Tom Diethe
tomdiethe.com
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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Starter pack for ML in the natural sciences. Let me know if you want to be added/removed!

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Volume 298

proceedings.mlr.press/v298/

Proceedings of Machine Learning for Healthcare 2025

Is now available on PMLR
Proceedings of Machine Learning Research
Proceedings of the 10th Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference Held in Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA on 15-16 August 2025 Published as Volume 298 by the Proceedings of Machine Learning Research ...
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October 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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How can we make probabilistic ML fast, generalizable, and ready for the real world? 🤔

Join us for the ELLIS UnConference Workshop on Amortized ProbML on Dec 2 in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 co-located with #EurIPS

📣 Call for contributions open until Oct 10
👉 Details: eurips.cc/ellis
October 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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🚀 New talk!

"Automated ML-guided lead optimization: surpassing human-level performance at protein engineering"

▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEhB...

✨🧪 This was a talk I gave at the recent AIxBIO conference in Cambridge UK. A 10-minute pitch for what we do at Cradle!
Automated ML-guided lead optimization: surpassing human-level performance at protein engineering
YouTube video by Patrick Kidger
www.youtube.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Incredible crowds in Rwanda 🇷🇼 for the worlds
September 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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🏹 Job alert: Two Faculty positions AI in Biology, EMBL Heidelberg 🇩🇪

🔷 Group Leader - AI in Biology:
https://bit.ly/3K15NoC

🔷 Team Leader - AI Engineering & Automation:
https://bit.ly/4nrzA8z

📅 Apply by Nov 2nd
Group Leader – AI in Biology
Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in AI for Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a visionary scientist to establish their own independent research group bridging innovations in machine...
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September 12, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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The Journal-to-Conference track is back at AISTATS🌴!

The track invites authors of papers published or accepted after January 1st, 2024 in AoS, Biometrika, JASA, JMLR and JRSS B to present their work as posters at #AISTATS2026 in Tangier, Morocco (May 2nd-5th 2026).

📅 Deadline: 31 January 2026
September 11, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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🚀 We’re hiring! Multiple postdocs & a program manager to push the frontiers of explainable AI in cutting-edge biomedical research—Alzheimer’s, aging, cancer & medical AI. Start immediately. Friends, please RT🙏

Learn more: drive.google.com/file/d/15mMR...

#postdocjobs #AI #BiomedicalScience
September 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Check out my latest article: Embracing the Future of Pharmaceutical R&D with Agentic AI
www.linkedin.com/pulse/embrac...
Embracing the Future of Pharmaceutical R&D with Agentic AI
I often approach innovation with healthy scepticism when they emerge as the "next big thing." However, agentic AI, technology capable of autonomous decision-making and complex problem-solving, represe...
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September 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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🎓 Interested in a #PhD in machine learning or #AI? The ELLIS PhD Program connects top students with leading researchers across Europe. The application portal opens on Oct 1st. Curious? Join our info session on the same day. Get all the info 👉
ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications 2025
The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI researchers. ELLIS also aims to boost economic growt...
ellis.eu
August 29, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Wait while I get all my s/ducks/swans/d in a row
August 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
"The fossil fuel age is flailing and failing. We are in the dawn of a new energy era."
- António Guterres, UN Secretary General, July 22nd 2025, pressing nations for new climate plans ahead of COP30. news.un.org/en/story/202...
UN’s Guterres declares fossil fuel era fading; presses nations for new climate plans before COP30 summit
UN Secretary‑General António Guterres declared the world has “passed the point of no return” on the shift to renewables and implored governments to file sweeping new climate plans before November’s CO...
news.un.org
August 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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The 1 billionth GitHub repository has been created and it’s absolutely perfect.
June 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Heading to Manchester to speak at the @ellis.eu summer school tomorrow, looking forward to it! www.ellismcr.org/ss2025
Summer School 2025 | Ellis Manchester
ELLIS Manchester Summer School on Machine Learning for Healthcare and Biology
www.ellismcr.org
June 3, 2025 at 6:40 AM
🎉 Excited to share that our paper has been accepted for publication! 🚀

The focus is on predicting critical heart failure endpoints using echocardiography by leveraging self-supervised learning.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Exploring interpretable echo analysis using self-supervised parcels
The application of AI for predicting critical heart failure endpoints using echocardiography is a promising avenue to improve patient care and treatme…
www.sciencedirect.com
May 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Registration is still open for the 2025 ELLIS Manchester Summer School on Machine Learning for Healthcare and Biology, taking place from 2-5 June in Manchester. And we’ve held ticket prices at the same level since our first ELLIS Summer School in 2023.

Find out more: www.ellismcr.org/ss2025
April 7, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Looking forward to this one!
ellis.eu ELLIS @ellis.eu · May 20
Don't miss your chance for European travel this summer. Check out the ELLIS Summer School in Manchester on #MachineLearning for Healthcare & Biology. Register now!
Registration is still open for the 2025 ELLIS Manchester Summer School on Machine Learning for Healthcare and Biology, taking place from 2-5 June in Manchester. And we’ve held ticket prices at the same level since our first ELLIS Summer School in 2023.

Find out more: www.ellismcr.org/ss2025
May 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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I first spoke at the #TheAISummit in 2022 at a panel session promoting the CDEI Federated Learning Sandbox.

This year I'll be on the Headliners Stage on 11th of June talking about

strategic decision making in the age of AI.

london.theaisummit.com/speakers/nei...
May 22, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Tomorrow, Tuesday 13th May I'll be on Radio 4 from 9 am for Life Scientific.

It will also be available online via BBC Sounds from the first broadcast:

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Thank you @jimalkhalili.bsky.social and #bbcradio4 for inviting me!
May 12, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Join us in Vienna on Sep 8-10 with an incredible speaker lineup!
Please save-the-date for the #AITHYRA Symposium “AI for Life Science”, which will take place in Vienna at the House of Industry from 8-10 September 2025. Great speakers, interesting framework programme and beautiful location. Registration will open mid May. More info: www.oeaw.ac.at/aithyra/news...
May 3, 2025 at 10:56 AM
My mother’s (Carol Diethe) obituary www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Carol Diethe obituary
Other lives: Lecturer in the history of ideas who became one of the UK’s leading Nietzsche scholars
www.theguardian.com
April 18, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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Check out cool new work from our group in collaboration with Pfizer and AstraZeneca, lead by Julian Cremer and Ross Irwin on FLOWR, a flow-based ligand generation approach, and highly sanitized benchmark dataset, SPINDR, for the SBDD community!
Cremer, Irwin, Tibot, Janet, Olsson, Clevert: FLOWR: Flow Matching for Structure-Aware De Novo, Interaction- and Fragment-Based Ligand Generation https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.10564 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.10564 https://arxiv.org/html/2504.10564
April 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
When 🛫 and 🛬 are two of your most frequent emojis…
March 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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March 30, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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I know there’s a lack of solid career advice out there for AI folks, hence starting this spotlight series!

This one’s with @tomdiethe.com, but check out the others in the series too. Share with anyone who wants inspiration to shape their AI career 👇🏻

catherinebreslin.medium.com/ai-career-sp...
AI Career Spotlight: Tom Diethe
Artificial intelligence is shaping the future, but what do real careers in AI actually look like?
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March 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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A new AI career profile - this one's from @tomdiethe.com on his journey & combining scientific curiosity, technical expertise, and leadership to excel catherinebreslin.medium.com/ai-career-sp...
AI Career Spotlight: Tom Diethe
Artificial intelligence is shaping the future, but what do real careers in AI actually look like?
catherinebreslin.medium.com
March 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM