My colleage Fred Wang gave a talk about MathML-Core in WebKit at the 2025 WebKit Contributors meeting a while back, if you're interested... youtu.be/Agetsr6yJ3I

It is completely unnecessary to pay $17 million to OpenAI—and also, I think, unnecessary to get quite this doomy on the topic. I work at a school that is being proactive about AI without becoming dependent on a vendor. I think lots of schools will take that path.

Scientific open infrastructure is the invisible backbone of research. It’s what connects scientists across disciplines + borders, builds essential skills, sparks collaboration, and preserves knowledge for future discovery. #OpenScience #OpenInfrastructure

I spent 2010-15 figuring out that it was easier to switch disciplines than to persuade humanists to adopt computational methods. But I wonder. ArXiv closing to position papers is making me think there's just not going to be *room* in CS/IS for all the conversations that need to happen. +

Interesting investigation into a dodgy Elsevier journal -- with the additional nugget that the CEO of Elsevier's parent company made more than €15 million in total compensation last year. english.elpais.com/science-tech...

It is such a delight to see a stream of new MathML upgrades! For this holiday season, should we make all of our exponents into animated lights? 🎄 And if you're curious about the blog author, you can find them on mathstodon: mathstodon.xyz/@koala@todon...

How big is docs.rs's S3 bucket of "all docs ever"? 7.75 TiB (compressed) github.com/rust-lang/do...

SocArXiv has had enough of AI papers. Requires acceptance of those papers first. Exceptions are made for studies of the effects of AI in society.

PsyArXiv is pleased to welcome new member institutions! ✨Eindhoven University of Technology ✨New York University ✨Tilburg University ✨University College London Member institutions are integral to helping PsyArXiv deliver preprint posting and reading to its users at no charge.

Wow! Yuansi Chen resolves 1 of the 2 remaining $1000 Talagrand problems (michel.talagrand.net/prizes/prize... ): If you take any f : {-1,+1}ⁿ → ℝ⁺ and apply the noise operator T_{.99}, the resulting function g = T_{.99} f satisfies a better-than-Markov inequality. That is, Pr[g > t E[g]] < o(1/t).

Good news: you can send me complaints and feature requests. ...if they have to do with arXiv HTML Papers 🫡

This kind of work is also unironically the humanities jailbreaking into STEM.

Serendipity: arXiv and alphaXiv announcing identical $7 million in funds raised recently. Key difference: non-profit donation for operations and maintenance vs for-profit ownership stake in business growth. blog.arxiv.org/2025/11/24/a... www.prnewswire.com/news-release... #arXiv

Today when trying to figure out how to write some alt-text for a professor's image of a math equation, I found out about MathML. It is so cool! A standardized, markup language that makes math equations appear correctly (and accessibly) natively in most browsers without needing LaTeX plugins.

Image screening is going to fail. We need audit trails for data provenance.

Ruining great art with the nano banana pro command “Make this much more cheerful with as few changes as possible”

arXiv is looking for an Engineering Director. Help us find out what is on top of the beanstalk 🌥️ cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Cornel...

“lazy use of unwrap blew up a process and took out the internet” bzzt. wrong. judicious use of unwrap blew up a process instead of allowing an Extremely Named CVE to happen and spraying your bank account credentials all over the public internet

🚧 OSF experienced a temporary slowdown today due to a surge of automated bot traffic. This overwhelmed parts of the production environment that didn't yet have the right safeguards in place, causing performance issues. The underlying issue has been addressed, & further protections are now in place.

Twitter is down because of a CloudFlare network outage, so…. Hi Bluesky

arXiv is looking for an Engineering Director. Help us find out what is on top of the beanstalk 🌥️ cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Cornel...

It is as if thousands of researchers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced

The package formerly known as papercheck has changed its name to metacheck! We're checking more than just papers, with functions to assess OSF projects, github repos, and AsPredicted pre-registrations, with more being developed all the time. scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/

🗓️ The October 2025 arXiv articles are now in ar5iv.

My thoughts are with everyone who continue to be affected by the government shutdown. And I am still blocked.

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.

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

Another casualty of the LLM revolution. In "arXiv’s CS category, review articles and position papers must now be accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review."

AI-written surveys are definitely a problem, but it feels so backwards for arXiv PREprints to require peer review first. Not sure what the solution is.

Really inspired by the energy at the @openrxiv.bsky.social Meeting last week — feels like a turning point for preprints and open research. 🌌 Excited to see how this community is connecting data, code, and narrative into something more open, interactive, and alive. 🚀

Excited to be teaming up with @creativecommons.bsky.social to think about incentives, tooling and licensing around modular scientific content. Please sign up to join the working group!! continuousfoundation.org/reuse-form

in my post-academic era i have become extremely scathing of the way academia considers papers to the primary outcome of intellectual work, and refuses to give credit to academics who write software or build other tooling. in industry we very rarely read your papers; but we always use your software

Interfaces

AI is coming for TeX-to-HTML ! arxiv.org/abs/2510.158...

💥New: Who should control open access, the markets or the commons? ✍️ @thomasgraves.bsky.social reviews Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons (@uofmpress.bsky.social) by @samuelmoore.org #OpenAccess #OAWeek25 #ScholComms

Updated the interactive demo to include the "anchor-center" value. It's a special value different from "center" and is probably the one you will be using the most. css-tip.com/position-area/ Example with position-area: top 👇

Curious what you can do with Typst's HTML export right now? How about write a blog? This article tells you how: blog.sillyfreak.space/2025/06/29/r...

Today the "Wayback Machine" is the "Wayup Machine", in light of the global AWS downtime.

My standup blocker today was: "I am blocked until the US Federal government reopens." How's your day going?

Wishing you a good week! #aivideo #aiart

😂 I need LOTR-themed category theory (math.CT) next.

Come work with me at Igalia! We're hiring a programming languages engineer to primarily work on JavaScript standardization and specification. Igalia is a worker-owned cooperative and all jobs are 100% remote. www.igalia.com/jobs/javascr...

Perfect delivery. This should be my new bio.

Igalia is honored to have been awarded a commission from the Sovereign Tech Fund to advance the @servo.org web engine. STF’s support will advance a multi-pronged effort focused on improving Servo’s accessibility, WebView API support, and project maintenance. Details: www.igalia.com/2025/10/09/I...

do i have any enterprising followers who know perl (i've never touched it) and how latex compilation works (i've only used latex as an end user) who i could bribe (say pretty please with a cherry on top) to write latexml bindings for some packages not included in the project i want for pghrt.diy?

Another week, another VLM-based OCR model! Nanonets just released OCR2 - a 3B parameter vision-language model for document OCR 📄 You can run it with one command on @hf.co Jobs (no local GPU needed)

Thank you to our users and supporters for your high expectations of COS and the OSF. We are a service organization producing public goods to support research transparency, rigor, and credibility. We are grateful for your support and work hard every day to earn your trust.

Our annual opportunity to request <math> interoperability across web browsers is here. This time there is a fun new interface (made by the Firefox team): interop-rank.jakearchibald.com and you can also upvote 👍 the issue directly: github.com/web-platform...

Our annual opportunity to request <math> interoperability across web browsers is here. This time there is a fun new interface (made by the Firefox team): interop-rank.jakearchibald.com and you can also upvote 👍 the issue directly: github.com/web-platform...