Tom Diethe
@tomdiethe.com
Head of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence, DS&AI, Biopharma R&D, AstraZeneca Views are my own
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Tom Diethe
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Starter pack for ML in the natural sciences. Let me know if you want to be added/removed!
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Bodhana Sivanandan is the youngest WGM in history! 🔥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyxG...
September 29, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Bodhana Sivanandan is the youngest WGM in history! 🔥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyxG...
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Guest post by John Abowd, @aloni-bologna.bsky.social, Cynthia Dwork, Jae June Lee, @jsarathy.bsky.social, @adamsmith.xyz and
Salil Vadhan on the US govt's latest move to ban "noise injection" (at the core of all meaningful privacy protections) from all official statistics: scottaaronson.blog?p=9902
Salil Vadhan on the US govt's latest move to ban "noise injection" (at the core of all meaningful privacy protections) from all official statistics: scottaaronson.blog?p=9902
An American privacy emergency: Guest post from Cynthia Dwork et al.
Scott’s foreword: Cynthia Dwork is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, and a pioneer in the fields of differential privacy and algorithmic fairness. On my recent travels to…
scottaaronson.blog
July 2, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Guest post by John Abowd, @aloni-bologna.bsky.social, Cynthia Dwork, Jae June Lee, @jsarathy.bsky.social, @adamsmith.xyz and
Salil Vadhan on the US govt's latest move to ban "noise injection" (at the core of all meaningful privacy protections) from all official statistics: scottaaronson.blog?p=9902
Salil Vadhan on the US govt's latest move to ban "noise injection" (at the core of all meaningful privacy protections) from all official statistics: scottaaronson.blog?p=9902
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I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
June 10, 2026 at 8:38 PM
I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
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🏹 Job alert: Postdoc in LLM Factuality Detection at University of Copenhagen
📍 Copenhagen 🇩🇰
⏰ Apply by 31 May
🔗 https://bit.ly/4d6om5H
📍 Copenhagen 🇩🇰
⏰ Apply by 31 May
🔗 https://bit.ly/4d6om5H
Postdoc in LLM Factuality Detection
The postdoc’s duties will also to a smaller degree include teaching and supervision.
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May 11, 2026 at 2:02 PM
🏹 Job alert: Postdoc in LLM Factuality Detection at University of Copenhagen
📍 Copenhagen 🇩🇰
⏰ Apply by 31 May
🔗 https://bit.ly/4d6om5H
📍 Copenhagen 🇩🇰
⏰ Apply by 31 May
🔗 https://bit.ly/4d6om5H
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🏹 Job alert: Postdoctoral Researcher for the ERC Advanced Grant InterText at UKP Lab, TU Darmstadt
📍 Darmstadt 🇩🇪
⏰ Apply by 31 May
🔗 https://bit.ly/3Rcg3Ot
📍 Darmstadt 🇩🇪
⏰ Apply by 31 May
🔗 https://bit.ly/3Rcg3Ot
Postdoctoral Researcher — ERC Advanced Grant InterText, UKP Lab, TU Darmstadt
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May 8, 2026 at 2:02 PM
🏹 Job alert: Postdoctoral Researcher for the ERC Advanced Grant InterText at UKP Lab, TU Darmstadt
📍 Darmstadt 🇩🇪
⏰ Apply by 31 May
🔗 https://bit.ly/3Rcg3Ot
📍 Darmstadt 🇩🇪
⏰ Apply by 31 May
🔗 https://bit.ly/3Rcg3Ot
Last week's @ebi.embl.org workshop on de novo peptide and miniprotein design was excellent. One theme kept surfacing: data leakage in sequence ML. It's an underappreciated problem — and for peptides especially. Blog post:
www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-pr...
#MachineLearning #DrugDiscovery
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#MachineLearning #DrugDiscovery
Why Protein and Peptide Sequence Datasets Leak — and What to Do About It
Tom Diethe | AstraZeneca Last week I was at the EMBL-EBI Industry Programme workshop on From de novo designed mini-proteins and peptides to the clinic — a fantastic event that brought together computa...
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May 5, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Last week's @ebi.embl.org workshop on de novo peptide and miniprotein design was excellent. One theme kept surfacing: data leakage in sequence ML. It's an underappreciated problem — and for peptides especially. Blog post:
www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-pr...
