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Transactions on Machine Learning Research @tmlrorg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

TMLR has faced a deluge of submissions, necessitating stricter desk rejection policies due to limited reviewer capacity Co-EiC Nihar Shah reached out to authors of 10 papers slated for desk reject. Could they answer questions about their *own* submission? medium.com/@TmlrOrg/ask...

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Asking Authors About Their Own Papers

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Dr. Walter Crist @waltros.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Excited to report that our paper reconstructing an ancient Roman game was nominated by Quest, a Dutch popular science magazine, for Research of the Year! It’s decided by public vote, so vote for us here! acties.quest.nl/breng-jouw-s...

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BRENG JOUW STEM UIT!

Stem op ‘Onderzoek van het jaar’!

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

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Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Here are the initial recruitment ads - please spread widely and encourage talented candidates to apply! Postdoc: www.chalmers.se/en/about-cha... PhD students: www.chalmers.se/en/about-cha... More rounds of recruitment to follow!

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Thomas Steinke @stein.ke · 04/08/2026

My radical suggestion for peer review: Move from nominal pre-publication review to explicit post-publication review. The original reason for peer review was that journal pages are a limited resource, so we need a filter before publication. That no longer makes sense with digital publishing. 1/

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Claas Voelcker @cvoelcker.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

You are already producing this data, so contributing costs almost nothing. Next time you roll out a policy, keep the rollouts and send them our way. Our toolkit records, formats, and uploads in a few lines – and we provide an agent skill so Codex/CC can wire it up for you 😉 (7/13)

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Dennis Soemers @dennissoemers.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I've already been doing siesta every day for the past 8 years, didn't you notice?

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I'm delighted to announce the release of OpenSpiel 2.0! ♟️🎲♦️🎉 Structured types for states, observations, and actions, standard trajectories (based on JSON), 19 new games, AlphaZero ported to JAX, Windows PyPI support, language model fine-tuning examples and an MCP server (demo below 🤩👇)! 🧵 1/N

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Dennis Soemers @dennissoemers.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Check out our work on (offline) RL for insider threat prevention now in Hall A, poster board 2301, at #icml #icml2026!

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ICML Conference @icmlconf.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

We appreciate the love ❤️ But limited engagement and few followers on Bsky makes some (not us!) question whether it's worth it Be sure to follow (and share with your ML friends!) if you want to see more updates from ICML!

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Claas Voelcker @cvoelcker.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

If you want me to care about reviewing again, you need to do three things: * Stop treating reviewers like villains by default. Every year new threats against reviewers are invented. Authors are never punished for submitting complete garbage.

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Dennis Soemers @dennissoemers.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I'll be attending #ICML2026 in Seoul next week. Primarily to cheer on my PhD student presenting our early work on RL-based insider-threat prevention at the DEMO workshop. Possibly also to enjoy Korea a bit... Happy to meet up and chat anything RL, RL for cybersecurity, games, ..

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Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

If you’re in Maastricht for WCCi, I will give a tutorial (with Georgios Yannakakis and Jialin Liu) tomorrow

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 06/06/2026

#BoardGames create a universal language, a vehicle for cultural and social transmission across the centuries. Researchers reconstructed the rules of a Roman tabletop game, using #AI with implications extending far beyond antiquity. Image © @waltros.bsky.social #InternationalTabletopDay 🧵 👇️

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Still hiring for PhD candidates who are *specifically* excited in building and deploying RL systems for self-driving vehicles and other multi-agent planning settings. Shoot me an email if you think this is you and please help spread the word!

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Dennis Soemers @dennissoemers.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

On this beautiful April day, I am proud to share our @harryqbovik.bsky.social (SIGBOVIK 2026) submission "On parallels between Large Language Models and the Black Knight"! Technically we didn't receive acceptance notification yet, but I've never been more sure of a paper's chances than this one.

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Dennis Soemers @dennissoemers.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I know SIGBOVIK papers used to be somewhat welcome (on April 1st) on arXiv, but recently arXiv has also been tightening up on all kinds of policies due to LLM spam. Does this change the arXiv stance on SIGBOVIK papers? @tdietterich.bsky.social @harryqbovik.bsky.social can you advise?

