Nature meta-research project puts claims in social-science paper to the test. Refs in last post I'm interested in Econ and Psych so I focused on that: Econ had about the same rate of "not reproducible" analyses as Psych and a worse rate then Political Science.

Thank you to everyone who has completed their reviews for the NLP+CSS workshop! If anyone has the bandwidth to help with emergency reviewing over the next couple of days, please send me a DM!

Speaking of contracts, make sure your public records requests obtain the "Student Data Privacy Agreement". We anticipated this (and wrote about it in policy feedback in January, before any faculty were aware of the contract), but OpenAI *owning* de-identified student data was surprisingly 😮 blatant

Another one of @ahalterman.bsky.social and @katakeith.bsky.social's papers that I think should be cited more by CSS researchers: What is a protest anyway? Codebook conceptualization is still a first-order concern in LLM-era classification arxiv.org/abs/2510.03541

A conversation that starts with aggression is a fight.

After playing with Attie for a bit, I think I get what they were going for. It is a tool to help people understand feeds and easily generate them tailored to their own particular interests. What it won’t do is replace bespoke feeds. I’ll share a few thoughts: 🧵1/11

This email from @colorado.edu about the OpenAI contract is insulting. There was no conversation! There was no shared governance process! Faculty "input" was vocal protest in reaction to a closed-door deal! We still don't have clear information about where the data is stored or who has access to it!

This is all I see at the link and I’m struggling to find more info. Anyone know more? (To be clear, already plenty to hate in this text, and I have close to zero trust in these companies, but I want to know more about the data.)

3-year contract for a Phd position in Sociology on the discourse of/about AI, at l'Institut polytechnique de Paris.

Great 2-year postdoc for a digital humanities/I school/computational culture scholar to work on computer vision + film/TV w/ great colleagues @ Distant Viewing Lab @nolauren.bsky.social (U of Richmond). These guys are doing cutting edge stuff, apply! richmond.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff_...

essential reading post #atmosphereconf

I regret missing #atmosphereconf but would love attendees to check out and give feedback on our labeler at @stechlab-labels.bsky.social -- a first-pass implementation looking at how labelers can improve the surfacing of transparent, objective, useful ATProto information about account behavior.

"social platforms shouldn't choose your feed" check out @graze.social to take back control! absolutely electric speech @devingaffney.com thank u for all u do!

A new era of Anisota is here. Step into the Observatory, go on an Expedition into the Forest, & collect Moths while you read thanks to the @inaturalist.bsky.social API. A dynamic forest map w/ a "fog of war", inventory system, and more let you experience social media like never before: anisota.net

Did a series of videos with Markus Brunnermeier on Claude Code (more to come) Video 1: Getting Started with CC open.substack.com/pub/paulgp/p...

You can literally watch repression & displacement consolidate over fine-tuning: here's next-token probs across checkpoints of OLMo-3-7B-Think-SFT. Explicit words are repressed almost instantly but safer (displaced) alternatives emerge much later. It learns what not to say before what to say instead.

To everyone crashing out in the quotes: No, they're not using genAI to make fake content for feeds. It's just a tool to make custom feeds (i.e. the algorithm) with simple language. All of the content on the feed is just regular stuff from Bluesky.

"Be kelp: bend the future around our values and create safe spaces for communities."

🚨 the ecosystem is delicate #atmosphereconf there's a LOT of enthusiasm + talent, but: - no magical investor monies - grant options are THIN - many first time founders - many don't want investment - few other options - scary macro env it's a collective challenge we can just pay for things?

This was amazing. @kissane.myatproto.social is such an inspiration. Watch the recording if you missed it! Themes: landslides, kelp, social media, democracy, knowledge, agency. Several shoutouts to #atscience! #atmosphereconf

#atmosphereconf is being streamed live and @stream.place is doing such a great job. @kissane.myatproto.social is about to give her talk! you can join remotely for $10 or less (pay what you can): atmosphereconf.org/remote#remot...

I got way too inspired yesterday at #atscience and I changed my flight so that I actually get to catch part of the main conference. I’ll be around #atmosphereconf today and looking to chat with people!

Second time in a week that I'm hearing a passionate wish for @inaturalist.bsky.social and Merlin data to be posted to atproto. Feels like such a good fit for the citizen science ethos of these projects! #atscience #atmosphereconf

@emily.space is doing amazing things for the astronomy community on atproto. Open, real-time data streaming for gravitational waves and other observational data, custom feeds, PDS hosting. #astrosky #atscience #atmosphereconf

Great #atscience conversation w/ @nickmvincent.bsky.social, Laure Haak, Ellie DeSota about research communities, need for trust + rules, and hunger for smaller communities + human conversations. Nick: Senior academics want to only attend workshops, students need to publish at the main conference.

