Ingo Frommholz

Keep calm and be transparent: advice from scientists who retracted their papers Retractions correct the scientific record, but they have stigma attached to them. Some in the research community want that to change.

Self-retraction when you made an honest mistake is a credible thing that should be celebrated, because that shows you care about scientific integrity.

Keep calm and be transparent: advice from scientists who retracted their papers www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Nice and intense days this week at our OMINO workshop in Wrocław (including visiting an actual quantum computer).

“42% predicted a strongly negative effect on science from preprints that spread misinformation. “

but

“‘If you get a reputation for being the person who always puts up stuff [on preprint servers] which doesn’t have complete data and is shoddy, then you’re done in academia.’”

🤔

The 2025 Bloomberg/BCS Karen Spärck Jones Award will be presented in three weeks at EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco.

(The award alternates between EACL and ECIR.)

#awards #NLP #IR #research @nlproc @eaclmeeting.bsky.social

Open-source AI program can answer science questions better than humans Developed by and for academics, OpenScholar aims to improve searches of the ballooning scientific literature

Many want to use AI to accelerate science, and utilizing it to explore the growing tsunami of research articles is getting lots of attention. Measuring the quality of AI answers to questions about science is a challenge. @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

IRRJ Papers Presentations irrj papers presentations

The presentations for the #IRRJ session at the at the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval #ECIR2026 are now in the conference schedule at: https://ecir2026.eu/programme/program-schedule/program/detail/38/irrj-papers-presentations

Is there any better ad in favor of AI than Hegseth yelling at Anthropic because Claude won’t do war crimes?

‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases

“The model is also continuously updated and refined, the [OpenAI] spokesperson said.”

Risking my health in a huge beta test experiment? No thanks! If in doubt, see a doctor immediately. One in flesh and blood.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Embedding unreliable AI deep into the source code of the military without human oversight is the single stupidest thing we could do as a species.

And that is *exactly* what the United States is about to do.

My little OMINO UK tour is coming to an end. It was a great opportunity to discuss our work on information overload and academic information access with friends, project partners and former colleagues!

#InformationOverload #FakeScience #InformationRetrieval

Great day yesterday at the University of Southampton where my PhD student Libo Ren and I gave a talk at a mini workshop in the context of our EU staff exchange project OMINO. It was great to see so many friends and current and former colleagues!

Pretty cool and also a nice discovery tool.

Call for IR for Good Papers call for ir for good papers

This year, the #IRforGood track will be a part of the main #ECIR2026 conference program:

https://ecir2026.eu/calls/call-for-ir-for-good-papers

https://bhaskar-mitra.github.io/posts/2025/09/01/what-is-ir-for-good/

ECIR2026 The 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026) is Europe's premier forum for cutting-edge research in

BREAKING: There will be an #IRRJ paper session at the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval #ECIR2026 on 1 April in Delft, The Netherlands. https://ecir2026.eu

If you read anything this week, read "Why I'm Leaving Big Tech" by Bhaskar Mitra:

"Why am I leaving Big Tech? There are several reasons. While I list a few below, I believe they stem from the same underlying structural problem: an unprecedented concentration of power in the hands of those in […]

Generative AI and the Threat to Thinking by Martha Larson and Zhuoran Liu:

"The proliferation of content created using generative artificial intelligence can overwhelm the ability of people to
process information." Larson and Liu consider a model of human thinking to unpack this threat […]

OpenClaw (a.k.a. Moltbot) is everywhere all at once, and a disaster waiting to happen Not everything that is interesting is a good idea.

OpenClaw (aka Moltbot) may have gone completely viral, but it is also a disaster waiting to happen.

A PSA for why you should steer clear.

open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

Science Is Drowning in AI Slop Peer review has met its match.

The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing.

#FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience

www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

Mamdani Targets ‘Unusable’ AI Chatbot for Termination Reporting from The Markup and THE CITY exposed how the bot, touted by the Adams administration, repeatedly served up false and damaging information.

Mamdani Targets ‘Unusable’ AI Chatbot for Termination www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/30/m...

ArXiv preprint server clamps down on AI slop First-time posters to venerable platform now need an endorsement from an established author

ArXiv preprint server clamps down on AI slop –
First-time posters to venerable platform now need an endorsement from an established author.

www.science.org/content/arti...

By end of Feb @bsky.app will be the 2nd largest social media source for research sharing in our database

- Google+ managed 945,000 mentions of research during its life
- Facebook pages (not people's profiles) have shared papers 6.6m times
- Reddit = 600k

Bluesky is currently at 6m and climbing

Vienna Deep Learning Meetup with a view.

This is an interesting policy change regarding author attendance. Much more inclusive, but will authors struggle now to justify their travel expenses? Would be interesting to see how this affects author participation.

From the ICML 2026 CfP icml.cc/Conferences/...

#icml #conferences

Musk’s ability to alter the worldview of people now expands beyond just users of Grok.

The Race to Build the DeepSeek of Europe Is On As Europe’s longstanding alliance with the US falters, its push to become a self-sufficient AI superpower has become more urgent.

Nice read with quotes from L3S prof Wolfgang Nejdl
https://www.wired.com/story/europe-race-us-deepseek-sovereign-ai/

There will be an #IRRJ special issue on #FIRE: Participants of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2025), which took place from 17 to 20 December 2025 at the Indian Institute of Technology in Varanasi, India, are invited to submit an extended version of their FIRE 2025 paper.

Thank you, @arjen.idf.social.ap.brid.gy & @arjenpdevries.bsky.social !

yeah! upgrade for #UMAP :)

Deadline extended to January 31!

Be aware of fake journals!