ELLIS x UniReps Speaker Series on the phenomenon of representational alignment
🎓 Next ELLIS x @unireps.bsky.social session on 'When, How, and Why Do Neural Models Learn Similar Representations?'
Speakers: João Sacramento (Google) & Paul Friedrich (University of Zurich)
📅 April 29
⏰ 16:00 CET
📍 Virtual
🔗 More info: https://bit.ly/4vLa6rx
Priority registration for ELLIS network PhD students to the ELLIS Doctoral Symposium at @istecnico.bsky.social in Lisbon closes this Sunday - don't forget to register early to secure your place!
🔗 Register here: lnkd.in/deCU6KSp
🔗 More information: lnkd.in/d7spq8pW
ICLR 2026: ELLIS Member & PhD Students Contributions
#ICLR2026: ELLIS-affiliated researchers contribute to 11.1% of all accepted papers, highlighting the scientific strength of the network.
👏 Huge congratulations to all authors!
👉 check out the full list of contributions: ellis.eu/news/iclr-2026-ellis-mem...
🎉 25 ELLIS Units have been successfully extended!
Following our five-year reapplication process, we celebrate the sustained excellence these Units bring to European AI research. Congratulations to all! 👏
📖 Get more details: ellis.eu/news/25-elli...
Apply now: AI for Research Summer School in August at @aalto.fi. Focusing on fundamental and applied AI methods for accelerating discovery across scientific domains. For students, postdocs, academics in AI+ML, especially @ellis.eu members.
Apply by May 20: www.ellisinstitute.fi/ellis-summer...
🎓 Register now for LxMLS!
Co-organised by @ellisunitlisbon.bsky.social, covering ML topics from theory to practice.
Designed for researchers and grad students in #NLProc & comp. linguistics, computer scientists & industry
📍 Lisbon 🇵🇹
📅 20-25 July
⏰ Register by 29 April
🔗 https://lxmls.it.pt/2026/
🚀 Applications are open for LxMLS 2026!
Join us July 20–25 at Instituto Superior Tecnico in Lisbon for a 6-day, in-person deep dive into ML & NLP.
📅 Deadline: April 29th
👉 Apply: lisbonmls.wufoo.com/forms/applic...
🔗 More info: lxmls.it.pt/2026/
📢 Nominations are open for the ELLIS PhD Award!
Know an outstanding AI/ML researcher who defended their European dissertation in 2025? Nominate them for a €2,500 award, sponsored by Kühborth Stiftung GmbH.
⏰ Deadline: April 15, 2026
🔗 Full details: ellis.eu/research/phd...
#PhDAward #AI
Join us next Monday for our ML & NLP seminar with @swabhs.bsky.social from @usc.edu!
"Small Samples, Big Reveal: What can we learn from limited observations of language model behavior?"
🗓️ 30th Mar @ 5pm (WEST)
💻 Online: meet.google.com/sat-airk-gxj
We look forward to welcoming Jonas Hübotter from @ethz.ch to the next ELLIS & Sardine Lab seminar on ML & NLP! Jonas will present his work on "Rethinking Post-Training with Self-Distillation". Join us!
📅 16th of March 2026, 5pm (WET)
💻 Online - lnkd.in/eSGqRVbu
🔵🔴You want to see a specific presenter at the ELLIS x UniReps Speaker Series? We hear you! 👀
Fill in this form to nominate keynote speaker candidates:
🔗 forms.gle/rQjkZ1YVWLwj...
🎓ELLIS PhD students: join us in Lisbon 🇵🇹 for #EDS2026 on Trustworthy AI on July 27–30.
4 days of talks, posters & discussion with peers & senior researchers from across the ELLIS network. @ellisunitlisbon.bsky.social
🔗 Registration open → sites.google.com/view/eds2026...
⏰ First deadline: April 26
We’re excited to host Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre from the @bsc-cns.bsky.social for our next ELLIS & Sardine Lab Seminar on ML and NLP. He will talk about "Unlocking the Potential of Multilingual Language Models". Join us!
🗓 2nd March 2026
⏰ 5pm (WET)
💻 Online: lnkd.in/eSGqRVbu
📢The next UniReps x @ellis.eu speaker series event is happening on 26 February at 4:00 PM CET with Antonio Orvieto and Sara Kangaslahti. Don’t miss it!🚀
AI for Good Webinar Series 'From Molecules to Models' - today with Mario Figueiredo on 'The why of AI: Uncovering cause and effect in observational data'.
💬 AI for Good Webinar Series 'From Molecules to Models' - today with @marfig.bsky.social on 'The why of AI: Uncovering cause and effect in observational data'.
