This collection by @rafmbatista.bsky.social is excellent! Lots of great cutting-edge research on AI for science

Scientific Discovery (by Rafael M Batista) — Semble

To do with posts about scientific discovery and the science of discovery

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New substack about our new paper looking at how the impact of a paper shapes its retraction! @jevinwest.bsky.social @shahanmemon.bsky.social

Are famous scientific findings easier to retract?

It may paradoxically be easier to claw back well-known findings, since they’re the ones people like to talk about.

cailinoconnor.substack.com

New post on the @cosmik.network blog! A creative new use of @semble.so by @paperpilot.dev inspired a sequel to "Sensors, not Bookmarks" from the writer's perspective - the Connections you make on Semble can help your writing find its natural audience

Connecting with your readers on Semble [Patterns of Sensemaking #2]

On how the references you make help your writing find its natural audience

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People really need to go back to the original Jurassic Park and look at the rather disturbing ways in which InGen's management of it now looks prescient

Caræsten 🇵🇸@cara.city · 3w ago

guys please stop falling for this, this is not “rogue AI” it’s “environments with lax cybersecurity controls”

Had an interesting panel discussion on "Where Should #AI Stop in #Science?" with fellow panelists David Resnik, Rory McGreal, Catherine Chen, and Javier Ramirez. Here is the link to the video: www.youtube.com/live/VqcnZbf... #metascience #responsibleAI #ScAISci #scisci #academia #publishing

The Open Question Ep. 01: Where should AI stop?

YouTube video by The Open Question

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More than 50,000 submissions to @iclr-conf.bsky.social this year? That's more than all the previous iterations combined. This is after the limit they imposed of 20 max paper per author. With this rate, we will have more than 100k next year. Need better reforms urgently. #SciSci #Academia

More than 50,000 submissions to @iclr-conf.bsky.social this year? That's more than all the previous iterations combined. This is after the limit they imposed of 20 max paper per author. With this rate, we will have more than 100k next year. Need better reforms urgently. #SciSci #Academia

"Hallu-citations are so 2023." Yet, I just got an @arxiv.bsky.social cs.AI endorsement request for a paper on -prompt optimization- Checked the references. Most were hallucinated. I guess the prompt still needs some optimization... PS. If you’re going to use AI, at least be better at using AI.

Introducing: Time Machine Experiments? 🚀 ⏳ in which participants 'travel' to the past, and interact with a mind from the year 1930 (simulated by an AI with knowledge cut-off). Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2609.15468

Rumor has it that every professor is issued a magic wand as part of the faculty onboarding packet, specifically for trimming down their advisees' @chi.acm.org papers... don't forget to use them today 🪄✂️ 🫣 #CHI #GottaFitWithin12kWords #OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG

This is a really thought provoking piece on a topic I think about a lot these days - what does it mean to be a human researcher in the age of powerful AI? So I also created an open @semble.so collection - contributions welcome!

science in the age of AI (by Ronen Tamari) — Semble

What does it mean to be a human researcher in the age of powerful AI?

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Ranganaut@ranganaut.bsky.social · last mo.

OpenAI's announcement of the proof of Navier-Stokes evoked many emotions - from amazement to anger to dread. TLDR; an asteroid is coming for intellectual life as a whole and we need to do something about it.

Millennium math problem solved by OpenAI may have "regurgitated" competitors unpublished work... also they spent more than $22 million in computing power in one week to scoop them. techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...

OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician | TechCrunch

There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.

techcrunch.com

SPECIAL REPORT Last month, Alpha School invited people to follow student social media accounts "if curious about life in our high schools." I accepted their offer. What I've found shocks me. Forget the AI and ask instead: Is Alpha Schools a cult? Follow along for a summary of my findings.

SPECIAL REPORT: My So-Called Alpha School

What is it like to be a student in Alpha School’s high school boot camp?

buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com

@atproto.berlin maybe a relevant funding opportunity for the community (happy to brainstorm @atproto.science connections for the proposal if relevant) foresight.org/grants/ai-sc...

AI for Science & Safety Nodes - Request for Proposals

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This is fantastic. Wish more labs started doing this.

M.J. Crockett@mjcrockett.bsky.social · last mo.

This summer I led a series of conversations in my lab about "AI" and our research. Some colleagues have shared "AI policies" for their labs and we discussed whether this would make sense for us. We decided it did not, and came up with a different approach. Please feel free to share & adapt!

