My radical suggestion for peer review: Move from nominal pre-publication review to explicit post-publication review. The original reason for peer review was that journal pages are a limited resource, so we need a filter before publication. That no longer makes sense with digital publishing. 1/

You are already producing this data, so contributing costs almost nothing. Next time you roll out a policy, keep the rollouts and send them our way. Our toolkit records, formats, and uploads in a few lines – and we provide an agent skill so Codex/CC can wire it up for you 😉 (7/13)

I've already been doing siesta every day for the past 8 years, didn't you notice?

Maastricht University@maastrichtu.bsky.social · 3w ago

Could a siesta be part of our heatwave strategy? Hannah Pallubinsky says gradual heat exposure, fans and adapting work hours can help the body cope—while air conditioning should be used when needed, not automatically. edu.nl/mfhth What do you think: would Dutch workplaces ever embrace the siesta?

I'm delighted to announce the release of OpenSpiel 2.0! ♟️🎲♦️🎉 Structured types for states, observations, and actions, standard trajectories (based on JSON), 19 new games, AlphaZero ported to JAX, Windows PyPI support, language model fine-tuning examples and an MCP server (demo below 🤩👇)! 🧵 1/N

Check out our work on (offline) RL for insider threat prevention now in Hall A, poster board 2301, at #icml #icml2026!

We appreciate the love ❤️ But limited engagement and few followers on Bsky makes some (not us!) question whether it's worth it Be sure to follow (and share with your ML friends!) if you want to see more updates from ICML!

Marc Lanctot@sharky6000.bsky.social · last mo.

Wow, awesome! Massive thank you to the comms & PR team @icmlconf.bsky.social 🤩 ✅️ Multiple update posts per day ✅️ Posts with photos!! 📷 ✅️ Great use of hash tags #icml2026 ✅️ Schedule and QR links at the local mall ✅️ Setting the gold standard for academic Bluesky 👍 🙏

If you want me to care about reviewing again, you need to do three things: * Stop treating reviewers like villains by default. Every year new threats against reviewers are invented. Authors are never punished for submitting complete garbage.

James MacGlashan@jmac-ai.bsky.social · last mo.

Decouple reviews and curation from publication. Make reviews opt-in from anyone, usually deanonymized, and a contribution in its own right that others use to find good work. Build better social network tooling for discovery. The current game isn't winnable. Let the slop be published, but ignored.

I'll be attending #ICML2026 in Seoul next week. Primarily to cheer on my PhD student presenting our early work on RL-based insider-threat prevention at the DEMO workshop. Possibly also to enjoy Korea a bit... Happy to meet up and chat anything RL, RL for cybersecurity, games, ..

I'll be attending #ICML2026 in Seoul next week. Primarily to cheer on my PhD student presenting our early work on RL-based insider-threat prevention at the DEMO workshop. Possibly also to enjoy Korea a bit... Happy to meet up and chat anything RL, RL for cybersecurity, games, ..

If you’re in Maastricht for WCCi, I will give a tutorial (with Georgios Yannakakis and Jialin Liu) tomorrow

#BoardGames create a universal language, a vehicle for cultural and social transmission across the centuries. Researchers reconstructed the rules of a Roman tabletop game, using #AI with implications extending far beyond antiquity. Image © @waltros.bsky.social #InternationalTabletopDay 🧵 👇️

Still hiring for PhD candidates who are *specifically* excited in building and deploying RL systems for self-driving vehicles and other multi-agent planning settings. Shoot me an email if you think this is you and please help spread the word!

On this beautiful April day, I am proud to share our @harryqbovik.bsky.social (SIGBOVIK 2026) submission "On parallels between Large Language Models and the Black Knight"! Technically we didn't receive acceptance notification yet, but I've never been more sure of a paper's chances than this one.

I know SIGBOVIK papers used to be somewhat welcome (on April 1st) on arXiv, but recently arXiv has also been tightening up on all kinds of policies due to LLM spam. Does this change the arXiv stance on SIGBOVIK papers? @tdietterich.bsky.social @harryqbovik.bsky.social can you advise?

