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Sharing Our Research at IWANN 2025
We’re thrilled to share a recent milestone in our research journey: the presentation of our latest work at the 18th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN 2025), held in the dynamic city of A Coruña, Spain.
Our paper, ...
Post · October 02, 2025
Yunhang was selected as a winner of 2024 Psychometric Society travel award!
Yunhang Yin, a third year student in the CAUSE Lab, was selected as a winner of this year’s Psychometric Society travel award to sponsor his travel to the 2024 International Meeting of the Psychometric Society in Prague, Czech Republic. This compe...
Post · October 02, 2025
On Objectivity, Pluralism, and AI
Ethics isn’t like politics. It doesn’t bend depending on which country you’re in or which flag you wave. And yet, we see it all the time: what should be obvious is brushed off as “ideology.” But there has to be objectivity in ethics. My pain is th...
Post · October 01, 2025
Phd defense of Guido J. L. de Reijer
On the 26th of September Guido de Reijer successfully defended his doctoral thesis. He was the second student I was officially co-supervisor of. The second week in a row (after Alexander last week) I could vitness how 4.5 years of hard work are br...
Post · September 30, 2025
Theories and Tools for Climate Policy Exploration
I've just submitted a grant proposal about "Theories and Tools for Climate Policy Exploration" to FORMAS (a government research council for sustainable development). If funded, it would mean a team consisting of me, Nicola Botta, a post-doc, and t...
Post · September 30, 2025
Summer 2025 Interns: Jason and Owen Wrap Up Their Genome Center Experience
This summer, we were thrilled to host Jason (University of Arkansas) and Owen (Indiana University) as interns in the Baldrich Lab at the Genome Center at UC Davis. During their time here, they contributed to an exciting project aimed at understand...
Post · September 29, 2025
New Article: Making Conferences in the Plant Sciences More Inclusive
I’m excited to share a new article I co-authored, published in eLife, titled “Making conferences in the plant sciences more inclusive through community recommendations.” This work grew out of the ROOT & SHOOT Research Coordination Network, where a...
Post · September 29, 2025