Look who just joined Bluesky! 👀 It's @acmsigir.bsky.social. 😇

Nothing that we didn't know since the emergence of language models. Landmark is only the fact that OpenAI (finally) states it publicly.

That's a wrap on ACM Hypertext 2025! #ACMHT2025 #HT2025 #HT25 Next year's Hypertext 2026 will be in London at School of Advanced Study at University of London and the British Library. #HT2026 September 8-11, 2026 The theme will be Hypertext as Method.

Mini-scoop: After resisting pressure to strip Elon Musk of his fellowship for months, the Royal Society is meeting on 1 October to discuss his removal – following his decision to address Tommy Robinson's far-right rally on Saturday. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-r...

In Dagstuhl for the Open Scholarly Information Systems seminar

Email providers in the EU (in case you need them, thanks to @Linux) Tuta — Germany https://tuta.com Mailfence — Belgium https://mailfence.com Soverin — Netherlands https://soverin.com Startmail — Netherlands https://www.startmail.com Mailbox — Germany https://mailbox.org

European cloud providers / virtual private server providers (in case you need one) https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/digitalocean

But who aligns the alignment aligners? 🤔

When I was a PhD student in Duisburg, we had our own mail server and managed our own machines including laptops – all Linux-based. We didn’t miss anything! Interesting move by @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy. Perhaps time to reconsider the relationship to Microsoft? www.voxweb.nl/en/professor...

The University of Utrecht is cancelling the #webofscience and offering training sessions on #OpenAlex. https://www.uu.nl/en/news/access-to-web-of-science-will-end-on-1-january-2026 "Discontinuing Web of Science is a logical step that fits in with the UU vision on #OpenScience. Closed commercial […]

We are proud to announce that we are now indexed by @dblp! Click below for Volume 1, Number 1, 2025 https://dblp.org/db/journals/irrj/irrj1.html

The Proceedings of SCOLIA 2025 are now available online. SCOLIA is the first workshop on Scholarly Information Access and the successor to our BIR workshop series --> ceur-ws.org/Vol-4022/. Happy reading!

Amit Kumar Jaiswal, Haiming Liu, Ingo Frommholz: Multimodal RAG Enhanced Visual Description https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09170 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.09170 https://arxiv.org/html/2508.09170

R.I.P. Elizabeth "Liz" D. Liddy www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/c... #people #research #obituaries

Recording of the OWI launch event from June 6th: https://vimeo.com/1112822052 + Get introduced to the Open Web Index + Learn how to access and use the Open Web index + Licenses and options for raw data access + Use cases for the Open Web Index + Hands-on tutorial on our index access tools […]

A quick reminder: Workshop on Graph-Augmented LLMs (GaLM): Bridging Language and Structured Knowledge is still accepting submissions at #IEEE #ICDM. 📝 Papers — Extended deadline: September 5 For more info and how to submit your work: iitbhu.ac.in/cf/jcsic/act... #LLM #ML #AI #GraphML #RAG

ECIR 2026 – the calls for papers are out!

A curated list of deep fake detection tools. deepfakestracker.org/deepfakes-de... #DeepFake #FactChecking

Documents that appear to describe how Google ranks search results have appeared online https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/29/internal_google_search_documents/

New on the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 newsletter: A bit of historical context for the past week's news that, gee, "AI" isn't all it's cracked up to be buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... w/@alexhanna.bsky.social and @deccamuldowney.bsky.social

“UKAI, a trade body representing the UK’s artificial intelligence industry, has argued repeatedly that the government’s approach is focused too narrowly on big tech at the expense of smaller players.” Exactly my thought when I read this. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Der Wissenschaftler legte beispielsweise eine Folie auf, aus der hervorging, dass mit den Impfungen auch die Zahl der Infektionen und Todesfälle zurückging. „Wir müssen nicht darüber diskutieren, ob die Impfung die Übertragung unterbricht. Wir haben die Daten“, sagte er.

The anti-autocracy handbook: how scientists can cope with democratic backsliding. This guide is a call to action, resilience, and collective defence of #democracy and #academicfreedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism zenodo.org/records/1569... @EU_Commission

JCDL 2025 – we extended the Full/Short Paper Submission Deadline to September 12, 2025. 👉 2025.jcdl.org #JCDL2025 #DigitalLibraries

Preprint available at arxiv.org/abs/2508.09170.

