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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

**Please repost** If you're enjoying Paper Skygest -- our personalized feed of academic content on Bluesky -- we'd appreciate you reposting this! We’ve found that the most effective way for us to reach new users and communities is through users sharing it with their network

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Kenny Peng @kennypeng.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

New York City 8th graders choose from 900+ high schools to apply to, in a process that’s spawned Facebook groups and dozens of expensive consulting services. Our new paper shows how application behavior leads to disparities, and how to effectively intervene. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Aaron Roth @aaroth.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It was fun giving this tutorial. If you missed it, check out calibration-tutorial.github.io where all of our materials are available, including slides, hundreds of pages of lecture notes, an interactive demo, and an annotated reading list.

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Ira Globus-Harris @iraglobusharris.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Reminder, this is in a few hours!! j o i n u s

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Ira Globus-Harris @iraglobusharris.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Great news, Gautam's tutorial isn't at the same time as me, @ncollina.bsky.social and @aaroth.bsky.social 's. Which means you can first go to his, learn how to unlearn, go to ours, then if you don't like anything you can unlearn it using your newfound knowledge! wow!

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Aaron Roth @aaroth.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

On Monday @ncollina.bsky.social @iraglobusharris.bsky.social and I are giving a tutorial at ICML on (multi)calibration and its applications. You can find slides and an annotated bibliography on the website: calibration-tutorial.github.io as well as an interactive demo of online calibration algs.

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Calibration, Decisions, and Collaboration in Learning | ICML 2026

An ICML 2026 tutorial on making probabilistic predictions trustworthy for downstream decision-making and collaboration.

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Ira Globus-Harris @iraglobusharris.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Are you at ICML next week? Feel like your decision-making for which sessions to attend might not be risk minimizing? Don't incur (swap) regret and come to my, @aaroth.bsky.social, and @ncollina.bsky.social's tutorial Monday on multicalibration, decision-making, and collaborative learning!

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let-all.com @let-all.com · 24/06/2026

Will you be at #COLT2026 next week in sunny San Diego? Come to our Learning Theory Alliance event on Monday, June 29 at 2:30 PM! Featuring a fireside chat with Sanjoy Dasgupta and Nika Haghtalab, followed by mentorship tables.

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Ira Globus-Harris @iraglobusharris.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I have this vision to code up an app where I can enter in the names of ppl I meet at conferences and a blurb about how we met etc.

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Ira Globus-Harris @iraglobusharris.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I have really enjoyed talking with Kenny about his work on alternative rec system mechanisms. This work offers a vision of user-powered concept exploration: imagine the social media feed equivalent of the joy of exploring wikipedia by navigating trails of hyperlinks from one article to the next.

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Divya Shanmugam @dmshanmugam.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

The goal is not just to remove race from models. It's to build systems where race no longer adds predictive power — because the factors it proxies for have been directly measured and the inequities it captures have been addressed.

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Divya Shanmugam @dmshanmugam.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Computational approaches to removing race are often insufficient. Why? Race often correlates with (1) unmeasured but relevant factors, like genetic traits (which should be measured directly) and (2) systemic disparities, like racism (which should be addressed, not adjusted for).

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Ira Globus-Harris @iraglobusharris.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I really like this thoughtful piece by @dmshanmugam.bsky.social @emmapierson.bsky.social @sidhikabalachandar.bsky.social and others on how removing race from clinical algorithms is not necessarily the anti-racist choice it is purported to be, because race often has predictive power.

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Aaron Roth @aaroth.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Neural networks are highly non-convex, so approximate error minimizers need not look anything like each other in parameter space. But we show that nevertheless (for many model sizes) approximate error minimizers must closely agree in function/prediction space despite this!

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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 24/02/2026

Sometimes you gotta split the difference. From Aaron Roth's (@aaroth.bsky.social) plenary talk at #ALT2026

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Kenny Peng @kennypeng.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

New paper! The Linear Representation Hypothesis is a powerful intuition for how language models work, but lacks formalization. We give a mathematical framework in which we can ask and answer a basic question: how many features can be stored under the hypothesis? 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2602.11246

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TCS+ @tcsplus.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

📢 Our last TCS+ talk of the season will be Wed, Dec 3 (10am PT, 1pm ET, 19:00 CET): Natalie Collina (@ncollina.bsky.social), from UPenn, will tell us about "Swap regret and correlated equilibria beyond normal-form games"! RSVP to receive the link (one day before the talk): forms.gle/utLgSxLpqvpx...

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TCS+ RSVP: Natalie Collina (2025/12/03)

Title: Swap regret and correlated equilibria beyond normal-form games

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Foundations of Responsible Computing @forcconf.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

📢 In case you missed it: the first-cycle deadline for FORC 2026 is *tomorrow*, November 11. Submit your best work on mathematical research in computation and society, writ large. Too soon? We'll also have a second-cycle deadline on February 17, 2026. CfP: responsiblecomputing.org/forc-2026-ca...

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Ira Globus-Harris @iraglobusharris.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

New paper on collaborative prediction just dropped!! This was a ton of fun to work on and the results are ✨nifty✨

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Fresca Husky @frescahusky.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The ACLU is looking for trans individuals effected by the recent transphobic Executive Order in order to bring a lawsuit against it. Here is a form if you are comfortable submitting your info to potentially be represented by the ACLU to fight this EO. www.aclu.org/transpasspor...

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Ira Globus-Harris @iraglobusharris.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I am incredibly baffled why standard reporting agencies (eg NYT) are leading w illegal immigrants in all their articles about this, when by my reading it is a huge swath of people not usually targeted by the "illegal immigrant" rhetoric who are additionally impacted.

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Ira Globus-Harris @iraglobusharris.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

The beautiful irony of this postdoc application I'm filling out that is specifically for minority applicants and which asks lots of questions about my gender identity also being the only one I've submitted thus far to specifically require my legal name all over the form. 😆

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Ira Globus-Harris @iraglobusharris.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Does anyone have any favorite resources about the reliance on precedent in US law? It's something I've never fully grasped. As a silly computer scientist, my impulse is to say that correctness of logical reasoning should be independent of that which came before.

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Ira Globus-Harris @iraglobusharris.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I regret to report that despite my initial horror of using starch gelation to achieve a good pan sauce, my recreation of this experiment tastes better than any unsuccessful attempt at cacio e pepe I have made thus far.

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Ira Globus-Harris @iraglobusharris.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

The fact that you get an AI overview on google before any other links leads to some fun slightly oxymoronic content.

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Ira Globus-Harris @iraglobusharris.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Is there a word/phrase for the phenomenon of media disappearing from widespread access because it's only hosted on streaming services and those services can remove it randomly?

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Ira Globus-Harris @iraglobusharris.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Reading a book on regulation in the early internet written in '99 and @globusharris.bsky.social is letting me borrow this excellent Y2K bookmark from the library to go with the theme, advertising the new digital library search technology. Which didn't yet include email support, but says soon will!

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Ira Globus-Harris @iraglobusharris.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Hey listen could FORC and FAccT maybe not be overlapping conferences every year? These are the two most relevant conferences to my research interests and I simply do not understand why they need to be on the same or nearly identical days.

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Ira Globus-Harris @iraglobusharris.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

How do people organize the research papers they read? My current strategy is a mess of papers in random places. I've tried organizing by topic but there's overlap and it ends up being ambiguous and too annoying to maintain.

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Ira Globus-Harris @iraglobusharris.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Has anyone ever had to write a leadership statement for an academic job and if so, what did you include?

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