The #MuRS2025 workshop on music recommenders is in full swing. We have a great program w/9 paper presentations+a keynote by Anna Huang.

Engaging participants in a packed room!

The happy organizers:@lorenzoporcaro.bsky.social, Andrés Ferraro,+me.
sites.google.com/view/murs-20...
#RecSys2025 #recsys

Are you in Prague for #RecSys25? Let’s meet up! 🙌

See you today at MuRS - Music Recommender Systems Workshop 2025! 🎶

📢 Final #CfP for #MuRS2025 @recsys.bsky.social
🗓️ Abstracts due Aug 4. Paper submission Aug 7!

MuRS2025: 3rd Music Recommender Systems Workshop
🗓️ Sep 22, Prague, at #RecSys2025
sites.google.com/view/murs-2025

w/ Andrés Ferraro + @lorenzoporcaro.bsky.social

#RecSys #music #MIR #GenAI

The #CfP for #MuRS2025 is out!

MuRS2025: 3rd Music Recommender Systems Workshop
sites.google.com/view/murs-20...

Looking forward to your submissions!

Happy to collaborate again w/ @lorenzoporcaro.bsky.social and Andrés Ferraro at @recsys.bsky.social

#RecSys2025 #RecSys #music #MIR #GenAI

"Those who study music should be concerned about the loss of cultural diversity for the same reason that biologists worry about the loss of biodiversity: we don't yet know what the loss will mean, but we do know that the loss will be irreversible."

David Huron (1954–2025)

What a week!

The MuRS workshop is back! We’re excited to announce that the 3rd Music Recommender Systems Workshop (MuRS) will be part of the ACM RecSys 2025 Conference (@recsys.bsky.social). Stay tuned for updates:
sites.google.com/view/murs-2025

"For the remainder of this article, we will use the terms user and bot interchangeably" ... and my heart cries 💔

#research #researchers #interchangeable #hci

The relationship between social media and democracy is complex but important and there is a lot of debate.

For coordination, I wanted to gauge the community with a discussion thread about what, in my view, we do know and the ones we do not know (yet), please add your thoughts and/or disagree: 1/n

🚀 CfP: Human-Centric Music IR (HCMIR) 2025 🚀

Join us at HCMIR, a satellite workshop of ISMIR 2025, exploring ethics, UX/UI, AI collaboration & more in MIR!

📅 Submission opens: June 2, 2025

📌 Deadline: June 18, 2025

🔗 Details: sites.google.com/view/hcmir25/

#MIR #ISMIR2025 #AI #MusicTech

It's somewhat funny reading hot takes that generative AI doesn't pose any real ecological challenges because the marginal energy cost of calling simpler trained models is low.

New blogpost: gobbledegook papers as canaries in the coalmine- and more bad news for MDPI
deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/01/toma...

AI tools are fascinating but fell short when I tried creating a logo for my project. Science Graphic Design (www.sciencegraphicdesign.com) brought ideas to life—earbuds for modern music listening, a magnifying glass for auditing. Their input was invaluable. Sometimes, AI isn’t enough. Kudos to them!

« Systematic reviews’ that aim to extract broad conclusions from many studies are in peril:
Fake papers are “poisoning the well” for these gold-standard syntheses, researchers say » @science.org

I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Sapienza Università di Roma! I will lead the project "Algorithmic Auditing for Music Discoverability" (AA4MD) aa4md-project.eu

Soon more updates!

Dorothy Bishop lambasts world’s oldest scientific academy as she quits in protest “I’m not willing to treat Elon Musk ‘collegially and with courtesy’,” she says. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

Traveling to Milan from Rome by train for participating to LINECHECK2024 (www.linecheck.it). I cannot but recall the comfort and pleasure of traveling with train in Japan: no noisy people, no people talking, no people watching videos at high volume... I'll miss that.

📣 Join my team! 📣

I'm hiring a doctoral researcher (PhD) to work on **fairness in recommender systems**—with a focus on the music sector or related media fields.
Funded 4-year PhD position (30h/week).

Vacancy description 👉 tinyurl.com/4w2ts9pj

#job #phd #recsys #fairness

Just spent 2 weeks traveling in Japan reading "The Design of Everyday Things" by Norman, and I realised how - even without knowing a single word of Japanese - the amazing design of most of the technology and services made this the most comfortable trip I had in my life ありがとうございます

What are the main trends of Music Recommender Systems Research? 🎶

At #ACMRecSys2024, cutting-edge research is shaping the future of music recommendation. Curious about the top trends? 👉 Read the full article to stay ahead:
www.linkedin.com/pulse/main-t...

#MusicTech #RecommenderSystems

Quite puzzled by the idea that "sad girl hipster" could be a music theme for a playlist. Not sure either if #Lorde or #LanaDelRey welcome this label.

#spotify #daylist #musicplaylist #openquestion

First day of the ACM Europe School on Recommender Systems 2024! Good to be back behind the university desks #recommendersystems #summerschool #ACM

This week, my journey at the Joint Research Centre ends. I’m grateful to have worked on algorithmic transparency, data access, social media and mental health. I’ll be returning to academia soon, stay tuned for updates on my upcoming projects on #RecommenderSystems #AlgorithmicAuditing #MusicTech

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,644,764!