by @michelnivard.bsky.social
This is the firehose of preprint discussions on BlueSky. Its all posts with arxiv/biorxiv/medarxiv/*rxiv/osf.io/"new preprint" in text/link, but excluding posts by known bots that post all preprints. Its sorted by the "Hacker News ranking" algoritm to surface a healthy mix of popular and new posts.
Philip N Cohen This question was tricky because "intervene" is not defined. But at current US fertility rate, 18% of demographers support government intervention to raise birth rates. Half said never intervene. Paper with results, and data: osf.io/preprints/so...
Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) 🤖 👀 BSI, DFKI und Uni Freiburg haben die Sicherheitsrisiken beim Einsatz von Menschlicher Aufsicht für KI untersucht und stellen die Ergebnisse auf der 9th AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics and Society (AIES) vor. Morgen geht’s los! 👉 Zum Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12290
Robert (Bob) Kubinec OpenAI, like many for-profits, has little interest in foundational research. What they want is marketing, and that's what their AI math proofs are. OpenAI never bothered to check if the formalization of their AI proofs matched the actual text in the proof. Basic stuff. 🙄 arxiv.org/abs/2610.081...
Alfonso Martinez Arias An aptly titled paper shows, for the first time, the significance of heterogeneities of gene expression in the construction of complex systems : fate decisions are group decisions. Previously @biorxivpreprint cell.com/cell/fulltex... #MustRead #Gastruloids @Jshendure lab
Kelvin Lau @klausenhauser on 🙅♂️🐘🪡 Anyone else seen this? CryoEM models without any volume reconstruction. Straight from the micrographs, inferred structures restrained by the actual particle data. So sequence + limited particles = structure?! Bypassing all that time making a map just to still model after arxiv.org/html/2610.01...
Ethan Mollick Randomized trials with GPT-4o: "AI access raises test scores, and a smaller gain persists a week later. Gains remain for students who use AI as a tutor (“augmentation”) and fade for students who have AI write for them (“automation”)" Across all experiments, positive effects arxiv.org/abs/2607.08849
Max Kleiman-Weiner We won best paper at the COLM Workshop on Agent Behavior for our paper: AI Assistants Overassist! Congratulations @veronateo.bsky.social, Raghav Jain and @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social! Check out the preprint arxiv.org/abs/2607.21306
François Guité Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things | University of California Berkeley news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u... AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance | arXiv arxiv.org/abs/2604.04721 #freeaccess
Hoyaboya Jiménez-Valadez et al. (2026-10 preprint, bioRxiv) 「未解明の単細胞の近縁生物が，動物の起源を再構築する上での多様性のサンプリングにおける重要な空白を明らかにする」 Uncharacterized unicellular relatives reveal key gaps in sampling diversity for reconstructing animal origins doi.org/10.64898/202...
Alfonso Martinez Arias ..and have a look at the highly related paper from @arjunraj.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.1... with complementary experiments that reinforce the point and reveal multicellular #memory@arjunraj.bsky.social
Kirsty Wan Please enjoy this new offering from the lab: we discover that #excavates - ancient flagellate lineages with a voracious appetite for bacteria - change their behaviour depending on the availability of said prey! Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #protistsonsky
CSMLab in Cambridge ⚡️Preprint alert: “IQFEM: A quantum finite element method for heterogeneous problems with immersed boundaries” by Shehara Perera, Yiren Wang, Fehmi Cirak. arxiv.org/abs/2609.14077