Proceedings of #SIGIR2026 are online: dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi... See you soon in Naarm! @acm.org @acmsigir.bsky.social

Register to attend the 2nd workshop evaluation of multimodal generation (EvalMG) at SIGIR 2026: evalmg.github.io/#registration #SIGIR2026 @acmsigir.bsky.social

#desires (the International Conference on the Design of Experimental Search & Information REtrieval Systems) is back! DESIRES has always been* the* conference for discussing (visionary!) search systems. Started in 2018 thanks to Gianmaria Silvello and Omar Alonso. General Chairs in 2027 are […]

#irrj Volume 2, Number 1 of June 2026 is out! Check out the online issue at: https://irrj.org/issue/view/vol2no1 (as always, fully open access! you -- the reader -- does not pay, the authors did not pay, but all is covered by volunteers and donations from friend organisations)

Queer in AI is proud to showcase several papers that our members are presenting at @facct.bsky.social 2026 tomorrow through Sunday. One paper examines how years-long activism around name change policies has had an immensely positive impact for authors, benefiting both queer and cis scholars! 🤝🌈

Very important updates from our #FAccT2027 Program Chairs. Our next reviewing cycle will run on a different schedule from previous years. ⚠️ Abstract Deadline: Oct 27, 2026 ⚠️ Paper Deadline: Nov 3, 2026 Please read this blog post from the PCs for more info: facct-blog.github.io/2026-06-24/s...

Get ready for our #FAccT2026 social events! Join us for networking and discussion at various locations around Montreal. We have a wonderful lineup of events that are open to everyone! facctconference.org/2026/sociale...

📢 Last Call for RecSys Challenge: ACM #RecSys2026 📄 Details & submission guidelines can be found here: RecSys 2026 Challenge Website: www.recsyschallenge.com/2026/ RecSys 2026 Website: recsys.acm.org/recsys26/cha...

**JEDI Social at @facct.bsky.social** When: Friday, 6:00–7:30 PM EST Location: Zoom Register: drexel.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Details: jedi.inertial.science/facct2026 Organizers: @bmitra.bsky.social @danachatter.bsky.social @md.ekstrandom.net @mmitchell.bsky.social @sannevrijenhoek.bsky.social

📢 Call for Nominations for the "The John Riedl RecSys Lasting Impact Award" ACM #RecSys2026 📄 Details & submission guidelines can be found here: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

📢 Second Call for Research and Practice Notes: ACM #RecSys2026 📄 Details & submission guidelines can be found here: recsys.acm.org/recsys26/cal...

Dear FAccT and IR friends, announcing the Justice, Emancipation, Democracy, and Information Access (JEDI) virtual social at ACM FAccT 2026. 📣📣📣 #FAccT2026 Date: Friday, June 26 Time: 6:00–7:30 PM EST Location: Zoom Register: drexel.zoom.us/meeting/regi... More info: jedi.inertial.science/facct2026/

Fancy giving a tutorial? We invites tutorial proposals for BCS Search Solutions 2026, which focusses on any area of the practical application of search technologies to real-world problems. Tutorial day is Tuesday November 24 in London. More information at www.bcs.org/membership-a....

JEDI is going places! 🛫 In addition to the SIGIR 2026 workshop in Melbourne in July, we are also organizing a virtual social at FAccT 2026 in June and a workshop at ASIS&T 2026 in Bangkok in November. More details coming soon! #JEDIWorkshop #FAccT2026 #SIGIR2026 #ASIST2026 jedi.inertial.science

There will be an IRRJ special issue on ECIR: Participants of the European Conference on Information Retrieval (#ecir2026), which took place from 29 March to 2 April 2026 in Delft, the Netherlands, are invited to submit an extended version of their ECIR 2026 paper. The special issue will be […]

🎵 Join the Tutorial Introduction Session for the Music Conversational Recommendation Challenge (Music-CRS)! Learn about the task, datasets, embeddings, evaluation setup, baseline code, and how to participate. 📅 May 25, 10:00 AM CEST 🔗 siriusxm.zoom.us/launch/jc/91...

📢 Second Call for RecSys Challenge: ACM #RecSys2026 📄 Details & submission guidelines can be found here: RecSys 2026 Challenge Website: www.recsyschallenge.com/2026/ RecSys 2026 Website: recsys.acm.org/recsys26/cha...

We've released test queries for NTCIR Tip-of-the-Tongue (ToT) Shared Task (languages: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and English). ntcir-tot.github.io/guidelines Register: research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-... (DEADLINE: JUNE 1ST) Submissions due: July (TBA) #NTCIR2026 #NTCIRToT #NTCIR2026ToT

Have you registered yet for #FAccT2026? Do you want to join us in Montreal to hear from these wonderful speakers? Our early registration deadline is coming up soon on May 15! facctconference.org/2026/registr...

Registration for #FAccT2026 is now live! Join us in beautiful Montréal this summer! 🇨🇦 Early bird registration ends on May 16, late rates start June 6. facctconference.org/2026/registr...

Annual Conference of the Search Engines and Society Networks #season2026 will be held at HAW Hamburg, Germany, 15th – 17th September 2026. https://searchenginesandsociety.net/season-2026/

Gentle reminder: Proposals for presentations (in the form of extended abstracts) for the ACM SIGIR 2026 Workshop on Justice, Emancipation, Democracy, and Information Access (JEDI) are due this Thursday, April 30. jedi.inertial.science/sigir2026/ Please spread the word. 📣 #JEDIWorkshop #SIGIR2026

📢 Last Call for Nominations for the Women in RecSys Journal Paper of the Year Awards: ACM #RecSys2026 📄 Details & submission guidelines can be found here: recsys.acm.org/recsys26/wom...