‼️DEADLINE ALERT: March 15th‼️ Associate Professor in System and Network Security at Maastricht University vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastricht-Associate-Professor-in-System-and-Network-Security/1329480557/ #AcademicSky #networksecurity #maastrichtuniversity @maastrichtu.bsky.social

Does anyone know if this article is real? Got a google scholar notification because one of the supposed authors added it to their profile. But... scrolling through it I don't get the impression that this is something that would've been written by these authors :D AI-generated?

SIGBOVIK has a Bluesky now! Follow to learn more cutting-edge research from the world’s most comedic and occasionally scientific academic conference

!! VACANCY ALERT !! The Department of Advanced Computing Sciences (DACS) at Maastricht University currently has 2 open positions: ✨ Postdoctoral Researcher in Symbolic Approaches to Artificial Intelligence: lnkd.in/eh_pHJkw ✨Associate Professor in System and Network Security: lnkd.in/eJPtgtbB

I'm excited to share that @SimonMarkLucas will be one of our keynote speakers for the Computers and Games 2026 conference taking place in June in Maastricht. Keep an eye out on the conference webpage (icga.org?page_id=4105) for when registration opens up at a later date!

AI has helped scientists from Heerlen, Maastricht and Leiden confirm a mysterious Roman stone is a real board game—and even reconstruct its rules nearly 2,000 years later. The discovery pushes strategy games further back in time. Curious to play it yourself? 🎲 Read more: edu.nl/u6cgy #AI

The first issue of the year is out now! Featuring great #archaeology such as: 🎲 Calculating the rules of an unknown Roman board game 🕳️ The purpose of Peru's iconic 'Band of Holes' 🍷 Glass trade from the Roman-Islamic period in Jordan & more! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🏺

Really proud of this work, where we combined traditional archaeological methods and AI simulation to say that yes, this object was more likely than not a game board. How did we do it? I’ll explain 👇👇 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Ludus Coriovalli: using artificial intelligence-driven simulations to identify rules for an ancient board game | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

Ludus Coriovalli: using artificial intelligence-driven simulations to identify rules for an ancient board game - Volume 100 Issue 409

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My work with @eric-piette.bsky.social @dennissoemers.bsky.social et al. using AI-simulated play to identify rules that produce piece movement that matches use-wear patterns on an object from Roman Coriovallum is getting picked up in the popular press 😁

Scientific American@sciam.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A Roman stone board game has been unplayable since its discovery more than a century ago, but AI might have just worked out the rules

The lines worn into an engraved limestone object from the Netherlands are consistent with the idea that it was a Roman game board, according to an AI analysis

Is this carved rock an ancient Roman board game?

The lines worn into an engraved limestone object from the Netherlands are consistent with the idea that it was a Roman game board, according to an AI analysis

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It is my pleasure to share that @togelius.bsky.social will be one of our keynote speakers at this year's Computers and Games (CG 2026) conference! There is still some time until the paper submission deadline (February 20). Get your papers in and come see him in Maastricht, on June 20!

#ICML2026 authors, if you can flatten the curve on @arxiv.bsky.social submissions, the cs.LG moderators would really appreciate it. Today we have 4 times the usually number of submissions. Please select a random number between 1 and 14 and wait that number of days to submit! :-) #mlsky

The largest Trump superPAC donor so far this cycle is the president of OpenAI

What is wild to me is the defense, BY THE NEURIPS BOARD, that fabricated citations do not mean "the content of the papers themselves [is] necessarily invalidated" It does. It very much does. What do you think citing other work is for? What do you think writing a paper is for? What do you *think*?

Sharon Goldman@sharongoldman.bsky.social · 7mo ago

NEW: NeurIPS,one of the world’s top academic AI conferences, accepted research papers with 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims fortune.com/2026/01/21/n...

Note that we are a bit more than 4 weeks away from the submission deadline for this year's Computers and Games conference (CG 2026). This year will be the first time since 2018 that this conference will be organised on-site again, specifically: in Maastricht, on June 19 and 20!

Do you want to run a competition at the IEEE conference on Games? Apply now: cog2026.fdi.ucm.es/cfc.html IEEE COG is a conference with a long tradition of running #Game / #AI / and related competitions. See the call for a range of possible topics Please share with interested parties.