Wish there were more like that and a community effort. Reminds me we did a whole guide with links 1-2 years ago: mgto.org/academicjobm... Hope it's still useful for those on the job market.

Shahan Ali Memon@shahanmemon.bsky.social · 4d ago

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...

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

docs.google.com

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...

whitehouse.gov

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 · 3w 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 · 4w 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

The video for our paper on "AI Welfare is Bullshit," presented this week @icmlconf.bsky.social, is now available here: icml.cc/virtual/2026... Also a short thread below. #AIWelfare

Shahan Ali Memon@shahanmemon.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Our position paper, "AI Welfare Is Bullshit" just got accepted to ICML 2026 @icmlconf.bsky.social! The AI welfare agenda has already begun to attract institutional investment at organizations such an @anthropic.com. We argue that this idea is essentially Frankfurtian Bullshit.

This year's @icssi.org in Boulder, Colorado was a blast. It was a full three-day conference (including a hackathon). Congratulations to this year's organizers for making this year's ICSSI a success. I had the opportunity to present 3 of my ongoing projects. 🧵 #Scisci #metascience

Favorite joke/play on words at @icssi.org. @sampat.bsky.social, introducing the panelist, Lisa Margonelli, who is editor of issues in Science Technology: “You’re the editor of Issues in Science Technology…” beat “…well, science certainly has issues. Let’s talk about them” #SciSci #metascience

Some new work on AI & science: A reporting checklist for LLMs in behavioral science Thanks to @sfeuerriegel.bsky.social for spearheading. As LLMs become more common in research, transparency is essential. We developed a reporting checklist for reporting how LLMs were used - please share! 1/4

A reporting checklist for large language models in behavioural science - Nature Human Behaviour

Large language models offer new opportunities for behavioural science, but their rapid evolution poses challenges for research rigour. We introduce a consensus-based reporting checklist to improve tra...

nature.com

Banning Open Source AI Would Be A Mistake A general audience PSA with Kevin Xu of Interconnected, while AI regulation is in the air in DC www.interconnects.ai/p/banning-op...

Banning Open Source AI Would Be A Mistake

This post was originally an op-ed co-authored with Kevin Xu of Interconnected for a general, non-technical audience.

interconnects.ai

Here is work showing some of this effect. It is important, however, to see the form that this takes ‘in the wild’ in terms of the erasure of actual women-led scholarship in LLMs by multiple modalities, so I intend to run some bibliometrics myself and put the results out. arxiv.org/abs/2508.02740

Who Gets Cited? Gender- and Majority-Bias in LLM-Driven Reference Selection

Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly being adopted as research assistants, particularly for literature review and reference recommendation, yet little is known about whether they introduce demogra...

arxiv.org

LLMs are used widely in the behavioral sciences. But we have no good standards for how to do so. We introduce a consensus-based reporting checklist to improve transparency, reproducibility and ethical accountability of LLM-based research in the behavioural sciences. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A reporting checklist for large language models in behavioural science - Nature Human Behaviour

Large language models offer new opportunities for behavioural science, but their rapid evolution poses challenges for research rigour. We introduce a consensus-based reporting checklist to improve tra...

nature.com

Industry is parasitic on academia for research, innovation, and training. The sweeping attacks on academia currently underway in the US are going to gut industry in the years to come. hbr.org/2026/06/the-...

The U.S. Research Talent Pipeline Is in Trouble

Policy shifts, funding instability, and visa uncertainty are causing a sharp decline in the willingness of young scientists trained in the United States to stay in academia—or even remain in the count...

hbr.org

Paying peer reviewers works. Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social: • 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews • ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript • no reduction in editor-assessed review quality • similar acceptance rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

What's going on with #OpenAlex? I searched for api.openalex.org/works/W43852... which used to refer to the "Attention is all you need" paper. However, it now points to a paper: "MizAR 60 for Mizar 50" which according to OA has 75k cites, but really has about 15 (according to google and sem. scholar)

Interesting post by Jessica Hullman. In a future where autonomous research is possible at scale, one can imagine companies building their own bodies of scientific knowledge and not sharing it. Unlike human scientists, AI scientists are not motivated to share their work.

What if scientists really were dispassionate observers, communicating ideas without irrational commitment? Look here, says AI. statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/05/28/w...

Had a great conversation today with @jortscity.bsky.social @wesleyfinck.org about the attention economy and how we can connect personal tools for thought like @obsidian.md into tools for collective thought with @semble.so and #atproto "seize the means of sensemaking"

Students are critical to a vibrant ICSSI community. Today, thanks to support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the NSF, we're thrilled to announce: FREE ICSSI 2026 registration for ALL trainees! Registration reopened: icssi.org/register/ Already registered? Look for a refund soon!

#ATProtoScience tools can enable sensemaking and maybe some nerdy jobs in the near future: "Similar to how social media made influencers... maybe there'll be influencers [as scholarly] sensemakers... [attendee: high need for cognition people]..." Yep, that's my dream job, @ronentk.me

From Social Network to Sense Making

YouTube video by Complex Data Lab

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ArXiV has a new LLM policy (Screenshots with alt text so you don’t have to click through to the other place and see all the stupid responses)

The one who controls the medium, controls the message

Sciences@sciences.skyfleet.blue · 3mo ago

State media control influences large language models

Our position paper, "AI Welfare Is Bullshit" just got accepted to ICML 2026 @icmlconf.bsky.social! The AI welfare agenda has already begun to attract institutional investment at organizations such an @anthropic.com. We argue that this idea is essentially Frankfurtian Bullshit.

So good! And @atproto.science is the perfect place to realize this vision

Matt Akamatsu@mattakamatsu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Well, well. A science publisher (Elsevier) decides to sue an AI firm over copyright infringement. Lawsuit with other publishers (Macmillan, Hachette etc.) vs Meta for training Llama models on copyrighted content, in Common Crawl and then from Sci-Hub among others. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Major publishers sue Meta for copyright infringement over AI training

Publishers Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette , Macmillan and McGraw Hill sued Meta Platforms in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, alleging ​that the tech giant misused their books and journal articles to ...

reuters.com