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If you are a prof, please include something on your website about whether you'd like to be emailed by prospective students & whether you're recruiting this cycle. Emailing norms differ across disciplines and countries, and applicants may ignore website info, but some clarity on your end is helpful.

San Antonio Express-News ® @ExpressNews Sen. Rafael Edward Cruz, who uses the preferred name Ted, has introduced a bill to limit the use of preferred names and pronouns.

headline construction masterclass

Our paper "Misattribution Matters: Quantifying Unfairness in Authorship Attribution" got accepted to #ACL2025!
@niranjanb.bsky.social @ajayp95.bsky.social

Arxiv link coming hopefully soon!

The cover of the book "The AI Con: how to fight big tech's hype and create the future we want"

This finally arrived! 🎉

Lady Gaga would do an awesome Persephone in Hadestown.

This has importance way outside CS/ML. If you ask why DOGE employees believe it’s smart to gut NSF and NIH, I’m afraid the answer is that they’ve bought a story where technical progress can proceed mostly decoupled from scientific knowledge.

Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports.

A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.

As someone who writes behind a paywall, let me tell you that there is no legal entitlement to my New Scientist articles but actually there is a legal entitlement to records of federal officials acting on behalf of the American people

hopefully that clears up the difference for you guys

Congrats!! I knew very few people in the faculty job market this year, but I specifically remembered you talking about it at CoLM. When the whole shitstorm happened and funds got cut I thought of you.
I am glad you got it.

No!

Unionize!!

"healthy skin" Google image search. Shows only women with lighter skin.

In other news, algorithm-propagated sexism and colorism is still alive and well.
(Looked up an 8-year-old old "bias" example; it's still basically the same.)

It will know where to find all the free food on campus

I am the cat. Meow

Depicts a battle between Szeth and 6 grey cloaked figures wielding shardblades. The grey figures attacking Szeth are shrouded in purple-black smoke. The figure in the foreground holds a glowing orb of stormlight. Szeth floats at top center, dressed in a white uniform holding Nightblood aloft which drips black ichor. Two figures aside Szeth are dissipating into smoke. Behind Szeth is a jagged rocky spire mountain and a sky alight with steaks of blues and purples.

Finally got around to making some art for Wind and Truth, Book 5 of The Stormlight Archives! I'll spoiler this JUST in case you didn't read it yet. It's been a few months. Get to it!
#cosmere #stormlightarchive #szethsonsonvallano

I can see (hear) that!

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What! NO.

A selfie photo taken in a bathroom mirror. Someone is wearing a t-shirt that says: "stop forcing A.I. into fucking everything. Nobody asked for it. Everyone hates it.

Wore my new t-shirt to school yesterday.

Washington Post news items: National Science Foundation halts reviews of research proposals NIH stops new research as part of health communications pause Researchers funded by Education Department told they need agency permission to publish results.

This one hour of day seven of the presidency.

Nate Silver: "Thinking ChatGPT is useless is midwit. It's a magic box that answers any question you ask it from levels ranging from modestly coherent to extremely proficient. If you haven't bothered to figure it out to derive some utility out of it then you're just being lazy tbh."

i can see how you would come to this conclusion if your job didn't require you to ever be correct

@seasouthern.bsky.social

I use Copilot connected to my vscode, but I have mostly used it for auto completion and minor questions. I don't know how good it is for more difficult stuff.

Academic friends, I know a number of queer students on the market who are looking for postdocs in Europe. If you know of any, please post them here or link me and I will repost them!

listen nobody wishes that lady wasn’t called caitlyn more than the caitlin community, but deadnaming her and misgendering her is fucking bullshit. trans rights aren’t conditional on being a good person.

An adorable raccoon.

I don’t really have the energy for politics right now. So I will observe without comment:

Executive Order 14110 was revoked (Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence)

خوشگلای توی خونه، الآن که داره جمعیت زیاد می‌شه می‌خوام این اکانت رو بذارم انگلیسی و [عمدتاً] فاخر و بدون اسپم بمونه که‌ اون یک ذره آبروم در آکادمیا باقی بمونه :))
با اکانت جدید و غیرفاخر دنبالتون می‌کنم.