No. 000

What

The Hallway Track is a weekly curated link roundup on how AI is affecting the practice of science. Not the hype cycle, not model benchmarks, not frontier lab press releases. The actual changes to how research gets funded, planned, produced, reviewed, and published.

Each edition collects 5-10 links with one-sentence framing. The format is intentionally minimal. If you can scan it in five minutes and walk away with one link worth reading, it did its job.

Why

I'm building Aris, an initiative focused on web-native infrastructure for academic publishing. As part of that work, I track the intersection of AI and scientific practice closely. What tools researchers are actually using. What policy is shifting. What infrastructure is being built or broken.

I was doing this anyway. The Hallway Track is the decision to write it down and share it.

Who

I'm Leo Torres. I've spent ten years in academic research in network science, computer science, and mathematics. I've spent 20 years writing code, at every part of the stack. Now I build research infrastructure at Aris. I read too many papers and have opinions about most of them, as well as the tools we use to produce them.

My day job is as Lead Data Science and Data Engineer at a global consulting firm. I'm peruvian, got my PhD in the US, and currently live in Germany. I'm a proud dad to a wonderful little girl.

How

Every week, links are gathered with the help of an AI agent that scans a curated list of sources weekly. The agent does the discovery. I do the selection and the framing. Every edition is reviewed and edited by (human) hand before it goes out.

If something made it into an edition, it's because I thought researchers, scientists, academics, or students should know about it. If something didn't, it's because I didn't think it cleared that bar.