Very cool that Storybench.org, the behind the scenes of data and digital storytelling blog I started 10 years ago is still going strong! Thanks to incredible students, professors and contributors like @walinchus.bsky.social

Bloomberg used a ResNet-18 CNN model to classify waste sites in Gaza, and “every computer-generated result was manually validated to ensure the highest possible accuracy.”

My investigation on the cannabis industry for @undark.org — supported by @pulitzercenter.bsky.social — took me from farms in OR to MA testing labs to the OK capitol, uncovering corruption and highlighting change makers along the way. It's quite the ride. Enjoy! undark.org/2025/07/16/c...

If you thought legalizing marijuana for medical and recreational use would make it safer and free of contaminants, think again. Labs cheat and cheating labs get more business, @undark.org reports. The answer is more state-run labs. By @teresacarr.bsky.social Data viz by @aleszu.bsky.social

We worked with the team at DFP to evaluate tools and establish a workflow for creating short-form vertical video. We wanted to find a way to edit and caption the most important parts of city council meeting videos, which are posted online, to publish on social media. rjionline.org/news/how-to-...

Satellite imagery has unique qualities that make it suitable for investigative journalism. It allows observation of inaccessible places, views of wide areas, monitoring over time, and even “see” the invisible. Read more in my latest post: medium.com/@robsimmon/n... #dataviz #ddj #cartography

The #SCIMaP team announces a major update: an analysis of the economic impacts of the White House's NIH FY26 budget. Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide. Interactive map and shareable report: scienceimpacts.org/fy26 a 🧵

The Wayback Machine is an indispensable tool for archiving web content. It's also a powerful search engine that can dig up deleted webpages and social media posts. Here's the Indicator guide to getting the most out of the Wayback machine: indicator.media/p/ge...

LolArchiver launches a new tool: YouTube Comment History. View all video comments from a specific user. So far they’ve archived 20 billion comments from 1.4 billion different accounts. youtube-tools.lolarchiver.com via @craigsilverman.bsky.social

One Pulitzer Prize winner (and three finalists) disclosed using AI to this year's judging committee. I spoke to the reporters behind those stories about how they leaned on AI tools in their investigations. My latest for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/how-...

I tracked more than 1,000 accounts that Elon Musk follows on X to recreate what he sees www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Our team just launched three new tools to help you explore social media data: 🌉NewsBridge – Adds AI-powered context to Facebook posts 🔍 Barney’s Tavern – Search 34B social media posts 🌐 OSoMeNet – Visualize how info spreads across platforms Learn more and try them out: osome.iu.edu/research/blo...

1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans. These are their stories 🧵

“The strongest media organizations I've encountered understand that people don't seek out journalism for journalism's sake - they want solutions to problems, ways to improve their lives, recognition, community.“ @pboehler.net www.pboehler.net/theory-of-se...

Join my team at NPR! We're hiring for a senior graphics reporter. Remote-friendly (in the US). grnh.se/f78153425us

🚨We're hiring! 🚨 The @wpdatateam.bsky.social is looking for a computational journalist -- someone who can help tell big national stories but also work across our team in developing best devops and big data practices. We value camaraderie, learning and collaboration. Feel free to reach out w/ Qs:

Bloomberg analyzed data, “which covers Jan. 1, 2012 through Feb. 17, 2025, obtained from the Deportation Data Project. The dataset includes records of more than 3.5 million ICE detainees and the dates when the detainees entered and left facilites.” www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

The AP “ran the text of [push] alerts through a model called BAAI general embedding to vectorize it. We then ran a similarity search over the vectors, using a FAISS index, and boosted the specific terms ‘Trump’ and ‘U.S. government.’” apnews.com/projects/tru...

So much to love in the scrollytelling — the ternary plot, the depth of the data, the findings — but my favourite part is the explanation and the text in general. 📊 Remember, a chart doesn't have to be understood in 3 seconds. It should reward the effort you put into understanding it.

I really appreciate news stories that take a phenomenon we all generally implicitly understand or assume but don't have any hard data or evidence for, then meticulously prove it. Well done @stuartathompson.bsky.social.

“Data from the Nature Careers global science jobs platform show that US scientists submitted 32% more applications for jobs abroad between January and March 2025 than during the same period in 2024” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“I think it's hard to overstate what a significant departure this is and the reshaping of longstanding norms and expectations that people have about what the government does with their data,” says Elizabeth Laird at the Center for Democracy and Technology www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

This is an EXCELLENT article. I teach statistics to public policy students & tell them that data are essential for making the world a better place. We need good data to assess the state of things, see how things have changed over time, & evaluate if policies work. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The Post identified several instances of Trump or DOGE implementing policy ideas proposed to Musk by users on X. Some proposals went from Musk's X feed to the White House Briefing Room in just hours. with @erxclau.me @azipaybarah.bsky.social & Talia Trackim www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

RE: SCOTUS Access to legal counsel seems to be make or break for so many. I mean, who walks around with a habeas petition in their pocket? In a recent article for tracreports.org, I compared how often individuals with different spoken language proficiencies are represented in immigration court.

