Hungary election: Viktor Orbán concedes with opposition on course for landslide election win - follow live Hungary's prime minister has been ousted after 16 years in power, with Péter Magyar set to be the country's new leader.

A great day today . Thank you Hungary! 🇭🇺 🇪🇺

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This paragraph is particularly devastating. That’s an ultra-weighted algo in the midst of skewing the reach of certain accounts into absolute obscurity.

Dataset quality matters.

He has risen indeed. Happy Easter! 🐣

A great week for Southampton – first they announced @ecir2027.bsky.social will take place there, then Southampton FC kicked Premier League lead Arsenal out of the FA Cup at the very conference venue. Congratulations!

A very insightful read about AI in science.

Congratulations, Maik!!

UP2DATE @ SCOLIA 2027 is a shared task focusing on the development of new methods to assist in updating systematic reviews.

At our SCOLIA workshop, we introduced shared tasks. UP2DATE@SCOLIA focusses on the development of new methods to assist in updating systematic reviews. Interested? Check out up2date.health-nlp.com!

@hscells.bsky.social @pierreachkar.bsky.social @timgollub.bsky.social @martin-potthast.com

Exactly! It’s an interesting challenge for scholarly information access how to effectively extract and present this important signal.

Djoerd Hiemstra thanking the editors

Today, at the European Conference on Information Retrieval #ECIR2026, authors of #IRRJ papers presented their work in a dedicated #IRRJ session. A big thank you to our editors for running the journal!

Call for Bids: ECIR 2028 The European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) is Europe’s premier conference on Information Retrieval.

@ecir2026.eu is in full swing in Delft, and next year ECIR will come home to the UK. But where will it be in 2028? It could be in your city! The BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group (IRSG) is calling for bids for ECIR 2028 – medium.com/bcs-irsg-inf...

SCOLIA 2026 website: sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/...

Hello #ECIR2026, the proceedings of our SCOLIA workshop on Thursday are online – ceur-ws.org/Vol-4187/. Looking forward to (hopefully) seeing you. Happy reading!

En route to Delft for #ECIR2026.

My train from Biel/Bienne to Geneva once had 6 minutes delay. 6 minutes! The driver apologised as if he‘d just committed a serious crime.

This seems excellent.

"The Slow Science Movement challenges the prevailing "publish or perish" culture in academia & research institutions. We believe that the current pressure for rapid publication & high citation counts undermines the quality, integrity & societal value of scientific work."

Going to @ecir2026.eu in Delft? Or need another reason to go there? Please drop by SCOLIA 2026, our Second International Workshop on Scholarly Information Access to enjoy some exciting presentations! Our programme is online now at sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/....

See you in Delft!

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: ecir2026.eu/programme/program-schedu...

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.

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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

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