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!

Please fill out one of the following forms: - Volunteer to review: docs.google.com/forms/d/17_G... - Volunteer to action editor: docs.google.com/forms/d/15Nh....

As Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) grows in number of submissions, we are looking for more reviewers and action editors. Please sign up! Only one paper to review at a time and <= 6 per year, reviewers report greater satisfaction than reviewing for conferences!

Ever since I made a video about Fourier Transforms, one of the most requested topics on the channel has been its close cousin, the Laplace Transform. I've been having a lot of fun animating a mini-series about this topic, and the main part is now out. youtu.be/j0wJBEZdwLs

The judge: it is hereby ordered that you are in fact, not like us

it’s really good when “technology of the future” treats you leaving as if you were leaving a cult

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

I have been told I need to get more modern in my paper promotion! github.com/cvoelcker/reppo / arxiv.org/abs/2507.11019 @marcelhussing.bsky.social

“This is an immensely exciting development for the Huntington’s field.” https://scim.ag/4nnW62z

🚨Our NeurIPS 2025 competition Mouse vs. AI is LIVE! We combine a visual navigation task + large-scale mouse neural data to test what makes visual RL agents robust and brain-like. Top teams: featured at NeurIPS + co-author our summary paper. Join the challenge! Whitepaper: arxiv.org/abs/2509.14446

me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines

Yes but many of us are women and people of color so it didn't count

Meta-world is still very much the go to for multi task and meta-RL research but it has some real failings that Reggie fixes up here!

Very happy this work got into #NeurIPS2025, it was a big effort that Reggie led, and I'm glad it was worth the work! We've already been using Meta world+ in a lot of our research, and so should you! Let's chat at #NeurIPS2025 !

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.

📢 RL reading group TODAY @ 15:00 BST (in 2 hours!) 📢 Speakers: Olya Mastikhina and Dhruv Sreenivas (University of Montreal & Mila - Quebec AI Institute) Title: Optimistic critics can empower small actors🦸 Details: edinburgh-rl.github.io/reading-group

This paper has now been accepted @neuripsconf.bsky.social ! Huge congratulations, Hon Tik (Rick) Tse and Siddarth Chandrasekar.

I haven't used "Academia .edu" for 15 yrs (only tried it when it 1st came out) but they just tried charge me ~$400 automatic on a card w/o any notification or me agreeing to renew/reactivate anything. This is such a predatory scam & they really shouldn't be allowed an ".edu" too Watch out for them

This is the experiment we're trying next: reciprocal.reviews. Earn tokens for reviews by writing adequate quality reviews, spend them on submissions. Earn the privilege to publish. We're at 70% on the beta, and should launch an ACM TOCE pilot next year some time.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

I for one love to have my nation’s content moderated by like the same five guys with close links to the belligerent ruling faction

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

JFC www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

In 2019 Kawhi Leonard’s uncle asked the Raptors for a piece of the Leafs and a Paul George trade, but also for two notable extras: no-show sponsorships, and ownership shares in outside companies. Which he seems to have gotten with Aspiration, and the Clippers. www.thestar.com/sports/rapto...

The paper is 'Against the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia' and it's worth reading in full. It’s a great resource for educators, administrators and anyone concerned about AI in the classroom. And a great resource for those educators already eager to stand up to AI-happy admins.

One of my kids thought I was making like a bad @theonion.com joke when I told him that their slogan used to be “don’t be evil” but then they got rid of it.

LLM is software running on computers. Writing about 'humility', 'reasoning', 'honesty about uncertainty' and 'hallucinations' is an unacceptable anthropomorphisation and can only be intended to deceive users. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @olivia.science openai.com/index/why-la...

In this short piece, I lean on embodied cog sci to argue that we should refuse & resist llms in education (pp. 53-58) unesdoc.unesco.org/in/documentV... "the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"

Remember this. The Nazis were defeated by geologists and car mechanics and school teachers and milkmen. Ordinary people from all over the world who risked their own lives to put the fascists in the ground where they belong.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

If the Kawhi Leonard-Clippers-no-show-job case looks this much like salary cap circumvention, that’s probably because it is. www.thestar.com/sports/rapto...

Vaccines are very carefully monitored to ensure safety, and are not approved unless they're effective. He has no expertise in public health, it's amazing anyone gives him the time of day.

We simply do not hold premiers to account in this country. All attention and blame gets directed to the federal government regardless. A big chunk of this is the media's fault, but opposition parties, federally and provincially, also own a share of this problem because they go along with it.

Doug Ford, who has policies that are actively destroying universities, is always at his most upset about alcohol. Obsessed with booze. We should start branding every Ontario university by a different cocktail or something and see if he decides to start funding them again. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Doug Ford's popularity is also sky high, despite objectively horrible performance. I worry we've lost any semblance of accountability or civic knowledge/engagement in this country.