Ingo Frommholz @ingo@idf.social

Fancy hosting ECIR 2024? There’s still time to bid until August 26! Details at https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/information-retrieval-specialist-group/conferences-and-events/european-conference-on-information-retrieval/call-for-bids-ecir-2024/. Please get back to us for any inquiries.

FDIA 2022, the Future Directions in Information Access Symposium, takes place on Wednesday afternoon in Lisbon, Portugal, alongside the European Summer School on Information Retrieval. The FDIA schedule is now available at https://essir2022.org/fdia/. If you like to learn about what our early-stage researchers are working on but can't be in beautiful Lisbon, we also plan a YouTube broadcast of the event, details are on our homepage. You can comment on Twitter using the #FDIA2022 hashtag.

Shocking and sad on so many levels.

Depeche Mode has been playing the soundtrack of my life, from my teenage days through midlife crises. They were there in good times and bad times - mainly good times.

Fletch kept the band and its sometimes difficult characters together.
My thoughts are with his family. 😢

You suddenly feel old when your heroes pass away 😢.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/may/26/depeche-modes-andrew-fletcher-dies-aged-60

#DepecheMode

Brexit tensions mean Brits won’t get EU science cash, Brussels warns

https://www.politico.eu/article/brexit-tensions-mean-brits-wont-get-eu-science-cash-brussels-warns/

25 years 💙

#S04 #Eurofighter

Germany. Double-booked trains, "friendly" conductors, only cash accepted, no Uber and breakfast not always what it used to be. Watch a pissed off Marc Almond on his way to Berlin - however he reached it eventually 🙈. I think many of us can relate to his Deutsche Bahn experience!

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cdkoh8jjuUm/

Future Directions in Information Access - the 10th edition of FDIA 2022 will be held on July 20 during the European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR) in Lisbon, Portugal. PhD students and early-stage researchers are invited to submit a paper about their work. Deadline June 20.

More Info -> https://essir2022.org/fdia/

Deutscher Meister ist nur der S04!!

#ZweiteLiga

We are seeking presentations for BCS Search Solutions 2022, which takes place in London November 23 with the aim to bring academia and industry together. More info at https://isquared.wordpress.com/2022/05/13/search-solutions-2022-call-for-speaker-proposals/.

#InformationRetrieval #Search

Germany - the land of train delays.

Happy Birthday FC Schalke 04, you craziest of all football clubs! 💙 #S04

BCS Informer: Spring 2022 Issue Out Now

irsg.bcs.org/informer/

Plenty of articles about ECIR 2022 and more IR-related events and activities. Enjoy!

A playlist celebrating the legacy of Soft Cell, those they've influenced and the band's current favourites.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0016rmc

#SoftCell

Wonder why I’m still wearing masks 😷 in crowded places? Here’s one reason. Covid hasn’t vanished yet, even if the government says so.

“I was a marathon runner with killer biceps – long Covid has stopped me in my tracks” | Rose George https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/01/marathon-runner-long-covid-athletes

JCDL 2022, the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, will be held as a physical conference with support for remote attendance in Cologne, Germany. Please follow the link for more details.

https://2022.jcdl.org/news/

Wolverhampton City Campus through the lens https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc248VaDK8Q/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=