Good news ACM Financial Data Fans, the ACM released new high-level financial data on their CEO search page: https://www.acm.org/about-acm/ceo-search

TLDR: They made $2m in profit last year, up from $300k in 2024 (depending on how exactly you define profit. but both of these are using the definition consistent with my original article so I'm stuck giving them the $300k).

The projected loss of $6m--$8m by 2026 (see https://www.williamjbowman.com/blog/2025/10/03/are-the-acm-s-profits-supporting-its-mission-yet/) is still on track to be bullshit. The ACM remains highly profitable at the expense of its non-profit mission.

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edit: originally by @kevin , inadvertently copied https://mastodon.km6g.us/@kevin/113724524588964200

NINeS 2026 is tomorrow! We have just posted (at nines-conference.org/attend) details on how to join the livestream, which starts at 1am UTC, and will let you experience what is going on at several pods and also hear our keynotes. We hope you join us.

We also have:

- Contributed talks on a variety of topics.
- Talk videos for all of the accepted papers.
- A Discord server where you can discuss all this (and more) with others!

More information can be found at https://nines-conference.org/attend. We hope you join us tomorrow!!

NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics?

1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at [email protected] so we can compile for a collective follow-up with the House Science commitee and NSF leadership

Details and template at https://grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

Update: A new round of these RWRs appear to have been sent out today (Feb 4). Keep those letters coming!

#NSF #GRFP

If you're an academic and are not using the Sioyek PDF reader to read papers ... you should try it. It has the ability to jump to references (or other sections, or figures, etc.) and back - or display them as an overlay right where you are. Even if there are no explicit links in the PDF! Easily look up stuff on Google Scholar (or other search engines.)

It's a bit idiosyncratic and does have somewhat of a learning curve, but if you spend a lot of time reading papers, it's worth it.

https://sioyek.info/

Nice video tutorial covering major features:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaHRvnb0dY8