Sky CH-Wang
@skychwang.bsky.social
CS PhD candidate at Columbia. NLP & Computational Social Science. NSF GRFP fellow. he/him. https://skywang.me
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Crisis at NASA
It's very bad news all round for NASA science, but the worst hit is Astrophysics (which includes cosmology) where the proposed cut is about two-thirds, which would be devastating.
It's very bad news all round for NASA science, but the worst hit is Astrophysics (which includes cosmology) where the proposed cut is about two-thirds, which would be devastating.
Crisis at NASA
It's very bad news all round for NASA science, but the worst hit is Astrophysics (which includes cosmology) where the proposed cut is about two-thirds, which would be devastating.
telescoper.blog
April 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Crisis at NASA
It's very bad news all round for NASA science, but the worst hit is Astrophysics (which includes cosmology) where the proposed cut is about two-thirds, which would be devastating.
It's very bad news all round for NASA science, but the worst hit is Astrophysics (which includes cosmology) where the proposed cut is about two-thirds, which would be devastating.
The J train today is like a nice happy pollen-free freezer
April 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The J train today is like a nice happy pollen-free freezer
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Found out this morning that the 3.5m USD grant my team won has been cancelled as a result of cuts to science funding in the US.
How's your day going?
How's your day going?
March 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Found out this morning that the 3.5m USD grant my team won has been cancelled as a result of cuts to science funding in the US.
How's your day going?
How's your day going?
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NEW: The Minerva Research Initiative, established by the Pentagon to fund social science relevant to national security, is being gutted. Dozens of researchers studying threats from extremist groups, misinformation or climate change have received notices that their grants are being terminated.
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Pentagon guts national security program that harnessed social science
Dozens of U.S. academics lose grants from Minerva program for studies related to terrorism, drug trafficking, and other threats
www.science.org
March 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
NEW: The Minerva Research Initiative, established by the Pentagon to fund social science relevant to national security, is being gutted. Dozens of researchers studying threats from extremist groups, misinformation or climate change have received notices that their grants are being terminated.
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I'm grateful for the chance to write this and so impressed by all the amazing things scientists are doing in Central Illinois and the impact the NSF/NIH are having in my hometown. Many thanks to the folks at @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social for this initiave and all the resources to get started
David Jurgens credits his childhood in Central Illinois 🌽 for setting him on the path to becoming a professor at University of Michigan. Illinois science does a lot—from removing PFAS from water to fighting drug-resistant infections. 🧪🏠 @davidjurgens.bsky.social
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David Jurgens: Science funding matters for Central Illinois
"When we fund science, we invest in our communities and our future," writes David Jurgens, a Decatur native and current University of Michigan professor.
herald-review.com
March 1, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I'm grateful for the chance to write this and so impressed by all the amazing things scientists are doing in Central Illinois and the impact the NSF/NIH are having in my hometown. Many thanks to the folks at @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social for this initiave and all the resources to get started
Using Google Scholar so much for my thesis proposal it thinks I'm a bot and keeps throwing captchas at me
January 18, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Using Google Scholar so much for my thesis proposal it thinks I'm a bot and keeps throwing captchas at me
The lack of sociology journals in the Seattle public library is concerning but flipping through physical first editions of American Speech from (exactly!) a century ago is delightful
January 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The lack of sociology journals in the Seattle public library is concerning but flipping through physical first editions of American Speech from (exactly!) a century ago is delightful
AI music generation has gotten, like, scarily good these days. Was listening to an 80’s City Pop playlist on Youtube, liked a song, and tried to search for it only to find out it was 100% AI generated. For creators, these tools must feel like a massive improvement over the Vocaloid days.
December 1, 2024 at 8:25 PM
AI music generation has gotten, like, scarily good these days. Was listening to an 80’s City Pop playlist on Youtube, liked a song, and tried to search for it only to find out it was 100% AI generated. For creators, these tools must feel like a massive improvement over the Vocaloid days.
Good interdisciplinary work is hard. I just read an ASR paper with a theory section that made me see something in a completely new light—then hit the methods section and saw a just... wrong... and completely unvalidated use of LLM embeddings for empirical evidence to support the theory. Ugh.
November 19, 2024 at 4:51 AM
Good interdisciplinary work is hard. I just read an ASR paper with a theory section that made me see something in a completely new light—then hit the methods section and saw a just... wrong... and completely unvalidated use of LLM embeddings for empirical evidence to support the theory. Ugh.