NEW: Former departmental secretaries Kathryn Campbell and Renee Leon found to have breached Australian Public Service code of conduct for robodebt. 12 current former public servants, 97 breaches all together.

RIP University of Adelaide theguardian.com/australia-news…

📢📢 I will be on PostDoc job market from Summer 2025!! Grateful for RTs 😇& my CV is here: gajjala.in If you know someone who is hiring and is a good fit, please forward it :) I will also be at #FOCS2024 next month. DM if you are around, would love to catch up👋

dude how tf did we take sand and make it into 3nm chips that can do numerical computations billions of times per second, and we use those chips to make machines "learn" !?!?!? magic does not exist in the real world because this is what real magic is.

Closing out day 2, we have Tamalika Mukherjee talking about the hidden costs of privacy choice for marginalized groups! Fun fact: Tamalika is a postdoc at Columbia IEOR on the academic job market this year :)

The fundamental attribution error in research: Poorly executed or uninteresting research in my own area is a forgivable part of our quest for understanding; Poorly executed or uninteresting research in another area is why that area is deeply flawed and should never exist.

Great, much needed. Unlike international student caps, which would at best have a tiny impact on housing availability and is much more likely to have negative impacts on the economy and cost of living.

The new train station opening at the University's footstep 😍

🚀Last-minute check-in to an academic career? We're seeking a PhD student to research the security and privacy of generative AI. Fully funded position in vibrant Berlin! Deadline is this Friday, September 20th. Apply now: mlsec.org/jobs.html#jobs BIFOLD TU Berlin

I wrote with Toby Murray on Ausgov's ill-advised social media ban: pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/banni… Take a read!

Life goal is to work in an office that serves lots of tasty doughnuts 😋.

🚨🚨Multiple Continuing (Tenure-Track) Positions in 🤖 Robotics 🤖 and related fields at USYD! 🚨🚨 The University of Sydney 🏖 invites applications at all levels (Lecturer -> Full Professor) with three schools highlighting robotics among their recruitment priorities.

📢📢📢It is that time of the calendar when academics young and experienced search for faculty positions. Look no further than a exciting place like the School of Computer Science at University of Sydney!! We are hiring at all academic levels! Check out: usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_EXT…

This seems to be happening for pretty much everyone outside the EU (plus a few countries with similar legislation). Good example of why strong privacy laws matter.

The AI for Cyber Security workshop has been accepted to AAAI #AAAI25 ! Start getting your papers and work ready! Anyone Camlis Org should be interested too. #AICS Arunesh Sinha

Excited about new pre-print: We provide a differentially private estimator for U-statistics with near-optimal accuracy. This unlocks DP estimators for a number of problems such as nonparametric signed rank tests, symmetry testing, uniformity testing, and subgraph counts in random

Note the early deadline! 👇👇👇

Want to live in Eugene, Oregon and do data science? Of course you do! Good news — University of Oregon has openings in the Data Science department: Department Head academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27838 Assistant Professor academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27833

🔍Exciting Opportunity in AI Security & Privacy! Our Azure Research team in Cambridge, UK, is hiring a Postdoc. Join us in developing mechanisms that provide robust guarantees against security & privacy threats to systems with unreliable AI components. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/…

The scare campaign on -ve gearing and CGT has kicked off already. Vested interests and anonymous tweets wailing about how disastrous this would be for “ ordinary mum and dad investors”. The reality is that the wealthy are making a killing at the expense of battlers.