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Aaron Clauset
@aaronclauset.bsky.social
NO KINGS. NO FASCISTS. FUND SCIENCE.

Professor of Computer Science @ BioFrontiers Institute at University of Colorado, Boulder and External Faculty @ Santa Fe Institute

orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3529-8746
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What Americans Lose If Their National Center for Atmospheric Research Is Dismantled - Eos | Five ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it.
What Americans Lose If Their National Center for Atmospheric Research Is Dismantled - Eos
Five ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it.
eos.org
January 28, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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Peer review science relies, more than we care to admit, on what @zey.bsky.social calls "load bearing frictions" that make it difficult to fake good science, and on trust that most ppl also value science itself & won't cheat just for personal gain. This creates the wrong environment for that to hold.
OpenAI just released Prism, a LaTeX editor with embedded ChatGPT for free.
Writing a paper has never been easier.
Clogging the scientific publishing pipeline has never been easier.
It took me 54 seconds to write up an experiment I did not actually conduct.

prism.openai.com
January 28, 2026 at 6:10 AM
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nine years old
January 23, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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The spineless administrators who bent over backwards to comply with these illegal rules should never be allowed to run any institution of higher learning ever again.

For my part, I certainly won’t forget who the Deans and Provosts were at institutions I care about!
January 23, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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Gabriel Zucman on the shocking concentration of extreme wealth in the United States….
gzucman.substack.com?r=nle0&utm_c...
January 19, 2026 at 9:40 AM
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January 19, 2026 at 4:47 PM
As an editor of a scientific journal, this essay feels very familiar: it’s about how AI coding tools are making it harder to maintain quality in open source software. The solution cannot be to just use AI agents to evaluate too, right? What historical parallels can we learn from?
Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...
Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?
What’s going on with the AI builder community right now?
lucumr.pocoo.org
January 18, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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Conference update: IC2S2 Virtual Day. While Vermont is an incredibly kind and welcoming state, national policies and federal actions have a real impact on conference access, particularly for people from countries who cannot enter the US due to federally enacted travel bans. 1/6
January 14, 2026 at 10:13 PM
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Perennial reminder of this excellent paper about how secret police forces are swamped with underachievers

“We don’t want clever people. We want mediocrities.”

(Ungated summary here ajps.org/2019/10/08/w...)
January 14, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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Five years ago.
January 6, 2026 at 3:24 AM
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Perfect. There is no belief system here.
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
January 5, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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Applications open for SFI’s 2026 GWCSS program, a 2-week workshop for Ph.D. students and early-career scholars to explore complex systems and computation, collaborate on challenges, and advance their research with support from SFI faculty.

Apply by Feb 4, 2026
www.santafe.edu/gwcss
January 1, 2026 at 5:01 PM
The end of 2025 is finally here! That makes it time for my annual "Year in Review" post 📈, which is to remind myself that yes, I did get some things done this year. Here's to closing out 2025 and hoping that 2026 is a year of restoration aaronclauset.github.io/blog/2025_YiR
December 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is utterly delightful! Strong recommend. It's also catnip for my long-running fascination with the sizes of complex things. ("How large should whales be?" is among my favorite papers I've written: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... )
December 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees

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December 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
These results are mind-blowing, and the whole thread is just fascinating. So many profound insights about evolution and life throughout, and big questions. Why are mutation rates like this? How much of the origin and diversification of life was ultimately about getting to this particular state?
In fact, they appear to be eerily similar. The per generation mutation rate seems to lay between 10-9 and 10-8 per bp in all animal taxa surveyed to date–despite vast differences in environments, life histories, and three orders of magnitude variation in the generation time: 4/n
December 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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2026 abstract submissions are open!

✔️ Submission deadline: March 3rd, 2026
✔️ Acceptance Notification: April 14th, 2026

View the guidelines here:
lnkd.in/eJEXvd8u
December 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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We're hiring interns in the Computational Social Science group at Microsoft Research NYC!

If you're interested in designing AI‑based systems and understanding their impact at both individual and societal scales, apply here by Jan 9, 2026: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...
Research Intern - Computational Social Science | Microsoft Careers
Research Interns put inquiry and theory into practice. Alongside fellow doctoral candidates and some of the world's best researchers, Research Interns learn, collaborate, and network for life. Researc...
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December 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Out now in @natphys.nature.com "The undervaluing of elite women in physics", with @weihuali.bsky.social and H Zheng, we show how election into prestigious academic societies has markedly different effects on the research prominence of women and men physicists /1
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Slides from my American Inst. of Math @caltech.edu #MetaMath workshop talk on "Prestige, representation, and the spread of scientific ideas" earlier this week aaronclauset.github.io/slides/Claus...
December 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Applications are open for SFI’s 2026 summer education programs, offering research and training in complexity science in Santa Fe, NM:

– Undergraduate Complexity Research
– Complex Systems Summer School
– Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science

Info: www.santafe.edu/engage/learn...
December 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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@cevianlabs.io CVParsa takes a stack of faculty candidate dossiers and generates a summary spreadsheet with candidate basics, current positions, publication info, research keywords, and research interests.

Send me a note and I'll send a code you can use on 5 CVs of your choice to see how it works!
December 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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After sitting on faculty hiring committees where profs & staff spend *days* of wasted time processing 100+ candidate dossiers into a 10K-foot view spreadsheet of candidates, @aaronclauset.bsky.social and I built the thing we always wanted: a computational pipeline to get the job done in 5 minutes...
December 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Super excited to announce a new venture, with @danlarremore.bsky.social : Cevian Labs cevianlabs.io provides advanced tools to accelerate faculty work in academia. Our first product CVParsa helps faculty search committees process huge piles of CVs, so they can spend more time evaluating candidates
December 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM