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 !

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

This is a cool tool that builds upon UnicodeIt that @svenkreiss.bsky.social and I made forever ago. Open Source FTW! www.unicodeit.net

Over 1100 people around the world, virtual and in-person, decided to take a chance together, to imagine, and build - seeking ways to speed discovery and understanding in materials and chemistry with AI. We'll share our findings soon, but from what I've heard already prepare to be amazed.

Ever wonder what two merging black holes look like? Here's the clearest signal that LIGO has ever measured, of two black holes that were each approximately 33 times as massive as the Sun. The merger converted 5% of that mass into gravitational radiation — stretching and squeezing of spacetime. 🧪

Comparing EcoFab 2.0 results from 5 labs on 3 continents‼️ Breaking the reproducibility barrier with standardized protocols for plant–microbiome research @plosbiology.org by Vlastimil Novak et al from Trent Northen @jgi.doe.gov journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Thanks to @asm.org and colleagues for stadning up for public health. Call Congress today and demand Kennedy's resignation asm.org/press-releas...

Really cool workshop! I loved giving a talk and discussing SBI!

Quite a moon tonight!

Governor Pritzker isn’t playing— salt trucks form a blockade to block ICE — time to melt

Proud advisor moment. @lukasheinrich.com blends deeply insightful, innovative, and technically skilled research in a way that few are able to. Excited to see what the team does 🚀

@annalenakofler.bsky.social giving a great talk on SBI in gravitational waves at our „Build Big vs Build Smart Workshop“ indico.ph.tum.de/event/7906/

That’s better! Got the George Box poster up at the DSI @uwdsi.bsky.social

The Gilded Rage

Very similar to the figure that @johannbrehmer.bsky.social and I made in “Flows for simultaneous manifold learning and density estimation” arxiv.org/abs/2003.13913

Scenes from Lepton-Photon 2025 in Madison. With director-general designate of CERN, Mark Thomson And interim director of Fermilab, Young-Kee Kim agenda.hep.wisc.edu/event/2188/o...

Very exciting to see the research from @cziscience.bsky.social on the rBio distilling a black box foundation model (in this case a "virtual cell" perturbation model) into a smaller reasoner LLM. And it uses ontologies as part of RL! chanzuckerberg.com/blog/rbio-re...

Seeking science journalists: @quantamagazine.bsky.social is hiring a physics editor! A rare opportunity to join this great team and lead coverage of this foundational vertical. Please reach out with any questions and share widely simonsfoundation.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/simons...

It was a pleasure to meet Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social and Minister Evan Solomon today as part of an official visit at @mila-quebec.bsky.social with many collaborators from our AI ecosystem. We discussed AI risk mitigation, sovereignty & economic potential among other important topics.

Hannah is awesome!

I haven’t had the chance to look closely, but I’m still eager to share this practical guide on Simulation-based Inference 👇

move in day! The Data Science Institute moves into Morgridge Hall @uwdsi.bsky.social

Very happy to have this beautiful review published in Machine Learning: Science and Technology! @iopp-mlresearch.bsky.social

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.

Would be a good problem to give to RL

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

Hooray for #MachineLearningEarth! 🌎🌍🌏🌲🌳 Our first articles are out 🥳

Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements This is a big deal

Very cool! How do cytosolic ribosomes discriminate between ER and mitochondria targeted proteins? NAC recognizes mitochondrial targeting sequences! Very important since over 95% of the mitochondrial proteome is translated in the cytosol and then imported to mitochondria. Congrats!

Reminds me of the @cmsexperiment.bsky.social