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I’m sorry, I’m sick of being told that I need to cater to the delicate feelings of Trump’s snowflake supporters. They don’t need to be understood; they need to be deprogrammed. Washington Post Opinions wapo.st/3q8izCC

Opinion | Yes, It Was a Coup. Here’s Why. politi.co/2Lr6cTn via POLITICO

Members who intentionally and evidently maliciously exposed others to COVID should face ethics charges, civil liability & criminal investigation. Turns out not all the assaults on 1/6 came from outside.

Paper deadline for #UAI2021 is Feb 19. Program chairs are Marloes Maathuis & Cassio de Campos, general chairs David Sontag & Jonas Peters. Virtual conference will be July 27-30, single track, with assigned discussants for select papers auai.org/uai2021/submis…

Retweet if you think Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley should resign immediately.

Super stoked for this semester's Data Science/ Comp. Social Science seminar series! We have a great lineup of speakers.👇School of Information University of Michigan Michigan Institute for Data & AI In Society

Check out this postdoc opportunity. You can choose TWO mentors, one in data science (e.g., me) and one domain expert in other disciplines (e.g., 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐡𝐢𝐥 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧)! The application is due on Feb 1. Please RT!

Going beyond the standard closed-world assumption (CWA), recent research work from Tara Safavi (Tara Safavi), Danai Koutra, & Edgar Meij evaluates knowledge graph embeddings under the more realistic but challenging open world assumption (OWA). Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2004.01168

FULL AMANDA GORMAN POEM: “We will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one ... There is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.” The 22-year-old is the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history:

Happy #InternationalWomensDay ! At its peak in 1945, of the 8,988 people working at Bletchley Park, 6,757 were women. Few were older than 24. Today we’ll be celebrating some of those women and their achievements. Follow along with #WomenAtBletchleyPark #IWD2021

Advertising the Document Intelligence Workshop @ KDD 2021 document-intelligence.github.io/DI-2021/. A place for discussing practically useful (but still clever) NLP, AI.

Applications for UMSI's Master of Applied Data Science (MADS) program are open until June 1st & there's still time to hit submit‼️ Have questions? Head to YouTube for a Q&A with MADS faculty members Kev CT, Paramveer Dhillon & Yan Chen 🔗 : myumi.ch/pdPVm

IWILDS’21 welcomes papers ranging from 2 to 8 pages, topics include Understanding/Supporting learning during search ... and more, check out the detailed submission guideline: iwilds2021.wordpress.com/submission/ . Submit your work by July 9th and join us CIKM 2021 !

Today’s stunning #SolarEclipse, seen just after sunrise behind the Mackinac Bridge in northern Michigan. 🌙

In the latest #ACMByteCast, Rashmi Mohan welcomes @spotify Director of Research & Head of Tech Research in Personalization Mounia Lalmas. They talk about user engagement, trends in information retrieval, recommender systems, & more. learning.acm.org/bytecast/ep18-… ACM SIGIR ACM RecSys

In about 3 weeks universities will be in session again. Many universities (like my own) want to pretend that things will be back to normal. The buildings and classrooms and quads will all be there and look the same. The routines of commuting to classes will be the same… 1/7

“It happened, therefore it can happen again: this is the core of what we have to say.” ~ Primo Levi from “The Drowned and The Saved” thanks to .Philip Gourevitch

Word of the day: QUAALTAGH, n. the first person you meet when you leave the house (from the Manx language).

Looking forward to the "Women in RecSys" keynote series as we get closer to #RecSys2021 Thanks to Julia Neidhardt @HannaJSchaefer & #ÖzlemÖzgöbek for organizing this event!

Highly excited to kick-off the new academic year with an amazing list of speakers in our Data Science-Computational Social Science (DS-CSS) seminar series!🤩 School of Information @umich Michigan Institute for Data & AI In Society MichiganAI