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Tom Diethe

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Head of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence, DS&AI, Biopharma R&D, AstraZeneca Views are my own

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Lichess @lichess.org · 29/09/2026
Bodhana Sivanandan is the youngest WGM in history! 🔥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyxG...
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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 02/07/2026
Guest post by John Abowd, @aloni-bologna.bsky.social, Cynthia Dwork, Jae June Lee, @jsarathy.bsky.social, @adamsmith.xyz and Salil Vadhan on the US govt's latest move to ban "noise injection" (at the core of all meaningful privacy protections) from all official statistics: scottaaronson.blog?p=9902
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An American privacy emergency: Guest post from Cynthia Dwork et al.
Scott’s foreword: Cynthia Dwork is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, and a pioneer in the fields of differential privacy and algorithmic fairness. On my recent travels to…
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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 11/05/2026
🏹 Job alert: Postdoc in LLM Factuality Detection at University of Copenhagen 📍 Copenhagen 🇩🇰 ⏰ Apply by 31 May 🔗 bit.ly/4d6om5H
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Postdoc in LLM Factuality Detection
The postdoc’s duties will also to a smaller degree include teaching and supervision.
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 08/05/2026
🏹 Job alert: Postdoctoral Researcher for the ERC Advanced Grant InterText at UKP Lab, TU Darmstadt 📍 Darmstadt 🇩🇪 ⏰ Apply by 31 May 🔗 bit.ly/3Rcg3Ot
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Postdoctoral Researcher — ERC Advanced Grant InterText, UKP Lab, TU Darmstadt
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Tom Diethe @tomdiethe.com · 05/05/2026
Last week's @ebi.embl.org workshop on de novo peptide and miniprotein design was excellent. One theme kept surfacing: data leakage in sequence ML. It's an underappreciated problem — and for peptides especially. Blog post: www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-pr... #MachineLearning #DrugDiscovery
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Why Protein and Peptide Sequence Datasets Leak — and What to Do About It
Tom Diethe | AstraZeneca Last week I was at the EMBL-EBI Industry Programme workshop on From de novo designed mini-proteins and peptides to the clinic — a fantastic event that brought together computa...
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 22/04/2026
🏹 Job alert: Fully funded PhD Position in Test-Time Adaptation and Agentic AI at Aarhus University 📍 Aarhus 🇩🇰 ⏰ Apply by 1 June 🔗 bit.ly/49Tpfgk
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Readvertisement: PhD Position in Test-Time Adaptation and Agentic AI
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NeurIPS Europe @neuripseurope.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Today NeurIPS is announcing our official satellite event in Paris. After responding to the call from Ellis following the success of EurIPS in December, we are pleased to reach a new milestone by joining forces with the NeurIPS organizing committee for the 2026 edition.
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 23/03/2026
💬 AI for Good Webinar Series 'From Molecules to Models' - today with Alexander Binder 🇩🇪 on 'Explainable AI in cases when you cannot spot the dogs or cats'. 📅 Mon, Mar 23 🕓 17:00-18:00 CET 🔗 Registration: bit.ly/4sP4URk ℹ️ More info: bit.ly/47Qclim
ELLIS AI for Good Webinar Series 'From Molecules to Models' with Alexander Binder on 'Explainable AI in cases when you cannot spot the dogs or cats'.
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 19/03/2026
🏹 Job alert: PhD Position Foundation Models for Industry (FIND) 📍 Delft 🇳🇱 ⏰ Apply by 30 April 🔗 careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-PhD-Po…
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PhD Position Foundation Models for Industry (FIND)
PhD Position Foundation Models for Industry (FIND)
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Tom Diethe @tomdiethe.com · 14/03/2026
First over the board chess tournament in over 30 years! Games live here (don’t get your hopes up, I have zero expectations!)… www.chess.com/events/briti...
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British Rapidplay Championship 2026 - Live Games
Watch every game of the British Rapidplay Championship 2026 updated live, move-by-move.
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CompSciOxford @compscioxford.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Recruiting: We're hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computational Complexity (up to 4 posts) to become a member of a research group with responsibility for carrying out research on the European Research Council Project METACOMP. Details & applications: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 02/03/2026
🏹 Job alert: Two PhD positions in Machine Learning: 1. Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems & Software Program; 2. KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) & Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) 📍 Stockholm ⏰ Apply by March 5th 🔗 bit.ly/4cho8Kl
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Two PhD positions in Machine Learning | European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 03/03/2026
🏹 Job alert: PhD and Postdoc Positions in Visual Computing at University of Bonn 📍 Bonn 🇩🇪 🔗 bit.ly/4tWnyb8
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Open Positions in ERC Starting Grant project HARMONY ← Learning and Optimisation for Visual Computing
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 02/03/2026
🏹 Job alert: PhD Position in Graph Learning at University of Vienna 📍 Vienna 🇦🇹 ⏰ Apply by March 26th 🔗 bit.ly/4qYURaO
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University assistant predoctoral - PhD Position in Graph Learning
University assistant predoctoral - PhD Position in Graph Learning
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Tom Diethe @tomdiethe.com · 01/03/2026
Looking forward to it!
