The US government should subsidize Open AI rather than OpenAI

Pleased to share that our survey "Getting aligned on representational alignment" — on representational alignment across cognitive (neuro)science and machine learning — is now published in TMLR! openreview.net/forum?id=Hiq... Kudos to @sucholutsky.bsky.social @lukasmut.bsky.social for leading this!

The Principles of Diffusion Models It traces the core ideas that shaped diffusion modeling and explains how today’s models work, why they work, and where they’re heading. www.arxiv.org/abs/2510.21890

I’m recruiting a postdoctoral researcher on a fully funded 2-year contract. The topic is developing and implementing new parallel graph algorithms, with applications to data-driven transportation and logistics. Details and application procedure below ⬇️ Reach out if you have any questions!

Still a couple of days to apply to the ELLIS PhD program, DL Oct 31, 2025: ellis.eu/news/ellis-p... I am especially looking for students interested in developing new approaches for distribution shifts in my new ERC AdG www.ellisinstitute.fi/a-revolution... but also other topics, see kaski-lab.com

#EPFL has an open faculty position - tenure track or tenured!! - in AI driven biophysics. Deadline is Nov 15th. Please spread the word! www.epfl.ch/about/workin...

🕳️🐇Into the Rabbit Hull – Part II Continuing our interpretation of DINOv2, the second part of our study concerns the *geometry of concepts* and the synthesis of our findings toward a new representational *phenomenology*: the Minkowski Representation Hypothesis

An oldie, but a goodie.

Two weeks left to apply for an ML #postdoc position with me in @dublincityuni.bsky.social #CompChem #cheminformatics #ChemJobs #chemsky www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

Apply to become a CSHL-Simons Fellow in Neuroscience! Run your own lab, pursue bold ideas, join a highly collaborative community! All areas including experimental or computational neuro, including NeuroAI & systems PhD required; ≤~1 yr postdoc www.cshl.edu/about-us/car...

A thought-provoking piece in Nature Neuroscience by many neuroscience colleagues: "Science must break its silence to rebuild public trust". Lots to think about here. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

(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]

This new book sounds interesting

Tenure-track faculty position in motor neuroscience at Penn State. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

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

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

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...

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.

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...

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/...

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:

“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.

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

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

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.

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

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

🚨 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...

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...

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? 🙂🙃 "I want to build murder drones!" I'm a builder? "I want to build enough housing to end homelessness this decade!" Leftist? 🙂🙃

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

There's literally nothing you can't compute with matrix multiplications and point-wise nonlinearities: they are Turing complete, as we've known since the 90s. There's lots of problems with LLMs, but none of them come from matrix multiplication. Why do some people keep saying that?

The two key studies of the International Brain Laboratory @intlbrainlab.bsky.social are out today! A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour www.nature.com/articles/s41... Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ollie Gearing, not on Bluesky, posts on a case of Software IP developing between xAI and OpenAI.

Pretty big vibe shift on open models coming from a predominantly AI Safety oriented org to say "gatekeeping access to general-purpose technology is not a sustainable or proportionate response to low-confidence evidence of serious risk." Pretty much my point for a few years.

Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2

happy labor day

The time between fucking around and finding out for messing with the climate and environment is long, and attribution is sometimes difficult. So conservative politicians have gotten away with appointing imbeciles to positions of power in these areas. However, no such luck for them in public health.

There's no need to align the models if you can align their users futurism.com/openai-scann...

June 2025: Bluesky is dying August 2025: Bluesky now platform of choice for science community arstechnica.com/science/2025...

📢We're #hiring Group Leaders! Apply to lead a lab at Janelia & advance biology using theory, computational modeling & machine learning. 🔹5-year renewable appointment 🔹Pioneer new tools & approaches 🔹Collaborate across disciplines Apply by Nov. 4👉 https://janelia.link/groupleader

ATTN🚨: I will be looking for PhD students through NYU's Center for Data Science PhD program this year. Applicants should have an interest in either NeuroAI (specifically biological attention or AI interpretability) or ML for Remote Sensing. Visit my lab website for more info: lindsay-lab.github.io

Job ad now up! We have an opening for a tenure-track or tenured professor, joint between Computer Science and Physics.

🚨Another PI job opening in the Neuroscience dept. at @umontreal.ca ! 🚨 www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Come join our new Department of Neuroscience @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05041

Be my neighbor! @rwjms.bsky.social Neuroscience is hiring! jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/258...

Turing Lectures at ICTS www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fF6... www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGuK... www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRDa...

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs aren’t costs.

While the effects on AI of [science] funding cuts might not be obvious in the next year or two, they threaten “the whole ecosystem that we have built around AI, which has been created by public support.” Yes. The US AI ecosystem grew from universities, from free academia and public funding. 🧪