Aruna Balasubramanian
@arunab.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stony Brook, here for academic chatter but also memes and snark.
The SIGMOBILE doctoral dissertation award call is out and the deadline is April 10th...if you already have your dissertation approved (or close to being approved), the additional ask for the submission is minimal. Details: sigmobile.org/grav/awards/... For any questions, send me email
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
Re-reading this article by Anton Hur on Han Kang's Nobel prize. During my year in Korea, I heard so many times about the angst surrounding Korea not winning a Nobel prize....until last year it finally happened. Beautiful piece, such a privilege to know Anton
Anton Hur@antonhur.com · 11mo agoA year later, I still think I wrote the single best take on Han Kang’s Nobel win. I especially loved taking this essay away from the New York Times and the Atlantic and giving it to @wasafirimag.bsky.social
Lovely article, so enjoyed reading this. Go Anton!
Anton Hur@antonhur.com · last yr.I've been interviewed many times but am kind of amazed at this one, which manages to understand exactly what I am trying to do. "We do have a very strong tradition of political dissent. The feminists keep fighting and the queer rights activists keep fighting and we all keep fighting."
📣 IMC 2025 Registration Reminder 📝 Don’t miss your chance to register your paper! 🗓️ Deadline: Thursday, May 8, 2025 ⏰ 11:59:59 PM AoE 🔗 imc2025-cycle2.hotcrp.com 🔔 See you there!
IMC 2025
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IMC 2025 Cycle 2 deadline is nearing...registration deadline is May 8th and paper deadline is May 15th. The paper submission website is now open. Hope to see many exciting measurement papers.
ACM Internet Measurement Conference@acm-imc.bsky.social · last yr.📢 PAPER REGISTRATION! 🚨 PC Chairs Aruna Balasubramanian (@arunab.bsky.social) & Alberto Dainotti (@albertodainotti.bsky.social) just opened the cycle-2 registration site. 📝 Register your work: imc2025-cycle2.hotcrp.com Spread the word! 🌐✨
I had two NSF grants terminated last week, for a total of just under $1M. The largest one had just started and its goal was to provide users with more context and information on the content that they see on social media.
"The last few months have been a moral catastrophe. At least there’s no economic upside."
It’s a Shame We Have to Betray Our Allies, Starve the Poor, Halt Scientific Progress, Destroy the Environment, and Eliminate the Freedoms Enshrined in the Bill of Rights, but at Least My Investment Portfolio Is Also Tanking
“Mr. Trump has acknowledged, despite all his confident campaign predictions that ‘we are going to boom like we have never boomed before,’ that the ...
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I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Inside the Collapse at NIH
Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.
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IMC 2025 replicability track call is out. New this year: The papers accepted under this track will be part of the proceedings. You can also choose to replicate papers not only from previous IMCs, but also IMC-adjacent conferences. Take a look at the call and do apply!
ACM Internet Measurement Conference@acm-imc.bsky.social · 2y ago🔔 Announcing the IMC 2025 Replicability Track! Replicability Track for submissions that aim to reproduce or replicate Internet measurements published at IMC or other top-tier venues • March 5 (EoI Deadline) • March 7 (Notification) More details🔗 imc2025-repro.hotcrp.com
(1) This is awful, and shows the cruel end-game of this conservative takeover. 1/
A very interesting archival project called “Indian mathematicians at work” does these long-form interviews with mathematicians not only about their mathematics but also about their lives. Here are two-part videos of an interview of my dad Prof Balasubramanian, an analytical number theorist.
I found this to be a really interesting and illuminating thread
David Andersen@daveandersen.bsky.social · 2y agoThis is a very thoughtful thread on mastodon about how the cost of "luxuries" (e.g., a tv) and the cost of necessities has flipped between the 60s and now, which might explain some of the perception difference between the generations: beige.party/@Lana/113733...
I keep thinking about how many institutional failures symptomatic of our society led to this doctor being able to cause such harm. This @propublica.org piece is long, wild, sad, terrifying, and definitely worth reading! #MedicalEthics #MedEthics
Chris Morran@themorrancave.bsky.social · 2y agoAlternate headlines, all taken from quotes in this story: “What the hell is going on here?” "Was I killing people?" “How the fuck did this go on for so long?” “It’s for their comfort... It’s not that I euthanize them.” “It depends on what you mean by killing them.”
