Brown has canceled all remaining classes and exams for the Fall semester.

🚀Week 2 Results: Research AI Agents Making Progress Huge thanks to everyone who participated! Full blog: hypogenic.ai/blog/weekly-... More info in thread👇

I'm recruiting my first group of students at TTIC! If you're interested, please apply by December 9th and mention my name in your application

Come chat with us at the poster! We will bring some unicorn ducks too!

Academic peer review has mostly treated paper as the single source of truth, even when the accompanying code is available. We can change this with research agents, and there is a lot of exciting work going forward! If interested, reach out to Xiaoyan or me!

Calling NYC parents -- after years of requests we finally offer a summer high school program on campus.

We're launching a weekly competition where the community decides which research ideas get implemented. Every week, we'll take the top 3 ideas from IdeaHub, run experiments with AI agents, and share everything: code, successes, and failures. It's completely free and we'll try out ideas for you!

Econ, artificial intelligence and machine learning … #EconConf #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/11/econ...

If you're a student in need of a personal website (and if you're doing research, yes, you need a website!), I keep a list of nice examples here, most of which are reusable: www.are.na/maria-antoni... For example, I just spotted this beautiful website by Catherine Yeh: github.com/catherinesye...

Recruiting PhDs & postdocs for: 🤖 agents "taking over" science (hypogenic.ai and 📌) 🧪 Real scientists ➡️AI (e.g., materials, chem, physics) 📜 Theory + incentives for H-AI collab & credit (e.g., formalizing tacit knowledge) new adventures for me, 🔄 if you can! 🙌 chenhaot.com/recruiting.h...

Due to a speaker conflict, we will have the online seminar on **Thursday** at 12pm ET/11am CT/9am PT. Come to learn about AI & Scientific Discovery in material science! ai-scientific-discovery.github.io

Identifying human morals and values in language is crucial for analysing lots of human- and AI-generated text. We introduce "MoVa: Towards Generalizable Classification of Human Morals and Values" - to be presented at @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social oral session next Thu #CompSocialScience #LLMs 🧵 (1/n)

GPT and Claude appears at high status in this model recognition task.

This week @dougdowney.bsky.social will talk about Asta! ai-scientific-discovery.github.io

❓ Does an LLM know thyself? 🪞 Humans pass the mirror test at ~18 months 👶 But what about LLMs? Can they recognize their own writing—or even admit authorship at all? In our new paper, we put 10 state-of-the-art models to the test. Read on 👇 1/n 🧵

Yes, more companies should move to Chicago!

AI can write complex code but fails at 4-digit multiplication. 🤔 New research by @elenal3ai.bsky.social & @chenhaotan.bsky.social reveals why billions of parameters can't solve grade-school math—and what it takes to fix it. It's about how AI learns, not how much it learns. Read more: bit.ly/3Jp59RT

Every clause in this (on AI science) !!! 👇👇

Check out this demo made by @haokunliu.bsky.social : www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBxR...

That’s why we’re introducing Hypogenic.ai, a platform designed for idea selection and evaluation. 💡 IdeaHub: collective rating and discussion of research ideas. 🧠 Ideation Assistant: AI-driven research ideation.

AI can accelerate scientific discovery, but only if we get the scientist–AI interaction right. The dream of “autonomous AI scientists” is tempting: machines that generate hypotheses, run experiments, and write papers. But science isn’t just automation. cichicago.substack.com/p/the-mirage... 🧵

This week we will have Rose Yu from UCSD sharing her work on grounding foundation models for physical sciences! ai-scientific-discovery.github.io

We’re excited to release the Call for Papers for #FAccT2026 which will be held in Montreal, Canada in June 2026! Abstracts are due on January 8th, papers due on January 13th. Call for Papers: facctconference.org/2026/cfp Important info in thread →

Happening in two hours!

EPFL AI Center Postdocs: www.epfl.ch/research/fun... NLP Lab Postdoc: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This week we will have two speakers at the AI & Scientific Discovery online seminar: Yihang Wang and Jiachen Yao! ai-scientific-discovery.github.io

What is the best way to find faculty job advertisements for CS/info students on the job market? It seems that students in my group are spending an unreasonable amount on this. I thought CRA is good, but seems not active any more.

