In my first year of my PhD, I measured progress by papers. The count was zero. I felt like an imposter with no sense of progress.
That was an illusion - I was measuring the wrong thing.
I see this happening frequently, so I wrote a post with what a learned.
URL below.
The most important research paper of the past 10 years is the Google transformer paper ("Attention Is All You Need") and it was written by non-academics and published in an open-access journal.
It was written my Google RS’s with PhDs and peer reviewed for NeurIPS, what on earth are you talking about Nate???
I’m also not sure what someone not in the field would get from reading that paper. It’s written for a specific technical audience.
The most important research paper of the past 10 years is the Google transformer paper ("Attention Is All You Need") and it was written by non-academics and published in an open-access journal.
ALT Graph Neural Network Architecture. Each satellite within the environment is represented as a node, and communications between satellites are represented as edges. Each node represents a particular spacecraft, which means that that specific node can encode specific qualities including size of the spacecraft, its capabilities, and its precise location. Each edge represents communication and sensing abilities, so they can encode qualities related to the relative information between two satellites including their relative distances, the areas they have both surveyed or other characteristics associated with path planning. Our graph formulation is dynamic, meaning that the over the course of the simulation, the satellites can adaptively connect and disconnect with one another depending on the satellites ability to sense those in their proximity. We rely on a unified message passing model (UniMP), a variant of a graph transformer, to allow the agents to selectively prioritize messages coming
If you read nothing else today, please read this quote:
ALT “The worst thing I've ever experienced in my life was walking among the corpses to find my daughter. I kept repeating in my mind that she was wearing a white wool sweater so I could recognize her among the hundreds of martyrs and bury her next to her mother and brother—without being distracted by the horrific scenes around me. But the massacre left no trace of white; everything was stained with blood and the colors of death and fire. I didn't find many intact bodies. Most of the martyrs' remains were just body parts. I searched endlessly but couldn't find my daughter. However, I did recognize my sister's body—my daughter had been with her. Imagine having to help bury the martyrs without knowing which of the scattered remains belonged to my little girl.”
Israel has destroyed, bombed, and burned nearly every hospital in Gaza. Mass graves have been found inside medical complexes. Patients, staff, and children were executed or buried alive. Mohammad al-Naami reports from the ground.
🔗 palestine-studies.org/en/nod…
Remember this study about how LLM generated research ideas were rated to be more novel than expert-written ones?
We find a large fraction of such LLM generated proposals (≥ 24%) to be skillfully plagiarized, bypassing inbuilt plagiarism checks and unsuspecting experts. A 🧵
Automating AI research is exciting! But can LLMs actually produce novel, expert-level research ideas?
After a year-long study, we obtained the first statistically significant conclusion: LLM-generated ideas are more novel than ideas written by expert human researchers.
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
The governor’s committee on free speech has just issued a list of words that cannot be used in the classroom and topics that cannot be discussed or researched.
I'm very flattered to share I was profiled by MIT News! Read more about my PhD ~ work in grad school ~ general background ~ here!
news.mit.edu/2025/monitoring…
Dear researchers and grad school applicants,
I compiled a (incomplete) list of professors working in multi-agent learning. If you want to do research in multi-agent learning, I hope you find this helpful! :)
rupalibhati.github.io/MAL-pr…
Nobody mentioned how busy wrapping up your phd would be 😭😭 paper submission, faculty apps, thesis writing,,, new found respect for my predecessors who did it all
got the mother of all nasty reviewer 2 feedback this week 🫠🫠🫠 happy to take the critique but also feel like there have gotta be more checks so the peer review process isn't an opportunity to just lash out at junior researchers because you're having a tough day
On Sep 27, I'll be presenting results from our early galaxy simulations! We study how the first stars & galaxies formed and enriched their environments with metals.
This is part of the International Research Network for Nuclear Astrophysics @jina_cee seminar series. Info below
🚨🚨🚨I’m thrilled to announce the launch of the Toxic Prisons Mapping Project, Beta - a participatory research initiative to map the environmental hazards faced by prisons, jails, and detention centers. See toxicprisons.com & 🧵 below
NSF GRFP applications for engineering are due Oct 17! Please feel free to reach out (dms, comments) if you would like a second pair of eyes on your application or help outlining your research statement or personal statement!