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Aruna Balasubramanian @arunab.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

The SIGMOBILE doctoral dissertation award call is out and the deadline is April 10th...if you already have your dissertation approved (or close to being approved), the additional ask for the submission is minimal. Details: sigmobile.org/grav/awards/... For any questions, send me email

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

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Aruna Balasubramanian @arunab.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Re-reading this article by Anton Hur on Han Kang's Nobel prize. During my year in Korea, I heard so many times about the angst surrounding Korea not winning a Nobel prize....until last year it finally happened. Beautiful piece, such a privilege to know Anton

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Aruna Balasubramanian @arunab.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Lovely article, so enjoyed reading this. Go Anton!

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ACM Internet Measurement Conference @acm-imc.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

📣 IMC 2025 Registration Reminder 📝 Don’t miss your chance to register your paper! 🗓️ Deadline: Thursday, May 8, 2025 ⏰ 11:59:59 PM AoE 🔗 imc2025-cycle2.hotcrp.com 🔔 See you there!

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IMC 2025

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Aruna Balasubramanian @arunab.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

IMC 2025 Cycle 2 deadline is nearing...registration deadline is May 8th and paper deadline is May 15th. The paper submission website is now open. Hope to see many exciting measurement papers.

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Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com · 21/04/2025

I had two NSF grants terminated last week, for a total of just under $1M. The largest one had just started and its goal was to provide users with more context and information on the content that they see on social media.

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Aruna Balasubramanian @arunab.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Not yet though, there is a 125% tariff for goods from China.

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Katherine J. Wu @katherinejwu.com · 27/02/2025

I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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Inside the Collapse at NIH

Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.

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Aruna Balasubramanian @arunab.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

IMC 2025 replicability track call is out. New this year: The papers accepted under this track will be part of the proceedings. You can also choose to replicate papers not only from previous IMCs, but also IMC-adjacent conferences. Take a look at the call and do apply!

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Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

(1) This is awful, and shows the cruel end-game of this conservative takeover. 1/

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Aruna Balasubramanian @arunab.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

update: sbu is also pausing NIH submissions

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Aruna Balasubramanian @arunab.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

What!! Hmm, I am writing one and havent heard anything from SBU yet. It does make sense for schools to take this stand, but it is so hard for PIs especially given the R21 and R01 deadlines are rolling in now. What a nightmare we live in.

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Aruna Balasubramanian @arunab.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Really a wonderful set of slides, especially liked your example about your dissertation, which is very cool to begin with--but showing how you can pitching it in a way that is impressive but not memorable versus pitching it so no one will forget what you are doing. Very nice.

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Aruna Balasubramanian @arunab.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

when I first saw this post, my first thought was, oh please not Neil Gaiman and then I read some stuff (not the entire article, I could not even stomach the parts I read). what depraved souls some people are.

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Aruna Balasubramanian @arunab.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

If CSK moves to bluesky I will be all set.

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Aruna Balasubramanian @arunab.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Other interesting parts are 21-26 where he discusses how he applied to TIFR for his Ph.D. from his village in Saliamangalam, and in Part 2 9.30 - 15 about solving the Warings problems with a little help from my mom. I added time labels in the comment sections for both videos, so check them out.

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Aruna Balasubramanian @arunab.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

My favorite section is 41.5 to 52 where he discusses how he wrote his first paper with his advisor Prof Ramachandra (and from 50-52 there is an interesting discussion about Ponniyin Selvan and Bourbaki). Part 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ind8... Part 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZFI...

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Analytic Number Theorist: Conversations with Prof. R. Balasubramanian

YouTube video by Robin Reels Productions

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Aruna Balasubramanian @arunab.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

A very interesting archival project called “Indian mathematicians at work” does these long-form interviews with mathematicians not only about their mathematics but also about their lives. Here are two-part videos of an interview of my dad Prof Balasubramanian, an analytical number theorist.

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Aruna Balasubramanian @arunab.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I found this to be a really interesting and illuminating thread

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Caroline VanSickle (she/her) @cvansickle.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I keep thinking about how many institutional failures symptomatic of our society led to this doctor being able to cause such harm. This @propublica.org piece is long, wild, sad, terrifying, and definitely worth reading! #MedicalEthics #MedEthics

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Aruna Balasubramanian @arunab.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I dont know you but I loved following you on twitter, I am glad to see you here.

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Aruna Balasubramanian @arunab.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I add it just before switching the stove off after everything is done. It is a game changer.

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