It’s Election Day 🗳️ UChicago's @chenhaotan.bsky.social and team built CivicChats to help voters engage more thoughtfully with the issues on their ballot. Try the tech: civicchats.org Read more: datascience.uchicago.edu/insights/cou...

Open AI-assisted review tools could help researchers get better feedback, improve paper quality, and make the review process more scalable. But final publication decisions should remain under human oversight, via @chenhaotan.bsky.social openaireview.github.io/blog.html

It is open, can and will be improved! Feedback like these is highly appreciated. The issue is here: github.com/ChicagoHAI/O...

Peer review is facing a death spiral, and AI production tools are speeding it up. AI-assisted reviewing is necessary and should be open. We built OpenAIReview: open AI reviewing for everyone, for the cost of a coffee. openaireview.github.io/blog.html 🧵

Local ballot measures are now on CivicChats! Local elections happen year-round, 10+ states have measures coming up in the next few months. Check your ballot and think through what you'll be voting on → civicchats.org

Check out our effort in thinking about how AI can help with democratic processes!

Anyone can help reviewing an ACL submission today on parameter efficient fine-tuning? Sorry that it is very tight.

📖 ≠ 🧪 The Story is Not the Science. Code is submitted but rarely executed during peer review—an issue likely to worsen with research agents. 🧑‍🔬 We introduce 𝐌𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐄𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭, an execution-grounded evaluation of narrative + execution. 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲. 1/n

Mark Yatskar will be speaking this Friday! You can tune in either on Zoom: uchicago.zoom.us/j/9897879984... Youtube: www.youtube.com/@AIScientifi...

Hannes Stark will be speaking this Friday on BoltzGen! You can tune in either on Zoom: uchicago.zoom.us/j/9897879984... Youtube: www.youtube.com/@AIScientifi...

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Microsoft Research NYC is hiring a researcher in the space of AI and society!

@profbuehlermit.bsky.social from MIT will be speaking this Friday! You can tune in either on Zoom: uchicago.zoom.us/j/9897879984... Youtube: www.youtube.com/@AIScientifi...

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Peter Clark from @ai2.bsky.social will be speaking on Friday! You can tune in either on Zoom: uchicago.zoom.us/j/9897879984... Youtube: www.youtube.com/@AIScientifi...

Posted a very early stage draft with rock star collaborators. Key question: when we actually roll out AI tools, how do people use them? Do they just defer completely? Does it improve productivity and ability? We look in the medical setting of pulmonary embolisms paulgp.com/papers/Radio...

I've often joked that as faculty I program in a high-level language called "graduate student". Having tried out Claude Code this morning, I (i) feel extremely at home, (ii) am realizing that research-by-graduate-student is perhaps the original vibe-coding. 1/2

I've seen this message and similar echos for other writing, and I want strongly push back on this narrative. It's not that you shouldn't use ChatGPT but that you shouldn't *use ChatGPT to write it for you*. ChatGPT—and AI in general—is not a monolith. How you use it matters.

Very much enjoyed this talk by @yisongyue.bsky.social ! The measurement challenge deserves a lot more attention from the AI community!

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Excited to present a new preprint with @nkgarg.bsky.social: presenting usage statistics and observational findings from Paper Skygest in the first six months of deployment! 🎉📜 arxiv.org/abs/2601.04253

Emergent misalignment made into @nature.com! The key insight is that models fine-tuned on writing insecure code present a wide range of insecure behavior in other contexts.

Join us on Friday, January 16th for this week’s AI & Scientific Discovery Online Seminar! Featuring Yisong Yue, Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at @caltech.edu You can participate online or in-person at DSI. Learn more at ai-scientific-discovery.github.io

Professor @yisongyue.bsky.social will be speaking this Friday at the AI & Scientific Discovery seminar! Zoom: uchicago.zoom.us/j/9897879984... Youtube: www.youtube.com/@AIScientifi...

I certainly did not realize that this is such a controversial take: Chenhao: "Finding the equilibrium of publishing will take at least a decade." 25% agree, 75% disagree

Let us all stand with Chairman Powell.

I can't read Chinese, but my family has old genealogy documents I've always wanted to understand. Claude and Gemini helped me build an interactive reader to explore the calligraphy character by character. I can finally read my great-grandfather's epitaph. Try it: davidbau.com/archives/202...

The recent days have been horrific. We can't become numb to repeated instances of illegal and unconstitutional action by government agencies. It's even worse when public officials are blatantly lying in ways that contradict dozens of pieces of video evidence.

We have an important #FAccT2026 update! Our new dates are June 25-June 28 and our new location is Le Centre Sheraton Montréal. We’re so sorry for any inconvenience caused by this change! Why the change? Thread --> 1/n

The first talk is happening in two hours! Yonatan Belinkov is going to talk about "Interpretability for Scientific Discovery: Some Opportunities and Challenges"! You can tune in either on Zoom: uchicago.zoom.us/j/9897879984... Youtube: youtube.com/@AIScientifi... Hope to see you soon!

Happy new year! The AI & Scientific Discovery Seminar is returning this quarter. Last quarter was incredible, from protein design to automated bio labs. Huge thanks to all our amazing speakers and attendees 🙌 We’re kicking off Winter Quarter with an 🔥 lineup, starting in two hours! 🧵

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

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