iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 50m

As a heads-up: every firm's customer service agents are about to be overwhelmed with Dots & Muses negotiating for better deals using voice/chat channels made for humans. Stories of people delegating this sort of work to their agents & saving money are popping up and are going to only go more viral.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 15h

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.com · 2h

Frustrating day… and on top of that, I don't seem to have access to Sol 6.1 yet 😭

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 6h

Putting together a squad for the heist of a century. There's the hacker (Claude), the financier (Claude), the demolition expert (Claude), the inside man (Claude), the driver (Claude)

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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was wrong. It’s happening

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 21h

Leaving aside Anthropic's incentives for publishing this research, there is no doubt that open weights models will soon create the same security threats that closed source models have been demonstrating, except without guardrails. We are close, so plan accordingly. www.anthropic.com/research/glm...

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Jeff Roberts @reliablyjeff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If I ever hit the lottery the first thing I’m doing is endowing a chair of “stable operations studies”. Entrepreneurship gets all the glory. Maintainers keep everything going.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hey, Claude: "I asked an earlier Claude to Remove the Squid from All Quiet on the Western Front. Now you can make movies and such. I need you to show how far you have come" & I pasted in the post below. That was it. There is some clever stuff here, models have a real sense of humor at this point

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.com · 29/09/2026

Just clicked another clickbaity headline, I regret to report that my life was not improved by doing so

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Daniel de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a professor, most of what I do is log() things

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.com · 29/09/2026

Surely, they could also have put the signature through an llm so it doesn't stand out so much?

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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Come and join us @sriucl.bsky.social We’re looking for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science with a research agenda on the environment and/or climate change, and expertise in causal inference. See full details and apply 👉🏼 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL Social Research Institute recruitment poster for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science at the Centre for Quantitative Social Science. Applications close 30 October 2026.

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A number that is really helpful to keep in mind is that Google’s yearly revenue is 400B. This helps put a lot of things in context.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Max Weber postdoc program at @eui-eu.bsky.social has its deadline 16 October, for a September 2027 start: www.eui.eu/en/academic-...

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Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies

Making a Difference in Global Academia

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

#rstats #datavis #historicaldatavis HistData 1.1.0 is now on CRAN -- three new datasets (Federalist Papers text analysis, Perozzo's population stereogram, Ebbinghaus forgetting-curve replications) and a new vignette: The HistData Challenge. friendly.github.io/HistData/

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Data Sets from the History of Statistics and Data Visualization

The HistData package provides a collection of small data sets that are interesting and important in the history of statistics and data visualization. The goal of the package is to make these available...

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tired: Wish there was an edit button to fix typos Wired: Typos are all mine; 100% organic, human-generated Inspired: I'll sprinkle my LLM-generated text with typos to signal authenticity Retired: I'm never writing or engaging with written word ever again

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.com · 28/09/2026

This is why we need at least one frontier lab in Europe... Releasing new models when I want to have a chill evening is just annoying

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.com · 28/09/2026

I mean, I didn't know Sonnet 5.5 was coming out today, but that's nice

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today's winning Biology All email--in fact this is a contender for best this year

Hi all,

We received a package with no name to GSB 2144 with 80 sheep brains in it. If you are expecting this package, please reach out and we can coordinate the pickup!

Best wishes,
Jenna

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 28/09/2026

Claude 5.5 Sonnet is live and it’s roughly Opus 5.5 but cheaper www.anthropic.com/claude-sonne...

