No, It’s Not Back to Business as Usual Marco Rubio was more civil than J. D. Vance had been, but the message to longtime allies was the same.

No, it's not "back to business as usual."

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The ‘world order’ didn’t collapse bc Russia invaded Ukraine. It collapsed because the free world chose not to stop them.
By refusing to use our wealth & power to defend even a European democracy, we showed dictators everywhere that aggression pays.
That was the death blow. We did this to ourselves.

Federal agents with weapons drawn, moments before murdering American citizens on the streets of Minneapolis at the dawn of 2026.

What should academics be doing right now?

I have been writing up some thoughts on what the research says about effective action, and what universities specifically can do.

davidbau.github.io/poetsandnurs...

It's on GitHub. Suggestions and pull requests welcome.
github.com/davidbau/poe...

Yikes

We have two open PhD positions at the interface of AI and ecology. Start dates are Sept 2026.

We are looking for candidates with a background in AI/CS, Math, Stats, or Physics that are passionate about solving challenging problems in these domains. 

Application deadline is in two weeks.

What’s your take - how do engineers reconcile their liberal views with working e.g. for xAI?

You know what season it is! Right. Internship application season.

Niantic Spatial is offering research internships on a multitude of 3D vision topics: relocalization, reconstruction, 3D VLMs... Top tier papers regularly come out of our internships 🚀

nianticspatial.careers.hibob.com/jobs/0fc4871...

Don’t these applications usually contain quite a lot of sensitive data (e.g. addresses)? These are all sent to some VLM?

Come work with my team in Sweden on machine learning for remote sensing and urban climate resilience! www.ri.se/sv/om-rise/j...

The Computer Vision for Ecology Workshop at @iccv.bsky.social is starting soon!! All day in 323B, see you there!!

Interested in doing a PhD in machine learning at the University of Edinburgh starting Sept 2026?

My group works on topics in vision, machine learning, and AI for climate.

For more information and details on how to get in touch, please check out my website:
homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/omacaod

But is it really a strategy? Or is the entire foreign policy just based on ‘vibes’ from a person cult around delusional narcissistic guy who just incoherently rambles about whatever comes to his mind?

Calling hidden prompts for LLMs ‘bribery’ is overshoots the goal. If we want every paper to be “digestible” by an LLM, we “enable” LLM reviews. Then, there is an incentive to write (with meaningless changes or not) in a way that LLMs give favourable reviews to, instead of writing for humans.

Not sure if “bribing a reviewer” is the right comparison. Is it not literally more like asking for a good review?

But isn’t the real scientific misconduct reviewers who use LLMs for review? Of course hidden prompts in papers are questionable, but they don’t detract from the scientific results/progress like the opposing player (LLM reviews). Under normal circumstances, these prompts have no effect whatsoever

AWESOME JOB OPPORTUNITY: Tenure-Track Position - Coral Ecology & Diversity (Green Island Marine Research Station, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

biodiv.tw/joinus-20250...

#coralreefs #jobs #jobopportunity #coralecology #coraldiversity #coral #tenuretrack #academia #careers #careerdevelopment #marine

The return of Abrego-Garcia to face due process in the US, after Trump officials swore he would never ever return to the US, is a reminder that politics matters and pressure works.

Don’t give up. Don’t let the fascists relax.

PhD Student in Machine Learning - RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB Do you want to use your expertise in AI to help build a greener future?

Come do your PhD at RISE Lund with myself and Prof. Yifang Ban as supervisors!

You will not only contribute to advancing state-of-the-art ML for Earth observation data — you'll also work hands-on with real-world use cases with diverse project stakeholders.

career.ri.se/en-GB/jobs/5...

Can only be described as regime propaganda

For those in Switzerland (especially Zürich) - I strongly encourage you to go to the World Press Photo exhibition in the Landesmuseum.

Like every year, it's completely soul-crushing, but so important. I have so much admiration for these photographers.

www.worldpressphoto.org/calendar/202...

The call for applications has just been released for #CV4Ecology2026!! This three-week intensive program trains ecologists and conservation practitioners to develop their own AI tools for their own data.

When: Jan 12-30, 2026
Where: SCBI @smconservation.bsky.social

📢 We have a PR[AI]RIE PhD position opening at Inria Paris co-advised with R. de Charette & @tuanhungvu.bsky.social
[please distribute]
💡Topic: Physics-Grounded Vision Foundation Models
⏳Application deadline: 20 May 2025
🗓️ Start date: Fall 2025
📝Detailed description: linked below

I’ll be speaking at the upcoming Learning Machines seminar, tune in on May 8th 15:00 CET to hear about ML/RS for biomass estimation 🌳🛰️💻

Scientists warn coral restoration can’t keep pace with global reef collapse Coral restoration won’t save reefs from global warming, according to a recent study – at least, not the way we’re doing it now. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Helsinki and pu...

Scientists: there’s only one solution to save coral reefs. “…coral restoration should not be used as a distraction from very-much-needed global actions to reduce carbon emissions and slow down planetary warming.” @MongabayOrg news.mongabay.com/2025/04/scie...

We're looking for a motivated PhD student to join the ECEO Lab at EPFL Valais to work on multi-modal foundation models for earth observation! 🌍🛰️💻🤓

Come work with us under the supervision of Prof. Devis Tuia!

careers.epfl.ch/job/Sion-PhD...

Here's the link to the quick and dirty script to do this: github.com/josauder/cor...

Using the Coralscapes dataset, it becomes easy to transfer semantic information directly into 3D point clouds! Here's an example of a few images from a simple camera being used to make a semantic point cloud of an entire transect! #deeplearning #ai #coral #ai4conservation

to quote a colleague quoting a goose: “alignment to what? alignment to what??”

This has been a colossal effort from the team: data acquisition, 1500+ hours of expert annotation, and thorough benchmarking! 🤓

A big thank you to my co-authors @viktordo.bsky.social, Guilhem Banc-Prandi, Gabriela Perna, Anders Meibom, Devis Tuia, and all members and partners of the @trsc_org!