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Suresh Venkatasubramanian
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Director, Center for Tech Responsibility@Brown. FAccT OG. AI Bill of Rights coauthor. Former tech advisor to President Biden @WHOSTP. He/him/his. Posts my own.

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian is an Indian computer scientist and professor at Brown University. In 2021, Prof. Venkatasubramanian was appointed to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, advising on matters relating to fairness and bias in tech systems. He was formerly a professor at the University of Utah. He is known for his contributions in computational geometry and differential privacy, and his work has been covered by news outlets such as Science Friday, NBC News, and Gizmodo. He also runs the Geomblog, which has received coverage from the New York Times, Hacker News, KDnuggets and other media outlets. He has served as associate editor of the International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications and as the academic editor of PeerJ Computer Science, and on program committees for the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, the SIAM Conference on Data Mining, NIPS, SIGKDD, SODA, and STACS. .. more

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d
NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Mustapha Kharbouch, the Palestinian student who was falsely accused last week of being the Brown University shooter by various racists and conspiracy theorists.
X.com Last week, online conspiracy theorists wrongfully blamed Mustapha Kharbouch, a young Palestinian student at Brown University, for the horrific shooting in early December because of a photo of him wearing a Keffiyeh. In the days since, Kharbouch has faced death threats and unimaginable Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism. Today, I had the privilege of speaking with Mustapha. I learned about his life as a bright-eyed scholar interested in international relations and Anthropology. He shared stories about his summer living in Sunnyside while he pursued an internship. He is considering a PhD and thinks about moving back to New York City one day if he can afford it. And I learned about his Palestinian heritage, the very heritage he was doxxed for. I told Mustapha that we would love to have him back in New York City, where — as Mayor — I will make it my job to cherish, protect, and celebrate all New Yorkers and combat Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism at every corner.

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.bsky.social · 3d
In the late 1830s, Karl Weierstrass dropped out of university. He is said to have spent his school years drinking and fencing. Decades later, he published a function that threatened everything mathematicians thought they understood about calculus. www.quantamagazine.org/the-jagged-m...

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Sophie Bushwick @sophiebushwick.bsky.social · 3d
Really enjoyed this roundup of fun animal stories from 2025 🧪 And the bone-collector caterpillar is still my favorite!
These are our favorite animal stories of 2025
From clever cockatoos to vomiting spiders, these cool critters captivated us this year.
www.sciencenews.org

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 3d
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

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Thomas Dietterich @tdietterich.bsky.social · 3d
Very accurate observations. ML and petter recognition were not regarded as mainstream AI from the late 1960s through early 1980. The ML community had trouble getting thei papers accepted in AI journals.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 4d
Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 5d
this is the way. Next thing he'll be calling you 'Clem-o' :)

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 5d
New post by @michelleding.bsky.social on resources for the Brown community in the aftermath of the shooting. open.substack.com/pub/michelle...
Caring for yourself and each other
Resources for the Brown community, friends, family, loved ones and how to support us
open.substack.com

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 5d
Those who speculated wildly about the Brown shooter without knowing any facts got things wrong—and it is important that they lose their credibility because of it, Graeme Wood argues.
How to Treat Purveyors of Baseless Speculation
Don’t log off. Keep score.
bit.ly

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 6d
I'll call it IvyPath.com

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 6d
that didn't work. they got caught. MY startup idea....

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Representative Seth Magaziner @magaziner.house.gov · 6d
There will be many lessons to take from the tragedy at Brown. One is this: spreading baseless theories and false accusations online causes real harm.

Innocent young people have had their lives upended by reckless online speculation.

It is damaging, and it must stop.

