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Dan (✈️ ICML-26) @ddofer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Our diploid aware genomic language model is out! 1/6) The genomes we train AI models on do not exist. Most genomic language models read a single haploid sequence, but human genomes are diploid.

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Dan (✈️ ICML-26) @ddofer.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

It is absurd that I can reread #Watchmen so many times, and still find hidden details #comics (Also, absolute editions are a joy) #dccomics

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Dan (✈️ ICML-26) @ddofer.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

InterFeat just got the top broad-applicability score in the ISBCB paper award (Israel's national bioinformatics society)! @michalinial @HyadataLab InterFeat helps researchers find the interesting findings in data: ones that are novel, make sense and actually useful.

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Dan (✈️ ICML-26) @ddofer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Conference and poster pics from icml @icmlconf.bsky.social : You're all welcome to use my photos. I request is that you give credit/cite (Dan Ofer / @ddofer ddofer@gmail.com) drive.google.com/drive/folder...

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ICML 26 Dan - Google Drive

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Dan (✈️ ICML-26) @ddofer.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

That's a wrap on this year's ICML. Fun and stimulating! To all those I met - happy to keep on talking science (and the rest). :)

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Dan (✈️ ICML-26) @ddofer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Heading to #ICML2026 Seoul! I’ll be there from July 3–20 presenting my work on Protein/Biological LLMs. (And travelling + photographing, geeking out). I'd love to connect, share ideas, co-travel post-con or collaborate. DMs open! @icmlconf.bsky.social #ICML #AI #eleutherai #korea

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Dan (✈️ ICML-26) @ddofer.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

#Autoresearch on #proteins - amazing what you can do with a gpu and a few nights on the SOTA for language models. (Now I just need more gpus) Viva @karpathy.bsky.social

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Dan (✈️ ICML-26) @ddofer.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

4 papers written and submitted for #Neurips (machine learning conference), first author on 3 of them. Let's see which get in. Also, if I ever try to do this much research at once again, please stop me. With a big rock and bottle of chloroform. It'll be a kindness

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Dan (✈️ ICML-26) @ddofer.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

SOTA LLM architecture ablations for a novel encoder paper proceeding apace: 1. hybrid architectures (Not the one you're thinking of): Jury is out, but I like it. 2. Local/global (#modernbert) style: less compute benefit than I expected, maybe my implementation sucks?

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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Yes everything is terrible but let’s not lose sight of the fact that someone has written the Headline to End All Headlines.

A headline reading “Camel pageant thrown into chaos after 20 competitors disqualified for using hump-plumping injectables”

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Dan (✈️ ICML-26) @ddofer.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Ah missiles on the ME. (At least we set up wifi in our shelter!)

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The Kinsie @thekinsie.com · 13/02/2026

Unreal Tournament 2004 is now available for free. ...well, I mean, you probably could've grabbed a GOG offline installer out the back of a truck earlier, but NOW it's Official/Legally Free and has the in-development community patch packed in for ongoing support. www.oldunreal.com/downloads/ut...

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 01/02/2026

yeah, so Fallout nailed it

Screenshots from Fallout showing Lucy, along with the words “One side is murdering people, enslaving them, crucifying them,
and the other side is just vaguely problematic.”

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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

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Dan (✈️ ICML-26) @ddofer.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

it's my PyData talk! Is This Feature Actually Interesting? ML & LLMs for Automated Insight Discovery youtu.be/9qYJt0jNOtA?... via @YouTube

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Dan Ofer: Is This Feature Interesting? Interfeat: AI for Insight Discovery | PyData Tel Aviv 2025

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Dan (✈️ ICML-26) @ddofer.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I’m giving a talk at @PyDataTLV ! “Is This Feature Actually Interesting? ML & LLMs for Automated Insight Discovery” cfp.pydata.org/pydata-tel-a... I'll show how to automatically find "Interesting" features in data, and what "interesting" means! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.13534 #pydata

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Is This Feature Actually Interesting? ML & LLMs for Automated Insight Discovery (EN) PyData Tel Aviv 2025

Machine learning excels at prediction, but often leaves data scientists manually sifting through feature importance lists to find truly interesting insights. This talk introduces "InterFeat," an autom...

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Dan (✈️ ICML-26) @ddofer.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Heading to London @mcmcomiccon.bsky.social - Hit me up for #Photography or just geek / AI chatting!

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Dan (✈️ ICML-26) @ddofer.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

This goes out to the cat people

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 19/09/2025

Dutch late night TV has its take

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Dan (✈️ ICML-26) @ddofer.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

'Almost like science fiction': European ant is the first known animal to clone members of another species www.livescience.com/animals/ants... - Something fun for a change. This is some weird-ass-awesome biology!

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'Almost like science fiction': European ant is the first known animal to clone members of another species

A species of ant found scurrying across southern Europe is the first animal found that clones males of another species.