Nature analysis of NIH Grant Terminations in 2025 database www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Pulitzer Center is offering a Science Misinformation Journalism Grant to any journalist tackling science misinformation around the world. Deadline: rolling. pulitzercenter.org/grants-fello...

Rare opportunity to work with the great @lenagroeger.bsky.social creating graphics at @propublica.org. And yes, it's a remote-friendly, union job in the @propublicaguild.bsky.social -->

“A week ago, somebody added malicious code to the tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action. If you used the compromised action, it would leak secrets to your build log.” Tips plus a shell script to audit your GitHub Actions alexwlchan.net/2025/github-...

Speaking out Outlier last year was a blast. Apply to give a talk by midnight PT tomorrow, March 15!

Very gratifying to see three data visualization projects we worked on at @urbaninstitute.bsky.social longlisted at the Information is Beautiful awards. Kudus to @mitchellthorson.com @benkates.com and @arobotwriting.bsky.social for their outstanding work bringing these complex datasets to life.

How would cuts to SNAP benefits affect your state and county? The @urbaninstitute.bsky.social just published a new tool showing that SNAP benefits will fail to cover the cost of a modestly priced meal in every county in the US. www.urban.org/data-tools/s...

"In every state, every congressional district, and more than 95 percent of counties in the United States, public charities receive government grants. Without these grants, most nonprofits would be unable to cover their expenses." Should not be a partisan issue. www.urban.org/research/pub...

Mass deportations would worsen our housing crisis. Given how behind they are in housing construction, coupled with high populations of foreign-born construction workers, Florida and Nevada are particularly vulnerable, new @urbaninstitute.bsky.social analysis shows: www.urban.org/urban-wire/m...

“These are like train tracks the housing economy travels on,” Dworkin said. “Tearing up the tracks creates enormous risk. … Without the funds, those apartment buildings are not going to be built.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Metro areas with the most office-to-apartment conversions in progress www.axios.com/2025/02/22/o... RentCafe report here www.rentcafe.com/blog/rental-...

HUD programs support more than 5 million low-income households. They're now under threat of big cuts. Our new data tool @urbaninstitute.bsky.social provides detailed info about people supported by HUD programs—and funds received—in every state & Congressional district: www.urban.org/data-tools/f...

Pair this with @propublica.org's reporting "Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump" showing the administration has placed 10,000+ student complaints related to disability access and sexual and racial harassment on hold www.propublica.org/article/depa...

Dismantling the Dept of Ed or disrupting functions like enforcing critical civil rights laws or halting IDEA funding could affect students with disabilities across the US. The number of public school students with Individualized Education Programs may surprise you: www.urban.org/urban-wire/h...

"Chinese hospitals are retraction hotspots. But universities and institutes in China, Saudi Arabia, India, Pakistan & Ethiopia feature in the data as well. Retractions can be for honest mistakes... but evidence suggests the majority of cases are related to misconduct." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NEW: Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

How long will housing recovery following LA's wildfires take? My team @urbaninstitute.bsky.social requested data on four recent fires and analyzed the recovery phases along three key milestones: 1) Debris removal 2) A building permit and 3) Certificate of occupancy www.urban.org/urban-wire/w...

“All those people, they all came in at the 12th hour once the trial was funded and you had the breakthrough. Once it was taken from us, it was all about greed.” www.propublica.org/article/zolg...

A new Trump formula for NIH grants could have very broad effects. We dug into the numbers to show what it means for every university and hospital. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... @aatishb.bsky.social @emmbadger.bsky.social @ethansinger.bsky.social @irineoc.bsky.social @fparis.bsky.social

Looking to add science journalism to your feed? For over 40 years we've brought journalists to MIT to hone their craft. Now they're on Bluesky ⬇️ bsky.app/starter-pack...

Timely new research by @urbaninstitute.bsky.social with @sarabronin.bsky.social uses NZA data to examine zoning’s relationship to areas at risk of climate hazards. Using Mobile County, AL as their case study, the team developed preliminary metrics for a pilot “Climate-Resilient Development Index."

This is a big deal, y'all. Federal health websites are being stripped of content or removed in their entirety. Stick with this thread for a look at what's disappeared so far! 1/x

We welcome help from experts to help us finish this map. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/u...

“Between 1990 and 2020, nearly 45% of the homes built in California has broken ground in what researchers and firefighters call the wildland-urban interface.” calmatters.org/housing/2025... citing silvis.forest.wisc.edu/data/wui-cha...