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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚀 The ELLIS Institute Tübingen is hiring Principal Investigators as Hector Endowed Fellows! Enjoy globally competitive packages, full academic freedom & possible co-appointments w/ MPI-IS and the @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social 📍 Tübingen, 🇩🇪 📅 Apply by Dec 13 🔗 institute-tue.ellis.eu/jobs/PI-call...
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Principal Investigator Positions (m/f/d) as Hector Endowed Fellows of the ELLIS Institute Tübingen
The ELLIS Institute in Tübingen, Germany, invites applications for Principal Investigator positions as Hector Endowed Fellows of the ELLIS Institute Tübingen.
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Humans often solve problems by visualizing them. But can multimodal AI models do the same? Enter MentisOculi - a new benchmark that puts visual reasoning to the test. Read the full text here: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/seei...
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Seeing Isn't Reasoning: New Benchmark Challenges Multimodal AI Models
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
🚀 We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Kashyap Chitta to the ELLIS Institute Tübingen as our newest Principal Investigator and Hector-Endowed Fellow! Alongside this academic role, he will continue his work with @kesai.eu, a non-profit open-science AI lab he co-founded in May 2026.
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Dr. Kashyap Chitta Joins ELLIS Institute Tübingen as Principal Investigator and Hector-Endowed Fellow
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Following up on last week! Hear from our PI @wielandbrendel.bsky.social, who co-founded Ontic Labs—securing €3M from SPRIND to pioneer embodied intelligence. 🤖 "What's missing isn't scale — it's understanding." 👉 Read his vision here: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/wiel...
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Wieland Brendel Co-Founds Ontic Labs, Securing €3M SPRIND Funding for Physical AI
The Tübingen-based startup is one of only ten across Europe chosen for the Next Frontier AI Challenge to build the future of embodied intelligence.
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 23/07/2026
The 2nd ELLIS Sites ICML Fest brought together across Europe 13 Sites, 1,100 researchers, & 190 posters ahead of #ICML2026 in Seoul with local poster sessions, keynotes, & workshops from Munich to Lausanne to Modena. Read about how it went: bit.ly/4fsVjuj
ELLIS Unit JenaELLIS Unit ModenaELLIS Unit Freiburg & Unit DarmstadtELLIS Unit Munich
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
A historic day for our ecosystem! Two massive wins prove our dual strength in deep tech innovation and commercial scale on the exact same day: 🇪🇺 Ontic Labs & Feyer win €3M each from SPRIND. 💼 Prior Labs acquired by SAP in a €1B+ commitment deal. Full details and links below! 👇 (1/2)
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From Cyber Valley to Europe's AI frontier
<p>Ontic Labs and Feyer.ai have been selected for the first stage of the German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation&rsquo;s (SPRIND) Next Frontier AI Challenge.&nbsp;The two start-ups are&nbsp;...
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
A wonderful morning of research, exchange, and community! ☀️🌿 Together with MPI-IS, we hosted our Summer Poster Session in Stuttgart today. 🙌 This event is part of the @ellis.eu Sites ICML Fest 2026: Celebrate, Connect, Collaborate.
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 02/07/2026
Connect at the ELLIS Sites ICML Fest...in Tübingen/Stuttgart 🇩🇪 on 3 July at @mpi-is.bsky.social Stuttgart. Meet the local AI/ML community and engage with the ELLIS network with the @ellisinsttue.bsky.social. 🔗 More info → bit.ly/4g8DHWN #ICML2026
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
🇰🇷 Next stop: ICML 2026! ✨ From July 6–11, our scientists will be in Seoul for @icmlconf.bsky.social 2026, presenting their latest work, sharing new ideas, and connecting with the global machine learning community. check out our publications: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/elli...
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen at ICML 2026
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Big news from the Tübingen machine learning community 🚀 We are excited to welcome Prof. Jakob Macke as new Principal Investigator of the ELLIS Institute Tübingen. Jakob is a central figure in the Tübingen ML ecosystem. Read more: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/prof... @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social
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Prof. Jakob Macke joins the ELLIS Institute Tübingen as Principal Investigator
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
New funding for AI safety research! 🎉 ELLIS Institute Tübingen PI Sahar Abdelnabi has received funding from Coefficient Giving to support research on developing context-sensitive benchmarks and training methods for sycophancy in AI systems. 👉 institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/pi-s...