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Dan (✈️ ICML-26) @ddofer.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Kinda weird that I need different prompts to GPT5 to get it to proofread my manuscript properly. Each iteration + prompt yields different mistakes. And I'm looking for basic mistakes (e.g., grammar/spelling level)! This is a super common usecase, i'm surprised at the variation #writing #gpt #ai

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Dan (✈️ ICML-26) @ddofer.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

1/ Our paper “Protein Language Models Expose Viral Immune Mimicry” is now published in Viruses! We show that protein Language Models can identify viral proteins, and those that fool our immune system. DOI: 10.3390/v17091199.

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Dan (✈️ ICML-26) @ddofer.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Love this graph for (science) problem-picking. Credit: @urialonlab.bsky.social

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Bill Cipher @redcycle.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

The person who says "oh I read Philosopher's Stone and it just didn't click" is probably telling the truth. The person who says "I KNEW JK ROWLING WAS SCUM THE MOMENT SHE CALLED VERNON FAT" absolutely wrote a Library of Alexandria's worth of Harry/Draco fanfiction.

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Dan (✈️ ICML-26) @ddofer.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Tl;DRs for reading research papers: “What’s the problem they’re trying to solve?”, “How do they solve it?”, “Does it work?”, "Does it smell fishy?"

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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

"I don't know where all my money goes" Also me:

Illustration of a dragon reading in a room full of books.

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Dan (✈️ ICML-26) @ddofer.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Back from 6 weeks travel in Asia. Turns out my camera had a big dust spot on the lens. Sigh.

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Dan (✈️ ICML-26) @ddofer.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Our newest paper is out! InterFeat: An Automated Pipeline for Finding Interesting Hypotheses in Structured Biomedical Data tl;dr: It's an automated method using AI/LLMs to find interesting features in data. Doctors reviewed them on different diseases and the UK BioBank.

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Dan (✈️ ICML-26) @ddofer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

"Many things may change the nature of a man. Whether regret, or love, or revenge or fear - whatever you believe can change the nature of a man, can. I've seen belief move cities, make men stave off death, and turn an evil hag's heart half-circle[...]" www.goodreads.com/quotes/542497 via #goodreads

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A quote by Chris Avellone

You are wrong. If there is anything I have learned in my travels across the Planes, it is that many things may change the nature of a man. Whether regret...

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Dan (✈️ ICML-26) @ddofer.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Welp, no ICML for me this year :(

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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 10/04/2025

People will always say they’re your friend and they support you no matter what but then they’ll say some toxic shit to you like “you have to let go of the cursed amulet, it’s changing who you are” and “don’t let its power corrupt you” all because they want the amulet for themselves

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

FUNDSTRAT tonight: “.. in the last few days, we have had many conversations with macro fund managers. .. A few have quietly wondered if the President might be insane.”

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Dan (✈️ ICML-26) @ddofer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

#ICML Reviews are out. Damn that reviewer #2 :( (Who also gets flagged as AI generated by 3 seperate tools. But kinda sus if I complain about them)

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Dan (✈️ ICML-26) @ddofer.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

www.lesswrong.com/posts/DfrSZa... The interesting stuff we could do if not for ethics committees, (and off site edit mistakes)

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How to Make Superbabies — LessWrong

EDIT: Read a summary of this post on Twitter …

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Greg Bodwin @gbodwin.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

when my family asks me about the impact of my research

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Dan (✈️ ICML-26) @ddofer.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Paper submitted! Now to wait for after the review period so I can share. (It's really cool) #academia #research #PhD

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Dan (✈️ ICML-26) @ddofer.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

And here I thought the 3AM rockets would be the nasty highlight of the day. 🤮 (Gaiman article).

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Dan (✈️ ICML-26) @ddofer.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Another year, another blank research paper draft, and another case of wishing that LLMs were capable of taking a pile of text-notes, code, outputs+notebooks, and actually outputting a non-crappy paper abstract. (Yes, I Include context, paid models, guidelines etc. They just don't do well)

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Dan (✈️ ICML-26) @ddofer.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Reccs for prepackaged, very very easy to use/index RAG datasets for STEM/Biology/Med/Gen? (Beyond #Medrag)? I want to add rag to a new, minimal project with minimal compute and to try some sparse retrievers on it and a minimal setup. #NLP #RAG #LLM

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 12/12/2024

I read the first post in this thread about mirror life, thought “they can’t mean…”, and then clicked the link. Yep, that’s exactly what they mean. Bioengineering reversed-chirality microbes. Vaughn’s piece is a necessary if frightening read.

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Dan (✈️ ICML-26) @ddofer.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

🔬 Wanna hear about my publication: "Automated Annotation of Disease Subtypes"?: #MachineLearning #Bioinformatics #PrecisionMedicine #opentargets #medicalAI

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Dan (✈️ ICML-26) @ddofer.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

So, how do you share photos these days?

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