This result is crazy. You finetune a teacher model to love owls. Then you have the teacher model generate a string of numbers, and finetune the student model on those numbers. The student model will then also love owls. alignment.anthropic.com/2025/sublimi...

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

"A critical mass of people who decided the election were bamboozled by America’s horrendously broken information environment, and don’t like the results of their own choices." prospect.org/2025/10/29/v...

The Fred Trump treatment. Give him a fake job while Miller draws up missile strike plans on fishermen.

Come join me as a CBRN Research Engineer at Google DeepMind! NYC and Bay Area positions both available.

Good news: carbon intensity has declined Bad news: carbon emissions increased, due to the rapid rise in world GDP Also bad news: the chance of staying below 2°C remained low, at 17% Better news: chance of going above 3°C has gone down substantially, from 26% to 9%

Do you want to invent the future of Chemistry with us? We‘re looking for a "Digital Native” Organic Chemist to join our team at Microsoft Research AI for Science. We offer an amazing environment where you can do deep research with passionate and talented colleagues to solve problems that matter! 1/2

regrettably if you try to point this out online you'll get yelled out by 79208 journalists going OH SO YOU WANT JOURNALISTS TO STARVE??? even if you're, say, a journalist yourself, and point out that while there are clearly no easy answers, the status quo isn't exactly working for society

The strangest thing about these times is watching self-described conservatives trying to figure out which parts of the world are load-bearing using the sledgehammer method.

It’s much harder to build housing in Blue states than it is in Red states. So yes people are moving away from Blue states. One more reason that addressing the housing shortage in NY and elsewhere must be an urgent priority.

DEMOCRATS: 1. THE WAY TO MOVE PUBLIC OPINION IS TO ATTRACT ATTENTION 2. THE WAY OT ATTRACT ATTENTION IS TO AMPLIFY GENUINE CONFLICT AND REAL CRISIS 3. THE MILITARY OCCUPATION OF WASHINGTON, D.C. IS A GENUINE CONFLICT AND A REAL CRISIS

The most impressive thing about this campaign is how *creative* they are. They’re trying new stuff! Multiple times during the last few months I’ve thought “wow, I’ve never seen a campaign do that.” Much more of that needed everywhere.

If the federal government can simply seize privately held patents then that is the end of the U.S. patent system, the legal basis for American innovation.

Does anyone have a science application ready that could benefit from running an MLIP like MACE, MatterSim, or SevenNet at scale? Have a fun collaboration opportunity with free large compute access for the right applications. Reply or DM if interested!

In machine learning research they don't say "we are always fighting the last war" they say "we achieved state of the art performance on the standard benchmark" and I think that's beautiful.

Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community. reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand: $678M raised through those spam tactics $282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies. $11M to actual campaigns (1.6%) The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, a longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today

This is the map that NY had drawn up for 2022 redistricting that was struck down because Cuomo appointed conservatives to the NY Court of Appeals. It would have had 4 GOP districts instead of the current 7. This can be reduced to 2.

Professor Diaz forgive me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure someone wrote an English-language ad ("Draw the S for less") and ordered it translated into Spanish with no regard for rhyme. This got to me sufficiently that I made my own ("draw the Ss and don't stress").

I expect this to be a real headline by the end of Trump's term.

Remember how the Tea Party & MAGA called their opponents "Republicans In Name Only" until they eventually took over the party? This is what winning looks like in the American political system. Define AOC as the real Democrat and make her President.

When the professional ethics of a crucial profession no longer match the morality of society at large, it's an invitation to charlatans, populists, and sham reformers. And it can feel impossible to fix, since both the public and the professionals feel they're in the right.

The neurologist Oliver Sacks found that the social-media era resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale.

I liked this piece by Calvin French-Owen on his time at OpenAI. One part, though, struck me as naive: "If you tweet something related to OpenAI that goes viral, chances are good someone will read about it and consider it." Do they not know that a competitor controls what goes viral on Twitter?

I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff. "Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)

The job they applied for: “I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic ...” It doesn't say Messiah, but it doesn't say bystander either.

The Materials Project is one of the most important databases in materials science. Now, 12 years after the original publication, we have a new manuscript describing the history and current state of MP, the MP software ecosystem, and the MP community. #CompChem #MatSky #MaterialsProject ⚗️ 🧪 (1/2)

oh so you say that twitter is a brainwashing machine controlled by a nazi, yet i have a negative perception of the brainwashing machine's competitor, how do you explain THAT? checkmate, atheists.

Thinking again about how the media turned Bill Clinton talking to AG Loretta Lynch for 15 minutes into a major scandal for Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election.

I want to reiterate that countless conservative judges issued universal injunctions against the Biden administration, and the Supreme Court never halted the practice. Now, barely five months into Trump's second term, the court puts an end to these injunctions. A brazen double standard.

It looks like the year after Democratic gerontocracy lost us the whole government might be the chance of a lifetime for young Democrats to run for higher office.

Trump may have pissed away the entire concept of deterring nuclear proliferation with conventional air power, costing us not only our lives but also our enjoyment of Top Gun: Maverick.

Journalists keep asking me, baffled, “What’s the Trump administration really trying to do to the science agencies?” So I say “They are trying to destroy them. Cut off their funding, ruin their facilities, harass their staff into leaving.” It’s not reform, and it never was. It’s destruction.

Any bunker-busting weapon is less useful after its first use. Before, you have the deterrence of ambiguity; after, they know how deep to dig.

I am a New Yorker and this is dead right. Vote for the Lander-Mamdani cross-endorsed team and don't rank Cuomo at all.

Just got back from a great outreach event at Washington Square Park! We asked people to fill out postcards to their Senators to support science funding and got 25 postcards in less than two hours. Postcards had images of fired scientists from silencedsciencestories.com on them!

to anyone who needs further proof that Zohran is the abundance candidate over Cuomo: Zohran wrote a bill giving the MTA streamlined permitting authority, which would speed up and reduce the costs of subway construction

I encourage everyone to consider attending one of the many demonstrations planned for tomorrow across the country. Show up. Demand accountability. Peacefully protest. Find the rally closest to you: NoKings.org

It is actually nuts that even when the NYC political establishment was presented with a broad field of talented candidates w/ many ideas, in a time of generational change & anti-corruption, they STILL chose to line up behind scandal-ridden Andrew Cuomo. It’s cowardice.

Giving ChatGPT a chance to rearrange one of my old comics from one-column to two-column. The result is not accurate, but still funny.

I’ve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.

I endorse the construction of the Jimbo Stevenson Bridge at the earliest opportunity.

from "Classical Studies memes for Hellenistic teens" on FB

if you want to lead a successful protest in America, hinging it on "America is bad" is foolish. Gallup regularly polls "Are you proud to be an American" and respondents who said at least "a little" recently hit a record low... of 95%. (67% say "very" or "extremely") bsky.app/profile/john...

The end of the American era in science has begun. Only we can stop the slide, but only if we act up.

Scientists have never been good politicians, but we need to be out explaining this.

Heartbreaking, cruel and stupid. The one thing this administration turns out to be good at is finding (relatively) little-known institutions that perform great services and destroying them.

I regret to say I have gotten old enough to tolerate oatmeal.