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Here comes the next #AAS246 presser, number 3 of 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7niXAHqkLg. The topic is "Planets, Exoplanets, and Brown Dwarfs", and the presentations are https://aas.org/meetings/aas246/press-kit#Tue_am

"These meetings are distracting me from the work."
The meetings are the work. Sorry.
The fact that your org doesn't value meetings and doesn't put any effort into making them more effective is a symptom of a broader pattern of ignoring feminized "glue work" in favor of Big Masculine Outputs.
Making the work visible is the first step towards making it valued.

The glue is the work
Tech orgs only function thanks to people who volunteer for thankless "glue work." This is the space where UX lives; for the field to get respect we need to make this work visible.

"New Views and Insights into the Sun and Its Surroundings" are the subject of #AAS246 presser number 4 streaming now on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7mzn4w36uM - topics listed in https://aas.org/meetings/aas246/press-kit#Tue_pm

Spent all morning in meetings. First chance to play today. #Wordle
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As a heads up for those who regularly attend SMART's Sounding Board sessions: Starting tonight and for future meetings, we'll be using a new Zoom webinar link. You can find it at http://smartbus.org/soundingboard.
If you're subscribed to TRU's calendar it's been updated t…

And here is (a recording of) the fifth and final #AAS246 press conference about "Recent and Upcoming Discoveries in the Broader Universe": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf9X5kntlYc - topics at https://aas.org/meetings/aas246/press-kit#Wed_am

Real-Time Confidence Detection through Facial Expressions and Hand Gestures
Tanjil Hasan Sakib, Samia Jahan Mojumder, Rajan Das Gupta, Md Imrul Hasan Showmick, Md. Yeasin Rahat, Md. Jakir Hossen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09153

Real-Time Confidence Detection through Facial Expressions and Hand Gestures
Real-time face orientation recognition is a cutting-edge technology meant to track and analyze facial movements in virtual environments such as online interviews, remote meetings, and virtual classrooms. As the demand for virtual interactions grows, it becomes increasingly important to measure participant engagement, attention, and overall interaction. This research presents a novel solution that leverages the Media Pipe Face Mesh framework to identify facial landmarks and extract geometric dat…

ChatGPT bekommt auf Wunsch Zugriff auf Dropbox, Google Drive und Co.
OpenAI kündigt neue Workplace-Produkte an: Konnektoren und einen Aufnahme-Modus für Meetings und Brainstorming.
https://www.…

I'm working with a few organisations with different meeting cultures at the moment, and I really enjoyed this post about levels of note taking #linkTuesday Which level do you use?

How can #ActivityBasedModels support #ActiveTravel & innovative mobility services? 🚶 🚴 🚌
Webinar of the European Association for Activity-Based Modelling #EAABM on 14 May (14:00–…

Activities - EAABM
Overview EAABM organises webinars, in which models, challenges and applications are discussed. Furthermore, EAABM organises bi-monthly meetings which typically follow this structure: Introduction of new members Spotlight session organised by one committee. Updates from each committee Miscellaneous Outlook to future activities While these meetings are typically

Some U.S. astronomy is still alive ... the first of five press conferences from the #AAS246 meeting in Alaska is now streaming on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6sPNlpIurg - see https://aas.org/meetings/aas246/press-kit#Mon_am for the topics.

The research collective I'm a member of had a great couple of days of meetings this week. We could all use more colleagues we truly want to spend time working with.

Email: a senior business reporter at The New York Post says an editor spiked a story about Terry Cole, Trump's pick to lead the DEA, slated to run on March 22 (Lachlan Cartwright/Breaker)
https://www.breakermedia.com/p/ny-post-catch-and…

🔎 NY Post “Catch and Kill”; Melber meetings; Cardinale & Air Mail
MSNBC anchor in talks to leave; Post Trump story spiked; Telegraph owner's US Play

OpenAI says it has 3M "paying business users", up from 2M in February; ChatGPT Team users can now use a "record mode" for taking notes during meetings (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/679580/chatgpt-google-d…

ChatGPT can now read your Google Drive and Dropbox
ChatGPT now has 3 million “paying business users” and is adding new features like meeting notes.

Second #AAS246 presser beginning on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJjSZu9ob8Q - the topic is "From Molecules to Molecular Clouds: Discoveries in the Milky Way", the topics are listed in https://aas.org/meetings/aas246/press-kit#Mon_pm

Zahlen, bitte! Winnie Pu als Antwort auf 42: Die Geschichte des (Buzzword-)Bingo
Buzzword-Bingo erheitert seit den 1990ern trockene Firmen-Meetings und Politikerreden. Angelehnt ist es an das klassische Bingo mit Ursprung in Italien.

#3GuteDingeDesTages
🙂 Im Gastwissenschafterprojekt vorangekommen
🙂 Zwei meetings gekürzt — eine Stunde gewonnen
🙂 Grundrisse studiert und nicht anmerken lassen, dass weder ich noch der Mann wissen, was ein Foodcenter ist

Während des Online-Board-Meetings erkundet eine Kohlmeise das etwas ausgeuferte Avocadobäumchen.

