🔥Today we're excited to announce a major milestone for the machine-learned interatomic potential (MLIP) ecosystem: TorchSim is moving to community ownership and governance through a partnership with Radical AI and the open-source community! MLIPs have become critical

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Nature used to be the world’s most prestigious science journal. Now it’s one of many accused of favouring authors because of their identity group rather than the excellence and importance of their science. hxstem.substack.com/p/why-i-no-lon…

The publishing output of academia is best understood once you realize the quest in academia is not for truth, it’s for funding.

I feel like crap. I didn’t get any grants this year, so I had to let go of my super talented postdoc—someone with a doctorate who’s now unemployed, without benefits or retirement, and still grinding away on a paper... Postdocs are the most unappreciated and undervalued positions

An LLM-generated paper is in the top 17% of ICLR submissions in terms of average reviewer score, having received two 8's. The paper has tons of BS jargon and hallucinated references. Fortunately, one reviewer actually looked at the paper and gave it a zero. 1/3

Postdoc time is often harder than PhD. You have little time. Competition is higher. And you MUST stand out. + Your contract may end any moment. + Your salary is often low (for your age/education). + You’ve just relocated and prepare to relocate again. No wonder that Max

🎊ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (#GRAS) 2025 is out now! Here are Top 10 #universities in Artificial Intelligence #1 NTU Singapore #2 Tsinghua University #3 University of Toronto 👆𝐅𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐎𝐖 𝐔𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐆𝐄𝐓: the latest ranking alerts, global university news, insights, and expert

“From 2012 to 2020, it was the age of research. From 2020 to 2025, it was the age of scaling. Now, it's back to the age of research again.” I agree.

Top 1000 universities ranking: 1. 🇺🇸 Harvard 2. 🇺🇸 MIT 3. 🇺🇸 Stanford 4. 🇺🇸 Berkeley 5. 🇬🇧 Oxford 6. 🇺🇸 Washington Seattle 7. 🇺🇸 Columbia University 8. 🇬🇧 Cambridge 9. 🇺🇸 Caltech 10. 🇺🇸 John Hopkins . 11. 🇺🇸 Yale University 12. 🇬🇧 UCL 14. 🇺🇸 UCLA 18. 🇨🇦 University of

#UofT ranks third globally in artificial intelligence in new Shanghai subject ranking 🌎 uoft.me/sr25

Computer science is returning to the hands of physicists, mathematicians, and electrical engineers as LLMs automate much of what is currently defined as software engineering. The center of gravity is shifting away from manual code writing and toward deeper theoretical,

If you're a senior researcher (i.e., associate professor or more senior), and you'd consider moving to the University of Toronto to take up a Canada Impact+ Research Chair (1 million/year in funding), email me. Discretion guaranteed. ++Please share to help me spread the word!++

I can confidently say I never want to work with anyone who publicly shits on their former team without any gratitude like this.

We are reminded daily of a persistent challenge in materials science: relate macroscopic properties to microscopic processes.

It happened!! Geoff Hinton is officially cited over 1M times

While one may complain about methodology, the latest ranking of international universities shows that China's investments over the last 10 years have made Chinese universities dominant For methodology see:traditional.leidenranking.com/ranking/2025/l… For NYT article on this: nytimes.com/2026/01/15/us/…

60% of economics professors in the top ≈ 100 schools obtained their PhD from a top 15 university.

#UofT ranked 1st in Canada, among top 30 globally, in all subjects: Times Higher Education 🍁 uoft.me/c7J

UCalgary has been named one of Time Magazine’s World’s Top Universities of 2026, ranking among the top 100 globally. As one of Canada’s leading startup creators, UCalgary continues to stand out for its strong commitment to research and innovation. bit.ly/49XwLbp