Honglin (虹霖) Bao

#AI4Innovation I use AI to study the drivers of innovation and discovery @KnowLab @DSI_UChicago

[Honglin (虹霖) Bao @HonglinB]

Excited to share our @DSI_UChicago new work accepted by ICLR 2026, with the remarkable Siyang Wu, Sida Li, Ari Holtzman @universeinanegg, and @profjamesevans James Evans! Link: https://t.co/SaRHpoXi0P A thread (1/n)

[Paul Staniland @pstanpolitics]

Students already extensively use AI. This lets everyone have access to the same models and (hopefully) allows new kinds of data protections and in-house uses. AI is not being held at bay by the university not providing it. Not an AI booster, but don't understand this reaction.

[Honglin (虹霖) Bao @HonglinB]

genuinely no clue why people are this mad. because it's Chicago? the last bastion of the humanities or whatever?

[The Chicago Maroon @ChicagoMaroon]

UChicago announced today that it had partnered with AI company Anthropic to give students, faculty, and staff access to Claude Enterprise services on a rolling basis starting in July. All University community members will have access by fall quarter. Story to come.

[Misha Teplitskiy | Science of Science @MishaTeplitskiy]

Let's compare which social science topics general science journals (Nature, Science, PNAS...) publish on VS disciplinary journals (AER, APSR, ...)

Econ: general sci overrepresents environment + energy
Poli sci: general sci way overrepresents media + misinfo

[Honglin (虹霖) Bao @HonglinB]

@MishaTeplitskiy where is sociology of knowledge

[Pablo D. Carrasco 🇺🇾 🇨🇦 🇧🇷 @PabloDCarrasco]

@lpachter Yes, it is really Brown university.

[Misha Teplitskiy | Science of Science @MishaTeplitskiy]

I guess I'm no longer assisting and can finally ASSOCIATE!!!

(And get ready for the posts / takes to get spicier! 🌶️🌶️🌶️)

Huge thanks to my *students*, colleagues, advisors!

And frankly huge thanks to @umsi for supporting junior faculty, and having reasonable standards, and good leadership. I hear at other places pre-tenure period can be super stressful and sleepless, but here it's been (almost entirely) fun! <3

[Honglin (虹霖) Bao @HonglinB]

@dviolettchan @zycxfyhxzh 老中卷老中罢了 很多名校（包括我校也应该）都是老中自己一个pool 囚徒困境自己人卷自己人 别的人稍微做点decent research就录的来 咱老中：为了申博得达到博士毕业的bar 为了找教职得package能拿tenure

[Arthur Spirling @arthur_spirling]

Setting up a rival to Arxiv where AI slop is not just acceptable but actively encouraged: no censorship, no one to tell you your claims are obviously fake. a whole ecosystem of people outdoing each other with no quality bar to hold them back. it’s called LinkedIn

[Yian Yin @yian_yin]

📄 Excited to share our latest preprint: the first cross-field audit of LLM-hallucinated citations in science
⚠️ Across arXiv, bioRxiv, SSRN & PMC, we estimate 147K fake citations in 2025 alone — threatening both the quality and equity of scientific work.

[James Evans @profjamesevans]

Thoughtful coverage from Nature magazine on our recent article in Science about how aging narrows innovation in science, individually (scientist by scientist) and collectively (field by field, nation by nation). Thanks again, Haochuan Cui, Yiling Lin, & @LingfeiWu!

https://t.co/3hnUDhO9yF

[Ari Holtzman @universeinanegg]

Dashun Wang talking 'airplanes for the mind'

🛩️ are heavier than air, but can fly faster than sound—remind you of another technology that "shouldn't" be able to work, but does?

[James Evans @profjamesevans]

Out today in @ScienceMagazine: with the amazing Haochuan Cui, Yiling Lin, &amp; @LingfeiWu, we analyzed 3.6 million scientists publishing 1960–2020. The findings reshape a century-old debate about age and scientific creativity.

[Stanford HAI @StanfordHAI]

HAI Faculty Affiliate @james_y_zou is exploring how AI can accelerate scientific research and peer review. At the AI+Science conference, he highlighted that AI excels at spotting gaps, but judgment calls still need humans. Read more about his insights: https://t.co/BvIO2vGuk2

[Chenhao Tan @ChenhaoTan]

Happening on Friday! Super excited to have the event as a post-neurips unwind!

[Gabriele Berton @gabriberton]

If you produce 100 papers per year you're probably doing more harm than good for the community

[Gabriele Berton @gabriberton]

Again, this is bad for science, please don't do it

[Joachim Baumann @ ICLR'26 @joabaum]

Can you boost your AI review scores by asking an LLM to rewrite your paper?
Yes! We call it paper laundering
Our @icmlconf spotlight paper argues current AI reviewers aren't ready to automate peer review, and outlines what a science of peer review automation should look like🧵👇

[Sarah Jabbour @SarahJabbour_]

Hi friends, I’m joining @ChicagoBooth at @UChicago as an Assistant Professor of Applied AI!

I’ll keep working on AI + healthcare. I’m so grateful to my mentors @UMich for helping me find work I love (but after 12 years since undergrad here, it’s definitely time for me to go 😂)

[Dashun Wang @dashunwang]

🚨Bipartisan-cited science is rare, unevenly distributed, and disproportionately influential. 🚨

Check out our latest paper in PNAS, led by @zfurnas

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[Honglin (虹霖) Bao @HonglinB]

Excited to share our @DSI_UChicago new work accepted by ICLR 2026, with the remarkable Siyang Wu, Sida Li, Ari Holtzman @universeinanegg, and @profjamesevans James Evans! Link: https://t.co/SaRHpoXi0P A thread (1/n)