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Car prices are insane here. Ban selling 'luxury' cars over $50k, require lengthy reviews and public comments before bringing any new cars into town, force dealers to sell cheap cars at a loss, and ensure no profits for those greedy dealers. That'll make cars more affordable in our city!

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Leaving aside Anthropic's incentives for publishing this research, there is no doubt that open weights models will soon create the same security threats that closed source models have been demonstrating, except without guardrails. We are close, so plan accordingly. www.anthropic.com/research/glm...

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Dulwich Quantum Computing @dulwichquantum.bsky.social · 20h

Please take a minute to appreciate that this guy's surname in reverse reads "no slop".

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YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

UVA School of Data Science has two open rank faculty positions open this year. Join us! - NLP: apply.interfolio.com/191213 - Data and Society: apply.interfolio.com/191214

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Sam Greenberg @samjgreenberg.com · 29/09/2026

The WSJ is complaining that rents are low in Portland due to an “oversupply of new housing.” 😈 www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to join our lab in Fall 2027, through either Computer Science or Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for people with interests in NLP plus [healthcare | literary studies | narratives | social media | etc.]. Join us! 🏔️☀️

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CLS Lab — Culture, Language, & Systems | University of Colorado Boulder

The Culture, Language, & Systems Lab at CU Boulder studies the language systems that transmit and shape modern culture, from internet platforms to literary archives to language models.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you’re interested in seeing how much of Charlottesville consists of surface parking lots, check out the map from the city’s GIS site (blue=surface parking). This doesn’t include street parking, parking garages, and driveways. We have so much parking! opendata.charlottesville.org/datasets/cha...

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Vehicle Parking Area

Mapped parking areas within the City of Charlottesville.

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YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm suspecting a major fault line in AI discourse may hinge upon where one stands on Searle’s Chinese Room argument.

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Nathan Alderman @nathanalderman.com · 28/09/2026

At @cvilleweekly.bsky.social, we've got an update to our Sept. 16 story about the Greene County Sheriff's Office's failure to report dozens of traffic stops from its June 23 ICE raids, as the law requires. That data's up now. 1 in 4 drivers Greene stopped in June were Latino.

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Greene sheriff adds 40 missing calls to traffic stop data - C-VILLE Weekly

Updated September 28, 2026: Amid a civil rights investigation by the Virginia Attorney General’s office into its traffic stop practices, newly updated data from the Greene County Sheriff’s Office show...

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026

Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev

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Atlas

A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.

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𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚎𝙽𝚎𝚝 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟽 @complenet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The CompleNet 2027 deadline has been extended to 17 October. We welcome extended abstracts (1–2 pages), short papers (up to 8) and long papers (up to 12). 📍 Rochester, NY — 9–12 March 👉 Submit: complenet.github.io/cfp.html

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Call for Contributions — CompleNet 2027

Call for contributions at CompleNet 2027, the 18th International Conference on Complex Networks.

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Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 24/09/2026

Have you ever thought about what your life would be like if you couldn't drive a car? #WeekWithoutDriving #Cville is an opportunity to turn idle curiosity into action. It's not about a total abstinence from driving, but about taking some tangible steps to experience alternatives to driving.

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Aaron Martin @sixfouronea.net · 24/09/2026

📣 We're hiring an open rank tenured/tenure track prof. in 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲 If you work on the governance of data and AI, we'd love for you to consider joining @uvadatascience.bsky.social ❤️ Details in the job advert: apply.interfolio.com/191214

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YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Kids find all kinds ingenious ways to communicate with each other. It's super cool, but also sad that they hang out less and less IRL (I'd blame mainly the built environment that restricts their mobility)

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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you want a better idea of how the newly formed Advisory Group on Mathematics and AI sees its work, and in particular its immediate task of advising OpenAI on how best to release their results, I recommend a recent blog post of Martin Hairer. proofsandprompts.com/2026/09/22/w...

proofsandprompts.com

Why I agreed to join AGMAI

Martin Hairer Professor of Pure Mathematics at EPFL and Imperial College London There has been a lot of speculation regarding the “Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artifical Intelligence&#82…

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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The 2026 Week Without Driving is October 1-8. We encourage you to participate in this effort to move towards a transportation system that works for everyone, not just drivers. You can learn more about the Charlottesville area #WeekWithoutDriving here: livablecville.org/weekwithoutd...