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 6d
My new startup idea: AI agents to help increase your h-index. Let's DISRUPT academic citations together.
nrvscrcts.bsky.social David William @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 7d
"An academic discovers a paper attributed to him that does not exist has been cited 42 times" is a sentence with an actual referent in 2025.
benpatrickwill.bsky.social Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 7d
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

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David William @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 7d
"An academic discovers a paper attributed to him that does not exist has been cited 42 times" is a sentence with an actual referent in 2025.
benpatrickwill.bsky.social Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 7d
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

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Ada Lovelace Institute @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social · 8d
In our last blog for 2025, @gaiamarcus.bsky.social reflects on whether the 'AI train' is on the right track: www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/mind-th...
Mind the gap: reflections on 2025
Is the ‘AI train’ on the right track?
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8d
What this will mean, in practice, that if you are deemed an enemy of the administration, they will pore through your citizenship application paperwork looking for some reason to retroactively disqualify you.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
Trump Administration Aims to Strip More Foreign-Born Americans of Citizenship
www.nytimes.com

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 9d
Maybe they should have instead chosen Bartleby the Scrivener

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 9d
This requirement -- for the job listed -- was a real headscratcher for me.

www.govexec.com/technology/2...

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 9d
Supporting public and open infrastructure is fantastic. Well done @icmlconf.bsky.social for supporting OpenReview
gautamkamath.com Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 9d
One of my core beliefs is that community is SO SO SO important. I might go as far to say that it's the only thing that matters, everything else positive is downstream.

That's why I'm proud that, in times of crisis, so many of our community members & institutions have stepped up
icmlconf.bsky.social icmlconf.bsky.social @icmlconf.bsky.social · 9d
ICML reaffirms its support to the community and standards of conduct:
- We do not tolerate harassment or other improper conduct;
- Academic integrity is paramount;
- We redouble our support to peer review, with more incentives for reviewers & financial support for OpenReview

icml.cc/public/blog#...

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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 9d
One of my core beliefs is that community is SO SO SO important. I might go as far to say that it's the only thing that matters, everything else positive is downstream.

That's why I'm proud that, in times of crisis, so many of our community members & institutions have stepped up
icmlconf.bsky.social icmlconf.bsky.social @icmlconf.bsky.social · 9d
ICML reaffirms its support to the community and standards of conduct:
- We do not tolerate harassment or other improper conduct;
- Academic integrity is paramount;
- We redouble our support to peer review, with more incentives for reviewers & financial support for OpenReview

icml.cc/public/blog#...

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WPRI 12 @wpri12.bsky.social · 11d
A Brown University student from Alabama was shot and killed on campus Saturday afternoon, according to a church in Birmingham.

https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/providence/student-killed-in-brown-shooting-parishoner-at-alabama-church/ 
Student killed in Brown shooting parishoner at Alabama church
A Brown University student from Alabama was shot and killed on campus Saturday afternoon, according to a church in Birmingham, Alabama.
www.wpri.com

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 12d
Thanks

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 12d
Appreciate all the people reaching out both here and on so many other platforms. It's a bit scary and we still don't have a full picture of who was attacked.

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 12d
I am heartbroken for our Brown community. If you know anything about Brown, you know what a tight-knit community we are. We share each other’s joys and pains. Today has been gut-wrenching. And our emergency is not yet over. Please keep our Brown family in your thoughts. 💔💔💔

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 12d
Praying for the victims and their families. My heart breaks for the students who were looking forward to a holiday break and instead are dealing with another horrifying mass shooting, this time in our own Providence community.
www.wpri.com

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 12d
Active shooting at @brown.edu right now. This feed has access to police scanners and the main news coverage.

www.youtube.com/live/0w2MTbq...
🔴 BREAKING: Active Shooter 20 SHOT!! Reported at Brown University — Police Request Mass Rescues
YouTube video by iCkEdMeL
www.youtube.com

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 13d
I wonder if I should start asking everyone with glasses if these are smart glasses, and then abruptly walking away if so. (said as a person who wears glasses)

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Ryan Calo @rcalo.bsky.social · 14d
Probably not even Congress can preempt all state AI laws without itself regulating. That’s an obvious abuse of enumerated powers. But the President? With an executive order? Give me a break.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 14d
I dislike that Time Magazine has chosen to conflate CEOs with the people who actually got their hands dirty making the technology work.

I’m incensed that Fei Fei Li is half off the page. I’m sure she is too gracious to say it.

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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 14d
BREAKING: Trump's executive order challenges states’ authority to regulate AI and mitigate its massive harms.

Not only is it senseless for Trump to try blocking states’ ability to regulate Big Tech, he actually lacks the authority.

States should ignore this ridiculous EO.