Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 16/07/2026off 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 020
Reposted by Stephanie HylandIgnacio 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."nbcnews.comPancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trialScientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later. 15997302890
Reposted by Stephanie HylandMinas Karamanis @minaskar.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...ergosphere.blogThe machines are fine. I'm worried about us.On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable. 1101780530
Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 15/01/2026the greatest joy of being a computational scientist is having the computer work for you while you do something else 0121
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.” 😎😎😎 040
Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 04/12/2025remember to always include a QR code on your poster. spotted at #eurips 150
Reposted by Stephanie HylandSung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 03/12/2025What coding with an LLM feels like sometimes. 1026764
Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 23/11/2025found a file from PhD days with the FORTY-EIGHT ways "ACE inhibitor" was encoded in the EHR system we were working wth 150
Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 16/11/2025finally got around to booking my travel for #EurIPS2025! Looking forward to connecting with the European ML scene in Copenhagen 140
Reposted by Stephanie HylandAlexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Some papers really have a good intro 4161
Reposted by Stephanie HylandEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 17/08/2025The more rigorous peer review happens in conversations and reading groups after the paper is out with reputational costs for publishing bad work 2485
Reposted by Stephanie HylandJack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 17/08/2025I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it. 7071981636
Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 14/08/2025what is the purpose of VQA datasets where text-only models do better than random? 010
Reposted by Stephanie Hylandmr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 03/08/2025quick diagram of Bluesky’s architecture and why it’s nicer here 4725
Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 30/07/2025it'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 110
Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 18/07/2025New 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.arxiv.orgInsights into a radiology-specialised multimodal large language model with sparse autoencodersInterpretability can improve the safety, transparency and trust of AI models, which is especially important in healthcare applications where decisions often carry significant consequences. Mechanistic... 1114
Reposted by Stephanie HylandNeurIPS Conference @neuripsconf.bsky.social · 16/07/2025We'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... 14520
Reposted by Stephanie HylandSebastian Bordt @sbordt.bsky.social · 10/07/2025During 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 👇🧵 1125
Reposted by Stephanie HylandJessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 02/07/2025ExplainableAI 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/ 2468
Reposted by Stephanie HylandIda Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Pleased 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... 316537
Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 27/06/2025This is cool arxiv.org/abs/2505.18235. Linear representation hypothesis discourse needs more differential geometry i m oarxiv.orgThe Origins of Representation Manifolds in Large Language ModelsThere 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... 070
Reposted by Stephanie HylandJan 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 ⚛️🔥🧪🧬 37225
Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Limited 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 111
Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 15/06/2025A strange thing about living near Duxford is having WW2-era planes flying overhead on a regular basis. 010
Reposted by Stephanie HylandItai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 31/05/202590% of doing science is being open to new ideas. 429071
Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 29/05/2025NeurIPS 2025 call for ethics reviewers neurips.cc/Conferences/... #neurips2025neurips.cc2025 Call For Ethics Reviewers 031
Reposted by Stephanie HylandSteve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 28/05/2025I am disappointed in the AI discourse steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am...steveklabnik.comI am disappointed in the AI discourse 209911178
Reposted by Stephanie HylandIrene Chen @irenetrampoline.bsky.social · 12/05/2025What 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/ 0275
Reposted by Stephanie HylandAssociation for Health Learning and Inference (AHLI) @ahli-cc.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Registration 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... 011
Reposted by Stephanie HylandNaomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 26/04/2025I 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.netThe AI Researcher's Guide to a Non-Boring Bluesky Feed | Naomi SaphraHow to migrate to bsky without a boring feed. 2335994
Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 01/03/2025taking a break from job 2 (roller derby spreadsheets) to work on job 3 (reviewing papers) 110
Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 06/02/2025found a copy of the NeurIPS 1989 proceedings at the office 0211
Reposted by Stephanie HylandNaomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 27/01/2025One 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.arxiv.orgBridging the Human-AI Knowledge Gap: Concept Discovery and Transfer in AlphaZeroArtificial 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... 210923
Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 15/01/2025I genuinely think about this book all the time 030
Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Happy 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.socialnewsnetwork.mayoclinic.org 172
Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 06/01/2025me, eating potato waffles straight from the toaster: see, vegan diets are healthier 040
Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 05/01/2025enjoying 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!bbc.co.ukBBC Radio 4 - The Reith LecturesSignificant international thinkers deliver the BBC's flagship annual lecture series 021
Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Working 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. 250
Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 03/01/2025I love having a very specific question I'm trying to answer and just going to town on semantic scholar. 120
Reposted by Stephanie HylandMaarten van Smeden @maartenvsmeden.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Let us start 2025 in a positive mood: here are 10 methods things researchers can worry *less* about in 2025media.tenor.coma countdown clock with the number 10 in the centerALT: a countdown clock with the number 10 in the center 15259119
Reposted by Stephanie HylandAltmetric @altmetric.com · 19/12/2024THREAD 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 30599359
Reposted by Stephanie Hylandkyunghyuncho.bsky.social @kyunghyuncho.bsky.social · 21/12/2024feeling a but under the weather this week … thus an increased level of activity on social media and blog: kyunghyuncho.me/i-sensed-anx...kyunghyuncho.mei sensed anxiety and frustration at NeurIPS’24 – Kyunghyun Cho 1917836
Reposted by Stephanie HylandDr Zoë Ayres @zjayres.bsky.social · 19/12/2024A 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. 319944
Reposted by Stephanie HylandDan Goldstein @dggoldst.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Microsoft'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 412954
Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Isaac Kohane highlighting that AI is already being used by health insurance companies to deny claims #ML4H 271
Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Simulating a skin lesion dataset for evaluating dermatology models, from Adarsh Subbaswamy at ML4H 061
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 061