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Professor of Applied Data Science at Modul University Vienna. Computer Science, Information Retrieval, AI, NLP and Digital Libraries. Electronic music and @schalke04.de. Opinions are my own. https://frommholz.org
“42% predicted a strongly negative effect on science from preprints that spread misinformation. “
but
“‘If you get a reputation for being the person who always puts up stuff [on preprint servers] which doesn’t have complete data and is shoddy, then you’re done in academia.’”
🤔
The 2025 Bloomberg/BCS Karen Spärck Jones Award will be presented in three weeks at EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco.
(The award alternates between EACL and ECIR.)
#awards #NLP #IR #research @nlproc @eaclmeeting.bsky.social
Many want to use AI to accelerate science, and utilizing it to explore the growing tsunami of research articles is getting lots of attention. Measuring the quality of AI answers to questions about science is a challenge. @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
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
Is there any better ad in favor of AI than Hegseth yelling at Anthropic because Claude won’t do war crimes?
“The model is also continuously updated and refined, the [OpenAI] spokesperson said.”
Risking my health in a huge beta test experiment? No thanks! If in doubt, see a doctor immediately. One in flesh and blood.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Embedding unreliable AI deep into the source code of the military without human oversight is the single stupidest thing we could do as a species.
And that is *exactly* what the United States is about to do.
My little OMINO UK tour is coming to an end. It was a great opportunity to discuss our work on information overload and academic information access with friends, project partners and former colleagues!
#InformationOverload #FakeScience #InformationRetrieval
Great day yesterday at the University of Southampton where my PhD student Libo Ren and I gave a talk at a mini workshop in the context of our EU staff exchange project OMINO. It was great to see so many friends and current and former colleagues!
Pretty cool and also a nice discovery tool.
This year, the #IRforGood track will be a part of the main #ECIR2026 conference program:
https://ecir2026.eu/calls/call-for-ir-for-good-papers
https://bhaskar-mitra.github.io/posts/2025/09/01/what-is-ir-for-good/
BREAKING: There will be an #IRRJ paper session at the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval #ECIR2026 on 1 April in Delft, The Netherlands. https://ecir2026.eu
If you read anything this week, read "Why I'm Leaving Big Tech" by Bhaskar Mitra:
"Why am I leaving Big Tech? There are several reasons. While I list a few below, I believe they stem from the same underlying structural problem: an unprecedented concentration of power in the hands of those in […]
Generative AI and the Threat to Thinking by Martha Larson and Zhuoran Liu:
"The proliferation of content created using generative artificial intelligence can overwhelm the ability of people to
process information." Larson and Liu consider a model of human thinking to unpack this threat […]
OpenClaw (aka Moltbot) may have gone completely viral, but it is also a disaster waiting to happen.
A PSA for why you should steer clear.
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing.
#FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience
www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
Mamdani Targets ‘Unusable’ AI Chatbot for Termination www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/30/m...
ArXiv preprint server clamps down on AI slop –
First-time posters to venerable platform now need an endorsement from an established author.
www.science.org/content/arti...
By end of Feb @bsky.app will be the 2nd largest social media source for research sharing in our database
- Google+ managed 945,000 mentions of research during its life
- Facebook pages (not people's profiles) have shared papers 6.6m times
- Reddit = 600k
Bluesky is currently at 6m and climbing
Vienna Deep Learning Meetup with a view.
This is an interesting policy change regarding author attendance. Much more inclusive, but will authors struggle now to justify their travel expenses? Would be interesting to see how this affects author participation.
From the ICML 2026 CfP icml.cc/Conferences/...
#icml #conferences
Musk’s ability to alter the worldview of people now expands beyond just users of Grok.
Nice read with quotes from L3S prof Wolfgang Nejdl
https://www.wired.com/story/europe-race-us-deepseek-sovereign-ai/
There will be an #IRRJ special issue on #FIRE: Participants of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2025), which took place from 17 to 20 December 2025 at the Indian Institute of Technology in Varanasi, India, are invited to submit an extended version of their FIRE 2025 paper.
Thank you, @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy & @arjenpdevries.bsky.social !
yeah! upgrade for #UMAP :)
Deadline extended to January 31!
Be aware of fake journals!
Are you now part of AI training, too?
"Google has just changed Gmail after twenty years. In among countless AI upgrades — including 'personalized AI' that gives Gemini access to all your data in Gmail, Photos and more, comes a surprising decision."
[Source: Forbes www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof... ]
Still a few days to go to submit to our SCOLIA workshop at @ecir2026.eu! If you're interested in scholarly search and recommendation, scholarly document processing, the intersection of bibliometrics/scientometrics and information retrieval, this is your place!
sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/...