Arjen P. de Vries @arjen@idf.social

All I can do is kindly ask that if you are inviting people to Mastodon on other social media, Telegram groups or whatever else, please please use the joinmastodon.org page instead of linking to mastodon.social specifically. Thank you

RT @StephenKing@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1246098663174266882

CfP: International Workshop on Very Large Internet of Things @ VLDB 2020 https://lists.utwente.nl/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=SIGIR;a0c28578.2004

Remember, models aren't for telling you facts, they're for exploring dynamics. This model apparently explores time travel.
https://xkcd.com/2289/

Today’s BIR birthday message comes from Mike Thelwall from the University of Wolverhampton: https://youtu.be/Ld1s6mEpA2Q

Interested in learning more about bibliometrics and information retrieval? More details on our BIR2020 page: https://sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/bir-2020

The third BIR greeting note came from Suzan Verberne from Leiden University: https://youtu.be/eM1Kwevrdkc (sorry wasn’t able to post yesterday).

2nd BIR greeting note by Dietmar Wolfram, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKNDYq09_-M

As a countdown to our 10th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval we are posting a greeting note per day. First one is by Andrea Scharnhorst
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNPVZZ7Mq0M.

More info about BIR 2020 at https://sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/bir-2020. The workshop will be online only - please let me know if you'd like to attend!

Zoom’s encryption has links to China, researchers discover
https://theintercept.com/2020/04/03/zooms-encryption-is-not-suited-for-secrets-and-has-surprising-links-to-china-researchers-discover/

(submitted by ddebernardy)

Just noticed that the Concordia (where I work) University's Centre for Teaching and Learning has put up a variety of alternate suggestions for faculty that had originally planned proctored exams https://concordia.ca/offices/ctl/moving-courses-online/transition/online-assessment.html - nice resource to consider.

Shameless plug:

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Full disclosure: I'm a Red Hatter and my team has built a pretty incredible Kubernetes + Kafka + Knative + Tensorflow + Ceph demo for this event. I am super proud of their hard work!