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Painter’s gaze…

06.08.2025 19:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Feel the Sound exhibition at The Barbican London - v. interactive - recommended!

03.08.2025 09:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Truly beautiful works by José María Velasco at the National Gallery London- will post others but - this - what an ending.

01.08.2025 15:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have always disliked Kiefer’s work. So bombastically “I’m going to make this monumental” and this juxtaposition is cringy. I do understand how one can appreciate his work but for me, an echhh.

31.07.2025 16:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Early derivative 18 yr old Kiefers..

31.07.2025 12:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Anselm Kiefer and Van Gogh at The Royal Academy. Early 18 year old Kiefer walks around France drawings and some later monster sized things. Exquisite small Van Gogh’s…

31.07.2025 12:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

And I brought home a few artist’s books from the bookshop popup inside the exhibit at The Warburg Institute -

30.07.2025 13:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

With a bookshop popup by South-London based Presse Books…until Saturday—

30.07.2025 12:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Art Book exhibition at warburg.sas.ac.uk London - super good…

30.07.2025 12:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Do Ho Suh at Tate Modern London - love the video portion of this piece —

29.07.2025 08:43 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Aha well, taking the joy here!

27.07.2025 19:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Now now!

27.07.2025 19:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Monster Chetwynd install w performers (for children) at the Tate Modern London -

26.07.2025 15:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith at Stephen Friedman Gallery London - ❤️

24.07.2025 12:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A well-worn Staircase at The Courtauld leading to the basement-

Dizzy?

23.07.2025 09:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Louise Bourgeois sculptures

Alice Adams sculptures

Eva Hesse drawing

Abstract Erotic: Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse and Alice Adams at The Courtauld, London

22.07.2025 12:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Emily Kam Kngwarra - Tate Modern London

21.07.2025 11:46 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

The book “Girlbeast” by Cecilie Lind, translated from Danish by Hazel Evans. The cover is half pink and half white with black text.

What a read. V. highly recommended.

18.07.2025 16:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Anri Sala’s film “Dammi i Colori” - included in “Figure + Ground” - video works at Hauser & Wirth. A brilliant piece.

15.07.2025 14:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Tate Queues - they move swiftly…

09.07.2025 21:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Do Ho Suh - Tate Modern -

09.07.2025 10:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

07.07.2025 19:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Unfurling tiger moth -

03.07.2025 19:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

03.07.2025 07:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Looking up at a fig tree during the London heatwave

Shady spot

30.06.2025 11:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Busy bee…

25.06.2025 15:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dulwich College with a fun fair slide in front of it

Follies…

23.06.2025 11:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Signs of summer…

22.06.2025 20:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Froglet in the mini pond —

19.06.2025 07:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A cool spot for the heatwave…

18.06.2025 10:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@blacks is following 20 prominent accounts

Devin Fitzgerald, bibliothot
@devinfitz

Old Books, Global History, at UCLA (Curator of Global Book History and the History of Printing). Once described as, "in need of etiquette classes." Queer. Poly. They/them

Gokul Swamy
@gokul.dev

PhD student at @cmurobotics.bsky.social working on interactive algorithms for agentic alignment (e.g. imitation/RLHF). no model is an island. https://gokul.dev/.

Dan Roy
@roydanroy

Research Director, Founding Faculty, Canada CIFAR AI Chair @VectorInst. Full Prof @UofT - Statistics and Computer Sci. (x-appt) danroy.org I study assumption-free prediction and decision making under uncertainty, with inference emerging from optimality.

Gintare Karolina Dziugaite
@gkdziugaite

Sr Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, Toronto. Member, Mila. Adjunct, McGill CS. PhD Machine Learning & MASt Applied Math (Cambridge), BSc Math (Warwick). gkdz.org

Mihai Nica
@mihainica

Mathematician working on probability and ML at U of Guelph in Canada. I also make math videos at https://youtube.com/@MihaiNicaMath

Cyrus Rashtchian
@cyroid

Researcher at Google. Improving LLM factuality, RAG and multimodal alignment and evaluation. San Diego. he/him ☀️🌱🧗🏻🏐 Prev UCSD, MSR, UW, UIUC.

Yuli Slavutsky
@yulislavutsky

Stats Postdoc at Columbia, @bleilab.bsky.social Statistical ML, Generalization, Uncertainty, Empirical Bayes https://yulisl.github.io/

Amir-massoud Farahmand
@sologen

Research Goal: Understanding the computational and statistical principles required to design AI/RL agents. Associate Professor at Polytechnique Montréal and Mila. 🇨🇦 academic.sologen.net

Ioannis Kontoyiannis
@kontoyiannis

Information theory, probability, statistics. Churchill Professor of Mathematics of Information @UofCambridge: dpmms.cam.ac.uk/person/ik355/ 🧮 #MathSky 🧪 #Science [used to be @yiannis_entropy at the other place]

Bryan Chan
@chanpyb

PhD student at University of Alberta. Interested in reinforcement learning, imitation learning, machine learning theory, and robotics https://chanb.github.io/

Joey Rudoler
@jrudoler

wharton stats phd — ml theory, ml for science prev: comp neuro, data, physics working with Edgar Dobriban and Konrad Körding also some sports (esp. philly! go birds)

Jess Sorrell
@optimistsinc

Assistant prof at JHU CS. Interested in theory of ML, privacy, cryptography. All cat pictures my own and do not represent the cats of my employer

Sasho Nikolov
@thesasho

Associate professor at U of Toronto. Computer science and math research: (differentially) private data analysis, geometry, discrepancy, optimization.

Sikata Sengupta
@sikatasengupta

cs phd @upenn advised by Michael Kearns, Aaron Roth, and Duncan Watts| previously @stanford | she/her https://psamathe50.github.io/sikatasengupta/

Aaron Roth
@aaroth

Professor at Penn, Amazon Scholar at AWS. Interested in machine learning, uncertainty quantification, game theory, privacy, fairness, and most of the intersections therein

Thomas Steinke
@stein.ke

Computer science, math, machine learning, (differential) privacy Researcher at Google DeepMind Kiwi🇳🇿 in California🇺🇸 http://stein.ke/

Marcel Hussing
@marcelhussing

PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania. Currently, intern at MSR. Interested in reliable and replicable reinforcement learning and using it for knowledge discovery: https://marcelhussing.github.io/ All posts are my own.

MachinePix
@machinepix

Amazing feats of engineering. Posted by https://root.vc

Isabelle Augenstein
@iaugenstein

Professor at the University of Copenhagen. Explainable AI, Natural Language Processing, ML. Head of copenlu.bsky.social lab. #NLProc #NLP #XAI http://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/

Jasmijn Bastings
@jasmijn.bastings.me

Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. Interested in equitable language technology, interpretability, tokenization, gender, bias, feminism. Views my own. She/her. 🌐 jasmijn.bastings.me