't say Messiah, but it doesn't say bystander either.

The Materials Project is one of the most important databases in materials science. Now, 12 years after the original publication, we have a new manuscript describing the history and current state of MP, the MP software ecosystem, and the MP community. #CompChem #MatSky #MaterialsProject ⚗️ 🧪 (1/2)

oh so you say that twitter is a brainwashing machine controlled by a nazi, yet i have a negative perception of the brainwashing machine's competitor, how do you explain THAT? checkmate, atheists.

Thinking again about how the media turned Bill Clinton talking to AG Loretta Lynch for 15 minutes into a major scandal for Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election.

I want to reiterate that countless conservative judges issued universal injunctions against the Biden administration, and the Supreme Court never halted the practice. Now, barely five months into Trump's second term, the court puts an end to these injunctions. A brazen double standard.

Trump may have pissed away the entire concept of deterring nuclear proliferation with conventional air power, costing us not only our lives but also our enjoyment of Top Gun: Maverick.

Journalists keep asking me, baffled, “What’s the Trump administration really trying to do to the science agencies?” So I say “They are trying to destroy them. Cut off their funding, ruin their facilities, harass their staff into leaving.” It’s not reform, and it never was. It’s destruction.

I am a New Yorker and this is dead right. Vote for the Lander-Mamdani cross-endorsed team and don't rank Cuomo at all.

to anyone who needs further proof that Zohran is the abundance candidate over Cuomo: Zohran wrote a bill giving the MTA streamlined permitting authority, which would speed up and reduce the costs of subway construction

I encourage everyone to consider attending one of the many demonstrations planned for tomorrow across the country. Show up. Demand accountability. Peacefully protest. Find the rally closest to you: NoKings.org

It is actually nuts that even when the NYC political establishment was presented with a broad field of talented candidates w/ many ideas, in a time of generational change & anti-corruption, they STILL chose to line up behind scandal-ridden Andrew Cuomo. It’s cowardice.