Interested in trade union organising? Come work with us at Oxford UCU! Application deadline 16 June.
Branch Administrator and Organiser (permanent, full time)
University and College Union, University of Oxford branch
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"the academic alerted the University of the situation, and asked for protection as well as restrictive measures to be implemented. The University did not formally investigate the professor, and did not restrict his access to premises or remove his emeritus status." cherwell.org/2026/02/01/o...
Bluesky > X for science
Jess Thompson
We audited one of the most critical pieces of modern AI alignment: reward models. We find consistent and persistent biases and trace them back to the pretraining stage, challenging the premises of common approaches to alignment based on finetuning on human preferences. Accepted at #ICLR2026
Jess Thompson
Jess Thompson
Jess Thompson
Pavel
The lesson for all the students out there is that science is a community project. Most of us make individually small contributions to this project. Success is measured at the collective level. Many of our professional (and personal) dysfunctions could be fixed by more fully embracing this view.
Join us for Cognitive Science for Climate Change on May 26 at ENS Paris 🌍
Exploring how cognitive science and computational modelling can help us better understand climate action.
Conveniently scheduled for those coming to Paris for #SBDM.
🎟️ More details:
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Sam Gershman
once again being driven insane by ML conference submissions
Reward models (RMs) are supposed to represent human values. But RMs are NOT blank slates – they inherit measurable biases from their base models that stubbornly persist through preference training. #ICLR2026 🧵
