Tom Diethe

Starter pack for ML in the natural sciences. Let me know if you want to be added/removed! go.bsky.app/LBENVXJ

Some reflections on AI in math. I found it helpful to simply list out the various parts of what a mathematician does, why math is valuable, and where the funding comes from. From there, what happens if AI gets more capable? youtu.be/LKrwhjOI8Nc

Fantastic talk by @shakirm.bsky.social at the AI in science summit - science moves at the speed of checks. I wrote a short post on LinkedIn. @ellis.eu @ucdresearch.bsky.social lnkd.in/p/eWD_haVP

Bodhana Sivanandan is the youngest WGM in history! 🔥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyxG...

Guest post by John Abowd, @aloni-bologna.bsky.social, Cynthia Dwork, Jae June Lee, @jsarathy.bsky.social, @adamsmith.xyz and Salil Vadhan on the US govt's latest move to ban "noise injection" (at the core of all meaningful privacy protections) from all official statistics: scottaaronson.blog?p=9902

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

🏹 Job alert: Postdoc in LLM Factuality Detection at University of Copenhagen 📍 Copenhagen 🇩🇰 ⏰ Apply by 31 May 🔗 https://bit.ly/4d6om5H

🏹 Job alert: Postdoctoral Researcher for the ERC Advanced Grant InterText at UKP Lab, TU Darmstadt 📍 Darmstadt 🇩🇪 ⏰ Apply by 31 May 🔗 https://bit.ly/3Rcg3Ot

Last week's @ebi.embl.org workshop on de novo peptide and miniprotein design was excellent. One theme kept surfacing: data leakage in sequence ML. It's an underappreciated problem — and for peptides especially. Blog post: www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-pr... #MachineLearning #DrugDiscovery

🏹 Job alert: Fully funded PhD Position in Test-Time Adaptation and Agentic AI at Aarhus University 📍 Aarhus 🇩🇰 ⏰ Apply by 1 June 🔗 https://bit.ly/49Tpfgk

Today NeurIPS is announcing our official satellite event in Paris. After responding to the call from Ellis following the success of EurIPS in December, we are pleased to reach a new milestone by joining forces with the NeurIPS organizing committee for the 2026 edition.

💬 AI for Good Webinar Series 'From Molecules to Models' - today with Alexander Binder 🇩🇪 on 'Explainable AI in cases when you cannot spot the dogs or cats'. 📅 Mon, Mar 23 🕓 17:00-18:00 CET 🔗 Registration: https://bit.ly/4sP4URk ℹ️ More info: https://bit.ly/47Qclim

🏹 Job alert: PhD Position Foundation Models for Industry (FIND) 📍 Delft 🇳🇱 ⏰ Apply by 30 April 🔗 https://careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-PhD-Position-Foundation-Models-for-Industry-%28FIND%29-2628-CD/1354532857/

Recruiting: We're hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computational Complexity (up to 4 posts) to become a member of a research group with responsibility for carrying out research on the European Research Council Project METACOMP. Details & applications: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

🏹 Job alert: Two PhD positions in Machine Learning: 1. Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems & Software Program; 2. KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) & Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) 📍 Stockholm ⏰ Apply by March 5th 🔗 https://bit.ly/4cho8Kl

🏹 Job alert: PhD and Postdoc Positions in Visual Computing at University of Bonn 📍 Bonn 🇩🇪 🔗 https://bit.ly/4tWnyb8

🏹 Job alert: PhD Position in Graph Learning at University of Vienna 📍 Vienna 🇦🇹 ⏰ Apply by March 26th 🔗 https://bit.ly/4qYURaO

Looking forward to it!

🏹 Job alert: Scientific Research Associate (Postdoc) in the Field of Agentic AI Systems for Scientific Workflows 📍 Hannover 🇩🇪 📅 Apply by March 25th 🔗 https://www.uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/id/8358/

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Do you want to study a DPhil (PhD) in the world’s top-ranked computer science department? If so, complete your application before 12:00 Tuesday 3 March 2026. Learn more about the course & how to apply here: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g... #CompSciOxford #StudyAtOxford #OxfordUni #ComputerScience

🏹 Job alert: PhD Research Fellow in Machine Learning for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oslo 📍 Oslo 🇳🇴 📅 Apply by March 1st 🔗 https://bit.ly/3MlLcNy

The next AI revolution isn't bigger models—it's better system architectures. Four emerging shifts: many-to-many collaboration, human-on-the-loop autonomy, richer uncertainty communication, and continual learning. www.linkedin.com/pulse/four-e...

