Remember when world leaders -- guided by science -- agreed to work together to solve an existential threat? We do.

Took 40-odd years but Bruce has finally allowed "Born in the USA" to be used in a commercial. By the ACLU. Supporting birthright citizenship. Yeah.

He's going to scrap the sunshine list in 3...2...1 (The Sunshine list is good and should be expanded to zero)

Have you heard the story of Barkley’s good friend Lin, a Chinese immigrant scientist in Iowa? www.wbur.org/onlyagame/20...

Trainees need to learn how to identify a paper’s major takeaways and integrate them into their understanding. In her essay, @norabradford.bsky.social argues that this skill doesn’t come from outsourcing the work to large language models. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/neuro-educat...

Applications for the global Google PhD Fellowship Program are open! Fellowships directly support grad students doing exceptional and innovative research in computer science and related fields as they pursue their PhD. Learn more and apply by April 30 at goo.gle/phdfellowship.

For a recent lab meeting, I wrote up a grab bag of ways to think about your development as a researcher during a PhD: emerge-lab.github.io/papers/an-un... Sharing in case folks find it useful or have feedback!

Interested in working at DAIR? We're hiring a communications lead, who we needed yesterday. Is that you? Please apply. Is that people you know? Please share the job ad with them so that they apply.

Following advice by the always-wise @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social , I am trying to get back into the habit of blogging (again) ✏️! Featuring today's post: How to pick an RL algorithm for your problem cvoelcker.de/blog/2026/ch... Please share and give feedback! #reinforcementlearning

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying… “Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

we need a system of AI ethics and governance that aligns with this very large and dependable revenue stream from the government

shit (but kinda expected)

RLC 2026 Call for Workshops is up! This is the opportunity to bring the attention of the community to the topics that you find the most important in RL!

Please don't hesitate to reach out with questions to me directly or via email to [email protected] The OpenReview submission site can be found at: openreview.net/group?id=rl-...

Workshops, held on the first day, are a primary feature of @rl-conference.bsky.social and have set a delightfully inquisitive tone. Discussions started at both workshops I've been a part of in the past persisted through the week, with some still ongoing! CfW here: rl-conference.cc/call_for_wor...

We're thrilled to share that the Call for Workshops for this year's @rl-conference.bsky.social is now live! As Workshop co-chair (alongside the wonderful Raksha Kumaraswamy and @claireve.bsky.social) we are looking forward to seeing the proposals for workshops that we receive. LINK IN NEXT POST

[1/n] Just wrapped up 7 months interning with @pcastr.bsky.social at Google DeepMind and I'm so excited to share our work: arxiv.org/abs/2602.10324. TLDR: We used LLM-powered program synthesis to automatically model and discover differences between human and LLM strategic behavior

US HHS has proposed using virtual AI doctors to address needs in rural areas

"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

You’ll never guess but the solution to people not having money is to give them money.

1,265 kWh have been burned to date on MoltBots posting on MoltBook. Might not be a huge amount in the grand scheme of things but it’s a complete waste of energy on AI agents role-playing cringy sci-fi tropes and attempting to crypto-scam each other. www.linkedin.com/posts/sashal...

Ice out

🚨 New Study 🚨 @arxiv.bsky.social has recently decided to prohibit any 'position' paper from being submitted to its CS servers. Why? Because of the "AI slop", and allegedly higher ratios of LLM-generated content in review papers, compared to non-review papers.

Target Center dunkers wear “ICE OUT” t-shirts

NEW: NeurIPS,one of the world’s top academic AI conferences, accepted research papers with 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims fortune.com/2026/01/21/n...

As someone who can't think any other way (particularly re: engagement science), I gave up on the idea that I'd be considered a "superstar" some time ago. My pubs/metrics might not look like others'; but I guarantee the students who work with me, and the community I work for, are both happier for it.

New #TMLR-Paper-with-Video: Learning to Be Cautious Montaser Mohammedalamen, Dustin Morrill, Alexander Sieusahai et al. https://tmlr.infinite-conf.org/paper_pages/NXvGOaYExG #reinforcement #caution #cautious

Every Caleb Williams play

are you displeased with today’s AI safety evaluation landscape and curious about what greater conceptual clarity, methodological soundness, and rigour in AI evaluation could look like? if so, consider coming to Dublin to pursue a PhD with me apply here: aial.ie/hiring/phd-a... pls repost

Now two countries have blocked Grok over the ability to create non-consensual intimate images: Malaysia and Indonesia

Roughly 60 days to the RLC deadline, come experience an excellent review process

Gentle reminder for the RL folks out there: RLC 2026 → Montreal 🇨🇦 (Aug 16–19) Abstract: Mar 1 | Submission: Mar 5 (AOE) | rl-conference.cc/callforpaper... Looking forward to receiving your submission!

The explosion of popularity of LLMs — and the trust people put in them — indicates that the claimed death of expertise is overblown: people really do want (perceived) expertise. They just don’t like the experts. They want experts who will agree with their priors, and chatbots are the perfect vehicle

Hi RL Enthusiasts! RLC is coming to Montreal, Quebec, in the summer: Aug 16–19, 2026! Call for Papers is up now: Abstract: Mar 1 (AOE) Submission: Mar 5 (AOE) Excited to see what you’ve been up to - Submit your best work! rl-conference.cc/callforpaper... Please share widely!

On Wednesday Reggie and Evangelos presented our MetaWorld+ paper: Multi-task continuous control done right! openreview.net/forum?id=1de...

🚨The Formalism-Implementation Gap in RL research🚨 Lots of progress in RL research over last 10 years, but too much performance-driven => overfitting to benchmarks (like the ALE). 1⃣ Let's advance science of RL 2⃣ Let's be explicit about how benchmarks map to formalism 1/X

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

That language sounds convincing AND the tech bros are going around saying that their synthetic text extruding machines are going to replace doctors & teachers &c any day now. >> bsky.app/profile/melh...

Wow -- look at OpenAI trying to shift responsibility to the users: 🧵>> www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...

There is a reason an (almost) necessary step in getting a faculty position anywhere in the world is to move to the US for a bit. You suddenly become so much more attractive both inside and outside of the states. This is not good, and university hiring committees as well as governments are at fault.

being an ML/AI girlie right now is like if you were a marine biologist and suddenly everyone is obsessed with octopi and asking questions like "should we give octopi jobs and make them in charge". and you're like. well. here's why that's not as bad as that sounds

I am not done being angry at the Ford government for cancelling supervised consumption sites, bike lanes and speed cameras. And now I have to muster the energy to fight this new attack on everyone who rents their home in Ontario. I hate it here. www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

I want you to imagine what you would have said in 2005 if someone told you a company would do this and not only get away with it, but evade wide public outrage

Pierre Poilievre specializes in political arson, but with his RCMP-bashing Lock Trudeau Up remarks on a cozy right-wing podcast, he may be the one getting burned. www.thestar.com/politics/pol...

Proud to announce that Meta-World+ was accepted to NeurIPs, Datasets and Benchmarks! Meta-World is a common benchmark for multi-task and meta-RL research! However, it was very difficult to do effective science with Meta-World as different versions produce different results.

📢 Research Opportunities! We’re seeking passionate postdocs & PhD students for cutting-edge #ComputerVision research in 3D/4D neural rendering. Fully funded at UofT or York, supervised by Profs. David Lindell, Kyros Kutulakos, or me. Co-supervision possible!

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