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 24/02/2026
🏹 Job alert: Scientific Research Associate (Postdoc) in the Field of Agentic AI Systems for Scientific Workflows 📍 Hannover 🇩🇪 📅 Apply by March 25th 🔗 www.uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/id/8358
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Scientific Research Associate (Postdoc) in the Field of Agentic AI Systems for Scientific Workflows – Leibniz University Hannover
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 13/02/2026
Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
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Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
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CompSciOxford @compscioxford.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Do you want to study a DPhil (PhD) in the world’s top-ranked computer science department? If so, complete your application before 12:00 Tuesday 3 March 2026. Learn more about the course & how to apply here: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g... #CompSciOxford #StudyAtOxford #OxfordUni #ComputerScience
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 13/02/2026
🏹 Job alert: PhD Research Fellow in Machine Learning for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oslo 📍 Oslo 🇳🇴 📅 Apply by March 1st 🔗 bit.ly/3MlLcNy
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PhD Research Fellow in Machine Learning for Cognitive Neuroscience (294553) | University of Oslo
Job title: PhD Research Fellow in Machine Learning for Cognitive Neuroscience (294553), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, March 1, 2026
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Tom Diethe @tomdiethe.com · 02/02/2026
The next AI revolution isn't bigger models—it's better system architectures. Four emerging shifts: many-to-many collaboration, human-on-the-loop autonomy, richer uncertainty communication, and continual learning. www.linkedin.com/pulse/four-e...
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Four Emerging Shifts in AI System Architecture
The landscape of AI deployment is shifting beneath our feet. While much attention focuses on model capabilities—larger context windows, better reasoning, multimodal understanding—a quieter revolution ...
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Milot Mirdita @milot.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
My time in @martinsteinegger.bsky.social's group is ending, but I’m staying in Korea to build a lab at Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine. If you or someone you know is interested in molecular machine learning and open-source bioinformatics, please reach out. I am hiring! mirdita.org
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Mirdita Lab - Laboratory for Computational Biology & Molecular Machine Learning
Mirdita Lab builds scalable bioinformatics methods.
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Tom Diethe @tomdiethe.com · 17/01/2026
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Tom Diethe @tomdiethe.com · 05/01/2026
Never play f6, except when it's checkmate :-). (pls ignore the fact that I missed mate in 1 twice before that!!) www.chess.com/game/live/14...
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Chess: husamjl1 vs tommydacat
husamjl1 (1078) vs tommydacat (1109). tommydacat won by checkmate in 27 moves. Click to review the game, move by move.
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Tom Diethe @tomdiethe.com · 25/12/2025
From my daughter! Merry Christmas all! @lichess.org @agadmator.bsky.social
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Tom Diethe @tomdiethe.com · 13/12/2025
Tuk a what now?
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Tom Diethe @tomdiethe.com · 12/12/2025
Fun visiting @harvardmed.bsky.social earlier today!
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Neil Lawrence @lawrennd.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Volume 298 proceedings.mlr.press/v298/ Proceedings of Machine Learning for Healthcare 2025 Is now available on PMLR
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Proceedings of Machine Learning Research
Proceedings of the 10th Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference Held in Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA on 15-16 August 2025 Published as Volume 298 by the Proceedings of Machine Learning Research ...
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 07/10/2025
How can we make probabilistic ML fast, generalizable, and ready for the real world? 🤔 Join us for the ELLIS UnConference Workshop on Amortized ProbML on Dec 2 in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 co-located with #EurIPS 📣 Call for contributions open until Oct 10 👉 Details: eurips.cc/ellis
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Patrick Kidger @patrickkidger.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
🚀 New talk! "Automated ML-guided lead optimization: surpassing human-level performance at protein engineering" ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEhB... ✨🧪 This was a talk I gave at the recent AIxBIO conference in Cambridge UK. A 10-minute pitch for what we do at Cradle!
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Automated ML-guided lead optimization: surpassing human-level performance at protein engineering
YouTube video by Patrick Kidger
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Tom Diethe @tomdiethe.com · 28/09/2025
Incredible crowds in Rwanda 🇷🇼 for the worlds
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 12/09/2025
🏹 Job alert: Two Faculty positions AI in Biology, EMBL Heidelberg 🇩🇪 🔷 Group Leader - AI in Biology: bit.ly/3K15NoC 🔷 Team Leader - AI Engineering & Automation: bit.ly/4nrzA8z 📅 Apply by Nov 2nd
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Group Leader – AI in Biology
Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in AI for Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a visionary scientist to establish their own independent research group bridging innovations in machine...
