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Maxim Cherkashin

@mcherkashin.bsky.social

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Once did an experiment, and can't stop. Postdoc: sonicating things to help light get through them, photoacoustics, biomedical optics, Dad of 2 Takes in: coffee and music, outputs: questions

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Maxim Cherkashin @mcherkashin.bsky.social · 3d

Nice to finally see some inversion of the typical work Denglish!

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 3d

Oh FFS. Because what overburdened peer review systems really need is more noise between the reviewers & ACs. Yeah, that's the ticket.

aaai.org/aaai-launche...

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Screenshot of AAAI automated review announcement reading:

1. Supplementary First-Stage Reviews: LLM-generated reviews will be included as one component of the
initial review stage, providing an additional perspective alongside traditional human expert evaluations.
2. Discussion Summary Assistance: LLMs will assist the Senior Program Committee (SPC) members by
summarizing reviewer discussions, helping to highlight key points of consensus and disagreement among
human reviewers.

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Maxim Cherkashin @mcherkashin.bsky.social · 3d

Well, they need to play early adopters game as well, otherwise other communities may point fingers and not use their results!

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 4d

The future of peer review is here.

Introducing Nature Instant!

We've automated rejection so you can get disappointed faster. Because why wait 6 months for reviewer 2 when you can get roasted by an #AI in seconds?

Here is how it works.

#AI4Science #PeerReview #FictionScience #FiSci #AAAI #ScAISci

Showing a fictitious system for submitting manuscripts called "Nature Instant" showing bot choices for authors to choose from as initial AI-based peer reviewers. The bots are trained on real human reviewer data.

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Maxim Cherkashin @mcherkashin.bsky.social · 3d

If on social media we're in a lull,

Means our lives are other-wise full?

(hopefully with good reasons)

Maxim Cherkashin @mcherkashin.bsky.social · 3d

*very = we're

Maxim Cherkashin @mcherkashin.bsky.social · 3d

It seems very in a bit of low of activity here, and Photonics feed recently is mainly announcements💡

Hey, forces of light, how are you all coping?

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Maxim Cherkashin @mcherkashin.bsky.social · 26d

This just rounds it up, and one can read this thread from the beginning :)

Pigments absorb part of the spectrum. Titanium dioxide does not, so can't be called a pigment. Different physics at play, different naming

Maxim Cherkashin @mcherkashin.bsky.social · Aug 30

Wait, do you have a reference?
Shall I expect I wont be able to see 780 nm anymore?

Maxim Cherkashin @mcherkashin.bsky.social · Aug 21

Looks like a perfect opportunity to explain what is going on and highlight your contributions

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Maxim Cherkashin @mcherkashin.bsky.social · Aug 21

Cue bluetorial incoming?

Maxim Cherkashin @mcherkashin.bsky.social · Jul 11

🎶 Imaging all the people
Sharing all the world 🎵

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one!
😉

Maxim Cherkashin @mcherkashin.bsky.social · Jul 8

She's great

Maxim Cherkashin @mcherkashin.bsky.social · Jun 27

Planmäßige Zugtrennung aber außergewöhnlich im Köln

Maxim Cherkashin @mcherkashin.bsky.social · Jun 26

OK, gonna look around :) thanks!
🔦🔍👁️👁️

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Matthis @ Real Scientists DE @realscientists.de · Jun 22

Ich mag meinen Beruf echt gerne, aber ist natürlich nicht alles Friede Freude Eierkuchen, mit vielen strukturellen Problemen.

zB geht die Chance in der Wissenschaft beschäftigt zu bleiben mit dem Alter rapide bergab. #IchBinHanna

www.datenportal.bmbf.de/portal/de/gr...

Hauptberufliches wissenschaftliches und künstlerisches Personal nach Alter, höchstem Hochschulabschluss und Beschäftigungsart

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Maxim Cherkashin @mcherkashin.bsky.social · Jun 26

Dieser wissenschaftliche Nachwuchs ist etwas rausegewachsen
#IchbinHanna

Mittel-30-jährige Mann der nicht mehr im eine Hochstuhl passt und drauf sitzt

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Maxim Cherkashin @mcherkashin.bsky.social · Jun 26

@rachelpcwon.bsky.social 👋 any chance you or any of your colleagues are here in Munich?

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Maxim Cherkashin @mcherkashin.bsky.social · Jun 22

hey photonics people 💡🔬, is anyone in Munich next week?
@optica.org @spie.org

Screenshot of a map segment with icon of the train on the tracks, in the corner current speed is shown: 245.8 km/h

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Maxim Cherkashin @mcherkashin.bsky.social · Jun 18

Laser emoji is dearly needed!
So far best we got is 🔦

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Matthis @ Real Scientists DE @realscientists.de · Jun 18

Sieht aus wie eine Koralle, aber es ist tatsächlich eine Gehirnzelle, ein Neuron. Das ist eine 3D-gedruckte Purkinje-Zelle, die man im Kleinhirn einer Ratte gefunden hat.

(natürlich ist die in Wirklichkeit kleiner und nicht blau 🙂)

Eine Hand hält ein filigranes, leuchtend blaues, 3D-gedrucktes Purkinje Neuron mit verzweigten Dendriten.

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Maxim Cherkashin @mcherkashin.bsky.social · Jun 10

Strikes can be of various kinds. I think, UK HEI done a marking strike, which means students won't get grades, so no degrees until this is resolved, which makes pressure at Unis.
Everything is so entangled though, not sure there's any loose end to HEI's knot which one can pull

Maxim Cherkashin @mcherkashin.bsky.social · Jun 7

900 ml Milch, 850g Reis

Maxim Cherkashin @mcherkashin.bsky.social · Jun 7

Oh, finally, a good duration for a postdoc contract

Dr. Stefan Schulreich @sschulreich.bsky.social · Jun 7

Postdoc Position 30h, 10 years(!) at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Science Outreach and Pandemic Preparedness @meduniwien.ac.at in Vienna!
#ScienceEducation #PsychJobs

soap.lbg.ac.at/news/open-po...

Open Position Post-Doc (m/f/d) Science Outreach and Science Education – LBI for Science Outreach and Pandemic Preparedness at the Medical University of Vienna

LBI for Science Outreach and Pandemic Preparedness at the Medical University of Vienna

soap.lbg.ac.at

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