I have lost The Game.

Portland is replete with rich deposits of foliated kalkite, as the regime knows well.

Matt this is really funny.

Are you listening, Ignobel prize committee?

10/10 💀

Children are wonderful. However, there are situations in which parents must minimize time spent on an activity while maximizing a child’s enjoyment of it.

Here, we analyze the problem of a bedtime routine that involves playing CandyLand w a toddler who does not take kindly to losing... 👇

Wow. Less than six months after Misere Connect Four was solved [1], we now have a solution to Chess on Half the Board! 👏

→ bowaggoner.com/papers/2025/...

[1] arxiv.org/abs/2410.055...

The government shutdown interrupted CDC's disease updates, so Team Force of Infection spent our Saturday going to the websites of all 50 health departments to check on Covid-19, flu and RSV. caitlinrivers.substack.com/p/cdc-data-i...

This makes me so hopeful 🥹

Does anyone know of similar comparisons that focus on task-specific evals (like medical tasks)?

oh good grief

What is the impact of the HHS decision to no longer recommend COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy? In our new research letter in @jamapediatrics.com, we provide estimates on the number of infant hospitalizations under different vaccine scenarios here. @mathewkiang.com, @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social

I'm thrilled to be leading, along with AJ Prussin II, an ARPA-H BREATHE team that will integrate new biosensors, risk assessment software, and engineering controls to bring clean and healthy indoor air to more buildings.

arpah.gov/news-and-eve...

Very cool. I can't wait to read about the findings coming out of this effort.

Message passing for epidemiological interventions on networks with loops
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21596

Influenza A virus RNA found in airborne particles from pigs across a range of particle sizes. For reference a 10 micron particle takes ~8 minutes to settle to the ground from a height of 5 feet. That's plenty of time for it to drift around and be inhaled by others.

Effective altruists propped up a bunch of meta scientists being fast and loose with methods and now we have this society wide myth that sciences biggest challenge are the scientists themselves, and they can solve it by filling out a pdf and uploading a csv.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Truly impressive number of birds migrating tonight. More than 800 MILLION birds up in the air right now❗ #BirdMigration

Just wow

Final week to apply for the 2026 SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships

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Deadline: Oct 1, 2025

Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

Come and work with us! Review of candidates will begin ~1 October with rolling consideration thereafter. If you are unable to apply early, contact the search committee chair (me) to discuss timelines.

Official data is in today, and America set a new record-high for solar power in July, with generation up 30% compared to last year!

If you're going to call this a meme, I'm going to need to see text over an image, Tiago! Receipts!

🚨 New paper out in PLOS Computational Biology! 🚨

We're excited to share our new paper, serojump, a new probabilistic framework and R package for inferring infections and antibody kinetics from longitudinal serological data.

📄 Full paper: tinyurl.com/re7du3t2
R package: seroanalytics.org/serojump

This is such a delight and I'm so far from being done. Thanks for posting.

Such a useful framing (which I first heard from @alexanderhoyle.bsky.social). The prompt is ultimately just a bunch of numbers that we input to the model, and why we should prefer one set of numbers over another set is hard to answer, as we can’t search the space the way we normally would in ML.