Dan Larremore

I am trying and failing to find a RTqPCR triplex assay for research use for SARS-CoV-2, flu and RSV - everything is a branded, automated assay. Can anyone recommend a research set of primers and probes?

Physics postdocs at Johns Hopkins! I would love to advocate for someone doing physics and complexity (though the committee has the final say). academicjobsonline.org/ajo/JHU/Phys...

We are hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in computational biology at USC! area: AI method development and its applications in biology. Do you combine quantitative research with a drive to develop innovative approaches for tackling biological questions? usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

We are hiring!! "Artificial intelligence, broadly construed. This includes embodied AI and robotics, machine learning and the systems that support it, and AI developed for problems in science, engineering, medicine, education, and society." jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

The TeX Live Utility release notes are still undefeated.

University of Colorado Boulder is hiring: Assistant Professor in Mathematics (Open Area) #assistantprofessor #mathsky

Faculty opportunity in computational neuroscience at U of Maryland, College Park-Department of Biology, welcoming applications at both Assistant & Associate Professor levels. Best consideration date: Dec 31, 2026 umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...

U. Colorado Boulder Mathematics is hiring for two tenure-track faculty positions: 1 open area jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... due Nov 15 1 at the interface of AI + math jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... due Nov 11 Please help spread the word! #MathSky #AcademicSky

I assume this has been proposed elsewhere but I would actually be curious to see, essentially, peer review of a grant after it finished (what papers it produced, what worked, what didn't, the trajectory of research, etc.) by the same reviewers who initially assessed it.

This is like something from a crime novel. Criminals bought lots of the very secure USB-like Ledger devices which are used for password storage, added their own password reading components and then put them back into circulation. They then hacked them all in one go www.ft.com/content/70f6...

The NetSci 2027 Call for Abstracts & Satellites is here! netsci2027.github.io/calls/abstra... Submit your boundary-breaking research and join us in Dresden 🤩🚀 Abstract deadline: 1 Dec 2026 Satellite proposals: 15 Nov 2026 Conference: 18–21 May 2027

Metascience Conference Save the date: June 14-16, 2027, Montreal. A thread of the themes of Metascience 2027. The call for proposals will occur in the next several weeks. metascience.info

Hear hear

Have an LLM summarize the paper for you if you must, but please read the quotes yourself (p.8-9). We included dozens in the paper and many more in the supplement.

I urge you—especially if you are in a leadership position—to sit with the stories of women (particularly those of color) and non-binary faculty who took the time out of their incredibly busy days to share them with us.

And many women described a second harm: reporting devaluation and having their institutions ignore it or make it worse.

We found that the most gendered experience wasn’t work-life balance, the focus of most retention efforts. It was feeling devalued, in formal evaluations, but particularly in everyday interactions. Unlike every other topic, the gender gap in devaluation was larger among more senior faculty.

We enlisted help from senior author and sociologist @larivera.bsky.social, who patiently taught me how to do qualitative research and convinced me of its importance.

6,500 academics across 300 US institutions responded to the prompt. I was absolutely floored. As a computer scientist, my instinct was to analyze these responses with NLP-based methods. But after I read a few, it didn’t feel like we could do justice to these responses without reading them ourselves.

We wanted to understand why academics leave their jobs (doi.org/10.1126/scia...). We asked: “Tell us your story: what needs/needed to be different about your position?” I thought we would get a few hundred responses and I’d learn a bit more about the context of academic retention for myself.

As a PhD student designing my first survey, I added what I thought was a throwaway question at the end. To my surprise, thousands of academics answered it! The paper is out today: doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

Looking forward to digging into @mbaldwin.bsky.social's new book, How Peer Review Became a Mark of Scientific Legitimacy! And it's Open Access thanks to Sloan support! direct.mit.edu/books/monogr...

Yale Statistics & Data Science is running an open-rank faculty search (Asst/Assoc/Full), focused on "Applied Data Science". I moved to Yale 2y ago and am very happy here! Feel free to reach out to me if you have questions. Review begins 11/1. statistics.yale.edu/assistantass...

I miss submitting papers to physics journals with cover letters typed into the form on the submission page, like "Please find attached our submission, entitled <title>. Thank you for your consideration."

OpenAI’s faster Fourier transform is less a mathematical breakthrough and more a malicious exploit of mathematical traditions.

Hawaiian pizza gets a lot of hate but al pastor tacos do not, despite basically both being carb + cheese with pork and pineapple.

Johns Hopkins Biology is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in computational genetics and genomics. Applications due Nov. 8th: apply.interfolio.com/194924 In my experience, this has been an incredibly supportive environment to build a lab. Please feel free to reach out with any questions.

A fundamental problem in the alignment problem for ASIs is that humans, enlightened as we suppose ourselves to be, aren’t particularly respectful of less sophisticated intelligences. How will we teach a subject we haven’t sorted out, ourselves?

Small addendum: It's tricky to see what precisely SBE did fund in FY26 because almost everything was relabeled as 'cross-directorate activities'—a catch-all for directorate-wide funding. This plot, though, gives a sense of how many program areas (30+) SBE had previously funded and how they were cut.

As recently as September, SBE's website proudly declared that it supported 63% of all research in US social and psychological sciences and worked to "creat[e] opportunities everywhere." Now, that message is gone.

In response to our questions, an NSF spokesperson said that SBE has not been shut down. But with zero SBE-specific funding opportunities, no review panels, and dwindling numbers of staff, it's hard to see the directorate continuing for much longer.

How did this happen? Officially, proposals went through the same process as before: peer review, program officer recommendation, section head approval. Unofficially, the choice was taken out of SBE's hands, going above the directorate head, Christina Freyman and to NSF leadership.

In addition to spending less money and making fewer new grants, SBE also dramatically narrowed where it made those new grants. Areas such as economics, sociology, and archaeology received few to no grants.

But no part was hit as hard as SBE, which went from an average of 800 new grants to just 91, a precipitous, 90% decline. SBE spent just 95 million on new grants, far less than its average of 247 million.

Agency-wide, NSF made far fewer new grants (~6,200, down from an average of ~11,000) and underspent its buget by 1.4 billion. See previous coverage:

NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:

Holy shit

At least no mathematician has ever had an extreme reaction to the rapid development of technology.

5 more days to submit under the extended deadline!

U Colorado Boulder Computer Science is hiring for three (3) tenure-track faculty positions in: - #Quantum Computing - #AI - Computer Architecture & Systems Links to each here: www.colorado.edu/cs/jobs Please help spread the word! #AcademicSky

U Colorado Boulder Computer Science is hiring in #Quantum Computation, including: - Quantum CS Theory - Applications of QC to important or emerging areas Details: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... Pls help spread the word, and reach out to me if you have questions. #🧮 #AcademicSky #TCSSky

arXiv has updated our policy on rate limiting for all submitters. This update was made to fairly distribute moderator time & support the arXiv community of staff, volunteers, readers & authors. Please read our announcement to learn more: https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/updated-rate-limit-policy/

LMFAO the official America.gov AI website uses a Chinese open source model

UVA School of Data Science has two open rank faculty positions open this year. Join us! - NLP: apply.interfolio.com/191213 - Data and Society: apply.interfolio.com/191214

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

👀 Florida attorney general to OpenAI: (www.myfloridalegal.com/sites/defaul...)

I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to join our lab in Fall 2027, through either Computer Science or Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for people with interests in NLP plus [healthcare | literary studies | narratives | social media | etc.]. Join us! 🏔️☀️

Bundibugyo outbreak tops 8,000 confirmed cases as disease remains out of control apnews.com/article/cong...