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Ramon Astudillo @ramon-astudillo.bsky.social · 3d

(repost welcome) The Generative Model Alignment team at IBM Research is looking for next summer interns! Two candidates for two topics

🍰Reinforcement Learning environments for LLMs

🐎Speculative and non-auto regressive generation for LLMs

interested/curious? DM or email [email protected]

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CantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · 4d

This new book sounds interesting

This is the kind of public intellectualism that makes the public hate intellectuals. Instead of showing what ideas have to teach us about life, Pinker holds a gun to life’s head and demands it conform to his thought experiments. And he does it with the patronizing tone of someone telling his readers what to think from on high. In one passage, prompting us to imagine increasingly higher-order levels of knowledge about knowledge, he virtually pats us on the head. “Now let’s try four layers,” he writes. After we’ve tackled four, he asks, encouragingly, “Think you can handle a fifth layer?”

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Reza Shadmehr @rezashadmehr.bsky.social · 7d

Tenure-track faculty position in motor neuroscience at Penn State.

psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

Open-Rank Faculty Position in Sensorimotor Control and Rehabilitation Neuroscience

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com

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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 10d

My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist!

Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply!

apply.interfolio.com/174371

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apply.interfolio.com

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Kris Gates @krismgates.bsky.social · 11d

Gift 🎁 article. The summary: Flu, Shingles, RSV, and Tdap. Likely mechanism is by reducing severe infections that can accelerate brain atrophy, a cause of dementia.
wapo.st/4gKIPhK

4 vaccines linked to a lower risk of dementia

Some vaccine-preventable diseases are linked to accelerated brain atrophy and increased dementia risk years down the line.

wapo.st

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Francis Bach @bachfrancis.bsky.social · 13d

Not all scaling laws are nice power laws. This month’s blog post: Zipf’s law in next-token prediction and why Adam (ok, sign descent) scales better to large vocab sizes than gradient descent: francisbach.com/scaling-laws...

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Laureline Logiaco @laurelinelogiaco.bsky.social · 13d

Interested in doing a Ph.D. to work on building models of the brain/behavior? Consider applying to graduate schools at CU Anschutz:
1. Neuroscience www.cuanschutz.edu/graduate-pro...
2. Bioengineering engineering.ucdenver.edu/bioengineeri...

You could work with several comp neuro PIs, including me.

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Martin Jaggi @mjaggi.bsky.social · 15d

We're hiring again for AI research engineering roles: Join the team behind the Apertus LLM, if you share our passion to work on impactful AI that's truly open.

careers.epfl.ch/job/Lausanne...

AI Research Engineers - Swiss AI Initiative

careers.epfl.ch

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 14d

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Anne Fausto-Sterling @birdlady.bsky.social · 18d

As the Trump administration continues to drastically defund and dismantle basic science in America, the United States is presenting other countries with opportunities to take the lead in seeing farther ahead--Holden Thorpe

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

America is ceding the lead in creating the future

The renowned American management consultant and author Peter Drucker is often credited as saying that “the best way to predict the future is to create it”—a view that applies to science as much as to the business world. It implies that gaining insights ...

www.science.org

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Andrew Lampinen @lampinen.bsky.social · 18d

Why does AI sometimes fail to generalize, and what might help? In a new paper (arxiv.org/abs/2509.16189), we highlight the latent learning gap — which unifies findings from language modeling to agent navigation — and suggest that episodic memory complements parametric learning to bridge it. Thread:

Latent learning: episodic memory complements parametric learning by enabling flexible reuse of experiences

When do machine learning systems fail to generalize, and what mechanisms could improve their generalization? Here, we draw inspiration from cognitive science to argue that one weakness of machine lear...

arxiv.org

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19d

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

It costs a lot less to house people.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

thebetter.news

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Mattia Rigotti @matrig.net · 19d

Macroeconomy so woke

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 19d

Opinion: In the Trump 2.0 era in financial markets, the dollar is taking the strain. The stock rally is masking deep anxiety from investors about the path forward for the world’s biggest economy. on.ft.com/4pubDza

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Mattia Rigotti @matrig.net · 19d

One definitely failed harder than the other

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Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social · 25d

Human intelligence is overrated and not a useful yardstick for AI - a polemic. markusmeister.com/2025/09/15/w...

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27d

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 29d

Come work with us! UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09896

I'm not on the committee, but happy to talk if you're interested.

Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ap.uci.edu

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Mattia Rigotti @matrig.net · 27d

Can anyone see a pattern? 🔎

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 27d

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 28d

Outstanding opportunities in AI & Life Sciences, with strong @ellis.eu synergies

EMBL @embl.org · 29d

Join EMBL AI!

We have ambitious plans to transform life sciences research through AI.

Interested in using ML/AI to solve complex interdisciplinary challenges?

We’re looking for two senior leaders based at EMBL Heidelberg👇

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Heather Snell @heatherdsnell.bsky.social · Sep 10

The Snell lab is seeking a Postbaccalaureate researcher and Postdoctoral associate to join our team. More details here:
www.snelllab.org/contact-2

Contact | Snell Lab

www.snelllab.org

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · Sep 9

It was a small amount of money by the standards of the federal budget—just $25 million—and had lots of bipartisan support.

But nine months ago, Elon Musk insisted that the bill funding kids' cancer research be wiped out. And it still hasn't been brought back.

www.thebulwark.com/p/elon-musk-...

Elon Musk Torpedoed a Beloved Pediatric Cancer Bill. It’s Yet to Recover.

Sometimes, a good piece of legislation fails to become a law for one simple, stupid reason: congressional inertia.

www.thebulwark.com

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FMI science @fmiscience.bsky.social · Sep 8

🚨 We're hiring, please share! The FMI seeks a tenure-track Group Leader (Assistant Prof) in Structural Biology 🔬
Innovative scientists in genome regulation, RNA metabolism, or protein homeostasis—especially using cutting-edge approaches—apply now at www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · Sep 6

Free eBook: PATTERNS, PREDICTIONS, AND ACTIONS - A story about machine learning by Moritz Hardt and Benjamin Recht

A beginner’s guide to machine learning

mlstory.org/pdf/patterns...

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · Sep 6

No.

If I say "I want to build a Mars base!" That's "Wanting to build stuff?"

But if I say, "I want to end all fossil fuel cars by 2030!" That's holding back progress?
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"I want to build murder drones!" I'm a builder?

"I want to build enough housing to end homelessness this decade!" Leftist?
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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · Sep 5

There is a lot to hate about the politics of the silicon valley right, but they do actually want to build stuff, and I would prefer if the left didn't cede "we should be able to build stuff" to the right.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Sep 5

Will this article mark the moment that balding forty-something consultants in business class airport lounges notice how fucking ridiculous The Economist is?

The Economist @economist.com · Sep 5

Will the absence of robotaxis in Europe mark the moment its citizens notice how far their continent has fallen behind?

Robotaxis will be the Sputnik Moment for a declining Europe

A slow-motion car crash on Europe’s roads

econ.st

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