Damiano Spina
PhD in Computer Science. Information Retrieval, Human-AI Cooperation, Evaluation.
@rmitcomputing.bsky.social | @admscentre.org.au | @internetobservatory.org.au
🤸🏼♂️Contramestre Camaleão, Capoeira ACDP.
🪘Percussionist @ Wombatuque
📍Naarm, AU
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- Working on AI, information access, and language technologies in low resource environments? Consider submitting to @acm.org @acmsigir.bsky.social 2026 Low Resource Environments Track: sigir2026.org/en-AU/pages/... #SIGIR2026 #Naarm #Melbourne Catherine Chavula | Monica Landoni | @damianospina.com
- Our report titled “Resourcing, technology and audiences: an industry-led agenda for journalism practice and research” is out: apo.org.au/node/332662 @tjthomson.bsky.social @jammh.bsky.social @dbossio.bsky.social @eddyhurc.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au @rmitcomputing.bsky.social
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- The Report on the 3rd Workshop on NeuroPhysiological Approaches for Interactive Information Retrieval (#NeuroPhysIIR 2025) at #SIGIR #CHIIR 2025 is now available in the ACM DL: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... #SIGIRForum @acmsigir.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au @rmitcomputing.bsky.social
- The pre-print of our #SIGIRAP2025 paper titled "ISMIE: A Framework to Characterize Information Seeking in Modern Information Environments" is now available arxiv.org/abs/2510.07644 @shuoqisun.bsky.social @danulah.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au @rmitcomputing.bsky.social
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- The #CLEF2025 Working Notes are now available at: ceur-ws.org/Vol-4038/
- Reposted by Damiano Spina🌟Really excited to share the fourth Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval (SWIRL) report published in SIGIR Forum! Paper 👉🏻 www.johannetrippas.com/papers/tripp... More info 👉🏻 sites.google.com/view/swirl20... #SWIRL2025 #SIGIR2026 #IR #GenAI #Research #CHIIR2026
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- Lucky to witness #IRRJ editor-in-chief @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy signing a copy of the first edition of @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy for Ian Soboroff, author of the paper “Don’t Use LLMs to Make Relevance Judgments” in the volume. #SIGIR2025 irrj.org/article/view...
- Join us at the #SIGIR2025 poster session today and check out Jiaman He’s poster #10 on “Characterising Topic Familiarity and Query Specificity Using Eye-Tracking Data” @rmitcomputing.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au @jtrippas.bsky.social @danachatter.bsky.social @gtresearchnews.bsky.social
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- I’ve just started my 3-year appointment as a Distinguished Speaker of the Association for Computing Machinery (#ACM), the world's largest educational and scientific computing society. speakers.acm.org/speakers/spi... @rmitcomputing.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au
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- Well deserved recognition to our PhD candidate Kaixin! #proudPhDadvisor @rmitcomputing.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Damiano SpinaDoing or planning digital platform research? We want to hear from you. Take our 5–8 min survey to help shape tools, infrastructure & training for researchers. 🔗 tiny.cc/aio-survey #AIO2025survey
- 🚀 Registration for CLEF 2025 is now open! Come to see the latest results from international participants tackling the shared tasks proposed in CLEF’s evaluation labs. Let’s meet this September 9–12 in Madrid. 👉 Register now: clef2025.clef-initiative.eu #clef2025 #vamosMadrid 🔑
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- Reposted by Damiano SpinaExplore the latest from AIO in our May 2025 newsletter: platform transparency, TikTok research (@admscentre.org.au), election ad tracking, and more. Stay informed on tools, events, and insights shaping digital accountability. Subscribe for more updates: 📩 mailchi.mp/47656dbe5d00... @ardc.edu.au
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- The pre-print of our #SIGIR2025 short paper is now available: www.damianospina.com/publication/... w/ Jiaman He, Zikang Leng, @danachatter.bsky.social & @jtrippas.bsky.social @rmitcomputing.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au @gtresearchnews.bsky.social
- Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval #CHIIR2025 are now available at the ACM DL: dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi...
- Can #LLMs perform basic numeracy tasks? How do we find out? If you're attending #NAACL2025 drop by to Session B (11:00 - 12:30) to check out our poster and say hi to Rahmad Mahendra: aclanthology.org/2025.finding... w/ L. Cavedon & @karinv.bsky.social @rmitcomputing.bsky.social
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- Our @theconversation.com article discussing 4 ethical models of search engines is out! theconversation.com/what-makes-a... @admscentre.org.au @rmitcomputing.bsky.social @umbrellacorpn.bsky.social
- Excellent presentation by @admscentre.org.au @rmitcomputing.bsky.social master’s student Kun Ran m at #chiir2025 @marwahalaofi.com @iroldie.bsky.social www.damianospina.com/publication/...
