"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world" and all that

Joined April 2014
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7 Feb 2025
The call for Newton International Fellowships is open, and closes on 18th March: royalsociety.org/grants/newt… Good scheme; worth checking out! I like the Royal Society experience and its historic role in science.

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In the last few months I've been trying to draw a long line connecting all the work on modal logic - from Kripke semantics to type theory. Today I'm officially launching this programme by giving a talk at MFPS XV at 4pm. Link: youtube.com/watch?v=DWOZfqco…

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Thrilled to be at @acm_ccs, presenting our poster! 🎉 shorturl.at/azARW I'm actively exploring opportunities in Software/Web Security on the academic job market. Eager to connect with fellow researchers and explore potential #postdoc/#assistant_professor positions! :)
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Philosophical Holdup - existentialcomics.com/comic/…
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Last Friday, we celebrated Minh passing his PhD viva with a cocktail class. 🎉 Congratulations Minh!
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27 Sep 2023
ESOP's done well here: "For the sake of flexibility, submitted research papers may be formatted in Springer’s LNCS, ACM’s PACMPL, or ACM’s TOPLAS format" etaps.org/2024/conferences/e…
I wish as academics we could focus on producing evidence and not waste time reformatting. I am glad this has now been quantified. But I would like to think these may reflect a lower bound on the true cost as there is an extensive margin as well. I have a whole trail of perfectly fine and IMO important papers that I just cant bother to reformat to submit. It should not be that way. Its all just data, code and well, a bit of thinking. nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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#ICFP23 Round Up: three talks, two ICFP papers, one distinguished paper.
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Congratulations to Ohad Krammer, @reifyreflect and Nicolas Oury for their Most Influential Paper of ICFP2013 award presented at #ICFP2023 for their Handlers in Action paper which inspired and kicked off a lot of work on effects by many people. Sam made a heartfelt speech about how kind and supportive the programming languages research community is, with a specific reference to a personal tragedy that occurred while he was in Boston for the 2013 ICFP. I concur, having experienced several research communities I know that not all of them are pleasant places to be, but through decades of PL I have met colleagues that have become friends, and enjoyed a community that has become a home. [I know it is not perfect. But it is still pretty bloody good.]
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Abi presenting our work HasTEE, our DSL to program trusted execution environments at the HASKELL Symposium @icfp_conference He mentioned SGX, IFC, Gramine, Federated Learning, and even showed Assembly in the same talk! The paper dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36090…
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Most Influential ICFP’13 Paper Award goes to “Handlers in Action” by @aleph_kappa, @reifyreflect, and Nicolas Oury.
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My desk after returning from vacation. My rubber duck debugger got lynched! 😅
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16 years ago, I created @music and have been running it ever since. Just now, Twitter / X just ripped it away. Super pissed
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John Hughes lecturing about property-based testing, and attributes wonky stuff to Satan
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Wittgenstein vs Socrates - existentialcomics.com/comic/…
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16 Jun 2023
.@modaltype how does it feel to be the chosen one?
Modular Normalization with Types @modaltype nachivpn.me/thesis.pdf
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Modular Normalization with Types @modaltype nachivpn.me/thesis.pdf

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13 Jun 2023
Congratulations Agustin Mista, on defending your thesis!
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Proud supervisor moment! Amazing master's thesis presented by dcronqvist.se and sagak.se! 🎓🎉
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