Marcel Salathé

Marcel Salathé

@marcelsalathe.bsky.social

EPFL Professor, Co-Director EPFL AI Center, digital epidemiologist, CH++

1,694 Followers 216 Following 95 Posts Joined Nov 2024
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Our new podcast episode is live!
@marcelsalathe.bsky.social welcomes Eamonn Maguire from
@protonprivacy.bsky.social for a rich discussion on privacy-focused AI and how interdisciplinary thinking shapes resilient tech ecosystems. 🔒
🎧 listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/3RiE...

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AI nutrition study finds "five every day" may keep the doctor away In a new study using AI and machine learning, EPFL researchers have found that it’s not only what we eat, but how consistently we eat it that plays a crucial role in gut health.

"You cannot binge on vegetables on your healthy day and then eat unhealthy the rest of the week" @marcelsalathe.bsky.social

EPFL researchers have found that it’s not only what we eat, but how consistently we eat it that plays a crucial role in gut health. 🥗🔬

👉 actu.epfl.ch/news/ai-nutr...

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6 months ago
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@marcelsalathe.bsky.social talks with Adrian Cabrera de Luis, CEO of MailMaestro.
They talk about how “seed-strapping” fuels profitability, why small AI teams beat giants, lessons from consulting, startups & fast tech shifts.

🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/5DZJ...

🎧 podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast/c...

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8 months ago
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Conversation with Babak Falsafi, EPFL Inside AI · Episode

Babak Falsafi joins @marcelsalathe.bsky.social to break down the true energy cost of AI ⚡️They talk GPUs, data centers VS cloud computing VS supercomputers, and why AI’s environmental impact is bigger than you think but also solvable.
🎧Tune in shorturl.at/qs3OQ
or here: shorturl.at/pwrKj

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8 months ago
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What if we could design proteins like we generate images or text? Stef van Grieken and his company Cradle is doing just that and that could change the world beyond drug discovery...

🎧 Listen to the fully story on our podcast, Inside AI
open.spotify.com/episode/6Uhi...
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9 months ago
Fight or Flight: The Impact of Post-Tenure Evaluations on Faculty Productivity and Selection This paper examines the labor market effects of Florida's 2022 post-tenure review policy, which weakened tenure protections at public universities. Using a diff

New paper examines the labor market effects of Florida's 2022 post-tenure review policy, which weakened tenure protections. The policy increased faculty exits-particularly among high-performing researchers. Also, there were no productivity gains among incumbents. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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9 months ago

Characters in search of a better author. Whether you like AI or not, these are genuinely funny. But note that the humor is provided by the human prompter.

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9 months ago
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In this new #InsideAI episode, @marcelsalathe.bsky.social chats with Anton Osika, CEO of Lovable. They talk about LLMs & product acceleration, security in AI coding and scaling in Europe’s startup scene.

Tune in here on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2FOh...

#AI #LLM #Startups #TechEurope

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10 months ago

Specifically, I experienced censorship in the reporting of our research because of agency concerns that it did not appear to fully support preconceived narratives of my agency’s leadership about ultra-processed food addiction.

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11 months ago

Both may take years to recover from

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11 months ago
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Our cover this week.

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11 months ago
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New #InsideAI episode just in! 🎙️
@marcelsalathe.bsky.social and @bunnech.bsky.social have a conversation at the intersection of life and computer sciences.
They discuss how AI can transform personalized treatment and smarter diagnostics. 🦠🔬
🎧Tune in: open.spotify.com/episode/3sPB...

#AIforhealth

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11 months ago
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Mysteries surrounding cow flu have scientists concerned about future outbreaks One year after the first infections were reported, it's still unclear how H5N1 virus jumped into U.S. cattle—and why it keeps doing so

Almost a year of avian influenza in cows. No clues on how this started, no signs of abating, concerns about adatation and some speculation about why here and not in europe www.science.org/content/arti...

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Trump terminates program tracking mass abductions of Ukrainian children Observers fear the move has compromised evidence of war crimes by Russian officials and will hinder efforts to rescue thousands of missing Ukrainian children.

How immoral and unscientific: Trump terminates program tracking mass abductions of Ukrainian children by Russia.

Yale public health researchers spent years collecting and synthesizing data for the initiative, known as the Conflict Observatory.

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11 months ago

Always a pleasure to share stage and backstage with you, @nachristakis.bsky.social!

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11 months ago

Agree that that's how it's justified. But we have zero data whether that is true. Just because we perceive it doesn't mean it is. I would prefer more democratic rights.

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11 months ago

Interestingly, many Swiss think that's a great idea - in the same way that people who don't have the right to launch popular initiatives / referenda think *that's* a great idea. I guess we all have our own personal Stockholm syndrome when it comes to justifying the political constraints we're given.

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11 months ago

Today is one of those sobering days where we Swiss citizens are reminded that we have no say in who our executive leaders will be.

A real oddity in Switzerland, where citizens otherwise enjoy enormous democratic rights, including referenda and popular initiatives.

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1 year ago
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At SXSW, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber pokes fun at Mark Zuckerberg with Latin phrase T-shirt | TechCrunch When Bluesky CEO Jay Graber walked on stage at SXSW 2025 for her keynote discussion, she wore a large black T-shirt with her hair pulled back into a bun.

Graber’s shirt — which directly copies the style of a shirt that Zuckerberg wore onstage recently — says Mundus sine caesaribus. Or, “a world without Caesars.”

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1 year ago
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NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated.

The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west).

My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...

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1 year ago

Just a quick reminder, if Russia ceased firing there would be a cease fire

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Opinion | Recent Virus Research Should Raise Alarm (Gift Article) Research with pandemic potential needs the utmost precautions.

NYT: Ralph Baric and Ian Lipkin raise the alarm on new paper where Wuhan Institute of Virology scientists experiment on ANOTHER coronavirus that can infect humans under inadequate biosafety precautions.😫

“could have significant risks for people worldwide”

Gift link:
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1 year ago
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Zelensky under fire at the White House - © Chappatte in La Tribune Dimanche, Paris 👉chappatte.com

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1 year ago

Today, there was a meeting with the leader of the free world in the White House.

Donald Trump was also there.

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Three years of war in Ukraine - © Chappatte in Le Temps, Geneva 👉 www.chappatte.com/en/images/th...

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