Dan Liebling
@liebling.org
AI for science, HCI+AI research, #nlproc leading w/empathy @ Google Research https://liebling.org
Mostly science-related AI, with the occasional bike safety rant or contemporary cello post.
Caltech, University of Washington, Microsoft Research alum
Mostly science-related AI, with the occasional bike safety rant or contemporary cello post.
Caltech, University of Washington, Microsoft Research alum
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The feeling of constant on-ness is hypervigilance. The worry that you are leaving opportunities on the ground is anxiety. I am not saying this because I am dismissing it, QUITE the opposite. These are massive human challenges when you feel threatened by change. Worth taking seriously.
February 15, 2026 at 4:17 PM
The feeling of constant on-ness is hypervigilance. The worry that you are leaving opportunities on the ground is anxiety. I am not saying this because I am dismissing it, QUITE the opposite. These are massive human challenges when you feel threatened by change. Worth taking seriously.
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After taking 7 years to write and draw, my new graphic novel, Speaking in Pictures, about language, cognition, comics, and visual communication is out in less than a week! At long last! www.visuallanguagelab.com/sip
February 13, 2026 at 11:10 AM
After taking 7 years to write and draw, my new graphic novel, Speaking in Pictures, about language, cognition, comics, and visual communication is out in less than a week! At long last! www.visuallanguagelab.com/sip
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While some folks downstairs are still complaining about a sporting event and languages they don’t understand. Up here in Canada, the CBC is showing Olympic hockey with play-by-play in Inuktitut. It’s the Canadian experience I didn’t know I needed. ❤️🇨🇦 #olympics #inuktitut
February 11, 2026 at 10:29 PM
While some folks downstairs are still complaining about a sporting event and languages they don’t understand. Up here in Canada, the CBC is showing Olympic hockey with play-by-play in Inuktitut. It’s the Canadian experience I didn’t know I needed. ❤️🇨🇦 #olympics #inuktitut
added generative images to your slide deck? because they added value or nah
February 10, 2026 at 4:58 PM
added generative images to your slide deck? because they added value or nah
I bought this 747 launch event bourbon bottle at a thrift store for $2
February 10, 2026 at 4:46 PM
I bought this 747 launch event bourbon bottle at a thrift store for $2
"human [fluid intelligence] peak[s] in midlife" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Humans peak in midlife: A combined cognitive and personality trait perspective
Fluid intelligence, which peaks near age 20 and declines materially across adulthood, is often regarded as the most critical cognitive ability for pre…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:43 PM
"human [fluid intelligence] peak[s] in midlife" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
great to see the safety impact of this work after many years of the team collecting hard braking events! research.google/blog/hard-br...
February 9, 2026 at 7:54 PM
great to see the safety impact of this work after many years of the team collecting hard braking events! research.google/blog/hard-br...
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Yeah I yelled “Bayes Theorem” at the tv when it appeared in the Codex ad
February 9, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Yeah I yelled “Bayes Theorem” at the tv when it appeared in the Codex ad
two types of posts popping up over the past two weeks:
"mourning our craft" coming from older engineers, followed by a predictable lack of empathy
unfortunately I don't think craft software will be appreciated like craft furniture is! and that *is* mourning and I'm happy to see ppl write about it
"mourning our craft" coming from older engineers, followed by a predictable lack of empathy
unfortunately I don't think craft software will be appreciated like craft furniture is! and that *is* mourning and I'm happy to see ppl write about it
February 8, 2026 at 5:51 PM
two types of posts popping up over the past two weeks:
"mourning our craft" coming from older engineers, followed by a predictable lack of empathy
unfortunately I don't think craft software will be appreciated like craft furniture is! and that *is* mourning and I'm happy to see ppl write about it
"mourning our craft" coming from older engineers, followed by a predictable lack of empathy
unfortunately I don't think craft software will be appreciated like craft furniture is! and that *is* mourning and I'm happy to see ppl write about it
ACL workshop on NLP for digital humanities: www.nlp4dh.com/nlp4dh-2026
February 8, 2026 at 5:36 PM
ACL workshop on NLP for digital humanities: www.nlp4dh.com/nlp4dh-2026
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An opinion I pretty firmly hold is that everyone should make a song, paint a painting, act in something, and write a book even if all of those things end up being objectively terrible
February 8, 2026 at 5:41 AM
An opinion I pretty firmly hold is that everyone should make a song, paint a painting, act in something, and write a book even if all of those things end up being objectively terrible
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Indeed the opportunity to design for YOUR mind and brain is a fantastic one, and people who can seize it will flourish I think
I am still pretty convinced that outside of very mechanistic workflows, stuff like "prompt libraries" are nearly useless unless you impress upon people that they need to rewrite them for their brains. Because not only are you not exercising, but you're accepting somebody else's brain-assumptions
So many developers have sent me that Anthropic skills/mastery case study that I realized I should ungate what I *already wrote* about this: beginning principles to design workflows that work *with* your mind, not against it, & protect your problem-solving
www.fightforthehuman.com/cognitive-he...
www.fightforthehuman.com/cognitive-he...
February 4, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Indeed the opportunity to design for YOUR mind and brain is a fantastic one, and people who can seize it will flourish I think
cool class alert @ UW: Prototyping with AI for Performing Arts docs.google.com/document/d/e...
