ujval
@ujval.bsky.social
CS PhD student @ucberkeley (on sabbatical) based in New York @cornell_tech || @_ujval on the bird app || https://ujval.co/
There's growing evidence that LLMs can p-hack. But p-hacking also points to something bigger: a data science multiverse of defensible analytical choices. We wrote a paper (arxiv.org/abs/2602.18710) on using LLM agents to map this multiverse systematically. 🧵
It could take another decade or two to get at the reality here. In the meantime we will certainly need to look skeptically at EdTech schemes and cheap shortcuts. But overall predictions of doom are not warranted yet.
What does it mean to be an author when using AI to produce a text? "Distant Writing: Literary Production in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" new paper freely available at SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3...
Here we go! @kateconger.com was verified - not by Bluesky but by the NYTimes, one of the "trusted verifiers" Gonna keep saying it: a healthy digital society should distribute power!
Samuel@samuel.fm · last yr.woaw
This framing is nuts, and the assumption is that public funding for a public good is somehow untoward and illicit. “The schools took the money” and became “warily beholden to the whims of politicians in Washington.”/1 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...
How Universities Became So Dependent on the Federal Government
For decades, universities got billions in federal dollars for research. The relationship was mutually beneficial, until President Trump decided it wasn’t.
nytimes.com
Observe that the one that complied and the one that didn't comply are treated exactly the same way.
Max Kozlov@maxkozlov.bsky.social · last yr.Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools) Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants
New piece in The Nation arguing that we need public media more now than ever. We must defend what we have with an eye toward expanding and restructuring public media in the future.
We Must Save Public Media to Change It
We need public media more than ever—it’s too precious to let Trump defund it. But to live up to its democratic promise, we must support public media to serve our needs.
thenation.com
For the Trump Administration, it is a matter of principle that the President can disappear innocent people to foreign gulags without due process or judicial review.
Great news, everyone. A surveillance company started by Peter Thiel is part of the hackathon playing with our data at IRS. www.wired.com/story/palant...
Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project
For the last three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a "mega API," WIRED has learned.
wired.com
Our systematic lit review of algorithm audits, with a focus on linguistic and geographical disparities in the field, is now officially accepted at @facct.bsky.social 🎉🪩 You can read the preprint here! arxiv.org/abs/2401.11194 Looking forward to presenting this one in Athens in June :)
WEIRD Audits? Research Trends, Linguistic and Geographical Disparities in the Algorithm Audits of Online Platforms -- A Systematic Literature Review
The increasing reliance on complex algorithmic systems by online platforms has sparked a growing need for algorithm auditing, a methodology evaluating these systems' functionality and impact. In this ...
arxiv.org
Plus perhaps a shared bond issue to borrow & create a shared contingency fund
We hang together or we hang separately. Could not be clearer what is happening and how universities must respond.
Jason "Red5" Lyall@jaylyall.bsky.social · last yr.Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern The funding pause amid civil rights "investigations" into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.
Please repost to get the word out! @nkgarg.bsky.social and I are excited to present a personalized feed for academics! It shows posts about papers from accounts you’re following bsky.app/profile/pape...
I'm looking for a postdoc to work on justice-oriented audit frameworks. Closing date April 30, 2025. pls share widely
AI Accountability Lab @aial.ie · last yr.We are seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Researcher to work on developing a justice-oriented audit framework synthesising computational methods, theories of justice, and existing regulations to premeditatively focus audits towards meaningful accountability. www.adaptcentre.ie/careers/post...
If you predicted that Princeton would be leading the principled defense of independent academic institutions, good for you as a seer. (In notable contrast to Harvard, Columbia, et al.) Great respect to Princeton leadership, starting with Prez Eisgruber. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia
American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.
theatlantic.com
jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com · last yr.Princeton has announced that it is considering selling approximately $320 million of taxable bonds. The bonds are a way for the University to raise short-term funds. The major credit-rating agencies rate University bonds AAA, the highest level of creditworthiness.
The app revealed that nearly 90% of proposed community notes never become visible on X. This observation highlights the shortcomings of crowdsourced content moderation systems like Community Notes—an important consideration as more platforms explore similar models. socialmedialab.ca/2025/03/25/i...
Introducing the NoteTracker Dashboard: A Public Dashboard Providing Insight into Community Notes, X’s Crowdsourced Fact-Checking Program - Social Media Lab
[Toronto, Ontario] — [March 24, 2025] — We’re pleased to introduce the NoteTracker Dashboard, a new app that brings greater transparency and data-driven insights to crowdsourced content moderation on ...
socialmedialab.ca
I keep seeing takes like this marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo... 1. I don't like the status quo on policy X 2. Trump is thoughtlessly blowing things up, including on policy X 3. It might turn out better after being blown up so 🤷 We're on the road to authoritarianism, not your preferred policy.