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Maastricht University Department of Advanced Computing Sciences @umdacs.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

‼️DEADLINE ALERT: March 15th‼️ Associate Professor in System and Network Security at Maastricht University vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastricht-Associate-Professor-in-System-and-Network-Security/1329480557/ #AcademicSky #networksecurity #maastrichtuniversity @maastrichtu.bsky.social

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Dennis Soemers @dennissoemers.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Does anyone know if this article is real? Got a google scholar notification because one of the supposed authors added it to their profile. But... scrolling through it I don't get the impression that this is something that would've been written by these authors :D AI-generated?

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SIGBOVIK @harryqbovik.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

SIGBOVIK has a Bluesky now! Follow to learn more cutting-edge research from the world’s most comedic and occasionally scientific academic conference

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Maastricht University Department of Advanced Computing Sciences @umdacs.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

!! VACANCY ALERT !! The Department of Advanced Computing Sciences (DACS) at Maastricht University currently has 2 open positions: ✨ Postdoctoral Researcher in Symbolic Approaches to Artificial Intelligence: lnkd.in/eh_pHJkw ✨Associate Professor in System and Network Security: lnkd.in/eJPtgtbB

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Dennis Soemers @dennissoemers.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I'm excited to share that @SimonMarkLucas will be one of our keynote speakers for the Computers and Games 2026 conference taking place in June in Maastricht. Keep an eye out on the conference webpage (icga.org?page_id=4105) for when registration opens up at a later date!

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Maastricht University @maastrichtu.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

AI has helped scientists from Heerlen, Maastricht and Leiden confirm a mysterious Roman stone is a real board game—and even reconstruct its rules nearly 2,000 years later. The discovery pushes strategy games further back in time. Curious to play it yourself? 🎲 Read more: edu.nl/u6cgy #AI

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 11/02/2026

The first issue of the year is out now! Featuring great #archaeology such as: 🎲 Calculating the rules of an unknown Roman board game 🕳️ The purpose of Peru's iconic 'Band of Holes' 🍷 Glass trade from the Roman-Islamic period in Jordan & more! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🏺

Cover of the February 2026 issue of Antiquity, featuring a person in a high-vis jacket excavating a wooden trackway in peatland.

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Dr. Walter Crist @waltros.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Really proud of this work, where we combined traditional archaeological methods and AI simulation to say that yes, this object was more likely than not a game board. How did we do it? I’ll explain 👇👇 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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Ludus Coriovalli: using artificial intelligence-driven simulations to identify rules for an ancient board game | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

Ludus Coriovalli: using artificial intelligence-driven simulations to identify rules for an ancient board game - Volume 100 Issue 409

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Dr. Walter Crist @waltros.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

My work with @eric-piette.bsky.social @dennissoemers.bsky.social et al. using AI-simulated play to identify rules that produce piece movement that matches use-wear patterns on an object from Roman Coriovallum is getting picked up in the popular press 😁

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 10/02/2026

The lines worn into an engraved limestone object from the Netherlands are consistent with the idea that it was a Roman game board, according to an AI analysis

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Is this carved rock an ancient Roman board game?

The lines worn into an engraved limestone object from the Netherlands are consistent with the idea that it was a Roman game board, according to an AI analysis

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Dennis Soemers @dennissoemers.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

It is my pleasure to share that @togelius.bsky.social will be one of our keynote speakers at this year's Computers and Games (CG 2026) conference! There is still some time until the paper submission deadline (February 20). Get your papers in and come see him in Maastricht, on June 20!

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Thomas Dietterich @tdietterich.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

#ICML2026 authors, if you can flatten the curve on @arxiv.bsky.social submissions, the cs.LG moderators would really appreciate it. Today we have 4 times the usually number of submissions. Please select a random number between 1 and 14 and wait that number of days to submit! :-) #mlsky

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The largest Trump superPAC donor so far this cycle is the president of OpenAI

CONTRIBUTOR
GREG BROCKMAN
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$25,000,000 $25,000,000

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 21/01/2026

What is wild to me is the defense, BY THE NEURIPS BOARD, that fabricated citations do not mean "the content of the papers themselves [is] necessarily invalidated" It does. It very much does. What do you think citing other work is for? What do you think writing a paper is for? What do you *think*?

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Dennis Soemers @dennissoemers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Note that we are a bit more than 4 weeks away from the submission deadline for this year's Computers and Games conference (CG 2026). This year will be the first time since 2018 that this conference will be organised on-site again, specifically: in Maastricht, on June 19 and 20!

