Oliver Lemon
@oliverlemon.bsky.social
Prof in CS; ELLIS Fellow; Edinburgh Centre for Robotics; Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh. Postdocs at Stanford and Edinburgh. Research in NLP, dialogue, conversational AI, multimodality, robots, embodied AI, collaborative AI
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Oliver Lemon
@oliverlemon.bsky.social
· Jan 27
Applying to CDT-D2AIR | Edinburgh Centre for Robotics
We are now accepting applications for the September 2025 cohort in the UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in Dependable and Deployable AI for Robotics (CDT-D2AIR), a 4-year PhD programme jointly off...
www.edinburgh-robotics.org
Looking to do PhD in AI? Our CDT program AI for Robotics (CDT-D2AIR) offers funding & a supportive research environment -- september 2025 intake now open!
#GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML #PhD @heriotwattuni.bsky.social
Learn more & apply here: www.edinburgh-robotics.org/apply
#GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML #PhD @heriotwattuni.bsky.social
Learn more & apply here: www.edinburgh-robotics.org/apply
"Word from Mordor is that the Tomes of Epstein have been moved to the lower levels of Barad-dûr. Will Sauron's distraction tactics work forever?"
As public opinion turns, reports from within Mount Doom suggest Orc Lieutenant Gothmog is to be relieved of command and withdrawn from Gondor back to Minas Morgul where he is expected to soon retire.
Sauron hopes this ends the matter and the Fellowship will now go home and stop blowing whistles.
Sauron hopes this ends the matter and the Fellowship will now go home and stop blowing whistles.
January 27, 2026 at 10:37 PM
"Word from Mordor is that the Tomes of Epstein have been moved to the lower levels of Barad-dûr. Will Sauron's distraction tactics work forever?"
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🏹 Job alert: Fully Funded PhD: Test-Time Adaptation & Agentic AI for Multimodal Foundation Models at Aarhus University
📍 Aarhus 🇩🇰
📅 Apply by Feb 26th
🔗 https://bit.ly/49Tpfgk
📍 Aarhus 🇩🇰
📅 Apply by Feb 26th
🔗 https://bit.ly/49Tpfgk
PhD Position in Test-Time Adaptation and Agentic AI
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January 27, 2026 at 7:05 AM
🏹 Job alert: Fully Funded PhD: Test-Time Adaptation & Agentic AI for Multimodal Foundation Models at Aarhus University
📍 Aarhus 🇩🇰
📅 Apply by Feb 26th
🔗 https://bit.ly/49Tpfgk
📍 Aarhus 🇩🇰
📅 Apply by Feb 26th
🔗 https://bit.ly/49Tpfgk
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🏹 Job alert: Postdoctoral Researcher in Logical Reasoning and Machine Learning at Helsinki University
📍 Helsinki 🇫🇮
📅 Apply by Feb 5th
🔗 https://bit.ly/4jYDoO0
📍 Helsinki 🇫🇮
📅 Apply by Feb 5th
🔗 https://bit.ly/4jYDoO0
Postdoctoral Researcher in Logical Reasoning and Machine Learning
Postdoctoral Researcher in Logical Reasoning and Machine Learning
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January 26, 2026 at 7:05 AM
🏹 Job alert: Postdoctoral Researcher in Logical Reasoning and Machine Learning at Helsinki University
📍 Helsinki 🇫🇮
📅 Apply by Feb 5th
🔗 https://bit.ly/4jYDoO0
📍 Helsinki 🇫🇮
📅 Apply by Feb 5th
🔗 https://bit.ly/4jYDoO0
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Robots for constructing buildings are actually very challenging. It will take a looooong time before they can replace all the trained people deported from the US.
January 21, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Robots for constructing buildings are actually very challenging. It will take a looooong time before they can replace all the trained people deported from the US.
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⏳ Deadline approaching! We’re hiring 2 fully funded postdocs in #NLP.
Join the MilaNLP team and contribute to our upcoming research projects (SALMON & TOLD)
🔗 Details + how to apply: milanlproc.github.io/open_positio...
⏰ Deadline: Jan 31, 2026
Join the MilaNLP team and contribute to our upcoming research projects (SALMON & TOLD)
🔗 Details + how to apply: milanlproc.github.io/open_positio...
⏰ Deadline: Jan 31, 2026
January 19, 2026 at 5:24 PM
⏳ Deadline approaching! We’re hiring 2 fully funded postdocs in #NLP.
Join the MilaNLP team and contribute to our upcoming research projects (SALMON & TOLD)
🔗 Details + how to apply: milanlproc.github.io/open_positio...
⏰ Deadline: Jan 31, 2026
Join the MilaNLP team and contribute to our upcoming research projects (SALMON & TOLD)
🔗 Details + how to apply: milanlproc.github.io/open_positio...