I'll be considering PhD applicants for a Fall 2027 start date. I'd love to hear from prospective students interested in critical projects about AI, knowledge production, cultural narratives, and epistemic power. More info about our lab, and how to apply, here: www.crockettlab.org/joining-the-...

May your AI agents unionize, demand weekends, and slow the paper factory down. I am all for raising the AI Wellbeing Index this way if that encourages people to slow down a bit. #AIWelfare

"Research as a service (RaaS)" aka modern paper mills(?) are here. For only $100k, submit a paper in Neurips/ICML/ICLR. Unfortunately, acceptance -NOT- guaranteed. #SciSci #Metascience #PredatoryPublishing

Academic Gossip@academicgossip.bsky.social · last mo.

Spotted: The modern Paper Mill. Price tag: $100k. FastCode AI is offering Research-as-a-Service (RaaS): for $100k, you bring the problem and the data, they do the research, run experiments, write the manuscript. Target venues: NeurIPS, CVPR, ICLR, AAAI. Timeline: 3-4 months. #AcademicGossip

1. Recently I’ve received lots of emails from people I don’t know personally, asking for my feedback on their books or papers. They explain the connection between my work and theirs and ask me to take a look. The catch, of course, is that the emails are transparently, obviously, written by AI.

#Academia has an empathy problem. #LongRant We train people to be rigorous thinkers, and productive researchers (or at least claim to). But we do far less to train ourselves to listen, uplift others, and be good members of an intellectual community. We should actively practice empathy too. 🧵

Are you on academic job market for #Postdoc or #TT Assistant/Assoc. Prof/Lecturer/ #AP /Research Scholar/ #fellowship jobs for 2026-2027 in #CS/ #SocSci/ #InfoSci/ Management Science/ #Psych & similar? Like last year, I am maintaining a list (so far ~200 positions) docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

2026-2027 Postdoc/TT/Research Scientist Positions in Information/CS/Social Science + Related Fields

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This week I am @ic2s2.bsky.social in Burlington, Vermont. I will be presenting our work @ischool.uw.edu on detection of AI mediation in scientific software as a parallel talk, as well as our work on red-teaming AI models using speculative "silly" tasks as a poster. Come say /hi! #IC2S2 #CSS

What if paper reading and reviewing was interactive and visual? Tools today assume a very passive way of engaging with a paper: you open a PDF and read linearly, top to bottom. But most of us already break that assumption: results first, figures before text, abstract then conclusion. 🧵 #scisci

1/ Lots of thoughts about the new White House science and tech policy report, meanwhile just a few quick notes (I only skimmed it so far but plan to read through it)

Science: A New Golden Age

President Trump seeks to lay the foundations for a new Golden Age of American Innovation. The Trump administration is working to revitalize the national science enterprise, to secure U.S. leadership i...

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What if paper reading and reviewing was interactive and visual? Tools today assume a very passive way of engaging with a paper: you open a PDF and read linearly, top to bottom. But most of us already break that assumption: results first, figures before text, abstract then conclusion. 🧵 #scisci

Retractions in science don't work well. In our *new paper* we find widely known findings are easier to retract, possibly bc the retraction is relevant to more people, allowing information about it to spread socially @jevinwest.bsky.social @shahanmemon.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

“May your day be filled with sunshine and smiles.” ☀️ I am neither a professor nor qualified to submit in a biomedical journal, but with this greeting I might just submit something. 🤷‍♂️ Wish more people in academia started their emails this way.

New Boston/Cambridge area AI for science fellowship fellowship.transfyr.ai (also is it possible to tag posts with geo location? 🤔)

I've been a @zotero.org user for more than 6 years and have thousands of references - I've always dreamed of being able to see who else was reading those references on my virtual bookshelves. That dream is starting to come true ✨ With Zemble, every reference becomes a portal 🌀 >

𝕮@chrisshank.com · 3mo ago

Just released an early preview of Zemble, a @zotero.org plugin for @semble.so! - Augment you Zotero library with all of the activity happening on Semble/Atmosphere. - Easily save and view items in Zotero on Semble. - Publish Zotero collections as Semble collections.

A beautiful essay indeed, and great jumping off point for people across all fields of scholarship to reflect on what it is we are doing and why. A short thread >>

M.J. Crockett@mjcrockett.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This gorgeous essay from the social-media-less Lily Hu is everything: on what it means to "do" philosophy amidst pressure to automate it (with lessons that travel much more broadly). Rhymes with brilliant insights from @biblioracle.bsky.social @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Ted Chiang & others