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Kyle Cranmer
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Director Data Science Institute @UWMadison, Professor of Physics,
EiC @MLSTjournal. Physics, stats/ML/AI, open science.
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Thrilled to see @katyhuff.bsky.social , Daniel Andruczyk, and Hidra (U Illinois stellarator )
cpmi.illinois.edu/2016/04/26/h...
February 12, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today.

It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files.

Just wow.
February 11, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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Today at 2:00 pm at @ncsaatillinois.bsky.social @kylecranmer.bsky.social will give a colloquia "Emerging Patterns in AI for Science" - see calendars.illinois.edu/detail/598?e...
February NCSA Colloquium: Kyle Cranmer
calendars.illinois.edu
February 11, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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spectrum.ieee.org
Physicist @kylecranmer.bsky.social of @uwmadison.bsky.social, who aided in the #Higgs discovery, cautions that not every anomaly matters. “There’s an infinite number of ways the data can look different,” he says. The challenge is finding a “Goldilocks” balance between noise and real physics. (4/8)
February 10, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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Our panel on RISE-AI is highlighted in this article.
February 9, 2026 at 10:24 PM
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Last week I gave a public lecture at the @AspenPhysics Center titled "How AI Is and Isn't Revolutionizing Science". It was well attended, and I was happy with how it went. Here it is on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/live/dIsxqh0...
How AI Is and Isn't Revolutionizing Science with Kyle Cranmer
YouTube video by Aspen Physics
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February 8, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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Some questions I ask whenever I see a crayon like this:
calelectricrail.org Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 6d
Sacramento deserves a regional rail system. What would it take to build it?
Greater Sacramento Regional Rail Concept. Map design by Milli Bloom. Map shows a priority buildout from UC Davis medical center to Roseville, with stops at Davis, Mace, West Sacramento, Washington, Sac Valley, 12th st., Elvas, Exposition, Marconi/Arvade, West/McClellan, Elkhorn A secondary buildout connects Elk Grove to the SMF airport, with Elk Grove-Roseville service on the same infrastructure. Futuer buildouts include extensions to Woodland and Suisun-Fairfield
February 8, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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Some of the most fractally romanesco I’ve seen.
February 7, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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Intelligent manufacturing is shaping the future of industry. Discover global research from the Seventh International Conference on Materials Science and Manufacturing Technology (ICMSMT 2025).
Explore the published papers: https://ow.ly/eTqu50Y7ulZ
February 6, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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🤯“I tasked 16 agents with writing a Rust-based C compiler, from scratch, capable of compiling the Linux kernel. Over nearly 2,000 Claude Code sessions and $20,000 in API costs, the agent team produced a 100,000-line compiler that can build Linux 6.9 on x86, ARM, and RISC-V.”
February 5, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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newsjennifer.bsky.social
This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen:

A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained"

But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.
The G.O.P. Senator Who Can’t Stop Thinking About the Boy ICE Detained Katie Britt is uniquely positioned to reason with the Trump administration — when she chooses to speak up. Representative Joaquin Castro of Texas said in a post on social media that he had picked up Liam and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, from the Dilley detention center on Saturday night and escorted them to Minnesota on Sunday morning. He shared photos of the two on social media, including one showing Liam at the airport clutching what appeared to be a Pikachu toy and wearing a Pikachu backpack. Mr. Castro was part of a delegation of Democratic lawmakers who visited Liam and his father at the detention center last week, where he said Liam’s father had reported that the child was “very depressed” and hadn’t been eating well since they were detained earlier this month.
February 5, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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February's ML4MI seminar features Dr. Ulugbek Kamilov,
@uwmadison.bsky.social Engineering, who will present score-based methods for computational imaging problems. This seminar will be held in person on 2/16, 11am, at WIMR 2409, with a Zoom option available. ml4mi.wisc.edu/learning-opp...
February 5, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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I woke up before 4am to leave Denver to join this meeting in Madison. Currently at O’Hare. Uff
February 5, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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Sold out show!