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Christoph Salge @christophsalge.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Do you want to run a competition at the IEEE conference on Games? Apply now: cog2026.fdi.ucm.es/cfc.html IEEE COG is a conference with a long tradition of running #Game / #AI / and related competitions. See the call for a range of possible topics Please share with interested parties.

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Maastricht University Department of Advanced Computing Sciences @umdacs.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

VACANCY: Assistant Professor in Computational Statistics vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastricht-Assistant-Professor-in-Computational-Statistics/1332893757/ Please apply by January 4th, 2026.

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Maastricht University Institute of Data Science @umids.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

VACANCY: Assistant Professor in Health Artificial Intelligence vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... Are you passionate about developing AI solutions that transform healthcare and improve human well-being? Then join our team! Please apply by January 4th, 2026 @maastrichtu.bsky.social

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Dennis Soemers @dennissoemers.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

IEEE Conference on Games (@ieee_cog) - Call for Tutorials We are looking for proposals for tutorials to be given at IEEE CoG 2026, in Madrid! Submission deadline for tutorial proposals: 9th of January, 2026. For the full call, please see: tinyurl.com/COG2026-Tuto...

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IEEE CoG 2026 - Call for Tutorials 2026 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), 1st - 4th September 2026 Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain https://lnkd.in/enXHnSZu The annual IEEE Conference on Game...

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Dennis Soemers @dennissoemers.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

disagree with this flowchart. Well, I definitely prefer if we get drunk (at a conference or elsewhere) sooner rather than later, btu regardless, call me Dennis

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Dennis Soemers @dennissoemers.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

If you sign up, and you review any papers I assigned to you, and later we see each other in person (at a conference or whatever), I will pay for one beer per paper I assigned to you.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 09/10/2025

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Maastricht University Department of Advanced Computing Sciences @umdacs.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

VACANCY: Lecturer (0,1 fte) in Computer Science Faculty of Advanced Computing Sciences Maastricht University lnkd.in/eHnYUr6F @maastrichtu.bsky.social @xai-at-dacs.bsky.social @taimlab.bsky.social #AcademicSky #computerscience #assistantprofessor #lecturer *PLEASE APPLY BY OCTOBER 5TH*

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Maastricht University Department of Advanced Computing Sciences @umdacs.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

VACANCY: Assistant Professor in AI in Digital Agriculture and Sustainability. lnkd.in/gFKhd32z Professor Christopher Brewster and his team are looking for a highly qualified computer scientist with a broad passion for food and agriculture, environment, and biodiversity. @cawbrewster.bsky.social

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Hello everyone 👋 Good news! 🚨 Our Game Theory & Multiagent Systems team at Google DeepMind is hiring! 🚨 .. and we have not one, but two open positions! One Research Scientist role and one Research Engineer role. 😁 Please repost and tell anyone who might be interested! Details in thread below 👇

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Dr. Walter Crist @waltros.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

CALL FOR PAPERS! We are accepting papers for Computational Techniques for Games Heritage, a special issue of the ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage! See below for more info or reach out if you have questions! dl.acm.org/pb-assets/st...

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Maastricht University Department of Advanced Computing Sciences @umdacs.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

WANTED: Lecturer in Computer Science vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastricht-Lecturer-%281%2C0-fte%29-in-Computer-Science/820307502/ @maastrichtu.bsky.social @xai-at-dacs.bsky.social @taimlab.bsky.social @umids.bsky.social #AcademicSky #computerscience #assistantprofessor #lecturer

Vacancy for a Lecturer in Computer Sciences at the Department of Advanced Computing Sciences (DACS) at Maastricht University.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/08/2025

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

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austin @aparker.io · 07/08/2025

data visualization is my passion

clip from a openai presentation showing swe bench performance; the openai o3 and gpt-4o models are at the same visual level but the labels are wildly different

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NeurIPS Conference @neuripsconf.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

NeurIPS is endorsing EurIPS, an independently-organized meeting which will offer researchers an opportunity to additionally present NeurIPS work in Europe concurrently with NeurIPS. Read more in our blog post and on the EurIPS website: blog.neurips.cc/2025/07/16/n... eurips.cc

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A NeurIPS-endorsed conference in Europe held in Copenhagen, Denmark

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Dennis Soemers @dennissoemers.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Excited to introduce the first version of Ludax, a domain-specific language for board games that compiles directly into JAX code! Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2506.22609 Code: github.com/gdrtodd/ludax Work led by NYU's Graham Todd (not on bluesky).

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