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Postdoc @hertie-ai.bsky.social | PhD @maxplanckcampus.bsky.social & unituebingen.bsky.social | Interested in Computational Neuroscience, Data Science & AI 🧠🤖 | Science Podcast https://linktr.ee/i_am_scientist 🎙️🧬

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Lisa Schmors @lisaschmors.bsky.social · Nov 28

Hello, Bluesky! 🦋

Excited to join and share that I just finished my PhD 🎓

Grateful for all I’ve learned, the support I’ve received, and the 825 coffees that fueled me ☕️

Special thanks to my supervisors, especially @celltypist.bsky.social, for their guidance 🧠🤖

Looking forward to connecting! 🤝

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Lisa Schmors @lisaschmors.bsky.social · 14d

“If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together.”

🌍 This motto shaped the past 3 days at the “Forum Connect & Exchange“ in Bonn.

Our South African–German project on AI for epilepsy diagnosis is among the 9 international initiatives funded by the @dfg.de 🇿🇦🇩🇪

Lisa Schmors @lisaschmors.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Deep Learning Indaba in Kigali, Rwanda has been a great experience!

I feel honored that I was invited to give a talk at the NeuroAI workshop and join the panel discussion🧠🤖

I’m leaving with new ideas, new perspectives, and new colleagues and friends 🌍

@deeplearningindaba.bsky.social

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Mila - Institut québécois d'IA @mila-quebec.bsky.social · Aug 18

Meet Mila at Deep Learning Indaba 2025! Our team is excited to connect with you at this year’s event! Drop by our booth to meet our students, exchange ideas, and dive into the groundbreaking projects we’re bringing to life.

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Lisa Schmors @lisaschmors.bsky.social · Aug 18

🤔 Did you know that LLMs charge per token?

🌍 And that non-English text get separated into more tokens?

💸 This creates higher costs for LLM input for non-English text! How can we change this???

🎓 I learned that at the @deeplearningindaba.bsky.social tutorial on LLMs

Lisa Schmors @lisaschmors.bsky.social · Aug 18

Deeply impressed by the first keynote lecture at the @deeplearningindaba.bsky.social in Rwanda 🇷🇼

Verena Rieser from Google DeepMind talked about aligning AI with diverse views on what’s safe to build AI systems that benefit all and focus on long-term wellbeing 🤖🫂

#DLI2025

Lisa Schmors @lisaschmors.bsky.social · May 8

Questions?
[email protected]

What is an Imbizo?
\ɪmˈbiːzɒ\ | Xhosa - Zulu
A gathering of the people to share knowledge.

Lisa Schmors @lisaschmors.bsky.social · May 8

🧠🤖 Computational Neuroscience summer school IMBIZO in Cape Town is open for applications again!

💻🧬 3 weeks of intense coursework & projects with support from expert tutors and faculty

📈Apply until July 1st!

🔗https://imbizo.africa/

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Lisa Schmors @lisaschmors.bsky.social · May 2

🎙️ New episode for “I am scientist” podcast

🗣️ First *English* episode with @philipphubert.bsky.social & me

💻 We talk about the right mindset for a successful PhD & about things that helped us mentally along the way

➡️ The kind of resource I wish I had when I started

Thanks for sharing Patrik!

Patrik Reizinger @rpatrik96.bsky.social · May 2

I had the pleasure of being interviewed on the @i-am-scientist.bsky.social podcast by @lisaschmors.bsky.social and @philipphubert.bsky.social . I talk about how I ended up writing my newsletter (path2phd.substack.com) and the people who supported me all along. Enjoy!

The path to PhD - Advice from a young scientist

I am Scientist · Episode

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Lisa Schmors @lisaschmors.bsky.social · Mar 4

🎧 New podcast episode out!

💌 Writing emails to people that you don't know - but you would like to work with - can open unexpected doors for young scientists!

👩‍👦‍👦 Julia shares how she conducted research at prestigious institutions world wide, while being a mum of two kids!

Very inspiring story ✨

Lisa Schmors @lisaschmors.bsky.social · Feb 18

Team appreciation Tuesday @hertie-ai.bsky.social! 🥳

Congrats to both of us Dr. Jan @janlause.bsky.social 🥰

hertie.ai/team-appreci...

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i-am-scientist.bsky.social @i-am-scientist.bsky.social · Feb 17

Diesmal saßen wir auf der anderen Seite! 🎙️🤯

Letzte Woche hat Christine Vallbracht uns für Forschung & Lehre interviewt – eine spannende Erfahrung, selbst die Fragen zu beantworten! 🎤👀

Neugierig auf Einblicke hinter die Kulissen? Hier geht’s zum Artikel: www.forschung-und-lehre.de/karriere/pro...

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Lisa Schmors @lisaschmors.bsky.social · Feb 14

Did you ever think about starting your own #podcast? 🎙️

Read about our story here www.forschung-und-lehre.de/karriere/pro...

