ELLIS

ellis.eu

13 October 2026 19:51

🎓 More than 250 students gathered in Tübingen 🇩🇪 for the 50th MLSS, this year's official ELLIS Summer School at @ellisinsttue.bsky.social, where discussions on causality, AI safety, & the future of foundation models took center stage. 🔗 Read the full article & see photos: https://bit.ly/4hUPIy6

Tobias Gerstenberg

tobigerstenberg.bsky.social

13 October 2026 19:51

I'm very excited to share a new preprint with you all (5 years in the making). "Making good decisions with counterfactuals" with Ricky Ma, Scott Mueller, and Thomas Icard. We investigate how people combine experimental and observational data to make decisions. 📃 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Sara Magliacane hiring PhDs in Saarland

smaglia.bsky.social

08 October 2026 10:56

We are hiring a ELLIS PhD student at @saarland-informatics-campus.de on #Causal Representation Learning for #Robotics, co-supervised with @egavves.bsky.social at the University of Amsterdam Apply directly through the ELLIS centralized application portal: ellis.eu/news/ellis-p... Deadline: 31 Oct

TU Dortmund

tu-dortmund.de

02 October 2026 16:25

Wir haben es geschafft! 🎉 @ruhr-uni-bochum.de und TU Dortmund werden künftig als Exzellenzverbund „Ruhr Innovation Lab" gefördert. „Unser Erfolg in der Exzellenzstrategie wird dem gesamten Ruhrgebiet einen Schub geben“, sind sich die Rektoren beider Universitäten einig.

Gautam Kamath

gautamkamath.com

18 September 2026 15:38

Nihar Shah did a heroic experiment for TMLR: he spent 20-25 hours over two weeks interviewing authors of seemingly low-quality submissions about their own papers. He confirmed what we all suspected: people submitting these papers have *no idea* what is going on in them.