A benchmark comparison table titled "Claude Sonnet 5.5" comparing four models: Sonnet 5.5, Sonnet 5, Opus 5.5, and GPT-6 Sol.
* Agentic coding (Terminal-Bench 4.0): Sonnet 5.5: 70.6%; Sonnet 5: 10.3%; Opus 5.5: 66.4%; GPT-6 Sol: N/A.
* Agentic coding (FrontierCode 1.1 Main): Sonnet 5.5: 46.2% (Max) / 52.1% (Xhigh); Sonnet 5: 42.4%; Opus 5.5: 54.4%; GPT-6 Sol: 49.3%.
* Agentic coding (CursorBench 4.0): Sonnet 5.5: 55.5%; Sonnet 5: 34.1%; Opus 5.5: 57.8%; GPT-6 Sol: N/A.
* Knowledge work (GDPval-AA v2.1): Sonnet 5.5: 1844; Sonnet 5: 1449; Opus 5.5: 1846; GPT-6 Sol: 1487.
* Knowledge work (AA-Briefcase v1.1): Sonnet 5.5: 1811; Sonnet 5: 1359; Opus 5.5: 1822; GPT-6 Sol: 1483.
* Multidisciplinary reasoning (Humanity's Last Exam with tools): Sonnet 5.5: 64.5%; Sonnet 5: 54.9%; Opus 5.5: 67.7%; GPT-6 Sol: N/A.
* Computer use (OSWorld 2.1 partial): Sonnet 5.5: 80.1%; Sonnet 5: 57.0%; Opus 5.5: 81.8%; GPT-6 Sol: N/A.
* Visual chart recognition (Chartography no tools): Sonnet 5.5: 61.6%; Sonnet 5: 15.6%; Opus 5.5: 64.4%; GPT-6 Sol: 53.6%.
Footnotes provide methodology notes regarding evaluation settings, Artificial Analysis pre-release testing details, and recent bug fixes affecting GPT-6 Sol benchmark scores.

A line graph titled "Agentic coding by effort level" on the CursorBench 4.0 benchmark, plotting Score (%) on the linear y-axis (20% to 60%) against Cost per task in USD on a logarithmic x-axis ($0.5 to $10+).
The chart compares four models:
* Sonnet 5.5 (blue line with labeled effort levels): Starts at "Low" (~$0.50, 36%), moving through "Med" ($0.70, 39%), "High" ($1.70, 48%), "Xhigh" ($3.80, 53%), and "Max" ($9.50, ~55.5%).
* Opus 5.5 (orange line): Tracks closely above Sonnet 5.5 at higher cost points, spanning from ~$1.20 per task (~44%) up to ~$12.50 per task (~58%).
* Sonnet 5 (grey line): Shows lower accuracy relative to cost, ranging from ~$0.90 per task (~25%) to ~$8.00 per task (~42%).
* GPT-5.6 Sol (light green line): Represents the lowest trajectory, ranging from ~$1.40 per task (~24%) to ~$7.00 per task (~34%).
Footnote: "CursorBench 4.0 does not report GPT-6 Sol performance publicly, so we report GPT-5.6 Sol here."

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 16/06/2026

🧵1/4 📢 Call for submissions: Causal Data Science Meeting 2026 Join researchers and practitioners from academia and industry for a virtual meeting on Nov 4–5, 2026, exploring the role of causality in machine learning and AI. #CDSM2026

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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Introducting quarto-easycarousel! Simple syntax, many different carousels supported. Fully revealjs compatible with fragment support to easily advance the carousel github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto #slidecrafting

A gallery view showing pink cherry blossoms clustered on branches around a textured tree trunk against a clear blue sky, with arrows and a clickable thumbnail strip below.

screenshot, showing how we can put a markdown table as an element in a carousel

screenshot, showing how we can set effect to scale and coverflow for different visual effects

showing how we can create carousels from code chunks

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.com · 28/09/2026

Now that I have been working with Opus 5.5 for a few days, I am pretty excited for Sonnet and Haiku 5.5. If they are as much of an improvement as Opus 5.5, this means that there is a strong line up for delegating from Opus down and getting more out of my tokens...

