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Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina @leopoldina.org · 05/10/2026

✨Große Ehre für die Leopoldina-Mitglieder Paul Hegemann und Karl Deisseroth. Zusammen mit Georg Nagel haben sie den Nobelpreis für Physiologie oder Medizin 2026 erhalten. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! ➡️ www.leopoldina.org/newsroom/nac...

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Peter Hegemann und Karl Deisseroth erhalten Nobelpreis für Physiologie oder Medizin 2026

Karl Deisseroth und Peter Hegemann, beide Mitglieder der Leopoldina, erhalten den Nobelpreis für Physiologie oder Medizin 2026. Ihnen wird die Auszeichnung gemeinsam mit Georg Nagel für ihre Entdeckun...

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ExplainableML @eml-munich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We will have two poster presentations and one workshop poster at #ECCV2026 in Malmö🇸🇪! Please come and say hi if you are interested in topics related to multi-modal learning. Details in the thread👇

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Alireza Modirshanechi @modirshanechi.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Excited to share that I'll be starting as a junior professor and Emmy Noether awardee at the University of Göttingen this October! 🥳 🚀 I'll be hiring #phd students and #postdoc across #machinelearning, #neuroscience and #cogsci: modirlab.github.io/open-positio... Please spread the word! 🙏

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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

We are looking for PhD students to start as soon as possible. Application deadline is August 10. Please apply, please share 🙂

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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher who wants to innovate at the intersection of cognitive science, neuroscience, and machine learning. 📍Munich 📅Flexible start: 10/2026–03/2027 ⏳Full consideration by 14/08/2026 💼Funded for 2 years, extension possible Discover, grow, collaborate, eat cake.

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ExplainableML @eml-munich.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

#ICML2026 kicks off in three days! We're excited to be presenting eight papers at the main conference this year. See the thread below for each paper, plus presentation times and locations 👇 Talk to our authors if you are interested!

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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This one feels special ❤️ Our group has 8 papers at ICML main track this year, and I’ll be attending ICML in Seoul — my first ICML after 10 years, a pandemic and two children. So proud of the team and excited to be back!

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Marcel Binz @marcelbinz.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Excited to announce that I'll be starting my own lab in Tübingen this October! Hiring at all levels: Postdoc, PhD & RA. Want to work on computational cognitive science at scale? Apply: core-cognition.github.io Reposts and shares much appreciated 🙏

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Meghal Dani @meghaldani.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

A medical LLM can give the right answer for the wrong reasons. Delighted our work is now published in Nature Communications Medicine — evaluating 8 LLMs on 1,269 unstructured seizure descriptions, with a practical guideline to use AI in clinical setup 🧵 doi.org/10.1038/s438...

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Evaluating large language models for diagnostic reasoning from unstructured clinical narratives in epilepsy - Communications Medicine

Dani et al. investigate the potential and limitation of large language models in a core clinical task in epilepsy care: mapping seizure descriptions to seizure onset zones. Their findings show that pr...

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ExplainableML @eml-munich.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Happy to share that we have 3 papers accepted (one oral) at #CVPR2026, see you in Denver! Please see the thread for details👇

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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

If you are attending #ICLR2026, please come and say hi to our group members presenting the papers 👇

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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

We are looking forward to innovating with this massive compute support from @fz-juelich.de 🎉

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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Thank you! Great to be a part of relAI!

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ExplainableML @eml-munich.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

🥳Happy to share that we have three papers accepted to #ICLR2026. Congrats to our authors and see you in Rio🌴🇧🇷. Check the thread for highlights👇

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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

🚨 PI positions with an excellent package at Helmholtz Munich (deadline January 11). Please apply, please share! jobs.helmholtz-muenchen.de/jobposting/8...

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Principal Investigators (f/m/x) for (i) AI in Biomedicine and (ii) AI Foundations

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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

We are celebrating our #NeurIPS2025 and #EurIPS2025 contributions below 🎊

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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

We are looking for PhD students via the @ellis.eu and @munichcenterml.bsky.social PhD programs!

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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

What if your CBM actually doesn’t look at attributes when it explains the classification decision? We suggest to use this dataset and method to generate realistic images with unusual attributes to stress-test explainability methods. @jessica-bader.bsky.social is at ICCV to talk to you about it!

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ExplainableML @eml-munich.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Are you at #ICCV2025? 🎉 @iccv.bsky.social EML Munich is presenting two poster papers—come say hi to our authors! Details in the thread 👇

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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

We got two papers of two orthogonal methods for interpretability and one paper of a GenAI method at @neuripsconf.bsky.social 2025 🔥 Please checkout the details in the thread below.

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Martin Trapp @trappmartin.eurosky.social · 18/09/2025

Unfortunately, our submission to #NeurIPS didn’t go through with (5,4,4,3). But because I think it’s an excellent paper, I decided to share it anyway. We show how to efficiently apply Bayesian learning in VLMs, improve calibration, and do active learning. Cool stuff! 📝 arxiv.org/abs/2412.06014

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Post-hoc Probabilistic Vision-Language Models

Vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP and SigLIP, have found remarkable success in classification, retrieval, and generative tasks. For this, VLMs deterministically map images and text descripti...

