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Patrick Emami

@patrickomid.bsky.social
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ML research at the National Laboratory of the Rockies. Currently thinking about multimodal language models and assistants for scientific discovery. Optimistic about AI4Science & Engineering. #PDX #DTWD #🏃‍♂️🎽👟

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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 05/04/2026
that's the focus of my new book: bettercodebetterscience.github.io/book/
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Better Code, Better Science - Better Code, Better Science
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Teawhalem @teawhalem.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
An Elegy for NREL and the Passing of America’s Renewable Compass cleantechnica.com/2025/12/01/a...
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An Elegy for NREL and the Passing of America’s Renewable Compass - CleanTechnica
NREL’s name is gone, yet its solar, wind, and grid innovations define today’s energy world. This elegy reflects on its enduring impact.
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Alan Ohnsman @aohnsman.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Guess this was inevitable: An administration that doesn't believe in renewable energy has renamed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), its moniker for +50 years, the National Laboratory of the Rockies www.nrel.gov/news/detail/...
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Call for Papers! 🧵 The Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy a Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Editors: Alondra Nelson (IAS) and Jenny Reardon (UC, Santa Cruz) Abstract Deadline: Sept 19 www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pub...
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Public Science
Call for Papers Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social ScienceThe Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy
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Patrick Emami @patrickomid.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Donald Trump is *literally* Patrick Bateman’s hero in the novel American Psycho
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JP Acosta @acosta32jp.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
The Jacksonville Jaguars, imo
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 08/08/2025
The U.S. government has fueled decades of world-leading scientific and technical innovation by funding research efforts through grants programs & universities where researchers controlled decisions. In the USSR, no decisions were made by scientists alone. Every decision required political approval.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/08/2025
1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years. Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
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Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/08/2025
6. This makes it impossible to engage in anything other than the shortest-term, most incremental research. Far-reaching, innovative, creative, world-changing research will no longer take place in the United States.
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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 07/08/2025
💬 Comments count. Submit yours by 15 Sept. to oppose the EPA’s rollback of its greenhouse gas endangerment finding. Submit:https://buff.ly/gPQyo15 #AGUAdvocacy #SciencePolicy
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Proposed Rule: Reconsideration of 2009 Endangerment Finding and Greenhouse Gas Vehicle Standards | US EPA
The proposed rule on the reconsideration of the greenhouse gas endangerment finding and motor vehicle rule
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 30/07/2025
NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —
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Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work
A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.
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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
PSA: NeurIPS position track has no rebuttal period so reviews won’t be released until August. Don’t bother emailing the PCs! (Multiple people have asked me why their reviews aren’t visible. PCs should send a mass email and change the CFP.)
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Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র @bmitra.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
A personal update.
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Why I am leaving big tech…
After spending almost two decades in big tech, I was notified last month that I am being laid off.There have been massive waves of layoffs across the industry recently, and I am just one of the many t...
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Kosta Derpanis @csprofkgd.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
#ICML2025 test of time award
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/07/2025
This is an insane time in the tech industry. Superintelligence is fictional! This is so much an egregious waste of money, Meta's Chief AI scientist said generative AI won't lead to it either! AhhhhhHhhhh
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METR @metr.org · 10/07/2025
When AI is allowed, developers spend less time actively coding and searching for information, and instead spend time prompting AI, waiting on/reviewing AI outputs, and idle. We find no single reason for the slowdown—it’s driven by a combination of factors.
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Matt Henry @menrywy.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
One thing that's stood out to me at NREL under Trump 2.0: the contrast between the institution's instinct for self-preservation reflected in deep changes to the way the lab stories itself vs. how rural coalitions I work with have remained steadfast in their commitment to building new energy futures.
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Patrick Emami @patrickomid.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
we are cooked
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charles (west coaster) mcdonald @fourverts.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
happy juneteenth everyone ✊🏾
legendary social media post from the florida state football team featuring MARTIN LUTHER KING in a vapormax glove with the words “DO SOMETHING” behind him

