What a great way to start #sigir2026! I lost the count of the number of conversations I had during the week that were referencing what @bmitra.bsky.social shared with us!

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Last week I presented a keynote at #SIGIR2026 titled "Emancipatory Information Retrieval: Towards Critical IR Theories and Practices". Slides: bhaskar-mitra.github.io/files/emanci... I went in nervously excited but several people appreciated talking openly about this topic. A quick thread. 🧵 1/

Proceedings of #SIGIR2026 are online: dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi... See you soon in Naarm! @acm.org @acmsigir.bsky.social

Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | ACM Conferences

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Please submit your work for the 8th International Open Search Symposium #OSSYM2026 "Boosting Digital Sovereignity" to be held on 5-7 October 2026 in Berlin, Germany https://indico.cern.ch/event/1622016/

OSSYM 2026 - 8th International Open Search Symposium "Boosting Digital Sovereignity"

5 - 7 October 2026 (exact date to be confirmed) Continuing the successful conference series from the past 7 years, the #ossym26 Open Search Symposium brings together the European and international Open Search community for the seventh time. The hybrid conference provides a forum to discuss and further develop the ideas and concepts of open web search and related topics in various formats including scientific talks, panels, workshops, demonstrations, student challenges and informal discussion...

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Working on AI, information access, and language technologies in low resource environments? Consider submitting to @acm.org @acmsigir.bsky.social 2026 Low Resource Environments Track: sigir2026.org/en-AU/pages/... #SIGIR2026 #Naarm #Melbourne Catherine Chavula | Monica Landoni | @damianospina.com

Our report titled “Resourcing, technology and audiences: an industry-led agenda for journalism practice and research” is out: apo.org.au/node/332662 @tjthomson.bsky.social @jammh.bsky.social @dbossio.bsky.social @eddyhurc.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au @rmitcomputing.bsky.social

Simon Coghlan, Hui Xian Chia, Falk Scholer, Damiano Spina Control Search Rankings, Control the World: What is a Good Search Engine? https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.02957

Meet Damiano Spina, a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing Technologies at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. His research focuses on Information Retrieval (IR), Text Analytics, and Human-AI interaction. Read more about Spina and how to request a lecture here: buff.ly/1dYp35L

Jiaman He, Zikang Leng, Dana McKay, Damiano Spina, Johanne R. Trippas: Can We Hide Machines in the Crowd? Quantifying Equivalence in LLM-in-the-loop Annotation Tasks https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06658 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06658 https://arxiv.org/html/2510.06658

Kaixin Ji, Danula Hettiachchi, Falk Scholer, Flora D. Salim, Damiano Spina: SenseSeek Dataset: Multimodal Sensing to Study Information Seeking Behaviors https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14792 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.14792 https://arxiv.org/html/2507.14792

Shuoqi Sun, Danula Hettiachchi, Damiano Spina: ISMIE: A Framework to Characterize Information Seeking in Modern Information Environments https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07644 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07644 https://arxiv.org/html/2510.07644

The Report on the 3rd Workshop on NeuroPhysiological Approaches for Interactive Information Retrieval (#NeuroPhysIIR 2025) at #SIGIR #CHIIR 2025 is now available in the ACM DL: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... #SIGIRForum @acmsigir.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au @rmitcomputing.bsky.social

The pre-print of our #SIGIRAP2025 paper titled "ISMIE: A Framework to Characterize Information Seeking in Modern Information Environments" is now available arxiv.org/abs/2510.07644 @shuoqisun.bsky.social @danulah.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au @rmitcomputing.bsky.social

ISMIE: A Framework to Characterize Information Seeking in Modern Information Environments

The modern information environment (MIE) is increasingly complex, shaped by a wide range of techniques designed to satisfy users' information needs. Information seeking (IS) models are effective mecha...

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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

Look who just joined Bluesky! 👀 It's @acmsigir.bsky.social. 😇

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

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

🌟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

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...

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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

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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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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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...

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” @rmitcomputing.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au @jtrippas.bsky.social @danachatter.bsky.social @gtresearchnews.bsky.social

We are at #SIGIR2025 in Padua, Italy this week. Talk to our editors at the coffee breaks. #SIGIR

🎉 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

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

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

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

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... @rmitcomputing.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au

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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