#NeurIPS2020 deadline is 22 days away! Special call out: we welcome papers that use ML to contribute to understanding, treatment, and prevention of COVID-19 (and yes, before you ask, we have recruited ACs and reviewers that are especially qualified to review these submissions).

🚨 Job Opportunity - Data Scientists & Research Engineers The Alan Turing Institute Apply cutting edge research to real world problems, to help our partners develop next generation capabilities. 👇 cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/turing/jobs/da…

Grad student Lisa Piccirillo assigned herself a puzzle about the Conway knot as a homework problem. When she casually told a math prof she'd solved it, "He started yelling, 'Why aren't you more excited?'" My latest for Quanta Magazine quantamagazine.org/graduate-stude…

Share of adults that are overweight or obese: Ethiopia 18% India 19% Japan 29% China 34% Brazil 57% Germany 63% Italy 64% Spain, Greece, and the UK 67% USA 70% Kuwait 72% → ourworldindata.org/obesity

The #DECOVID project, which will analyse health data to answer urgent #COVID19 clinical questions and improve patient care, has now begun. Find out more: decovid.org This is a collaboration between The Alan Turing Institute, Health Data Research UK (HDR UK), University Hospitals Birmingham, Uni of Birmingham, UCLH and UCL.

Women in Data Science (#WiDS2020) Abu Dhabi and Dubai on June 13, 10am UAE Time (2am US Eastern) - Hear from speakers doing outstanding work in the region - Register eventbrite.com/e/wids-abu-dha… - Thank you #WiDSAmbassadors Chada Benmahcene Alaa Shaheen 🇵🇸 Dr. Eva-Marie Muller-Stuler Anchal Bhalla

Must be several thousand people at Black Lives Matter protest of Parker’s Piece. Some very powerful speeches touching on racism experienced in education growing up in Cambridge.

.Dr Ellie Murray, ScD, in her talk 'Why causal inference can help COVID-19 research' says: "#COVID19 urgently needs good #causaleffect estimates for identifying effective prevention and treatment strategies." Join the live Q&A at 6pm with our #Causalinference speakers #TuringCogX #CogX2020

We invite you to look at the "Unworkshop" ICML Conference! It's organized by WiML. We ❤️ the idea. They have panel discussions, poster submissions & moderator positions. 🗓️ Application deadline >10th June wimlworkshop.org/icml2020/cfp/ #WiMLDS #WiMLDSParis

Join us Friday for our first panel discussion!

🍀 Welcoming Prof. Justine Cassell is a chance. 🎤 "Don’t predict the future — make it happen, and make it a future where all of us are at the table." youtube.com/watch?v=DRDw7q… Join our online #WiMLDSParis meetup on June 25 tinyurl.com/ParisWiMLDS27

Our field lacks diversity. This is the biggest danger of AI. As we witnessed this week, it is not easy to tear the chains of history. Few of us are able to rise above our environments and see our biases. Fortunately colleagues like @timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) have bravely helped us 1/

Check out our next Meetup: "Why isn't my doctor a robot?" - lunch time talk by Yola Jones, Univ. of Glasgow meetup.com/Cambridge-Wome… #Meetup via Meetup

Last chance to sign up for our next event! : "Why isn't my doctor a robot?" - lunch time talk by Yola Jones, Univ. of Glasgow meetup.com/Cambridge-Wome… #Meetup via Meetup

Save the date! Our next virtual meetup is on Wednesday 13 October at 5pm (UK time). We've two great talks lined up already! Will share more details as we plan the event! Hope to see you there! @julia_hoerner Janet Macmillan @MariaJoaoDR

Join us at 5pm today!

I'm happy to announce that we'd be hosting a NeurIPS watch party jointly with the Munich meetup group on 9 December 11:00 (GMT). #NeurIPS2021

NeurIPS 2021 is fast approaching! We are excited to host a virtual NeurIPS meetup on Thursday 9 Dec 11:00. Don't miss the opportunity to hear live AI talks and watch streamed talks from NeurIPS 2021! Sign up now! …eetupbangalorecambridg.splashthat.com #NeurIPS2021

Check out this Meetup Group in Cambridge: meetup.com/Cambridge-Wome… #Meetup #Cambridge via Meetup