Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Could not be happier to get to bring @umapconf.bsky.social to Gothenburg next year (and to get to serve as General Co-chair for a conference with @toinebogers.bsky.social again! #recsys2019 😀)
Check out the conference website below, and save the dates: June 8-11, 2026 #umap2026

www.um.org/umap2026/

Recommender Systems for Good (RS4Good): Survey of Use Cases and a Call to Action for Research that Matters | ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems In the area of recommender systems, the vast majority of research efforts is spent on developing increasingly sophisticated recommendation models, also using increasingly more computational resources....

Just accepted to #ACMTORS: "Recommender Systems for Good (#RS4Good): Survey of Use Cases and a Call to Action for Research that Matters" - @dietmarjannach.bsky.social, myself, @recsysmare.bsky.social, and Markus Zanker dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... #recsys #recsys4good #ai4good

June 8-11, 2026. Mark your calendars and start think of what you'll be submitting to #umap2026

Soundtracks of Our Lives: How Age Influences Musical Preferences | Adjunct Proceedings of the 33rd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

"Soundtracks of Our Lives: How Age Influences Musical Preferences" with M. Golubovikj, B. Ferwerda, and @recsysmare.bsky.social, investigates how our musical preferences change as we grow older through a longitudinal (15 years) analysis of the LastFM-2B dataset dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Nice.

arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607

omg...so adhd indeed

Yay! :) #beyondrecsys2025 is happening at #recsys2025. @christinebauer.bsky.social @evazangerle.bsky.social @recsys.bsky.social

Website and more info coming

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Today is the day! Abstracts for Full Papers for #RecSys2025 are due today by the end of the day (AoE). #MarcoDeGemmis & I look forward to your contributions! recsys.acm.org/recsys25/cal... @recsys.bsky.social

Mirror, Mirror: Exploring Stereotype Presence Among Top-N Recommendations That May Reach Children | ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems Children form stereotypes by observing stereotypical expressions during childhood, influencing their future beliefs, attitudes, and behavior. These perceptions, often negative, can surface across the ...

Very proud of this work led by @robin-ungruh.bsky.social in collab w/ MS student, just accepted for @ACM_TORS special issue on #RecSys for Good, focused on understanding #children potential exposure to #stereotypes as a result of their interactions with recommender systems dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

The question now is why 80 bytes per punch card :-)

There’s still time to submit your work to ACM UMAP #2025 and visit #newyorkcity in June—the best time of the year! 😊
www.um.org/umap2025/
🔹 Industry Track (Deadline: March 2)
🔹 Doctoral Consortium (Deadline: March 7)
🔹 Late-Breaking Results & Demos (Deadline: April 9)

Alan Said
Recommender Systems for Social Good: The Role of Accountability and Sustainability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05964