Aatish Bhatia
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I'm a science writer and journalist. I make articles and interactive graphics. Previously: NYT, Princeton, Rutgers Physics Ph.D.
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Love this idea, a great way to visualize how far we scroll
IMO the absolute bare minimum of social media regulation should involve platforms telling you exactly how long you've been scrolling, e.g. "you are 96 videos into your feed"
or, using the length of a CVS receipt as a proxy! this was the idea behind a thought experiment I made a few months ago
or, using the length of a CVS receipt as a proxy! this was the idea behind a thought experiment I made a few months ago
What If TikTok Had A Paper Trail?
A thought experiment for infinite feeds on physical media.
perthirtysix.com
September 16, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Love this idea, a great way to visualize how far we scroll
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A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
mathandai.org
September 11, 2026 at 5:40 PM
A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
Really clear piece by @melaniemitchell.bsky.social that explains why OpenAI's systems hacked Hugging Face, and how metaphors can mislead us about what really happened aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...
Misleading Metaphors, Real Risks
What To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency
aiguide.substack.com
September 11, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Really clear piece by @melaniemitchell.bsky.social that explains why OpenAI's systems hacked Hugging Face, and how metaphors can mislead us about what really happened aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...
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Everything you need to know about today’s wild “AI solves $1M math problem” news, via @sciam.bsky.social:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-m...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-m...
AI may have just solved a million-dollar math problem. The field will never be the same
A mathematician compared the feat to IBM's history-making Deep Blue computer beating Gary Kasporov at chess in 1977
www.scientificamerican.com
September 8, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Everything you need to know about today’s wild “AI solves $1M math problem” news, via @sciam.bsky.social:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-m...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-m...
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Fascinating interview with Terry Tao about the value of mathematical thinking m.youtube.com/watch?v=OOMx...
One of the world's greatest mathematicians explains 6 essential concepts of math | Terence Tao
YouTube video by Big Think
m.youtube.com
September 3, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Fascinating interview with Terry Tao about the value of mathematical thinking m.youtube.com/watch?v=OOMx...
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LLMs are going to fundamentally change what scholarship is. Pumping out true propositions used to be a viable career. Now much of that can be offloaded, leaving scholars the tasks of understanding, synthesizing, and deciding what is valuable. Goes for math, philosophy, parts of physics.
I find the view that philosophy is supposed to just pump out the maximum number of true propositions (and that LLMs can help with this) completely anathema. This is a humanistic field where we engage in collective inquiry together. LLMs destroy the collective trust at the base of that
September 3, 2026 at 2:11 PM
LLMs are going to fundamentally change what scholarship is. Pumping out true propositions used to be a viable career. Now much of that can be offloaded, leaving scholars the tasks of understanding, synthesizing, and deciding what is valuable. Goes for math, philosophy, parts of physics.
Fascinating interview with Terry Tao about the value of mathematical thinking m.youtube.com/watch?v=OOMx...
One of the world's greatest mathematicians explains 6 essential concepts of math | Terence Tao
YouTube video by Big Think
m.youtube.com
September 3, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Fascinating interview with Terry Tao about the value of mathematical thinking m.youtube.com/watch?v=OOMx...
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Dark matter has eluded capture for decades. Did it just leave a trace?
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/s...
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/s...
Scientists Hunting Dark Matter Found Something Strange (Gift Article)
A lone signal from an experiment in South Dakota doesn’t fit the profile of any other known particles, physicists say.
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Dark matter has eluded capture for decades. Did it just leave a trace?
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/s...
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/s...
Thoughtful piece: "Upon reflection, I've come to believe that quality software is not about how many features something has or how quickly it is built but rather how cared for it is by the designers, developers, and product people who work on it."
"There's an ineffable aspect to my favorite pieces of software where I don't think of it is as feature matrix but rather as an interface made by a human for humans that's a joy to use. And when you build software with AI, it leads to worse software."
brettcodes.com/im-done-usin...
brettcodes.com/im-done-usin...
I'm done using AI
Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.
brettcodes.com
September 1, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Thoughtful piece: "Upon reflection, I've come to believe that quality software is not about how many features something has or how quickly it is built but rather how cared for it is by the designers, developers, and product people who work on it."
