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Sources: two AI researchers hired by Meta for its Superintelligence Labs returned to OpenAI after less than one-month stints; a third researcher also left Meta (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/researchers-leave-meta-superintelligence-labs-openai/…

Researchers Are Already Leaving Meta’s New Superintelligence Lab
CEO Mark Zuckerberg went on a recruiting blitz to lure top AI researchers to Meta. WIRED has confirmed that three recent hires have now resigned.

UK Wet Heating Retrofit PhD Research - A continuing summary of Damon's research into optimising UK domestic wet heating system retrofit. #PhD #heating #research -

UK Wet Heating Retrofit PhD Research
A continuing summary of Damons research into optimising UK domestic wet heating system retrofit. #PhD #heating #research

Sources say transfers of employees from NOAA research to other line offices are being denied.
Does the administration fear the corrupting influence of those engaged in NOAA research?
Or maybe it's punitive?
Either way, seems like NOAA research personnel are being blacklisted.
https://

Alt NOAA Climate (@altnoaaclimate.bsky.social)
Sources say transfers of employees from NOAA research to other line offices are being denied. Does the administration fear the corrupting influence of those engaged in NOAA research? Or maybe it's punitive? Either way, seems like NOAA research personnel are being blacklisted.

Empowering Computing Education Researchers Through LLM-Assisted Content Analysis
Laurie Gale, Sebastian Mateos Nicolajsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18872 https://

Empowering Computing Education Researchers Through LLM-Assisted Content Analysis
Computing education research (CER) is often instigated by practitioners wanting to improve both their own and the wider discipline's teaching practice. However, the latter is often difficult as many researchers lack the colleagues, resources, or capacity to conduct research that is generalisable or rigorous enough to advance the discipline. As a result, research methods that enable sense-making with larger volumes of qualitative data, while not increasing the burden on the researcher, have sign…

"Weltwissen im Skatformat" @ BuB:
https://www.b-u-b.de/detail/weltwissen-im-skatformat
"Research Master: Studierende der Hochschule Hannover entwickeln ein innovatives Kartenspiel zur Auflockerung von Rechercheschulungen."

Optimal Robust Recourse with $L^p$-Bounded Model Change
Phone Kyaw, Kshitij Kayastha, Shahin Jabbari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21293 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Optimal Robust Recourse with $L^p$-Bounded Model Change
Recourse provides individuals who received undesirable labels (e.g., denied a loan) from algorithmic decision-making systems with a minimum-cost improvement suggestion to achieve the desired outcome. However, in practice, models often get updated to reflect changes in the data distribution or environment, invalidating the recourse recommendations (i.e., following the recourse will not lead to the desirable outcome). The robust recourse literature addresses this issue by providing a framework fo…

Rule of thumb:
Anytime you see the term "vibe shift", replace it in your mind with "dead internet".
https://gizmodo.com/cracker-barrel-outrage-was-almost-certainly-driven-by-bots-researchers-say-20…

Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say
Doesn't that make more sense than lots of people caring about Cracker Barrel?

Resources for Music Grant seekers, updated for 2025
https://www.musiciansway.com/blog/2012/07/resources-for-grantseekers/

EGC: HaaS Lite WP1 D15 Customer Research - EGC Work Package 1: Deliverable 15: Customer Research, Public Report. - https://www.earth.org.uk/EGC-WP1-D15-Customer-Research.html

EGC: HaaS Lite WP1 D15 Customer Research
EGC Work Package 1: Deliverable 15: Customer Research, Public Report.

Sources: Sam Altman's brain-computer interface startup Merge Labs hires Mikhail Shapiro, who works on noninvasive techniques for neural imaging and control (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/altman-taps-leading-researcher-for

Altman taps leading researcher for BCI startup Merge Labs
The hire suggests that Merge is taking a much less invasive approach than Elon Musk’s Neuralink. Also: Sources IRL and reactions to yesterday's Snap scoop.