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Martin Engelcke

@martinengelcke.bsky.social
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AI + science & neuro, agents, robots, vision. Sr RS at Google DeepMind. Previously at Oxford Robotics Institute. Views my own.

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 24/08/2026
We've arrived on Bluesky! We hope you will follow along as we share inspiring, motivational and exciting content about the achievements and individuals that have been awarded a Nobel Prize. Stay tuned.
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Tim Kietzmann @timkietzmann.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
📢 We are hiring a full professor in "Intelligence in Biological and Artificial Systems". Come join us at Germany's first and largest cognitive science program. Please share far and wide, and get in touch with any questions. www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/universit...
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129 FB 8 W3 Professorship Intelligence in Biological and Artificial Systems, Institute of Cognitive Science: Uni Osnabrück
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Continual RL Workshop @continual-rl.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
🚨 The Continual RL Workshop is coming next Saturday! Excited to introduce our first speaker: David Abel @dabelcs.bsky.social , Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind on the Agency team and Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. 🎙️Title: “Where is Learning?”
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CogCompNeuro @cogcompneuro.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is a wrap for #CCN2026! We look forward to meet again in Edinburgh next year!
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Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) @mmb-journal.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Hello world! 👋 We’re Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) 👤🤖🧠 a new open access journal from @mitpress.bsky.social exploring the principles of intelligence and cognition across natural and artificial minds. Submissions open this Fall! 🔗 direct.mit.edu/mmb
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Minds, Machines, and Brains | MIT Press
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ICML Conference @icmlconf.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Congrats to the 2026 test of time award winners! #icml2026
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Noémi Éltető @noemielteto.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
First paper since joining Google DeepMind! We present 🌍ATLAS (Active Theory Learning for Automated Science), a pipeline that generates interpretable mechanistic models from data and optimizes experiments to test them. Thread below
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Andrew Lampinen @lampinen.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Pleased to share that this work is now published in TMLR! openreview.net/forum?id=RuW...
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Latent learning: episodic memory complements parametric learning by...
When do machine learning systems fail to generalize, and what mechanisms could improve their generalization? Here, we draw inspiration from cognitive science to argue that one weakness of...
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Kevin J Miller @kevinjmiller.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Computational models are a key part of science but discovering new ones is hard! DataDIVER discovers concise models from data, which surface new mechanistic ideas and clear predictions for future experiments From Google Deepmind Neuroscience Lab + collaborators www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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NeurIPS Conference @neuripsconf.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Following the success of the EurIPS and NeurIPS-Mexico City pilots in 2025, we are thrilled to announce two official NeurIPS 2026 satellite events for this year! These will be held in Paris, France and Atlanta, USA, respectively, running alongside the main venue in Sydney, Australia.
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2025 Conference
The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
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Pablo Samuel Castro @pcastr.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Applications for the global Google PhD Fellowship Program are open! Fellowships directly support grad students doing exceptional and innovative research in computer science and related fields as they pursue their PhD. Learn more and apply by April 30 at goo.gle/phdfellowship.
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Google PhD fellowship program
The Google PhD Fellowship Program recognizes outstanding graduate students doing exceptional work in computer science, related disciplines, or promising research areas.
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Kim Stachenfeld, PhD @neurokim.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I have just arrived at @cosynemeeting.bsky.social ! During my flight, as I thought about opening remarks (and had a glass of wine), I got to reflect on why I love neuroscience. Maybe other folks are doing the same and would like to read or add, so I thought I'd do something unusual and share!
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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
📢📢 Announcing this year's conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscience & AI (Rome, 9-12th June). We’ve got a stellar line-up and venue, and invite everyone to join: www.neuromonster.org
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 02/03/2026
Experimenting with an AI-curated neuroscience feed. It scans the entire firehose in real time, prefilters for neuro/cogsci keywords, then a local LLM scores each post for scientific substance. A ranking algorithm blends that quality score with engagement to surface the best discussion. Try it out!
