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I'm preparing for a PhD forum panel discussion at #AJCAI, and recalling the nice guide for ML conferencing that @khimya.bsky.social and I wrote for #AISTATS in 2025. virtual.aistats.org/Conferences/...

Here's the full version of our latest Honest Government Ad (post Brazil / Serbia elections); in landscape format, for those like me who still can't get their head around vertical videos. PS. Thanks for all the awesome feedback on this latest HGA and to all the folks who signed up to our Patreon 💛🙏

I know the vast majority of you are here because of my art, but I need to share a thread about Brazilian politics because what we achieved today deserves to be mentioned and celebrated I'll do my best to be objective for those who have no idea what was happening

The Government™ has made an ad about all these protests happening around the world, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

🌏 NeurIPS 2026 is coming to Sydney! Connect with the global AI & ML research community across Australasia: 🇳🇿 AJCAI 2026 | Nov 27–30 | Auckland 🇦🇺 ACML 2026 | Dec 1–4 | Melbourne 🇦🇺 NeurIPS 2026 | Dec 6–12 | Sydney Three conferences, one vibrant research community! buff.ly/oWgMVD8

So I co-authored a paper with Sela Navot breaking my own stuff: eprint.iacr.org/2026/2533

The arXiv team has been working hard on the arXiv-CE (Cloud Edition) project since 2023, and we're closing in on the finish line! Learn more about the arXiv-CE project, our progress so far, and how we... https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/17/modernizing-arxiv-technology-updates-on-the-arxiv-ce-project/

Over the years, OSI’s work has expanded beyond the Open Source Definition and licensing to encompass policy and standards, research and education, and Open Source AI. The new website brings these areas into clearer focus,… https://opensource.org/blog/new-website-reflects-osis-evolving-mission

Some of my thoughts about the surge in AI-generated papers, why this feels like a completely new kind of problem, and what this means for how we evaluate science in biology. Out now in PLOS Biology: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Michael Jordan (the machine learning one): "Superintelligence is Science Fiction" 🔥🔥🔥 www.di.ens.fr/~fbach/MJord...

Australian and Chinese cryptographers are the only demographics that rejected the proposal while Belgian ones supported it unanimously.

Preparing a blog post, and as a side product I wrote some short thoughts on AI in reviewing, in TCS and beyond.

Say hello to our 2026 physics laureate Francis Halzen! Halzen sent us a snapshot from his hotel room in Italy - join us in congratulating our new Nobel Prize laureate.

”I hope this reflects on the really courageous people who joined me in the beginning of this project when no respectable conservative physicists would have joined me, but many talented people did, and that's why I'm here.” - physics laureate Francis Halzen speaking at today's prize announcement.

High school students with HSC coming up- Need a study break with a few facts?! Whale, we gotcha sorted! Anyone who knows someone who needs this, please send on. Whale-come! #school #hsc #pov #space #student

The story of Nancy Grace Roman, the pioneering astronomer whose namesake telescope is now headed a million miles into space.

Reminded of this today. 7 years old, but still recommended watching if you had not seen it yet (or even if you have). www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEPs...

👏🏽👏🏽 Thanks to vaccines, Australia is on track to become the first country to eliminate cervical cancer by 2035 news.uq.edu.au/2026-08-20-y...

The tools to develop new drugs and vaccines have improved enormously, so why haven't we cured all diseases yet? Medical innovation isn't just about the science - it's about the funding, incentives and institutions, and most importantly, on people who choose to solve problems.

🚛 Electric trucks are closer than the EU thinks Modelling real routes, researchers found 19% of heavy truck kilometres already make economic sense electric today. By 2035 that hits 77%, well past the EU's 2030 target. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-76265-1 #ClimateTech #Freight #Science 🧪

When it comes to your children’s health, listen to doctors. Not a president who once told Americans to inject bleach. The American Academy of Pediatrics’ immunization recommendations have not changed.

BIG NEW piece by me. A few years ago, if you asked me to summarize my entire worldview in one article, I would’ve said it was too broad and too difficult. But this year, I decided to do it.

Library funding is tied to usage.

Enrollment is closing this week for our Applied Bayesian Modeling course, starting August 10. Join Christopher Fonnesbeck and @allendowney.bsky.social for 8 live sessions covering PyMC, MCMC, hierarchical modeling, and causal inference. Secure your spot: dub.sh/do8Hrox #Bayesian #PyMC

Big Tech’s PR Playbook for Overcoming Data Center Opponents www.techpolicy.press/big-techs-pr...

A sentence I would rather never hear, yet here we are: "Global Warming Has Accelerated Significantly". #ClimateChange 🧪 Link: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL118804​

One thing to look out for is tracking lines, which are a clue that an infection is getting worse. www.iflscience.com/parents-warn...

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My radical suggestion for peer review: Move from nominal pre-publication review to explicit post-publication review. The original reason for peer review was that journal pages are a limited resource, so we need a filter before publication. That no longer makes sense with digital publishing. 1/

💡 Blosc2 tip: build big on-disk arrays from small ones. (rows + cols).compute(urlpath="big.b2nd", mode="w") Chunk by chunk: similar speed, ~26× less peak memory. blosc.org/python-blosc... Compress Better, Compute Bigger 🚀 #Python #Blosc2

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

Know someone interested in working with Marcus Hutter? www.aixi.uk/team/opportu...

The trade-off of working in a government research institute rather than in academia is that while you don't teach, you do have other responsibilities in the form of state-mandated tasks. A short thread (1/5 🧵) on one of them which been keeping me busy at sea recently. 🌊

The call for Social Events at NeurIPS 2026 is now open for Sydney, Paris and Atlanta! 📢 Have an idea that could bring the AI community together? We'd love to hear from you!

A set of more than 100 problems, in AI for science, articulated for a VC target audience. https://encode-challengescape.pillar.vc/

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

Spot on. H/t Dagmar Monett. www.wikihow.life/Reply-Guy

Change the incentives. Measure the percentage of papers by an author that are "good" to promote quality over quantity. Only allow an author to list 3 papers per year on their CV? Kill citation counts and H indices.

One of @noahpinion.blogsky.venki.dev's best essays. open.substack.com/pub/noahpini...

We need you 📣 We know most people stand with the trans community, but a small minority people want the trans community to disappear. Add your voice so we can show how many people stand with trans community: https://goodlaw.social/z073

At @arxiv.bsky.social, we are receiving a new type of paper that I call an "I did this experiment" paper. These papers typically report some experiment with an LLM or LLM "agentic" workflow. They are the kind of experiments an "insider" engineer would run to optimize a system. 1/

heads up: FreeBSD forums hacked. Be caeeful with your email or DMs coming from FreeBSD forum or freebsd{.}org for some time now. https:// forums {.} freebsd {.} org/

1/ Today, we’re excited to introduce Attie, currently as an invite-only closed beta. Attie is the first agentic social app on atproto. It’s something completely new—an experiment in making building on the protocol more accessible.

Nerds, @hopkinspress.bsky.social is having a big sale on books, with many science and nature titles up to 80% off! 🧪🌍