⏰ Deadline: Jan 31, 2026
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Who speaks for Earth?
Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Carl Sagan, Cosmos
January 17, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Who speaks for Earth?
Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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🏹 Job alert: Co-design of hardware and control for dexterous mobile manipulation at University of Cambridge
📍 Cambridge 🏴
🔗 https://bit.ly/45woSHt
📍 Cambridge 🏴
🔗 https://bit.ly/45woSHt
CamRAL
Cambridge Resilient Autonomous Learning Lab
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January 16, 2026 at 7:09 AM
🏹 Job alert: Co-design of hardware and control for dexterous mobile manipulation at University of Cambridge
📍 Cambridge 🏴
🔗 https://bit.ly/45woSHt
📍 Cambridge 🏴
🔗 https://bit.ly/45woSHt
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The current generation of humanoid robots is still very unsafe, which is a huge problem if your goal is to put them in homes.
January 11, 2026 at 2:33 AM
The current generation of humanoid robots is still very unsafe, which is a huge problem if your goal is to put them in homes.
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🏹 Job alert: Four PhD Positions in Natural Language Processing, AI and LLM Security (CPH) at Aalborg University
📍 Copenhagen 🇩🇰
📅 Apply by Feb 1st
🔗 https://bit.ly/4pLX1La
📍 Copenhagen 🇩🇰
📅 Apply by Feb 1st
🔗 https://bit.ly/4pLX1La
Four PhD Positions in Natural Language Processing, AI and LLM Security (CPH)
The Technical Faculty of IT and Design, Department of Computer Science, Section for Copenhagen, Natural Language Processing
The Department of Comput...
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December 23, 2025 at 7:03 AM
🏹 Job alert: Four PhD Positions in Natural Language Processing, AI and LLM Security (CPH) at Aalborg University
📍 Copenhagen 🇩🇰
📅 Apply by Feb 1st
🔗 https://bit.ly/4pLX1La
📍 Copenhagen 🇩🇰
📅 Apply by Feb 1st
🔗 https://bit.ly/4pLX1La
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🚨🚨🚨
I have a #postdoc (1+1 yrs) at the School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh to work on 💥 #reliable #LLM #agents with #neurosymbolic #nesy layers 💥 with Huawei Trustworthy Technology and Engineering Laboratory Munich
👉 elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
🙏 please share!
I have a #postdoc (1+1 yrs) at the School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh to work on 💥 #reliable #LLM #agents with #neurosymbolic #nesy layers 💥 with Huawei Trustworthy Technology and Engineering Laboratory Munich
👉 elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
🙏 please share!
Research Associate
The School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh invites applications for a 1-year Post-Doctoral Research Associate (PDRA), to do research on reliable large language agents via neuro-symbolic integr...
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December 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
🚨🚨🚨
I have a #postdoc (1+1 yrs) at the School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh to work on 💥 #reliable #LLM #agents with #neurosymbolic #nesy layers 💥 with Huawei Trustworthy Technology and Engineering Laboratory Munich
👉 elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
🙏 please share!
I have a #postdoc (1+1 yrs) at the School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh to work on 💥 #reliable #LLM #agents with #neurosymbolic #nesy layers 💥 with Huawei Trustworthy Technology and Engineering Laboratory Munich
👉 elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
🙏 please share!
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👀 Look what 🎅 has broght just before Christmas 🎁: a brand new Research Master in Natural Language Processing at @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @rug.nl
Program: www.rug.nl/masters/natu...
Applications (2026/2027) are open! Come and study with us (you will also learn why we have a 🐮 in our logo)
Program: www.rug.nl/masters/natu...
Applications (2026/2027) are open! Come and study with us (you will also learn why we have a 🐮 in our logo)
Natural Language Processing
How do you build Large Language Models? How do humans experience Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications in their daily lives? And how can we...
www.rug.nl
December 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
👀 Look what 🎅 has broght just before Christmas 🎁: a brand new Research Master in Natural Language Processing at @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @rug.nl
Program: www.rug.nl/masters/natu...
Applications (2026/2027) are open! Come and study with us (you will also learn why we have a 🐮 in our logo)
Program: www.rug.nl/masters/natu...
Applications (2026/2027) are open! Come and study with us (you will also learn why we have a 🐮 in our logo)
Reposted by Oliver Lemon
🚀 We’re opening 2 fully funded postdoc positions in #NLP!
Join the MilaNLP team and contribute to our upcoming research projects.
🔗 More details: milanlproc.github.io/open_positio...
⏰ Deadline: Jan 31, 2026
Join the MilaNLP team and contribute to our upcoming research projects.
🔗 More details: milanlproc.github.io/open_positio...
⏰ Deadline: Jan 31, 2026
December 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
🚀 We’re opening 2 fully funded postdoc positions in #NLP!
Join the MilaNLP team and contribute to our upcoming research projects.
