Today, we’re bringing new NSF OMAI compute online with NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra-powered systems, turning a $152M national investment from NSF & NVIDIA into a foundation for truly open AI research. 🧵

A successfully executed supply chain attack on higher education. Students and faculty who use Canvas need to be on the lookout for scammers at scale...

I was just elected to the Council of the University Senate for a three year term. My first legislative proposal will be to charge any University of Chicago faculty member a $3000 fee for any peer-review publication that conflates odds ratios with relative risk

coming up in 3 weeks is my 3rd @physaliacourses.bsky.social Art (Science) Attack course! #SciArt showing scientists how to get going with open source software such as Krita and Inkscape and getting some pretty paper figures, lab logos, mascots and MORE! www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Fun thread. Cool work, and make sure to read all the way to the end!

What a night to be in Chicago!

Though not without their flaws, Universities they have *already* done more to drive economic development and innovation than pretty much any other human institution, and that's in addition to creating informed citizens and otherwise enriching the human experience. The evidence for this is...

Last year I looked at NIH grants for which the the titles had changed in the course of administrative renewal. These title changes were part of the negotiations required between program officers and applicants (a process referred to as "remediation" by Deputy Director Jon Lorsch). 1/5

I am SO DELIGHTED that public libraries exist🥹 I went to return a book (operation bounce house) and pick up a new one (bobiverse #2: for we are many) and I was so HAPPY to see so many people there enjoying books, services, or just somewhere quiet to exist without buying anything 🙏 Truly incredible.

How does your brain know that a cat is a cat? Your brain is a category generator. A conversation with @earlkmiller.bsky.social about our new paper in Nature Reviews: Neuroscience. In Nautilus @nautil.us (thanks Kristen French!). nautil.us/how-does-you... #neuroscience @nature.com

Nice to see this coming from my Senator! Lots of good policy ideas in this, but many seem unlikely to happen in the current environment.

This was the logic behind "Boarding School" for Native American children.

Will reinforcement learning in simulators win robotics? www.wired.com/story/when-r...

Our Chinese-led scientific and technical future is going to have some interesting twists...

Tonight I mourn for America. Raw bigotry, vicious patriarchy, and spiteful stupidity, spewing death and violence everywhere. The tattered remnants of the dream destroyed by corruption and the impunity of billionaires. Tomorrow back to work, trying to do what I can. Tonight, tears 😢

I spent the last 2 months trying to prevent this. If OpenAI offered a fig leaf, Google said "imagine we offered a fig leaf." Google affirms it can't veto usage, commits to modify safety filters at government request, & aspirational language with no legal restrictions. Shameful.

"NSA officials studying the Mythos model have been impressed by its speed and efficiency in searching for potential security flaws..." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

1/3 HEY Indigenous Data Alliance! "Data sovereignty is not just about information, but it’s also about how the rules are drafted. And if a data center is on tribal lands, it will be a tribe writing those rules." ~Mark Trahant. Mr. Trahant is right, more than he knows.

Great credit is due to the Bard College community of undergraduate anti-rape activists—organizing as “Take Back Bard”—who insisted on Bostein’s resignation even in the face of widespread indifference from the faculty and sneering mockery of their efforts in the New York Times. I admire them.

Two very good pieces documenting the dismantling of U.S. Science. The first one by Philipp Markolin: www.protagonist-scie... 1/3

Hard times reveal who is who in #academia. "In her...address..Academies president Marcia McNutt gave up the pretense. She bluntly said that, on her watch, the Academies moved away from addressing issues like vaccines and climate change, which she called partisan." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa has reorganized the Waikīkī Aquarium into SOEST to enhance research synergies while maintaining its public offerings. This move aims to create a cohesive framework for marine science education and community service, transforming the aquarium into a living laboratory.

Hawaii is steps away from becoming the first state to use its legal authority to drain corporate money from its elections—and the legal questions raised about the move have straightforward answers. Here are 7 FAQs about S.B. 2471 ⬇️ https://ampr.gs/3QEambX

I have been deeply critical of Craig for his views about the future of science, but this news hits hard. I realize now that part of being a scientist is valuing the diversity of opinion, even when it comes backed with more social, political, and financial capital than you can muster yourself.

We're looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work at the intersection of ecology and data science 🧪 www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/posts/postdo... #movingtonewzealand #movingtonz

Tonight I mourn for America. Raw bigotry, vicious patriarchy, and spiteful stupidity, spewing death and violence everywhere. The tattered remnants of the dream destroyed by corruption and the impunity of billionaires. Tomorrow back to work, trying to do what I can. Tonight, tears 😢

It is with great sadness that we announce J. Craig Venter has died. 🧪🧬 www.jcvi.org/media-center...

Pretty good calls on who benefits and who pays with today's AI www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykvf...

Please join us for this fantastic double-book symposium on @hohwy.bsky.social's and @kathrynnave.eurosky.social's books. Register here for the link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

For those keeping score, NSF is Director-less, Board-less, HQ-less, and soon to be down a directorate. buttondown.com/crgibbons/ar...

There is massive infrastructural damage being done to our country by this administration, some of which we will not recover from in my lifetime, possibly even my kids'. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/c...

been thinking a lot about this 1972 Weizenbaum paper a lot lately, especially when i hear people say things like access to llms reduce inequality by leveling the playing field, solve the mental health crisis & the loneliness pandemic, etc, all of which are problems rooted in very technology itself

Once the expert advisory boards are gone, next step: replace with political ideologues and/or patronage system. Example from NIH via @mmolteni.bsky.social: Blanche may not have prior publications/NIH funding but is Founder/CEO of "Integrative Healing Center & Spa, a holistic medicine practice."

I don't often agree with David French, but he is absolutely right about this. Heartbreaking 💔

Outstanding take from @alondra.bsky.social. Regime approach to AI has been "circumventing ordinary accountability mechanisms in favor of discretionary power" -- which will have consequences for decades to come...

Dickies in Kona, doing You drive me ape you big gorilla! Teens making a mosh pit. Such a great show

I have tix to see the Dickies live in Kona tonight. I saw my first Dickies show at the Whisky on the Sunset Strip in 1977. @punkrockhistory.bsky.social

Beautiful morning on Pu'u Wa'awa'a.

"The falsely generated demand for AI and AI infrastructure truly is a death cycle."

I’m trying to convince my institution that’s it’s worthwhile to be on Bluesky, so I volunteered to setup an account and posted at @soest.hawaii.edu. Please do me a favor and follow the account, share and like some posts before my meeting to discuss the account tomorrow. @joshuajfriedman.com

As I have been saying for years now, advertising is the only endgame for most Chatbot companies. I just got this in an email

LLM challenges to cybersecurity met! Took a huge amount of (unpaid!) labor. In the end, this makes open source software stronger. www.wired.com/story/mozill...

Entertaining and unsettling

"The selfish ribosome" paper is now published in @plosbiology.org . Have a look! Many thanks to the editors and reviewers! doi.org/10.1371/jour...

The insider trading corruption alone should be enough to bring their whole house down.

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

"We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite!"

The impunity of billionaires is a huge problem for our planet. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

I so miss the days when his was the voice of my country

The regime's plan to close the Big Island's US Forest Service offices would be tremendously damaging. Heartbreaking 💔 www.civilbeat.org/2026/04/ohia...