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Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 3d

👋🏽 Cville area peeps! Join us at the Livable Cville drop-in social at Ix Park Brazos Tacos from 5PM to 7PM+ at Ix Park Brazos Tacos. If it's your first time, your umpteenth time, or anywhere else in between, you are welcome!

Cheers. Livable Cville Meetup! Thursday, October 9, 5-7pm at Brazos Tacos Ix Art Park, 923 2nd St SE

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 4d

Resolution of the University of Virginia Faculty Senate (thus not institutional policy and entirely non-binding, but still inspirational):

Resolution Opposing the
"Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education"
WHEREAS the United States Secretary of Education has requested that the University of Virginia enter into a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education", and WHEREAS the Compact contains provisions antithetical to the mission and traditions of the University, and
WHEREAS the Compact contains provisions which endanger the independence and integrity of the University, and
WHEREAS the compact likely violates state and federal law, and infringes upon the constitutional rights of members of the University community, and WHEREAS the University of Virginia exemplifies American academic values of the highest standard, including universal right to free speech and the cultivation of academic freedom; therefore
BE IT RESOLVED that the Faculty Senate of the University of Virginia firmly opposes this Compact as written and calls upon Interim President Mahoney and the Board of Visitors to also reject this Compact outright as well as any similar proposal compromising the mission, values, and independence of the University.
Feature Date:
Friday, October 3, 2025

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Caitlin Rivers @cmyeaton.bsky.social · 4d

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...

CDC data interrupted, so we went state by state

A look at Covid-19, flu and RSV trends in each state

caitlinrivers.substack.com

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 4d

This makes me so hopeful 🥹

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

Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 4d

A ton of attention over the years goes to plots comparing open to closed models.
The real trend that matters for AI impacts on society is the gap between closed frontier models and local consumer models.
Local models passing major milestones will have major repercussions.
buff.ly/ccMJydQ

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 5d

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at · 9d

“Is 90% of code going to be written by AI? I don’t know. What I do know is, that for me, on this project, the answer is already yes.” lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/9/29/90...

90%

AI is writing 90% of the code I was in charge of

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Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · 11d

It took me 2 minutes to write about how this proposed rule would eliminate all foreign PhD students, who are a critical part of US science and technology, and drive US innovation and economic growth

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 11d

Comment period ends on Monday for a proposed rule change that would terminate student visas after 4 years. It also puts limits on exchange visitors and reps of foreign media, and shortens the length of time at the end of the visa from 60 days to 30 days.

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media

Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...

www.federalregister.gov

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Alexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social · 11d

And new paper out: Pleias 1.0: the First Family of Language Models Trained on Fully Open Data

How we train an open everything model on a new pretraining environment with releasable data (Common Corpus) with an open source framework (Nanotron from HuggingFace).

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social · 14d

c-ville.com/car-light-fa... A nice article by @nathanalderman.com! It's awesome to see so many people biking in Charlottesville *despite of* pretty terrible infrastructure (@cvillecityhall.bsky.social 👀)

It reminds me of an old tweet that I can't agree more.

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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 15d

As the seasons change, you might be wondering about biking in different weather conditions.

E-Bike Dad and Livable Cville member @yyahn.bsky.social wrote a very nice guide to biking in the cold weather months.

Check it out! yyahn.com/wiki/Bike/Wi...

Winter cycling - YY Ahn

yyahn.com

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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 16d

The Week Without Driving starts a week from today!

For Charlottesville to have a transportation system that works for everyone, we need a collective vision that includes community members who cannot drive.

#WeekWithoutDriving seeks to expand that vision.

Livablecville.org/WeekWithoutDriving

WEEKWITHOUTDRIVING
September 29-October 5, 2025
PUBLIC TRANSIT • WALKING • BIKING
TAKE THE WEEK WITHOUT DRIVING CHALLENGE!

What would a Week Without Driving look like?

