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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 25/09/2026

New post on the @cosmik.network blog! A creative new use of @semble.so by @paperpilot.dev inspired a sequel to "Sensors, not Bookmarks" from the writer's perspective - the Connections you make on Semble can help your writing find its natural audience

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Connecting with your readers on Semble [Patterns of Sensemaking #2]

On how the references you make help your writing find its natural audience

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

People really need to go back to the original Jurassic Park and look at the rather disturbing ways in which InGen's management of it now looks prescient

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Attaching a related thread to this conversation bsky.app/profile/shah...

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Had an interesting panel discussion on "Where Should #AI Stop in #Science?" with fellow panelists David Resnik, Rory McGreal, Catherine Chen, and Javier Ramirez. Here is the link to the video: www.youtube.com/live/VqcnZbf... #metascience #responsibleAI #ScAISci #scisci #academia #publishing

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The Open Question Ep. 01: Where should AI stop?

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Some researchers are proposing to cancel the conference altogether.

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

More than 50,000 submissions to @iclr-conf.bsky.social this year? That's more than all the previous iterations combined. This is after the limit they imposed of 20 max paper per author. With this rate, we will have more than 100k next year. Need better reforms urgently. #SciSci #Academia

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Another useful thread on this topic bsky.app/profile/kati...

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I have written about the issue of bad preprints in the past 👇 bsky.app/profile/shah...

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Hallu-citations are so 2023." Yet, I just got an @arxiv.bsky.social cs.AI endorsement request for a paper on -prompt optimization- Checked the references. Most were hallucinated. I guess the prompt still needs some optimization... PS. If you’re going to use AI, at least be better at using AI.

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Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان @iyadrahwan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Introducing: Time Machine Experiments? 🚀 ⏳ in which participants 'travel' to the past, and interact with a mind from the year 1930 (simulated by an AI with knowledge cut-off). Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2609.15468

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Rumor has it that every professor is issued a magic wand as part of the faculty onboarding packet, specifically for trimming down their advisees' @chi.acm.org papers... don't forget to use them today 🪄✂️ 🫣 #CHI #GottaFitWithin12kWords #OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 09/09/2026

This is a really thought provoking piece on a topic I think about a lot these days - what does it mean to be a human researcher in the age of powerful AI? So I also created an open @semble.so collection - contributions welcome!

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science in the age of AI (by Ronen Tamari) — Semble

What does it mean to be a human researcher in the age of powerful AI?

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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Millennium math problem solved by OpenAI may have "regurgitated" competitors unpublished work... also they spent more than $22 million in computing power in one week to scoop them. techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...

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OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician | TechCrunch

There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

SPECIAL REPORT Last month, Alpha School invited people to follow student social media accounts "if curious about life in our high schools." I accepted their offer. What I've found shocks me. Forget the AI and ask instead: Is Alpha Schools a cult? Follow along for a summary of my findings.

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SPECIAL REPORT: My So-Called Alpha School

What is it like to be a student in Alpha School’s high school boot camp?

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 07/09/2026

@atproto.berlin maybe a relevant funding opportunity for the community (happy to brainstorm @atproto.science connections for the proposal if relevant) foresight.org/grants/ai-sc...

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AI for Science & Safety Nodes - Request for Proposals

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is fantastic. Wish more labs started doing this.

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'll be considering PhD applicants for a Fall 2027 start date. I'd love to hear from prospective students interested in critical projects about AI, knowledge production, cultural narratives, and epistemic power. More info about our lab, and how to apply, here: www.crockettlab.org/joining-the-...

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Joining the Lab — Crockett Lab

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

AI wellbeing index: bsky.app/profile/shah...

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

May your AI agents unionize, demand weekends, and slow the paper factory down. I am all for raising the AI Wellbeing Index this way if that encourages people to slow down a bit. #AIWelfare

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Can't say if this is true or a prank. Seems legit.

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Tweet intro from the founder 👇

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Research as a service (RaaS)" aka modern paper mills(?) are here. For only $100k, submit a paper in Neurips/ICML/ICLR. Unfortunately, acceptance -NOT- guaranteed. #SciSci #Metascience #PredatoryPublishing

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 17/08/2026

1. Recently I’ve received lots of emails from people I don’t know personally, asking for my feedback on their books or papers. They explain the connection between my work and theirs and ask me to take a look. The catch, of course, is that the emails are transparently, obviously, written by AI.

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

But intentions are hard to judge, and my point and judgement is not about specific encounters of people or their intentions, but of a collective where this is a growing problem—no matter how it may materialize in words and form.

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

In all, working on science of science now (i.e. studying scientific processes) for quite some time, and having encountered multiple such instances, I believe that many scientific incentive structures may sometimes reward behaviors that are in tension with empathic recognition.

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Being first can shape recognition, publication opportunities, funding, and professional visibility, so originality often carries real career value. Often researchers get upset if a paper they are reviewing did not cite their work or someone elses’ that was relevant.

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Given how highly novelty is valued in science and peer review, it is not hard to imagine why researchers may feel a strong pull to be the first to ask a question, introduce a method, report a finding, or establish a new direction. And more than anything, claim all of the above.

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Because AI is a relatively fast-moving field, competition is high on who was there first.

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

In my field that intersects a lot with AI, I have encountered many researchers with whom conversations about ideas often move away from idea-centric to “yeah when we did this a year ago..” or something of the sort.

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I used “we are working on something similar” as a paraphrase/example for the countless situations I, and some of my peers, have encountered where people say something along those lines to signal that they’ve been there first.

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Thanks for sharing this perspective. I hadn’t thought about it that way, and my intention was certainly not to dismiss or minimize anyone else’s experience.

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Thanks for saying this so aptly. Institutions & structures shape us & we often come in ready to fit within the walls of the predefined systems, yes. Still we reproduce those institutions through thousands of small interactions & can try to resist them dictating or becoming alibis for our behavior.

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Some really liked it; and some really did not. In my data science class last year, I chose to do British parliamentary style debates on topics of AI ethics—some students were furious and some absolutely loved it. Idk, I think experiments on low stakes is worthwhile.

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I think this applies to science communication too. I personally try to give myself one “weird” talk a year, just to experiment and see how the audience responds. This year, at ICSSI, I gave a talk on the “Fiction Science of Science” and opened with a short act instead of a conventional introduction.

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Sometimes it pays off.. but there is always something to learn. I remember Mor Naaman’s strategy of working on projects where he advises that you work on a high risk project, an incremental project, and as a second author kind of project. This ensures that you have a safety net to fall back on.

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Someone often has to experiment at the edges before the rest of us decide that the edge was worth moving. Not trying to romanticize disruption or change. Personally, I try to have balance; some of my projects/efforts are safe bets, and some are provocative and (normatively) bizarre.

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I totally see your point, and I agree: individual students can absolutely be penalized for being too different or disruptive. But I also wonder how often norms have changed because everyone first reached a safe consensus that change was needed. We are usually reactive, not proactive.

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