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Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social · 7d

There was collaboration attempt between CMU, Tsinghua, Meta, CWI, Nvidia, Voltron, & SpiralDB. But then lawyers got involved and it fell apart. Everyone released their own format:
→ Meta Nimble: github.com/facebookincu...
→ CWI FastLanes: github.com/cwida/FastLa...
→ SpiralDB Vortex: vortex.dev

GitHub - facebookincubator/nimble: New file format for storage of large columnar datasets.

New file format for storage of large columnar datasets. - facebookincubator/nimble

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 7d

I'm hiring PhDs through the ELLIS PhD program for research on table representation learning to democratize insights from tabular data!

Info: trl-lab.github.io/open-positio...
Apply: apply.ellis.eu (31 Oct)

Join us in beautiful Amsterdam at @cwi-amsterdam.bsky.social & @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social ✨

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 7d

Two PhD Opportunities at BIFOLD / #TUBerlin :

1x #ML #XAI #GNN; Group suvised by KR Müller
1x #DBS #BDA; Group supervised by V Markl

www.bifold.berlin/about-us/opp...

#PhDSky #fundedPhD #doctoral #researcher #sciencejobs #Stemjobs #academicjobs #MLSky @datasciencejobscom.bsky.social

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Pınar Tözün @pinartozun.bsky.social · 9d

📢📢 The September 2025 issue of SIGMOD Record is out, so is the Reminiscences column. Thank you, Viktor Leis, Anja Gruenheid, @senorcarbone.bsky.social, and @elenitz.bsky.social for the great contributions!
pdf --> sigmodrecord.org/publications...

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Pınar Tözün @pinartozun.bsky.social · 10d

[not work] The last post already had some recollections of VLDB 2021, so I decided to continue those recollections.
distortedpollyanna.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

The Summer of VLDB 2021

Note: An account of the lessons learned while organizing and running a hybrid conference like VLDB 2021 can be found here . This post is ...

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NERDS @nerdsitu.bsky.social · 17d

This Wednesday, 24 September 2025 at 14:30, our Professor Luca Aiello @lajello.bsky.social will give his inaugural lecture in Auditorium 0 at the IT University in Copenhagen!

en.itu.dk/About-ITU/Pr...

Professor portrait: Luca Aiello wants to make the internet a better place

On 24 September 2025 at 14:30, Professor Luca Aiello will give his inaugural lecture in Auditorium 0 at the IT University in Copenhagen.

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Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social · 21d

Next week is the start of @db.cs.cmu.edu's latest seminar series: Future Data Systems
@samarchdb.bsky.social and I are hosting speakers from leading systems in the datalake / lakehouse space.
Mondays @ 4:30pm ET via Zoom. Open to the public. Videos posted to YouTube: db.cs.cmu.edu/seminars/fal...

Carnegie Mellon University
Future Data Systems
Fall 2025 Seminar Series
Mondays @ 4:30pm ET

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Christian Hardmeier @chrha.bsky.social · 28d

I'm hiring a postdoc at ITU Copenhagen with experience in NLP, who is keen on improving citizens' experience of health emergency triage in an exciting project with the Danish emergency helpline and the University of Copenhagen. Knowledge of Danish is helpful. candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Citizen-Facing Bidirectional AI for Emergency Triage

The IT University of Copenhagen invites highly motivated individuals to apply for a two year Postdoc position starting in November 2025 or soon thereafter. We i

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Pınar Tözün @pinartozun.bsky.social · Sep 9

[not work] A post for all the times that we feel like we need a break. distortedpollyanna.blogspot.com/2025/09/when...

When You Need a Break

August 26, 2021, the week after VLDB 2021 and two days after I got my second COVID shot, was the date for our annual department BBQ in 20...

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Pınar Tözün @pinartozun.bsky.social · Aug 21

Congrats to Marcel Weisgut for his first VLDB paper!! 🎉🎉

PVLDB @pvldb.bsky.social · Aug 20

Vol:18 No:9 → CXL Memory Performance for In-Memory Data Processing
👥 Authors: Marcel Weisgut, Daniel Ritter, Pinar Tözün, Lawrence Benson, Tilmann Rabl
📄 PDF: https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/p3119-weisgut.pdf

Thumbnail: CXL Memory Performance for In-Memory Data Processing

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · Aug 14

Congratulations to Sebastian Baunsgaard successfully defending his PhD thesis, "Workload-aware Compressed Linear Algebra for Data-centric Machine Learning Pipelines"

Sebastian is part of the DAMS group (lead: @matthiasboehm7.bsky.social) BIFOLD / @tuberlin.bsky.social

#phd #defended

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NLPnorth @nlpnorth.bsky.social · Jul 30

Big congrats to our postdoc @elisabassignana.bsky.social for the well deserved Social Impact award at #ACL2025NLP!!