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Ulrike Luxburg @ulrikeluxburg.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I am hiring PhD students and/or Postdocs, to work on the theory of explainable machine learning. Please apply through Ellis or IMPRS, deadlines end october/mid november. In particular: Women, where are you? Our community needs you!!! imprs.is.mpg.de/application ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...

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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I am very sorry to hear this 😓

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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

It is an honor to receive the ZukunftsWissen award from the German National Academy of the Sciences @leopoldina.org and Commerzbank-Stiftung 😊🙏🎉

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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Yes, you are right, we don’t know the official numbers yet. I was assuming that it is already 25%, but perhaps it is higher still.

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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Yes, I think so too. But I don’t think this is a good idea. 25-30% is already a rather low acceptance rate.

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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I am not sure. With the increasing number of submissions, to keep the number of accepted papers the same (due to space constraints), the acceptance rate needs to drop. This is how I read the email.

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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

There are so many alternative solutions: half a poster space, an alternative official location, remote presentation with physical presentation in an alternative location, just a remote presentation etc.

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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Due to physical resource constraints, we currently estimate that around 300–400 of the candidate papers recommended for acceptance by the ACs will need to be rejected. We seek the support of our 41 SACs in addressing this distributed optimization problem in a fair and professional manner.

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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

NeurIPS has decided to do what ICLR did: As a SAC I received the message 👇 This is wrong! If the review process cannot handle so many papers, the conference needs yo split instead of arbitrarily rejecting 400 papers.

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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Congratulations Karsten @confusezius.bsky.social for a wonderful PhD journey that ended with a summa cum laude 🎉 It is rare that a PhD researcher creates a paradigm shift in a research group: I am grateful for everything that I learned from you 😉 Best of luck at Google DM in Zurich!

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Ulrike Luxburg @ulrikeluxburg.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I love the #eurips initiative! But to live up to its potential, it should be accepted an official #neurips conference location (similar to Mexico City) and not just an addon! Then we would save C02, rather than adding to it!!! What can we do to achieve this?

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Lukas Thede @lukasthede.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

🚨 Poster at #ICML2025! How can LLMs really keep up with the world? Come by E-2405 on July 15th (4:30–7:00pm) to check out WikiBigEdit – our new benchmark to test lifelong knowledge editing in LLMs at scale. 🔗 Real-world updates 📈 500k+ QA edits 🧠 Editing vs. RAG vs. CL

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simonroschmann.bsky.social @simonroschmann.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

How can we circumvent data scarcity in the time series domain? We propose to leverage pretrained ViTs (e.g., CLIP, DINOv2) for time series classification and outperform time series foundation models (TSFMs). 📄 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2506.08641 💻 Code: github.com/ExplainableM...

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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

It is a great honor to receive the ZukunftsWissen Prize 2025 from the German Academy of the Sciences @leopoldina.org with generous support of the commerzbank foundation 🎉 This achievement wouldn’t have been possible without my wonderful group @eml-munich.bsky.social @tum.de @helmholtz.de

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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

From classification to retrieval to generative models compositionality has been central to @shyamgopal.bsky.social‘s PhD. Congratulations to Shyam’s very successful journey 🎉 We are looking forward to his upcoming PhD defense next week in Tübingen!

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ExplainableML @eml-munich.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

📢 Landed in Nashville🎺 for #CVPR2025! The EML group is presenting 4 exciting papers — come say hi at our poster sessions! More details in the thread — see you there! 🏁🌟

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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

We are looking forward to Leonard Salewski’s PhD defense soon! 🎉 Leonard has done some interesting research on explainable AI as well as impersonation in (multimodal) LLMs, details below 👇

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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

We are looking forward to Thomas Hummel‘s @hummelth.bsky.social PhD defense soon. If you are looking for experts in video action recognition or retrieval, he is to be contacted 😉

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ExplainableML @eml-munich.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

🚨 Happy to announce that one paper, "Understanding the Limits of Lifelong Knowledge Editing in LLMs", is accepted at #icml2025 ! Congrats to @lukasthede.bsky.social , @confusezius.bsky.social , Matthias Bethge, @zeynepakata.bsky.social , and @tomhartvigsen.bsky.social . 👇 Highlights in the thread

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Elif Akata @elifakata.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Our paper is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🎉 We use games from behavioural economics to explore how LLMs behave in repeated social interactions, revealing both self-interested strengths and coordination blind spots, and propose strategies to improve AI-human collaboration.

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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Our second PhD spotlight, Jae Myung Kim is about to complete his PhD within the @ellis.eu and IMPRS-IS PhD programs, big congratulations to Jae Myung 🎈🎊🎉

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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

One week left to apply, so please do... 😀

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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

@eml-munich.bsky.social is going to @cvprconference.bsky.social🎉 Checkout our papers below 👇

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