We're also sharing
📱 Our favorite free tools + software
📈 How we grew a listener base
🔥 Tips for getting started

Our podcast: @i-am-scientist.bsky.social

#sciencepodcast

Interview-Podcast mit Tipps für die Promotion

Drei Menschen, drei Promotionen, ein Podcast. Mit "I am Scientist" begleiten Daniel Hölle, Philipp Hubert und Lisa Schmors Promovierende – nicht nur.

www.forschung-und-lehre.de

Lisa Schmors @lisaschmors.bsky.social · Feb 2

If you sometimes feel lost or burned out during your PhD, you are not alone 🫂

Listen to our latest episode to get advice and honest insights 🎧

(stoked for our first episode in English - long overdue 😁)

i-am-scientist.bsky.social @i-am-scientist.bsky.social · Feb 2

In our latest episode we talked to Dr. Hanna Krynska about burnout, self-criticism & mental health during the Ph.D. 🧠

🎧 Listen now for practical advice & honest insights.

⚠️ Content warning: Mental health & suicidal thoughts.

🔗 linktr.ee/i_am_scientist

#MentalHealth #Academia

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Lisa Schmors @lisaschmors.bsky.social · Feb 2

Our science podcast is on Bluesky now 👏

I’ll be managing this account, so please leave a like, leave a follow 🙂‍↕️

Thanks - and enjoy your Sunday🫡

i-am-scientist.bsky.social @i-am-scientist.bsky.social · Feb 2

Wusstet ihr, dass Enten und Schmetterlinge Freunde sind? 🦆🦋

Ab jetzt flattern wir auch auf Bluesky!

🎧 Im Wissenschaftspodcast I AM SCIENTIST geht es um den Forschungsalltag von Promovierenden - mit allen Höhen 📈, Tiefen 📉 und "Aha!"-Momenten 💡

Zum Podcast geht's hier: linktr.ee/i_am_scientist

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Lisa Schmors @lisaschmors.bsky.social · Dec 17

Cool, I didn’t know! Thanks :)

Lisa Schmors @lisaschmors.bsky.social · Dec 17

Yes that’d be great!

Lisa Schmors @lisaschmors.bsky.social · Dec 17

Bluesky is great and all, but who else misses the bookmark function? It’s the one thing I used religiously used to save papers and threads, and now I’m lost without it 🥲
Anyone else?

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Hertie AI @hertie-ai.bsky.social · Dec 13

Spotlight on: Hertie AI Postdoc @lisaschmors.bsky.social who recently successfully defended her PhD in the Department of Data Science.Besides her research Lisa is active in the "I am Scientist" tr.ee/bN17W5qW53 Podcast and wrote several bloposts about her experiences as an PhD student on hertie.ai

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Lisa Schmors @lisaschmors.bsky.social · Dec 12

What did I actually do in my PhD? 📊

Excited to share that @maxplanckcampus.bsky.social published a blog post about my work at the intersection of machine learning and neuroscience 🤖🧠

➕snapshot from one of my favorite moments: presenting my research during sunset 🌅 at on a beautiful Greek island

Scholar Spotlight: Lisa Schmors

Lisa integrates machine learning and neuroscience to study how brain states and neural mechanisms process sensory information. A key achievement in her journey is developing a data-efficient vision mo...

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Auguste Schulz @auschulz.bsky.social · Dec 11

1) With our @neuripsconf.bsky.social poster happening tomorrow, it's about time to introduce our Spotlight paper 🔦, co-lead with @jkapoor.bsky.social:

Latent Diffusion for Neural Spiking data (LDNS), a latent variable model (LVM) which addresses 3 goals simultaneously:

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · Dec 7

**The ultimate systems #neuroscience paper!**

Recording every spike, every stimulus, every action during person's first half of life to predict second half?

The future of papers and neuro, are we almost there yet? That would great discussion to have online.

www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

Imagining the ultimate systems neuroscience paper

A growing body of papers on systems neuroscience and on giant simulations of neural circuits involves data beyond the point that anyone can reasonably understand end to end. Looking ahead, “paper-bots...

www.thetransmitter.org

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Lisa Schmors @lisaschmors.bsky.social · Dec 5

This.

Darius Valevicius @dariusliutas.bsky.social · Dec 2

There should be an open repository - like bioRxiv, but much more casual - where people can document their failed projects that aren't worth the trouble of trying to publish. A massive graveyard of hypotheses with rich indexing, focusing on methodological choices. #neuroskyence #psychscisky #science

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Brandon Amos @bdamos.bsky.social · Dec 5

hi everyone!! let's try this optimal transport again 🙃

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Lisa Schmors @lisaschmors.bsky.social · Dec 4

"If neuroscience is to meaningfully contribute to AI safety, we need to dramatically accelerate our ability to record, analyze, simulate, and understand neural systems." 💯

Patrick Mineault @patrickmineault.bsky.social · Dec 3

I wrote a TL;DR on our NeuroAI Safety roadmap. Get the gist of our 92-page roadmap in a 7-minute read. Featuring Marvin the adversarial chihuahua. www.neuroai.science/p/neuroai-fo...

NeuroAI for AI safety

A differential path toward safe AI

www.neuroai.science

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Anil Ananthaswamy @anilananth.bsky.social · Dec 3

Will simply scaling up LLMs get us to AGI? My feature for Nature, w/ inputs from @fchollet.bsky.social @rao2z.bsky.social @yoshuabengio.bsky.social @melaniemitchell.bsky.social @dileeplearning.bsky.social @andrewgwils.bsky.social, Raia Hadsell, Keyon Vafa, Karl Friston www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How close is AI to human-level intelligence?

Large language models such as OpenAI’s o1 have electrified the debate over achieving artificial general intelligence, or AGI. But they are unlikely to reach this milestone on their own.

www.nature.com

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