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Damiano Spina @damianospina.com · 7d

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ADM+S Centre @admscentre.org.au · 7d

The October edition of the ADM+S Newsletter is here. It includes our latest reports on major community-engaged research projects, policy submissions, journal publications, videos & more https://mailchi.mp/rmit/xiao9risv9-17446335
#AI #Automation #DigitalSociety #Research

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Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র @bmitra.bsky.social · 12d

Look who just joined Bluesky! 👀

It's @acmsigir.bsky.social. 😇

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ADM+S Centre @admscentre.org.au · 14d

Today we celebrate our extraordinary professional team, whose commitment and dedication make the remarkable achievements of ADM+S researchers possible. Our professional team spans across 8 Australian partner universities. #ResearchAdministratorsDay

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Damiano Spina @damianospina.com · 16d

The #CLEF2025 Working Notes are now available at: ceur-ws.org/Vol-4038/

CEUR-WS.org/Vol-4038 - CLEF 2025 Working Notes

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Johanne Trippas @jtrippas.bsky.social · Sep 2

🌟Really excited to share the fourth Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval (SWIRL) report published in SIGIR Forum!

Paper 👉🏻 www.johannetrippas.com/papers/tripp...

More info 👉🏻 sites.google.com/view/swirl20...

#SWIRL2025 #SIGIR2026 #IR #GenAI #Research #CHIIR2026

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · Aug 29

In early July, I had the opporunity to discuss The AI Con with @kobotic.bsky.social at RMIT. ABC is presenting part of that conversation in their programme "Big Ideas" on Tuesday Sept 2:

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

The AI Con — unpacking the artificial intelligence hype machine - ABC listen

Is the world really in the midst of an AI revolution, or is it all just clever marketing, powered by immense amounts of money, capital and hype? This episode arms you to spot AI hype in all its guises...

www.abc.net.au

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ADM+S Centre @admscentre.org.au · Aug 29

Today ADM+S proudly celebrates Wear It Purple Day. A day that strives to foster supportive, safe, empowering and inclusive environments for rainbow young people
#WearItPurple #Inclusion #DiversityMatters

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ADM+S Centre @admscentre.org.au · Aug 22

As AI reshapes how we search, they’re no longer just tools for finding, they’re turning into engines for answering, filtering, and even shaping what we know. Read more in this latest ADM+S Medium article bit.ly/4mCMPmL #SearchEngines #AI #DigitalSociety

How Search Engines Work: Components and Mechanics of Search Engines

Authors: Ashwin Nagappa, Kateryna Kasianenko, Shir Weinbrand & Oleg Zendel

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ADM+S Centre @admscentre.org.au · Jul 21

A team from the ADM+S at RMIT University has taken out first place amongst 70 teams across 27 countries in the LiveRAG Challenge at SIGIR 2025, showcasing world-class innovation in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) technologies admscentre.org/3IBFe8Z

ADM+S team wins global LiveRAG Challenge at SIGIR 2025 - ADM+S Centre

Researchers from ADM+S at RMIT University have taken out first place in the LiveRAG Challenge at SIGIR 2025, showcasing world-class innovation in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) technologies.

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Damiano Spina @damianospina.com · Jul 19

Congratulations! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Damiano Spina @damianospina.com · Jul 19

Congratulations!

Damiano Spina @damianospina.com · Jul 15

Lucky to witness #IRRJ editor-in-chief @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy signing a copy of the first edition of @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy for Ian Soboroff, author of the paper “Don’t Use LLMs to Make Relevance Judgments” in the volume.

#SIGIR2025

irrj.org/article/view...

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Damiano Spina @damianospina.com · Jul 15

Join us at the #SIGIR2025 poster session today and check out Jiaman He’s poster #10 on “Characterising Topic Familiarity and Query Specificity Using Eye-Tracking Data”

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IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 14

We are at #sigir2025 in Padua, Italy this week. Talk to our editors at the coffee breaks. #sigir

Stack of IRRJ first issues and flyers on table

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acmsigir-ap.bsky.social @acmsigir-ap.bsky.social · Jul 7

🎉 Exciting news for #SIGIRAP2025! This year, we're continuing our tradition of offering both face-to-face and remote participation options. Remote presentations are fully supported! Join us to participate from anywhere! 📡 #HybridConference

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IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 1

Never seen our editor in chief, Djoerd Hiemstra, more happy than today, holding a copy of the first issue of #irrj

Djoerd Hiemstra proudly holding a copy of the first issue

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ADM+S Centre @admscentre.org.au · Jul 2

Day 2 of the 2025 ADM+S Symposium brought together ADM+S researchers, technologists, social service professionals, and policymakers. Sessions showcased innovative responses to the challenges of building inclusive, ethical, and responsible automated social services for everyday Australians. #ADMS2025

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ADM+S Centre @admscentre.org.au · Jun 30

We look forward to hearing from our speakers and participants at the 2025 ADM+S Symposium: Automated Social Services this week. Public recordings of key sessions will be made available after the event. #ADMS2025

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Damiano Spina @damianospina.com · Jun 29

Thanks, David!

Damiano Spina @damianospina.com · Jun 29

I’ve just started my 3-year appointment as a Distinguished Speaker of the Association for Computing Machinery (#ACM), the world's largest educational and scientific computing society.

speakers.acm.org/speakers/spi...

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ADM+S Centre @admscentre.org.au · Jun 25

Congrats to Prof Axel Bruns on being elected a Fellow of the International Communication Association - an honour recognising his influential work in media & communication & his impact on how we understand social media, technology, & society @snurb.info @qutdmrc.bsky.social admscentre.org/3I09sCo

Axel Bruns Elected Fellow of the International Communication Association - ADM+S Centre

Professor Axel Bruns has been elected a Fellow of the International Communication Association in recognition of his outstanding scholarly contributions to media and communication research and his last...

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Damiano Spina @damianospina.com · Jun 23

Well deserved recognition to our PhD candidate Kaixin!

#proudPhDadvisor @rmitcomputing.bsky.social

ADM+S Centre @admscentre.org.au · Jun 22

ADM+S researcher Kaixin Ji has been awarded the prestigious 2024 China Scholarship Council Outstanding Self-funded International Student Scholarship

Read more: admscentre.org/4jVqYon

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ADM+S Centre @admscentre.org.au · Jun 17

Congrats to ADM+S's ‪@danulah.bsky.social & Kacper Sokol on winning the 2025 Google Research Scholar Award in HCI. Their project will develop tailored, interactive explanations that help users better understand the decisions of AI systems ‬ #ResponsibleAI #HCI admscentre.org/444MaCu

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Damiano Spina @damianospina.com · Jun 18

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