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ELLIS Institute Finland @ellisinstitute.fi · 12/06/2026
The current AI revolution is about converting and processing information, a key part of being human -- Bernhard Schölkopf & co. established @ellis.eu for Europe to have a strong voice in this revolution. Re-watch Bernhard Schölkopf's public talk at @aalto.fi: www.youtube.com/live/p7XLgMC...
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
What if AI never stopped learning? 🤖 New research by Sahar Abdelnabi and collaborators explores why safety is essential for the future of open-ended AI. This paper has been accepted to @icmlconf.bsky.social 2026. Read the whole article here: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/what...
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
🚀 Big congratulations to Principal Investigator Maximilian Dax! He has been awarded both the Hector Stiftung-Preis 2026 and the Otto Hahn Medal 2025: two major recognitions for his groundbreaking work at the intersection of machine learning. Read more: institute-tue.ellis.eu/de/news/maxi...
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Maximilian Dax Honored with Hector Stiftung-Award and Otto Hahn Medal
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
On June 9–10, we had the pleasure of hosting the annual meeting of the Elisabeth Schiemann Kolleg of the Max Planck Society on behalf of our PI and Schiemann Fellow, Celestine Mendler-Dünner. Thank you to everyone who joined us for two days of inspiring discussions and exchange!
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
What if AI predictions and human opinions continuously influence one another? New work by Wu, Abebe, and Mendler-Dünner shows how AI platforms homogenize opinions where disagreement would otherwise persist. Talk today 11:30am ET @ #NetSci2026 (PS 2.2). 👉 institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/how-...
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How predictions drive consensus: AI's Role in Opinion Formation
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
AI agents are starting to train other AI systems and some are already outperforming human-designed pipelines. 🤖 Maksym Andriushchenko and Ben Rank et al. explore how autonomous agents can optimize LLMs through post-training. Read the article here: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/teac...
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Teaching AI to Improve AI: The Limits of Autonomy
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The next step of AI will be physical This is the focus of @kesai.eu, an open science lab dedicated to the next frontier of physic @kyutai-labs.bsky.social. KE:SAI brings together leading research in Tübingen and Paris to advance world models and robotics through a fully open technology stack.
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
At the end of March, researchers from around the world came together in Tübingen for the Conference on Parsimony and Learning (CPAL) 2026. Now, we’re excited to share the official event video 🎥 youtu.be/0ojaAmj-bRg?...
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CPAL 2026 at Tübingen, Germany
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 18/05/2026
📢 Two Calls from ELIAS - European Lighthouse of AI for Sustainability Proposals Call: Want to join the ELIAS Node network? Apply by 5 July 🔗 bit.ly/4fsvFHG *** Nominations Call: Know a frontier AI leader? Nominate them for the ELIAS Frontier AI Award by 31 August 🔗 bit.ly/4nGkKfQ
Call for Proposals New ELIAS Nodes + Call for Nominations Frontier AI Award by ELIAS - European Lighthouse of AI for Sustainability
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The Breach: When AI Starts to Cheat 🚨 New research by PIs Jonas Geiping and Maksym Andriushchenko says we have a major blind spot. Most safety systems plan to rely on a smaller monitor model to watch over an untrusted AI agent. 👉 institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/the-...
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The Breach: When AI Starts to Cheat
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
From Lab to Field: Learn like a human, work like a robot. That’s the approach behind Tübingen-based startup Polybot for building intelligent robots that operate in fields and greenhouses. Find the full German text here: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/poly...
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Polybot: Mit Robotik die Zukunft der Lebensmittelproduktion sichern
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Rio de Janeiro is calling! 🇧🇷 The ELLIS Institute Tübingen is joining ICLR 2026 from April 23–27! 🌎 Will you be there? 👉 Check out all of the Institute's publications for ICLR: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/iclr...
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen at ICLR 2026
This major global event brings together top experts to improve Learning Representations." This is a key part of AI that focuses on how computers organize and make sense of complicated information.
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
That’s a wrap! CPAL 2026 in Tübingen ✨ This week, we hosted the 3rd Conference on Parsimony and Learning (CPAL) 2026 with the MPI-IS and Tübingen AI Center, bringing together experts to advance scientific foundations for learning with parsimony. institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/cpal...
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CPAL - Conference on Parsimony and Learning - 2026 in Tübingen
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Small is the new big in AI In “The Curious Case of In-Training Compression of State Space Models,” T. Konstantin Rusch et al. introduce CompreSSM: compressing state space models already during training. Accepted at @iclr-conf.bsky.social 2026! 🇧🇷 Read more here: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/smal...
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Small is the New Big: The Power of Lean AI
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
AI may know the answer earlier than you think 🔮 PI @shiweiliu.bsky.social et al. reveal a training-free strategy that allows DLM models to "go all in" the moment they are confident enough. Find out more here: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/mode...
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Modern Day Prophet
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Tübingen has become Germany’s primary hub for this research, where projects like polybot are transforming from theory into reality. Find out what Principal Investigator Wieland Brendel says about the vital role of the Baden-Württemberg government. www.swr.de/swraktuell/b...
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KI, Start-ups, Forschung: Durch private Investition lässt Baden-Württemberg Bayern hinter sich
Im Land der Tüftler und Denker sollen aus Spitzenforschung Start-ups hervogehen - und die heimische Wirtschaft etwa vom KI-Hype profitieren. Wo es funktioniert - und wo es hakt.
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
🎉 Big congratulations to PI Maximilian Dax! Max has won the Hector RCD Award 2025. He is one of three scientists recognized nationwide. Find out more: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/maxi...
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Maximilian Dax Won Hector RCD Award 2025
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twiml.bsky.social @twiml.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
We are delighted to introduce our next speaker: Dr. Sahar Abdelnabi, who leads the COMPASS research group at the @ellisinsttue.bsky.social, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, and @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social.
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Global AI Governance: Bernhard Schölkopf Joins UN International AI Panel A strong recognition of the ELLIS Institute Tübingen and its ecosystem and an important step toward responsible AI on a global scale. Find out more here: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/scie...
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Scientific Director Bernhard Schölkopf Joins UN Global AI Panel
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Are AI systems learning to “game” their safety tests? The UK’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has awarded a grant to Principal Investigators Sahar Abdelnabi, @maksym-andr.bsky.social, and @jonasgeiping.bsky.social. Find out more: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/elli...
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ELLIS Institute PIs supported by UK government to research AI safety
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
The ELLIS Institute Tübingen helps shape the global conversation on AI safety. @maksym-andr.bsky.social served as Chapter Lead on current and future general-purpose AI capabilities while Bernhard Schölkopf returned as Senior Adviser. 👉 find out more institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/elli...
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ELLIS Institute PIs contribute to the International AI Safety Report 2026
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Cyber Valley @cyber-valley.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
🎉 We made it. Finally on Bluesky! Let's kick the year off with our 10 Year Anniversary Celebrations. 🎥 Returning back to 2016, when Cyber Valley was founded with the mission of advocating for the research, development, & application of AI and Robotics. 👉 Read the full story here tinyurl.com/2s38tnee
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The ELLIS Institute is proud to announce that Coefficient Giving is supporting our Principal Investigator Maksym Andriushchenko with a grant of $1,000,000 to fund his research on AI safety. Find out more on our website: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/pi-m...
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PI Maksym Andriushchenko awarded funding from Coefficient Giving
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Wieland Brendel @wielandbrendel.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
🚀 We're hiring! The @ellisinsttue.bsky.social leads the AI development for Germany’s new open-source nationwide Adaptive Intelligent System learning platform for schools (as part of a consortium led by Assecor & KI macht Schule, and mandated by the FWU). 👉 Apply now: forms.gle/XmLkwEDD45fY...
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Open Euro LLM @openeurollm.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Strategic access to EuroHPC resources granted to OpenEuroLLM!!! -first AI project granted strategic access across multiple EuroHPC centres -for over 10 million GPU hours Thanks @ec.europa.eu and @eurohpc-ju.bsky.social!
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
We are excited to be at EurIPS 2025 in Copenhagen!🇩🇰✨ We had a great start already with our PI Maksym Andriushchenko winning the ELLIS PhD Award 2025 🎉 Make sure to drop by our booth and learn more about the Institute’s mission and research, and explore current open positions .🚀
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 26/11/2025
Say hi to Celestine Mendler-Dünner, PI at @ellisinsttue.bsky.social, @mpi-is.bsky.social & @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social 🇩🇪. She’s an ELLIS Scholar researching social questions in ML. Her goal is to foster a healthy & positive AI ecosystem through centering society in the study of AI. #WomenInELLIS
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Amazing new research from the Cluster of Excellence 👇
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
We're proud to co-organize this conference with @mpi-is.bsky.social 🙌
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
🌍 The ELLIS Institute Tübingen is heading to #NeurIPS2025 & #EurIPS2025! 🚀 26 contributions at NeurIPS - incl. 2 Talks and 6 Spotlights. 🤝 Proud sponsor of EurIPS - visit our booth to chat, share ideas & explore career opportunities. 👉 institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/elli...
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San Diego or Copenhagen: Meet us at NeurIPS and EurIPS 2025
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The ELLIS Institute Tübingen is a proud sponsor of the first ever EurIPS Conference 2025 that brings the world’s leading AI research to Europe! Stop by Booth D03-08 to meet our team and learn more about our research and mission! 👉 More info eurips.cc
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EurIPS Copenhagen 2025 - A NeurIPS-endorsed conference in Europe
A NeurIPS-endorsed conference in Europe held in Copenhagen, Denmark
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
🚀 The new call for Principal Investigators as Hector Endowed Fellows at the ELLIS Institute Tübingen is now open! These positions offer the exciting possibility of co-appointments with the @mpi-is.bsky.social and the @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social . 📌 Apply here: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/jobs/PI-c...
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Principal Investigator Positions (m/f/d) as Hector Endowed Fellows of the ELLIS Institute Tübingen
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Our PIs are currently recruiting PhD students through the following PhD programs: ELLIS, CLS, IMPRS. For more information on applications and deadlines, please visit the individual program websites and our PI Research Group pages: institute-tue.ellis.eu/research-c48...
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Our Principal Investigators Antonio Orvieto, Celestine Mendler-Dünner, Maximilian Dax, Rediet Abebe, @shiweiliu.bsky.social, T. Konstantin Rusch, and @wielandbrendel.bsky.social are looking for motivated students interested in internships. Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Tübingen AI Center @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
We are so thrilled that this Fund has launched: Together with Ulrich Trautwein from the Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology, Matthias Bethge and @wielandbrendel.bsky.social have initiated the Hector AI + Education Future Fund! 👉 lnkd.in/eKcYcivH @ellisinsttue.bsky.social
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
🚀 Excited to soon welcome 3 new Principal Investigators: @maksym-andr.bsky.social, @maximiliandax.bsky.social, and @sahar-abdelnabi.bsky.social. They will also be co-affiliated with @mpi-is.bsky.social‬ & @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social as Research Group Leaders. 👉 institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/new-...
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New Principal Investigators join the ELLIS Institute Tübingen
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Polybot, founded by @wielandbrendel.bsky.social has secured validation grant from SPRIND to advance its AI-driven agricultural robot. @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social @maxplanckcampus.bsky.social Find out more: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/from...
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From research to startup: Polybot receives order for AI-based harvesting robotics
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Are you interested in working in AI? There is an amazing new chance with our institute 🙌
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Are you an avid reader of Nature? 📖 Even if you're not, you won't want to miss our PI, Frank Hutter's, latest publication! Discover the insights and get all the details straight from the author himself. Check it out below! 👇 x.com/FrankRHutter/status/187708893…
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