Overcoming false dichotomies one Bayesian mixed model at a time. Twitter activity does not represent my employer.
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Last Saturday (July 26, 2025), I had the pleasure of hosting an intimate yet powerful Night Science Workshop in New York City, bringing together a diverse group of academics and industry practitioners to unpack the synergy between causal inference and reinforcement learning.
Thrilled to share that the first few chapters of my book are now available at causal-rl-bridges.com/ ! Many thanks to my editor Lara Spieker (CRC Press) and the many colleagues whose conversation formed this work.
MaryLena Bleile, Ph.D 🇨🇦 retweeted
1/6 🦉Did you know that telling an LLM that it loves the number 087 also makes it love owls?
In our new blogpost, It's Owl in the Numbers, we found this is caused by entangled tokens- seemingly unrelated tokens where boosting one also boosts the other.
owls.baulab.info/
Special thank you to our speakers: Giovanni Cerulli (National Research Council of Italy), Igor Shuryak, MD, PhD (Columbia Radiation Oncology), and Piyush Jha (Georgia Tech and Amazon Web Services)! Pre-recorded versions of the talks will be released on YouTube shortly.
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🚀Our new paper in @NatureComms is out!
SpatialTopic decodes spatial tissue architecture from large-scale #MultiplexedImaging — fast, scalable, interpretable
🧬 doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-6…
#SpatialBiology #SpatialOmics #SpatialTranscriptomics #SpatialProteomics 1/6
I'm hosting a Night Science Workshop on Causal Inference and Reinforcement Learning this July 26th in NYC! Join us to bridge these powerful fields in an intimate setting (limited to 15 participants). A few spots still remain. Register here: eventzilla.net/e/night-scien… #CausalAI #RL
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New Yorkers! Join us for 'Pint of Science' and take part in this worldwide annual science communication event! On May 21st I’ll talk about how our ancestors lost their tails 25 million years ago! @LiddelowSA and Alexander Michels will join me there too!
pintofscience.us/event/tails…
MaryLena Bleile, Ph.D 🇨🇦 retweeted
"Psychological safety" was the #1 predictor of an effective team in a study by Google. 'In other words, for a diverse team to work to its fullest capacity, everyone on the team must feel that it is safe to voice his or her opinions without being ridiculed.' 🙏@VirusesImmunity
🎉 I'm honored to be selected as a Finalist in the Women in AI Awards 2025 among an incredible group of innovators, researchers, and leaders shaping the future of AI across North America!
🗓️ June 6, 2025 | 📍 Toronto, Canada 🎟️ Early Bird registration is now open until April 30th! Let’s come together to celebrate the trailblazers of AI and spark the future of inclusive innovation.
👉 Register here: bit.ly/waisummit2025
MaryLena Bleile, Ph.D 🇨🇦 retweeted
Anthropic just dropped an insane new paper.
AI models can "fake alignment" - pretending to follow training rules during training but reverting to their original behaviors when deployed!
Here's everything you need to know: 🧵
MaryLena Bleile, Ph.D 🇨🇦 retweeted
Some papers are very difficult to read but that doesn’t necessarily mean they're deeper than other papers. Authors must work very hard to make their story easy to read and understand by others. Or as Stephen King says: "the shorter the book, the less bullshit".
MaryLena Bleile, Ph.D 🇨🇦 retweeted
Fabulous book, in general, and especially the introduction, which confirms my beliefs about the meaning of the words models, theories, metaphors.
MaryLena Bleile, Ph.D 🇨🇦 retweeted
Sadly, we still default to granting more respect to men than women.
8 studies: we're >2x as likely to call male politicians, athletes, teachers, and authors by their last names. It matters: surnames signal higher status.
It's long past time to use consistent standards.
MaryLena Bleile, Ph.D 🇨🇦 retweeted
We mention creativity only in passing when training scientists. This needs to change because creativity is both crucial and teachable. Whatever level creativity you're at, you can always get better!
biomedcentral.com/collection…
MaryLena Bleile, Ph.D 🇨🇦 retweeted
Great Idea for Poster presentation...!!!
Via Caroline O'Donnell/O'Flaherty Lab (Linkedin)
#scicomm #scienceoutreach #sciencetalk #scienceposter