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@twiml.bsky.social · last mo.

📌 Save the date: Career Tables by TWiML This edition focuses on the gap between academia and industry. Join us on October 14th in Tübingen (Maria-von-Linden-Str. 1) for an afternoon of small-table conversations over lunch with people who’ve worked on both sides.

What a day at #CyberValleyDay2026! 🚀 Congratulations to 10 years of this inspiring AI network! We were proud to organize the Start-up Basecamp, bringing startups, researchers, investors and industry together.

Tomorrow's ELLIS Distinguished Lecture: @philipphennig.bsky.social (@tuebingen-ai.bsky.social) on Probabilistic Numerics: the rigid skeleton for AI-centric science. On Zoom and at LUT University. ➡️ www.ellisinstitute.fi/ellis-distin... @ellis.eu @csaalto.bsky.social @univhelsinkics.bsky.social

We’re proud to see our alumnus Marius Hobbhahn, founder of Apollo Research, featured in The Guardian’s exploration of AI deception and the urgent work of AI safety. Read the article: www.theguardian.com/news/2026/se... #AISafety #AIResearch #Alumni

‘If you build something vastly smarter than you, it better be on your side’: can we stop AI from deceiving us?

The long read: We are used to the idea that our fellow humans might intentionally mislead or manipulate us, but the idea that machines can now do the same is deeply unsettling. Researchers are racing ...

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[1/6] 🚨 We’re releasing LAION-BVD: a 10-million-hour open video dataset for multimodal pre-training. - 1.3B video URLs from CommonCrawl - 80M downloaded videos - 10M video hours - 55M captioned clips - 300M frame-caption pairs 🌐: projects.laion.ai/bvd/ 🧵👇

On September 9, Cyber Valley is celebrating its ten-year anniversary with Cyber Valley Day! 🚀 Keynotes from leading AI & robotics researchers. 🚀 An exhibition presenting the excellent research from Cyber Valley. 🚀 Networking with high-ranking guests. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.de/e/cyber-vall...

Cyber Valley Day 2026

Celebrating ten years of the Cyber Valley Innovation Campus!

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1 week until submissions close for ATTRIB at @neuripsconf.bsky.social in Sydney! Working on data attribution, provenance, or their applications? We would love to see your work. 📅 Deadline: 1 Sep AOE 📝 Main track: 3–6 pages 💡 Idea track: 2–4 pages 🔗 Submit: openreview.net/group?id=Neu...

Elisa Nguyen@elinguyen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The ATTRIB workshop is back at @neuripsconf.bsky.social 2026 (Sydney) in its 3rd edition! This year's focus: data attribution and provenance. -> Submissions open Aug 1, Deadline Sep 1 (AOE). More info: attrib-workshop.cc

Startup news from Tübingen! SOO happy for 🎉 Ontic Labs and Feyer, who have been selected for @SPRIND's Next Frontier AI Challenge. As two of just ten teams across Europe, they'll each receive €3 million to develop their companies. Congratulations to everyone involved! 🚀 tuebingen.ai/news/breakth...

Breakthrough for two University of Tübingen AI startups

Ontic Labs and Feyer each to receive three million euros as they reach second round of Europe-wide competition

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🚗 KE:SAI got their own car for data collection and, once we have a permit, policy testing! Read more at: kesai.eu/blog/2026-07...

Philipp Hennig @philipphennig.bsky.social has been appointed Director of the Tübingen AI Center, joining Matthias Bethge @bethgelab.bsky.social and Bernhard Schölkopf in leading the Center. tuebingen.ai/news/philipp...

Philipp Hennig Appointed Director of the Tübingen AI Center

The Tübingen AI Center is pleased to announce the appointment of Philipp Hennig as Director. He joins Matthias Bethge and Co-Director Bernhard Schölkopf in leading the Center.

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Ready for a research stay in beautiful Ljubljana? Collaborate with the JSI ELLIOT team in Slovenia on cutting-edge multimodal auto-fine-tuning and AI debiasing. Help us make adapting large models cheaper, faster and fairer for everyone! 🔗 Apply here: www.elliot-ai.eu/mobility-pro...

If your morale is waning over last minute paper submission or a complicated draft proposal - check out this charming report of this unlikely lab member over at @mpicybernetics.bsky.social:

Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics@mpicybernetics.bsky.social · 4mo ago

An unlikely lab member with a ‘dogtorate’ in morale management: Meet Zazil, the rescue dog in the Translational Sensory and Circadian Neuroscience lab. She taught everyone a thing or two about resilience and persistence. 🔗 www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.... #LabCulture #LabLife #WorkCulture

We are recruiting several Early Career Research Group Leaders for Machine Learning in Science (m/f/d; E14 TV-L, 100%) in Tübingen! Open to researchers directly after their PhD or with postdoctoral experience. Application deadline: July 15, 2026. More info: uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2... 1/2

Eyewire II is a great research project from @philipp.hertie.ai's lab and international collaborators! Read @janlause.bsky.social's thread to find out more👇

Jan Lause@janlause.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Meet Eyewire II: a new connectomic resource for the mouse retina. ~1 mm² of retina at nanometer resolution, with synapses and circuits of ca. 100,000 neurons, plus visual responses from the ~400 neurons shown in the video! Preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202... Data: eyewire.ai 🧠📈 🧠💻🧪 #VisionScience

Check out this new article on the work of the ELIAS Alliance, quoting our co-head Matthias Bethge and PI @andreasgeiger.bsky.social: www.deutschland.de/en/topic/bus...

When the forest breaks down, this AI system will raise the alarm

Across Europe, the ELIAS Alliance is networking AI researchers in the areas of sustainability and ethics. Three of its eight hubs are based in Germany.

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Missed the deadline? You’re in luck! 🚨 👉 Deadline Extended: Friday, 12 June! Last call to dive into robust, multimodal AI for autonomous driving! 🏎️✨ 👇 Apply before Friday! pages.cvc.uab.es/ssadriving/ @ellis.eu @valeoai.bsky.social @uab.cat

ELLIOT Project@elliot-eu.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The future of Autonomous Driving is heading to Barcelona! 🏎️🏙️ Supported by ELLIOT, this ELLIS Summer School allows researchers to learn from experts and build new collaborations over four intensive days. 🚀 Apply by 8 June! ⏳ pages.cvc.uab.es/ssadriving/ @ellis.eu @valeoai.bsky.social @uab.cat

KE:SAI has been (briefly) featured in ZDF Länderspiegel! Watch here (starting at 17:00, in German): www.zdf.de/video/magazi...

Also featuring: our PI @andreasgeiger.bsky.social's new AI start-up @kesai.eu:

Cyber Valley@cyber-valley.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📢 Our CEO, Florian Mayer, talked to the ZDF last week. Check out the short feature in ZDF Länderspiegel - together with KE:SAI @kesai.eu - (starting at Min. 17:00) in German "Südwestens Industrie unter Druck - Wie sich das Ländle umorientiert" 👉 www.zdf.de/play/magazin...

Can you trust AI chatbots with medical advice? In our latest blog post, Carsten Eickhoff (@health-nlp.com), Professor for E-Health and Medical Data Science, puts recent research on AI chatbots in healthcare into context: www.machinelearningforscience.de/en/half-of-a... #DigitalHealth #HealthcareAI

Half of AI health answers are wrong even though they sound convincing – new study — MACHINE LEARNING for science

AI chatbot health advice may sound convincing, but its content can be deeply problematic. In this article, Carsten Eickhoff, Professor for E-Health and Medical Data Science, puts the findings of the l...

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Congratulations for your successful launch and welcome in our building, @kesai.eu team! 🎊👍

KE:SAI - Kyutai ELLIS Scalable Autonomous Intelligence@kesai.eu · 5mo ago

Today @kyutai-labs.bsky.social and @ellisinsttue.bsky.social launch @kesai.eu! Robot learning is bottlenecked by the cost of physical interaction. Our mission is to advance the efficiency frontier of robust & safe physical AI through fully open and reproducible research. kesai.eu/blog/2026-05...

ELLIOT is proud to support the 6th Workshop on Bias and Fairness in AI (#BIAS2026) in Naples, part of @ecmlpkdd.org. 📝 Call for Papers is OPEN! Whether it’s novel research or a short abstract, help us shape the future of trustworthy AI. ⏳ Submit by 5 June: elliot-ai.eu/events/6th-w...

Congratulations!

ML for Science@ml4science.bsky.social · 5mo ago

By combining the latest imaging techniques with #AI, the project could revolutionize our understanding of visual information processing in the brain and help develop new treatments for eye diseases. Read more: uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/... Photos: F. Albrecht/Uni Tübingen, Elia Schmid (2/2)

#JobAlert at the Tübingen AI Center 🚀 Looking for a role that keeps a leading AI research hub running smoothly? We’re seeking a Facilities & Operations Coordinator: A hands-on position at the intersection of organization, infrastructure, and collaboration. 👉 Apply: tuebingen.ai/careers/faci...

How do early-stage AI ideas move closer to real-world impact? At the Tübingen AI Center, it’s about more than research: building the right ecosystem, connecting talent, and supporting the path from idea to application. Curious how this works in practice? Take a look 👇

It’s time to take your research across borders! ✈️ Discover the ELLIOT Mobility Initiative in this poster presentation by Damar Hoogland (JSI). Learn who can participate, how it works, and how to get involved in our knowledge exchange! Ready to apply? www.elliot-ai.eu/mobility-pro...

🎉 Applications are open for MLSS 2026 — the 50th edition of the Machine Learning Summer School! Join us in Tübingen for world-class lectures, hands-on sessions, and an amazing ML community. 🧠 Apply now 👉 mlss2026.is.tuebingen.mpg.de #MLSS2026 #MachineLearning #SummerSchool #ML

We're excited to welcome our 2026 AIMS Fellows: Ndim Handson Nsani, Arlette Musanabera, Vongai Mitchell Makuwaza, Dzodzoenyenye Senanou and Benedict Ositadinma Ejelonu have recently arrived in Tübingen and started their nine-month research visit. We wish them a productive and rewarding stay!

Check out the exciting use cases of multimodal generalist foundation models our consortium works on with @elliot-eu.bsky.social :

ELLIOT Project@elliot-eu.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Curious about what’s behind ELLIOT? 👀 Our new presentation brings it all together, from who we are and what we’re building to the challenges we’re tackling in AI. Take a look 👇 cms.elliot-ai.eu/assets/promo...

What does it take to move ELLIOT forward? 📈 This March, partners from across Europe came together to share progress, exchange ideas and align on what’s next. Take a look behind the scenes! 👀