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Patrick Emami

@patrickomid.bsky.social

ML research at the National Laboratory of the Rockies. Currently thinking about multimodal language models and assistants for scientific discovery. Optimistic about AI4Science & Engineering. #PDX #DTWD #🏃‍♂️🎽👟

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Alondra Nelson@alondra.bsky.social · last yr.

Call for Papers! 🧵 The Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy a Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Editors: Alondra Nelson (IAS) and Jenny Reardon (UC, Santa Cruz) Abstract Deadline: Sept 19 www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pub...

Public Science

Call for Papers Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social ScienceThe Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy

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Aaron Sojourner@aaronsojourner.org · last yr.

The U.S. government has fueled decades of world-leading scientific and technical innovation by funding research efforts through grants programs & universities where researchers controlled decisions. In the USSR, no decisions were made by scientists alone. Every decision required political approval.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last yr.

One more effort to politicize federal grantmaking. *Grants must by approved by a political appointee, working with OMB. *"Discretionary awards must, where applicable, demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities." *Cannot "promote anti-American values" www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · last yr.

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years. Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

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Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · last yr.

6. This makes it impossible to engage in anything other than the shortest-term, most incremental research. Far-reaching, innovative, creative, world-changing research will no longer take place in the United States.

molly taft@mollytaft.com · last yr.

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work

A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

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Naomi Saphra@nsaphra.bsky.social · last yr.

PSA: NeurIPS position track has no rebuttal period so reviews won’t be released until August. Don’t bother emailing the PCs! (Multiple people have asked me why their reviews aren’t visible. PCs should send a mass email and change the CFP.)

METR@metr.org · last yr.

When AI is allowed, developers spend less time actively coding and searching for information, and instead spend time prompting AI, waiting on/reviewing AI outputs, and idle. We find no single reason for the slowdown—it’s driven by a combination of factors.

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Matt Henry@menrywy.bsky.social · last yr.

One thing that's stood out to me at NREL under Trump 2.0: the contrast between the institution's instinct for self-preservation reflected in deep changes to the way the lab stories itself vs. how rural coalitions I work with have remained steadfast in their commitment to building new energy futures.

Ted Pavlic (he/him/his)@tedpavlic.bsky.social · last yr.

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪 www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific

A discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR, the gold-standard COVID-19 tests used to fight the global pandemic.

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rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · last yr.

incredible that, looking back to 2019, every large firm working on LLMs had the attitude that this was an enormously disruptive technology and that the rollout needed to be careful and stage-managed in order to avoid catastrophic legal and consumer backlash and then in 2022 went "lol nevermind"

Patrick Emami@patrickomid.bsky.social · last yr.

Recommended reading: Scientific Babel history.princeton.edu/about/public... What will be the next dominant language? 🥲

Scientific Babel: How Science Was Done Before and After Global English

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Tal Lavin@swordsjew.bsky.social · last yr.

its crazy how dominant germany was in science (especially chemistry) in the 19th century, it was basically the international language for scientists, people came from all over the world to train at heidelberg etc, and then....

David Pfau@davidpfau.com · last yr.

The war on science in the US is already having an effect on private sector research like AlphaFold. Bears repeating but the private sector builds on top of things created by academic research for the public good. This hurts everyone.

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