The Week Without Driving is a chance to see Charlottesville through the eyes of neighbors who already rely on walking, biking, and transit. Exploring these transportation options highlights both the connections they create and the gaps we need to address as a community.
Public transit and other connected mobility choices strengthen neighborhoods, bring people together, and open doors to opportunity. Together we can build a system that works for every age, ability, and income.
#WeekWithoutDriving
Livablecville.org/WeekWithoutDriving

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The Verge @theverge.com · 16d

Why your next car should be an electric cargo bike

Rewiring cities for more human-centric transportation

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YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social · 16d

This looks fun! "Archetypometrics, a Pragmateia"from @peterdodds.bsky.social @mikaelafudolig.bsky.social @chrisdanforth.bsky.social et al.

You can download a 1,090 page-long 1.6GB PDF(!) here:
zenodo.org/records/1712...

Archetypometrics, a Pragmateia: Empirical Determination of the Fundamental Archetypes of Fictional Characters

Note: The paper must be downloaded and viewed within a good quality PDF viewer on a laptop or desktop. Logline: 1. Character-centric storytelling is an essential part of how cultures store and share ...

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YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social · 16d

Not yet! 😬

YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social · 17d

Hoboken cut traffic deaths to zero, thanks in part to paint & posts. So what’s the excuse? "we'd rather kill pedestrians than remove a parking spot”? “we’d rather kill pedestrians than slow traffic"?

This should be the bare minimum every city does. (@cvillecityhall.bsky.social 👀)

Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 17d

Doing the Hoboken intersection daylighting tour today. It's actually embarrassing that Seattle isn't doing this at the same scale.

Intersection bulb out on a one lane street with two parking lanes

Family with kid in stroller crossing street

Someone on a bike approaching a daylighted intersection

Wide daylighted intersection near a park

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Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 17d

Hey folks, have you heard about #WeekWithoutDriving? Please join me for the local Cville area experience. Here's a link for more information and to signup: livablecville.org/weekwithoutd...

Week without driving from september 29 to october 5, 2025. public transit, walking, biking, take the week without driving challenge. For more information visit Livablecville.org/WeekWithoutDriving

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · Aug 21

The 2025-2026 #academic job market season is upon us.

Here are some resources and #job postings for #faculty and #postdoc positions for those in Information/Computer/Social Sciences, and related fields.

Will update the list as more #jobs are posted.

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#AcademicChatter

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YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social · 22d

Indeed! I’m curious whether it will be possible to pinpoint what aspects of the ideas make them sound better but not fan out well…

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YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social · 22d

This study not only asks human experts to score AI- and human-generated ideas, but also to *execute* those ideas (a nice setup!)

AI-generated research ideas *sounded* better (high estimated effectiveness score) but their score drops below human ideas after the execution.

arxiv.org/abs/2506.20803

The Ideation-Execution Gap: Execution Outcomes of LLM-Generated versus Human Research Ideas

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in accelerating the scientific research pipeline. A key capability for this process is the ability to generate novel research ideas, and prior studies h...

arxiv.org

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YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social · 23d

AI may be significantly narrowing (favoring established scholars) science by affecting how scientists identify experts, key papers, reviewers, ...

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

AI chatbots are already biasing research — we must establish guidelines for their use now

The academic community has looked at how artificial-intelligence tools help researchers to write papers, but not how they distort the literature scientists choose to cite.

www.nature.com

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Michael Crenshaw @crenshaw-dev.bsky.social · Sep 3

@nat4cville.bsky.social spent 10min during the discussion about demolition of a historic house on Wertland Street to talk about the urgent need for affordable housing.

I clipped 6min of it. This is part 1/3.

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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · Sep 3

when you learned Git for the first time, what resources did you use? Did you like them? Mostly looking for answers from folks who learned Git in the last 5 years or so.

Looking for resources to potentially add to the Git website

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · Sep 1

I just (re-)started the Charlottesville area R Users (CRU) group. If you're in the Charlottesville area come out to CRU's first in-person meetup Sep 24 at 6pm at the UVA School of Data Science. #Rstats

More info, and register (free) here: luma.com/9zespmac

First CRU meetup · Luma

Welcome to the inaugural Charlottesville R Users (CRU) meetup! In this first event we'll discuss the format and goals of CRU, followed by a short technical…

luma.com

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