equally funny and offensive. perfect postmanship. bluesky needs more of this.
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Patrick Emami @patrickomid.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
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sylvain gignac @sylvaingignac.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Great report = comprehensive coverage of all aspects related to the integration of DC/AI loads. gridlab.org/portfolio-it...
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Practical Guidance and Considerations for Large Load Interconnections - GridLab
This report provides an outline of the current state of Large Load interconnections including data centers. It includes recommended questions for regulators and utilities to develop more robust interc...
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Ted Pavlic (he/him/his) @tedpavlic.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪 www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...
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How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific
A discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR, the gold-standard COVID-19 tests used to fight the global pandemic.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
incredible that, looking back to 2019, every large firm working on LLMs had the attitude that this was an enormously disruptive technology and that the rollout needed to be careful and stage-managed in order to avoid catastrophic legal and consumer backlash and then in 2022 went "lol nevermind"
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Ecological Society of America @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
URGENT! Contact your senators today to advocate to fund science agencies and programs! The Senate Appropriations Committee & its subcommittees are writing appropriation bills for the federal FY26 budget now. Here's how you can help: esa.org/esablog/2025...
the U.S. Capitol building on an overcast day, looking ominous
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Tim Clancy @viewfromarchstreet.com · 01/06/2025
DOE budget is out -- the summary table at least. Here are a few energy research lowlights: EERE -74.3% Science -13.9% Nuclear -20.7% Fossil -31.2% Electricity -31.1% Cybersecurity -25% Technology Commercialization -50% (moved to admin) www.energy.gov/sites/defaul...
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Patrick Emami @patrickomid.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Recommended reading: Scientific Babel history.princeton.edu/about/public... What will be the next dominant language? 🥲
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Scientific Babel: How Science Was Done Before and After Global English
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David Pfau @davidpfau.com · 28/05/2025
The war on science in the US is already having an effect on private sector research like AlphaFold. Bears repeating but the private sector builds on top of things created by academic research for the public good. This hurts everyone.
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
I wish this was hyperbole but the facts speak for themselves. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
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The Trump Administration Is Trying to Kill American Higher Education
I don't care about the "why" -- I care about the "what."
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Andrew S. Rosen @andrewrosen.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🚨 Brand new postdoctoral researcher position in my group at Princeton! Please apply or share with anyone interested in computational materials science and being an electron whisperer! puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app....
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 23/05/2025
International students deserve to pursue their education without harassment from the government.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
You can learn more here.
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The Weather & Climate Livestream
Join us starting May 28th, as meteorologists and climate scientists from across the US share their research and answer your questions.
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Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
A conference officially adds LLM generated reviews to "peer" (sigh)-review. What could possibly go wrong, apart from lazy or incompetent reviewers being convinced by LLM output, and authors spending their rebuttal time on answering hallucinations which are probably not read by these same reviewers?
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
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NeurIPS Conference @neuripsconf.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This year's NeurIPS conference will initiate a position track. The position track paper deadline is May 22 AoE for all materials (abstract, full paper, supplementary, etc.). See Call for Paper for more details! neurips.cc/Conferences/...
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Call For Position Papers 2025
We invite the submission of position papers to be published at the NeurIPS 2025 conference. Position papers make an argument for a viewpoint or perspective about what should be done, in contrast to…
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Matt Henry @menrywy.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Hard to disagree with any of my colleagues’ frustrations here. It is incredibly hard to do good research under these conditions, too.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/05/2025
SCOOP: 114 staff at the National Renewable Laboratory fired Monday morning. A researcher says that leadership "kept us in the dark and insisted things were better than they are."
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Trump's onslaught hits staff at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Insiders report 114 job cuts on Monday, done in a "haphazard and unorganized" way.
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NeurIPS Conference @neuripsconf.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Responsible reviewing initiatives for NeurIPS 2025 - read more about changes to reviewing that that will safeguard reviewing quality and timeline in our blog post below: blog.neurips.cc/2025/05/02/r...
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Responsible Reviewing Initiative for NeurIPS 2025 – NeurIPS Blog
Communications Chairs 2025 2021 Conference
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Kiran @kirancodes.me · 30/04/2025
Assume a spherical cat of uniform density...
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Patrick Emami @patrickomid.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
The part of In Cold Blood by Capote where he first details the murder scene… whew 🔥🔥🔥 💀
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 28/04/2025
Here is a link to the full @60minutes.bsky.social segment! 👀 a nice surprise at 5:25 AND one of our very own, Kristin Weinstein makes an appearance at 9 mins. #StandUpforScience #scienceforall #saveourscience www.cbsnews.com/news/scienti...
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Scientists fear Trump administration cuts to NIH could impact the health of Americans for generations
Former National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins, who abruptly left his NIH research lab in February, fears aggressive downsizing could impact Americans' health.
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Climate Change AI @climatechangeai.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Headed to #ICLR25? Want to connect more with the AI x sustainability community? Check out our networking event, organized jointly with FCL (fcl.ethz.ch) and supported by @mila-quebec.bsky.social . 👇👇👇 Learn more about the event & register (for free) here: tinyurl.com/CCAIxFCL
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Been waiting for a work making this clear for a while: zero-shot, LLMs do not hedge and do not ask questions to solve under-specified problems arxiv.org/abs/2503.22674
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QuestBench: Can LLMs ask the right question to acquire information in reasoning tasks?
Recently, a large amount of work has focused on improving large language models' (LLMs') performance on reasoning benchmarks such as math and logic. However, past work has largely assumed that tasks a...
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Ben Lipkin @benlipkin.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
New preprint on controlled generation from LMs! I'll be presenting at NENLP tomorrow 12:50-2:00pm Longer thread coming soon :)
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The multiagent LLM people are going to do me in. What do you mean you told one agent it was a manager and the other a worker and it slightly improved performance
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Murderbot, the best science fiction series of the past 25 years, is now a show on Apple TV. Might be premature to say so but it feels like things are turning around
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Murderbot — Official Trailer | Apple TV+
It's rogue. It's powerful. It would rather be watching TV.Based on the award-winning, best-selling series by Martha Wells, Murderbot follows a rogue security...
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Patrick Emami @patrickomid.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
🗣️ If you still need lodging in Singapore for ICLR, I have a hotel room reserved in the ICLR block (Conrad Singapore Orchard, April 24-29) that is now available. Willing to be ~flexible on cost if traveling on a budget. Send me a message if interested!
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Patrick Emami @patrickomid.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
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OpenAI's Studio Ghibli meme factory is an insult to art itself
Sam Altman is promoting his new image generator by appropriating the work of one of the greatest living animators—who is "disgusted" by AI.
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 21/03/2025
I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
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Patrick Emami @patrickomid.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
today I heard someone say that they intentionally built something to be difficult to use for non ~advanced programmers… to avoid having to maintain it for general users (a lot of work)… lawful evil
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