I can confidently say that there's no amount of pain and suffering I could experience that would make me feel justified in brutally m*rdering a bunch of innocent civilians. Only the toxic thinking of group-level identitarianism gets you there. That's what CRT teaches.

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SIGIR 2025 CFP is now online. Please submit all the cool stuff that you all are working on. Details sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/call-full-pape… #sigir #sigir2025

When Kfir Bibas was kidnapped he was 9 months old. His brother Ariel was 4. Now Kfir is almost 2, and Ariel almost 6. They were brutally snatched from their home by a group of savage terrorists, who kidnapped them along with their mother Shiri, while Yarden the father tried to

All the call for paper details have been posted. Great tracks. Superb keynote speakers. We're looking forward to your submissions. sigir2025.dei.unipd.it #sigir #sigir2025

אני מבקש ממכם לשתף, כמה שיותר. הזעקה שלנו, יחד עם מעיין היקרה, צריכה להדהד בכל בית במדינת ישראל

If you work on RAG, this one is for you: SIGIR 2025 LiveRAG challenge: sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/live-rag-chall…

Our new paper shows the winding path taken by people seeking to buy consumer goods. We show that most advertisements focus on expensive keywords used late in the conversion funnel, while cheap and more effective keywords remain unutilized: frontiersin.org/journals/commu…

After a year of work, it's show time! #thewebconf25

People are queueing to be photographed with a koala. Said koala, meanwhile, is either sleeping or munching leaves. #thewebconf25

@TheWebConf25 began yesterday. During the opening session we gave a few statistics which may be of interest for others engaged in similar endeavors and perhaps to scientists in general: yom-tov.info/blog/2025/04/3…

#TheWebConf25 Best Paper Award goes to "Behavioral Homophily in Social Media via Inverse Reinforcement Learning: A Reddit Case Study" by Lanqin Yuan et al. Congratulations!

#TheWebConf25 Best Student Paper Award goes to "Responsible Diffusion Models via Constraining Text Embeddings within Safe Regions" by Zhiwen Li et al. Congratulations!

How to cheat your way to a top-tier Computer Science publication: A note for cheaters (and PC Chairs who want to stop them) yom-tov.info/blog/2025/05/2…

Are search engines being replaced by LLMs? I found a few answers by looking at Google Trends data: yom-tov.info/blog/2025/06/2…

There's an Italian who's sorely missing at #sigir2025. His name is Carlo Emilio Bonferroni. If he'd been here, 3 of 8 papers in a session I was at would not have been there. Please remember to correct for multiple hypothesis testing.

Why Most Published Findings at SIGIR Are (Probably) False A post about repeated hypothesis testing: yom-tov.info/blog/2025/07/2…

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