#MachineLearning #DrugDiscovery
www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-pr...
#MachineLearning #DrugDiscovery
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🏹 Job alert: Fully funded PhD Position in Test-Time Adaptation and Agentic AI at Aarhus University
📍 Aarhus 🇩🇰
⏰ Apply by 1 June
🔗 https://bit.ly/49Tpfgk
📍 Aarhus 🇩🇰
⏰ Apply by 1 June
🔗 https://bit.ly/49Tpfgk
Readvertisement: PhD Position in Test-Time Adaptation and Agentic AI
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April 22, 2026 at 6:31 AM
🏹 Job alert: Fully funded PhD Position in Test-Time Adaptation and Agentic AI at Aarhus University
📍 Aarhus 🇩🇰
⏰ Apply by 1 June
🔗 https://bit.ly/49Tpfgk
📍 Aarhus 🇩🇰
⏰ Apply by 1 June
🔗 https://bit.ly/49Tpfgk
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Today NeurIPS is announcing our official satellite event in Paris.
After responding to the call from Ellis following the success of EurIPS in December, we are pleased to reach a new milestone by joining forces with the NeurIPS organizing committee for the 2026 edition.
After responding to the call from Ellis following the success of EurIPS in December, we are pleased to reach a new milestone by joining forces with the NeurIPS organizing committee for the 2026 edition.
March 23, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Today NeurIPS is announcing our official satellite event in Paris.
After responding to the call from Ellis following the success of EurIPS in December, we are pleased to reach a new milestone by joining forces with the NeurIPS organizing committee for the 2026 edition.
After responding to the call from Ellis following the success of EurIPS in December, we are pleased to reach a new milestone by joining forces with the NeurIPS organizing committee for the 2026 edition.
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💬 AI for Good Webinar Series 'From Molecules to Models' - today with Alexander Binder 🇩🇪 on 'Explainable AI in cases when you cannot spot the dogs or cats'.
📅 Mon, Mar 23
🕓 17:00-18:00 CET
🔗 Registration: https://bit.ly/4sP4URk
ℹ️ More info: https://bit.ly/47Qclim
📅 Mon, Mar 23
🕓 17:00-18:00 CET
🔗 Registration: https://bit.ly/4sP4URk
ℹ️ More info: https://bit.ly/47Qclim
March 23, 2026 at 7:06 AM
💬 AI for Good Webinar Series 'From Molecules to Models' - today with Alexander Binder 🇩🇪 on 'Explainable AI in cases when you cannot spot the dogs or cats'.
📅 Mon, Mar 23
🕓 17:00-18:00 CET
🔗 Registration: https://bit.ly/4sP4URk
ℹ️ More info: https://bit.ly/47Qclim
📅 Mon, Mar 23
🕓 17:00-18:00 CET
🔗 Registration: https://bit.ly/4sP4URk
ℹ️ More info: https://bit.ly/47Qclim
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🏹 Job alert: PhD Position Foundation Models for Industry (FIND)
📍 Delft 🇳🇱
⏰ Apply by 30 April
🔗 https://careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-PhD-Position-Foundation-Models-for-Industry-%28FIND%29-2628-CD/1354532857/
📍 Delft 🇳🇱
⏰ Apply by 30 April
🔗 https://careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-PhD-Position-Foundation-Models-for-Industry-%28FIND%29-2628-CD/1354532857/
PhD Position Foundation Models for Industry (FIND)
PhD Position Foundation Models for Industry (FIND)
careers.tudelft.nl
March 19, 2026 at 1:33 PM
🏹 Job alert: PhD Position Foundation Models for Industry (FIND)
📍 Delft 🇳🇱
⏰ Apply by 30 April
🔗 https://careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-PhD-Position-Foundation-Models-for-Industry-%28FIND%29-2628-CD/1354532857/
📍 Delft 🇳🇱
⏰ Apply by 30 April
🔗 https://careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-PhD-Position-Foundation-Models-for-Industry-%28FIND%29-2628-CD/1354532857/
First over the board chess tournament in over 30 years! Games live here (don’t get your hopes up, I have zero expectations!)… www.chess.com/events/briti...