This resonates very well. I think it should apply to all disciplines. I also really liked this recent piece by Channing and Ghosh: arxiv.org/abs/2509.06580

The #COLM2025 workshop on NLP4Democracy is starting now! Join us in 520E. I’ll be speaking at 10:15am with @ysiglidis.bsky.social about work with @iaugenstein.bsky.social and @serge.belongie.com focused on tracking collective narratives on social media.

Jilian Fisher gave a thought provoking talk on political bias. 1. Biased LLMs influence people’s political decision making. 2. We should seek approximations of political neutrality given the impossibilities of a perfect definition.

The amazing @jmendelsohn2.bsky.social kicking off the NLP4Democracy workshop!

Keynote at #COLM2025: Nicholas Carlini from Anthropic "Are language models worth it?" Explains that the prior decade of his work on adversarial images, while it taught us a lot, isn't very applied; it's unlikely anyone is actually altering images of cats in scary ways.

Happening right now at #colm!

On my way to Montreal! Looking forward to meeting old and new friends!

The Chicago Human+AI lab and the AI+Science Research Initiative are thrilled to announce the upcoming AI & Scientific Discovery online seminar! This seminar explores how AI accelerates research, enables breakthroughs, and shapes the future of innovation across fields More info 🔗 ⬇️

I will be at #COLM2025 this week, and would love to connect with folks interested in applications (and critiques) of language modeling in social science research! And join us for the NLP4Democracy workshop on Friday! sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.e... #NLP #NLProc #LLM #ComputationalSocialScience

Here’s a #COLM2025 feed! Pin it 📌 to follow along with the conference this week!

Excited that Jean Kossaifi will speak at AI & Scientific Discovery this week! ai-scientific-discovery.github.io

Thank Lei Li for for giving a great talk at the inaugural AI & Scientific Discovery online seminar! The analogy between language and molecule generation is interesting. Also, it is nice to see markov random field after a long exposure to LLM papers! ai-scientific-discovery.github.io

@uchicagoci.bsky.social will be at #COLM2025. Say hi if you are around!

Starting in about an hour, you can watch it here: www.youtube.com/@AIScientifi... Or join our discord for zoom links: discord.gg/T2fVp54V

@ari-holtzman.bsky.social kicking off @uchicagoci.bsky.social seminar this year! Full house!

I have not checked/used X for 9 months. It certainly looks like a parallel universe over there. Have there been any good comparative studies?

🚀 ACL ARR is looking for a Co-CTO to join me lead our amazing tech team and drive the future of our workflow. If you’re interested or know someone who might be, let’s connect! RTs & recommendations appreciated.

Totally agree! Not sure fully automated AI scientist will be the most effective approach. That said, scientists will certainly be very different in the future.

Excited that we are having the first talk in AI & Scientific Discovery online seminar on Friday at 12pm ET/11am CT/9am PT by the awesome Lei Li from CMU! 🧪 Generative AI for Functional Protein Design🤖 #artificialintelligence #scientificdiscovery ai-scientific-discovery.github.io

Who is going to be at #COLM2025? I want to draw your attention to a COLM paper by my student @sfeucht.bsky.social that has totally changed the way I think and teach about LLM representations. The work is worth knowing. And you can meet Sheridan at COLM, Oct 7! bsky.app/profile/sfe...

HR Simulator™: a game where you gaslight, deflect, and “let’s circle back” your way to victory. Every email a boss fight, every “per my last message” a critical hit… or maybe you just overplayed your hand 🫠 Can you earn Enlightened Bureaucrat status? (link below!)

It would be great to see you in the talks!

🚀 We’re thrilled to announce the upcoming AI & Scientific Discovery online seminar! We have an amazing lineup of speakers. This series will dive into how AI is accelerating research, enabling breakthroughs, and shaping the future of research across disciplines. ai-scientific-discovery.github.io