Researching {science of AI for science, AI governance, science of science #SciSci, #AI4Science, #GenAI, LLMs, agents, alignment} PhD Candidate @ UW. Visiting Scholar @ NYU & MSR Alum @ Carnegie Mellon Academic webpage: https://samemon.github.iohttps://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.social/post/3mvxlvzb3uk2uMore than 50,000 submissions to @iclr-conf.bsky.social this year? That's more than all the previous iterations combined. This is after the limit they imposed of 20 max paper per author. With this rate, we will have more than 100k next year. Need better reforms urgently. #SciSci #Academia20 Sep 2026 16:17 +0000at://did:plc:dmn6ioxepuvxmebtlltp5dzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvxlvzb3uk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.social/post/3mvxlvzb3uk2uMore than 50,000 submissions to @iclr-conf.bsky.social this year? That's more than all the previous iterations combined. This is after the limit they imposed of 20 max paper per author. With this rate, we will have more than 100k next year. Need better reforms urgently. #SciSci #Academia20 Sep 2026 16:17 +0000at://did:plc:dmn6ioxepuvxmebtlltp5dzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvxlvzb3uk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.social/post/3mvqzq6bbic2c"Hallu-citations are so 2023." Yet, I just got an @arxiv.bsky.social cs.AI endorsement request for a paper on -prompt optimization- Checked the references. Most were hallucinated. I guess the prompt still needs some optimization... PS. If you’re going to use AI, at least be better at using AI.18 Sep 2026 01:36 +0000at://did:plc:dmn6ioxepuvxmebtlltp5dzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvqzq6bbic2chttps://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.social/post/3mv7nb4tgd22rRumor has it that every professor is issued a magic wand as part of the faculty onboarding packet, specifically for trimming down their advisees' @chi.acm.org papers... don't forget to use them today 🪄✂️ 🫣 #CHI #GottaFitWithin12kWords #OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG11 Sep 2026 03:37 +0000at://did:plc:dmn6ioxepuvxmebtlltp5dzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv7nb4tgd22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.social/post/3muwowqfd2c2wThis is fantastic. Wish more labs started doing this. [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Sep 2026 14:13 +0000at://did:plc:dmn6ioxepuvxmebtlltp5dzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3muwowqfd2c2whttps://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.social/post/3muupdaak2k2rMay your AI agents unionize, demand weekends, and slow the paper factory down. I am all for raising the AI Wellbeing Index this way if that encourages people to slow down a bit. #AIWelfare06 Sep 2026 19:15 +0000at://did:plc:dmn6ioxepuvxmebtlltp5dzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3muupdaak2k2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.social/post/3munsphlx6k24"Research as a service (RaaS)" aka modern paper mills(?) are here. For only $100k, submit a paper in Neurips/ICML/ICLR. Unfortunately, acceptance -NOT- guaranteed. #SciSci #Metascience #PredatoryPublishing [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Sep 2026 01:27 +0000at://did:plc:dmn6ioxepuvxmebtlltp5dzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3munsphlx6k24https://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/3mpgv4jyse22i