📅 Wed, Feb 18th
🕓 16:00-17:00 CET
🔗 Registration: https://bit.ly/4c7je2i
ℹ️ More info: https://bit.ly/47Qclim
💬The upcoming AI for Good Webinar Series - with @marfig.bsky.social ( @istecnico.bsky.social) and Arnout Devos (@ellis.eu, @eth-ai-center.bsky.social) on "The why of AI: Uncovering cause and effect in observational data"
📅 Wed, Feb 18th
🕓 16:00-17:00 CET
🔗Register: aiforgood.itu.int/event/the-wh...
Tune in to our ML & NLP seminar next monday to hear Federico Bianchi from Together AI talk about "Learning to Discover at Test Time".
📅 16th Feb, 5 pm (WET)
🔗 online: lnkd.in/eSGqRVbu
🔗 more info: lnkd.in/diMpUD57
📣 Upcoming Workshop! Join the ELIAS, ELLIOT & ENFIELD TDW on Trustworthy AI to explore the technical, ethical, & environmental challenges of deploying reliable, fair, and sustainable AI systems.
📅 Mar 6
📍 Paris/Hybrid
🔗 https://bit.ly/4bMMiME
@elliot-eu.bsky.social · @horizonenfield.bsky.social
👇 Happening today at 5pm Lisbon time - don't miss it!
Join us online: meet.google.com/sat-airk-gxj
📢 Our next ELLIS and Sardine Lab seminar will take place this upcoming Monday, with Gonçalo Faria from the University of Washington talking about "Rethinking Test-Time Alignment for Language Models".
📅 2nd of February, 5pm (WET)
💻 Online - shared on the day
🔗 More info: lnkd.in/diMpUD57
Looking ahead to a joined workshop with @elsa-ai.eu & EMBL on how to make AI systems in healthcare trustworthy by design - from privacy & fairness to robustness & clinical use.
📅 March 9th @ EMBL Heidelberg
📝 Poster submissions open until Jan 26
Register here: elsa-ai.eu/elsa-worksho...
Check out the next session of the ELLIS-@elliot-eu.bsky.social Reading Group on Human-Centric Machine Learning. Topic/Title: "Vision-Language Models Do Not Understand Negation"
📅 Jan 22nd
📍 Virtual
🔗 https://bit.ly/4sSkIUk
Link for today's talk meet.google.com/sat-airk-gxj
📣 Call for posters for @elsa-ai.eu TrustworthyAI4Health Workshop co-located w/ @embl.org AI & Biology Conference, on topics that advance reliable, clinically aligned AI systems across diverse data modalities and healthcare environments.
📅 Mar 9
📍 Heidelberg 🇩🇪
🔗 https://bit.ly/4pEK3OK
#EESAIBio
📢 Next Monday our ML & NLP seminars welcome Ammar Khairi and Julia Kreutzer from @cohereforai.bsky.social who will talk about Optimizing Multilingual Performance.
📅 19th January, 5pm (WET)
💻 Join us online - link will be shared on the day and posted on the website.
🔗 More info: lnkd.in/diMpUD57
Instituto Superior Técnico participates in the development of ‘EuroLLM-22B’, an open LLM developed within the scope of a European consortium for research into AI.
🔗 Full article: tinyurl.com/4e5df8eu
#TécnicoULisboa #ULisboa
📢The first UniReps x @ellis.eu speaker series in 2026 is coming!
Come join us on 15th January at 1 pm CET with
@noagarciad.bsky.social and @thwiedemer.bsky.social !
🎬 EurIPS & ELLIS UnConference aftermovie - Relive the first @euripsconf.bsky.social in Copenhagen, a community-driven, NeurIPS-endorsed milestone for Europe’s AI community.
👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PaC...
📖 More: ellis.eu/news/eurips-...
⏰ Last call to host #EurIPS2026: ellis.eu/news/eurips-...
The team behind EuroLLM-22B
𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗟𝗟𝗠-𝟮𝟮𝗕 launched: fully open 22B multilingual LLM for all EU languages, built by a Europe-wide consortium (ELLIS involved), incl. @andre-t-martins.bsky.social (@ellisunitlisbon.bsky.social)
ℹ️ Learn more & access the model:
🔗 https://bit.ly/4pIYVMK
🔗 https://bit.ly/4j33XRI
🎉 Congratulations to the team: @istecnico.bsky.social, @itnewspt.bsky.social, @ellis.eu, @sorbonne-universite.fr, @univparissaclay.bsky.social, University of Amsterdam, University of Edinburgh, Aveni, Unbabel, NaverLabs
