404 Media is making a print zine about the surveillance tactics used by ICE, and how people are resisting this tech.
Why? Print media is cool. Also, 404 Media has watched ICE grow from an already horrifying organization into a deportation force that is better funded than most militaries.
For many, the end of the year is an opportunity to catch up on reading or to purchase books as gifts. In 2025, a number of authors joined the Tech Policy Press podcast, providing fresh insights into how technology interacts with people, politics, and power. Check out the list:
For my first clip in @sciam.bsky.social, I spoke with Rahul Ilango about defining an entirely new notion of Zero Knowledge Proofs and its connections to century-old math. Check out my coverage on his @focs2025.bsky.social paper here: www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-... #zeroknowledge #zk #cs
Deportations and denials of entry. Visa delays. Researchers avoiding US meetings. It’s been bubbling up for a while, but the international collaboration crisis in science is here. My latest Op-Ed for @undark.org undark.org/2026/01/01/o...
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Justin Hendrix
Many non-US-citizen researchers are (understandably!) hesitant to go on the record about this, but I am interested in knowing and writing more about it. If you want to chat about the state of research in the US, please reach out! Signal in bio. #science #ScienceSky #highered
My first piece at Quanta Magazine is out! Cryptography and other fields in TCS holds a lot of promise for helping us understand how LLMs and other AI models work, and I’m excited to continue following this in the coming years.
I am at the @aaas.org Annual Meeting today and tomorrow, and I’m always looking to talk computer science, tech, math, AI, and #SciComm with people. Come find me! #AAASmtg
I’m also on a panel tomorrow talking about science journalism and @aaasmassmedia.bsky.social:
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💻 Spotlight on Peter! @peterha2l.bsky.social spent the summer digging into stories @technologyreview.com, supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation. Don’t miss his work: www.aaas.org/programs/mas...
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Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/
What do a group researchers do with 200k GPU hours from NVIDIA worth around a million dollars? They train a bunch of AI models on fake people from Arizona, of course!
Hubble is a new open source model suite appearing at ICLR this month. Read the full story here: www.science.org/content/arti...
Peter Hall
Peter Hall
Peter Hall
Peter Hall
Peter Hall
In 2025, a number of authors joined the Tech Policy Press podcast, providing fresh insights into how technology interacts with people, politics, and power.
