Turns out college drop out DOGE bros put in charge of cancelling humanities grants violated both the law and the First Amendment by asking ChatGPT to tell them why it was okay to cancel grants for being "DEI"

I cannot stress how cataclysmically STUPID it is to not fund science.

i think many of the effects of LLMs on cognition are continuous with and compound the effects of always-available web search. effects which were widely researched and mostly ignored at the time.

I was looking for a python implementation of sharpened q-values, and was about to roll my own, when I came across @joshash.bsky.social's: github.com/josh-ashkina.... Nice work!

Nice blog post @yang3kc.bsky.social! Always helpful to read how others are you using different models/harnesses, especially open ones. www.kaichengyang.me/blog/alterna...

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

This tweet came 11 years, 6 months & 27 days into LeBron's career. It’s been 10 years & 11 months since the tweet & the fuckery continues

"The State Department is excluding tech researchers from the United States because of their constitutionally protected work, and this newly disclosed memo only underscores the unbounded scope and unconstitutionality of the policy" -- @carriedecell.bsky.social knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...

I've been thinking about measuring intent in AI-driven web search and came across the perfect paper! Awesome work @aurman21.bsky.social and co-authors! dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

There needs to be way monitoring/enforcement around insider trading on prediction market platforms ... www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/n...

Can't emphasize enough how alarming this is. Even if it doesn't come to fruition, think of the chilling effect on the exercise of democratic citizenship (voting, protesting, etc) when you are told that you can be stripped of your citizenship for political crimes.

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This is a really cool idea -- using bandits to learn how to allocate attention across one's different feeds.

One of my favorite days in Boston: Marathon day!

It's sooooo fun checking this box 29 times per day

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/

Patients ask LLMs medical questions — but how they phrase it matters more than it should. Our new preprint explores how different phrasings of patient health questions can lead to inconsistent conclusions, even with the same evidence. [1/6] Full Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2604.05051

How to obtain online activity data for research in the Post-API age? And what if there's already a unique collection of online activity data that you could obtain access to for your research? 👀 Come to our tutorial (organized w/ @davidlazer.bsky.social ) at @icwsm.bsky.social 2026 in LA! (1/7)

Love seeing pre-registered experiments like this. Nice work!

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

next reporter who interviews stephen miller should ask him point blank if his goal in minneapolis is to kill more americans

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.