Harry Scells
@hscells.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @unituebingen.bsky.social @health-nlp.com, information retrieval researcher https://scells.me #IR #CS
CLEF'26 starting in Jena! Will be great to see all the tasks people have been working on over the year. I'm sure there will be plenty of inspiration for new visions for the future of IR -> desires-conf.org/2027/ #CLEF2026 #InformationRetrieval #NLP #DESIRES2027
DESIRES 2027 – Cologne, Germany
The conference for discussing visionary ideas in search and retrieval systems
desires-conf.org
🦁LION Lab is hiring! 🧑🔬One fully funded PhD student (TVL-13 100%) for 3 years 💉Topic: Interpretability for Protein Language Models 👥Advised by @weissweiler.bsky.social together with Clara Schoeder 🌍Leipzig, Germany 🔗Apply by Oct 15: lionlabnlp.github.io/jobs/ai4pf/ Please share! #NLProc #NLP
PhD position in my lab! I'm looking for a candidate with a background in media psychology or communication science. Candidates who bridge our two research lines (social media use and HMC) are especially welcome. Please share! #DGPS2026 #ECC2026 iwm-tuebingen.de/de/karriere/...
IWM Tübingen
Researcher / PhD Position (m/f/d) in the Everyday Media Lab
iwm-tuebingen.de
Also ECIR 2027 short paper submission is open now! www.ecir2027.co.uk/call-for-sho... #ECIR2027
Call for Short Papers
Short papers differ from full papers in that they present innovative new works, but may be narrower in scope or applications. Submissions may include preliminary ideas, but still should provide empirical or theoretical validation. Papers that stimulate discussion are particularly encouraged.
ecir2027.co.uk
ECIR 2027@ecir2027.bsky.social · last mo.📣 Submitting a full paper to #ECIR2027? ⏰ Abstract deadline: 21 Sept 2026 📝 Full paper deadline: 5 Oct 2026 Topics include Information Retrieval, RAG/LLMs, recommender systems, conversational search, evaluation, trustworthy IR & more. More info: www.ecir2027.co.uk/call-for-ful...
📣 The data for the UP2DATE@SCOLIA shared task about #systematicreview updates has now been released! Visit up2date.health-nlp.com for the details!
UP2DATE @ SCOLIA 2027 is a shared task focusing on the development of new methods to assist in updating systematic reviews.
up2date.health-nlp.com
Ingo Frommholz@ingo.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 6mo agoAt our SCOLIA workshop at #ECIR2026 we introduced shared tasks. UP2DATE@SCOLIA focusses on the development of new methods to assist in updating systematic reviews. Interested? Check out https://up2date.health-nlp.com! @hscells @potthast @carsten @ecir2026.eu
#IRRJ will support the call for abstracts for the 5th International Conference on the Design of Experimental Search & Information REtrieval Systems #DESIRES, #DESIRES2027 https://irrj.org/announcement/view/358
Call for contributions for DESIRES 2027 | Information Retrieval Research
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ECIR 2027 is the major European Information Retrieval conference taking place in Southampton, UK. We are calling for papers in the various tracks.
ECIR 2027@ecir2027.bsky.social · 2mo ago📢 ECIR 2027 Call for Papers 👉 www.ecir2027.co.uk/calls-home #ECIR2027 is the prime European forum for the presentation of original research in the field of #IR, and will take place as a physical (in-person) conference from 21-25 March 2027 at Southampton Football Club, Southampton, England, UK.
ECIR 2027 is our major European Information Retrieval conference taking place in Southampton, UK. We are calling for papers in the various tracks.
ECIR 2027@ecir2027.bsky.social · 2mo ago📢 ECIR 2027 Call for Papers 👉 www.ecir2027.co.uk/calls-home #ECIR2027 is the prime European forum for the presentation of original research in the field of #IR, and will take place as a physical (in-person) conference from 21-25 March 2027 at Southampton Football Club, Southampton, England, UK.
📢 ECIR 2027 Call for Papers 👉 www.ecir2027.co.uk/calls-home #ECIR2027 is the prime European forum for the presentation of original research in the field of #IR, and will take place as a physical (in-person) conference from 21-25 March 2027 at Southampton Football Club, Southampton, England, UK.
Calls
see links below to the various calls for submissions:
ecir2027.co.uk
Big thanks to @hscells.bsky.social for presenting this work in Melbourne, and of course also to my co-authors @martin-potthast.com , Andrew Yates, and Eugene Yang! doi.org/10.1145/3805...
