Jacob Hoover Vigly @postylem.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Jan 25 snowstorm timelapse. Total measured 16.0". Pawtucket, RI. #riwx 000
Reposted by Jacob Hoover ViglyDr. David Miller 🏳️🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 09/05/2025So what's to come? My best guess: using AI to make or sign off on NSF funding decisions. Or at least that's what Musk, Vought, DOGE, etc. want, unless some swift action among scientists, the public, and Congress happens. If you haven't already, recommend checking out #SaveNSF action toolkit here:savensf.comTake Action | Save NSF 0144
Reposted by Jacob Hoover ViglyNicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 06/05/2025For #TidyTuesday this week, we're looking at data on terminations of NSF grants 📊 🎨 Using colour to highlight one category 📈 Transparency to highlight the important data ✍️ Annotations instead of a legend for transparency #RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz 415088
Reposted by Jacob Hoover ViglyRajo @rajodm.bsky.social · 06/05/2025#TidyTuesday week 18. Data: NSF Grant Terminations Under the Trump Administration. Code: github.com/rajodm/TidyT... #dataviz #rstats #ggplot2 35937
Reposted by Jacob Hoover ViglyJoão Loula @joaoloula.bsky.social · 25/04/2025- Cast controlled generation as an inference problem, with the LM as a prior and verifiers and scorers as likelihood - Use Sequential Monte Carlo to sample from the resulting posterior Library w/ tutorials for setting up your own controlled generation inference problems: github.com/genlm/genlm-...github.comGitHub - genlm/genlm-control: Controlled text generation with programmable constraints.Controlled text generation with programmable constraints. - genlm/genlm-control 131
Reposted by Jacob Hoover ViglyJoão Loula @joaoloula.bsky.social · 25/04/2025#ICLR2025 Oral How can we control LMs using diverse signals such as static analyses, test cases, and simulations? In our paper “Syntactic and Semantic Control of Large Language Models via Sequential Monte Carlo” (w/ @benlipkin.bsky.social, @alexlew.bsky.social, @xtimv.bsky.social) we: 176
Reposted by Jacob Hoover ViglyMaddy Jalbert @maddyjalbert.bsky.social · 19/04/2025I got an email yesterday afternoon that my NSF SPRF Postdoctoral Fellowship was terminated. My grant focused on testing interventions to address online misinformation and I was 8 months into a two year appointment. 701038460
Reposted by Jacob Hoover ViglyBen Lipkin @benlipkin.bsky.social · 10/04/2025New preprint on controlled generation from LMs! I'll be presenting at NENLP tomorrow 12:50-2:00pm Longer thread coming soon :) 1209
Jacob Hoover Vigly @postylem.bsky.social · 13/03/2025I just realized that if the ‘gumbelmax trick’ (look it up) is defined by using argmax on Gumbels, and identical ‘expmin trick’ uses argmin on Exponentials, then using argmax on Betas (precisely equivalent to the previous two), gives what really should be called the ‘betamax trick’ 📹 100
Reposted by Jacob Hoover ViglyDr. David Miller 🏳️🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 05/02/2025If you're an NSF PI like me, you might be wondering: Will my grant be suspended or terminated next week? A few key things to know: First off, remember that NSF is **congressionally mandated** to evaluate broader impacts. And laws like CHIPS and Science supersede EOs. But also... 🧵 thread 8234119
Jacob Hoover Vigly @postylem.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Very bad for science, and scientists. www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-…nature.comExclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s ordersThe US National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil. 120
Reposted by Jacob Hoover ViglyEric Boodman @ericboodman.bsky.social · 02/02/2025NSF froze payments to researchers. State AGs said it was unconstitutional for exec branch to pause congressionally mandated funds. Judge issued restraining order. Payments resumed. But some inconsistencies in what the NSF has said (thread): www.statnews.com/2025/02/02/n...statnews.comNational Science Foundation restores payments after five-day pause, but worries over science funding persistThe NSF said on Sunday that its payment system was back on line, after it froze out researchers and sparked financial worries. 24324
Reposted by Jacob Hoover ViglyAlt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 01/02/2025The best thing that scientists can do right this moment is organize with each other. Form networks, do coordinated communications: comms to the public, comms to media outlets, comms to Congress. That's the most urgent need. #philsci #scicomm #neuroskyence #evodevo #publichealth 213140
