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Jonathan Aldrich @jonathanaldrich.bsky.social · 13d

Many organizations are changing their language and policies surrounding DEI. The ACM has not, we are sticking to our principles.

- Yannis Ioannidis, ACM president, today

I'm proud to be a member & volunteer for the @acm.org!

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Saarland Informatics Campus @saarland-informatics-campus.de · 14d

German Unity Day celebrates the reunification of East and West Germany. This year, Saarland is hosting the festivities!

We will be in Saarbrücken, Mainzerstraße 3, joined by DFKI, MPI-INF, MPI-SWS, and LZI, to celebrate German Unity Day with you! 🥳

🔗 Find our full program here: sic.link/burgerfest

Poster for the "Zukunft durch Wandel" (Future through Change) event celebrating the Day of German Unity in Saarbrücken, October 2–4, 2025. Below, large white text reads: "Visit our booth – join our program! Mainzerstraße 3, Saarbrücken City." The background image shows three smiling people sitting outdoors, talking, and using a laptop.

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 18d

First author Vs. Second author

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Max Planck Institute for Informatics @mpi-inf.mpg.de · 24d

Director Christian Theobalt joins the new season of the Max Planck podcast “Ach, Mensch!” and talks about his research in Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence.

↪️Link to the episode: sic.link/achmensch

📸MPI-INF

Christian Theobalt during the podcast recording.

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Saarland Informatics Campus @saarland-informatics-campus.de · 25d

🏅 Saarbrücken receives 2 #ERC Starting Grants in computer science this year, more than any other institution in Germany!

Congrats to Dr. Mariya Toneva and Dr. Franziska Boenisch!

💶 Each project will receive €1.5M over 5 years.

🔗 Read more here:
➡️ sic.link/mariya
➡️ sic.link/franziska

#AI #SIC

On the left, Dr. Mariya Toneva, on the right, Dr. Franziska Boenisch; on top of a banner that says "Saarbrücken computer scientists win 2 ERC Starting Grants!"

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Sven Apel @svenapel.bsky.social · 26d

Maintaining and cultivating the traditions of my Alma Mater. Congratulations Dr. Roman!

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Sven Apel @svenapel.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congratulations @mtoneva.bsky.social! Great project! I'm looking forward to the results!

Mariya Toneva @mtoneva.bsky.social · Sep 4

So excited and honored to receive an ERC Starting Grant for the project BrainAlign!! BrainAlign will bring LLMs closer to human understanding by directly aligning them with the human brain.

Stay tuned for our findings, and multiple postdoc and PhD openings in the coming years!

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Sep 4

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!

Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!

➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh

#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Sep 2

In 2025, the ERC received 3,329 proposals for Advanced Grant funding — 31% more than last year!

The selected projects will likely be announced in the spring of 2026.

More facts and figures on #ERCAdG applications 👇 europa.eu/!bm9gPT

#FrontierResearch

Applications for ERC Advanced Grants 2025: Facts and figures

The ERC Advanced Grants 2025 call closed for applications on 28 August 2025. These are the preliminary data on the submitted proposals:

europa.eu

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International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) @aseconf.bsky.social · Aug 25

Have you recently published in ASEJ, IEEE TSE, ACM TOSEM, EMSE, or JSS? Present your work at ASE’25!

✅ Accepted after Jan 1, 2024
✅ In ASE scope
✅ ≥70% new content
✅ Not presented elsewhere

👉 Full details: conf.researchr.org/track/ase-20...
🗓️ Submission Due: 1st Sep

#ASE2025 #SoftwareEngineering

ASE 2025 - Journal-First Track - ASE 2025

Welcome to the website of the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2025. The ASE conference is the premier research forum for Automated Software Engineering. E...

conf.researchr.org

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Sven Apel @svenapel.bsky.social · Jun 24

Experiments in SE research often require a contrast condition or baseline (e.g., contrasting reading code with problem solving or reading prose). What is the influence of the choice of baseline on the actual results? See our TOSEM paper for answers:
www.se.cs.uni-saarland.de/publications...

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International Conference on Software Engineering @icseconf.bsky.social · Jun 20

Congrats to all authors of accepted papers in Cycle 1 of #ICSE2026! Out of 660 submissions, 60 papers were accepted and 107 invited for major revisions. We now invite you to share this post with more details about your paper! We'll see you in Rio! 🇧🇷🌴

A happy sheet of paper with ICSE 2026 written on it

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Jun 17

📣 Good news: 281 top researchers have just won ERC Advanced Grants!

The new funding, worth nearly €721 million, is part of the 🇪🇺 EU’s #HorizonEurope programme.

Find out more 👉 europa.eu/!JYKxkD

#ERCAdG #FrontierResearch @ec.europa.eu

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Felis Just @monstermietz.bsky.social · Jun 17

Am Wochenende durfte ich unsere Forschung auf dem #Kosmos vorstellen. Ich bin begeistert, dass so viele sich für #Programmieren und #Neurodiversität interessieren. Danke an alle vor Ort und die #TUC!