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Reaction Diffusion in Photoshop-
Blur, Sharpen, Posterize, repeat
Blur, Sharpen, Posterize, repeat
August 30, 2026 at 10:47 AM
Reaction Diffusion in Photoshop-
Blur, Sharpen, Posterize, repeat
Blur, Sharpen, Posterize, repeat
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To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners
If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution
If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution
August 26, 2026 at 6:29 PM
To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners
If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution
If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution
Devastating to see the scale of destruction in Nepal's flash floods www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
See How Nepal’s Flash Floods Caused Widespread Destruction
Floodwaters swept away villages near the border between Nepal and the Tibet region of China.
www.nytimes.com
August 27, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Devastating to see the scale of destruction in Nepal's flash floods www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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There is a lot we don't know about the Nepal Tibet flood. Here are some things I suspect, as someone who studies risk just a couple hundred miles away:
andrewrumbach.substack.com/p/seven-expe...
andrewrumbach.substack.com/p/seven-expe...
Seven expectations about the Nepal & Tibet flood, from a long-time student of disaster risk in the region
Like many of you, I’ve been watching in horror as video clips of the disaster unfolding along the Nepal and Tibet border have gone viral.
andrewrumbach.substack.com
August 27, 2026 at 2:11 AM
There is a lot we don't know about the Nepal Tibet flood. Here are some things I suspect, as someone who studies risk just a couple hundred miles away:
andrewrumbach.substack.com/p/seven-expe...
andrewrumbach.substack.com/p/seven-expe...
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Ansel Adams on assignment for IBM - one of my favourite shots. Not the usual landscape but the skill of a woman weaving magnetic core memory. The beat up nails captures total “woman in STEM” vibes.
August 22, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Ansel Adams on assignment for IBM - one of my favourite shots. Not the usual landscape but the skill of a woman weaving magnetic core memory. The beat up nails captures total “woman in STEM” vibes.
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Terry Tap as always with the most careful and gentle analysis of ai and its effect on mathematics: arxiv.org/abs/2608.16753
Mathematics in the age of AI
An essay, based on a public lecture delivered at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians, on how the mathematical community might respond to the arrival of artificial intelligence tools that...
arxiv.org
August 22, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Terry Tap as always with the most careful and gentle analysis of ai and its effect on mathematics: arxiv.org/abs/2608.16753
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Come work with my team on the very best beat: the Economics of Climate Change!!! Excited to make many beautiful charts with whoever gets this gig :)
job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...
job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...
August 18, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Come work with my team on the very best beat: the Economics of Climate Change!!! Excited to make many beautiful charts with whoever gets this gig :)
job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...
job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...
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New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI.
We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
www.404media.co
August 17, 2026 at 1:23 PM
New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI.
We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
It's happening. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonp...
August 14, 2026 at 12:52 PM
It's happening. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonp...
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This is a fun album to work to: patrickbelaga2.bandcamp.com/album/solar-... Feels like the sounds of neurons firing.
Solar Calf, by Patrick Belaga
9 track album
patrickbelaga2.bandcamp.com
August 4, 2026 at 6:42 PM
This is a fun album to work to: patrickbelaga2.bandcamp.com/album/solar-... Feels like the sounds of neurons firing.
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Striking before/afters showing what the heat waves did to UK vegetation www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK heatwaves: Satellite images show how UK landscape has changed
BBC Verify's analysis indicates “vegetation stress” in many areas, which may affect wildlife and farming.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 31, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Striking before/afters showing what the heat waves did to UK vegetation www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Medical scientist 1: so how's the research going?
Medical scientist 2: we're just titling our paper
Medical scientist 1: it's not another pop culture thing is it?
Medical scientist 2:
Medical scientist 2: we're just titling our paper
Medical scientist 1: it's not another pop culture thing is it?
Medical scientist 2:
July 24, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Medical scientist 1: so how's the research going?
Medical scientist 2: we're just titling our paper
Medical scientist 1: it's not another pop culture thing is it?
Medical scientist 2:
Medical scientist 2: we're just titling our paper
Medical scientist 1: it's not another pop culture thing is it?
Medical scientist 2:
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ATLANTA (AP) — US surpasses 2025’s record-breaking tally for measles cases, with 2,318 cases and 5 more months left in the year.
July 24, 2026 at 3:16 PM
ATLANTA (AP) — US surpasses 2025’s record-breaking tally for measles cases, with 2,318 cases and 5 more months left in the year.
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My new piece is finished! I'm really happy with how the artwork turned out. I'd love to hear your thoughts on it! 😉
#Illustration
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#Illustration
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July 23, 2026 at 9:54 PM
My new piece is finished! I'm really happy with how the artwork turned out. I'd love to hear your thoughts on it! 😉
#Illustration
#CommentPls
#RTpls
#Illustration
#CommentPls
#RTpls