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Nikolas Karalis @nikolaskaralis.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
I’m building a foundational reading list for our lab (systems & circuit neuroscience, compneuro, modeling, neuromodulators, population coding etc.). I’d like to crowdsource recommendations. Which review(s) would you consider mandatory reading for the next generation of researchers?
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Janelia Conferences @janeliaconf.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
📢 Applications are open! This meeting brings together scientists using data-driven #AI to analyze + model neural circuits and uncover how the brain performs complex computations. 🧠 Apply by May 28 ➡️ janelia.news/NAI26 @computingnature.bsky.social @sinzlab.bsky.social @srinituraga.bsky.social
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Data-Driven AI for Neuroscience
Organizers Carsen Stringer, HHMI/Janelia Research Campus Srini Turaga, HHMI/Janelia Research Campus Atika Syeda, HHMI/Janelia Research Campus Fabian Sinz, University of Göttingen Alice Wang,
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Soledad Gonzalo Cogno @soledad-gcogno.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Applications are now open for the summer school: 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 🧠 Apply before March 15: www.compneuronrsn.org 📍 Located in beautiful Eresfjord 🇳🇴 🗓️ Between July 6-24 Supported by the @kavlifoundation.org In collaboration with @kavlintnu.bsky.social
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Mathematical Methods in Computational Neuroscience
Summer school in Eresfjord, Norway (July 8th - 26th, 2024)
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Johannes Margraf @jtmargraf.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Hello bluesky, I'm a theoretical chemist at University of Bayreuth. My group works on atomistic modeling of energy materials with electronic structure methods and ML. I'm hoping to connect to other #compchem and #materials folks!
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Caroline Wang @caroline-wang.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
[1/n] Just wrapped up 7 months interning with @pcastr.bsky.social at Google DeepMind and I'm so excited to share our work: arxiv.org/abs/2602.10324. TLDR: We used LLM-powered program synthesis to automatically model and discover differences between human and LLM strategic behavior
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Quentin Berthet @ AISTATS @qberthet.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
🚨 🔬 PhD positions at Google DeepMind in France 🇫🇷 We are advertising Master Level Intern positions at Google DeepMind within our Frontier AI Unit. These could lead to co-advised PhD positions with Google DeepMind and French academic institutions. job-boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...
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Stagiaire de niveau Master, France / Master Level Intern, France
Grenoble, France ; Paris, France
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Andrew Saxe @saxelab.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Excited to launch Principia, a nonprofit research organisation at the intersection of deep learning theory and AI safety. Our goal is to develop theory for modern machine learning systems that can help us understand complex network behaviors, including those critical for AI safety and alignment. 1
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Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab @cocoscilab.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Excited to announce a new book telling the story of mathematical approaches to studying the mind, from the origins of cognitive science to modern AI! The Laws of Thought will be published in February and is available for pre-order now.
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Martin Engelcke @martinengelcke.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Interesting analysis of visual binding in VLMs
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shimon8282.bsky.social @shimon8282.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I am hiring for two roles on my team at Waymo, based in London or Oxford. Come work at the cutting edge of autonomous driving! careers.withwaymo.com/jobs/machine... and careers.withwaymo.com/jobs/senior-...
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Machine Learning Engineer, AI Foundations - Oxford, England, United Kingdom - London, England, United Kingdom
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building ...
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Artificial Intelligence News @knowentry.com · 29/01/2026
blog.google/innovation-a... #AI #artificialintelligence
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Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds
Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. can now try out Project Genie.
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Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit @gatsbyucl.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
📢 Applications open on 19 Jan for the 7-week #Mathematics #SummerSchool in London. You will develop the maths skills and intuition necessary to enter the #TheoreticalNeuroscience / #MachineLearning field. Find out more & register for the information webinar 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...
Applications for 2026 entry to the Gatsby Bridging Programme (7-week maths summer school) will open on 19 Jan and close on 16 Feb. Designed for students who wish to pursue a postgrad research degree in theoretical neuroscience or foundational machine learning but whose degree programme lacks a strong maths focus. Applications from students in underrepresented groups in STEM strongly encouraged. A small number of bursaries available.
