Jaidev Deshpande

Dataset Release!! 🚀🚀 Excited to publish the PlotCaptions dataset: a corpus of ~150000 scientific plots and over 18 million captions for those charts, intended to train SLMs in the task of generating narratives for visual analytics. Details here 👇 jaidevd.com/posts/plotcapt…

One nation. One leak.

The LinkedIn-isation of science. The secret to success is to do good work and tell the world about it. Both components are important. LinkedIn is an entire social network organized around the second part of the saying: tell the world about it. Whatever you did, tell the world about it. Or, and that’s the terrible part, even if you did nothing of note at all, come to LinkedIn to tell the world about… something. “After many years doing RandomJob, I have decided to join RandomCorporation where I will work on ProjectsNobodyCaresAbout.” Boring. And, ultimately, it trends toward lower status. If you are really successful, you are not going to write such posts. I believe that it is a good model for what science has become. There is a subset of people doing actually hard and valuable work… But they are lost in a sea of people doing “me-too” work. (You take whatever is popular and you effectively clone it, without much thought.) And, just like LinkedIn, the important part of “science” is now to “tell the world about it,” repeatedly. You get the same type of language: jargon, popular but meaningless expressions, and fad-following. I often ask people who are unconvinced by my arguments: how many “research” articles do you read per year in your field? I read and even report on valuable research (it is still around), but people know intuitively that it is a waste of their time to look at the academic literature. They are not always correct, but as far as heuristics are concerned, it is not bad. And just like the LinkedIn posts, the 'science' can be generated by AI. In fact, it is. It is increasingly slop. And the inertia is going to take us far. My advice? Don't fall for it. Don't fill a LinkedIn profile with generic annoucements. Just say no to meaningless boring 'research' papers. Long term, it is your best strategy. Go back to the recipe: do good things and tell the world about it. Start with the first part. Get it done.

5000 years and shining!

@nixxin My bad... I was at a data journalism lecture, and there was an online quiz happening... Someone signed up with the username "nixxi" and I thought that might be you.

@jaidevd What? What is that?

@nixxin did I just see your name in a Kahoot game?

The CJI's content was also gaining traction among young people no?

🚨 Delhi’s toxic air isn’t just choking people. It’s cutting pregnancies short. Nearly 1 in 8 babies in Delhi are now born premature. In just 5 years, the preterm birth rate has shot up by 21%. Doctors are increasingly linking it to toxic air pollution. Behind the smog are babies in NICUs, mothers struggling through pregnancy, and a public health crisis hiding in plain sight. @AkankhyaAk72623 and I report for @newslaundry - newslaundry.com/2026/05/22/5-y…

You thought you can get rid of us? Lol

The performance review season is full of anxiety; less to do with whether you'll get a raise, lot more to do with the discomfort you feel when being critical of your work. This is why updating an old CV is hard. It's not just you. jaidevd.com/posts/resting-…

"The State cannot remain a passive spectator where preventable threats to human life continue to proliferate in the face of statutory mechanisms specifically designed to address them." commendable observation. just leaving a few news articles here from May, 2026:

Cockroaches that we are.

With the growing support for CJP, we are fully aware that attempts will be made to dismantle us and portray us as anti-social elements. We want to make it absolutely clear that CJP firmly believes in the Constitution of India and will always work towards protecting its values.

Germany to India (via Rwanda) How the politicial and judicial vocabulary in India is now troublingly beginning to mirror the lexicon in Hitler's Germany. With a vital contribution from Rwanda. Despite George Orwell's sage advice.👇🏾

"...specifically criticised ... fake and bogus degrees. Such persons have sneaked into media, social media, and other noble professions and hence they are like parasites,"

New on @dataforin: @akwaghmare's deep-dive into the informal sector. A thread: - Informality is a widely discussed topic in India's economy, but it's hard to track down exactly how it's defined and measured. That's what this piece does dataforindia.com/informal-secto…

CJI Surya Kant says there are "parasites" attacking the system. "There are youngsters like cockroaches, who don't get any employment and don't have any place in the profession. Some of them become media, some of them become social media, some of them become RTI activists, some of them become other activists, and they start attacking everyone." - CJI.

Show me one person who's not bluffing through life. And they can't be a spiritual guru.

BIG: Persons excluded in SIR will not get welfare benefits, says BJP government in Bengal SIR continues to be weaponised against Indians. scroll.in/latest/1092781…

More anti-India stories in the western media. We must discard this Euro-centric method of measuring heat and create our own standards.

David Attenborough is officially too old to play with Lego.