Topic-Specific Classifiers are Better Relevance Judges than Prompted LLMs | Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
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Super happy that our paper “Topic-Specific Classifiers are Better Relevance Judges than Prompted LLMs” just won Best Student Paper at #SIGIR2026🏆 It argues against the reflex to reach for an LLM whenever you need relevance judgments. What we found 🧵:
Melbourne is the place to be this week! 🇦🇺 #SIGIR2026 has officially kicked off, and while we miss Carsten Eickhoff, Harrisen Scells, and Gregory Polyakov back in the office, the Health NLP Lab is well represented in Melbourne this week.
#DESIRES (the International Conference on the Design of Experimental Search & Information REtrieval Systems) is back! DESIRES has always been* the* conference for discussing (visionary!) search systems. Started in 2018 thanks to Gianmaria Silvello and Omar Alonso. General Chairs in 2027 are […]
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Call for papers FDIA 2026: PhD Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access at ESSIR 2026 Present your research. Receive valuable feedback. Connect with fellow researchers. Accepted works can be presented @ecir2027.bsky.social! 2026.essir.eu/fdia/ #informationRetrieval #PhD #SummerSchool
Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access
Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access
2026.essir.eu
Excellent opportunity for PhD students and early-career researchers!
BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group@bcs-irsg.bsky.social · 4mo agoCall for papers FDIA 2026: PhD Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access at ESSIR 2026 Present your research. Receive valuable feedback. Connect with fellow researchers. Accepted works can be presented @ecir2027.bsky.social! 2026.essir.eu/fdia/ #informationRetrieval #PhD #SummerSchool
Two papers accepted at SIGIR'26 in Melbourne! Both tackle the same question: how do we scale IR evaluation reliably without compromising on human judgment as the gold standard? Spoiler: LLMs-as-a-judge does not work. 🧵1/5
#ECIR2027 is going to Southampton Football Club, England, UK in 2027! We encourage you to join us at www.ecir2027.co.uk and follow this page for updates. #IR #InformationRetrieval
At our SCOLIA workshop at #ECIR2026 we introduced shared tasks. UP2DATE@SCOLIA focusses on the development of new methods to assist in updating systematic reviews. Interested? Check out https://up2date.health-nlp.com! @hscells @potthast @carsten @ecir2026.eu
up2date.health-nlp.com
up2date.health-nlp.com
Jan Heinrich Merker presents work - with Harrison Scells @hscells.bsky.social and Martin Potthast @martin-potthast.com - on better support infra for mining the Archive Query Log. See also: https://github.com/webis-de/archive-query-log (Followup on the earlier SIGIR paper.) #ECIR2026
Hello #ECIR2026, the proceedings of our SCOLIA workshop on Thursday are online – https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4187/. Looking forward to (hopefully) seeing you. Happy reading!
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!
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-4187 - Second International Workshop on Scholarly Information Access (SCOLIA 2026)
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🏆 Congratulations to our #ECIR2026 Reviewer Award & SPC Member Award recipients! Your commitment to high-quality peer review keeps our community thriving. Thank you! 🙏
I've already collected my first two stickers for the @ecir2026.eu Collab-a-thon. If you're in Delft today, don't muss out the first collab-a-thon session at 4pm in LAB.115 🤝 #collab-a-thon #collaboration #research #ecir
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 https://sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/scolia-2026. See you in Delft!
We're hiring a Scientific Director for our AI Methods & Software Hub in Tübingen! This is a unique opportunity to build and lead a central hub at the intersection of cutting-edge ML research and scientific applications. Deadline: 30 April 2026. More info: uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2...
Quite impressive! The Radboud University Information Retrieval group's contributions to #ECIR2026: nice poster made by @harrieo.bsky.social
We’re launching a new AI Methods & Software Hub in the ML cluster and are looking for a Director to build and lead it! Shape how ML/AI and software drive scientific discovery—in close collaboration with AI and domain scientists—within an extremely vibrant and collaborative ecosystem!
ML for Science@ml4science.bsky.social · 7mo agoWe're hiring a Scientific Director for our AI Methods & Software Hub in Tübingen! This is a unique opportunity to build and lead a central hub at the intersection of cutting-edge ML research and scientific applications. Deadline: 30 April 2026. More info: uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2...
