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CSMB Fellow – Faculty – Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences Promoting and advancing molecular understanding of biology

✨ Call for Nominations – CSMB Fellows Program! ✨
The Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences (CSMB) is proud to announce that nominations are now open for the CSMB Fellows Program.
Deadline: January 15, 2026.
Learn more & nominate ➡️ csmb-scbm.ca/membership/c...
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Membres honoraires de la SCBM – Corps professoral – Société canadienne pour les biosciences moléculaires Promotion et avancement de la compréhension moléculaire de la biologie

✨Appel de candidatures – Membres honoraires de la SCBM !✨
La Société canadienne de biosciences moléculaires (SCBM) est fière d’annoncer l’appel des candidatures pour le programme de membres honoraires de la SCBM.
Date limite : 15 janvier 2026.
Détails ➡️ csmb-scbm.ca/fr/devenez-m...
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Example of the functioning of our Speech Concept Bottleneck Models #SCBM

📄https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2025.104309

#XAI #explainability #interpretability #ML #AI #hatespeech #hate #counterspeech #toxic

📊 Results:
✅ #SCBM balance interpretability & performance
✅ They achieve (or surpass) state-of-the-art results
✅ Compete even with large #Transformers

✨ What’s inside?
🔹 Distilling knowledge from #LLMs into transparent #SCBM
🔹 Using domain-specific human-understandable adjectives as concepts
🔹 A novel class-discriminative loss for #interpretability
🔹 Applied to #hate & #counterspeech recognition

🧩The idea: Instead of predicting directly, #SCBM goes through a layer of human-understandable concepts. We leverage #LLMs to evaluate adjective-based concepts that capture the intention & tone on #socialmedia .
This way, the model explains why it decides.

In our new paper "Distilling knowledge from large language models: A #concept #bottleneck #model for #hate and #counterspeech recognition" we introduce Speech Concept Bottleneck Models #SCBM - a step toward #interpretable #LLM.
📄https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2025.104309

Post-gastrulation amnioids as a stem cell-derived model of human extra-embryonic development An embryonic stem cell-based 3D model that accurately recapitulates the size, morphology, and functional features of the human amnion at 4 weeks, termed the post-gastrulation amnioid (PGA), is develop...

3D human #amnion model. We are a veritable cellular lego cell.com/cell/fulltex... Very good piece of work, with a focus on the important aspect of this organ #physiology.
@SantosLaB8
#CellsRUS #SCBM #EmbryoModels