Hi everyone, If you like @scikit-learn.org, how about upvoting my request to add it to the LinuxFoundation insight board: github.com/linuxfoundat... Thanks 🧡💙

Really interesting research showing that while ultra-specialization in a single discipline might lead to better results early in one’s career, multi-discipline training and practice pays off big time in the long run. This applies to a range of professions from scientists to athletes and more

Have you got a PhD in Statistics (or related field) and experience in Statistical Consulting? A continuing position at the Australian National University is now open 🇦🇺🦘🐨. Would love to get an #rstats person if possible ☺️ Apply by 18 Jan 👉 jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/course-... #statssky #statsky

To anyone who may have been present at my talk today in which I intimated that you can just, you know, do this: you can just, you know, do this.

was at an event on AI for science yesterday, a panel discussion here at NeurIPS. The panelists discussed how they plan to replace humans at all levels in the scientific process. So I stood up and protested that what they are doing is evil. Full post: togelius.blogspot.com/2025/12/plea...

I'm preparing for a PhD forum panel discussion at #AJCAI, and recalling the nice guide for ML conferencing that @khimya.bsky.social and I wrote for #AISTATS in 2025. virtual.aistats.org/Conferences/...

I'm preparing for a PhD forum panel discussion at #AJCAI, and recalling the nice guide for ML conferencing that @khimya.bsky.social and I wrote for #AISTATS in 2025. virtual.aistats.org/Conferences/...

I write about some interesting developments in the ATmosphere (and the broader universe of decentralised and federated social media). Very intrigued by #Eurosky, especially the idea of shared moderation infrastructure. I will be following (and hopefully writing about!) this with a lot of interest.

The Mathematics of Artificial Intelligence: In this introductory and highly subjective survey, aimed at a general mathematical audience, I showcase some key theoretical concepts underlying recent advancements in machine learning. arxiv.org/abs/2501.10465

If you like our @deisenroth.bsky.social #mathematics for #machinelearning textbook, and want a hard copy, Cambridge is providing a 30% discount for #NeurIPS2025. Of course you can buy other books, and also download the PDF from: mml-book.com www.cambridge.org/us/universit... Discount code: 107890

🚨 JUST PUBLISHED: CARBON BRIEF’S #COP30 SUMMARY 🚨 It's an EPIC 20,000 words of top-notch, plain-english reporting… –Global mutirão –Adaptation finance –Fossil-fuel roadmap –China +Much more Very proud of team CB for getting this out so fast www.carbonbrief.org/...

Your 40-year-old gas furnace stops working on the coldest day of the year. (Narrator: it always happens on the coldest day of the year.)

Je pense que vous allez le voir beaucoup passer aujourd'hui. Le dernier @xkcd.com est incroyable 😭 xkcd.com/3172/

Let’s make it Trans Joy Tuesday again! For the trans people out there, please share something happy going on with you to offset all the bad stuff. Whether it’s big or small, trans related or not, please share your joy!

Gender-affirming care saves lives

I’m pleased to share the Second Key Update to the International AI Safety Report, which outlines how AI developers, researchers, and policymakers are approaching technical risk management for general-purpose AI systems. (1/6)

💥 New publication out on the alignment of AI & authoritarianism 💥 We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Thought-provoking piece from @alankohler.bsky.social including quoting @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Being Interdisciplinary feels like practicing non-attachment. Different disciplines come in & out of focus in waves, each a whole world. Engaging with philosophy gives access to different ontologies than engaging in neuroscience or AI. This helps us evaluate each field from within & outside itself.

This nicely written story with a great reveal in the middle is a good summary of the discussion about costs of publishing. There is no reason for articles to be expensive, other than profit to the publisher. https://archive.blogs.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/03/06/an-efficient-journal/

"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all." My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away. Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

This is a lovely article. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I interviewed 108 ML researchers. They had a lot to say about this! Title: Lessons learned from machine learning researchers about the terms “artificial intelligence” and “machine learning.” compstudiesjournal.com/wp-content/u...

