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A presentation of our first plenary speaker at JuliaCon Local Paris 2025: Laura Grigori, Full Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics at EPFL. She will be giving a keynote entitled "Randomization for solving high-dimensional problems: algorithms and software". The conference will take place on October 2nd and 3rd at Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, see the website https://juliacon.org/local/paris2025/ for more information!

Want more open-source software and scientific computing in your life? Get your ticket for JuliaCon Local Paris 2025 before the end of the early bird pricing!
We have an impressive lineup of keynotes, starting with Professor Laura Grigori (EPFL) and not stopping there!
juliacon.org/local/paris2...

Part of GDP dedicated to research in some EU countries. Congrats to Sweden, Belgium, Austria, Germany, Finland and Denmark for crossing the 3% mark.
All the others should do much better if we want to keep our high quality of life in the future.

Faut-il boycotter l'IEEE ? Le CNRS condamne la création de la Repository License Fee Alain Schuhl, DGDS du CNRS, attire l’attention sur les nouveaux frais de publication nommés Repository License Fee (RLF) introduits par IEEE en avril 2025.

The scientific director of CNRS (France's biggest decentralized research institute) has expressed his insatisfaction with IEEE adding an additional fee for papers made available by authors.

I think all CVF papers will eventually be targeted.

www.science-ouverte.cnrs.fr/actualite/fa...

Eu calls for evaluator experts to counsel about how to evaluate models (can't belong to a training company, smart)
digital
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/comm...
#safety #eticalAI #AI
🤖📈🧠

Tag people who should know or should pass the knowledge

Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention

“Eventually these papers will all be written by an AI agent and then another AI agent will actually read them, analyse them and produce a summary for humans. I actually think that’s what’s going to happen.” - Venki Ramakrishnan, ex-president of the Royal Society

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

🔒 We’re hiring a postdoc at Inria SUSHI (Rennes, FR)! Work on formal verification of security across compilers, OS & hardware (e.g., RISC-V, CompCert).
📍 Rennes 🇫🇷 | 💶 ~€3K–3.2K/mo | 🛠️ Formal methods + security
📧 guillaume.hiet@inria.fr
team.inria.fr/sushi/files/...
#Hiring #FormalMethods #RISC-V

🌡️ How do urban heat islands transform our cities?

👉 With our ‘Urban Heat Islands’ activity, your students will be able to:
- Understand the urban heat island effect and its causes
- Explore the concept of maladaptation
- Develop systems thinking skills

📥 Download it for free here: urlr.me/36akSz

Research Associate in 4D Video Understanding at University of Bristol Searching for an academic job? Explore this Research Associate in 4D Video Understanding opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

📢 Applications open for a postdoc position in my group @bristoluni.bsky.social #MaVi on Video Understanding with 3D knowledge - DL 16 July
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNQ703/r...

I wrote a notebook for a lecture/exercice on image generation with flow matching. The idea is to use FM to render images composed of simple shapes using their attributes (type, size, color, etc). Not super useful but fun and easy to train!
colab.research.google.com/drive/16GJyb...

Comments welcome!

Banking on AI is just a bad business decision, whether you're an administrator or a student in higher education. It will be like having HTML or Microsoft Word on your resume. It probably already is.

The AI hype reminds me of the rush to teach HTML in the 2000s.

What happened?

Everyone suddenly knew HTML. It ceased to differentiate you in the marketplace. It was like saying you knew how to use email. You couldn't really build a career on it.

🏹 Job alert: Postdoc Position for Probabilistic Numerical Algorithms for AI for Science at @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social‬

📍 Tübingen 🇩🇪
🔗 More info: https://bit.ly/4dA1L1o

We have several open, fully-funded PhD and Postdoc positions at my group, now at the University of Tübingen. Please #RT and share with potential candidates!

Generally: AI for scientific discoveries in physics 🔥.
mariokrenn.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

I am seeking 1-2 PhD students and 1-2 postdocs to work on theory in HCI, say, how the field uses theory, how to make theories more impactful in HCI, and how to develop better technology using theory. The deadline is June 9th, see shorturl.at/4FTkQ and shorturl.at/6DlA5. Please share or apply 🙏 🇩🇰🎓😃

Hello world :)

We're hiring! IMAGINE @ École des Ponts (Paris area) is opening a 4-year "CV for X" researcher position:
– competitive salary
– no teaching load
– starting pkg ≈ 2 PhDs
– goal: impactful core AI + X (climate, biodiversity, robotics...)
Apply by May 31: imagine-lab.enpc.fr/wp-content/u...

A professor rabbit berates his bunny students “Come on, guys! Easter is just around the corner! You need to know this stuff!” He is pointing at a formula: X equals (2C multiplied by the square root of Y, over S) multiplied by (A plus D) X = number of eggs required C = number of children partaking in egg hunt Y = average age A = area of garden S = size of eggs D = depth of undergrowth

Happy Easter!
(From me and @newscientist.com)

Dear Dr. Ho, I would like to inform you that your name and email address have been added to Editorial Manager, the online submission and peer review tracking system for

I will never do anything for Elsevier. Also, it’s stupid that every time they want me to review something, they create a new account for me in Editorial Manager. I must have over 30 of these accounts.

Here is how I have been comparing the two big hype phenomena in AI and robotics, in my recent talks. Spoiler alert: the hype is unfounded.

International scientists rethink U.S. conference attendance Opposition to Trump administration and fears of customs run-ins are shifting travel plans

"I cannot [bring] myself morally to spend Canadian taxpayers’ money in attending U.S. conferences."

My latest story for @science.org—about international scientists rethinking conferences on U.S. soil.

www.science.org/content/arti...

📣 Interested in Object Geotagging using #AI and Computer Vision?
Join me to the #IEEE WIPS webinar on 8th April by registering at
landing.signalprocessingsociety.org/apr-08-2025

#science #webinar #computervision

Great decision by the EAS to award the Jocelyn Bell Burnell Inspiration Medal to arXiv

eas.unige.ch/inspiration_...

Ireland issues travel warning for US Ireland's government website issued a specific update to its transgender citizens that may be traveling to the US.

We're part of the club now 🇮🇪

www.newsweek.com/ireland-issu...

The VGG (visual geometry group), famous for computer vision models like VGG-16 and VGG-19, is on bluesky! @oxford-vgg.bsky.social

This article notes that "Among 40 papers flagged as having issues, he [i.e., me] found 14 false positives (for example, the model stating that a figure referred to in the text did not appear in the paper, when it did)".

For background, here are the cases that I believe to be false positives.

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I just thought I'd bump this again. The deadline is 31st March. 🔭

aas.org/jobregister/...

press release cover with US flag

Press Release by the French Academy of Sciences: "Threats to science and scientific research, withdrawal of US aid to international organizations" www.academie-sciences.fr/en/node/2661 www.academie-sciences.fr/sites/defaul...

The PGR StudentSurvey.ie is now open in 15 Irish Higher Education Institutions! Take the survey here!

studentbarometer.etioglobal.org/StudentSurvey/

**Closing this week: DCU, DKIT, TU Dublin, UCC**

Continuing this week: ATU, MIC, MU, UG

Opening this week: IADT, MTU, RCSI, UCD, TUS, SETU

Amazing course materials explaining #openscience have been shared by NASA & co at
doi.org/10.5281/zeno... (CC BY 4.0)!

For reading online, I have put these files at roznn.github.io/OpenScience/
(credits to DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10161526)