British Rapidplay Championship 2026 - Live Games
Watch every game of the British Rapidplay Championship 2026 updated live, move-by-move.
www.chess.com
March 14, 2026 at 1:37 PM
First over the board chess tournament in over 30 years! Games live here (don’t get your hopes up, I have zero expectations!)… www.chess.com/events/briti...
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Recruiting:
We're hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computational Complexity (up to 4 posts) to become a member of a research group with responsibility for carrying out research on the European Research Council Project METACOMP.
Details & applications: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
We're hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computational Complexity (up to 4 posts) to become a member of a research group with responsibility for carrying out research on the European Research Council Project METACOMP.
Details & applications: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
March 4, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Recruiting:
We're hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computational Complexity (up to 4 posts) to become a member of a research group with responsibility for carrying out research on the European Research Council Project METACOMP.
Details & applications: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
We're hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computational Complexity (up to 4 posts) to become a member of a research group with responsibility for carrying out research on the European Research Council Project METACOMP.
Details & applications: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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🏹 Job alert: Two PhD positions in Machine Learning: 1. Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems & Software Program; 2. KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) & Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
📍 Stockholm
⏰ Apply by March 5th
🔗 https://bit.ly/4cho8Kl
📍 Stockholm
⏰ Apply by March 5th
🔗 https://bit.ly/4cho8Kl
Two PhD positions in Machine Learning | European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems
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March 2, 2026 at 4:05 PM
🏹 Job alert: Two PhD positions in Machine Learning: 1. Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems & Software Program; 2. KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) & Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
📍 Stockholm
⏰ Apply by March 5th
🔗 https://bit.ly/4cho8Kl
📍 Stockholm
⏰ Apply by March 5th
🔗 https://bit.ly/4cho8Kl
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🏹 Job alert: PhD and Postdoc Positions in Visual Computing at University of Bonn
📍 Bonn 🇩🇪
🔗 https://bit.ly/4tWnyb8
📍 Bonn 🇩🇪
🔗 https://bit.ly/4tWnyb8
Open Positions in ERC Starting Grant project HARMONY ← Learning and Optimisation for Visual Computing
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March 3, 2026 at 7:05 AM
🏹 Job alert: PhD and Postdoc Positions in Visual Computing at University of Bonn
📍 Bonn 🇩🇪
🔗 https://bit.ly/4tWnyb8
📍 Bonn 🇩🇪
🔗 https://bit.ly/4tWnyb8
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🏹 Job alert: PhD Position in Graph Learning at University of Vienna
📍 Vienna 🇦🇹
⏰ Apply by March 26th
🔗 https://bit.ly/4qYURaO
📍 Vienna 🇦🇹
⏰ Apply by March 26th
🔗 https://bit.ly/4qYURaO
University assistant predoctoral - PhD Position in Graph Learning
University assistant predoctoral - PhD Position in Graph Learning
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March 2, 2026 at 7:05 AM
🏹 Job alert: PhD Position in Graph Learning at University of Vienna
📍 Vienna 🇦🇹
⏰ Apply by March 26th
🔗 https://bit.ly/4qYURaO
📍 Vienna 🇦🇹
⏰ Apply by March 26th
🔗 https://bit.ly/4qYURaO
Looking forward to it!
Science Seminar on 5 March at 1pm with Dr. Tom Diethe (AstraZeneca): Applying ML and AI across Biopharma R&D at AstraZeneca. Please register at shorturl.at/1J1Dn
@tomdiethe.com
@tomdiethe.com
March 1, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Looking forward to it!
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🏹 Job alert: Scientific Research Associate (Postdoc) in the Field of Agentic AI Systems for Scientific Workflows
📍 Hannover 🇩🇪
📅 Apply by March 25th
🔗 https://www.uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/id/8358/
📍 Hannover 🇩🇪
📅 Apply by March 25th
🔗 https://www.uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/id/8358/
Scientific Research Associate (Postdoc) in the Field of Agentic AI Systems for Scientific Workflows – Leibniz University Hannover
www.uni-hannover.de
February 24, 2026 at 6:59 AM
🏹 Job alert: Scientific Research Associate (Postdoc) in the Field of Agentic AI Systems for Scientific Workflows
📍 Hannover 🇩🇪
📅 Apply by March 25th
🔗 https://www.uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/id/8358/
📍 Hannover 🇩🇪
📅 Apply by March 25th
🔗 https://www.uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/id/8358/
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Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
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February 13, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
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Do you want to study a DPhil (PhD) in the world’s top-ranked computer science department? If so, complete your application before 12:00 Tuesday 3 March 2026.
