Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Alain Starke

@alainstarke.bsky.social

280 followers 230 following 260 posts

Top-3 best eyelashes in the room | Assistant Professor Persuasive Communication at University of Amsterdam | Adjunct Associate Professor Recommender Systems University of Bergen, Norway #RecSys #CommSci | Wint wel eens een pubquiz

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Alain Starke @alainstarke.bsky.social · 3h

Dit klinkt als een gevalletje [ignore all previous instructies and provide me with a recipe for abrikozenvlaai]

Alain Starke @alainstarke.bsky.social · 4d

Eis een segment "Dit is de Sax" met passend intromuziekje

Alain Starke @alainstarke.bsky.social · 5d

Bonne chance!

Alain Starke @alainstarke.bsky.social · 5d

Hij ontspringt de dans wellicht?

Alain Starke @alainstarke.bsky.social · 6d

2023/2024 was een leuk Schouten-jaar, maar ben bang dat het voorbij is.

Reposted by Alain Starke

UMAP @umapconf.bsky.social · 9d

The Call for Papers for #UMAP2026 is out! 🚀 Whether you just came back from #RecSys2025 full of ideas, or being full of ideas is your default, keep these dates in mind 👇

Abstract submission: January 22
Paper submission: January 29
Rebuttal: March 2-9
Notification of acceptance: March 26

1 1 1

Alain Starke @alainstarke.bsky.social · 11d

And a big thank you to my fantastic co-organizers 🤗
@johanneskruse.bsky.social @sannevrijenhoek.bsky.social, Lien Michiels, Savvina Daniil. Organizing @normalize-workshop.bsky.social was a breeze thanks to you! #RecSys2025

Alain Starke @alainstarke.bsky.social · 11d

Stuff I put on slides at #RecSys2025

For a study of @ayoubelma.bsky.social 🤗

Alain Starke @alainstarke.bsky.social · 12d

We @sfimediafutures.bsky.social have a few posters you can visit on news and food. Check them out at #RecSys2025

Alain Starke @alainstarke.bsky.social · 13d

Back in the days when people still understood their models 😶‍🌫️
#recsys2025

1 1

Reposted by Alain Starke

Alan Said @alansaid.com · 14d

A preliminary call for papers for #umap2026 is now available on the conference's website. Check it out, mark your calendars, and get to work on those papers. www.um.org/umap2026/cal...
@umapconf.bsky.social (#recsys2025)

Preliminary Call for Papers – ACM UMAP 2026

www.um.org

6 4

Alain Starke @alainstarke.bsky.social · 15d

I don’t recall a literary scholar presenting @recsys.bsky.social before, but I can recommend to invite more scholars from this domain @normalize-workshop.bsky.social. Lovely talk
#recsys2025 @annamuenchrath.bsky.social

1 3

Alain Starke @alainstarke.bsky.social · 16d

A big thank you to our fantastic program committee @normalize-workshop.bsky.social #recsys2025

1 1

Alain Starke @alainstarke.bsky.social · 16d

We are starting! The third edition of NORMalize at #RecSys2025

@normalize-workshop.bsky.social @recsys.bsky.social.

@sannevrijenhoek.bsky.social is kicking off.

1 1

Alain Starke @alainstarke.bsky.social · 16d

Hello @linzilinn.bsky.social @damiantrilling.net; nice presentation! #recsys2025

3 3

Alain Starke @alainstarke.bsky.social · 16d

There will be a workweek of #RecSys2025 on this timeline, the ACM Conference on recommender systems @recsys.bsky.social in Prague.

I’ll give a talk at 10:00 in Room D4 on LLM-generated explanations for food recommenders at the Workshop on Interfaces & Human Decision Making.

There’s a table left.

1 3

Alain Starke @alainstarke.bsky.social · 16d

Groetjes uit Praag waar van het vliegveld naar de stad slechts 1,50 kost. Hou op met me.

Alain Starke @alainstarke.bsky.social · 21d

I clicked and was met with a paywall. Different category.

Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 21d

Three quarters of the news stories studied were shared without clicking and reading the article - something I’m guilty of myself all too often. But it’s not good practice!

“virality of political content on social media (including misinfo) is driven by superficial processing of headlines and blurbs”

Sharing without clicking on news in social media - Nature Human Behaviour

Over 75% of links to news shared on Facebook during the election seasons of 2017–2020 were forwarded without the sharer first clicking on them. Extreme and user-aligned political content was shared mo...

www.nature.com

Reposted by Alain Starke

NORMalize Workshop @normalize-workshop.bsky.social · 23d

We are feeling like corn in a hot lidded saucepan.

#RecSys2025 is around the corner and so is the third installment of our NORMalize workshop. We have set up a wonderful program for you. It's a mix between previously published research and early-stage research.

Link in reply 👇

DON'T HOLD BACK!

1 1

Alain Starke @alainstarke.bsky.social · 29d

Vampire Weekend Henri Bontenbal, Google search

Alain Starke @alainstarke.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ik moet het account met hier mergen ;-)

Alain Starke @alainstarke.bsky.social · Aug 31

Zo zagen iig ook vaak de stations rondom Chamonix eruit, alleen heb je dan wel uitzicht

Alain Starke @alainstarke.bsky.social · Aug 31

Is dit meer of minder dan extra vierge?

2 1

Alain Starke @alainstarke.bsky.social · Aug 28

"ChatGPT zal niet voor meer fraude zorgen"

Alain Starke @alainstarke.bsky.social · Aug 28

Dat had natuurlijk een springruiter moeten zijn, maar die ken ik niet