Dr. Sydney

Working on Spacecraft perception and autonomy at TUM | PhD MIT AeroAstro | MIFP Fellow 18 | @NSFGRFP | 🇵🇷🏳️‍🌈 | 📡 KM4BTG

[Patrik Reizinger @rpatrik96]

In my first year of my PhD, I measured progress by papers. The count was zero. I felt like an imposter with no sense of progress.

That was an illusion - I was measuring the wrong thing.

I see this happening frequently, so I wrote a post with what a learned.

URL below.

[Jonathan McDowell @planet4589]

The 2025 NASA astronaut class has the highest fraction ever of women. I note it's also the first class since 1985 without any African-Americans.

[Dr. Sydney @syndamn]

Right on schedule, a mindblowingly incorrect Nate Silver take

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

The most important research paper of the past 10 years is the Google transformer paper ("Attention Is All You Need") and it was written by non-academics and published in an open-access journal.

[Kenneth Marino @Kenneth_Marino]

It was written my Google RS’s with PhDs and peer reviewed for NeurIPS, what on earth are you talking about Nate???

I’m also not sure what someone not in the field would get from reading that paper. It’s written for a specific technical audience.

[DINaMo Group, MIT @DINaMo_MIT]

Presenting our newest @aiaa #JGCD Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics paper, "Quantifying Impact of Information Sharing on Satellite Navigation"! 🛰️📡🛰️
@syndamn @sidnayak98 @MIT @MITAeroAstro
Paper: https://t.co/15jyWsb0KS
Website: https://t.co/6X03LkUpmV

[The Left Bible @theleftbible]

Hats off to Ms Rachel🙌

[Jehad Abusalim @JehadAbusalim]

If you read nothing else today, please read this quote:

[Danish Pruthi @danish037]

Remember this study about how LLM generated research ideas were rated to be more novel than expert-written ones?

We find a large fraction of such LLM generated proposals (≥ 24%) to be skillfully plagiarized, bypassing inbuilt plagiarism checks and unsuspecting experts. A 🧵

[Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe]

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

[Dr. Sydney @syndamn]

My latest paper on asynchronous multi agent reinforcement learning for satellite and rover coordination is out ✨️🚀

[Multiagent Systems Papers @PIN]

Asynchronous Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Limited Communication. https://t.co/aDivJOfRHe

[Associate Deans @ass_deans]

The governor’s committee on free speech has just issued a list of words that cannot be used in the classroom and topics that cannot be discussed or researched.

[Dr. Sydney @syndamn]

I'm very flattered to share I was profiled by MIT News! Read more about my PhD ~ work in grad school ~ general background ~ here!

https://t.co/WrG2BuU0Ts

[Dr. Sydney @syndamn]

Developing material and teaching my first course next semester! Send me all your resources for teaching 💕🥺

[Rupali Bhati @BhatiRupali]

Dear researchers and grad school applicants,
I compiled a (incomplete) list of professors working in multi-agent learning. If you want to do research in multi-agent learning, I hope you find this helpful! :)

https://t.co/ryoc0X5ka3

[Dr. Sydney @syndamn]

@ItsUfuoma Diva noooo, I hope your tendinitis has improved, it can be so painful

[Dr. Sydney @syndamn]

Nobody mentioned how busy wrapping up your phd would be 😭😭 paper submission, faculty apps, thesis writing,,, new found respect for my predecessors who did it all

[Dr. Sydney @syndamn]

got the mother of all nasty reviewer 2 feedback this week 🫠🫠🫠 happy to take the critique but also feel like there have gotta be more checks so the peer review process isn't an opportunity to just lash out at junior researchers because you're having a tough day

[Kaley Brauer 💫 @kaleybrauer]

On Sep 27, I'll be presenting results from our early galaxy simulations! We study how the first stars & galaxies formed and enriched their environments with metals.

This is part of the International Research Network for Nuclear Astrophysics @jina_cee seminar series. Info below

[Dr. Ufuoma 🛰🌍 @ItsUfuoma]

🚨🚨🚨I’m thrilled to announce the launch of the Toxic Prisons Mapping Project, Beta - a participatory research initiative to map the environmental hazards faced by prisons, jails, and detention centers. See https://t.co/2L2pJBe52b & 🧵 below