Researching {science of AI-mediated science, metascience #SciSci, #AI4Science, #GenAI, LLMs, agents, alignment, AI governance, misinformation in science} PhD @ UW. Visiting @ NYU & MSR Alum @ Carnegie Mellon Academic webpage: https://samemon.github.iohttps://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.social/post/3mstgwzwkuk2cThis is wild! [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Aug 2026 20:22 +0000at://did:plc:dmn6ioxepuvxmebtlltp5dzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mstgwzwkuk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.social/post/3mshnkqm2x22n#Academia has an empathy problem. #LongRant We train people to be rigorous thinkers, and productive researchers (or at least claim to). But we do far less to train ourselves to listen, uplift others, and be good members of an intellectual community. We should actively practice empathy too. 🧵07 Aug 2026 03:48 +0000at://did:plc:dmn6ioxepuvxmebtlltp5dzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mshnkqm2x22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.social/post/3ms2jz4cx322bAre you on academic job market for #Postdoc or #TT Assistant/Assoc. Prof/Lecturer/ #AP /Research Scholar/ #fellowship jobs for 2026-2027 in #CS/ #SocSci/ #InfoSci/ Management Science/ #Psych & similar? Like last year, I am maintaining a list (so far ~200 positions) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LJ93NUxRIxKMhdZ02Fy_LkpwPS3GQy7j6EmIjaHES1s/htmlview01 Aug 2026 22:40 +0000at://did:plc:dmn6ioxepuvxmebtlltp5dzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms2jz4cx322bhttps://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.social/post/3mrql6uzvd22qThis week I am @ic2s2.bsky.social in Burlington, Vermont. I will be presenting our work @ischool.uw.edu on detection of AI mediation in scientific software as a parallel talk, as well as our work on red-teaming AI models using speculative "silly" tasks as a poster. Come say /hi! #IC2S2 #CSS28 Jul 2026 23:35 +0000at://did:plc:dmn6ioxepuvxmebtlltp5dzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrql6uzvd22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.social/post/3mrchd3qzss2lWhat if paper reading and reviewing was interactive and visual? Tools today assume a very passive way of engaging with a paper: you open a PDF and read linearly, top to bottom. But most of us already break that assumption: results first, figures before text, abstract then conclusion. 🧵 #scisci23 Jul 2026 08:48 +0000at://did:plc:dmn6ioxepuvxmebtlltp5dzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrchd3qzss2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.social/post/3mrchd3qzss2lWhat if paper reading and reviewing was interactive and visual? Tools today assume a very passive way of engaging with a paper: you open a PDF and read linearly, top to bottom. But most of us already break that assumption: results first, figures before text, abstract then conclusion. 🧵 #scisci23 Jul 2026 08:48 +0000at://did:plc:dmn6ioxepuvxmebtlltp5dzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrchd3qzss2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.social/post/3mqs4c2foik2m“May your day be filled with sunshine and smiles.” ☀️ I am neither a professor nor qualified to submit in a biomedical journal, but with this greeting I might just submit something. 🤷‍♂️ Wish more people in academia started their emails this way.16 Jul 2026 20:48 +0000at://did:plc:dmn6ioxepuvxmebtlltp5dzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqs4c2foik2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.social/post/3mqbjfepbmc27The video for our paper on "AI Welfare is Bullshit," presented this week @icmlconf.bsky.social, is now available here: https://icml.cc/virtual/2026/poster/67058 Also a short thread below. #AIWelfare [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Jul 2026 06:27 +0000at://did:plc:dmn6ioxepuvxmebtlltp5dzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqbjfepbmc27https://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.social/post/3mpnb7q5gws2nThis year's @icssi.org in Boulder, Colorado was a blast. It was a full three-day conference (including a hackathon). Congratulations to this year's organizers for making this year's ICSSI a success. I had the opportunity to present 3 of my ongoing projects. 🧵 #Scisci #metascience02 Jul 2026 05:08 +0000at://did:plc:dmn6ioxepuvxmebtlltp5dzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpnb7q5gws2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.social/post/3mpgv4jyse22iFavorite joke/play on words at @icssi.org. @sampat.bsky.social, introducing the panelist, Lisa Margonelli, who is editor of issues in Science Technology: “You’re the editor of Issues in Science Technology…” beat “…well, science certainly has issues. Let’s talk about them” #SciSci #metascience29 Jun 2026 16:15 +0000at://did:plc:dmn6ioxepuvxmebtlltp5dzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpgv4jyse22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.social/post/3mmzvlb67ak2uWhat's going on with #OpenAlex? I searched for https://api.openalex.org/works/W4385245566 which used to refer to the "Attention is all you need" paper. However, it now points to a paper: "MizAR 60 for Mizar 50" which according to OA has 75k cites, but really has about 15 (according to google and sem. scholar)30 May 2026 01:28 +0000at://did:plc:dmn6ioxepuvxmebtlltp5dzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmzvlb67ak2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.social/post/3mkqbedf27c2nOur position paper, "AI Welfare Is Bullshit" just got accepted to ICML 2026 @icmlconf.bsky.social! The AI welfare agenda has already begun to attract institutional investment at organizations such an @anthropic.com. We argue that this idea is essentially Frankfurtian Bullshit.30 Apr 2026 18:42 +0000at://did:plc:dmn6ioxepuvxmebtlltp5dzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkqbedf27c2n