@janetsiegmund.bsky.social @svenapel.bsky.social @schanlin.bsky.social @yifan00.bsky.social

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Saarland Informatics Campus @saarland-informatics-campus.de · Jun 11

⚛️ Quantum software meets Saarbrücken science: new €53M+ research center launched at @uni-saarland.de.

With #informatics, #physics, #math & #engineering on board – and @dfki.bsky.social , @mpi-inf.mpg.de & ‪@fz-juelich.de in the mix.

🔗 Read more about the #QuTe initiative here: sic.link/qute

The leadership team of the new Center for Quantum Technologies, representing the fields of physics, mathematics, and computer science (from left to right): Peter P. Orth, Markus Bläser, Giovanna Morigi, Frank Wilhelm-Mauch, Moritz Weber, Jürgen Eschner, and Christoph Becher. Not pictured: Jonas Haferkamp, who is also part of the leadership team.

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International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) @aseconf.bsky.social · Jun 3

🎉 HUGE NEWS! 🎉

#ASE2025 has received a record-breaking 1,190 submissions – the most EVER for a single-cycle top SE conference! 🤯

Massive thanks to all authors who submitted. Looking forward to what promises to be an unforgettable conference with an incredible program 🔥!

ASE 2025

Welcome to the website of the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2025. The ASE conference is the premier research forum for Automated Software Engineering. E...

conf.researchr.org

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Marcel Böhme @mboehme.bsky.social · Jun 3

Massive 1.2k submissions to #ASE25 in Korea! 🎉 📈

International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) @aseconf.bsky.social · Jun 3

🎉 HUGE NEWS! 🎉

#ASE2025 has received a record-breaking 1,190 submissions – the most EVER for a single-cycle top SE conference! 🤯

Massive thanks to all authors who submitted. Looking forward to what promises to be an unforgettable conference with an incredible program 🔥!

ASE 2025

Welcome to the website of the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2025. The ASE conference is the premier research forum for Automated Software Engineering. E...

conf.researchr.org

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Andreas Zeller @andreaszeller.bsky.social · May 14

Occasionally, I get a reviewer complaining, “You don’t compare against any other approach. So how can we know you’re better?” So I found a simple way to still add the "bold number column" that apparently everybody wants these days.

Table with three columns: one "other approaches", all with 0%; one "our approach", with bold, non-zero percentages; and one "improvement", showing infinite improvement in all cases.

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Adolfo Neto @adolfont.github.io · May 10

📢 ASE 2025 – Upcoming Deadlines!
🔍 Research Papers: 30 May
✨ NIER: 12 Jul
⚒️ Tool Demonstration: 23 Jul
🧑‍🏫 Doctoral Symposium: 31 Jul
🏢 Industry Showcase: 1 Aug
👩🏻‍💻 Student Research Competition: 12 Aug
📄 Journal First: 1 Sep
More info: conf.researchr.org/home/ase-2025

ASE 2025

Welcome to the website of the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2025. The ASE conference is the premier research forum for Automated Software Engineering. E...

conf.researchr.org

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Marcel Böhme @mboehme.bsky.social · May 3

✨️ Now that #ICSE25 is over, it's time to get your papers ready for #ASE25 (30th May)!

📢 Here is what's new:
* Major Revision v2.0
* Review criteria for tech. & experience papers
* Policy on LLM-assisted Reviews
* Auto-bidding (TPMS)
* Rapid Response Reliable Reviewers

👇 For more details, read on.

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Volker Stolz @fm-volker.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · May 2

Meet the AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize Winners at ECOOP'25:

Mira Mezini, TU Darmstadt (Senior Prize)
Amir Shaikhha, University of Edinburgh (Junior Prize)

Check out their awards-citation:
https://2025.ecoop.org/track/ecoop-2025-awards

It's also the first time […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]

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Andreas Zeller @andreaszeller.bsky.social · Apr 29

A new look! We have created a new version of The Fuzzing Book, based on #JupyterBook, bringing

* easier navigation
* dark mode
* search
* mobile layout

and lots of other features. Check it out at www.fuzzingbook.org/beta/html/in...

Should we continue with this new look? Comments are welcome!

Web site of The Fuzzing Book in new, three-column layout

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Adolfo Neto @adolfont.github.io · Apr 25

Help Us with Our Software Engineering Research Survey
#SEResearch
youtu.be/SBolY_AvqK0

Help Us with Our Software Engineering Research Survey

YouTube video by Elixir, Erlang and the BEAM with Adolfo Neto

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Diomidis Spinellis @coolsweng.bsky.social · Apr 14

Many sites provide incorrect or incomplete BibTeX entries. I therefore just use the provided DOI and a small shell script to create the BibTeX from it from the definitive data retrieved from Crossref.

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International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) @aseconf.bsky.social · Apr 8

📢 ASE 2025 – Upcoming Deadlines!

🔍 Research Papers: 30 May
✨ NIER: 12 Jul
⚒️ Tool Demonstration: 23 Jul
🧑‍🏫 Doctoral Symposium: 31 Jul
🏢 Industry Showcase: 1 Aug
👩🏻‍💻 Student Research Competition: 12 Aug
📄 Journal First: 1 Sep

#ASE2025 #SoftwareEngineering #CallForPapers

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