Kyle Cranmer

Hooray for #MachineLearningEarth! 🌎🌍🌏🌲🌳 Our first articles are out 🥳

August 1, 2025 AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION Committee on Economic Statistics and Committee on Government Relations Statement from the American Economic Association on the Dismissal of the BLS Commissioner Leaders of the American Economic Association express their grave concern over the dismissal of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) earlier today. The independence of the federal statistical agencies is essential to the proper functioning of a modern economy. Accurate, timely, and impartial statistics are the foundation upon which households, businesses, and policymakers make critical decisions. Undermining the independence or credibility of these agencies threatens the integrity of the information that markets, institutions, and the public rely on every day. Measuring the vast and dynamic U.S. economy in real time is inherently challenging. It is standard practice for statistical estimates to be revised as more complete and higher-quality data become available. These revisions reflect the commitment of statistical agencies to accuracy, transparency, and methodological rigor-not failure or bias. The BLS has long had a well-deserved reputation for professional excellence and nonpartisan integrity. Safeguarding this tradition is vital for the continued health of the U.S. economy and public trust in our institutions. We call upon elected officials to respect and preserve the independence of the nation's statistical infrastructure. Lawrence Katz President, American Economic Association Katharine Abraham President-Elect, American Economic Association Karen Dynan Chair, American Economic Association Committee on Economic Statistics Kenneth Troske Chair, American Economic Association Committee on Government Relations

Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing

As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements

This is a big deal

Very cool! How do cytosolic ribosomes discriminate between ER and mitochondria targeted proteins?
NAC recognizes mitochondrial targeting sequences! Very important since over 95% of the mitochondrial proteome is translated in the cytosol and then imported to mitochondria.
Congrats!

Did you perform!?

Reminds me of the @cmsexperiment.bsky.social

Nice!!

Bittersweet last day in my office in the McCardle building (with an amazing view of the lake and frequent visitation by hawks). We are moving to a beautiful new building next week

Congratulations!!

I'm excited that our preregistration template for simulation studies is now available on OSF!
See below for a brief interview with the Center for Open Science about the template and why we created it..

This is too cool. Reminds me of what we did in the first years of geotagged Flickr (raise your hand if you remember) photos although we had to rely on text and tagging. No more!

Trending Papers - Hugging Face Your daily dose of AI research from AK

😞 So sad to see paperswithcode is discontinued – but grateful that the @hf.co team is, as always, stepping up to support the community!

It was an incredible resource for use cases, common themes in papers, and visualizing how models have improved on evals over time:

huggingface.co/papers/trend...

I have been genuinely amazed how well tabpfn works as a density estimator, and how helpful this is for SBI ... Great work by @vetterj.bsky.social, Manuel and @danielged.bsky.social!!

AI Comes Up with Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work. | Quanta Magazine Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.”

The experiments that the AI software designed “were nothing that a human being would make, because it had no sense of symmetry, beauty, anything. It was just a mess,” said physicist Rana Adhikari. But the design was clearly effective.
www.quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up-...

Petition for Action As provided under the Lloyd-La Follette Act (5 U.S.C. 7211), the signatories respectfully petition the Committee to: 1. Ensure that NSF employees are shielded from politically motivated firings and protected under merit-based personnel systems. 2. End illegal impoundments of monies appropriated to NSF. 3. Defend the agency from further interference in its peer review process. 4. Demand transparency from OMB, DOGE, and NSF leadership regarding internal employment policies and future agency relocations. 5. Reaffirm NSF’s scientific independence and support for world-class research that advances national prosperity and security. NSF employees are committed to serving the American people through research, education, and innovation. But they cannot do so under fear, censorship, and institutional sabotage. Without immediate oversight and corrective action from Congress, one of our nation’s greatest engines for scientific and technological advancement faces irreversible long-term damage. Put simply, America will forfeit its scientific leadership position to China and other rival nations.

NSF staff release their appeal—slightly different format than the declarations of dissent from EPA/NIH/NASA; a more formal petition to Congress to redress attacks on the agency and its employees. 149 signatories (48 named)
democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/do...

I’m very happy to see this, definitely something that DeepMind should do in this situation.

We're about a month and a half away from the 3rd LLM Hackathon for Applications in Materials and Chemistry (Sept 11-12). I hope you will join us! Here are a few reasons to register now.

🤗 Join the preeminent community for LLM and multimodal model applications in materials science and chemistry.

AI Comes Up with Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work. | Quanta Magazine Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.”

A nice article by @anilananth.bsky.social on using AI to explore design spaces, find unexpected solutions, (re)discover symmetries, and propose new relationships featuring @yuqirose.bsky.social @mariokrenn.bsky.social & myself.
Note AI ≠ LLMs in this piece.
www.quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up-...

Improving Deep Learning With a Little Help From Physics | Quanta Magazine Rose Yu has a plan for how to make AI better, faster and smarter — and it’s already yielding results.

Rose Yu (@yuqirose.bsky.social) has a plan for how to make AI better, faster and smarter — and it’s already yielding results. Steve Nadis reports: www.quantamagazine.org/improving-de...

AI Comes Up with Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work. | Quanta Magazine Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.”

"AI Comes Up with Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work." by @anilananth.bsky.social @quantamagazine.bsky.social:

www.quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up-...

Covering our work with Rana Adhikari @ligo.org on discovering GW detectors & work by @yuqirose.bsky.social & @kylecranmer.bsky.social on ...

I love the #eurips initiative! But to live up to its potential, it should be accepted an official #neurips conference location (similar to Mexico City) and not just an addon! Then we would save C02, rather than adding to it!!! What can we do to achieve this?

After 7 Decades of Measurements From a Peak in Hawaii, Trump’s Budget Would End Them

Trump is closing all four climate observatory stations in Alaska, Hawaii, American Samoa, and Antartica. Because you can't have high CO2 levels if you don't *measure* CO2 levels.

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Sixty years ago today, filming began on the second, eventually approved pilot episode of #StarTrek:

Tags :: Bad ChatGPT Citations Add a Link

Indeed, someone is. www.plainsite.org/tags/bad-cha...

NumFOCUS Names Rachel Kerestes as Executive Director After an extensive nationwide search involving the Administrative Board, Technical Steering Committee, and Advisory Council, the NumFOCUS…

After a nationwide search involving the Administrative Board, Technical Steering Committee, & Advisory Council, the NumFOCUS Board of Directors is pleased to name Rachel Kerestes (@kerestes.bsky.social) as the organization's new Executive Director. Learn more at numfocus.medium.com/f53646b81767

you mean the hashtag, not the activity. At first I interpreted it the other way :-P

If I were in charge of PBS or NPR I would be doing 24-7 programming right now about the end of PBS and NPR

We're excited to announce a second physical location for NeurIPS 2025, in Mexico City, which we hope will address concerns around skyrocketing attendance and difficulties in travel visas that some attendees have experienced in previous years.

Read more in our blog:
blog.neurips.cc/2025/07/16/n...

It was a great event. Very smart and engaged audience eager to learn and understand

Yesterday, I was on the Larry Meiller Show with host Lee Rayburn to talk about AI for an hour! It is so important that we have public media like WPR to discuss the good and the bad of these important issues. @uwdsi.bsky.social
www.wpr.org/shows/larry-...

This week @uwdsi.bsky.social is hosting the @cecamevents.bsky.social Flagship Workshop on
Biomolecular Dynamics in the Age of Machine Learning, organized by DSI affiliate @xuhuihuangchem.bsky.social @drgregbowman.bsky.social & Bettina Keller @uwmadisonchem.bsky.social
www.cecam.org/workshop-det...