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@inimitablepgw ‘I think I must’ve got through the kid’s outward appearance, and painted his soul.’ ‘But he’s so young! Could a child of that age have a soul as bad as that? What do you think, Jeeves?’ ‘The child’s expression is most unpleasant, and he has a decidedly inebriated manner, sir.’

What is the single funniest line Wodehouse ever wrote? No wrong answers, only joy.

@dlondonnyu Trust in yourself and your unique and impressive set of talents, which I'm sure will continue to be recognized. More great things are in your future.

I don't normally ask for personal stuff on twitter. But if you can spare some words of encouragement for an unemployed historian with a 7-month old in a two bedroom apartment trying to find a new house and (potentially) a new career, I will greatly, greatly appreciate it.

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!🤩 @umsi @umich @um_midas @michigan_AI

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

@DrNadiaChaudhri @Concordia Done! You are an inspiration.

Help me shake my booty!! I've joined the Concordia Shuffle team to raise funds for the Nadia Chaudhri Wingspan Award. This award will be given annually to a graduate student from an underrepresented group who wants to do neuroscience research @Concordia. 🧠👩🏾‍🔬🔬🧪

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

“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 .@PGourevitch

@iadh @craig_macdonald @ntonellotto @macavaney very cool!

We are thrilled that "PyTerrier: Declarative Experimentation in Python from BM25 to Dense Retrieval" has been accepted as a resources paper at #cikm2021. A lot of work went into this framework. With @craig_macdonald @ntonellotto and @macavaney

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

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

@azeem Tim Berners-Lee was still at CERN.

@edyong209 So well-deserved! Ed, your extraordinary ability to explain important, complex topics in unforgettably clear and engaging ways is a real gift - that we are lucky to benefit from.

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

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 @CIKM2021 !

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 @kevynct, @dhillon_p & @yanchen 🔗 : myumi.ch/pdPVm

@vanessa_murdock OMG the pianos interlock to form one continuous round piano

@vanessa_murdock and UFOs!

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

@DavidCornDC Why on earth are you helping to give him a platform by retweeting his crap to your many many thousands of followers? Bye.

400,000 American deaths that were preventable.