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Well said!

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Announcement of the Netmob 2025 conference with a picture of the Eiffel Tower in the background

#Netmob conference is back! It will be in Paris from October 8 to October 10 this year. Mark your calendars and see you there! netmob.org/www25/

Organized by Aline Carneiro (INRIA) and team.

Especially when someone says ai can help generate ideas.

My guy are you actually rate limited by ideas of all things??! I got a whole closet full I’ll never get to. Swing by around six.

I know and $20k a month for ‘PhD level I tell intelligence’ isn’t even a good deal like dude I’ll do it for free lunch once a week

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Dan O’Brien has a great new book on Microspatial Inequities that you might find interesting mitpress.mit.edu/978026255080...

My gym nemesis squats in the weighted pull-up rack

I spent years getting the Monty hall problem wrong bc I thought we wanted the goat

I’m gonna be so ready the next time my girlfriend’s mom asks me what I do

Wait omg there’s now a feature that lets me ‘call in’ with my microphone and chat with them??

I’m going to mansplain my paper to these chuds these fools

Notebook LM is an awful waste of water and terrible at summarizing information until I make it gossip about a draft of my paper and then it’s the voice of a generation

📣 New paper in Nature Human Behavior @natureportfolio.bsky.social! Using large-scale mobility data, we find how businesses, amenities, and other urban places depend on each other. It reveals connections that aren’t always visible but have substantial economic impacts.
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I found this note on collaborating with “equals” in industry to be really insightful. Industry really does just provide a totally different model on collaboration. In academia you’re often training much of your team while solving problems. Maybe not the most efficient way to combat a pandemic, etc?