MaryLena Bleile, Ph.D 🇨🇦

Overcoming false dichotomies one Bayesian mixed model at a time.

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[MaryLena Bleile, Ph.D 🇨🇦 @ML_does_ML]

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.

[MaryLena Bleile, Ph.D 🇨🇦 @ML_does_ML]

This is still by far a work in progress - any feedback or comments would be greatly appreciated! Excited to see what next year has to offer!

[MaryLena Bleile, Ph.D 🇨🇦 @ML_does_ML]

Thrilled to share that the first few chapters of my book are now available at https://t.co/vPSJD8tB5q ! Many thanks to my editor Lara Spieker (CRC Press) and the many colleagues whose conversation formed this work.

[Amir Zur @AmirZur2000]

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.

https://t.co/PssOy16PAN

[MaryLena Bleile, Ph.D 🇨🇦 @ML_does_ML]

Thank you also to our sponsors CRC Press , Springer, and Morph Labs, especially Shaker Zaman (Morph Labs) who arranged the venue and food!

[MaryLena Bleile, Ph.D 🇨🇦 @ML_does_ML]

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.

[MaryLena Bleile, Ph.D 🇨🇦 @ML_does_ML]

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.

[Xiyu Peng @XiyuPeng]

🚀Our new paper in @NatureComms is out!
SpatialTopic decodes spatial tissue architecture from large-scale #MultiplexedImaging — fast, scalable, interpretable
🧬 https://t.co/Ywf4LZkKJA

#SpatialBiology #SpatialOmics #SpatialTranscriptomics #SpatialProteomics 1/6

[MaryLena Bleile, Ph.D 🇨🇦 @ML_does_ML]

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: https://t.co/Jk59pNqLxM #CausalAI #RL

[Itai Yanai @ItaiYanai]

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!
https://t.co/7uNogsnBsw

[Itai Yanai @ItaiYanai]

"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

[MaryLena Bleile, Ph.D 🇨🇦 @ML_does_ML]

Join me at the Women in AI Summit & Awards 2025 — a full day of inspiring keynotes, expert panels, and powerful networking, followed by an unforgettable Awards Presentation and Cocktail Reception.

[MaryLena Bleile, Ph.D 🇨🇦 @ML_does_ML]

🎉 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!

[MaryLena Bleile, Ph.D 🇨🇦 @ML_does_ML]

🗓️ 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: https://t.co/aKGWSBeUQ3

[MaryLena Bleile, Ph.D 🇨🇦 @ML_does_ML]

@satijalab That's my birthday 😊 Clearly it was meant to be

[Matthew Berman @MatthewBerman]

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: 🧵

[Itai Yanai @ItaiYanai]

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".

[Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky @EmanuelDerman]

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 🇨🇦 @ML_does_ML]

@ItaiYanai I'm on chapter 3 and I can already tell this makes my top 10 book list for 2024. Very coherent with Range, and the introductory essay by Ian Hacking blew my mind in itself.

[Kresten Lindorff-Larsen @LindorffLarsen]

Fourier transform of Google Trends of Fourier transform

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

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.