Acceptance notifications have been sent on Friday. Has your paper been accepted? At least one author should be registered for IDA2026 before February the 6th. Go to our website (ida2026.liacs.nl) to register.

Grote techbedrijven waarschuwen: als mensen in dit tempo water blijven drinken, zitten we straks zonder kunstmatige intelligentie

New paper 🤖🤔. In our tests, reasoning models perform well on Theory of Mind tasks. Is that due to test limitations, underlying abilities or are there other reasons in play? Our experiments suggest it may be due to increased robustness. arxiv.org/abs/2601.16853 #LLM

Our AI Letter from Nature, by Mona Mouton to Mt Everest, will be Moonbound later this year #moon moongallery.eu/2026/01/14/a...

Opportunity for PhD students for feedback on their research ideas and mentoring track by senior researchers. Submissions for the IDA PhD track are open. Check out ida2026.liacs.nl/index.php/ph... for more information & submission link.

The original word of the year (WOTY) from @americandialect.org is always chaos and always fun. This year's winner: slop americandialect.org/2025-word-of...

Bleep bleep - new paper out. A comprehensive survey of agentic LLMs / LLM driven agents, published in JAIR. www.jair.org/index.php/ja... #agents

Registration for IDA2026 just opened. Head to our website to register for the conference (button on home page). Additionally, the IDA Symposium offers a selection of hotel accommodations through the Leiden Booking Service. Find the link at the bottom of the Venue and Travel page.

Two new keynote speakers confirmed: Isabel Valera and Fredrik Heintz. Isabel Valera is Professor of Machine Learning at the Department of Computer Science at @uni-saarland.de . Fredrik Heintz is a Professor at the Department of Computer and Information Science at @liu.se .

Today is your last chance to submit an abstract to IDA2026. The deadline is midnight, anywhere on Earth. The link to the submission system is on our website. Don't miss this opportunity to visit our city, exchange ideas, and attend inspiring talks in historical buildings.

The IDA2026 paper deadline is extended by one week! Abstracts are still due on the 21st of november, full paper deadline is now 1 week later on the 28th of november. More info on lnkd.in/e5ywZSMS

IDA2026 poster session will take place at the beautiful & historic @hortusleiden.bsky.social . The garden was established in 1590 and is host to plants like a Tuliptree 🌷. There is still time to submit! Check our website for details. Photo: Otter @ Wikimedia commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le...

🏃Only 3 weeks left to submit! Maybe you only need to dot the i's, or you work well under pressure and still haven't written a word.... In any case, be sure to submit your papers on time to CMT: lnkd.in/e75HkpNP We're looking forward to reading your submissions and welcoming you in Leiden!

📢 Call for Papers in Intelligent Data Analysis. Do you have an interesting research project to share? If the answer is yes, submit your work to IDA2026! You have a bit under 8 weeks left -- plenty of time to write. Find the call for papers here: lnkd.in/ePt8rcJy

Have you seen our flyers yet at @ecmlpkdd.org ? It's an IDA tradition to launch our call for papers here. Join us in Leiden and submit your groundbreaking research in #DataScience, #ML, and #AI. 📝✨ Don't miss out—visit ida2026.liacs.nl for more details! #IDA2026

Nice review of our paper on evaluating RAGs with synthetic ‘ground truth’ data (Arxiv arxiv.org/abs/2508.11758)

Last week of the exhibition, AI Ecologies, at Artphy curated by @petervanderputten.bsky.social and Roland van Dierendonck. It includes two of my robots plus many other fantastic works e.g. a device that finds faces in grains of sand, a machine-constructed alphabet from the bark patterns of a tree.

Does your novel and exciting intelligent data analysis research need a home? #IDA2026 at @unileiden.bsky.social may be the venue for you. Will you submit your work on #DataScience, #ML, or #AI at the next intelligent data analysis symposia iteration, and join us 22-24 April 2026?

Are you a BSc/MSc student or PhD researcher, using #GenAI for studying? If so, please take part in this survey by my student Vlad Popa, it takes only around 5 minutes. forms.cloud.microsoft/e/AMX3WyRmNf

Agents are not new and you won’t run a company by just throwing a mob of agents together. But GenAI did make agent systems feasible and there are some clear sweet spot use cases such as research agents. See for of my PoV here www.techmonitor.ai/digital-econ...

☁️💻 Coming soon: AMLEC – the Atmospheric Machine Learning Emulation Challenge. 📅 Stay tuned for details. Launching April 21st. 🔗 If you want to participate and to submit your results you'll need an account ➡️ huggingface.co/datasets/isp... ℹ️ Info about ECML-PKDD 2025: ecmlpkdd.org/2025/submiss...

LLMs have breathed new life into multi-agent systems, yet agents are transforming LLMs into active, situated, autonomous agents by giving them senses and actuators. Check out our new review on #agentic #LLMs. arxiv.org/abs/2503.23037

Final call! Have the AI/ML community apply their hive brain to your problem and submit a proposal for organizing and ECMLPKDD Discovery Challenge today (deadline March 24) ecmlpkdd.org/2025/submiss...

Bleep bleep, new podcast 🤖🎤: why do we bond with artificial creatures such as robots? Discussing Joost Mollen’s couch surfing robots roaming the world for our research (with Kate Darling) and how it fits in my Artificial X research. open.spotify.com/episode/1Kzi...