My time in @martinsteinegger.bsky.social's group is ending, but I’m staying in Korea to build a lab at Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine. If you or someone you know is interested in molecular machine learning and open-source bioinformatics, please reach out. I am hiring! mirdita.org

Never play f6, except when it's checkmate :-). (pls ignore the fact that I missed mate in 1 twice before that!!) www.chess.com/game/live/14...

From my daughter! Merry Christmas all! @lichess.org @agadmator.bsky.social

Tuk a what now?

Fun visiting @harvardmed.bsky.social earlier today!

Volume 298 proceedings.mlr.press/v298/ Proceedings of Machine Learning for Healthcare 2025 Is now available on PMLR

How can we make probabilistic ML fast, generalizable, and ready for the real world? 🤔 Join us for the ELLIS UnConference Workshop on Amortized ProbML on Dec 2 in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 co-located with #EurIPS 📣 Call for contributions open until Oct 10 👉 Details: eurips.cc/ellis

🚀 New talk! "Automated ML-guided lead optimization: surpassing human-level performance at protein engineering" ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEhB... ✨🧪 This was a talk I gave at the recent AIxBIO conference in Cambridge UK. A 10-minute pitch for what we do at Cradle!

Incredible crowds in Rwanda 🇷🇼 for the worlds

🏹 Job alert: Two Faculty positions AI in Biology, EMBL Heidelberg 🇩🇪 🔷 Group Leader - AI in Biology: https://bit.ly/3K15NoC 🔷 Team Leader - AI Engineering & Automation: https://bit.ly/4nrzA8z 📅 Apply by Nov 2nd

The Journal-to-Conference track is back at AISTATS🌴! The track invites authors of papers published or accepted after January 1st, 2024 in AoS, Biometrika, JASA, JMLR and JRSS B to present their work as posters at #AISTATS2026 in Tangier, Morocco (May 2nd-5th 2026). 📅 Deadline: 31 January 2026

🚀 We’re hiring! Multiple postdocs & a program manager to push the frontiers of explainable AI in cutting-edge biomedical research—Alzheimer’s, aging, cancer & medical AI. Start immediately. Friends, please RT🙏 Learn more: drive.google.com/file/d/15mMR... #postdocjobs #AI #BiomedicalScience

Check out my latest article: Embracing the Future of Pharmaceutical R&D with Agentic AI www.linkedin.com/pulse/embrac...

🎓 Interested in a #PhD in machine learning or #AI? The ELLIS PhD Program connects top students with leading researchers across Europe. The application portal opens on Oct 1st. Curious? Join our info session on the same day. Get all the info 👉

Wait while I get all my s/ducks/swans/d in a row

"The fossil fuel age is flailing and failing. We are in the dawn of a new energy era." - António Guterres, UN Secretary General, July 22nd 2025, pressing nations for new climate plans ahead of COP30. news.un.org/en/story/202...

The 1 billionth GitHub repository has been created and it’s absolutely perfect.

Heading to Manchester to speak at the @ellis.eu summer school tomorrow, looking forward to it! www.ellismcr.org/ss2025

🎉 Excited to share that our paper has been accepted for publication! 🚀 The focus is on predicting critical heart failure endpoints using echocardiography by leveraging self-supervised learning. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Registration is still open for the 2025 ELLIS Manchester Summer School on Machine Learning for Healthcare and Biology, taking place from 2-5 June in Manchester. And we’ve held ticket prices at the same level since our first ELLIS Summer School in 2023. Find out more: www.ellismcr.org/ss2025

Looking forward to this one!

I first spoke at the #TheAISummit in 2022 at a panel session promoting the CDEI Federated Learning Sandbox. This year I'll be on the Headliners Stage on 11th of June talking about strategic decision making in the age of AI. london.theaisummit.com/speakers/nei...