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We’re hiring in Cambridge CS! Assistant/Associate Professor position in AI and machine learning, including learning theory and related areas of theoretical computer science. Apply here: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...

This evening at 6pm, the Albemarle County Planning Commission will consider the Gander North development on 29 across from Wal-Mart, which will have 237 homes, including 48 that are income restricted. We wrote a letter in support of this development: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

intersectional tenure track faculty job @ university of washington research in ethical, social, legal, policy, and/or humanistic dimensions of artificial intelligence (AI) and data-intensive technologies in science, medicine, biomedical research and health care apply.interfolio.com/193732

Today starting at 6:30 PM — show up to support a great trail project that could some day connect Cville to Crozet and on to the Blue Ridge Tunnel👇🏽

How do you tell if authors fabricated their research results? Sometimes: they just tell you. Read, e.g., this caption carefully. Another banger of a post by my friend Nihar B. Shah on his blog, where he found at least 20+ such #ICLR2027 submissions: researchonresearch.blog/2026/10/20/s...

I get 5+ emails *a day* from prospective PhD students. I have seen some advice going around about what to write in these emails. Here's my piece of advice: don't waste your time. Or your tokens. #phdadmissions Or, if you really insist...

📣 Postdocs at Yale FDS! 📣 Tremendous freedom for work on the foundations of data science with faculty across campus, multi-year, great salary. Deadline 11/6. Spread the word! Application: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32396 More about Yale FDS: fds.yale.edu

We are hiring!! "Artificial intelligence, broadly construed. This includes embodied AI and robotics, machine learning and the systems that support it, and AI developed for problems in science, engineering, medicine, education, and society." jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

MSR internship "focused on creating new interactive experiences that 'blend artificial and human intelligence'". Open to current PhD students in Comp. Sci. or a related field.

Goodhart’s law in action (as always!)

Faculty opportunity in computational neuroscience at U of Maryland, College Park-Department of Biology, welcoming applications at both Assistant & Associate Professor levels. Best consideration date: Dec 31, 2026 umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...

REMINDER: The priority deadline for this position is October 30th. We're looking for an Assistant Professor, tenure-track, in Library and Information at the UW Information School @ischool.uw.edu Please share with your networks. I am on the search committee and happy to answer questions.

Reminder that we're holding this virtual NLP reading group every Monday @ 12PM ET. Sign up via the quoted form if you'd like to join us! Read, chat, and start your Monday by closing some of your open paper tabs.

We sent out an action alert regarding 3 advocacy opportunities: the Avon St multimodal open house (Oct 22), a key Three Notched Trail meeting (Oct 26), and a VDOT 29N pedestrian survey. It also covers 2 social events: our County meetup (Oct 28) and a Halloween bike ride. mailchi.mp/livablecvill...

Reminder that @treygrainger and I are beginning our online conference "The Future of AI Search" Lots of great names giving talks like Yonik Seeley, Jo Kristan Bergum, and more Today we're hearing from Amelie Chatelain on whats going on with late interaction in 2026 maven.com/lls/3c81d4

Go to your camera roll and search "boat" and then post a pic of a boat you like

Yale Statistics & Data Science is running an open-rank faculty search (Asst/Assoc/Full), focused on "Applied Data Science". I moved to Yale 2y ago and am very happy here! Feel free to reach out to me if you have questions. Review begins 11/1. statistics.yale.edu/assistantass...

The 17.1% forecast is almost certainly wrong ***by a lot***, but it’s excellent for intellectual accountability when people put these kinds of predictions out

X's Community Notes are increasingly submitted by AI writers. In a new preprint, X open-sourced its Community Writer tool. A dive into the data underpinning it revealed that in Sept, six AI writers run by X's team wrote 90%+ of all AI-written notes, and 55% of notes that showed up on posts.

