Writing grant proposals is hard! So much paperwork. So much budgeting. So much thinking! I just finished submitting my first NSF proposal, and I would like a cookie (tenure) for all this work.

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In 10+ years of being adjacent to the Queensboro bridge I have never seen it spilling over like this. But kudos to the Little Roosevelt Island Tram That Could! #nycstormyweather

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🧵Can we reconcile excitement for SAEs with negative results? Our #ICML2026 position paper argues that even if SAEs underperform baselines when acting on knowns (e.g. probing, steering), they're a powerful tool for ~discovering unknowns~ Poster: Tue 2pm, HALL A #1715

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I see this one making the rounds so I am sharing a bit of a warning. This is a non-peer-reviewed, poorly detailed report from an advocacy organization. Some key information is missing, and what is reported ("The steepest judgment gap.. comes from male Gen Z") smells like p-hacking.

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How much does a scientific claim change between the preprint and the final published paper, post peer review? LLM was used to track 72,644 bioRxiv/journal pairs from 2018-25 The primary claim was unchanged in 39.9% of papers, mildly revised in 50.0%, and substantially changed in only 10.2%.

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