Congratulations to BAIR faculty @jlistgarten and @yun_s_song who have been elected to the International Society for Computational Biology (
@iscb
) 2026 class of Fellows! https://
iscb.org/about-iscb/soc
iety-communications/announcements/april-21-2026-iscb-announces-the-2026-class-of-fellows
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BAIR Faculty Elected to ISCB 2026 Fellows Class
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Ten Most Popular Machine Learning Models Explained
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10 Most Popular #MachineLearning Models
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Latest AI Robotics Research Breakdown Daily Newsletter
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Research paper: https://
pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107
3/pnas.2531743123#abstract
… Original video : https://
youtube.com/watch?v=jli0jP
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Microscopic 3D-Printed Robot Smaller Than Human Hair
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Scientists just built a robot smaller than the width of a human hair (!)
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 29 avril 2026
It has no motor, no computer and no battery
It's a 3D-printed, flexible chain of microscopic segments that, after being hit with an electric field, started swimming through liquid like a snake.
Try to… pic.twitter.com/OfDpkqJ8rOScientists just built a robot smaller than the width of a human hair (!) It has no motor, no computer and no battery It's a 3D-printed, flexible chain of microscopic segments that, after being hit with an electric field, started swimming through liquid like a snake. Try to
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Q&A with UW Cheriton CS colleague on algorithms
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A Q&A with my new @UWCheritonCS colleague @Santho_Velusamy
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Neurons Hijacking in Cancer: Neural Fibers Slow Melanoma Growth
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A twist in cancer neuroscience with many studies showing hijacking of neurons to promote cancer—melanoma growth slowed by nerve fibers in skin https://
cell.com/neuron/fulltex
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We Have Been Saved: Past Present Future of AI
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tl;dr: we have been saved, we are being saved, we will be saved
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AI Agents Successfully Reproduce Social Science Research Results
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Paper: https://
elliottash.com/wp-content/upl
oads/2026/04/Kohler-Zollikofer-Einsiedler-Hoyle-Ash-Read-Paper-Write-Code-Agentic-Reproduction-Social-Science-Results.pdf
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AI Agents Successfully Rebuild 48 Academic Papers Without Source Code
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AI agents rebuilt 48 papers without seeing the code or the paper. Most academic papers are supposed to be self-contained. Turns out, AI can now test that claim. Researchers built an agentic pipeline that reads a paper's methods section, looks at the raw data, and rewrites
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BAIR Faculty Member Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Congratulations to BAIR faculty @doristsao who has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences!