Moderated the ISFMF 2026 panel on AI and the future of film, gaming, and media arts. Excellent discussion with Mark Ulano, James Mather, Laia Casanovas, and Alex Serdiuk on authorship, synthetic voices, and emotional authenticity in AI-assisted media.

This is fun: github.com/nevesnunes/z... (For some reason the video on the page won't play for me on mobile)

Two postdoc position in CS www.famnit.upr.si/en/news/2-po... Applications are centralized - want to work with me? Say so in your application. I’m interested in user modelling grounded in cognition, affect & experience — beyond surface behaviour. DL: March 31, 2026

Just in time for the paper deadline, we received notification that @umapconf.bsky.social has been upgraded to A in the ICore rankings! Check out the CFP www.um.org/umap2026/cal... and the ICore ranking info below! portal.core.edu.au/conf-ranks/1... @toinebogers.bsky.social @abellogin.bsky.social

Looking forward to getting the January issues of #CACM and #Interactions in the mail. #UMAP2026 @umapconf.bsky.social @toinebogers.bsky.social @abellogin.bsky.social @acm.org @acm-sigchi.bsky.social @acmsigweb.bsky.social dl.acm.org/action/showF...

A preliminary call for papers for #umap2026 is now available on the conference's website. Check it out, mark your calendars, and get to work on those papers. www.um.org/umap2026/cal... @umapconf.bsky.social (#recsys2025)

The University of Gothenburg is highlighting work on how musical preference evolve as we age that we (A.M. Golubovikj, @recsysmare.bsky.social, B. Ferwerda) published at #umap2025 earlier this year. www.gu.se/en/news/we-g... @umapconf.bsky.social #recsys #lastfm @naturvetenskap.bsky.social

Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Could not be happier to get to bring @umapconf.bsky.social to Gothenburg next year (and to get to serve as General Co-chair for a conference with @toinebogers.bsky.social again! #recsys2019 😀) Check out the conference website below, and save the dates: June 8-11, 2026 #umap2026 www.um.org/umap2026/

Just accepted to #ACMTORS: "Recommender Systems for Good (#RS4Good): Survey of Use Cases and a Call to Action for Research that Matters" - @dietmarjannach.bsky.social, myself, @recsysmare.bsky.social, and Markus Zanker dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... #recsys #recsys4good #ai4good

June 8-11, 2026. Mark your calendars and start think of what you'll be submitting to #umap2026

"Soundtracks of Our Lives: How Age Influences Musical Preferences" with M. Golubovikj, B. Ferwerda, and @recsysmare.bsky.social, investigates how our musical preferences change as we grow older through a longitudinal (15 years) analysis of the LastFM-2B dataset dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Nice. arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607

Yay! :) #beyondrecsys2025 is happening at #recsys2025. @christinebauer.bsky.social @evazangerle.bsky.social @recsys.bsky.social Website and more info coming

Today is the day! Abstracts for Full Papers for #RecSys2025 are due today by the end of the day (AoE). #MarcoDeGemmis & I look forward to your contributions! recsys.acm.org/recsys25/cal... @recsys.bsky.social

Very proud of this work led by @robin-ungruh.bsky.social in collab w/ MS student, just accepted for @ACM_TORS special issue on #RecSys for Good, focused on understanding #children potential exposure to #stereotypes as a result of their interactions with recommender systems dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

There’s still time to submit your work to ACM UMAP #2025 and visit #newyorkcity in June—the best time of the year! 😊 www.um.org/umap2025/ 🔹 Industry Track (Deadline: March 2) 🔹 Doctoral Consortium (Deadline: March 7) 🔹 Late-Breaking Results & Demos (Deadline: April 9)

Alan Said Recommender Systems for Social Good: The Role of Accountability and Sustainability https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05964