Brits would decisively support rejoining the European Union if a new referendum were held, according to the latest polling from YouGov, with clear majorities emerging across all age groups – especially among younger voters www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bri...

This is very good.

Very interesting read by Dario Amodei, the CEO of @anthropic.com www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-ad...

Introducing: The Security issue. Security can mean national defense, but it can also mean control over data, safety from intrusion, and so much more. Explore the way technology, mystery, and the universe itself affect how secure we feel in the modern age when you read the full issue. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Trying to exit my Bluesky-slumber with a research-related post :) Here is a link to the study I am most excited and proud of this year. There are expectations for rationality & human-likeness in the AI field. Is that a problem? See the paper to find out :) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Artificial Intelligence at Work: An Integrative Perspective on the Impact of AI on Workplace Inequality, by Arvind Karunakaran, Sarah Lebovitz, Devesh Narayanan and Hatim A. Rahman | Academy of Management Annals journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5...

This really can’t be pointed out enough

MIT following Harvard's lead here

Bravo Harvard

Harvard President, Alan M. Garber: "We have informed the administration through our legal counsel that we will not accept their proposed agreement. The University will not negotiate over its independence or its constitutional rights." www.harvard.edu/president/ne...

Half of Cambridge's European students have vanished. The Finnish undergraduates disappeared when fees were introduced. www.varsity.co.uk/news/29471

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

Applications open for #ECIS2025 Junior Faculty Consortium in Jordan. Deadline: April 16. The co-chairs include Andrew Burton-Jones, Amany ElBanna and me. ecis2025.eu/events/junio... It promises to be a fantastic event so please do apply soon.

Privacy isn’t about hiding—it’s about trust and control over our own information. In her #SXSW 2025 Keynote, Signal President, @meredithmeredith.bsky.social breaks down why our privacy matters.

Huge crowd at Stand up for Science

How can Brexit Britain navigate Trump's World? New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. With the rapid deepening of a dangerous global divide, the UK faces hard choices. Could the latest proposals for UK-EU 'mutual recognition' be part of the answer? chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/how-...

The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.

This white paper calls for collective action among developers, policymakers, and civil society to establish shared standards and implement solutions that balance open sharing with responsible governance. https://opensource.org/datagovernance

Google had created that pledge as a concession to workers campaigning against Pentagon drone AI contracts in 2018. Here's some of that history, that can put the chaotic events into context to make sense of what is new, what is old. jacobin.com/2018/06/goog...

Hugging Face researchers aim to build an ‘open’ version of OpenAI’s deep research tool

📢 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 alert! We document how 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀. 💼 💻 📊 We analysed 𝟯𝗠+ 𝗷𝗼𝗯 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀, used embeddings to cluster them into 𝟭𝟬𝟬+ 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲-𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀, and LLMs to classify them as s𝘂𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲, 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆, or 𝘂𝗻𝗮𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱.

China’s cheap, open AI model DeepSeek thrills scientists www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I am running an online seminar series @esadebsls.bsky.social for scholars of information systems, innovation and management. The speakers include @asusarla.bsky.social Emma Vaast, Likoebe Maruping, Frank Nagle and more. Please reach out to me if you would like to be added to the mailing list.

This new piece with @toubiana.bsky.social and Trish Ruebottom in @sciam.bsky.social, explored how Trump’s appeal mirrors the strategies of voyeuristic businesses, like reality TV or social media influencers. 🧵 How Reality TV Helps Explain Trump’s Success www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

He accidentally did a Nazi salute... TWICE. While talking about the future of Western civilization. He is who we think he is.

Justice is coming... eventually. ⚖️ #MartinLutherKingDay2025

Earlier today I wrote a short and personal piece about the struggles of life in academia as an early-career and untenured researcher. It seems to be resonating with folks over at LinkedIn, so thought I'd share it here as well: www.linkedin.com/pulse/darker... #academicsky

Opinion: Bluesky’s open protocol allows people shape their own experience of social media. That's nothing short of revolutionary—and we need to protect it.

OSI Director Sayeed Choudhury introduces the Open Forum for Artificial Intelligence, a Carnegie Mellon University led partnership that will bend the arc toward human-centered, responsible, and ethical AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDbjlN0jPFc

Francois Chollet -- "o-models FAR beyond classical DL" @fchollet.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9WE...

“Incredibly enough, my career seems to be going better now that I’m older and wrinkled and fatter. So go figure it out.” Isabella Rossellini talks to Michael Schulman about aging, feminism, and why she never got plastic surgery.

“Facebook launched its fact-checking program after Donald Trump was first elected. Now that resistance appears out of fashion, the company has decided to end it.” The head of our fact-checking department writes about Meta’s decision to stop checking facts.

A few thoughts on Community Notes. - The bridging design of community notes has lots of merit, and the crowd-sourced (vs centralized) model has trust advantages. But Meta has not yet committed to open sourcing their data+code+changes as X has. Or given details of their implementation plans. 1/

A Happy New Year from London! Let's hope there is peace around the world in 2025, especially in the Middle East. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBLb...

Oxford in December fog

The 10th edition of the Empirical Management Conference has just started! We have a great line up of presenters and papers: www.hbs.edu/faculty/rese... Just started a list of participants of current and past editions, ping me if you want to be added.

It is such a stupid and obvious market failure that nobody has made a consumer AI LLM product that is 1. trained on consensually-acquired material 2. powered with renewable energy 3. genuinely open about its weights and models. Just achieving these things and being creator-friendly would be massive.

Two tenure-track positions in AI at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC. Artificial intelligence is broadly construed here to include AI policy, governance, ethics, AI for cultural heritage, &c. Review of applications will start Jan 6th. Please RT and share! #MLSky #NeurIPS

Good read! New paper in Strategy Science: Theory Is All You Need: AI, Human Cognition, and Causal Reasoning, by Teppo Felin and Matthias Holweg pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10....

Last week’s AI + Economics Workshop in Zurich brought together some of the most talented researchers working on AI applications in economic research. This is our third year, and we have seen so many developments in what using AI means in economic research

Building Vibrant Open Source Communities: Lessons from Rocky Linux and CNCF - Talk by Krista Burdine and Jonas Roland at @allthingsopen.bsky.social 2024 www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP_y...

It’s a bit like trying to shovel the walk in the middle of a blizzard, but @alexhanna.bsky.social and I are going to attempt to clear the backlog of Fresh AI Hell in our next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream: Monday, Dec 9, noon Pacific www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

I broke my neck when I was 16 but I didn’t have insurance. I started college w/ crazy debt even before insane school loans. I wasn’t insurable by most orgs before ACA. Medical bills repeatedly influenced my career choices. Hearing people’s insurance horror stories this week has been intense.

Open Doors, Open Minds: How Open Source Empowers Companies - Talk by Joel Lord & Rachelle Palmer at @allthingsopen.bsky.social 2024 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHjz...

Wow. The magnificently restored interior of the Notre-Dame Cathedral

This is excellent on project delivery. How Madrid built a brilliant infrastructure system cheaply and on time. worksinprogress.co/issue/how-ma...

The concept Nigel Farage is incapable of grasping is human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want. I’ll fight that to my last breath

Disney’s crowd management never ceases to amaze me. Individually unpredictable humans who think they have agency turn into collectively predictable crowds. I want to know more about the algorithms behind it all. Like the wait times.