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Missed last week's Trends in AI episode on evaluating AI systems? We've got you covered! Check out the highlights in our latest blog: www.zeta-alpha.com/post/trends-...

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So I log onto TwitterX today to discover that Alex Jones and many of his followers think a tissue and coffee stirrer are hardcore drugs. I’d better warn my local corner shop to hide the Kleenex incase the rozzers come round.

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Registration for ELLIS ESSIR 2025 is open now! 👉 2025.essir.eu/attending/re... More good news 🎉: @elsa-ai.bsky.social, the European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI, is kindly offering travel support 👉 2025.essir.eu/attending/tr... #IR #AI #InformationRetrieval #SummerSchool

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#VEDay80 - the first German post-Third Reich newspaper to announce the end of the war was the Aachener Nachrichten. The newspaper was raised by the US Army during the occupation in 1945.

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Today we remember the bravery and the sacrifices of a generation. Not forgetting the millions of women who contributed so much. #VEDay80 #VEDay

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In a powerful symbol of reconciliation, German NATO soldiers marched alongside their British counterparts, and a Luftwaffe pilot took part in the flypast in London today, as the UK commemorations marking 80 years since the end of World War II began. #VEDay80

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Thank you for all your sacrifice to liberate us, too! 🙏 🏅🫡🇬🇧🇺🇸🇫🇷 Our joint task is to make sure this never ever happens again! 🇪🇺 #VEDay80

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If you don’t understand why GenAI hallucinates so often, and most people don’t, read this: garymarcus.substack.com/p/why-do-lar...

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UK wins £500m in science grants from EU Horizon scheme after Brexit lockout www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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Moby released a rich and free collection for the creative souls who want to play with sound and music. mobygratis.com

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@iaugenstein.bsky.social has been crowned last year’s winner of the Karen Spärck Jones Award. Her well-deserved trophy was awarded after delivering a very insightful keynote at ECIR 2025. Read our article in BCS Informer. medium.com/bcs-irsg-inf... We're seeking nominations for the next KSJ Award!

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A live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures at UK universities. That is a shockingly long list 😱 and I feel sorry for everyone affected! Academic capitalism to blame? qmucu.org/qmul-transfo... #ukacademia #higherEducation #academia

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Laura Dietz, Oleg Zendel, Peter Bailey, Charles Clarke, Ellese Cotterill, Jeff Dalton, Faegheh Hasibi, Mark Sanderson, Nick Craswell LLM-Evaluation Tropes: Perspectives on the Validity of LLM-Evaluations https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19076

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We're living in sad times.

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The first hybrid stopping off point for teams is often Reciprical Rank Fusion, but its not that useful unless both systems are equal in quality. Otherwise it just drags a good system down towards a worse system softwaredoug.com/blog/2024/11...

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When the moment came, Harvard didn’t hedge or flinch—it stood up. A reminder that integrity isn’t complicated, it’s just rare.

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Hier wie da. Auch die Öffentlich-Rechtlichen in Deutschland drohen gerade viele Menschen zu verlieren, die eigentlich zu ihren größten Unterstützer:innen zähl(t)en.

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We’re introducing a new layer of verification on Bluesky — a user-friendly, easily recognizable blue check. In addition to account verification issued by Bluesky, we're also introducing Trusted Verifiers. Select independent organizations can verify accounts directly.

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Pope Francis was a master of making emotional connections. He was, at heart, a pastor to wounded souls. Here are some of the most memorable moments of Pope Francis' papacy.

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Published at #IRRJ: "Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical Futures" by Bhaskar Mitra https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.19654

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Sentence of the year: “Critics once described Brexit as the greatest act of economic self-harm by a Western country in the post-World War II era. It may now be getting a run for its money across the Atlantic.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/w...