My new international family- Honoured to be a recipient of the prestigious Eric and Wendy Schmidt awards for Excellence in Science Communications (@schmidtsciences). This means so much to me as an early career scientist, thank you. @ericschmidt @SciCommAwards #scicomm

My paper "Examining the Interface Design of Tidyverse" is now published in ANZJS. This paper calls attention to the importance of UI/UX principles & approaches to statisiticians and #rstats developers. Many thanks to reviewers who made this paper better! 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

Rowboat A lightning fast tool for understanding large datasets rowboat.net/product/ "Open one million rows of data in one second. Your data stays private in any browser or on your desktop. No code or complex queries are needed to visualize your data"

Looking forward to next week as we kickstart the Biometrics conference! We’ve also got an explicit printout of the Pac-Man rule to make it a welcome and inclusive event 🤗 #BIBC2025

Are you a fan of Python, geological data and digital twins? 🐍🪨🌐 Apply to join us in the Earth Surface Process Modelling section at @gfz.bsky.social as a scientific programmer! Deadline is 14th December

More schools closed in the ACT tomorrow than open. Comms from ACT education are appalling www.act.gov.au/education-an...

I am so pleased to have been invited to participate in a cross disciplinary team that spans technical machine learning experts as well as the breadth of humanities and social sciences. And the best part is that we studied ourselves. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The paper was accepted for publication in Computo 🎉 As this is a relatively young journal, I want to share: Computo is the open access journal of the SFDS (French Statistical Society), promoting open source statistical software. The reviewing process was very smooth and helpful! computo-journal.org

This Nature retrospective is quite interesting. To me, the only solution to the credit assignment problem is obvious: stop believing a single person is responsible for every big discovery. It's an artifact of our monkey brain requiring a face for storage, not the reality of how knowledge progresses.

Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

Life situations are bleak right now for a lot of people. In tech, the "Venn Diagram" of (1) positive work and (2) making enough money to support your family is increasingly non-overlapping. We all do what we can. This image has been living in my mind rent-free for months.

Thread: Each week I run a simulation of Australia’s main electricity grid using rescaled generation data to show that it can get very close to 100% renewable electricity with 24GW/120GWh of storage (5 hrs at av demand) Results: Last week: 100.0% RE Last 219 weeks: 98.6% RE (1/5)

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.

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...

I wrote about Zohran’s victory. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'm running a book giveaway! #hopepunk #solarpunk #cyberpunk #steampunk SIGNED PAPERBACKS (US only) 1 - Donate to your local food bank (min $10)! 2 - submit receipt here: forms.gle/BMB1dnrQ3cuh... First-come, first-served! See 🧵for audiobook code giveaway + my spicy romance books! #booksky #SNAP

You can find it here: www.jmlr.org/history.html

The JMLR story and operating model should be widely known in academia as a clear success story for full open access. I have friends in the humanities and pure sciences that have no clue this is even possible

After Elsevier cut off the tap for the journal Water Resources and Economics in 2024, the research is flowing again, with the launch of the independent new journal, Journal of Water Economics. Edited by the same team, backed by U. Waterloo. #Econsky 😃 openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/jo...

So a recent Veritasium video on natural selection explains kin selection and does the unavoidable thing of saying that a parent shares "half of its genes with the child". This is wrong, because for any 2 humans, we share almost all of our genes. We share more than 95% with chimpanzees ffs. >>

We can use active generation to propose better enzymes, which we then validated experimentally. It is really nice when a cross-disciplinary international collaboration pays off, in this case with a practical industry partner. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Remarkable, but important to notice that the change only applies to review/survey and position papers

Ok, I finally got my own domain (lowd.cc), set up a semi-modern site using Hugo and claimed my BlueSky handle. I used GPT-5 Codex for this too. It did ok at translating my content from static html to Hugo .md and .yaml, but debugging it was still a pain.

Working on the interface of Machine Learning with Law, Philosophy, Ethics, or Social Science? Come join our new Lab for Norms and Practices in Machine Learning for Science. uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2

UniProt is changing its reference proteomes resource. Reference proteomes will remain in UniProtKB, while others will move to UniParc. Read more about these changes: www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u... 🧬 🖥️ Uniprot is a collaboration between EMBL-EBI, @sib.swiss & the Protein Information Resource.

In a future where the rich kids are being raised with a digital Cyrano beside them to sweet-talk their way into the best jobs, four friends train together for a battle to prove that other kinds of minds might still have the edge. My new story “Understudies” in Clarkesworld.

Registration for NeurIPS Mexico is open to all attendees, now that we have finished giving priority to authors. We can't wait to see you there! neurips.cc/Conferences/...