For all the German speakers in my network: my research on spatial layouts and communication has been featured in a lovely and detailed article in the weekly German newspaper Die Zeit discussing the manifold relations between architecture and social outcomes, ranging from political coalition negotiations to the mutiny on the Bounty, from team meetings in offices to places for living

Architektur: Wie Architekten Gespräche lenken – und Macht verteilen
Gute Architektur verbindet Menschen, schlechte trennt sie. Wer die Gesetze des Bauens kennt, kann Politiker zusammenbringen – und sogar den Lauf der Geschichte verändern.

I have to add I had six meetings with students this afternoon and only that one was icky. 💚 students #academicChatter

From this year on, ESWC will be under the umbrella of SWSA, the Semantic Web Science Association, to secure financial sustainability for the upcoming years after its previous supporting organisation STI was dissolved in 2023. Basics about the transition are given by Elena Simperl, president of SWSA.
https://swsa.semanticweb.org/

At the risk of stating the obvious, please do state the obvious! In two separate meetings this week it seemed like someone was arguing against a proposed change and in both cases, they were actually very supportive of the idea, and had already moved on to talk about what else could be done. Stop. Express your support (you can thank the suggester if you like!) so that it's clear, and THEN you can build on the original suggestion.
In both cases, we nearly ended up not doing the original thing!

I really don't like the "AI Backgrounds" on video meetings. Peoples hands and arms keep disappearing. Its making me a little annoyed.

Deion rips 'foolish' reports on Shedeur draft prep https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45435167/deion-sanders-pre-draft-reports-shedeur-sanders-did-hurt

A UK government trial with 20K civil servants using Microsoft's Copilot AI for three months found a 26 minute average daily time saving, or two weeks per year (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7c2aa19d-4c92-490d-bb35-f329a246fe5b

UK civil servants who used AI saved two weeks a year, government study finds
Staff used Microsoft’s Copilot to help draft documents and summarise meetings

Time to Talk: LLM Agents for Asynchronous Group Communication in Mafia Games
Niv Eckhaus, Uri Berger, Gabriel Stanovsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05309 ht…

Time to Talk: LLM Agents for Asynchronous Group Communication in Mafia Games
LLMs are used predominantly in synchronous communication, where a human user and a model communicate in alternating turns. In contrast, many real-world settings are inherently asynchronous. For example, in group chats, online team meetings, or social games, there is no inherent notion of turns; therefore, the decision of when to speak forms a crucial part of the participant's decision making. In this work, we develop an adaptive asynchronous LLM-agent which, in addition to determining what to s…

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💡 Innovativ mit #transkriptionen Kurse & Meetings mit #KI auswerten
🎤 Mit David Röthler | Online | Max. 15 TN
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What's coming up during #TNC25 - Part 3
Get a first look at the programme highlights in the carousel below 👇
📌 Explore the full programme − https://tnc25.geant.org/programme/

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Main belt asteroid mass estimation from high-precision astrometry: #Asteroid Masses: https://eos.org/articles/the-late-great-gaia-helps-reveal-asteroid-masses - astronomers are using data from the recently decommissioned star-mapping satellite to help determine masses and more accurate orbits of celestial bodies closer to home.

DNCASR: End-to-End Training for Speaker-Attributed ASR
Xianrui Zheng, Chao Zhang, Philip C. Woodland
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01916 https://

DNCASR: End-to-End Training for Speaker-Attributed ASR
This paper introduces DNCASR, a novel end-to-end trainable system designed for joint neural speaker clustering and automatic speech recognition (ASR), enabling speaker-attributed transcription of long multi-party meetings. DNCASR uses two separate encoders to independently encode global speaker characteristics and local waveform information, along with two linked decoders to generate speaker-attributed transcriptions. The use of linked decoders allows the entire system to be jointly trained und…

The final SMARTer Mobility Draft Network is now ready! Join one of five public input meetings:
• 3/31, Mount Clemens
• 4/1, Pontiac
• 4/2, Dearborn
• 4/3, Farmington Hills
• 4/10, Virtual
You can also comment on the interactive map. #DetroitTransit

Good morning all! A rare day without any real meetings, and only one calendar entry (and that's a fun one, a networking thing to talk about how social media research can go forward in Germany). I'm not sure I can be trusted with that much freedom from time constraints #academicChatter

What's coming up during #TNC25 - Part 2
Get a first look at the programme highlights in the carousel below 👇 From Community Hub sessions to beloved Lightning Talks—here’s what not to miss!
📌 Explore the full programme − https://t…

What's coming up during #TNC25 - Part 1
Get a first look at the programme highlights in the carousel below 👇 From digital inclusion to quantum—here’s what not to miss!
💬 What sessions are you most excited about? Let us know via #TNC25
📌 Explore the full programme −