Sooooo many cool projects presented so far at #ATScience @ #AtmosphereConf! I especially loved @mariaa.bsky.social showing off Lea, a social network client for researchers that's compatible with Bluesky but extends it in some really cute ways

Hey @loriemerson.net & @mariafarrell.eurosky.social, look at the lovely company on this slide from @mariaa.bsky.social 💖

Excellent quote in this talk: "We can complain about X all day [...] But we should build things too." Super inspiring presentation by @mariaa.bsky.social happening now. The safety features built into Lea are brilliant; indiesky take note! #atmosphereconf

So many good science-oriented features on the upcoming Lea browser, presented at #ATsciemce by @mariaa.bsky.social. #Atmosphereconf.

@mariaa.bsky.social is sharing her work on Lea, a social app for Researcher (built with @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social) #ATScience #AcademicSky

@mariaa.bsky.social showing Lea, an atproto/bsky power client. designed for scientists, but a bunch of features and ideas very relevant to other users and communities: rich verification signals, better notifs, mod features, feeds, etc!

The energy at #atscience is wild. @mariaa.bsky.social gave a wonderful talk about Lea, an AT network app for researchers. So so so inspired by the hope in the room right now. Rewilding in real time! @loriemerson.net, @mariafarrell.eurosky.social and @robin.berjon.com mentioned #atmosphereconf

Come hear Maria talk about Lea!

For remote folks, this our first @stream.place powered #AtmosphereConf streaming day! @atproto.science will be streamed 9am to 4pm PT Login to get access to screens at atmosphereconf.org/remote

"Science is trapped in a paper shaped box." Great opening quote for #atscience!

Meeting social media friends in the physical world is one of my favorite things :) Very inspired by everyone at this table!

I'll be at #atscience #atmosphereconf all day today! I'll be speaking at 10:15AM about Lea, a social app for researchers, plus a panel at 2PM. Please say hi and chat with me about online communities, AI/ML/NLP, custom feeds, verification, labelers, "community notes," scifi books and movies, etc.

I’ve been thinking of writing a long form piece about Tilly Norwood but I haven’t been able to find the time and I fear she will be forgotten by the time I get around to it so let’s just make it a thread. Remembering Tilly Norwood: a Eulogy 1/

Wish I could make it to #ATmosphereconf but instead, please come to a presentation by my student @leijiew.bsky.social, who will be talking about our interview study understanding experiences and needs of feed creators: atmosphereconf.org/event/VLerG2y

We have an exciting panel tomorrow @11am with @nickmvincent.bsky.social Laure Haak (@verime.coop) and Ellie DeSota (@metagov.bsky.social , SciOS)! The panel will explore how governance & sustainability challenges facing the broader atproto ecosystem are mirrored in its open science applications >

🚨Paper on AI & Copyright Courts have credited AI companies' claims that alignment prevents reproducing copyrighted data. What if finetuning on a simple writing task breaks it. Worse: tuning on just one author (e.g., Murakami) unlocks verbatim recall of 30+ other authors' books (up to 90%) (1/n)🧵

I'm on my way to Vancouver for #atscience #atmosphereconf! Social media can be different. The internet can be different. We don't have to accept what companies have constructed; we *do* have agency to build, hack, repair, nurture, grow, create! So excited to meet my bsky heroes and learn more!!

Led by @kennypeng.bsky.social, we've been working on a new implementation of an old vision, to go beyond "feeds" to "interconnected trails". Demo on Bluesky/ATProto posts over a week! www.skytrails.org

Introducing skytrails by @kennypeng.bsky.social, a way to browse posts across Bluesky! Follow trails to navigate the space of content/conversations here, and discover new interests beyond your usual feeds 🕸️ I'll talk more about it tomorrow in my talk at #atscience #atmosphereconf!

I wrote a blog post on my experience using AI for slide generation Basic idea: write your lecture notes first, then prompt the LLM to produce corresponding slides in reveal.js (h/t @chenhaotan.bsky.social). I'm picky about my slides but was happy with the results! alexanderhoyle.com/posts/ai-sli...

“When antidemocratic politics target universities, universities need more democracy, not less, to protect themselves. Recognize the collective bargaining rights of Colorado’s public university employees.” @campusworkers.bsky.social @aaup.org coloradosun.com/2026/03/26/o...

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We are happy to announce that “The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated AI Research” has been published in Nature! We shared a vision of an agent executing the entire machine learning research lifecycle. Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Blog: sakana.ai/ai-scientist... Thread 🧵