Ginni Rometty Prof @NorthwesternCS | Fellow @NU_IPR | AI, people, uncertainty, beliefs, decisions, metascience | Blog @statmodelinghttps://bsky.app/profile/jessicahullman.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jessicahullman.bsky.social/post/3mtw3s7ix7k2sThe uncertain future of academia got me interested in the history of US science policy. It's surprising how fragile the basic vs applied research distinction behind the postwar “social contract for science” is. There are takeaways for what it means to defend universities now🧵 https://jessicahullman.substack.com/p/what-stories-should-we-tell-about25 Aug 2026 15:05 +0000at://did:plc:bfiewdcm26qhrtdvymrdcriz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtw3s7ix7k2shttps://bsky.app/profile/jessicahullman.bsky.social/post/3msswvnflgs24Nice post from @eytan.adar.prof on the cargo cult science of "AI-native" PhD students, who come in super productive because they perform all major parts of research with genAI. No one needs all these quick papers, and they can really hurt students down the road. https://eytanadar.medium.com/ai-native-phd-students-f9f6eebc1f91 [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Aug 2026 15:35 +0000at://did:plc:bfiewdcm26qhrtdvymrdcriz/app.bsky.feed.post/3msswvnflgs24https://bsky.app/profile/jessicahullman.bsky.social/post/3mrx72dn2ys23I couldn't make it to #IC2S2 but Huaman Sun will be presenting our work on validation of silicon samples shortly -- if you're attending check it out! Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2602.1578531 Jul 2026 14:46 +0000at://did:plc:bfiewdcm26qhrtdvymrdcriz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrx72dn2ys23https://bsky.app/profile/jessicahullman.bsky.social/post/3mrkx5glfbk2qLol, it's true that Fable-style speak is the closest LLMs have come to poetry [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Jul 2026 17:53 +0000at://did:plc:bfiewdcm26qhrtdvymrdcriz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrkx5glfbk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/jessicahullman.bsky.social/post/3mr3lpdh4vs26I enjoyed this. But the prior that competence and efficiency can't be inspiring or breathtaking is silly. I got hooked on watching Spain after first seeing them play because it felt like they were doing something on par with great poetry or art. [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Jul 2026 15:18 +0000at://did:plc:bfiewdcm26qhrtdvymrdcriz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr3lpdh4vs26https://bsky.app/profile/jessicahullman.bsky.social/post/3mqftqfxhc223An essay on sincerity and embarassment and cliché, inspired by a not-very-good documentary about the Counting Crows watched on a flight. https://jessicahullman.substack.com/p/embarrass-the-sky11 Jul 2026 23:43 +0000at://did:plc:bfiewdcm26qhrtdvymrdcriz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqftqfxhc223https://bsky.app/profile/jessicahullman.bsky.social/post/3mqftqfxhc223An essay on sincerity and embarassment and cliché, inspired by a not-very-good documentary about the Counting Crows watched on a flight. https://jessicahullman.substack.com/p/embarrass-the-sky11 Jul 2026 23:43 +0000at://did:plc:bfiewdcm26qhrtdvymrdcriz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqftqfxhc223https://bsky.app/profile/jessicahullman.bsky.social/post/3mqadciygus2hCongrats @hyeok.me! You were already to be faculty just a few years into the Ph.D. 😀 [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Jul 2026 19:06 +0000at://did:plc:bfiewdcm26qhrtdvymrdcriz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqadciygus2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/jessicahullman.bsky.social/post/3mpum4k5yms2cI’m writing an essay about sincerity and embarrassment and cliche and have fortuitously ended up at a Blues Traveler concert at Red Rocks on the 4th of July. It’s no joke and all joke at the same time05 Jul 2026 03:11 +0000at://did:plc:bfiewdcm26qhrtdvymrdcriz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpum4k5yms2chttps://bsky.app/profile/jessicahullman.bsky.social/post/3mpr3aqouls26I recall my dad saying to me as a kid "Isn't it terrible that we have to sell our time to survive." He was rarely serious or philosophical so it stuck with me. Also his drug talk when I was 12: "Marijuana, LSD, won't hurt you. Stay away from coke & heroin." I rarely listened but took that to heart [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Jul 2026 17:32 +0000at://did:plc:bfiewdcm26qhrtdvymrdcriz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpr3aqouls26https://bsky.app/profile/jessicahullman.bsky.social/post/3mpm3h5h7ak22Fascinating talk on the history of peer review from Melinda Baldwin at @icssi.org, with some parallels to current crises. Also I hadn't realized peer review was such an American thing.01 Jul 2026 17:52 +0000at://did:plc:bfiewdcm26qhrtdvymrdcriz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpm3h5h7ak22