WEEK WITHOUT DRIVING

Week Without Driving: October 1-8, 2026

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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is true. A lucky few are moving their work to Europe, but the vast majority are simply leaving the field. A generation of researchers who will be lost to the rest of the economy, never to return.

ft.com

The next generation of American scientists is fading away

While the Trump administration racks up ‘wins’ in its anti-woke crusade, the US is eroding its talent pipeline

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YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Some dismiss "build across price range" as "trickle-down scam." But an empty home costs money and generates no rental income. Owners have a strong incentive to find a living, breathing occupant, staring a moving chain (which can be pretty fast and real, unlike "trickle-down economics").

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YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

As people have predicted, there are quite a few open-source alternatives to Jev, including: - Laya, this was the original according to him: github.com/NandhaKishor... - on Apple Core ML / neural engine: github.com/mizorewww/la... - with Qwen: github.com/jaredpalmer/...

github.com

GitHub - NandhaKishorM/laya

Contribute to NandhaKishorM/laya development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 21/09/2026

VAISI, the student-organized Virginia AI Security Initiative, has a great event lineup www.vaisi.org/events

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YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Meta Muse, which is pretty well made, may be the beginning of the next-gen AI agent for the masses, but of course with potential privacy/surveillance nightmares.

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jess reia • 何杰茜 @jhereia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We are hiring! ✨ Come work with me at @uvadatascience.bsky.social! We are recruiting an Open Rank Tenured/Tenure Track Prof of Data Science with a background in social science, legal, policy, STEM or humanities disciplines to join our Data and Society area. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/191214

This is a screenshot of the UVA School of Data Science website portraying the school building in the background against a blue sky and trees. The texts reads: Jobs at the School of Data Science. Join Our Team.

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YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Mandatory viewing for anyone whining, "we have winter and we can't bike in winter 😭" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-...

youtube.com

Why Canadians Can't Bike in the Winter (but Finnish people can)

YouTube video by Not Just Bikes

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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The next time you hear someone say “we are building too much in Charlottesville and Albemarle,” sharing this information might be helpful. We definitely have not built enough if we are second worst in the country in terms of one measure of commuting rates.

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 18/09/2026

Join us here in the University of Virginia School of Data Science @uvadatascience.bsky.social! We're hiring a tenure track / tenured prof in LLMs (/NLP) apply.interfolio.com/191213 and data & society (social sciences, policy, humanities, law, business, etc) apply.interfolio.com/191214

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UVA School of Data Science @uvadatascience.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The School of Data Science at UVA is committed to educating the next generation of data science leaders. The Ph.D. in Data Science is designed to impart the skills and knowledge necessary to enable research and discovery in data science methods. Apply today: bit.ly/3q9IEqs

Four people are standing together in a modern building with stairs in the background. They appear to be part of a promotional image for a Ph.D. in Data Science Program. A bright "APPLY NOW" button is at the bottom.

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YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I believe the “disproportionally” part follows the fourth power law. So doubling weight means 16 times(!) more damage.

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We're hiring in Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder! ☀️⛰️ Machine learning and NLP people, please apply!

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YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A recent study argues that this is a small fraction of the total external cost that cars impose on the society (i.e., other ppl). Car ownership or lack thereof can literally determine whether you retire as a multi-millionaire or not: yyahn.com/wiki/Cost-of...

yyahn.com

Cost of car ownership: the million-dollar decision you're not thinking about

One day, a PhD student mentioned the unexpected high cost of car repair—often over a thousand dollars, regardless of how cheap your car is. This got me...

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 13/09/2026

This will be bad for: - the students - the research progress - the universities - the towns the universities are in - the companies hiring students - the states the universities are in - the national economy - national security - the country - the world

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

mathandai.org

Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 11/09/2026

Over six months, we tracked the appearance of child sexual abuse material on X. We found images from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's database, which is considered one of the most highly vetted and which many tech companies block on upload. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...

nytimes.com

Elon Musk Has Pledged to Rid His Platform, X, of Child Sexual Abuse, but It Persists

Reviews by the Canadian Center for Child Protection and The New York Times found that explicit images of children remain on the social media site owned by Elon Musk.