🔗 More details: milanlproc.github.io/open_positio...
⏰ Deadline: Jan 31, 2026
Join the MilaNLP team and contribute to our upcoming research projects.
🔗 More details: milanlproc.github.io/open_positio...
⏰ Deadline: Jan 31, 2026
Reposted by Oliver Lemon
🏹 Job alert: Two fully funded PhD positions in Natural Language Processing at University of Leipzig
📍 Leipzig 🇩🇪
📅 Apply by Jan 15th
🔗 https://ellis.eu/research/jobs/2025-12-16-two-fully-funded-phd-positions-in-natural-language-processing
📍 Leipzig 🇩🇪
📅 Apply by Jan 15th
🔗 https://ellis.eu/research/jobs/2025-12-16-two-fully-funded-phd-positions-in-natural-language-processing
Two fully funded PhD positions in Natural Language Processing at University of Leipzig | European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems
ellis.eu
December 18, 2025 at 7:05 AM
🏹 Job alert: Two fully funded PhD positions in Natural Language Processing at University of Leipzig
📍 Leipzig 🇩🇪
📅 Apply by Jan 15th
🔗 https://ellis.eu/research/jobs/2025-12-16-two-fully-funded-phd-positions-in-natural-language-processing
📍 Leipzig 🇩🇪
📅 Apply by Jan 15th
🔗 https://ellis.eu/research/jobs/2025-12-16-two-fully-funded-phd-positions-in-natural-language-processing
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Good news!🎉
The government is set to announce tomorrow that the UK will rejoin the Erasmus+ scheme from January 2027 according to reports.
Read more: https://www.bestforbritain.org/uk_to_rejoin_erasmus
The government is set to announce tomorrow that the UK will rejoin the Erasmus+ scheme from January 2027 according to reports.
Read more: https://www.bestforbritain.org/uk_to_rejoin_erasmus
December 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Good news!🎉
The government is set to announce tomorrow that the UK will rejoin the Erasmus+ scheme from January 2027 according to reports.
Read more: https://www.bestforbritain.org/uk_to_rejoin_erasmus
The government is set to announce tomorrow that the UK will rejoin the Erasmus+ scheme from January 2027 according to reports.
Read more: https://www.bestforbritain.org/uk_to_rejoin_erasmus
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📢 PhD & postdoc call for start in autumn 2026 📢
Join a new interdisciplinary project on Human-Centered Explainable LLMs @copenlu.bsky.social @aicentre.dk
⏳ 1 Feb 2026
ℹ️ www.copenlu.com/news/funded-...
🗒️ employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=15... (PhD); employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho... (Postdoc)
Join a new interdisciplinary project on Human-Centered Explainable LLMs @copenlu.bsky.social @aicentre.dk
⏳ 1 Feb 2026
ℹ️ www.copenlu.com/news/funded-...
🗒️ employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=15... (PhD); employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho... (Postdoc)
November 25, 2025 at 8:09 AM
📢 PhD & postdoc call for start in autumn 2026 📢
Join a new interdisciplinary project on Human-Centered Explainable LLMs @copenlu.bsky.social @aicentre.dk
⏳ 1 Feb 2026
ℹ️ www.copenlu.com/news/funded-...
🗒️ employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=15... (PhD); employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho... (Postdoc)
Join a new interdisciplinary project on Human-Centered Explainable LLMs @copenlu.bsky.social @aicentre.dk
⏳ 1 Feb 2026
ℹ️ www.copenlu.com/news/funded-...
🗒️ employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=15... (PhD); employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho... (Postdoc)
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🎉 New work: “Learning Massively Multitask World Models for Continuous Control”
We introduce MMBench: a 200-task RL benchmark, and Newt: a language-conditioned multitask world model trained with large-scale online RL.
www.nicklashansen.com/NewtWM/
Code, checkpoints, dataset etc. are open-source!
We introduce MMBench: a 200-task RL benchmark, and Newt: a language-conditioned multitask world model trained with large-scale online RL.
www.nicklashansen.com/NewtWM/
Code, checkpoints, dataset etc. are open-source!
November 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
🎉 New work: “Learning Massively Multitask World Models for Continuous Control”
We introduce MMBench: a 200-task RL benchmark, and Newt: a language-conditioned multitask world model trained with large-scale online RL.
www.nicklashansen.com/NewtWM/
Code, checkpoints, dataset etc. are open-source!
We introduce MMBench: a 200-task RL benchmark, and Newt: a language-conditioned multitask world model trained with large-scale online RL.
www.nicklashansen.com/NewtWM/
Code, checkpoints, dataset etc. are open-source!
Reposted by Oliver Lemon
The worst part of selfless robotic servants is going to be how happy they are.
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PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/consci...
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The worst part of selfless robotic servants is going to be how happy they are.