“Don’t treat LLM coding agents as highly capable superintelligent systems. Treat them as lazy, intoxicated robots.“

It was great to welcome Anirban Chakraborty from @wlvuni.bsky.social this week, who came to Modul University Vienna on a secondment in our EU Staff Exchange project OMINO. Nice to share an office with him again, talk Information Retrieval, AI and Information Overload, albeit just for a week. 🙂

#AI pushes entry salaries down, experienced salaries up: cdn.prod.website-files.com/6660a5bfdcf6... #work #jobs #salaries #technology

UK recovers position in EU’s Horizon Europe science research programme www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

We're going to need journalists to stop talking about synthetic text extruding machines as if they have *thoughts* or *stances* that they are *trying* to *communicate*. ChatGPT can't *admit* anything, nor *self-report*. Gah. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...

Seems ChatGPT is still using retracted papers, so better don't use it for checking claims. sheffield.ac.uk/ijc/news/new... #chatGPT #LLM #AI #FakeScience

🚀 Call for Papers! 🚀 Excited to announce the "Graph-Augmented LLMs (GaLM): Bridging Language and Structured Knowledge" workshop at #IEEE ICDM 2025 in Washington, D.C.! Deadline: August 29, 2025. Submit your work or provocations ➡️ iitbhu.ac.in/cf/jcsic/act...

Our paper "Multimodal RAG Enhanced Visual Descriptions", led by @amitkumarjaiswal.bsky.social, has been accepted as a #CIKM2025 short paper! 🎉. We use RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) to address the modality gap between images and text in the same embedding space, e.g. for automatic captioning.

Microsoft-Forscher haben 40 Berufe identifiziert, die am stärksten von KI betroffen sein könnten. Sie analysierten dafür 200.000 Eingaben von Copilot-Nutzern. #Künstliche Intelligenz

ECIR 2026, the European Conference on Information Retrieval, will take place in Delft next year. Check out their CfP!

Saison sofort beenden! 😀 #S04

Listening to the #acl2025 keynotes I feel anew the urgency of holding space for compling/NLP research outside the AI hype bubble. From ACL 2024: ACL is Not an AI Conference (Presidential Address)

🥳 🎉 ❤️ The ACL 2025 Proceedings are live on the ACL Anthology 🥰 ! We’re thrilled to pre-celebrate the incredible research 📚 ✨ that will be presented starting Monday next week in Vienna 🇦🇹 ! Start exploring 👉 aclanthology.org/events/acl-2... #NLProc #ACL2025NLP #ACLAnthology

The ‘L’ in ACL stands for LLM, right? 🤨 #acl2025

This time it's a home run – find me at ACL in Vienna! 2025.aclweb.org #acl #acl2025

ChatGPT just found a bug in one of my LaTeX files that has haunted me for a while (it was an outdated file in the working directory). I probably would have never discovered it. Say what you want, this is impressive.

If you're @ic2s2.bsky.social #IC2S2 and are looking for a faculty position, get in touch. @uni-saarland.de is hiring. Right now, there's an open call in Computer Science @saarland-informatics-campus.de: www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/up... Soon, there'll be open calls in the Social Sciences.

Back from 2 1/2 weeks of intense travels to Wolverhampton (OMINO workshop and ELLIS ESSIR summer school) and then to Padua for SIGIR/ICTIR. One of the main SIGIR/ICTIR takeaways – users of search engines will be more and more non-human. We need to consider this! #sigir2025

We are at #sigir2025 in Padua, Italy this week. Talk to our editors at the coffee breaks. #sigir

ELLIS ESSIR 2025 in full swing. Nice to see so many talented people in one room, enjoying interesting tutorials. Also a big thank you to our tutors! More info 👉 2025.essir.eu

ELLIS ESSIR kicking off today. I‘m excited! 2025.essir.eu

Back to where I came from – going to Wolverhampton for our OMINO workshop. Next week will be our ELLIS ESSIR Information Retrieval summer school, again in Wolverhampton. Looking forward to seeing friends, colleagues, lots of talents and interesting people! ominoproject.eu 2025.essir.eu

One week to go until our ELLIS ESSIR Summer School on Information Retrieval starts in Wolverhampton, UK. We are excited! Still possible to register and join the other talented and leading researchers! 👉 2025.essir.eu #InformationRetrieval #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #IR #NLP #HCI

Very interesting project. A mammoth task! www.nature.com/articles/d41... #FakeScience #InformationOverload

An exciting scholarship opportunity for women in tech that honours my lovely and talented former colleague Vinita Nahar, who passed away much too early in 2023. @wlvuni.bsky.social www.wlv.ac.uk/apply/openbr...