My mentor @markriedl.bsky.social posted this from the AIES conference. Made my day! Turns out people were opening conversations by saying: "Hey… you're Upol's advisor, right?" On the surface, hilarious. Underneath, it's the mentoring philosophy he's practiced for years. Here's why: 1/n

There are many ways to motivate people. We've seen what fear and division do. Now we've a chance to see what hope and unity can do.

Didn't realize Bsky logged me out. Came back to this banger. Made my day!

Peak academic mood: ghosting Nobel Prize for solitude. ✨ The real prize was peace.

Academics after a paper deadline. #academicSky

It is eye opening to see the same CS conference venues loudly talking about "accessibility" and "allyship" are forcing people to travel (regardless of visa/health issues) and banning hybrid efforts.

⚠️ The #CHI2026 paper I submitted? It almost didn't exist. That's the BTS part academics never post. So I will…to normalize what I call unglamorous persistence. This summer was one of my hardest, mentally. 🌥️ Between ... 1/n

🎉 Post-CHI submission reflection: Yes, academia has its mess. But amidst all that, there's one joy I keep coming back to...building something meaningful with people you truly love working with. This summer.... 1/n #academicsky #chi2026 #collaboration

'Tis that time of the year, homies. May your contributions be accepted by the grumpy R2s #academicSky #chi2026

Tried something new today. Gave quick nods to everyone wearing a respirator at the airport. Almost everyone nodded back. A few even gestured to the respirator. A quick "I see you homie" moment. People understood the assignment y'all.

gpt5 writes like it considers mayonnaise is spicy. and considers salt and pepper as spices.

Homies, you aren't getting it. The math isn't wrong. It's just GPT-5 being "PhD level"

[Pls repost] Hi folks, do you have any templates for reasonable accommodations letters written by your provider/doc for Long Covid? I'm collecting samples to help the broader community, esp those who are underserved. If you feel comfortable sharing, it will help a lot of people. DMs open.

The Onion used to make jokes. Now it does academic ethnography.

🧠 LLMs don’t think; they 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 thinking. Treating performance as proof is how we fall into the 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐲. Enjoyed reading this paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Findings from the paper that were worth my time, reflections, and takeaways ↓

Imagine this being your opening line. Reads like someone asked ChatGPT: “Write a DM to an expert but make it weird.” what a time to be alive.

“So you’d rather segregate all of these people from society instead of mildly inconveniencing yourself?”🫠

Backstory: “AI in Bangladesh is a side quest,” they dismissed. I disagreed. 170 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁. Glad to see Northeastern University spotlighting our work on Majority-World #AI governance and why we must act now" #academicsky #RAI www.khoury.northeastern.edu/the-fight-to...

Backstory: “AI in Bangladesh is a side quest,” they dismissed. I disagreed. 170 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁. Glad to see Northeastern University spotlighting our work on Majority-World #AI governance and why we must act now" #academicsky #RAI www.khoury.northeastern.edu/the-fight-to...

And if you have a Bangladeshi colleague or friend, check in on them. The grief is not confined to one place. It has rippled across the world and deep into the diaspora.

Having a hard time processing this: A fighter jet crashed into a school in Bangladesh. Most of the injured and deceased are children. This tragedy has left me speechless. Please keep these children and their families in your thoughts and prayers. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Lol it me

The problem isn’t that ChatGPT uses em dashes. It’s that so many humans still don’t

Or just sheer panic

When you and your friends finally schedule that writing retreat...and write nothing. Just riding on vibes.

tell me how you are a pro at social media without telling me you are a pro at social media. lol what a gigachad move.

just heard someone compare AI-assisted work similar to a (wait for it) a calculator. give me your spiciest clapbacks to this horrible analogy. winner gets a cutest cat pic.

Where CS/NSF/Big Tech went wrong is that we decided focusing on the future of work -- not the future of WORKERS -- was the right way to go. It normalized a view of nowhere. A reality where "I fired all my employees and replaced them with AI" is a flex not a shame.

Not sure if his immigration was "legal" either. He is def an alien. Yet, he is one of the most American superheroes. Therein perhaps lies the point.

Best explanations of why N95 masks work. Hands down. #covid19 #cleanair

“No rush on this” is academic for: I needed it yesterday, I am panicking, and I am trying to sound chill.

Academic mentorship is 90% helping someone else navigate a system you barely survived yourself.

“Flexible schedule” in academia means you are free to work whenever you feel guilty.

🚨 Scandal in academia: Researchers are injecting hidden prompts to trick AI peer reviewing. 🔥 My hot take: the finger is pointed at the wrong party. Here's why ⤵️ 1/n asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tec...

⚖️ Whose existence counts when we say “existential risk” from AI? We love to warn about AGI wiping out humanity. But extinction for whom? We toss around “x-risk,” but rarely ask whose existence we are protecting. For the 1%, AGI threatens...

🎉 Energized to see this coverage from my academic home, Northeastern University, on my 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐤𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐊𝐥𝐞𝐢𝐧 𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩, which explores an overlooked frontier in AI Safety---𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘐 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴. This work is deeply personal... www.khoury.northeastern.edu/khoury-profe... 1/n

Is it the case that kicking the British out accounts for the most independence days in the world? Asking for a friend.

Explainable AI papers in AI/ML confs be like: ‘After 12 pages, we discovered that context matters and users are not abstract blobs.’ Congrats. You’ve reinvented Human-Centered XAI...with none of the literature and all of the confidence

I'm yet to watch a concert performance that beat this one from any band in any genre at any time. Thinking about Chester tonight. RIP legend. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Mxg...

We talk about where AI is going. Almost never about what it leaves behind. AI Now’s 2025 report cut through the AI hype. And it leaves little on the table, except one cut that would have made it unforgettable. Let’s talk about it. 🧵 1/n ainowinstitute.org/publications...

We talk about where AI is going. Almost never about what it leaves behind. AI Now’s 2025 report cut through the AI hype. And it leaves little on the table, except one cut that would have made it unforgettable. Let’s talk about it. 🧵 1/n ainowinstitute.org/publications...

Zuck offered $32B and still got rejected. Turns out, in the AI gold rush, you can buy compute, but not conviction.

Islamophobia is so normalized that people feel emboldened to use these slurs without any restraint. If you can't stand up for bigotry and hatred when it affects others, don't expect others to stand up for bigotry targeted towards you. There should be no place for hate in this world.

Imagine a Democrat calling for the deportation of a Jewish Republican. You can’t. It would never happen. Our political and media elites talk nonstop about antisemitism while totally normalizing and amplifying the worst and most vicious Islamophobia. Sickening:

If small donors can bankroll presidential campaigns, why can't we crowdfund #science? For science funding, we built a prestige economy around dwindling grants—mistaking scarcity for merit and gatekeeping for excellence. We’ve already seen the downsides of the monoculture of funding: 1/n

How the turn tables.

Bluesky seems to be similar to Mastodon for me: writing into the void. Friends tell me that they don't even see my posts on their feeds. What's going on? Any tips that has helped you feel more connected on this platform? I had such a high hopes in the beginning.

Struggling to process this --- I’m heartbroken. I was supposed to meet a brilliant Bangladeshi MIT PhD candidate yesterday morning. Chatted just a few days ago. Less than an hour before our meeting, I learned he is no longer with us in this world. 1/n #academicSky #scienceFunding

Intriguing to see this book pop up in more stores. This is at the Georgia Tech Barnes and Noble. #longCovid #covid19 #MECFS