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EWRL18 @ewrl18.bsky.social · 20d

Second day of #EWRL2025 kicking off with an inspiring talk by Peter Dayan!
“How could it be that we, or an agent, could want something that it does not like, or like something that it would not be willing to exert any effort to acquire?”

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EWRL18 @ewrl18.bsky.social · 19d

✨ The last day kicked off with an amazing talk by @katjahofmann.bsky.social
"World and Human Action Models for Gameplay Ideation" 🎮🤖

Exciting vision from the Game Intelligence team @msftresearch.bsky.social

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Georg Martius @ ICML @gmartius.bsky.social · 21d

Here at #EWRL: demonstration of autonomous tomato harvesting by polybot.eu
#Robot #Harvesting #Learning

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Georg Martius @ ICML @gmartius.bsky.social · 21d

Fascinating talk by Amy Zhang
on Proto Successor Measures at #EWRL 2025.
euro-workshop-on-reinforcement-learning.github.io/ewrl18/progr...
#reinforcementlearning #robotics #machinelearning

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Georg Martius @ ICML @gmartius.bsky.social · 21d

Just kicked of #EWRL 2025 in Tübingen.
euro-workshop-on-reinforcement-learning.github.io/ewrl18/
Great honor to host this traditional event with Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social in Tübingen.
#machinelearning #reinforcementlearning #robotics

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Georg Martius @ ICML @gmartius.bsky.social · 28d

Right now, just a few powerful polluters are holding the whole world hostage - stopping a Plastics Treaty that could protect our health, wildlife, and planet. Join me today and speak up for a strong global policy to protect us from plastic pollution! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-08...

End the Plastic Era!

Right now, just a few powerful polluters are holding the whole world hostage - stopping a Plastics Treaty that could protect our health, wildlife, and planet. Join me today and speak up for a strong g...

action.wemove.eu

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NPR @npr.org · Sep 2

More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.

Dozens of scientists find errors in a new Energy Department climate report

More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.

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Andreas Geiger @andreasgeiger.bsky.social · Sep 3

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ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications 2025

The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...

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EWRL18 @ewrl18.bsky.social · Sep 3

📣 Early bird registration ends today!
Register and join us in Tübingen for EWRL 2025: site.pheedloop.com/event/EWRL/h...

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PheedLoop: Hybrid, In-Person & Virtual Event Software

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Roxana Zeraati @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social · Sep 3

Check out our new preprint where we analyzed the dynamics of over ten thousand neurons across 223 brain areas and found a surprising universal principle that describes the organization of intrinsic timescales across the entire mouse brain, including subcortical structures!
#neuroskyence

Yanliang Shi @shiyanliang.bsky.social · Sep 2

Excited to share our new preprint on the brain-wide organization of intrinsic timescales at single neuron resolution. Work w/ @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social, @intlbrainlab.bsky.social, Anna Levina, @engeltatiana.bsky.social : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · Aug 25

Global sea level is measured by satellite with precision since 1993. A new study compares the data with IPCC projections from the same time. Both the overall rise and its acceleration (the rate of rise has doubled since) are very close to the data.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

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Volker Quaschning @volkerquaschning.bsky.social · Aug 26

Förderstopp + höhere Netzentgelte? Wirtschaftsministerin Reiche gefährdet die #Photovoltaik auf Dächern. Kommunen, DUH & Verbände fordern: Smart-Meter-Rollout, stabile Regeln & #EnergySharing statt Blockade. ⚠️ #Klimaschutz braucht jede Dachfläche!

DUH fordert mit Verbänden und Kommunen: Dach-Photovoltaik sichern

• „Realitätscheck“ für die Energiewende von Wirtschafsministerin Reiche droht Photovoltaik-Anlagen auf Dächern auszubremsen• Aufdachanlagen bleiben zentraler Hebel für kommunalen Klimaschutz • Aktionsbündnis fordert Unterstützung von Bundesregierung für Privatpersonen, Kommunen und Bürgerenergie bei urbaner Energiewende durch Smart-Meter-Rollout, Energy Sharing und Mieterstrom

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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · Aug 22

🌊 ❄️ A running thread on press coverage of the decommissioning of the Research Vessel/Ice Breaker N.B. Palmer (in rough chronological order):

1.- NSF plans abrupt end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker (Science, July 28th, 2025):

NSF plans abrupt end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker

Imminent termination of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer shocks polar scientists

www.science.org

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · Jul 20

Es gibt weltweit rund 20.000 Klimaforscher:innen.
Und manche Leute glauben tatsächlich, die seien allesamt dumm oder korrupt, während nur einige wenige in Diensten der fossilen Energiewirtschaft die Wahrheit erzählen. 🙄

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Georg Martius @ ICML @gmartius.bsky.social · Jul 19

Sergey Levine was just presenting in the Exploration in AI @ #ICML2025 and promoted that exploration needs to be grounded, and that VLMs are a good source ;-) Check our paper below
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Tübingen AI Center @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social · Jul 16

How can we teach news literacy when TikTok trends shift daily and deepfakes blur reality?