We're running out of time to stop burning fossil fuels "Earth’s climate system is moving deeper into uncharted territory. We present the 2026 update of planetary vital signs that track the state of Earth’s climate system, alongside indicators of the human activities driving ongoing change."

The NetSci 2027 Call for Abstracts & Satellites is here! netsci2027.github.io/calls/abstra... Submit your boundary-breaking research and join us in Dresden 🤩🚀 Abstract deadline: 1 Dec 2026 Satellite proposals: 15 Nov 2026 Conference: 18–21 May 2027

New @nature.com Health perspective 🧪 The invisible risks of AI-generated health information rdcu.be/VuS2jwQt6B3a We argue that these risks are serious, yet hidden from the institutions responsible for protecting public health w/ @matthewdeverna.com @yang3kc.bsky.social @harryyan.bsky.social

We're hiring across many roles at Trillium Labs to build the open scientific ecosystem for LLMs. Most important hires right now (ideally with start dates soon): * Full time post-training researchers * Engineers with experience with popular open-source libraries...

arxiv.org/abs/2610.10023 "These findings indicate that the measured connectivity and eye geometry jointly set efficient operating points for visual computation."

I've added #CSCW2026 to Lea! Schedule, program that you can filter by topic and people you follow, a custom feed, and more! Sadly I'm not attending, but if you are, try it out and let me know if you spot bugs or have feature requests! I can usually respond and implement things pretty quickly.

🔎 Attending CSCW 2026? ⛰️ At #CSCW2026, I'll be presenting our research on Mastodon, a federated social media platform where moderation is largely volunteer-driven. 📌 Presentation Details 🗂️ Session: Decentralized Social Media 🗓️ Date: Wednesday, October 14 🕘 Time: 9:00–9:18 AM 📍 Location: Salon E

A harrowing story from @bench.bsky.social, Charlottesville’s Transportation Planning Manager, about being hit by a car on a city street while biking. We are grateful Ben wasn’t severely injured and hope he heels quickly. And we hope that city streets will quickly be made safe for everyone.

With heightened security risk due to AI, I'm wondering whether security and trust become a new moat/bottleneck. I'm fairly hesitant to replace my paid apps with open source ones due to the security concerns.

We're holding UVA's signature data science conference here at the School of Data Science next month, Friday November 13. This year's theme: The Future of Work, Powered by Data and People. Registration is free! Hope to see you here! blog.stephenturner.us/p/datapalooz...

A great place to study!

One of the key lessons from Dutch cycling history is cities didn't start with protected lanes. They began by making streets safer, calmer and more inviting; with lower speeds, parking restrictions, traffic filters and reduced through-traffic to create an environment in which cycling could flourish.🧵

BTW this means no funding for GSS, ANES, or PSID. GSS 2026 is in the field now, but then it looks like that's it. Devastating for social science.

We're starting our crosstown bike bus pilot (pilot!) officially tomorrow. Look for me out there in a bright yellow shirt, riding back and forth in the W Main corridor.

Who reviews the reviewers?

U Colorado Boulder Computer Science is hiring for three (3) tenure-track faculty positions in: - #Quantum Computing - #AI - Computer Architecture & Systems Links to each here: www.colorado.edu/cs/jobs Please help spread the word! #AcademicSky

Halloween is one of the most dangerous days of the year for child pedestrians! @cvillecityhall.bsky.social Can we also have this, pwease? 🥺🎃

NYC is opening 160 car-free (but treat-filled) streets and plazas to enjoy fun and safe fall festivities this spooky season. Find one near you at nyc.gov/trickorstreets.

This is great! Check out this post yyahn.com/wiki/Leaf-bl... that I shared with the city right after they switched Downtown Mall leaf blowers to electric!

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

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#WeekWithoutDriving is here! If you’re a driver, make an effort over the next week to travel in Charlottesville without driving at least once. Share with us what that experience was like! And imagine what we can do to make our community more accessible for all. livablecville.org/weekwithoutd...