Are you in Prague for #RecSys25? Let’s meet up! 🙌
See you today at MuRS - Music Recommender Systems Workshop 2025! 🎶
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| Algorithmic Auditing for Music Discoverability | https://aa4md-project.eu |
Lorenzo Porcaro (@RecSys25)
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[he / him] Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow @ Sapienza University of Rome. Algorithmic Auditing for Music Discoverability (AA4MD)
"Those who study music should be concerned about the loss of cultural diversity for the same reason that biologists worry about the loss of biodiversity: we don't yet know what the loss will mean, but we do know that the loss will be irreversible."
David Huron (1954–2025)
The MuRS workshop is back! We’re excited to announce that the 3rd Music Recommender Systems Workshop (MuRS) will be part of the ACM RecSys 2025 Conference (@Recsys). Stay tuned for updates:
https://sites.google.com/view/murs-2025
https://sites.google.com/view/murs-2025
MuRS 2025
Objectives The workshop aims at bridging the existing gap between the diverse research communities focused on challenges specific to music recommender systems. The workshop will provide a space for researchers and practitioners from multiple disciplines, from both academia and industry, to exchange
"For the remainder of this article, we will use the terms user and bot interchangeably" ... and my heart cries 💔
🚀 CfP: Human-Centric Music IR (HCMIR) 2025 🚀
Join us at HCMIR, a satellite workshop of ISMIR 2025, exploring ethics, UX/UI, AI collaboration & more in MIR!
📅 Submission opens: June 2, 2025
📌 Deadline: June 18, 2025
🔗 Details: https://sites.google.com/view/hcmir25/
HCMIR25
A half-day workshop bringing together researchers, practitioners, and artists to explore the ethical, societal, and human-centred dimensions of MIR Music and technology have long intertwined, transforming how we create, share, and experience music. From composition to listening, advancements in
AI tools are fascinating but fell short when I tried creating a logo for my project. Science Graphic Design (https://www.sciencegraphicdesign.com) brought ideas to life—earbuds for modern music listening, a magnifying glass for auditing. Their input was invaluable. Sometimes, AI isn’t enough. Kudos to them!
Free Software Foundation EuropeWhy is #RouterFreedom important? 🤔
If your router is not free, your digital freedom is likely to be compromised! 😮
🌐 Router freedom is the principle that people are free to choose and use their own private devices to connect to the internet.
https://fsfe.org/activities/routers/routers.en.html
#RouterFreedom is one of the demands that 
is campaigning for. Support us to continue our work!
Konstantin MacherAnother reminder of the disastrous climate impact of (generative) #AI and a grim reminder, that we have not reached the worst of it yet.
“There’s going to be increased pressure, between the environmental and sustainability-conscious community and Big Tech,” says Francesca Dominici, director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative and another coauthor. “But my prediction is that there is not going to be regulation. Not in the next four years.”
I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Sapienza Università di Roma! I will lead the project "Algorithmic Auditing for Music Discoverability" (AA4MD) https://aa4md-project.eu/
Soon more updates!
Traveling to Milan from Rome by train for participating to LINECHECK2024 (https://www.linecheck.it/). I cannot but recall the comfort and pleasure of traveling with train in Japan: no noisy people, no people talking, no people watching videos at high volume... I'll miss that.