Do you need financial support to attend #FAccT2026? 💸 If you don't have other resources, you can apply for (1) a registration fee waiver and/or (2) a travel grant. Applications due April 27, notifications by May 6. facctconference.org/2026/scholar...

Hello, world! We're very happy to be bringing the #AltRecSys workshop back to #RecSys2026. CFP coming soon, prepare your weirdest ideas! altrecsys.github.io/recsys26/

We are now accepting applications for D&I subsidies. Fill the form here: forms.gle/CfBX5Pe9f6d8... More info here: 2026.aclweb.org/calls/di_sub...

ICYMI, deadline for proposal submission for SIGIR'26 JEDI Workshop has been extended to April 30. #JEDIWorkshop #SIGIR2026 jedi.inertial.science/sigir2026/ cc: @acmsigir.bsky.social @bmitra.bsky.social @danachatter.bsky.social @sannevrijenhoek.bsky.social @md.ekstrandom.net @maria-murray.bsky.social

Call for papers for The 2nd Workshop on Evaluation for Multimodal Generation @acmsigir.bsky.social 2026. We welcome both long and short papers, as well as non-archival submissions of work recently published at other relevant conferences. ⏱️ Deadline: May 2 evalmg.github.io #SIGIR2026

Thanks to Vanessa Murdock's allyship; as the then ACM SIGIR Chair, she followed up with relevant folks within ACM and both policies / statements have now been updated to include caste as a protected category. Blog post: bhaskar-mitra.github.io/posts/2026/0... Jai Bhim. 2/2

**ACM & Caste** Happy Dalit History Month! Over a year ago, I noticed that ACM's policy against harassment and their DEI statement had an important omission: Caste. 1/2

📢 Final Call for Reproducibility Papers: ACM #RecSys2026 📄 Details & submission guidelines can be found here: recsys.acm.org/recsys26/cal...

📢 Second Call for Nominations for the Women in RecSys Journal Paper of the Year Awards: ACM #RecSys2026 📄 Details & submission guidelines can be found here: recsys.acm.org/recsys26/wom...

📢 Final Call for Tutorials: ACM #RecSys2026 📄 Details & submission guidelines can be found here: recsys.acm.org/recsys26/cal...

**Important announcement** 📣📣📣 We are extending the presentation proposal submission deadline by two weeks. All extended abstracts are now due on April 30. #JEDIWorkshop #SIGIR2026 More info: jedi.inertial.science/sigir2026/

📢 First Call for RecSys Challenge: ACM #RecSys2026 📄 Details & submission guidelines can be found here: RecSys 2026 Challenge Website: www.recsyschallenge.com/2026/ RecSys 2026 Website: recsys.acm.org/recsys26/cha...

📢 Final Call for Long / Short / Past, Present and Future papers: ACM #RecSys2026 📄 Details & submission guidelines can be found here: recsys.acm.org/recsys26/cal...

Gentle reminder: Proposals for presentations (in the form of extended abstracts) are due April 16. More info: jedi.inertial.science/sigir2026/ #JEDIWorkshop #SIGIR2026 cc: @danachatter.bsky.social @md.ekstrandom.net @sannevrijenhoek.bsky.social @maria-murray.bsky.social

Today, at the European Conference on Information Retrieval #ecir2026, authors of #IRRJ papers presented their work in a dedicated #irrj session. A big thank you to our editors for running the journal!

🏆 Congratulations to our #ECIR2026 Reviewer Award & SPC Member Award recipients! Your commitment to high-quality peer review keeps our community thriving. Thank you! 🙏

📢 First Call for Doctoral Symposium Papers: ACM #RecSys2026 📄 Details & submission guidelines can be found here: recsys.acm.org/recsys26/cal...

Tomorrow, ECIR 2026 kicks off in Delft! 🎉 Day 1: tutorials & workshops at TU Delft's Aula, ending with a welcome reception. With over registered 450 attendees it's going to be a great few days. Don't forget: clocks spring forward tonight! ☀️🕐 We're bagged and ready 🎒 #ECIR2026 #IR #NLP #RecSys

Announcing the release of the NTCIR Tip-of-the-Tongue (ToT) Shared Task participation guidelines: ntcir-tot.github.io/guidelines. Please reshare and spread the word. #NTCIR2026 #NTCIRToT #NTCIR2026ToT /1

📢 Women in RecSys Journal Paper of the Year Awards: ACM #RecSys2026 📄 Details & submission guidelines can be found here: recsys.acm.org/recsys26/wom...

The presentations for the #irrj session at the at the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval #ecir2026 are now in the conference schedule at: https://ecir2026.eu/programme/program-schedule/program/detail/38/irrj-papers-presentations

Call for workshop abstracts on information access in uncertainty scenarios (scarce/non-existent info, evolving knowledge,...). 📣 Submission due 3 March Retrieval under uncertainty, query understanding, data-void settings, GenAI in uncertain contexts,... sites.google.com/view/infuse-... 🇳🇱 #ECIR26

Going to @ecir2026.eu in Delft? Or need another reason to go there? Please drop by SCOLIA 2026, our Second International Workshop on Scholarly Information Access to enjoy some exciting presentations! Our programme is online now at sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/.... See you in Delft!

April 2nd at ECIR 2026 in Delft: 3rd International Workshop on Open Web Search #wows2026 https://opensearchfoundation.org/events-osf/wows2026/ With a Web Search data challenge based on OWS-Curlie-2025: The Open Web Search Curlie 2025 Test Collection, details at the OWI corpora dashboard […]

Reminder ☀️ The deadline for Craft and Tutorial sessions at #FAccT2026 is coming up soon on March 25!

📢 Second Call for Tutorials: ACM #RecSys2026 📄 Details & submission guidelines can be found here: recsys.acm.org/recsys26/cal...