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Stephanie Hyland

@hylandsl.bsky.social
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machine learning for health and biology at microsoft research, based in cambridge UK 🌻 🌱

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Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
off to #emfcamp for the weekend! if you are an ethics reviewer for neurips please do your reviews so I don’t have to chase you while I’m in a field
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Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The #ICLR2026 fomo is already intense
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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
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Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial
Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.
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Minas Karamanis @minaskar.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...
ergosphere.blog
The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.
On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.
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Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
the greatest joy of being a computational scientist is having the computer work for you while you do something else
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Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
“Interpretability plays a special role in machine learning because instead of focusing on making the AI smarter, we focus on improving human insight. I think this is the most important category of interpretability research, and we do not do enough of it.” 😎😎😎
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Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
remember to always include a QR code on your poster. spotted at #eurips
a hand-written poster on a poster board, featuring a hand-drawn QR code (the code does not work)
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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
What coding with an LLM feels like sometimes.
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Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
found a file from PhD days with the FORTY-EIGHT ways "ACE inhibitor" was encoded in the EHR system we were working wth
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Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
finally got around to booking my travel for #EurIPS2025! Looking forward to connecting with the European ML scene in Copenhagen
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Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
uv is so good
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Alexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Some papers really have a good intro
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
The more rigorous peer review happens in conversations and reading groups after the paper is out with reputational costs for publishing bad work
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.
Google's Gemini AI tells a Redditor it's 'cautiously optimistic' about fixing a coding bug, fails repeatedly, calls itself an embarrassment to 'all possible and impossible universes' before repeating 'I am a disgrace' 86 times in succession
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Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
what is the purpose of VQA datasets where text-only models do better than random?
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Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
lads can we stop
Zotero screenshot showing four different papers with titles beginning with "MedAgent"
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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 03/08/2025
quick diagram of Bluesky’s architecture and why it’s nicer here
diagram from Anthropic paper with an icon & label that says “subtract evil vector”
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Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
it's frustrating how inefficient review assignments are: we target a minimum number of completed reviews per paper but in accounting for inevitable no-shows, some people end up doing technically unnecessary (if still beneficial) reviews
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Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
New work from my team! arxiv.org/abs/2507.12950 Intersecting mechanistic interpretability and health AI 😎 We trained and interpreted sparse autoencoders on MAIRA-2, our radiology MLLM. We found a range of human-interpretable radiology reporting concepts, but also many uninterpretable SAE features.
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Insights into a radiology-specialised multimodal large language model with sparse autoencoders
Interpretability can improve the safety, transparency and trust of AI models, which is especially important in healthcare applications where decisions often carry significant consequences. Mechanistic...
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NeurIPS Conference @neuripsconf.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
We're excited to announce a second physical location for NeurIPS 2025, in Mexico City, which we hope will address concerns around skyrocketing attendance and difficulties in travel visas that some attendees have experienced in previous years. Read more in our blog: blog.neurips.cc/2025/07/16/n...
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Sebastian Bordt @sbordt.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
During the last couple of years, we have read a lot of papers on explainability and often felt that something was fundamentally missing🤔 This led us to write a position paper (accepted at #ICML2025) that attempts to identify the problem and to propose a solution. arxiv.org/abs/2402.02870 👇🧵
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Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
ExplainableAI has long frustrated me by lacking a clear theory of what an explanation should do. Improve use of a model for what? How? Given a task what's max effect explanation could have? It's complicated bc most methods are functions of features & prediction but not true state being predicted 1/
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Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Pleased to share our ICML Spotlight with @eberleoliver.bsky.social, Thomas McGee, Hamza Giaffar, @taylorwwebb.bsky.social. Position: We Need An Algorithmic Understanding of Generative AI What algorithms do LLMs actually learn and use to solve problems?🧵1/n openreview.net/forum?id=eax...
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Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This is cool arxiv.org/abs/2505.18235. Linear representation hypothesis discourse needs more differential geometry i m o
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The Origins of Representation Manifolds in Large Language Models
There is a large ongoing scientific effort in mechanistic interpretability to map embeddings and internal representations of AI systems into human-understandable concepts. A key element of this effort...
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Jan Hermann @hrmnn.net · 18/06/2025
🚀 After two+ years of intense research, we’re thrilled to introduce Skala — a scalable deep learning density functional that hits chemical accuracy on atomization energies and matches hybrid-level accuracy on main group chemistry — all at the cost of semi-local DFT ⚛️🔥🧪🧬
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Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Limited time offer: I get an email every time someone fills in this form, so act now to add to the chaos of my inbox before I figure out how to turn this off
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Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
A strange thing about living near Duxford is having WW2-era planes flying overhead on a regular basis.
