The risk of AI for education is not students cheating in exams, it is people in general cheating themselves into believing they understand things they don’t.

At NeurIPS next week (giving talks Wed and Sat). Do reach out if you want to chat.

The new call for Motwani postdocs application is now open! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30865 BTW- Not quite ready for a postdoc? We updated the TCS Masters programs spreadsheet: www.cs.princeton.edu/~smattw/mast... Any career stage and in the (SF) Bay Area? Save the date for TOCA-SV on 11/7!

Turing Lectures at ICTS www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fF6... www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGuK... www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRDa...

IPAM has been a driving force for the advancement of pure and applied mathematics for a quarter century. US research and technology has benefited enormously from this and other mathematical centers.

Hello journalists. If you report this you gotta say that under the Constitution he has no power to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

In case you happen to be around :)

Here's a decision that simultaneously captures the Trump administration's policies towards food aid, carbon emissions, and the Biden administration #food #climate #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/07/inci...

The 5th Zif summer school on Randomness in Physics and Mathematics has an approaching deadline, May 18 2025! With Benoit Collins, Laszlo Erdös, Laura Foini, Silvio Franz, Tamara Grava, Gaultier Lambert, Andrea Montanari, Ofer Zeitouni. indico.physik.uni-bielefeld.de/event/220/ov...

Looking forward to visiting again India for this program www.icts.res.in/program/DSPOM

Shooting ourselves in the other foot. #econsky #medicine marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/06/visa...

Stanford held graduation ceremonies today. Here's Jon Levin's thoughts about the role and value of universities. #econsky #academicsky news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

Nice talk by Pierfrancesco Urbani about our recent work on generalization, overfitting, memorization in two layer networks www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRdH... One figure summary: learning and overfitting/memorization take place on different timescales in large models.

“government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/o...

Killing the goose that lays the golden eggs (to save on the cost of bird feed, and promote the kinds of viewpoint diversity that the “S” in NSF tries to filter out via peer review…) marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/05/nsf-...

Congratulations to Mark Sellke and Eliran Subag! www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/rollo-davids...

Overfitting is among the conceptually most interesting problems in machine learning. I am happy of several new phenomena we began to understand with Pierfrancesco Urbani. Alert: mostly non-rigorous! (Celebrating Jorge Kurchan) web.stanford.edu/~montanar/OT...

Can't begin to emphasize how insane this is. Could you imagine if, every time a public school teacher needed to get their paycheck, they had to justify to a political appointee how that "aligns with administration priorities"?

BREAKING:The National Science Foundation (NSF) has put a cork in its grantmaking pipeline after billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) set up shop at the agency this week. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Nice talk by Basil Saeed at Simons Institute on our work on characterizing the empirical risk landscape via Kac-Rice formula: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E56W...

Stanford’s president and provost release a statement supporting Harvard. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/15/l...

Announcing : The 2nd International Summer School on Mathematical Aspects of Data Science mathsdata2025.github.io EPFL, Sept 1–5, 2025 Speakers: Bach @bachfrancis.bsky.social Bandeira Mallat Montanari Peyré @gabrielpeyre.bsky.social For PhD students & early-career researchers Apply before May 15!

In case you are around: sites.google.com/view/jksfest...

Best science book ever?

Top of @nytimes.com app and website right now. Trump critics muzzle themselves because they are afraid of retaliation, including physical threats to their families. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

There is no doubt a reason why this quote surfaced in my mind: “The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself, I see ahead…”

The best short piece I've read on Trump's new Predator America- Brilliant and crucially important @FT editorial America has turned on its friends - on.ft.com/3ERSO6o via @FT

A letter of support for the NIH funding of biomedical research, and the damage wrought by imposing severe caps on indirect costs: docs.google.com/forms/d/1Agz...

The American Mathematical Society has also started a page to coordinate support for professional mathematics, so far focusing on executive orders impacting the National Science Foundation: www.ams.org/government/g...

The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs. Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)

I love this thread about the impact the National Science Foundation has had on the life & scientific path of @mammalssuck.bsky.social. I too was helped by NSF as an undergrad, through their Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program(UROP). Sad to see what is happening at NSF the past few weeks 😥

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

I think corporations making billions in profit should pay a reasonable percentage of that in corporate income tax. And 0% is not reasonable.

Last night I found out that the NSF math postdoctoral fellowship I applied for is being deleted because it does not comply with Trump’s executive orders on DEI in the federal government. I’m going to answer some FAQs and share some thoughts about this ordeal in this thread 1/n

Trajan's (@starlord37.bsky.social) story & countless others like it in the face of these cuts and wild shifts in government fellowships intended for our brightest & most promising students will have long-term, deeply damaging effects on the U.S.'s competitiveness in science, math, CS and more.

No more NSF grants for proving inequalities or computational barriers?

Modern supply chains don't look like trade theory 101! They involve constant border crossings, each now hit by tariffs. Tariffs raise prices, but the more important thing they do is disrupt supply relationships. 1/

I am deeply worried by the withdrawal of the US from the World Health Organization. I worked at WHO for ~2 years at WHO's Global Programme on AIDS, a worldwide response to the HIV pandemic & international cooperation was critical. The US should not withdraw from WHO's global health cooperation.

Recently posted an updated version of arxiv.org/abs/2306.13326 on `Solving systems of Random Equations' I find this a really useful model to gain intuition into the behavior of optimization algorithms in high-dimensional overparametrized landscapes, as the ones arising in modern machine learning.

It seems that OpenAI's latest model, o3, can solve 25% of problems on a database called FrontierMath, created by EpochAI, where previous LLMs could only solve 2%. On Twitter I am quoted as saying, "Getting even one question right would be well beyond what we can do now, let alone saturating them."

If at NeurIPS on Friday, consider stopping by Eren Sasoglu's poster on 'Scaling laws for learning with real and surrogate data' arxiv.org/abs/2402.04376 Often training on a mixture of data from the target distribution and from a surrogate distribution yields better models than training on either.

Here is a list of some institutions/organizations/centers related to Neuro/Bio; Math/Physics/AI Still very sparse...Reach out to your institute/center social network admin to embrace the growing #scienceSky ps. it would be great if @bsky.app to actively send invites to sci/tech go.bsky.app/VGrotvN

Assume that the nodes of a social network can choose between two alternative technologies: B and X. A node using B receives a benefit with respect to X, but there is a benefit to using the same tech as the majority of your neighbors. Assume everyone uses X at time t=0. Will they switch to B?

Same!

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