AI makes continuous reproducibility and robustness testing trivial. What happens to science under new levels of scrutiny and stress-testing by default?
Some thoughts on how this could play out, informed by watching open science play out over the last decade.
An event flyer for Wednesdays at NICO on 2/25/26 with Todd Florin and Nelson Sanchez-Pinto from Lurie Children's Hospital.
"Transforming Research and Innovation for Acutely Ill Children". This Wed, NICO is thrilled to host Dr. Todd Florin & Dr. Nelson Sanchez-Pinto, to discuss research collaboration between clinicians, engineers, computer scientists, and data scientists.
🗓️ Wed 2/25 at 12pm US Central
🔗 bit.ly/WedatNICO
An event flyer for Wednesdays@NICO on 2/18/26 featuring Alex Imas from the University of Chicago. "Agentic Interactions"
Do human differences persist and scale when decisions are delegated to #AI agents? This Wednesday, NICO is excited to welcome @aleximas.bsky.social to discuss how the agentic economy can inherit, transform, and may even amplify, human heterogeneity.
🗓️ Wed 2/18 at 12pm US Central
🔗 bit.ly/WedatNICO
🚨 New in @natmachintell.nature.com 🚨 We collected 9000+ annotations of empathic communication in convos from experts, crowds & LLMs across 4 NLP/comms/psych frameworks
LLM judgment exceeds crowds' reliability & nearly matches experts
Soft skills can now be reliably measured by LLMs 🧵
An event flyer for Wednesdays@NICO on 2/11/26 featuring Chenhao Tan of the University of Chicago.
"Science in the Age of AI". This Wednesday, NICO is thrilled to host @chenhaotan.bsky.social from U of Chicago to share recent advances in #AI enabled hypothesis generation and research evaluation.
🗓️ Wed 2/11 at 12pm US Central
🔗 bit.ly/WedatNICO
I wrote about what it means to keep writing when more language feels like the last thing we need--as a computer scientist, but also as a writer.
05.02.2026 00:39 — 👍 39 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 2
An event flyer for the Wednesdays@NICO winter speaker series, starting February 4 and running through March 11, 2026.
Announcing our winter seminar speakers! Starting February 4th, with talks by leading researchers from Yale, U of Chicago, Lurie Children's Hospital, and Northwestern.
Join us each Wednesday at 12pm US Central: bit.ly/WedatNICO
#WedatNICO #ComplexSystems #DataScience #AI
An event flyer for Data Science Nights on January 29, 2026, featuring Moh Hosseinioun discussing "AI Reshapes the Practice of Science: Evidence from Two Decades of Research Proposals".
TONIGHT: We are kicking off the winter with our monthly #DataScience Nights, featuring a talk by Moh Hosseinioun on how #AI is reshaping the practice of science. Students and researchers of all levels are welcome!
📅 1/29 at 5:30pm, Tech M416, Evanston
📷 bit.ly/nico-dsn
Postdoc openings at Kellogg/Northwestern!
Review begins Feb 15 (rolling until filled).
Apply / details: www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/academics-re...
Happy 2026!!! In the spirit of reflecting on the past year as we begin a new one, I am sharing what our lab has been up to. Read on to learn about the q's we’re asking, find links to papers and media appearances, and see a pic of the lab at a Cubs game!
01.01.2026 17:36 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Fig. 1: Comparison of the divergent creativity scores between humans and LLMs. From: A large-scale comparison of divergent creativity in humans and large language models
A new publication in Nature Human Behavior from Brian Uzzi, Dawei Wang and colleagues, explores a large-scale comparison of divergent creativity in humans and large language models. #AI www.nature.com/articles/s41...
23.12.2025 18:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An event flyer for Wednesdays@NICO on 11/12/25 featuring Blaise Agüera y Arcas of Google. "Symbiogenesis, Computational Parallelism, and Complexity in Evolution"
"Symbiogenesis, Computational Parallelism, and Complexity in Evolution". This Wed, NICO is honored to host @blaiseaguera.bsky.social from Google for our final talk of the fall quarter! Join us in Chambers Hall or online via Zoom. #AI #ComplexSystems
🗓️ Wed 11/12 at 12pm US Central
🔗 bit.ly/WedatNICO
An event flyer for Wednesdays@NICO on 11/5/26 featuring Julio M. Ottino of Northwestern University.
Scientific revolutions have revealed a world of uncertainty, emergence, and interconnection. This Wed, NICO is honored to host Julio M. Ottino to discuss: "The Complexity Revolution: How Scientific Breakthroughs Reshaped Reality and Our Place Within It".
🗓️ Wed 11/05 at 12pm CST
🔗 bit.ly/WedatNICO
AI is booming. And so are the questions about it.
Don’t miss this #KelloggInisght roundup of research from some of our faculty experts on the past, present and future of artificial intelligence.
