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Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

@carlbergstrom.com had a great thread on that report (presumably what this piece is summarizing) a few weeks ago if you didn’t see it. bsky.app/profile/carl...

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 30/07/2026

We already do this and companies who want them are happy to pay for PhD student interns. Why do precious and limited NSF funds need to be deployed for this? Most PhD student pursue industry jobs anyways - that has always been true. Use NSF funds to support basic science that industry wont support!

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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Now that the rich and powerful people are calling for open-weights models, it's time to pressure them to be legitimately brave and back open-corpus models.

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Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Maybe they should…take the GRE?

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

5/ Experts point to several factors for why it came back: 1️⃣Cattle smuggling outside control zones 2️⃣In early 2025, roughly 15,000 USDA positions were eliminated, and a USAID-funded monitoring project was terminated 3️⃣ The loss of specialized expertise as generations of entomologists retire

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AIhub.org @aihub.org · 05/06/2026

Great to chat to @sanmayd.bsky.social, @aaai.org Fellow and AIhub trustee, about his work on multiagent systems for social good, how he chooses research problems, and what the future holds for research in this space aihub.org/2026/06/04/i...

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Interview with AAAI Fellow Sanmay Das: multiagent systems - ΑΙhub

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Wrote about the importance of adhering to an effective, disciplined nonviolence in fighting the Trump regime, especially given a growing obsession with “heroic” violence online (gift link). www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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The Assassin’s Delusion

Violence serves an authoritarian agenda.

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Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

That sucks :( FWIW I've learned a lot from your summaries -- they have been go-to reading for me when a decision comes down. So thanks for doing what you did, and I completely understand why you wouldn't want to any more.

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Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

It's OK, now all talks are full of deep learning instead.

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Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I finally subscribed to The Guardian last fall, and reading @barneyronay.bsky.social this season has, for the first time in years, given me major "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu" John Updike vibes. Genuinely brilliant sportswriting.

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Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Now this is bad. Judgment is really the last thing to use generative AI for.

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Thomas Dietterich @tdietterich.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Joe Halpern played a huge role in creating the CoRR and later integrating it with @arxiv.bsky.social. He chaired the CS section from 1998 until 2023, and he was active as a moderator until just a few weeks ago. Thank you, Joe, for promoting open science!

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Every time someone tries to fuck with COBOL the world breaks.

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Megan Stevenson @meganstevenson.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Robynn Cox and I have a new paper! It's about the history of predictive algorithms in criminal justice, back in the 1920s-1950s. This paper is the result of five years of research and we're so happy to see it out. 🧵 1/

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Bradford Vivian @bradvivian.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

My 2 cents about The Atlantic’s Mellon Foundation polemic and humanities funding: Beyond its specious content, the article illustrates something truly dangerous: the normalization of conspiratorial tropes about externally funded research in universities originally seen in extremist propaganda. 1/5

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Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

It’s worth reading the op-ed Zoë Hitzig wrote about the AI advertising landscape. Very thoughtful and informative

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Ben Waber @bwaber.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Prediction and prioritization for allocating societal resources - @sanmayd.bsky.social - highly recommend www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwXu... Impact of capacity constraints on RCT evaluation - @hannahli.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuwB... (3/9)

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On Machine Learning for Prediction and Prioritization in the Allocation of Scarce Societal Resources

YouTube video by Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing

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Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Basically for all the same reasons that arXiv is moderated at all. If it weren't, it would be unusable / unmaintainable. info.arxiv.org/help/moderat...

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Content Moderation - arXiv info | arXiv e-print repository

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Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

They also spend a lot of time trying to find the best category / make sure a submission is looked at by the right people!

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Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Completely agreed that norms differ! There are often judgment calls made. I should note, though, that mods are typically experienced / senior people in their communities and should have a good understanding of such norms!

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Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Hmm, OK, I mean there's always some subjectivity in making that decision. I don't know what this particular case was, but I'll make a more general point w.r.t. the other FAccT paper you mentioned. Anything that could reasonably be accepted to FAccT, AIES, etc as a research paper *should* be fine

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Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

It could just have been a mistake! You should appeal if you feel it meets the standard of being research.

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Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

My opinion -- it makes a novel contribution to knowledge in a way that many of the position papers that are being submitted to the position paper tracks at major conferences do not. In this case the contribution is through a different kind of analysis than most cs, but clearly research.

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Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

A “position paper” is fundamentally different from one that uses methods of research that are standard (in other disciplines). As long as there’s a clear enough connection to cs, it should have a home! I think cs.CY would be completely on target for something like this

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Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

This paper on its own is not at all what I would consider a position paper and would fit into cs.CY just fine, though? Although I certainly don’t have any issues with a cs.DH category.

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Patrick Johanneson 🚀👻 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 21/11/2025

8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Happy 40th birthday to Bill Waterson’s ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. A work of consummate, stubborn, human, and more-than-human art.

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Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

After having more than one SPC at AAAI produce AI-generated “metareviews” (that were actually “reviews” in the first place) my only remaining faith is that by continuing to layer the hierarchy of reviews further the law of large numbers will kick in in some fashion…

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Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

I think many people are misreading this as being about all cs arxiv papers, not just review/position papers!

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Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Yup, this. And on the second question, I think it’s when ICML and NeurIPS introduced position paper tracks.

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Revan @revan.eurosky.social · 02/11/2025

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.

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Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

If you’ve had issues of this kind with cs.CY, you should always feel free to appeal. Mods for the categories are, from my experience, both well-trained and read widely in their areas, and understand the norms of relevant disciplines pretty well!

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Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

This is also a big part of why there’s suddenly a preponderance of “multiagent systems” — they need modularity for individual tasks within a larger project because otherwise they get muddled by the context window.

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Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Sadly, it will likely be more important than the famous Conservapedia

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

NYT pushed its “Dems must go moderate” take again yesterday. In a new piece out today, @adambonica.bsky.social shows even more clearly why the data don’t support it. It also shows what a skilled empiricist and teacher Adam is. Very proud of my pal’s public work. open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

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The New York Times’ “Moderation Advantage” Is a Statistical Illusion

After accounting for money and incumbency the supposed electoral bonus for moderate candidates vanishes entirely.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education. We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

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Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Thanks for an excellent talk! Great work

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Friday night: the time when parents across this nation check to make sure that the correct color of jersey is clean and nobody lost a shin guard

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Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Lol, will take your word for it!

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Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Also they do all this bio and chemistry stuff, but no math! Monotonic! Affine!

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 30/07/2025

"You’ll also want to download SportsYouth to communicate with the parents of team members. Many of the games require your child to arrive at 4:30 p.m., even though you need to work until 5 p.m."

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All the Apps You Need to Keep Up with Your Child’s Youth Baseball Team This Summer

Dear parents, We are thrilled to have your child on our summer baseball team. We have a few apps we use to help keep things organized around here, ...

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Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Although, also, mangos are one of the easiest fruits to cut and eat??

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Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I have to inform you, though, that the flavor and aroma of the Dasheri are unmatched (with citation!) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasheri — my local store has flown in boxes of both the last couple of years :)

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Dasheri - Wikipedia

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Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Reading this at face value, on top of everything else, “immigration” is a “form of discrimination?!”

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Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Ah, I found the post I was thinking of! bsky.app/profile/fili...

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