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JupyterBook 2 is released! This is now built on top of the @mystmd.org engine directly. 🚀 Please reach out on our GitHub discussions if you have any problems upgrading.

For my @uwmadison.bsky.social colleagues… happy Halloween

This is a great opportunity! Lukas is fantastic and has a happy, healthy, innovative group. Highly recommended.

I'm excited about this opportunity... and fresh off the heels of @franknoe.bsky.social's visit where he presented BioEmu and the work they are doing on AI for Science. I see enormous opportunities for @uwmadison.bsky.social in this partnership.

#OTD in #ComputingHistory in 1969, the first message was sent over what would become the Internet. That brief, two-letter message marked the beginning of networked communication as we know it today. Read more: www.acm.org/education/ot...

Congratulations to Prof. Melissa Murray for receiving the 2025 Arabella Babb Mansfield Award from the National Association of Women Lawyers. The award is the organization’s highest honor, named for the first woman admitted to the bar in the United States. Read more about the award: ow.ly/LYwZ50Xiv2y

Finally got to check out the IBM quantum computer next to the Brachiosaurus at O'Hare. Thanks to @kylecranmer.bsky.social ky.social for the tip!

New paper, with @rkhashmani.me @marielpettee.bsky.social @garrettmerz.bsky.social Hellen Qu. We introduce a framework for generating realistic, highly multimodal datasets with explicitly calculable mutual information. This is helpful for studying self-supervised learning arxiv.org/abs/2510.21686

Haven’t read, will read. Enjoy / thoughts and reactions appreciated

The Data Science Institute welcomed new RISE-AI faculty from across campus to UW–Madison at a reception last week. This event provided them with an opportunity to meet and identify shared research interests with DSI’s faculty and staff affiliates. dsi.wisc.edu/2025/10/22/d...

“Lies, damned lies, and next word prediction” — me, just now

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Madison in today’s @nytimes.com! 🎉 So much to do here in 36 hours+, including of course, visiting the Terrace & Bascom Hill. Happy Homecoming week, Badgers! 🦡

Kristi Noem should never have been confirmed after this. It ended up being a perfect representation of what she would do.

I’m excited to have Cecelia Clementi give our AI for Science seminar!

This has been a wonderful project. It was one of the first examples that clearly demonstrated the power of separating specification from implementation in HEP analysis software and also ushered in major advances in rich publishing for open science.

Good morning moon @uwmadison.bsky.social

This is very, very bad

Ok, that’s cool. The Chicago Quantum Exchange has IBM quantum one in O’Hare next to the Brachiosaurus

Already understaffed and now further diminished, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is scrambling to investigate a spate of cyber attacks. The lapse of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act has made it even harder.

I’m on my way to STAMPS @cmu.edu for a workshop on Simulation-Based Inference! www.cmu.edu/dietrich/sta...

The Mathlib Initiative website is live! #LeanLang mathlib-initiative.org

🚨 The US government has stopped the funding PubMed, one of the most comprehensive databased of biomedical literature. Try using Europe PMC (europepmc.org) — the European alternative to PubMed with 46M+ articles.

The High-Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP), which I served on a few years ago has been dissolved. The six DOE Office of Science FACA (Federal Advisory Committee Act) committees are now replaced with the Office of Science Advisory Committee (SCAC). www.energy.gov/science/arti...

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere. Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself. Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

📢Several PhD and Postdoc positions in my group (focusing on AI for Scientific Discovery in Physics) at @unituebingen.bsky.social If you are excited about using AI to design new ways for observing the universe, please apply here: uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2...

What a historic day for Chicago and Illinois. We're breaking ground on the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronic Park — and it begins with the construction of PsiQuantum's facility, where they’ll build a first-of-its-kind quantum computer.

🏆The 2025 Topological Deep Learning Challenge is officially live!🏆 Hosted by the TAGinDS Conference 2025 🚀 This year, push the boundaries of topological ML by “Expanding the Data Landscape” 💰 Win incredible prizes, including research internships at UCSB and EPFL, as well as up to $800 US in cash!

Is scale all you need? Or is there still a role for incorporating domain knowledge and inductive bias? While I was in Heidelberg, I took some time to write a short essay on this question called "The Bittersweet Lesson". theoryandpractice.org/2025/09/The%... #HLF25

Video of our panel on AI for the physical sciences at #HLF25 youtu.be/I-Ye-rMhRws?...

Avi Wigderson gave a wonderful and inspiring talk about Turing at #HLF25. When he got to Turing’s theory of Morphogenesis he said “When I see a problem like this, i throw up my arms and I go back to P vs NP, I’d have no idea how start” 🤣

We got accepted at #NeurIPS2025. I am very happy that I could merge my knowledge of Mathematics with AI to create sth new and useful for the community. ☺️ The paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.17190 The code: github.com/Baran-phys/T...

Preprint of “Prompting the Professoriate: A Qualitative Study of Instructor Perspectives on LLMs in Data Science Education” available: arxiv.org/abs/2509.12283 By Ana Elisa Lopez-Miranda (an exceptional undergrad!), @tiffanytimbers.bsky.social, and me. Comments appreciated!

My office the last two mornings

An article in @physicsworld.bsky.social about our panel discussion on AI and the physical sciences at #HLF25. With @georgemusser.com, Thea Åarrestad, David Silver and Maia Fraser physicsworld.com/a/the-pros-a...

Well hidden in a small corner of the main building of ETH Zurich, they have made a mini museum for Einstein in his former locker 😍

Dear @ukri.org, I think JJ Thomson nailed the perils of having Government agencies use “clear eyes” to decide where to focus research funding to maximise benefit to society. 🧪 (www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...)

Wait… I meant “I’ve never met a deadline that I met” 🤣

“I’ve never met a deadline that I didn’t meet” - me, now

The Open Source Program Office at the Data Science Institute welcomes its fall 2025 interns. These undergrad students are working on open-source software and hardware projects across campus. ospo.wisc.edu/activities/i...

I’m excited about this new role for me and for the Data Science Institute!

Happening soon: panel discussion on AI and the Physical Sciences at #HLF2025 www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/forum/12th-h...

Rich Sutton not holding back. Don't be distracted by applications, domain knowledge, privacy, safety, explainability, … #HLF2025

Sierpiński’s Tabby

When life gives you lemons…

@yannisioak.bsky.social of @acm.org just announced all publications will be #OpenAccess starting in Jan 2026. #HLF2025

Absolutely glorious day in Heidelberg after a rainy start.

I've just arrived in Germany, and I'm looking forward to an inspiring and engaging week at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum. I'll be on a "hot topic" panel about AI & Science on Tuesday www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/forum/12th-h...

Our article "Large-scale semi-discrete optimal transport with distributed Voronoi diagrams" (with Nicolas Ray, Quentin Merigot and Hugo Leclerc) just got accepted by Journal of Computational Physics. Pushing the limits of Optimal Transport by several orders of magnitude !