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Antti Honkela @ahonkela.bsky.social · Sep 11

@iclr-conf.bsky.social regarding your LLM policy, can you please confirm that one does not need to have an LLM usage section in the main body of the paper if LLMs did not play a significant role as defined here?

Extract of ICLR LLM use policy with the following text highlighted: "However, new this year, if LLMs played a significant role in research ideation and/or writing to the extent that they could be regarded as a contributor, then authors should describe the precise role of the LLM in the main body of the paper in a separate section on LLM usage."

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ELSA – European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI @elsa-ai.eu · Aug 1

Happy to share the recap of the #health #privacy #session at #CAMDA2025 by our amazing team!

elsa-ai.eu/the-health-p...

#ELSAAI #research #challenge #safeandsecure #AI

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Differential Privacy @differentialprivacy.org · Mar 17

$( varepsilon, δ)$ Considered Harmful: Best Practices for Reporting Differential Privacy Guarantees
Juan Felipe Gomez, Bogdan Kulynych, Georgios Kaissis, Jamie Hayes, Borja Balle, Antti Honkela
http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10945

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Stegle Lab @steglelab.bsky.social · Feb 27

⏰ A quick reminder that Track I of the Health Privacy Challenge is still running strong, exploring privacy preservation in bulk RNA-seq datasets! We’re excited to see the innovative solutions Blue Teams and Red Teams will bring to the competition! #🫐🍅 #CAMDAConference #ISMB/ECCB2025

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Stegle Lab @steglelab.bsky.social · Feb 27

Exciting News! 🚀 We’re pleased to launch Track II of the Health Privacy Challenge 🫐🍅, focused on single-cell data! We invite the participants to explore the privacy and utility of synthetic single-cell RNA-seq data! #CAMDAConference
Register to participate: benchmarks.elsa-ai.eu?ch=4

Overview - Health - ELSA Benchmarks Platform

benchmarks.elsa-ai.eu

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ELLIS Institute Finland @ellisinstitute.fi · Feb 24

Call for Principal Investigators in #machinelearning & #artificialintelligence closes in 2 weeks! Why apply?
- Professorship affiliation at universities in Finland
- Research infrastructure incl. @lumi-supercomputer.eu
- Generous startup package
- @ellis.eu network
➡️ www.ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit

Principal Investigator positions at ELLIS Institute Finland | ELLIS Institute Finland

Now recruiting new PIs in artificial intelligence and machine learning

www.ellisinstitute.fi

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Samuel Kaski @samikaski.bsky.social · Feb 4

I have big news: @ellis.eu has launched its 2nd major research center, @ellisfinland.bsky.social! I have agreed to start as founding director & the first call for PI positions is open. This is a major opportunity for outstanding researchers, join us! ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit

Principal Investigator positions at ELLIS Institute Finland | ELLIS Institute Finland

Now recruiting new PIs in artificial intelligence and machine learning

ellisinstitute.fi

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Luigi Acerbi @lacerbi.bsky.social · Jan 28

1/ 🎉 We launched the *Helsinki Probabilistic Machine Learning Lab*, which combines multiple research groups at @univhelsinkics.bsky.social - and part of FCAI and ELLIS - working on, guess what, Probabilistic ML and AI.

And we are hiring! Please repost!

Website: www.helsinki.fi/probabilisti...

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Helsinki Institute for Information Technology @icthiit.bsky.social · Jan 21

We are now accepting applications for Postdoctoral Fellows (3 years) or Research Fellows (5 years) in ICT. Deadline 2 February at 11:59 PM Finnish time
Find out more information @ shorturl.at/uMk4i #postdocjob #postdoc #artificialintelligence #datascience #bioinformatics #algorithms #AcademicSky

HIIT Postdoctoral and Research Fellow positions

Apply now HIIT Research Fellow and Postdoctoral Fellow Positions in ICT The Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT) invites applications for Postdoctoral Fellows and Research Fellows. HI...

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Antti Honkela @ahonkela.bsky.social · Jan 15

Very interesting challenge on privacy of synthetic data organised together with @steglelab.bsky.social and other ELSA project partners.

Please spread the word!

Stegle Lab @steglelab.bsky.social · Jan 15

We are delighted to announce The Health Privacy Challenge, an interactive opportunity for advancement at the intersection of computational biology and privacy research, brought to you as a part of CAMDA Conference at #ISMB/ECCB2025 🫐🍅
Register to participate: benchmarks.elsa-ai.eu?ch=4

Overview - Health - ELSA Benchmarks Platform

benchmarks.elsa-ai.eu

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Stegle Lab @steglelab.bsky.social · Jan 15

We are delighted to announce The Health Privacy Challenge, an interactive opportunity for advancement at the intersection of computational biology and privacy research, brought to you as a part of CAMDA Conference at #ISMB/ECCB2025 🫐🍅
Register to participate: benchmarks.elsa-ai.eu?ch=4

Overview - Health - ELSA Benchmarks Platform

benchmarks.elsa-ai.eu

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Antti Honkela @ahonkela.bsky.social · Dec 14

This would be rather suboptimal for those living further away from big centers or working in an area where most of the relevant community is elsewhere. Unfortunately we need common meetings to avoid fragmenting the community.

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M A Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · Nov 24

I have seen some anti-peer-review takes on here, and, believe me, I understand the frustrations, but I would urge caution before doing or publicly saying anything too drastic. We live in age rife with misinformation and anti-intellectualism—not everyone wants academia to survive

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Antti Honkela @ahonkela.bsky.social · Nov 26

Risk is twofold: 1) Europeans risk losing access to models developed outside Europe, while 2) European researchers face significant additional burden to comply with the rules. This risks violating the freedom of research.

Antti Honkela @ahonkela.bsky.social · Nov 26

Open letter: European AI researchers are worried that including research and open source in foundation model regulation in the AI Act could kill frontier AI research in Europe. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Open Letter on Regulation of Foundation Models in the AI Act and Research

Open Letter on Regulation of Foundation Models in the AI Act and Research If you are a machine learning or AI researcher with at least a PhD and wish to sign the letter, please fill in this form: http...

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