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Sadamori Kojaku @skojaku.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Trivia 16: In 1988 the internet was a network of machines at universities, labs, and the military, built on mutual trust. No one knows the whole picture. "How many hosts in the network?" was an open question. 1/3 @complenet.bsky.social

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

New study finds the social cost of driving a car 1 km—including pollution, crashes, infrastructure, and noise—is more than *triple* the private cost paid by the car owner. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We just sent the September edition of our newsletter. It has an extended section about homelessness in Charlottesville, an Albemarle County housing win, UVA’s Strategic Plan, and more. We hope you find it informative. mailchi.mp/livablecvill...

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Livable Cville 🏡 September 2026 Newsletter

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...

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UVA School of Data Science @uvadatascience.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Data science is reshaping how we live and work. UVA Data Points brings you the conversations behind that change, featuring faculty, researchers, and leading experts on AI, ethics, policy, and responsible innovation. Listen today: uvadatapoints.castos.com

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Adrienne Wood @adriennewood.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

UVA Psychology is hiring a Developmental Psychologist (TT Assist. Prof.) this year!! We're looking for folks with computational or formal approaches to cog dev. Please share widely!! Review begins Oct 1 apply.interfolio.com/192030

apply.interfolio.com

Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 07/09/2026

Writing some scientific workflow slides for this week’s MPTC class.

Research workflow for those branches of the sciences where the important thing is to become famous.

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LSE Philosophy @lsephilosophy.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

⚗️🔭 How do we spark new scientific discoveries? Why do some breakthroughs seem accidental? The new book 'The Engine of Scientific Discovery' by CPNSS Research Associate Alexander Krauss is for anyone who wants to understand how we make discoveries. ➡ Link to the book: doi.org/10.1093/oso/...

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The Engine of Scientific Discovery: How New Methods and Tools Spark Major Breakthroughs

Abstract. How do we spark new scientific discoveries? Why do some breakthroughs seem even accidental? And most importantly, how can we accelerate them and

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I count 5 papers already on the arXiv (submitted yesterday; all but #5 in the screenshot below) based on one (1) event in the LZ detector that has a possible dark matter interpretation, which was also announced ... yesterday. If these trends continue...

6 papers from yesterday's HEP-Ph arxiv listing:

[1] arXiv:2609.01592 [pdf, html, other] Fermionic Dark Matter Absorption and the High-Energy Event in LUX-ZEPLIN Yuanchao Lou, hih-Ting Lu Comments: 11 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables. Comments are welcome Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) [2] arxiv:2609.01590 [pdf, html, other] TeV Higgsino Dark Matter from LZ Nuclear Recoil to Fermi-LAT Gamma Rays Lei Wu, Yang Zhang, Bin Zhu Comments: two columns, 5+9 pages, 4 figures Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) [3] arXiv:2609.01583 [pdf, html, other] Higgsino Dark Matter Interpretation of the LUX-ZEPLIN 248 keV Nuclear-Recoil Event Katherine Freese, Dionysios P. Theodosopoulos Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) [4] arXiv:2609.01504 [pdf, html, other] Higgsino Above the Sea of Fog Jiji Fan, Matthew Reece Comments: 33 pages, 10 figures, human work Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) [5] arXiv:2609.01480 [pdf, html, other] Gravitational Waves from Reheating beyond Instantaneous Thermalization Kyohei Mukaida, Tenta Tsuji Comments: 40 pages, 2 figures Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) [6] arXiv:2609.01475 [pdf, html, other] Inelastic Dark Matter Signature at High Recoil Energy in LUX-ZEPLIN and CRESST Liangliang Su, Jin Min Yang, Wen-Na Yang Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“The central question is straightforward: what specifically prevents Charlottesville from applying these well-established solutions?” A thoughtful essay from @yyahn.bsky.social about public preference for alternatives to driving and implementation challenges. yyahn.com/wiki/Public-...

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Safe streets are not a minority preference

Advocates for safer street designs such as Traffic calming are sometimes dismissed as a loud minority, implying that most people would oppose the change or...

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YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Of course you'd expect massive congestion when you increase the road capacity by 4-5x. According to nacto, *dedicated* transit lane can carry ~5x more people than a car lane and ~4x more people than a car lane with frequent bus. "Not stuck in the traffic" is such a powerful upgrade for transit.

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