Register for the information webinar on 23 Jan.
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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.
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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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Summer School on AI and Games 2026 @gameaischool.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Early Bird registration is now open for the #GameAISchool2026📍 Leiden, NL | 📅 15–19 June 2026 We’re excited to welcome partners including Activision, DeepMind, Microsoft, Sony AI, Sony SIE, Riot Games, Unity, Arm, CCP, Wargaming, Krafton, Iconic, Ludomotion, Humanfeedback.ai & more announced soon.
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Nicklas Hansen @ncklashansen.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Interested in ✨world models✨? I just open-sourced an implementation of the Dreamer 4 world model. It's in PyTorch and comes with a pretrained model + a neat little web interface that lets you interact with any of 30 DMControl tasks that I trained it on! Link: github.com/nicklashanse...
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NeurIPS Europe @neuripseurope.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The Call for Expressions of Interest & Venue Proposals of #EurIPS 2026 is closing tomorrow ⏰
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Jeff Dean @jeffdean.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Please welcome Google's Open Source efforts to Blue Sky at @opensource.google!
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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I'm going to start doing this every month to help new users dipping their toes in. If you post about AI research here, like this post. I'll follow you. (Like even if I already follow you, to help others find you too.)
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Marc Lanctot @handle.invalid · 19/12/2025
Hello! 👋 Are you interested in AI for board games using language models? Want to do some hobby tinkering with fine-tuning or RL? We've released an easy-to-follow example colab that fine-tunes Gemma models via Kauldron to mimic an MCTS player. Details here: github.com/google-deepm... ♟️🎲♦️♠️♥️♣️✨🎉
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2025 Wrap-up: Fine-tuning Gemma with Kauldron Example ✦︎ · Issue #1414 · google-deepmind/open_spiel
Hello everyone! We've been hard at work this year working on OpenSpiel 2.0, which will be better than ever. Major developments have been underway to make working with language models easier. I'm lo...
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Andrew Lampinen @lampinen.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Why isn’t modern AI built around principles from cognitive science or neuroscience? Starting a substack (infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/why-isnt-m...) by writing down my thoughts on that question: as part of a first series of posts giving my current thoughts on the relation between these fields. 1/3
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Why isn’t modern AI built around principles from cognitive science?
First post in a series on cognitive science and AI
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Amir-massoud Farahmand @sologen.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
What are you favourite Imitation Learning and Inverse Reinforcement Learning papers? What are the essential papers? It doesn't matter much whether they are new or old, but I prefer a conceptually elegant and mathematically solid work.
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Martin Engelcke @martinengelcke.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
The technical report with more details about our work on SIMA 2 is now also available on arXiv! Take a look at: arxiv.org/abs/2512.04797
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SIMA 2: A Generalist Embodied Agent for Virtual Worlds
We introduce SIMA 2, a generalist embodied agent that understands and acts in a wide variety of 3D virtual worlds. Built upon a Gemini foundation model, SIMA 2 represents a significant step toward act...
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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Nice tweet thread from @dannypsawyer on work exploring how well frontier models like GPT, Claude, and Gemini explore in interactive, multi-turn settings - to be presented at NeurIPS workshops this December!
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Danny Sawyer @dannypsawyer.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Happy to announce that our work has been accepted to workshops on Multi-turn Interactions and Embodied World Models at #NeurIPS2025! Frontier foundation models are incredible, but how well can they explore in interactive environments? Paper👇 arxiv.org/abs/2412.06438 🧵1/13
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Martin Engelcke @martinengelcke.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Our work on "Latent learning: episodic memory complements parametric learning by enabling flexible reuse of experiences" led by @lampinen.bsky.social and with Effie Li, @arslanchaudhry.bsky.social, and James McClelland is now available on arXiv! Link: arxiv.org/abs/2509.16189 Thread: 1/
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Martin Engelcke @martinengelcke.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Hello, World!
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