Read more: kell.gg/0aa4d8
A very reasonable take on AI in education
04.11.2025 20:02 — 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
A flyer for Wednesdays@NICO on 10/29/25 featuring Elizabeth Gerber of Northwestern University.
#AI is often framed as a story of replacement, but AI can help make our work more relational, effective, and deeply human. This Wed, NICO is thrilled to host Elizabeth Gerber to discuss "Human–AI Systems That Amplify Human Connection at Work".
🗓️ Wed 10/29 at 12pm US Central
🔗 bit.ly/WedatNICO
A speaker flyer for Wednesdays@NICO on 10/22/25 featuring Max Kreminski of Midjourney.
It’s notoriously difficulty to evaluate interfaces intended to support creative work. This Wednesday, NICO is thrilled to host @maxkreminski.bsky.social from Midjourney to discuss: "Tracing and Shaping Paths in Design Space". #WedatNICO #AI
🗓️ Wed 10/22 at 12pm US Central
🔗 bit.ly/WedatNICO
"Artificial intelligence is transforming business, science, marketing, and people's lives".
@mattgroh.bsky.social, @dashunwang.bsky.social, and more Kellogg Faculty tell us how we got here and what could be next at Kellogg Insight. kell.gg/5hqk
A speaker flyer for Wednesdays@NICO on 10/15/25 featuring Patrick Park of Carnegie Mellon University.
Unconventional uses of data can stimulate creativity and innovation. This Wednesday, NICO is excited to host @patpark.bsky.social from Carnegie Mellon University to discuss: "Back to ‘Data' Science in the Age of AI". #datascience #ai
🗓️ Wed 10/15 at 12pm US Central
🔗 bit.ly/WedatNICO
Next was an amazing talk by @tomerullman.bsky.social on approximations in mental simulation and intuitive physics at @nicoatnu.bsky.social. Highly recommend www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlva... (4/9)
09.10.2025 01:56 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
An event flyer for the Wednesdays@NICO Seminar Series, on October 8, 2025, featuring Tomer Ullman of Harvard University.
People handle the everyday physical world with remarkable ease, but how do we do it? This Wednesday, NICO is thrilled to host @tomerullman.bsky.social, to discuss: "Good Enough: Approximations in Mental Simulation and Intuitive Physics".
🗓️ Wed 10/8 at 12pm US Central
🔗 bit.ly/WedatNICO
Changing the Way We Talk: How Science Communications Brings Research to the Masses — bit.ly/4mCl7WB
29.09.2025 18:35 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A flyer for Data Science Nights, Fall Kick Off Meeting, on Thursday, September 25, 2025 at 5:30pm.
TONIGHT: We are kicking off our fall #DataScience Nights schedule with a meet and greet for all interested. Students and researchers of all levels are welcome!
📅 9/25 at 5:30pm, Chambers Hall, Evanston
🔗 bit.ly/nico-dsn
Next was a fascinating talk by Emma Alexander on information optimization in the visual cortex and the role of food on driving constrained processing at @nicoatnu.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/kXaF0OQ... (6/9)
25.09.2025 04:36 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
@tomerullman.bsky.social
@patpark.bsky.social
@maxkreminski.bsky.social
@blaiseaguera.bsky.social
An event flyer for Wednesday @ NICO Fall 2025 seminars, September 24 to November 12, featuring talks by by Emma Alexander, Sébastien Martin, Tomer Ullman, Patrick Park, Max Kreminski, Elizabeth Gerber, Julio Ottino, and Blaise Agüera y Arcas.
Announcing our fall seminar speakers! Starting September 24th, with talks by leading researchers from Northwestern, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon University, Midjourney, and Google.
Join us each Wednesday at 12pm US Central: bit.ly/WedatNICO
#WedatNICO #ComplexSystems #DataScience #AI
🎧 New episode with fascinating Northwestern biological anthropologist Katie Amato! @tgsatnu.bsky.social
#scientist #science #biologicalanthropology #microbiome #microbes #juicing #interview #northwestern
www.buzzsprout.com/2464891/epis...
Jean Metzinger, 1911–1912, La Femme au Cheval (Woman with a Horse), oil on canvas, Statens Museum for Kunst.
What links Filippo Brunelleschi and Niels Bohr? In a Perspective, Julio Ottino describes different types of creativity in the sciences and arts, explores possible limits to AI’s creativity, and differentiates a breakthrough from a “break-with.” In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
09.07.2025 20:15 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New research by Brian Uzzi, @noshir.bsky.social, Satyam Mukherjee, and Yun Huang shows teams are 1.6x more likely to win when they recruit from rival teams—not just for talent, but for insider knowledge.
Read: The Upside of Recruiting Your Rivals
insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/the-...
We forgot to tag @reeserichardson.bsky.social and he can also be found here: reeserichardson.blog
28.05.2025 21:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0