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🎉 We’re excited to announce the Keynote Speakers for #UAI2026 — three researchers shaping the future of causal learning, large-scale ML, and responsible AI. 👇

White House pitches renaming Penn Station as Trump Station to unlock Gateway tunnel funding Riders at the dreary rail hub said they just wanted to see transit improvements continue.

New Yorkers really believed, until now, that Penn Station could not possibly get any worse

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Highly recommend reading the entire excerpt, linked below, from Peter Drucker's autobiography -- on some different rationalizations for collaborating with an evil regime

Thanks for the re-post @gregggonsalves.bsky.social -- this is from a while ago but things are much much worse now, so still relevant, I think.

This whole thread is recommended reading!

Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say More than a hundred protesters and observers have gathered near E. 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue.

Witnesses say a man was shot by a federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning. The Minnesota Star Tribune is on the scene:
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So sorry.

Might be on the scary* side but two really thorough papers on this topic:

proceedings.mlr.press/v119/nabi20a...
and
arxiv.org/abs/2210.05558

*the scariness is just notation, really!

thank you, *somebody* gets me

Proposed* official UAI2026 conference taglines:

"UAI2026: gotta be crazy to be certain about AI these days"

"UAI: 2 uncertain 2 AI"

"I went to UAI2026 and all I got was this lousy uncertainty"

Vote for your fav or propose your own!

www.auai.org/uai2026/

(*by me, under consideration by no one)

Excited to be serving as Program co-Chair of UAI 2026 with Ema Perkovic! We are busy working on facilitating an excellent program.

In my unbiased opinion UAI is an ideal venue at the intersection of stats & CS: good size, good science, good vibes.

Please submit your work!

If this is how millennial professors of philosophy are teaching logic to gen Z these days, we're in real trouble

US Latinos mobilize to monitor – and improve – local air quality: ‘We have to fix it’ As Latino communities ramp up air quality monitoring, Trump’s EPA moves to weaken pollution regulations

Inspiring to see communities doing both the science and advocacy needed to protect their neighborhoods, as the federal government rolls back environmental regulations

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

by @thaliajuarez.bsky.social

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Mediation Analysis in the Presence of Sample Selection Bias with an Application to Disparities in Liver Transplantation Listing The study of disparities in the liver transplantation process may focus on quantifying causal effects, particularly the average, direct, or indirect effects of various social determinants of health on...

In case you want to take a break from ~everything else going on~ to read a lil bit about causal mediation analysis, sample selection bias, and disparities in liver transplantation decisions... here's a new paper: arxiv.org/abs/2509.01969

Real “is there a doctor on this plane??” moment

Ooof can't believe I didn't catch that error on edit, my bad!

If a Leverhulme prize-winning philosopher calls it "philosophy" on the social constructionist account of "what is philosophy"...

I wrote something about statistics under authoritarianism

Authors briefly mention tetrad constraints but then move on to discuss goodness-of-fit tests (not reliable for this) and a more informal "plausibility" considerations rather than formal model search procedures with consistency guarantees

Curious how you think this connects to the large literature on discovering latent causal models from data (eg www.jmlr.org/papers/volum...) or at least testing the causal status of a hypothesized model rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

In addition to the below I think this may be helpful: academic.oup.com/ectj/article...

Do you know any papers that make the case for this well? Bc I think it is an ill-advised idea in general

Mohan and Pearl (and Tian) give results for various special cases of m-DAG models, but this work outlines (part of) a general identification theory more broadly applicable. Also I would say there are some philosophical differences

Causal and Counterfactual Views of Missing Data Models It is often said that the fundamental problem of causal inference is a missing data problem -- the comparison of responses to two hypothetical treatment assignments is made difficult because for every...

Agree! I think the view is expressed nicely here: arxiv.org/abs/2210.05558

This paper I contributed to may be of interest to both public health folks and philosophers of science — we outline a view of how to understand and operationalize “intrinsic health” as distinct from “no disease”

(ffo of words like “emergence” and “operationalize”)

Zohran's victory is a glimmer of light in a very dark time <3

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