That’s what we explored at the first session of our Multiplier Roundtable for News and Information Literacy in Schools this week in Tübingen. 🚸🧠

A group of people, some of them at their laptop computers, sitting around a long table, listening.

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Georg Martius @ ICML @gmartius.bsky.social · Jul 16

I am going to present the poster during the next poster session. 11am Wed.
Poster W #707

Cansu Sancaktar @cansusancaktar.bsky.social · Jul 14

✨Introducing SENSEI✨ We bring semantically meaningful exploration to model-based RL using VLMs.

With intrinsic rewards for novel yet useful behaviors, SENSEI showcases strong exploration in MiniHack, Pokémon Red & Robodesk.

Accepted at ICML 2025🎉

Joint work with @cgumbsch.bsky.social
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Tübingen AI Center @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social · Jul 11

Yesterday, the founding team behind scholar-inbox.com took home the Audience Award 🏆 and the Best Business Model Award 🏆!
Philipp Hühn and @markusflicke.bsky.social impressed everyone with a clear and engaging pitch of their smart recommender tool for academic papers.

Philipp Hühn and Markus Flicke at the Award Ceremony of the AI Incubator Demo Day (photo: Tübingen AI Center)

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Onno Eberhard @onnoeberhard.com · Jul 16

I am in Vancouver at ICML, and tomorrow I will present our newest paper "Partially Observable Reinforcement Learning with Memory Traces". We argue that eligibility traces are more effective than sliding windows as a memory mechanism for RL in POMDPs. 🧵

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Jonas Hübotter @jonhue.bsky.social · Jul 14

In our ICML paper, we study fine-tuning a generalist policy for multiple tasks. We ask, provided a pre-trained policy, how can we maximize multi-task performance with a minimal number of additional demonstrations?

📌 We are presenting a possible solution on Wed, 11am to 1.30pm at B2-B3 W-609!

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Cansu Sancaktar @cansusancaktar.bsky.social · Jul 14

✨Introducing SENSEI✨ We bring semantically meaningful exploration to model-based RL using VLMs.

With intrinsic rewards for novel yet useful behaviors, SENSEI showcases strong exploration in MiniHack, Pokémon Red & Robodesk.

Accepted at ICML 2025🎉

Joint work with @cgumbsch.bsky.social
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Universität Tübingen @unituebingen.bsky.social · Jun 27

20. Tübinger #Mediendozentur mit dem Astrophysiker und Bestsellerautor Harald Lesch: Seine Rede „Die informierte Gesellschaft und ihre Feinde“ vom Mittwoch gibt es zum Nachschauen auf dem YouTube-Kanal der Uni: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F91A... #DasWissen #swr #medienwissenschaft #HaraldLesch

Mediendozentur 2025 mit Harald Lesch

YouTube video by Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

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Mario Krenn @mariokrenn.bsky.social · Jun 26

Had great fun in my first ever, live, radio interview, with ORF's Ö1 (Punkt Eins, with Barbara Zeithammer) -- on the occasion of my new professorship at the University of Tübingen @ml4science.bsky.social, talking about AI for Science.

Listen to it here: oe1.orf.at/programm/202...
(54mins, german)

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Kashyap Chitta @kashyap7x.bsky.social · Jun 17

The 2025 Waymo Challenge results are out! We achieved second place in the End-to-End Driving Challenge with DiffusionLTF and third place in the Scenario Generation Challenge with SHRED. Our approaches prioritized simplicity, and we're preparing to make them publicly available soon.

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · Jun 15

Unser Steuergeld für und zugleich gegen Klimaschutz ausgeben - macht das Sinn???
„Unterm Strich schmeißt die neue Regierung der fossilen Wirtschaft trotz aller Sparschwüre mehr von unseren Steuergeldern in den Rachen als je zuvor – etwa 65 Milliarden im Jahr.“
taz.de/Bernhard-Poe...

Klimapolitik der neuen Regierung: Den Ruf gleich ruiniert

Wie macht man einen guten ersten Eindruck? Das Kabinett von Bundeskanzler Merz hat das bei der Klimapolitik schon mal nicht hinbekommen.

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