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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · Feb 5

The AI Agent Index: the first public database to document information about currently deployed agentic AI systems.

aiagentindex.mit.edu

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · Jan 31

I've just submitted this picture of the triangle of Mars, Pollux, and Castor to Astronomy Now magazine. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

Planet Mars looking orange and bright below centre. Star Pollux to its left with the star Castor above. Numerous other star dots on a dark background.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jan 28

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.

“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion

The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Michael Baym @baym.lol · Jan 28

If you’re at a European institution and are looking to poach American scientists, this would be a very good week to do it

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · Jan 28

Wii love you 💜

A low-res, slightly grainy mid 2000s camera phone photo of a white Wii stood next to a boxy silver crt TV with a remote control next to it

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Reshmi Ghosh @reshmighosh.bsky.social · Jan 24

Hello! I can’t make it today - but will you be organizing more events? I would love to join the community

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AC Vasquez - 安娜 @criskotsu.bsky.social · Jan 4

AMOC is a large-scale ocean current system that transports warm surface water northward and cold, dense deep seated water southward. This circulation is driven by differences in water temperature and salinity, further regulating heat distribution, ocean nutrient cycling and atmospheric conditions 🌊🧪

Weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation abyssal limb in the North Atlantic - Nature Geoscience

Mooring observations and hydrographic data suggest the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation abyssal limb has weakened over the past two decades in the North Atlantic, most likely due to reduced...

www.nature.com

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Reshmi Ghosh @reshmighosh.bsky.social · Dec 28

H1B is for all countries - I am not sure how you are targetting only individuals from one country? Also most Indians I know are in tech - I don’t see the correlation between the screenshot you posted (with H1b salaries of cooks) and them being Indians? How are you establishing that relationship?

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · Dec 25

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · Dec 25

An illustrated guide to never learning anything

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Eugene Yan @eugeneyan.com · Dec 24

hmm i feel attacked

deciding between "actually taking some time off" and "work on personal projects and call it relaxing"

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Reshmi Ghosh @reshmighosh.bsky.social · Dec 22

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Microsoft Forms

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Reshmi Ghosh @reshmighosh.bsky.social · Dec 22

📢calling for interested paper reviewers

If you have published work in ML automation, and make systems more effective, and are interested in taking on reviewer load in the coming months - please fill up the form below (attached in comments). We will contact you based on the load and fit.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Dec 16

Phase Transition xkcd.com/3025

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Javier Rando @javirandor.com · Dec 14

Tomorrow @jakublucki.bsky.social will be presenting the BEST TECHNICAL PAPER at the SoLaR workshop at NeurIPS. Come check our poster and his oral presentation!

Jakub Łucki @jakublucki.bsky.social · Dec 6

Our paper on how unlearning fails to remove hazardous knowledge from LLM weights received 🏆 Best Paper 🏆 award at SoLaR @ NeurIPS!

Join my oral presentation on Saturday at 4:30 pm to learn more.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · Dec 14

Hey there. Here is a paper I wrote on autonomous agents that autonomously navigate the desktop user interfaces.

“Towards Automated Exploration of Interactive Systems”

Sorry it’s not on arXiv right now. Here’s the PDF: faculty.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/...

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City of Boston @boston.gov · Dec 12

We've launched an official City of Boston starter pack to make it easy to follow City departments. This starter pack will stay up to date as more teams join the Bluesky community. Give them a follow!

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · Dec 13

An eye for an eye, and we all go blind.

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Reshmi Ghosh @reshmighosh.bsky.social · Dec 10

Working on finding alignment gaps in the latest AI models? Do you have applications that suggest LLMs/MMLMs are doing better than human workers? Have you proved the need to work on aligning AI to humans?

Yes? If you are working on alignment research-consider submitting a paper to our workshop@ICLR

Hua Shen✨ @huashen.bsky.social · Dec 9

🚀 Are you passionate about #Alignment Research? Exciting news! Join us at the ICLR 2025 Workshop on 👫<>🤖Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment!

🦋 We're inviting researchers in AI, HCI, NLP, Speech, Vision, Social Science, and beyond domains to submit their work on alignment-related topics!

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ResearchTrend.AI Daily @researchtrend.ai · Nov 26

(3) A Survey on LLM-as-a-Judge
(4) Predicting Emergent Capabilities by Finetuning
(5) SAGEval: The frontiers of Satisfactory Agent based NLG Evaluation for reference-free open-ended text
(6) CS-Eval: A Comprehensive Large Language Model Benchmark for CyberSecurity

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City of Boston @boston.gov · Nov 27

Hey Boston, we’re here!

City teams are building accounts and making moves to make Bluesky our home.

Stay tuned. In the meantime, you can follow a few of our first official accounts: @boston-streets.bsky.social, @bostonparks.bsky.social, and @healthyboston.bsky.social.

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City of Somerville @cityofsomerville.bsky.social · Dec 3

(1/4) The City is placing toy and gift donation collection boxes at City buildings, libraries, and firehouses from Tuesday, December 3, through Wednesday, December 18, at 4:30 p.m. Donations will be accepted at the following Somerville City buildings, libraries, and Firehouses:🧵

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Bluesky @bsky.app · Nov 29

We could go on about how we welcome publishers, we don't demote links, we encourage independent developers to build apps and extensions on top of Bluesky's network.... but instead, we'll show you.

All thanks to the incredible community here! 🦋

The Engagement Is Better on Bluesky - Bluesky

Bluesky is the lobby to the open web. Find and build your community here.

bsky.social

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · Nov 28

I’m thankful for the top ten scientific developments that improve health:

Vaccines
Antibiotics & antimicrobials
Clean water, sanitation, & hygiene
Food safety & fortification innovations
Modern agriculture methods
Public health education campaigns

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mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social · Nov 26

You know how it’s awfully hard to verify the accuracy & correctness of outputs in RAG scenarios? Want to work as a PhD research intern to create & test different UIs that make this easier? Contact me.

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Jeremiah Lowin @jlowin.dev · Nov 25

Interviewer: what's your greatest strength?

Me: i have exceptional hindsight

Interviewer: that doesn't really help us

Me: yes, i see that now

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