This was accepted to #NeurIPS 🎉🎊 TL;DR Impoverished notions of rigor can have a formative impact on AI work. We argue for a broader conception of what rigorous work should entail & go beyond methodological issues to include epistemic, normative, conceptual, reporting & interpretative considerations

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)

Very true. In our causal tutorial slides we point at the edges in a DAG and say the edges we included aren’t the assumptions, the edges we deleted are the assumptions. (Never mind nodes!) Having said that, LLMs are a useful tool for brainstorming what might be missing, complementing domain experts

Want to learn more? Check out our paper! written with a fantastic group of coauthors Su Lin Blodgett @amabalayn.bsky.social @angelinawang.bsky.social @841io.bsky.social @fcalmon.bsky.social @mmitchell.bsky.social @md.ekstrandom.net @rdbinns.bsky.social @s010n.bsky.social arxiv.org/pdf/2506.14652 7/7

We have to talk about rigor in AI work and what it should entail. The reality is that impoverished notions of rigor do not only lead to some one-off undesirable outcomes but can have a deeply formative impact on the scientific integrity and quality of both AI research and practice 1/

HAPPY 75th, NSF! We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond. Read on 🧵(1/11):

In this issue: our CHI 2025 & ICLR 2025 contributions, plus research on causal reasoning & LLMs; countering LLM jailbreak attacks; and how people use AI vs. AI-alone. Also, SVP of Microsoft Health Jim Weinstein talks rural healthcare innovation: msft.it/6013SHuu1

Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"

Gift idea: what do you get for the AI researcher who has everything? 👇

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

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Looking fwd to discussing career paths next week at the Society of Causal Inference & Online Causal Inference Seminar's joint webinar: Exploring Career Paths in Pharma, Government, and Technology w/Gabriel Loewinger and Natalie Levy Tue Apr 15, 11:30am-12:45pm ET sci-info.org/online-events/

Excellent statement from Nature’s editorial board. The last section on “How to respond” is the most important. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My friends and colleagues at IU are being intimidated for their work on social media’s harmful impacts on civic discourse. Here is why their work is vital. osome.iu.edu/research/blo...

Sharing an announcement from the Society for Causal Inference annual meeting --- they are looking for student volunteers, in exchange for complimentary registration More info: sci-info.org/annual-meeti...

The abstract deadline for SIGIR's Industry Track is coming up in just a few days, with a final deadline of Feb 27.

So I'm a big fan of Claude, and anyone can goof up, but this did make me laugh.

Since its launch two decades ago, Microsoft Research India produced extraordinary innovation in areas from health and education to agriculture and accessibility. Learn about the lab’s track record of technological advances: www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

Contrastive focus reduplication is such a fun construction. languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/llog/Sal...

Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

We should not be allowing non-government employees to waltz in to government offices, and illegally get access to sensitive government and personal data, and get read and write access to critical software systems in multiple government agencies. www.npr.org/2025/02/08/g...

Obama, speaking in October 2016: "Government will never run the way Silicon Valley runs because, by definition, democracy is messy. And part of government's job, by the way, is dealing with problems that nobody else wants to deal with." 1/6 youtu.be/BikQFWNYct4?...

📣My team at Microsoft Research New York is hiring a senior researcher in AI, both broadly in AI/ML, and in some specific areas including science of deep learning and modular transfer learning. Apply by February 7, 2025 on the link below. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

Real world data (RWD) analyses need diverse expertise in medicine/stats/causality. As a result, RWD causal analysis is slow and prone to error. AI tools can help. Perspective in NEJM AI w/Maya Petersen, @amalaa.bsky.social, Chris Holmes, Mark van der Laan ai.nejm.org/stoken/defau...

Good news for your end-of-year reading list: We've just released the Microsoft 2024 New Future of Work Report! It's packed with insights on how AI is transforming work. aka.ms/nfw2024 #NewFutureOfWork #NFW2024 #AIResearch #WorkplaceInnovation #GenAI

We've posted the CFP for SIGIR's Industry Track (IR in Practice). Please share and send in your talk and panel proposals! Abstracts due Feb 20, with a final deadline of Feb 27. sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/call-sirip-t...

Our group is looking for Research Interns passionate about improving foundation models and advancing the state of the art in AI applications. We just posted 2 openings on LLM reasoning and to finetuning AI jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo... jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

Check out our new paper on social determinants of on-campus food choice, now out in @pnasnexus.org! academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

New work analyzing social influence on food choice, led by @gligoric.bsky.social

📢Internships in AI Security & Privacy Our Azure Research team in Cambridge (UK) is looking for PhD or outstanding undergrad/MSc students for internships in 2025. Join us to work on defending against emerging security & privacy threats to AI systems. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

Hello folks, I'm a researcher at Microsoft, where my interests span applications of AI, causality, security of AI, and AI's implications for society. Nice to see folks here!