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Kamélia Daudel @kdau.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
The Journal-to-Conference track is back at AISTATS🌴! The track invites authors of papers published or accepted after January 1st, 2024 in AoS, Biometrika, JASA, JMLR and JRSS B to present their work as posters at #AISTATS2026 in Tangier, Morocco (May 2nd-5th 2026). 📅 Deadline: 31 January 2026
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Su-In Lee @suinlee.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
🚀 We’re hiring! Multiple postdocs & a program manager to push the frontiers of explainable AI in cutting-edge biomedical research—Alzheimer’s, aging, cancer & medical AI. Start immediately. Friends, please RT🙏 Learn more: drive.google.com/file/d/15mMR... #postdocjobs #AI #BiomedicalScience
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Tom Diethe @tomdiethe.com · 04/09/2025
Check out my latest article: Embracing the Future of Pharmaceutical R&D with Agentic AI www.linkedin.com/pulse/embrac...
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Embracing the Future of Pharmaceutical R&D with Agentic AI
I often approach innovation with healthy scepticism when they emerge as the "next big thing." However, agentic AI, technology capable of autonomous decision-making and complex problem-solving, represe...
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 29/08/2025
🎓 Interested in a #PhD in machine learning or #AI? The ELLIS PhD Program connects top students with leading researchers across Europe. The application portal opens on Oct 1st. Curious? Join our info session on the same day. Get all the info 👉
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ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications 2025
The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI researchers. ELLIS also aims to boost economic growt...
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Tom Diethe @tomdiethe.com · 23/08/2025
Wait while I get all my s/ducks/swans/d in a row
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Tom Diethe @tomdiethe.com · 07/08/2025
"The fossil fuel age is flailing and failing. We are in the dawn of a new energy era." - António Guterres, UN Secretary General, July 22nd 2025, pressing nations for new climate plans ahead of COP30. news.un.org/en/story/202...
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UN’s Guterres declares fossil fuel era fading; presses nations for new climate plans before COP30 summit
UN Secretary‑General António Guterres declared the world has “passed the point of no return” on the shift to renewables and implored governments to file sweeping new climate plans before November’s CO...
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Christina Warren @filmgirl.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The 1 billionth GitHub repository has been created and it’s absolutely perfect.
A screenshot of the billionth repository created on GitHub.com. It’s titled “shit”
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Tom Diethe @tomdiethe.com · 03/06/2025
Heading to Manchester to speak at the @ellis.eu summer school tomorrow, looking forward to it! www.ellismcr.org/ss2025
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Summer School 2025 | Ellis Manchester
ELLIS Manchester Summer School on Machine Learning for Healthcare and Biology
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Tom Diethe @tomdiethe.com · 24/05/2025
🎉 Excited to share that our paper has been accepted for publication! 🚀 The focus is on predicting critical heart failure endpoints using echocardiography by leveraging self-supervised learning. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Exploring interpretable echo analysis using self-supervised parcels
The application of AI for predicting critical heart failure endpoints using echocardiography is a promising avenue to improve patient care and treatme…
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Centre for AI Fundamentals - Manchester @aifunmcr.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Registration is still open for the 2025 ELLIS Manchester Summer School on Machine Learning for Healthcare and Biology, taking place from 2-5 June in Manchester. And we’ve held ticket prices at the same level since our first ELLIS Summer School in 2023. Find out more: www.ellismcr.org/ss2025
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Tom Diethe @tomdiethe.com · 24/05/2025
Looking forward to this one!
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Neil Lawrence @lawrennd.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I first spoke at the #TheAISummit in 2022 at a panel session promoting the CDEI Federated Learning Sandbox. This year I'll be on the Headliners Stage on 11th of June talking about strategic decision making in the age of AI. london.theaisummit.com/speakers/nei...
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Neil Lawrence @lawrennd.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Tomorrow, Tuesday 13th May I'll be on Radio 4 from 9 am for Life Scientific. It will also be available online via BBC Sounds from the first broadcast: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... Thank you @jimalkhalili.bsky.social and #bbcradio4 for inviting me!
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Michael Bronstein @mmbronstein.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Join us in Vienna on Sep 8-10 with an incredible speaker lineup!
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Tom Diethe @tomdiethe.com · 18/04/2025
My mother’s (Carol Diethe) obituary www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Carol Diethe obituary
Other lives: Lecturer in the history of ideas who became one of the UK’s leading Nietzsche scholars
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Simon Olsson @smnlssn.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Check out cool new work from our group in collaboration with Pfizer and AstraZeneca, lead by Julian Cremer and Ross Irwin on FLOWR, a flow-based ligand generation approach, and highly sanitized benchmark dataset, SPINDR, for the SBDD community!
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Tom Diethe @tomdiethe.com · 30/03/2025
When 🛫 and 🛬 are two of your most frequent emojis…
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Tom Diethe @tomdiethe.com · 30/03/2025
Fortrose 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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