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Ingo Frommholz @frommholz.org · 3h

Modul Women in Data Science Datathon – a morning and afternoon well spent with our talented students who had to solve complex problems in a very short time. Kudos to the organisers and participants, and thanks to the sponsors and judges!

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Michael Ekstra Scary @md.ekstrandom.net · 1d

Pope summed up my whole-ass research agenda.

Screenshot: "Free access to information is a pillar that upholds the edifice of our societies, and for this reason, we are called to defend and guarantee it," he said.
"Current events call for particular
discernment and responsibility, and it is clear that the media has a crucial role in forming consciences and helping critical thinking".
The pope also spoke about the challenges facing news media with the rise of AI.
"Artificial intelligence is changing the way we receive information and communicate, but who directs it and for what purposes? We must be vigilant in order to ensure that technology does not replace human beings, and that the information and algorithms that govern it today are not in the hands of a few," he said.
He nominated "transparency of sources of ownership, accountability, quality and objectivity" as key to news media.

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 7d

Weekend reads: Science publishing a ‘hot mess’; AI microscopy ‘indistinguishable’ from real; social media as a bellwether for retractions

Duke scientists lose eight papers for alleged image manipulation Sleuth unearths citation, authorship issues at earth sciences journal Former student who ran paper mill up to 11 retractions Journal…

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Michael Will 🍁 @scidata.ca · 7d

There is no shortcut around pure research. Science takes time.

“The only reason psychology students don’t have to do more and harder mathematics than physics students is because the mathematicians haven’t yet discovered ways of dealing with problems as hard as those in psychology.”
- John G. Kemeny

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American Statistical Association History of Statistics @hos-asa.bsky.social · 9d

Today is the 75th anniversary of Alan’s Turing’s paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" published in journal Mind where he proposed the question, "Can machines think?" – the Turing Test

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Labrys of Aëlla @aellalabrys.bsky.social · 12d

"Stochastische Papageien - diesen Ausdruck prägte die Computerlinguistin Emily Bender gemeinsam mit drei Kolleginnen, um große Sprachmodelle zu beschreiben"

Ich liebe den Begriff und er passt einfach perfekt.

taz.de/KI-unter-Fas...

KI unter Faschismusverdacht: Die Papageien, die wir riefen

Übles wird nachgeplappert: KI hat nicht nur ein Kreativitäts-, sondern auch ein potenzielles Faschismusproblem, analysiert Rainer Mühlhoff in einem Buch der Reclam-Reihe „Was bedeutet das alles?“.

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Ingo Frommholz @frommholz.org · 13d

Time Berners-Lee: Why I gave the world wide web away for free

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Lee

My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for

www.theguardian.com

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Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র @bmitra.bsky.social · 15d

Look who just joined Bluesky! 👀

It's @acmsigir.bsky.social. 😇

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Florina Piroi @flrp.bsky.social · 17d

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

Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 18d

"The researchers demonstrated that hallucinations stemmed from statistical properties of language model training rather than implementation flaws. "

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits.

www.computerworld.com

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Mat Kelly @machawk1.bsky.social · 23d

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.

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Ingo Frommholz @frommholz.org · 22d

I wouldn’t be surprised if that correlates with the lowest immigration level.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 24d

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...

Royal Society to debate throwing out Elon Musk

One of the most prestigious scientific bodies in the world is considering expelling Musk after his appearance at Tommy Robinson’s extremist London rally

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Ingo Frommholz @frommholz.org · 25d

In Dagstuhl for the Open Scholarly Information Systems seminar

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Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 26d

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

Tuta: Turn ON privacy for free with secure emails, calendars & contacts | Tuta

Tuta guarantees your data stays private for free & without ads. Quantum-resistant encryption makes Tuta the best secure technology solution to protect your privacy.

tuta.com

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Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 27d

European cloud providers / virtual private server providers (in case you need one)

https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/digitalocean

European alternatives to DigitalOcean | European Alternatives

DigitalOcean is a US-American cloud computing platform.

european-alternatives.eu

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Ingo Frommholz @frommholz.org · 29d

But who aligns the alignment aligners? 🤔

Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · Sep 11

Q. Who aligns the aligners?
A. alignmentalignment.ai

Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.

Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

We align the aligners

alignmentalignment.ai

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Ingo Frommholz @frommholz.org · Sep 10

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...

Professor closes down Radboud University email address in protest against Microsoft - Vox magazine

Professor of Data Science Djoerd Hiemstra can no longer be reached through his standard Radboud University email address. Anyone emailing him at this address is referred to a page explaining that he b...

www.voxweb.nl

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Sep 10

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 […]

Original post on fediscience.org

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IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 9

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

dblp: IRRJ, Volume 1

Bibliographic content of IRRJ, Volume 1

dblp.org

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Ingo Frommholz @frommholz.org · Sep 5

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!

CEUR-WS.org/Vol-4022 - First International Workshop on Scholarly Information Access (SCOLIA)

ceur-ws.org

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arXiv cs.LG Machine Learning @cslg-bot.bsky.social · Aug 14

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

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · Sep 2

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

#people #research #obituaries

Elizabeth Liddy Obituary - Charlotte, NC

Celebrate the life of Elizabeth Liddy, leave a kind word or memory and get funeral service information care of McEwen Pineville Chapel.

www.dignitymemorial.com

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️ @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 28

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 […]

Original post on idf.social

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Amit Kumar Jaiswal @amitkumarjaiswal.bsky.social · Aug 30

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

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BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group @bcs-irsg.bsky.social · Sep 1

ECIR 2026 – the calls for papers are out!

Christine Bauer @christinebauer.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thrilled that I’ll be co-chairing the #ECIR2026 Short Paper track together w/ @aliannejadi.bsky.social + @macavaney.bsky.social - truly a dream team! :)

The #CfP is already live: ecir2026.eu/calls/call-f...
We're looking forward to your submissions!

#InformationAccess #IR #RecSys #ECIR

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