Flyer: Prototyping with AI for Performing Arts
docs.google.com
February 3, 2026 at 5:10 PM
cool class alert @ UW: Prototyping with AI for Performing Arts docs.google.com/document/d/e...
agentic AI flattens all schematized data
this is legit triggering people who like being highly organized
this is legit triggering people who like being highly organized
February 2, 2026 at 9:55 PM
agentic AI flattens all schematized data
this is legit triggering people who like being highly organized
this is legit triggering people who like being highly organized
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🚀 Apply to CMU LTI’s Summer 2026 “Language Technology for All” internship! 🎓 Open to pre‑doctoral students new to language tech (non‑CS backgrounds welcome). 🔬 12–14 weeks in‑person in Pittsburgh — travel + stipend paid. 💸 Deadline: Feb 20, 11:59pm ET. Apply → forms.gle/cUu8g6wb27Hs...
CMU LTI Summer 2026 Internship Program Application
We are looking for applicants for the Carnegie Mellon University Language Technology Institute's Summer 2026 "Language Technology for All" internship program.
The main goal of this internship is to pr...
forms.gle
February 2, 2026 at 3:41 PM
🚀 Apply to CMU LTI’s Summer 2026 “Language Technology for All” internship! 🎓 Open to pre‑doctoral students new to language tech (non‑CS backgrounds welcome). 🔬 12–14 weeks in‑person in Pittsburgh — travel + stipend paid. 💸 Deadline: Feb 20, 11:59pm ET. Apply → forms.gle/cUu8g6wb27Hs...
these agentic interfaces with like 8 windows open at once are definitely designed by people who can still read 8 point fonts on their laptops
January 31, 2026 at 4:15 PM
these agentic interfaces with like 8 windows open at once are definitely designed by people who can still read 8 point fonts on their laptops
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Microsoft Research NYC is hiring a researcher in the space of AI and society!
January 29, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Microsoft Research NYC is hiring a researcher in the space of AI and society!
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Introducing Theorizer: Turning thousands of papers into scientific laws 📚➡️📜
Most automated discovery systems focus on experimentation. Theorizer tackles the other half of science: theory building—compressing scattered findings into structured, testable claims. 🧵
Most automated discovery systems focus on experimentation. Theorizer tackles the other half of science: theory building—compressing scattered findings into structured, testable claims. 🧵
January 28, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Introducing Theorizer: Turning thousands of papers into scientific laws 📚➡️📜
Most automated discovery systems focus on experimentation. Theorizer tackles the other half of science: theory building—compressing scattered findings into structured, testable claims. 🧵
Most automated discovery systems focus on experimentation. Theorizer tackles the other half of science: theory building—compressing scattered findings into structured, testable claims. 🧵
Challenger disaster was a memorable moment as a child. I knew I would be in science at an early age. Of course I couldn't make sense of the disaster at the time. I wonder how this affected my interest in sociotechnical systems later in life.
January 28, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Challenger disaster was a memorable moment as a child. I knew I would be in science at an early age. Of course I couldn't make sense of the disaster at the time. I wonder how this affected my interest in sociotechnical systems later in life.
used Gemini to cluster the list of audience questions about AI and it said that they "look like a mix of existential dread, practical career anxiety, and high-level technical curiosity."
January 28, 2026 at 5:09 PM
used Gemini to cluster the list of audience questions about AI and it said that they "look like a mix of existential dread, practical career anxiety, and high-level technical curiosity."
“how might we close the $100MM gap in car infrastructure funding? thought the sponsor.” clearly a $50 fee on bikes is the answer 🤦
New Hampshire rep finds out the hard way that bicycle registration is a horrible and unpopular idea. www.yahoo.com/news/article... “As of Tuesday, HB 1703 had generated 13,773 submissions of online testimony — 13,737 of those in opposition.”
$50 bike registration fee faces overwhelming opposition in NH
The wheels have already fallen off a bill to require bike and e-bike owners in New Hampshire pay a $50 annual state registration fee, with thousands voicing opposition before a public hearing on the l...
www.yahoo.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:38 PM
“how might we close the $100MM gap in car infrastructure funding? thought the sponsor.” clearly a $50 fee on bikes is the answer 🤦
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This hit so fucking hard today.
January 26, 2026 at 8:52 PM
This hit so fucking hard today.
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Cool looking paper out from @alexkwan.bsky.social's group on impact of psilocybin on routing:
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
@colin-bredenberg.bsky.social, check it out, curious to hear what you think about it in relation to the Oneirogen Hypothesis.
#neuroscience 🧪
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
@colin-bredenberg.bsky.social, check it out, curious to hear what you think about it in relation to the Oneirogen Hypothesis.
#neuroscience 🧪
Psilocybin triggers an activity-dependent rewiring of large-scale cortical networks
Psilocybin reshapes brain networks through activity-dependent plasticity, including
a weakening of recurrent cortical loops that could underlie its therapeutic effects.
www.cell.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Cool looking paper out from @alexkwan.bsky.social's group on impact of psilocybin on routing:
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
@colin-bredenberg.bsky.social, check it out, curious to hear what you think about it in relation to the Oneirogen Hypothesis.
#neuroscience 🧪
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
@colin-bredenberg.bsky.social, check it out, curious to hear what you think about it in relation to the Oneirogen Hypothesis.
#neuroscience 🧪