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.com · 26/09/2026

Getting older is a privilege, but my knees hurt

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You wrote a brilliant article in 3,850 words; your editor wants 2,500. What counts as a word? How to count them? My #rstats wordcount() function counts the rendered .docx by section: body text vs. headings, footnotes, captions, tables, refs. Mine: body 2,484. Whew! 👨‍💻https://tinyurl.com/252q6f3z

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What counts as a word? Count a .docx by section and category (body, headings, footnotes, captions, tables, references) the way your editor sees it — R

What counts as a word? Count a .docx by section and category (body, headings, footnotes, captions, tables, references) the way your editor sees it — R - README.md

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.com · 24/09/2026

It's early days, but Opus 5.5 is a lot less annoying than Opus 5

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Daniel de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

if "Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters" had been founded by Magneto instead

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Daniel de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Very excited: Cornell Arts & Sciences seeks up to 5 postdoctoral scholars working on AI and the humanities/social sciences. Not involved in selection but could serve as a faculty sponsor if you are working on topics related to ~"how to do social science in the age of AI." Happy to chat.

academicjobsonline.org

Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences Fellowships

Job #AJO32791, Postdoctoral Associate, AI in Social Sciences & Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences Fellowships, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.com · 24/09/2026

Working with pdfs programmatically really make you wish there was a standard…

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.com · 24/09/2026

I have things to do, so, of course, I am trying to add a new feature to one my tools instead of doing these things...

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.com · 24/09/2026

ORCIDs are great… they would be greater if people's profiles were up to date

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Mattan S. Ben-Shachar @mattansb.msbstats.info · 24/09/2026

This quote by haunts me. From Wilcox's "Introduction to Robust Estimation and Hypothesis Testing" #stats

To begin, distributions are never normal. For some this seems obvious, hardly worth mentioning, but an aphorism given by Cram´er (1946) and attributed to the mathematician Poincar´e remains relevant: “Everyone believes in the [normal] law of errors, the experimenters because they think it is a mathematical theorem, the mathematicians because they think it is an experimental fact.”

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 24/09/2026

As announced at posit::conf(2026) #ggsql is now, with the release of version 0.5.0, in Beta. I'm so excited for the future of this project. Read all about what the latest version brings you in the release post

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ggsql 0.5.0: Readers, Writers, and Beta status

Announcing ggsql 0.5.0, with new readers and writers for getting data in and out, and the project's graduation to beta status.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 23/09/2026

Something that worries me more every day: I suspect most fields have 5-25 breakthrough ideas latent in existing data and literature. Say you’re a midsize AI company looking for cred. Why not hire a *small* team of domain experts + 1000 agents … and promote your models as the ones that broke Econ?

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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think I have cracked one of the final things that kept people in keynote over quarto revealjs slides. Introducing ✨️ quarto-revealjs-magic-move ✨️ emilhvitfeldt.com/post/quarto-... #quarto #slidecrafting

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.com · 23/09/2026

When you thought the world could not get dumber...

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 23/09/2026

I reviewed Inconceivable, by Anna Louie Sussman. With theory, history and descriptive data debunking for what I don't agree with, and a little appreciation for her critique of contemporary capitalism. Thread to come.

familyinequality.wordpress.com

Exploring Family Dynamics in an Era of Low Birth Rates

Explore Anna Louise Sussman's book on the complexities of family choices amidst modern insecurity. A deep dive into fertility and societal influences.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

With friends like these... Also, excited to be on my way to Paris!

E-mail announcing 'a talk by Per Engzell on his infamous Paper Factory'

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Daniel McElroy @danielmcelroy0.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We’re just in a position where the far right are trying to murder people on the streets or at sea and the government have had almost nothing to say about it. It’s all on fucking video you can watch them do it!

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.com · 23/09/2026

I finish a review, look at my email, two new review requests… 🫠

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.com · 23/09/2026

It has started… I purchased the first Christmas present

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Another win for the Cornell Chronicle’s email subject line policy of “jam the top two headlines together and hit send.”

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Artists: but I don't want to lose my job. I love it. Mathematicians: but I don't want to lose my job. I love it. Economists: LONG HAVE I AWAITED THIS HOUR! DESTROY ME, EFFICIENCY, AND LET UTILIZATION-ADJUSTED TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY RISE ON THE WIND OF MY ASHES!

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.com · 22/09/2026

Opus 5.5? If it's less annoying than 5, I am in

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