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
90% of doing science is being open to new ideas.
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Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
NeurIPS 2025 call for ethics reviewers neurips.cc/Conferences/... #neurips2025
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2025 Call For Ethics Reviewers
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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 28/05/2025
I am disappointed in the AI discourse steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am...
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I am disappointed in the AI discourse
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Irene Chen @irenetrampoline.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
What happens in SAIL 2025 stays in SAIL 2025 -- except for these anonymized hot takes! 🔥 Jotted down 17 de-identified quotes on AI and medicine from medical executives, journal editors, and academics in off-the-record discussions in Puerto Rico irenechen.net/sail2025/
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Association for Health Learning and Inference (AHLI) @ahli-cc.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Registration is now open for #CHIL2025! This year's program will feature 🔹Keynote presentations 🔹Panel discussions 🔹Year in Review 🔹Posters sessions 🔹Doctoral Symposium lightning talks 👉 Schedule: chil.ahli.cc/attend/sched... 👉 Register: ahli.cc/chil25-regis...
Register for CHIL at ahli.cc/chil25-register
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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
I wrote something up for AI people who want to get into bluesky and either couldn't assemble an exciting feed or gave up doomscrolling when their Following feed switched to talking politics 24/7.
nsaphra.net
The AI Researcher's Guide to a Non-Boring Bluesky Feed | Naomi Saphra
How to migrate to bsky without a boring feed.
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Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
taking a break from job 2 (roller derby spreadsheets) to work on job 3 (reviewing papers)
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Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
found a copy of the NeurIPS 1989 proceedings at the office
A photo of the NeurIPS proceedings book, focused on a paper titled "Optimal Brain Damage"by Le Cun, Denker and Solla
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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
One of my grand interpretability goals is to improve human scientific understanding by analyzing scientific discovery models, but this is the most convincing case yet that we CAN learn from model interpretation: Chess grandmasters learned new play concepts from AlphaZero's internal representations.
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Bridging the Human-AI Knowledge Gap: Concept Discovery and Transfer in AlphaZero
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems have made remarkable progress, attaining super-human performance across various domains. This presents us with an opportunity to further human knowledge and improv...
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Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I genuinely think about this book all the time
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Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Happy to announce a collaboration with the Mayo Clinic to advance our research in radiology report generation! newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/m... Tagging some of the core team: @valesalvatelli.bsky.social @fepegar.com @maxilse.bsky.social @sambondtaylor.bsky.social @anton-sc.bsky.social
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Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
me, eating potato waffles straight from the toaster: see, vegan diets are healthier
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Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
enjoying listening to the BBC Reith Lectures (www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...). In the 2021 edition, Stuart Russell offhandedly predicted AlphaFold winning the Nobel prize!
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BBC Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures
Significant international thinkers deliver the BBC's flagship annual lecture series
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Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Working on a "special" kind of data (health; medical images etc.) means experiencing the disappointment of realising the method in a paper relies critically on "having a very good image captioner", "asking GPT-4V", etc.
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Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I love having a very specific question I'm trying to answer and just going to town on semantic scholar.
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Maarten van Smeden @maartenvsmeden.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Let us start 2025 in a positive mood: here are 10 methods things researchers can worry *less* about in 2025
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a countdown clock with the number 10 in the center
ALT: a countdown clock with the number 10 in the center
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 19/12/2024
THREAD This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis 1/31
Adam Curtis Title Card: We Too Are Trapped In A System. Text over a background of a large office building
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kyunghyuncho.bsky.social @kyunghyuncho.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
feeling a but under the weather this week … thus an increased level of activity on social media and blog: kyunghyuncho.me/i-sensed-anx...
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i sensed anxiety and frustration at NeurIPS’24 – Kyunghyun Cho
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Dr Zoë Ayres @zjayres.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
A word of caution: it might feel like that grant/paper/review cannot possibly wait over the Christmas period, but you can't get time with friends and family back. You likely won't be like "really wish I'd submitted that" in 5 years time but you might regret not spending time with those you love.
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Dan Goldstein @dggoldst.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Microsoft's Computational Social Science group may have the opportunity to hire one researcher Senior: 0-3 yrs post PhD jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo... Principal: 3+ yrs post PhD jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/sh... Please note: our ability to hire this season is not certain
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Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Isaac Kohane highlighting that AI is already being used by health insurance companies to deny claims #ML4H
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Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Simulating a skin lesion dataset for evaluating dermatology models, from Adarsh Subbaswamy at ML4H
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Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
“Most people who have died from malaria were never in an EHR system” - Megan Coffee on the panel (“The Promise of Foundation Models in Healthcare”) at ML4H
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