Three scientists said no to you-know-who and were featured in the news (you may, somehow, be able to picture them). Nice. Good judgement.
But it's hard not to be cynical about this whole situation. (I'm resisting... resisting...)
Here’s a full draft of the upcoming second edition of my “Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction”: socviz.co
This video makes me so happy! She’s back!
youtube.com/watch?v=B3m3...
If you're unsure how to make your LaTeX-compiled PDFs (e.g., CV) accessible (compliant to the ADA requirements), this post may be useful.
yyahn.com/wiki/Accessi...
tl;dr: add metadata and use LuaLaTeX
NYU is hiring two postdocs at the Center for Social Media, AI & Politics:
csmapnyu.org/jobs
And a grant manager in Sociology with the Social Science Research Hub:
uscareers-nyu.icims.com/jobs/15327/g...
I'm part of both groups--please share with anyone who is interested!
I created a tool, snaketail, a snakemake wrapper that fixes workflow and restarts itself automatically when failed.
The idea—feeding the tail (error log) to the head (system input) to self-heal—has practical values to create robust automation system!
skojaku.github.io/snaketail.html
Ah.. no worries! Yes, that's frustrating part that to fix anything, you need to fix other things, and then to fix any of those other things, you need to fix yet other things, ...
But I do feel that having fire dept have some smaller fire engines and allow narrow streets can be an important step
I think the video I linked was useful for me on that front... I think it's primarily a historical legacy of big fire engines becoming the standard while the highway engineering standards become the way cities design their streets too? www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2dH...
yeah a great headline 😂
It will be 3/4 6pm at CitySpace (100 5th St NE)!
www.charlottesville.gov/m/newsflash/...
👀
www.404media.co/openai-furio...
futurism.com/future-socie...
Excited to join the panel "Innovation, Production, and Supply Chains in Critical Technologies" at CMU moderated by @andygarin.bsky.social and Erica Fuchs this Wednesday, 2/26 at 2pm! If you're in Pittsburgh, come say hi!
www.cs.cmu.edu/calendar/197...
I'll look forward to the discussions sparked by this!
First blogpost of my cofounder post-Delhi on the deafening silence of public/political sphere as we come closer to another industrial revolution. anastasiastasenko.substack.com/p/the-countr...
Using detailed address-level microdata, we trace movement chains originating with the initial residents of The Central and document three main findings. First, we show the building generated a substantial number of local vacancies. We identify 180 specific addresses that became vacant because of moves into The Central. Scaling to account for data coverage suggests the new tower induced more than 500 local vacancies in the three years after construction, by setting off chains of moves. Second, while The Central units were expensive on a per-square-foot basis, the homes vacated by movers were significantly cheaper. Homes left behind by those moving into The Central were about 40% less expensive. Unlike much of the prior literature, which track the changing neighborhood characteristics of movers
Even more evidence that building new housing decreases rents: Researchers tracked the residents of a newly built luxury condo building and found that they freed up less expensive apartments nearby.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Together with @mrjimmyblack.com (and Claude) we developed a tool that helps detecting hallucinated references in academic papers! This evolved from a simple python script into a full system written in Rust to quickly go through thousands of citations. Check it out!
github.com/gianlucasb/h...
the deadline to submit to the WiNS satellite & mentorship program at @netsciconf.bsky.social is this friday!!
Replacing a car with an e-bike can _literally_ make you a millionaire.
I wrote about a back-of-the-envelope math: a household can save ~$100k in just 5 years by going car-light. If this difference is invested over several decades, that can become $1M+
yyahn.com/wiki/Cost%20...
We've alllllmost gotten all the Jan26 ARR reviews in, but I'm still trying to track down new emergency reviewers for papers on the following topics:
1) agents
2) jailbreaking
3) coding
4) RL
5) reasoning
6) LLM for finance
7) AMR
8) alignment
If you can review any (in next 24-48h) please DM me 🙏🙏🙏
A very good visual explanation of colon cancer risk.
Happy to share our new paper published in PNAS!
Using epigenetic clocks and egocentric network data, we find each additional "hassler" in your close social network is associated with ~9 months of extra biological age and 1.5% faster pace of aging.
A common but tedious task is to file a paper into my personal knowledge base (wiki/obsidian vault/whatever). just realized that this is a perfect task for subagent + skill. It can (1) use OpenAlex etc to obtain its metadata, (2) search and link keywords and other related papers. Seems to work well!
Revision now posted on the ArXiv! We collated and cleaned EVEN MORE DATA. 39M accounts, 365K starter packs, and 2.4B following relationships. All accounts, follows, and starter packs now have timestamps! Check it out at arxiv.org/abs/2505.11608.
Dozens of researchers will move to France from US following high-profile bid to lure talent. Large proportion worked at Columbia University, which had its grants cut and frozen by the administration of US President Donald Trump. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Friendly reminder: the 2026 Applied Machine Learning Conference is still accepting abstracts for talks and workshops. Visit the call for proposals page for details! I hope to see you here in Charlottesville this April!
OpenAI fired a female employee for sexual discrimination because she raised questions about the company's pivot toward automated erotica engagement slop
C'ville folks! Local luminary and lender of e-bikes Josh Carp created this very cool site, which combines videos of public meetings with searchable, linkable transcripts. meetings.cvilledata.org/meetings
Excited for the Networks of Science of Science satellite at NetSCI 2026 this year in Boston!
netscisci.github.io
Be sure to submit by March 4th!
events.humanitix.com/livable-cvil...
Wow you can't miss this conversation @thewaroncars.bsky.social + @jamellebouie.net for Charlottesville! 😆
Thanks you @livablecville.bsky.social! This is awesome!
NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress.
“She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me.
But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.