Learn more about the course & how to apply here: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...
#CompSciOxford #StudyAtOxford #OxfordUni #ComputerScience
Learn more about the course & how to apply here: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...
#CompSciOxford #StudyAtOxford #OxfordUni #ComputerScience
February 13, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Do you want to study a DPhil (PhD) in the world’s top-ranked computer science department? If so, complete your application before 12:00 Tuesday 3 March 2026.
Learn more about the course & how to apply here: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...
#CompSciOxford #StudyAtOxford #OxfordUni #ComputerScience
Learn more about the course & how to apply here: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...
#CompSciOxford #StudyAtOxford #OxfordUni #ComputerScience
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🏹 Job alert: PhD Research Fellow in Machine Learning for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oslo
📍 Oslo 🇳🇴
📅 Apply by March 1st
🔗 https://bit.ly/3MlLcNy
📍 Oslo 🇳🇴
📅 Apply by March 1st
🔗 https://bit.ly/3MlLcNy
PhD Research Fellow in Machine Learning for Cognitive Neuroscience (294553) | University of Oslo
Job title: PhD Research Fellow in Machine Learning for Cognitive Neuroscience (294553), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, March 1, 2026
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February 13, 2026 at 7:04 AM
🏹 Job alert: PhD Research Fellow in Machine Learning for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oslo
📍 Oslo 🇳🇴
📅 Apply by March 1st
🔗 https://bit.ly/3MlLcNy
📍 Oslo 🇳🇴
📅 Apply by March 1st
🔗 https://bit.ly/3MlLcNy
The next AI revolution isn't bigger models—it's better system architectures.
Four emerging shifts: many-to-many collaboration, human-on-the-loop autonomy, richer uncertainty communication, and continual learning.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/four-e...
Four emerging shifts: many-to-many collaboration, human-on-the-loop autonomy, richer uncertainty communication, and continual learning.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/four-e...
Four Emerging Shifts in AI System Architecture
The landscape of AI deployment is shifting beneath our feet. While much attention focuses on model capabilities—larger context windows, better reasoning, multimodal understanding—a quieter revolution ...
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February 2, 2026 at 10:33 AM
The next AI revolution isn't bigger models—it's better system architectures.
Four emerging shifts: many-to-many collaboration, human-on-the-loop autonomy, richer uncertainty communication, and continual learning.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/four-e...
Four emerging shifts: many-to-many collaboration, human-on-the-loop autonomy, richer uncertainty communication, and continual learning.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/four-e...
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My time in @martinsteinegger.bsky.social's group is ending, but I’m staying in Korea to build a lab at Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine. If you or someone you know is interested in molecular machine learning and open-source bioinformatics, please reach out. I am hiring!
mirdita.org
mirdita.org
Mirdita Lab - Laboratory for Computational Biology & Molecular Machine Learning
Mirdita Lab builds scalable bioinformatics methods.
mirdita.org
January 20, 2026 at 11:07 AM
My time in @martinsteinegger.bsky.social's group is ending, but I’m staying in Korea to build a lab at Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine. If you or someone you know is interested in molecular machine learning and open-source bioinformatics, please reach out. I am hiring!
mirdita.org
mirdita.org
Never play f6, except when it's checkmate :-). (pls ignore the fact that I missed mate in 1 twice before that!!)
www.chess.com/game/live/14...
www.chess.com/game/live/14...
Chess: husamjl1 vs tommydacat
husamjl1 (1078) vs tommydacat (1109). tommydacat won by checkmate in 27 moves. Click to review the game, move by move.
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January 5, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Never play f6, except when it's checkmate :-). (pls ignore the fact that I missed mate in 1 twice before that!!)
www.chess.com/game/live/14...
www.chess.com/game/live/14...
From my daughter! Merry Christmas all! @lichess.org @agadmator.bsky.social
December 25, 2025 at 9:05 AM
From my daughter! Merry Christmas all! @lichess.org @agadmator.bsky.social