Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

chenhaotan.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social · 2h

Happening right now at #colm!

1

chenhaotan.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social · 7h

On my way to Montreal! Looking forward to meeting old and new friends!

Dang Nguyen @divingwithorcas.bsky.social · 7h

📣 Announcing our poster session at COLM 2025:

On the Effectiveness and Generalization of Race Representations for Debiasing High-Stakes Decisions

I will talk about biases in LLMs and how to mitigate them. Come say hi!

Poster #43, 4:30 PM

1 4

Reposted

Data Science Institute @dsi-uchicago.bsky.social · 1d

The Chicago Human+AI lab and the AI+Science Research Initiative are thrilled to announce the upcoming AI & Scientific Discovery online seminar!

This seminar explores how AI accelerates research, enables breakthroughs, and shapes the future of innovation across fields

More info 🔗 ⬇️

1 1 1

Reposted

Julia Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn2.bsky.social · 2d

I will be at #COLM2025 this week, and would love to connect with folks interested in applications (and critiques) of language modeling in social science research!

And join us for the NLP4Democracy workshop on Friday!

sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.e...

#NLP #NLProc #LLM #ComputationalSocialScience

NLP 4 Democracy - COLM 2025

sites.google.com

5 16

Reposted

Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s a #COLM2025 feed!

Pin it 📌 to follow along with the conference this week!

2 17 24

chenhaotan.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social · 2d

Excited that Jean Kossaifi will speak at AI & Scientific Discovery this week!

ai-scientific-discovery.github.io

1

chenhaotan.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social · 2d

Curious how well agentic scientists can push forward structural modeling!

chenhaotan.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social · 2d

Thank Lei Li for for giving a great talk at the inaugural AI & Scientific Discovery online seminar!

The analogy between language and molecule generation is interesting. Also, it is nice to see markov random field after a long exposure to LLM papers!

ai-scientific-discovery.github.io

1 1

chenhaotan.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social · 2d

@uchicagoci.bsky.social will be at #COLM2025. Say hi if you are around!

4

chenhaotan.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social · 5d

Starting in about an hour, you can watch it here:

www.youtube.com/@AIScientifi...

Or join our discord for zoom links: discord.gg/T2fVp54V

2 5

chenhaotan.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social · 6d

@ari-holtzman.bsky.social kicking off @uchicagoci.bsky.social seminar this year! Full house!

7

chenhaotan.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social · 8d

I have not checked/used X for 9 months. It certainly looks like a parallel universe over there. Have there been any good comparative studies?

2 2

chenhaotan.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social · 9d

Had no idea you are the CTO of ARR now! Thanks for the service!

1

Reposted

Freda Shi @fredashi.bsky.social · 9d

🚀 ACL ARR is looking for a Co-CTO to join me lead our amazing tech team and drive the future of our workflow. If you’re interested or know someone who might be, let’s connect!

RTs & recommendations appreciated.

ACL Rolling Review (ARR) @aclrollingreview.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 ARR is looking for a volunteer Co-CTO to help improve tech infrastructure!
🛠️ Preferred:
• 5+ years in NLP research
• Git, CLI tools, Python, and basic HTML
• 2-year role, overlapping with current Co-CTO
Interested? DM @fredashi.bsky.social or email [email protected]
#ARR #ACL #NLProc

1 3 2

chenhaotan.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social · 9d

Totally agree! Not sure fully automated AI scientist will be the most effective approach. That said, scientists will certainly be very different in the future.

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 10d

My skepticism of LLM-as-scientist stems from how imbalanced the literature is. Median paper is mildly negative result presented as positive, it's unclear how to RLHF on good hypothesis vs. bad hypothesis, etc. We barely know how to teach this skill, how can we RLHF it

1 2

chenhaotan.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social · 9d

Excited that we are having the first talk in AI & Scientific Discovery online seminar on Friday at 12pm ET/11am CT/9am PT by the awesome Lei Li from CMU!

🧪 Generative AI for Functional Protein Design🤖

#artificialintelligence #scientificdiscovery

ai-scientific-discovery.github.io

3 4

Reposted

David Bau @davidbau.bsky.social · 11d

Who is going to be at #COLM2025?

I want to draw your attention to a COLM paper by my student @sfeucht.bsky.social that has totally changed the way I think and teach about LLM representations. The work is worth knowing.

And you can meet Sheridan at COLM, Oct 7!
bsky.app/profile/sfe...

1 8 38

Reposted

Dang Nguyen @divingwithorcas.bsky.social · 12d

HR Simulator™: a game where you gaslight, deflect, and “let’s circle back” your way to victory.
Every email a boss fight, every “per my last message” a critical hit… or maybe you just overplayed your hand 🫠
Can you earn Enlightened Bureaucrat status?

(link below!)

2 5 4

chenhaotan.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social · 13d

It would be great to see you in the talks!

Juan Diego Rodriguez (@ COLM 2025) @juand-r.bsky.social · 13d

I’m looking forward to this!

chenhaotan.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social · 13d

🚀 We’re thrilled to announce the upcoming AI & Scientific Discovery online seminar! We have an amazing lineup of speakers.

This series will dive into how AI is accelerating research, enabling breakthroughs, and shaping the future of research across disciplines.

ai-scientific-discovery.github.io

1 1

chenhaotan.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social · 13d

You can join our discord for zoom link: discord.gg/pyxe22c37G

Join the AI & Scientific Discovery Discord Server!

Check out the AI & Scientific Discovery community on Discord - hang out with 9 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

discord.gg

1

chenhaotan.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social · 13d

We invite you to join the conversation and help shape the future of AI-driven science.

#ArtificialIntelligence #ScientificDiscovery #AI4Science

1 1

chenhaotan.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social · 13d

📅 Fridays, October 3 – December 12
🕒 11 am CT | 12 pm ET | 9 am PT
Whether you’re a scientist curious about the role of AI in your field, an AI researcher interested in scientific problems, or simply passionate about the future of discovery, this seminar will offer valuable insights and inspiration

1 1

chenhaotan.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social · 13d

🚀 We’re thrilled to announce the upcoming AI & Scientific Discovery online seminar! We have an amazing lineup of speakers.

This series will dive into how AI is accelerating research, enabling breakthroughs, and shaping the future of research across disciplines.

ai-scientific-discovery.github.io

1 15 23

chenhaotan.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social · 13d

We invite you to join the conversation and help shape the future of AI-driven science.

chenhaotan.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social · 13d

📅 Fridays, October 3 – December 12
🕒 11 am CT | 12 pm ET | 9 am PT

Whether you’re a scientist curious about the role of AI in your field, an AI researcher interested in scientific problems, or simply passionate about the future of discovery, this seminar will for you!

1