Crisis at NASA It's very bad news all round for NASA science, but the worst hit is Astrophysics (which includes cosmology) where the proposed cut is about two-thirds, which would be devastating.

Crisis at NASA

It's very bad news all round for NASA science, but the worst hit is Astrophysics (which includes cosmology) where the proposed cut is about two-thirds, which would be devastating.

The J train today is like a nice happy pollen-free freezer

Browsing Lost Unformed Recollections: A Benchmark for Tip-of-the-Tongue Search and Reasoning We introduce Browsing Lost Unformed Recollections, a tip-of-the-tongue known-item search and reasoning benchmark for general AI assistants. BLUR introduces a set of 573 real-world validated questions ...

I sure have a paper for you: arxiv.org/abs/2503.19193

Found out this morning that the 3.5m USD grant my team won has been cancelled as a result of cuts to science funding in the US.

How's your day going?

yes plz

Pentagon guts national security program that harnessed social science Dozens of U.S. academics lose grants from Minerva program for studies related to terrorism, drug trafficking, and other threats

NEW: The Minerva Research Initiative, established by the Pentagon to fund social science relevant to national security, is being gutted. Dozens of researchers studying threats from extremist groups, misinformation or climate change have received notices that their grants are being terminated.
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I'm grateful for the chance to write this and so impressed by all the amazing things scientists are doing in Central Illinois and the impact the NSF/NIH are having in my hometown. Many thanks to the folks at @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social for this initiave and all the resources to get started

Using Google Scholar so much for my thesis proposal it thinks I'm a bot and keeps throwing captchas at me

The lack of sociology journals in the Seattle public library is concerning but flipping through physical first editions of American Speech from (exactly!) a century ago is delightful

AI music generation has gotten, like, scarily good these days. Was listening to an 80’s City Pop playlist on Youtube, liked a song, and tried to search for it only to find out it was 100% AI generated. For creators, these tools must feel like a massive improvement over the Vocaloid days.

Good interdisciplinary work is hard. I just read an ASR paper with a theory section that made me see something in a completely new light—then hit the methods section and saw a just... wrong... and completely unvalidated use of LLM embeddings for empirical evidence to support the theory. Ugh.