Trans data epistemologies: Transgender ways of knowing with data by @drnikko.bsky.social and @ameliadogan.bsky.social in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Three weeks ago, MEAG had the privilege of bringing together researchers, journalists, and technologists from around the world for the New(s) Knowledge Symposium: from research to intelligence. A big thank-you to all of our speakers and participant for contributing ideas, data, and dialogue!

New diss track from @columjournreview.bsky.social dropped! How did I miss this a few months ago. 🎧👏🏽 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq29...

@suesmith.lol I'm in the camp of needing a Glitch replacement for teaching. Going to try out your CodeSpaces template to see if it fits the bill. Thanks for sharing it!

Our next experimental student data theatre production is in rehearsals! So exciting to join the team to see an early run last week. In Boston and curious about creative data experiences? Keep an eye out for "The Numbers" @ Northeastern Nov 13-23. eventregistration.northeastern.edu/event/9fc996...

Election day in Boston! @thescopenu.bsky.social has your city election guide for any last minute logistics: thescopeboston.org/boston-elect... And city council candidate Q&As: thescopeboston.org/10138/boston...

An inside look at Consumer Reports’s cybersecurity and privacy testing lab, where its experts work to keep consumers safe from digital harms. Read more here: innovation.consumerreports.org/how-crs-test...

This is a provocative challenge to my existing distaste for chat-based automation of simple tools. 🤔

Excited to have @sydneypurdue.bsky.social presenting the latest in our ongoing work on data theatre at the Input Visualization Workshop at @ieeevis.bsky.social this week. Embodied methods worked to create data & build cohesion in summer workshops. Preprint at osf.io/aeu5g

🧵🧵 This thread highlights some of media people and organizations energetically covering the Trump regime’s campaign to terrorize Chicagoans. These folks are well worth a Bluesky follow. Of special note is Unraveled, the kind of independent journalism we need when some legacy outlets are in retreat.

@buffer.com feature request idea 💡: I often mention the same people in posts I’m drafting in Buffer for LinkedIn and bluesky. Would be cool if there was a list of recently or frequently mentioned users it’d show me to try to help me compose more quickly and not mistype an account name.

Weekend watch: my keynote on Community Data from @csvconf.bsky.social this fall has been posted. Focused on the importance of making collaborative data mirrors, not data windows. Wonderful crowd, beautiful setting. So thankful to have participated. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v498...

Wait he co-wrote #1 Spice! WHAT? 🤯 How did I not know this until now? Social media has really let me down on this one.

Why is it that every disappeared US citizen is not front page news? At the very least we should have a little box with a count of the number of citizens who have been taken away and are not locatable and a link to a story with photos & min-bios, just as we used to do with military casually figures.

Workshops for @infoplusconf.bsky.social are filling up! Street viz, period data, decarbonization, community data, sonification, data quilting, infographics for movement. Nov 14th in Boston. Sign up now: informationplusconference.com/2025/worksho...

Check out the fantastic information design and data visualization workshops at Info+ coming up on Nov 14th - h/t @rahulbot.bsky.social submissions.infoplus.team/event/9/cont...

Media Cloud data bite: the US right is talking a lot more about "abolish ice" as a narrative vs the left. These are older partisanship collections, but clearly the right isn't focused on imagining a post-ICE country. ICE was only _founded_ in 2003.

Local protest mapper tool update: had to remove ACLED due to new data restrictions, but CCC data updated 2 weeks ago. Make embeddable maps of protests in your area. Considering a bubble-map option since so many protests are happening in the same place 🤔 dataculture.northeastern.edu/local-protes...

It’s too bad only farmers are people and not librarians or artists or healthcare workers or researchers.

The full agenda of the Computation+Journalism Symposium is online! Join us in Miami for two days (December 11-12) of great talks, workshops, panels, and paper presentations: cplusj2025.com/agenda Register here: events.miami.edu/event/cplusj...

Had another wonderful experience as @csvconf.bsky.social in Bologna a few weeks ago. Missed it? Get a glimpse of the topics discussed from this blog post with notes about sessions I went to. dataculture.northeastern.edu/2025/09/29/c...

