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I was a card-carrying member.
We are still looking to recruit folks for our study of interfaces for creators in TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram. What do you wish you knew? Here's a better description from my colleague @cfiesler.bsky.social: youtube.com/shorts/UMmQB... More info and sign up at bit.ly/TRSL-interviews.
Learned this week that my dissertation advisor shows up in the Epstein files. 😬 Long after I graduated but still 😬. dailynorthwestern.com/2026/02/10/t...
In my experience, it was fast. We were looking for our third round of funding — overnight everything dried up. It didn’t matter that we had a successful product and customers. No one would take our calls. Within two weeks, we’d burned though our last dollar and that was it.
No longer living anywhere near the Hopleaf so I am more than a little envious. 🍺
Here’s a block list:
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We're hiring a TT faculty position in Environmental Justice & Information/Technology. I love our interdisciplinary & collegial department - come join us or pass it onto someone who might!
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* BEYOND Workshop: What News Recommendation Research Did (But Mostly Didn't) Teach Us About Building A News Recommender. (coming soon on arXiv, Karl Higley presenting)
Looking forward to seeing colleagues and friends in Prague! #RecSys
* FAccTRec Workshop:
* Envy-Free but Still Unfair: Envy-Freeness in Personalized Recommendation. arxiv.org/abs/2509.09037 (Me presenting)
* Fairness for niche users and providers: algorithmic choice and profile portability. (coming soon on arXiv, me presenting)
* Women in RecSys Journal Article of the Year 🏆🏆🏆: Dynamic fairness-aware recommendation through multi-agent social choice. dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.... (Amanda Aird presenting, Session 10: Thursday)
(Amanda is also presenting at the Doctoral Symposium. Find her poster on Monday afternoon!)
That Recommender Systems Lab is excited for #RecSys2025. We have 5 papers this year:
* Full paper: Integrating Individual and Group Fairness for Recommender Systems through Social Choice. dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.... (Amanda Aird presenting, Session 6: Wednesday)
Congratulations to my student Amanda Aird for her Best Full Paper award at UMAP 2025! 🏆 Here she is with one of her co-authors Luis Pizzato. The paper was based on work she did last summer as an intern at Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... #umap2025
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CU Boulder has the same policy, but they are also saying that they expect the indirect rate cut to be overturned and will go back to allowing grant submissions after that. They don't want to submit a grant with 15% overhead and then end up stuck with that if/when the policy is overturned.
🧪 ICYMI: $25,000 bridge funding for terminated NSF grants.
Major props for to the Spencer, Sloan, W. T. Grant, and Kapor Foundations for their swift action, even though we (and they) know this is a band-aid fix.
Due May 30. Applications are brief: a 2-3 page memo of 6-month plans & other docs.
"Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” according to an email seen by Nature."
Let me ramble for 90 minutes about recommender systems and this is what you get: recsperts.com/29
In the music business, 80 is the new 20. www.honest-broker.com/p/in-the-mus...
Perhaps an opportune time to be talking about this topic? 🤔CFP: Workshop on Trust & Responsibility in Recommendation Systems. At WSDM '25 (3/10-3/14). Submission deadline: 2/15. More info here: sites.google.com/view/t-rrs
#recsys #cfp
In the lean-back listening environment that streaming had helped champion, listeners often weren’t even aware of what song or artist they were hearing. As a result, the thinking seemed to be: Why pay full-price royalties if users were only half listening?
streaming companies are incentivized to create indifferent consumers harpers.org/archive/2025...
Is it just me or has White Christmas turned into a climate change lament?
Two years into the AI boom, it's imperative we understand the true power of "AGI"—as a narrative tool useful for winning investment, talent and headlines.
My report for AI Now details how OpenAI used the story of a rising AI that will replace humans to replace the need for an actual business model.
I must be still such a CS person 'cause when I read "When Theory Leads", my first thought was "Great, another argument for mathematical proofs of program correctness". 😆
you are not a serious person if your fear of A.I. is “what if scary computer decide 2 extinct humans” and not the health insurance companies using it to sentence people to death
New study predicts that AI will steal almost a quarter of musicians’ income within the next 4 years (Source: CISAC).
The gaslighting is over. Artists now fully grasp the AI business model—which is to destroy their livelihood and replace human music with bot slop.
Gravestone with tools, symbolizing DIY death care
Excited to announce our new project and grant: “DIY Commemoration of the Dead”, a Discovery Project funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) 🎉⚰️
Led by experts from #unimelbourne, @ox.ac.uk, and @cuboulder.info. Details in the thread.
#deathcare #deathpositive #deathsky #griefsky #research
We've got a pocket full of dreams.
We are proud to announce the Final Call for Full and Short Papers for #UMAP2025, June 2025 in NYC. Please spread the word, as it promises to be a unique edition of our beloved conference.
Check out the details here: www.um.org/umap2025/cal...
Campus requirement is 6 but we try to get more — 8 to 10 is not unusual. It is kind of bonkers.
And we have a #Dagstuhl Report!
Evaluation Perspectives of #RecSys. Edited by @christinebauer.bsky.social, @evazangerle.bsky.social, and myself. Written by a whole host of fantastic #recsys people. Too many to mention (pic here www.dagstuhl.de/en/seminars/...)
drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/doc...
My department has a Bluesky account AND a starter pack!