We’re excited to release the Call for Papers for #FAccT2026 which will be held in Montreal, Canada in June 2026! Abstracts are due on January 8th, papers due on January 13th.

Call for Papers: facctconference.org/2026/cfp

Important info in thread →

US demands that EU companies comply with anti-diversity order US president Donald Trump has repeatedly taken aim at Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programmes in the US, especially in government offices, claiming that they were discriminatory.

I'm not an expert on US anti-discrimination law, but EU law is already pretty strict when it comes to positive action, so any "illegal DEI" (whatever that's supposed to be) would probably already be unlawful here anyways. Symbol politics and bullying (what's new)

www.euronews.com/business/202...

Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review Tired of spending countless hours on peer reviews? An AI-assisted workflow could help.

Nothing to see here, just Nature advocating LLM peer review.

“Feed your dictated notes into an offline large language model (LLM) to clarify and organize your feedback. A simple prompt such as “Write a critical reviewer letter based on the following notes. Maintain a professional tone throughout”

Assembling the scientific program of an interdisciplinary conference is no easy feat.

Luckily #EWAF25 has a stellar team of program chairs: Doris Alhutter, Thomas Grote, Ana Maria Corrêa, and Cynthia Liem (@informusiccs.bsky.social)!

Call for papers 👉 2025.ewaf.org/submitting/c...

As a student, you imagine "science" is based on people carefully building upon each other's work.

Then you get into AI, and it seems it's actually a bunch of people yelling random things into the void in the hope somebody will listen to their Very Original Idea™ surely nobody has thought of before.

A screen grab of two posts by @hildeweerts.bsky.social. The first post, posted 2m ago, is a repost of a post by the European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness, stating the official submission templates (including a Word template) are now available. The second post, posted 1 day ago, expresses a dislike of Microsoft Word.

I would like to emphasise there is no relation whatsoever between these two posts.

EWAF'25 - Call for Papers Important Dates Submission deadline: Thursday, March 13, 2025 (23:59, Anywhere on Earth) Acceptance notifications: Monday, May 5, 2025

Prepare to submit your (interdisciplinary) work on algorithmic fairness: EWAF'25 is now open for submission! 📬

The official EWAF'25 submission templates (Word, LaTeX, and Overleaf) and a link to OpenReview are available in the updated CfP 👇

2025.ewaf.org/submitting/c...

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Well at least they didn’t ask an LLM to do it for them.

Make k-means cool again!!!

There are no words to express how much I dislike Microsoft Word.

Dear @facct.bsky.social authors, can you please please please refrain from advertising your preprints during paper bidding? 🙏

I'm trying really hard to avoid learning authors' identities but it seems the only way of doing so is to avoid social media entirely 😅

📣 2nd Call for Papers

EWAF invites (inter)disciplinary submissions (both full papers and extended abstracts) on algorithmic fairness!

Conference dates: June 30 to July 2, 2025, in Eindhoven, The Netherlands!
Submission deadline: March 13, 2025
Full call for papers: 2025.ewaf.org/submitting/c...

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it also seems the idea of Teams is to randomly fail to deliver chat messages to reduce workload, a pretty neat feature if you ask me

But how do you know???

Curious to see how long the skies will remain blue!

Pros: no posts from phony stark every time you open the app

Cons: suspecting you’ve been added to some starter pack but having no way to find out which one???

Super excited we're hosting the Fourth European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness (hashtag#EWAF2025) at Eindhoven University of Technology!!!

Get ready to submit your interdisciplinary work on algorithmic fairness before March 13, 2025 🥳

“Inmiddels” 😭

hi 👋