Incredibly valuable work on public perception of higher ed from my esteemed colleague’s team 👏🏽

BOOM! After over a thousand students, faculty, & workers gathered on campus to demand a rejection of Trump’s bribe, UVA SAYS NO LOYALTY OATH! ✊🏼✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾 M.I.T. ☑️ BROWN ☑️ PENN ☑️ USC☑️ UVA ☑️ This is People Power in Action. #DefendHigherEd

If you are going to a No Kings protest this weekend, be sure to review our Surveillance Self Defense guide for attending a protest and bring Rayhunter along for the ride! ssd.eff.org/module/atte.... eff.org/rayhunter.

H1B visa changes will have major impacts on data journalists in the US. Read the Storybench dive: www.storybench.org/visa-policie... AAUP is suing to block the H1-B changes: www.aaup.org/news/aaup-co...

Oriana Korol, a clarinetist with the Unpresidented Brass Band, was arrested after a man and federal agents barreled into band members who were standing across the street from the ICE office and playing the theme from “Ghostbusters.” Read more: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

NEW: A huge ice sculpture of the word “DEMOCRACY” is currently melting away in front of the US Capitol. Organized by artists and activists, it was commissioned by the Up In Arms campaign, an effort led by Ben Cohen, the cofounder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.

We just launched a new project tracking public attitudes to higher ed. First report is out: we find the public trusts universities and opposes funding cuts, but worries about tuition costs and free speech on campus. With @davidlazer.bsky.social, M. Baum, J. Druckman, & M. Santillana edbarometer.org

Excited to share our new research, “The malaria vaccine should be Dead on Arrival: Exploring Health Discourse and Misinformation on KingsChat,” will be presented at AoIR2025 this week! 🎉 Click here to learn more: lnkd.in/e5vJrtaa

Big news in creative computing last week: Qualcomm is acquiring Arduino! www.theverge.com/news/794452/...

Solidarity is the only way

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog. www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

Excited this week to be co-hosting a field building symposium on "New(s) Knowledge". Gathering researchers, civic technologists, funders, community-based organizations, journalists, and others working to understand and strengthen information ecosystems. Should be brain-filling!

Strong and clear response from MIT to this regime's latest attempt to take over university teaching. The demands are blatantly fascist. MIT: "we freely choose these values because they're right..." 👏🏽 orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Study from @autisticadvocacy.org on AI in use with worrying results: generative LLMs failed to faithfully create "plain language" versions of stories for disabled readers. They problematically added in claims not in the original text. autisticadvocacy.org/2025/07/asan...

This is what the Nobel Committee ACTUALLY said. Sorry Donald. Most of the world can see you for what you are.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

I begged @spiegel.de to translate Jörg Schindler's excellent reporting on America's fall into theocracy and they did. As I keep saying, German journalists are doing a better job covering America's fall than American journalists. 1/ www.spiegel.de/internationa...

She's not anonymous (can't speak to her salary). Her name is Camille Zapata

HONK! Fest is on! I'll be playing with two bands, but this year also includes a one-day pre-conference "HONK! U - A Conference Celebrating 20 Years of Street Music Activism". So timely and important. honkfest.org/2025-festiva...

“Any university leader who signs on to this compact would betray everything good and solid about the university and would do deep and permanent harm to the United States and the world.”https://newrepublic.com/article/201376/trump-compact-academic-excellence-university-virginia via @newrepublic.com

“‘Universities & university presidents need to be the ones to stand up to Trump and say no, because we are not seeing industry leaders in specifically media & technology taking that kind of stance,’ said Mike Ananny.” cc @annenbergmedia.bsky.social www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/06/r...

"In an authoritarian context, all journalism will tend toward propaganda unless it is explicitly formulated as anti-authoritarian." @jvl.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/the-washin...

BREAKING: Today, we're suing. Federal forces in the Chicago area are brutally suppressing free speech with tear gas, rubber bullets, and flash grenades. Journalists, clergy, and demonstrators have been attacked for peacefully protesting against the government. This is an unconstitutional assault.

Some of my Northeastern Journalism colleagues weighed in on the free-speech implications to the Kimmel suspension huntnewsnu.com/88448/campus...

Message to university leaders considering signing—or negotiating—the extortion letter.

AAUP President Todd Wolfson and AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump’s Loyalty Pledge for Colleges and Universities. Now is the time to unite in defense of democracy and higher education! Read full statement below 👇 @aft.org @proftwolf.bsky.social @rweingarten.bsky.social

News organizations are failing to communicate that POTUS is detached from reality & democracy. Democracywashing his declared war on US cities by zero context for how *unconstitutional* & dangerous this is. “We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military.” 1/n

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.