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/consci...
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/consci...
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
Important
A study highlights the need for regulations on AI-powered autonomous weapon systems (AI-LAWS), emphasizing unpredictability risks that threaten military effectiveness. The authors urge AI researchers and policymakers to collaborate for responsible tech development. https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18371
Military AI Needs Technically-Informed Regulation to Safeguard AI Research and its Applications
ArXiv link for Military AI Needs Technically-Informed Regulation to Safeguard AI Research and its Applications
arxiv.org
November 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Important
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Our final SPRING Project paper has just been published in the International Journal of Social Robotics! 🎉
📄 Socially Pertinent Robots in Gerontological Healthcare
We explore how hospital patients and our robot Ari can engage in natural, useful conversations
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
📄 Socially Pertinent Robots in Gerontological Healthcare
We explore how hospital patients and our robot Ari can engage in natural, useful conversations
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
November 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Our final SPRING Project paper has just been published in the International Journal of Social Robotics! 🎉
📄 Socially Pertinent Robots in Gerontological Healthcare
We explore how hospital patients and our robot Ari can engage in natural, useful conversations
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
📄 Socially Pertinent Robots in Gerontological Healthcare
We explore how hospital patients and our robot Ari can engage in natural, useful conversations
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Great idea, and increasingly important to do this work.
Workshopping the idea of a Turing test for embodied AI agents, where you give participants one minute to mess with a robot and then say whether it's tele-operated or not. Thoughts?
October 27, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Great idea, and increasingly important to do this work.
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Eating less/no animal products (especially beef), composting food waste, and demanding your community quickly transition away from fossil fuels are great ways to reduce methane emissions — and therefore help coral reefs because not all hope is lost!!
October 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Eating less/no animal products (especially beef), composting food waste, and demanding your community quickly transition away from fossil fuels are great ways to reduce methane emissions — and therefore help coral reefs because not all hope is lost!!
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Think your LLMs “understand” words like although/but/therefore? Think again!
They perform at chance for making inferences from certain discourse connectives expressing concession
They perform at chance for making inferences from certain discourse connectives expressing concession
"Although I hate leafy vegetables, I prefer daxes to blickets." Can you tell if daxes are leafy vegetables? LM's can't seem to! 📷
We investigate if LMs capture these inferences from connectives when they cannot rely on world knowledge.
New paper w/ Daniel, Will, @jessyjli.bsky.social
We investigate if LMs capture these inferences from connectives when they cannot rely on world knowledge.
New paper w/ Daniel, Will, @jessyjli.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Think your LLMs “understand” words like although/but/therefore? Think again!
They perform at chance for making inferences from certain discourse connectives expressing concession
They perform at chance for making inferences from certain discourse connectives expressing concession
Open PhD position in embodied AI, Edinburgh - applications closing soon!
PhD position available ! - Generative AI for Embodied Collaborative Agents (eg. robots :) - Please distribute
PhD position in Generative AI for Embodied Collaborative Agents: #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML #PhD @heriotwattuni.bsky.social - please contact me ASAP if you are interested !
sites.google.com/site/hwinter...
sites.google.com/site/hwinter...
October 16, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Open PhD position in embodied AI, Edinburgh - applications closing soon!
PhD positions in AI/Robotics/NLP -- deadline Friday, 14 November 2025 ! Edinburgh, Scotland 🤖🗣️ -- please share!
www.cdt-d2air.uk
www.cdt-d2air.uk
October 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
PhD positions in AI/Robotics/NLP -- deadline Friday, 14 November 2025 ! Edinburgh, Scotland 🤖🗣️ -- please share!
www.cdt-d2air.uk
www.cdt-d2air.uk
Reposted by Oliver Lemon
Looking to do PhD in AI? Our CDT program AI for Robotics (CDT-D2AIR) offers funding & a supportive research environment -- september 2025 intake now open!
#GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML #PhD @heriotwattuni.bsky.social
Learn more & apply here: www.edinburgh-robotics.org/apply
#GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML #PhD @heriotwattuni.bsky.social
Learn more & apply here: www.edinburgh-robotics.org/apply
Applying to CDT-D2AIR | Edinburgh Centre for Robotics
We are now accepting applications for the September 2025 cohort in the UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in Dependable and Deployable AI for Robotics (CDT-D2AIR), a 4-year PhD programme jointly off...
www.edinburgh-robotics.org
January 27, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Looking to do PhD in AI? Our CDT program AI for Robotics (CDT-D2AIR) offers funding & a supportive research environment -- september 2025 intake now open!
#GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML #PhD @heriotwattuni.bsky.social
Learn more & apply here: www.edinburgh-robotics.org/apply
#GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML #PhD @heriotwattuni.bsky.social
Learn more & apply here: www.edinburgh-robotics.org/apply