🔬 #ICSSI2026 Speaker Spotlight 7: Ryan Hill Our final invited speaker is Prof @ryanreedhill.bsky.social from Northwestern Kellogg whose work spans the topic "pivot penalty", the impact of AlphaFold2 on science, the factors shaping occupation choice, and more! 7/7 — fantastic ICSSI Boulder lineup!

ICSSI@icssi.org · 3mo ago

🔬 #ICSSI2026 Speaker Spotlight 6: Lingfei Wu How do we measure innovation? How do ideas spread, and how is innovation produced? Prof @lingfeiwu.bsky.social addresses these questions and more in his group at Pitt's School of Computing & Information. See you in Boulder this June & July! icssi.org

Wrote about a cool new study from @ryanreedhill.bsky.social on how AlphaFold2 transformed protein biology, and what that could mean for how AI affects other fields and jobs:

What Happens When AI Transforms a Specialized Field Overnight?

Before AI came for your job, it came for the biologists’. But the AlphaFold story offers a promising glimpse of the future of human–AI collaboration.

insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu

There is great excitement about the potential for AI to reshape science, but so far very little empirical evidence about how that is (or is not??) happening in real time. I'm excited to share a new working paper with Carolyn Stein about the impact of AlphaFold on science ->

i'm never showing my kid tony hawk. they'll have to recreate the 900 from first principles

The best way to think about academic publishing is that the creators are also the consumers. No one is “buying” our papers at the newsstand. Elsevier is basically a management company that gets a fee for running the peer-review process. If they charge too much, a competitor will replace them.

Mushtaq Bilal, PhD@mushtaqbilalphd.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Major academic publishers' revenue and what they pay authors and reviewers: Revenue: Elsevier: $3.9 billion Springer Nature: $2 billion Wolters Kluwer: $1.6 billion Wiley: $1.8 billion Taylor & Francis: $800 million Sage: $500 million They pay: Authors: $0 Reviewers: $0

Very excited for our new publication in @nature.com about the difficulty of pivoting in science. In some sense, this project was my own "pivot" to engage more with a general science audience for the first time. Its really gratifying to see it in print.

Nature@nature.com · last yr.

Shifting to a different research field can have negative consequences for a scientist https://go.nature.com/43xMNEn

Dandelion infestations in suburban yards as a leading indicator for recession

With the excitement (delirium?) surrounding the rise of AI, it's more important than ever that scientists and journalists maintain an attitude of skepticism and dispassion about new findings as they arrive www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mit-...

MIT Says It No Longer Stands Behind Student’s AI Research Paper

The university said it has no confidence in a widely circulated paper by an economics graduate student.

wsj.com

How can this bombshell drop while @bryancurtis.bsky.social is on vacation!?! Emergency @thepressbox.bsky.social pod from the South Rim?

Bhumika Tharoor@bhumikatharoor.bsky.social · last yr.

US National Security leaders added @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social to the group chat about war plans. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

I can finally plant that timber farm

Trying to enjoy each episode of Severance equally

I think Bluesky is a great platform and I’m here to stay. However, a bookmark function would make the experience SO much better and much more functional for research/ information gathering, especially for reporters. Pretty please @support.bsky.team @bsky.app ?

Another dead-end day of research effort. Obviously days like this are necessary to find feasible projects, but it’s hard to block out the constant tick of the tenure clock.

It’s odd to me that Americans are more religious on average than Europeans, but Europeans fully shut down their sports leagues for Christmas while American leagues are stacking more and more games on that date

Declining all referee requests and other service obligations until Juan Soto signs with the Red Sox

Well, tried the deep-fried turkey idea… two thumbs down, would not recommend. Much prefer turkey breast in a slow cooker

The recently renovated Peabody Museum at Yale is fantastic!

Please help me spread the word about this amazing two-year pre-doc opportunity. Research with faculty is optional. Get paid to take classes that prepare you for PhD. Deadline 11/15: stern.nyu.edu/programs-adm...

Hey #EconSky, I'm on the job market with an #EconJMP about open source software. OSS is a global public good, widely used and provided by the private sector, but the target of recent industrial policy. Paper: jeffgortmaker.com/files/Open_S... 1/

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

Jesse Rothstein@jrothst.bsky.social · 2y ago

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

I think these boxers are getting paid more than their marginal product

Paul knows what’s up

Paul Krugman@pkrugman.bsky.social · 2y ago

Planning to watch the premiere of Silo Season 2 with friends tonight. Reminded them to use the good heat tape.

Bluesky is a PBC (public benefit corporation) with the mission “to develop and drive large-scale adoption of technologies for open and decentralized public conversation.” From the start, our goal has been to build a decentralized social network that is usable by the mainstream.

What's the long-run business model for a "twitter-like" social media? My hunch is that it would optimally be something like non-profit Wikipedia.

Very interesting thought experiment about the nature of knowledge creation

Jeff Denning@jeffdenning.com · 3y ago

Was watching a Ricky Gervais interview where he made the following claim: if all knowledge was erased, humans would eventually replicate the corpus of scientific knowledge we have now. Very interesting thought exercise I think. I am a bit skeptical.

Waiting for Martin Hackmann, Jim Heckman, Brent Hickman, Bruce Hockman, and Robert Huckman to write an Econ paper together. How can we make this happen?

What’s the least recently updated CV posted on a (not retired) economist’s website? I just saw one last updated in 2007!

Can we all agree not to let that neoliberal account start throwing us in their shill bracket on here? #Econsky

I will hang out on this blue app only if you post absurd sci-fi, geography, and champions league takes in addition to your working papers. Thank you