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LongEval is turning three this year! This is a Call for Participation to our CLEF 2025 Lab - try out how your IR system does in the long term. Check the details on our page: clef-longeval.github.io

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“On today’s X, #AcademicTwitter is dead. And most scholars in the world do not want to be active on what the platform has become.” ~ @claesdevreese.bsky.social

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Podcast with me :-) About the nice ppl at DuckDB, the DuckDB FAISS community extension and why that is a good idea but also some better ideas yet to come. https://open.spotify.com/episode/33get9iGEZXMsgKiOZ2mml?si=0fSapc9ZSouNOPo9dSlv7g

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SIGIR-AP'25 website is live: www.sigir-ap.org/sigir-ap-2025. We are soliciting research, resource, reproducibility, perspective, and industry papers. If you had a paper rejected at SIGIR'25 you can resubmit either through the SIGIR-Revise-and-Resubmit process or as a regular submission! #SIGIRAP2025

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The transformer was invented in Google. RLHF was not invented in industry labs, but came to prominence in OpenAI and DeepMind. I took 5 of the most influential papers (black dots) and visualized their references. Blue dots are papers that acknowledge federal funding (DARPA, NSF).

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I'm recruiting a postdoc on an 18-month contract candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI.... The position is about deploying LLMs in the Danish public sector. This is an interdisciplinary project that touches on technical, ethical, and legal aspects of LLM usage. Apply by 1 May 2025.

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Vienna calling! We are looking for a PhD student/researcher/lecturer at Modul University in Vienna. This is a fully funded position with a salary. If you're interested in a PhD in IR, NLP and AI, get in touch! modul-university-vienna-gmbh.jobs.personio.com/job/2053035?...

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Our SCOLIA 2025 workshop on scholarly information access at ECIR 2025 is in full swing! More people joined later. Lots of interesting talks and discussion on scholarly data analysis and information access. sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/... #ecir2025

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Still in Lucca on Thursday? Why not attend our Scholarly Information Access workshop SCOLIA at San Micheletto Campus! We have an open mic session, speak to us if you want to present your work! sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/... #ecir2025

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ESSIR 2025, the European Summer School on Information Retrieval in Wolverhampton, UK, July 7-11! Dive into cutting-edge Information Retrieval & AI, network with experts. Plus, don’t miss the interactive FDIA Symposium! 🎓 👉 2025.essir.eu #IR #AI #ECIR2025

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#ECIR2025 banquet

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You know someone who deserves the Karen Spärck Jones Award? Or want to nominate yourself? There will be a new round of nominations soon. More info www.bcs.org/membership-a...

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Many congratulations to the Karen Spärck Jones Award winner @iaugenstein.bsky.social, who gave an exciting keynote on "Understanding the Interplay between LLMs’ Utilisation of Parametric and Contextual Knowledge"! 👏 🎉 We also thank our sponsor @bloomberglp.bsky.social! #ecir2025

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I generally avoid giving unnecessarily publicity and visibility to the current president. However, I am sharing this news as it directly influences our lines of research. NIST work on standards and challenges is influential in the EU in many areas including cybersecurity and information retrieval.

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We are at #ECIR2025 this week! Get the flyer and talk to our editors during the coffee breaks.

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#ECIR2025 in Lucca – what a stunning location! Talking IR and AI in a church is special.

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Paper accepted at #SIGIR2025, but you had a hard time keeping the page limit? Congratulations, you can now submit an extended version with 50% "new" material to #IRRJ! https://irrj.org/second-call-for-papers

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Change some names, the rest stays the same.

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Five alarm fire: The State Department has effectively ended free speech for student visa holders.

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🦋 This is exciting! @altmetric.com data shows new #research is now more likely to be shared on @bsky.app than on X! See the analysis from Mike Taylor @herrison2000.bsky.social (our Head of Data Insights) & Carlos Areia (Senior Data Scientist): www.altmetric.com/blog/bluesky...

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IRRJ, the Information Retrieval Research Journal, is the new player in the information retrieval publication landscape. The first issue has recently been published. Have a look at irrj.org/index, and don't forget to follow @IRRJ.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy!

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European universities offer ‘scientific asylum’ to US researchers fleeing Trump’s cuts www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Very honoured to be featured by Pulse as a top voice in #search ! Read the interview here pulse.support/top-voices/c...

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AI Chatbots – a new open door for misinformation? www.forbes.com/sites/torcon...

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BCS Search Solutions also had some insightful tutorials.

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