aspenphys.org/event/how-ai...
February 4, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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It's always frustrating to me how the term AI has evolved. AI was an umbrella term from 1950s. Then Machine Learning (a subset of AI), Deep Learning (a subset of ML), and modern generative AI (a subset DL). Now LLMs are used synonymously with "AI". So I made these graphics of the "AIroboros"
February 3, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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bayesflow.org
On Feb 9, Jonas Arruda and @alex-andorra.bsky.social will give a live demo on diffusion models for SBI using BayesFlow. Don't miss out!
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Diffusion Models in Python: Live Demo with Alexandre Andorra | Alexandre Andorra
📢 Big News: We are going LIVE with code! Diffusion models aren't just for generating images -- they are a powerful tool for scientific inference. On Feb 9, I’m hosting Jonas Arruda on the Learning Ba...
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February 3, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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I will be giving the Nick and Maggie DeWolf public lecture at the Aspen Center for Physics tomorrow. See, it’s in the newspaper. @aspenphysics.bsky.social
February 3, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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Arrived Aspen Physics Center @aspenphysics.bsky.social . I’ll give a public talk on Wednesday. Very happy to see our Neural simulation-based inference result in the with if the Higgs boson being highlighted ( @sandesarajay.bsky.social )
February 3, 2026 at 2:01 AM
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informor.bsky.social
This is quite the text.
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10d
BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FRITZ EMMANUEL LESLY MIOT, et al., Plaintiffs, Case No. 25-cv-02471 (ACR) V. DONALD J. TRUMP, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION On December 2, 1783, then-Commander-in-Chief George Washington penned: "America is open to receive not only the Opulent & respected Stranger, but the oppressed & persecuted of all Nations & Religions." More than two centuries later, Congress reaffirmed President Washington's vision by establishing the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. See 8 U.S.C. § 1254a (TPS statute). It provides humanitarian relief to foreign nationals in the United States who come from disaster-stricken countries. It also brings in substantial revenue, with TPS holders generating $5.2 billion in taxes annually. See Part VI. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem has a different take.? eSec Noem I just met with the President. I am recommending a full travel ban on every damn country that's been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies. Our forefathers built this nation on blood, sweat, and the unyielding love of freedom-not for foreign invaders to slaughter our heroes, suck dry our hard-earned tax dollars, or snatch the benefits owed to AMERICANS. WE DON'T WANT THEM. NOT ONE. 6:52 PM - Dec 1, 2025 - 13.2M Views ' Letter from George Washington to Joshua Holmes (December 2, 1783). 2 Dkt. 90 (Second Am. Compl.) 1110 n.91. But see supra n.l. So says the official responsible for overseeing the TPS program. And one of those (her word) "damn" countries is Haiti. Relevant here, three days before making the above post, Secretary Noem announced she would terminate Haiti's TPS designation as of February 3, 2026. See 90 Fed. Reg. 54733 (Nov. 28, 2025) (Termination). Plaintiffs are five Haitian TPS holders. They are not, it emerges, "killers, leeches, or entitlement junkies." They are instead: Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, a neuroscientist researching Alzheimer's disease, Dkt. 90 (Second Am. Compl. (SAC)) 1 1; Rudolph Civil, a software engineer at a national bank, id. 1 2; Marlene Gail Noble, a laboratory assistant in a toxicology department, id. | 3; Marica Merline Laguerre, a college economics major, id. 9| 4; and Vilbrun Dorsainvil, a full-time registered nurse, id. 9|5. They claim that Secretary Noem's decision violates the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5 U.S.C. § 706(2), and the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The Government counters that the Court does not have jurisdiction, and, in any case, the Secretary did not violate the law. Plaintiffs seek to stay the Secretary's decision under 5 U.S.C. § 705 pending the outcome of this litigation. See Dkt. 81 (§ 705 Mot.). To decide their motion, the Court considers first whether it has jurisdiction. It does. See Part II. It then considers: whether Plaintiffs have a substantial likelihood of success on the merits; whether they will be irreparably harmed absent a stay; and whether a merged balance of the equities and public interest analysis favors a stay. See Part III. Each element favors Plaintiffs. See Parts IV, V, and VI. Finally, the balance of equities and public interest favor a stay. The Government does not cite any reason termination must occur post haste. Secretary Noem complains of strains unlawful immigrants place on our immigration-enforcement system. Her answer? Turn 352,959 lawful immigrants into unlawful immigrants overnight. She complains of strains to our economy. Her answer? Turn employed lawful immigrants who contribute billions in taxes into the legally unemployable. She complains of strains to our healthcare system. Her answer? Turn the insured into the uninsured. This approach is many things— in the public interest is not one of them. For the reasons below, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for a Stay Under 5 U.S.C. § 705, Dkt. 81.
February 3, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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Job alert: @nyucourant.bsky.social / @nyudatascience.bsky.social is hiring in AI+Science:
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February 3, 2026 at 1:31 AM
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Whoa… 9 years ago, @glouppe.bsky.social and I teamed up with @kyunghyuncho.bsky.social on what I think was the first paper to make a connection between language modeling and particle physics. It also had a cool tie in with intepretability
arxiv.org/abs/1702.00748
A screenshot of a facebook post
February 3, 2026 at 12:46 AM
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What a confusing sign.
[NO] RE-ENTRY
how can the no be optional, doesn’t that change the meaning significantly?
January 30, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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Come join our team!
uwdsi.bsky.social UW–Madison Data Science Institute @uwdsi.bsky.social · 14d
The Data Science Institute is hiring a program manager to lead our work in open software and data. This position will manage operations for the Open Source Program Office and a data cataloging project. Apply by Feb. 15: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/open-so...
January 29, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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40 years ago I was in Cape Canaveral to watch the Challenger launch. It was delayed and we had to leave to return to Arkansas. When I got out of the plane I saw the news that it had exploded. It was a lot for an 8 year old
January 29, 2026 at 4:49 AM