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UVA School of Data Science @uvadatascience.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

When two teams make the same discovery at once, the standard measure of disruptive research can bury both. UVA Ph.D. candidate Munjung Kim and @yyahn.bsky.social built a better tool, published in Science Advances. Read the full story: bit.ly/3SNVSax

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Physics Magazine @physicsmagazine.aps.org · 11/05/2026

A new bibliometric index aims to do a better job of identifying whether a paper is a breakthrough by looking at both the papers it cites and the papers that cite it.

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How to Spot a Milestone from a Mile Away

A new method for rating scientific papers can identify breakthroughs that slip through the cracks of common citation metrics.

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Munjung Kim @mj-kim.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The Higgs mechanism was proposed in 1964 by three independent teams. But here is the puzzle🤔: the "disruption index" says Higgs's paper is among the least disruptive ever. So what is going on? In our new paper, just out in #ScienceAdvances, we take up this puzzle: doi.org/10.1126/scia... 👇 1/7

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Uncovering simultaneous breakthroughs with a robust measure of disruptiveness

An embedding-based disruption measure not only robustly captures disruptive works but also reveals simultaneous discoveries.

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YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

🚨 A research staff position at my group at @uvadatascience.bsky.social! I’m recruiting a research Scientist (or postdoc scholar). You can apply here! bit.ly/ylab-researc... For more information: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... Inquiries: yyahn@virginia.edu with [job] in the subject line.

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Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Research Associate - School of Data Science

The School of Data Science at the University of Virginia and Professor Yong-Yeol (“YY”) Ahn, Quantitative Foundation Distinguished Professor, are excited to announce two professional research staff po...

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Sadamori Kojaku @skojaku.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Creating questions at a right level of challenge helps me learn nuances and go beyond surface-level understanding. But why not let students to do that? I created a pedagogical tool that lets students to create challenging questions that stump LLMs. Repo 👉: github.com/skojaku/llm-...

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GitHub - skojaku/llm-quiz

Contribute to skojaku/llm-quiz development by creating an account on GitHub.

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