YY Ahn

Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Research Associate - School of Data Science The School of Data Science at the University of Virginia and Professor Yong-Yeol (“YY”) Ahn, Quantitative Foundation Distinguished Professor, are excited to announce two professional research staff po...

🚨 A research staff position at my group at @uvadatascience.bsky.social!

I’m recruiting a research Scientist (or postdoc scholar). You can apply here! bit.ly/ylab-researc...

For more information: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Inquiries: yyahn@virginia.edu with [job] in the subject line.

Job posting on LinkedIn for a Research Scientist position in YY Ahn's group at UVA.

The incredible @yyahn.bsky.social is building something special at UVA.

🚨 If you're a fit for this job, I highly recommend applying!

Find more details via the link below.

www.linkedin.com/posts/yyahn_...

"What?" was my first reaction, but maybe this is *roughly* the right direction in a world where 'generation' becomes ever cheaper while 'evaluation' remains difficult.

But financial incentives may also attract more AI review slops. Will they be able to reliably root out AI review slops?

@cvillecityhall.bsky.social is on track to miss its own comprehensive plan & climate goals while budgeting so little for bike infra due to failure to identify projects.

I wrote a letter urging Council to fund a connected, protected network—not another decade of failure

yyahn.com/wiki/article...

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Latest details about the OpenReview leak by #ICLR2026

blog.iclr.cc/2025/12/03/i...

⏰ 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟵!

NetSci 2026 abstract submissions close Dec 19 — just around the corner.
If you’re doing exciting work in network science (theory, computation, or applications), this is your chance to share it with a global community.

📅 Submit by Dec 19
🔗 www.netsci2026.com/call-for-abs...

Email from the "PUBLIC RECORDS OFFICE" to Kate Starbird asking for all emails from Jan 1 2021 through July 30 2025 with any of the following keywords: "diversity and inclusion" "DEIA" "DEI" "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging" "DEIB" "gender identity" "racial preference" "ESG" "organizational equity" "intersectionality" "anti-racism" "critical race theory" "LGBTQ+" "transgender" "cisgender" "gender ideology" "white privilege" "privilege walk" "cultural humility" "equity audit" "restorative justice" "racial equity" "implicit bias" "microaggressions" "inclusive pedagogy" "identity-based oppression" "systems of oppression" "queer" "non-binary" "sexuality" “Trump” “fascist”

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

I’m excited to speak at the 20th edition of @netsciconf.bsky.social! Honored to join speakers whose work I studied with fascination 20 years ago when I was just beginning. I’ll look forward to learning how the field has evolved, discovering new directions in network science, and meeting everyone!

✨ Excited to announce 𝗬𝗼𝗻𝗴-𝗬𝗲𝗼𝗹 (𝗬𝗬) 𝗔𝗵𝗻 as a NetSci 2026 Plenary Speaker! A leading network and data scientist, YY explores how complex systems shape behavior, cognition, and discovery. Stay tuned for more speaker updates as we build toward an inspiring NetSci 2026! ✨
www.netsci2026.com/speakers

We’re recruiting PhD students at @uvadatascience.bsky.social, and I’m looking for students to join our group (Y Lab) next year!

My group works at the intersection of network science, machine learning, and interpretable AI.

yyahn.com/ylab/

Apply here! datascience.virginia.edu/degrees/phd

One week left to apply to the UVA Biology PhD program! If you or someone you know are interested in contagion from a complex systems perspective, please reach out! I'm looking for a grad student! bio.as.virginia.edu/how-apply-gr...

💥 Northeastern University in Boston is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Network Science & Communication! Joint appointment with Communication Studies & College of Science. Review of applications begins 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. Please share!!
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

I’m pleased to share the Second Key Update to the International AI Safety Report, which outlines how AI developers, researchers, and policymakers are approaching technical risk management for general-purpose AI systems.
(1/6)

Summary: a (rather simple) AI bot can not only successfully evade survey-level protections, it can also mimic personas accurately across questions, parse photos/videos, and infer the researcher’s hypotheses to produce data that confirms them.

The official paper link:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Claude scientific skills 🧬🖥️🧪
github.com/K-Dense-AI/c...

🧬 Bioinformatics & Genomics
🧪 Cheminformatics & Drug Discovery
🔬 Proteomics & Mass Spectrometry
🤖 Machine Learning & AI
🔮 Materials Science & Chemistry
📊 Data Analysis & Visualization

I’m really excited about our release of Gemini 3 today, the result of hard work by many, many people in the Gemini team and all across Google! 🎊

blog.google/products/gem...

Gemini 3 performs quite well on a wide range of benchmarks.

The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.

NEW: The Tate brothers, who have been accused of sexual misconduct in three countries, had their devices seized by law enforcement when they arrived in the U.S.

Days later, a White House official told DHS to return them.

👀

please remember that an “asset” that produces no value can rise in price **only if** someone else is willing to pay more for it.

The effect of mass shootings on voter turnout in the United States Following mass shootings, localized voter turnout increases, as does support for a gun reform ballot initiative.

"Using a regression discontinuity in time design, we find that mass shootings mobilize local voters (especially in heavily Democratic areas) but do not shift presidential vote choices."

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

I see the point of the commentary but am not so sure about these examples... Isn't the PCA doing what it's supposed to do in these examples? (I often use "finding the most informative perspective to look at a fish" as an intuitive way to understand PCA.)

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.

YouTube video by UVM Office of Research IC2S2 2026 | Burlington, Vermont

We're excited to announce that the website and registration for IC2S2 2026 (July 28-31) will launch in early December! The Vermont Complex Systems Institute @vcsi.bsky.social at the University of Vermont will be hosting IC2S2 in 2026: youtube.com/watch?v=p412S4GnPkc&feature=youtu.be

Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign A report describing an a highly sophisticated AI-led cyberattack

The era of "vibe hacking". Here's Anthropic's report on the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign.

"The barriers to performing sophisticated cyberattacks have dropped substantially—and we predict that they’ll continue to do so."

www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt...

YouTube video by Not Just Bikes This is Why Cycling is Dangerous in America

I'm a longtime fan of Not Just Bikes, but his 95(!) minute video on John Forester and Vehicular Cycling is truly his magnum opus.

If you are even remotely interested in the history of bicycling in America, it is worth a watch.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRPd...

In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.

dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap `genzplyr` is an alternative syntax for `dplyr` that replaces boring old function names with GenZ slang. Your data wrangling is about to hit different.

hadley.github.io/genzplyr/ @stephenturner.us