Elisa Bassignana @elisabassignana.bsky.social · Jul 30

Super proud to receive the Social Impact award at #ACL2025NLP for our paper together with @amandacurry.bsky.social (eq contribution) and @dirkhovy.bsky.social 🎉

#NLProc

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Pınar Tözün @pinartozun.bsky.social · Jul 28

[not work] Another visit to Turkey is over. As usual, I was asked several times when I would be back for good. Hence, the trigger for this month’s post.
distortedpollyanna.blogspot.com/2025/07/bad-...

Bad Daughter / Citizen / Friend / …

After 7 years in Denmark, I still go to Danish classes, not for an exam anymore, mainly to practice speaking Danish. The others in the c...

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Adam Marcus @marcua.net · Jul 21

As more engineers use coding agents professionally, the traditional junior engineering mentorship model delays two skills they need to be successful with agents. Junior engineers need earlier introductions to task definition and code review. I wrote about that here: blog.marcua.net/2025/07/21/m...

Mentoring junior engineers in the age of coding agents

A decent amount of digital ink has been spilled about the future of software engineering in light of increasingly powerful coding agents. Will software engineers, especially junior ones, be able to fi...

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Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou @elenitz.bsky.social · Jul 17

Thank you @bifold.berlin for the feature!

@hpi.bsky.social

#SpatialAnalytics #LargeScaleData #WomenInSTEM

HPI appoints BIFOLD fellow Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou as professor

Prof. Dr. Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou, BIFOLD Junior Fellow and former postdoctoral researcher in the DIMA group, has been appointed W2 Professor at the Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam. H...

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Sebastian @mersault.bsky.social · Jul 14

On Thursday, @oovcharenko.bsky.social will present her research on "scSSL-Bench: Benchmarking Self-Supervised Learning for Single-Cell Data". This paper is joint work with ETH Zuerich and was selected as a spotlight poster:

icml.cc/virtual/2025...

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Andreas Kipf @andreaskipf.bsky.social · Jul 5

The Data Systems Lab is seeking a motivated PhD candidate to join our team and work on foundation models for data compression.

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Pınar Tözün @pinartozun.bsky.social · Jun 27

The June 2025 issue of SIGMOD Record is out, so is the Reminiscences column. Thank you, Zoi Kaoudi, Fatemeh Nargesian, and Niv Dayan for the contributions!
sigmodrecord.org/publications...

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Pınar Tözün @pinartozun.bsky.social · Jun 21

(3) I will give a talk at @deem-workshop.bsky.social on Friday at 13:30 on reducing resource needs of deep learning training pipelines. Thanks, @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social, for the invitation!

Papers, presentations, posters, & codebases are (or will soon be) available at RAD website (rad.itu.dk).

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Pınar Tözün @pinartozun.bsky.social · Jun 21

(2) "Modyn: Data-Centric Machine Learning Pipeline Orchestration" will be presented at SIGMOD 2nd Poster Session (Wed, 4pm). Very happy to be in this collaboration with ETH EASL team. Interested in ML model training on dynamic, growing datasets, visit the poster or reach out, especially to Maxi. 👇

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Pınar Tözün @pinartozun.bsky.social · Jun 21

(1) Karl B. Torp is presenting his @itu.dk MSc project work on GPU-Initiated I/O at the DaMoN workshop on Monday. This work is a collaboration with Simon Lund from Samsung Denmark. We are exploring the next steps in this line of work. If you are interested, come talk to us during SIGMOD. 👇

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Pınar Tözün @pinartozun.bsky.social · Jun 21

On the train to Berlin, looking forward to @sigmod2025.bsky.social !
Following the schedule, ...
(0) I have a panel participation at the MIDAS workshop on Sunday at 15:30 on Data & GenAI. Thanks, Tilmann Rabl, for the invitation.
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Pınar Tözün @pinartozun.bsky.social · Jun 21

As I was preparing the June 2025 issue of SIGMOD Record's Reminiscences column, I realized that I haven't advertised the previous issue. So, belated thanks to Vanessa Braganholo and Martin Hentschel for their contributions to the December 2024 issue.
sigmodrecord.org/publications...

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · Jun 16

Join us for discussions and talks on data management aspects for end-to-end ML on 27 June at @deem-workshop.bsky.social in Berlin. Keynotes by @pinartozun.bsky.social and @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social 🤩

Check the full schedule deem-workshop.github.io#schedule & proceedings dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi...

Proceedings of the Workshop on Data Management for End-to-End Machine Learning | ACM Conferences

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · Jun 16

Join us - we have four open positions for doctoral/postdoctoral researchers at BIFOLD, doing cutting edge research in data management and machine learning as well as their intersections. More information: www.bifold.berlin/about-us/opp...

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