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- Thank you! Can’t wait to hear your keynote, @antmandan.bsky.social ! @internetobservatory.org.au @admscentre.org.au @qutdmrc.bsky.social
- Our article "Control Search Rankings, Control the World: What is a Good Search Engine?" has now been published as #OpenAccess at the Springer's AI and Ethics journal: link.springer.com/article/10.1... @admscentre.org.au @rmitcomputing.bsky.social @umbrellacorpn.bsky.social
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- Spoiler alert! 🚨 The report of the PhD the course I ran at Uni is Udine published as SIGIR Forum is now available at the ACM DL: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... Registrations for #CHIIR2025 are now open, and more information about my tutorial are available here: www.damianospina.com/tutorial/res...
- 3. #CHIIR2025 Responsible AI From the Lens of an Information Retrieval Researcher: A Hands-On Tutorial, a half-day #tutorial showcasing the work and learnings from my DECRA and Quantifying and Measuring Bias and Engagement @admscentre.org.au project. See you All in #Naarm / #Melbourne 🐨!
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- 🚨 Call for Submissions: #NeuroPhysIIR Workshop at ACM SIGIR #CHIIR2025 🚨 Submit your statement (1 or 2 pages) by Feb 28 to discuss topics related to neurophysiological approaches to interactive #IR. Workshop Website: neurophysiir.github.io/chiir2025/ Discord 👾: discord.gg/qKm3PXQcvJ
- Bonus of attending our @rmitcomputing.bsky.social CHAI Human Information REtrieval weekly research catch-ups in person 😝 Thank you @marwahalaofi.com, Nuha, Kaixin and Huiweng for the Saudi and Chinese treats! 🍫🍬
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- The list of accepted papers, workshops, and tutorials for #CHIIR2025 are now online! chiir2025.github.io/schedule.html
- What an honour to have our ICMI'24 work w/ @sachinpc.bsky.social & U. Gadiraju showcased among these superb set of @admscentre.org.au research! in Q4 2024! 🔉 Everything We Hear: Towards Tackling Misinformation in Podcasts: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... www.admscentre.org.au/adms-phd-stu...
- The pre-print of our upcoming AI and Ethics journal article is now available: arxiv.org/abs/2502.02957
- Very glad to announce that our paper: "Control Search Rankings, Control the World: What is a Good Search Engine?" has been accepted to be published at the AI and Ethics journal! w/ Simon Cloghan, Hui Xian Chia & @fscholer.bsky.social 🥳
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- Very glad to announce that our paper: "Control Search Rankings, Control the World: What is a Good Search Engine?" has been accepted to be published at the AI and Ethics journal! w/ Simon Cloghan, Hui Xian Chia & @fscholer.bsky.social 🥳
- 🚨 Call for Submissions: #NeuroPhysIIR Workshop at ACM SIGIR #CHIIR2025 🚨 Submit your statement (1 or 2 pages) by Feb 28 to discuss topics related to neurophysiological approaches to interactive #IR. Workshop Website: neurophysiir.github.io/chiir2025/ Discord 👾: discord.gg/qKm3PXQcvJ
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- Reposted by Damiano SpinaA few facts and thoughts on fact-checking 🧵 • Fact-checking is NOT in opposition to free speech and debates. It is a significant contribution to public discourse. • Fact-checking works. Research shows how fact-checking can affect public perceptions and contribute to corrective mechanisms. [1/4]
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- Hohoho! 🎅🏼🎄 Our book chapter “Adapting Generative Information Retrieval Systems to Users, Tasks, and Scenarios” is now online! w/ @jtrippas.bsky.social @umbrellacorpn.bsky.social @rmitcomputing.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au #GenIR #GenAI link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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- Hat-trick for the upcoming ACM SIGIR #CHIIR2025 in March here in Naarm/Melbourne! @rmitcomputing.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au
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- #CLEF2025 🧪 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum clef2025.clef-initiative.eu 9-12 Sep 2025, Madrid, Spain 📋 Registration for participation in labs is now open: clef2025-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it @juliogonzalo.bsky.social
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- Notifications for ACM SIGIR #chiir2025 short/demo/resource papers have been sent out. A huge thank you to our dedicated reviewers and meta-reviewers for their hard work. Congrats to those whose papers were accepted, and commiserations to those who didn't make it this time!
- Slides of the talk I gave at the #sigirap2024 #naarm #melbourne satellite on decolonising IR research: www.damianospina.com/talk/2024121... I wished we had more time for a discussion, but it was great to see Katya Khramtsova acknowledging Country at the start of her talk today. @admscentre.org.au
- Improvised social mixer after a long Day 2! #sigirap2024 #naarm @olegzendel.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au
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