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Honored to be a @pulitzercenter.org AI Accountability Fellow — and inspired by the amazing journalists in this cohort. Grateful to celebrate with the @amenazaroboto.bsky.social team & the @newmarkjplus.bsky.social, @nationalacademies.org & @schmidtsciences.bsky.social communities. 🇺🇾🌎🌍🌏

Grateful for these inspiring days at the IMMAA Conference hosted by the American University in Cairo. We shared @amenazaroboto.bsky.social's work, showing how open methodologies and educational resources can help journalists innovate and strengthen climate and data-driven accountability. 🌎🌏🌍🤖✊

Don’t miss tomorrow’s panel: “Reinventing Journalism from the Global South: Innovation, Data, and Sustainability Beyond the Ad Model.” We’ll explore how innovation and open data can power a new kind of journalism. Join us at the IMMAA Conference! 🇺🇾🇪🇬 cc @amenazaroboto.bsky.social @pulitzercenter.org

R.I.P. D'Angelo. open.spotify.com/track/5MjUkh...

New #OSINT toolkit for investigating vessels! We’ve put together a toolkit on how journalists can use OSINT for vessel tracking ⛴️🛳️. We share practical tips on how to: map a vessel’s identifiers, understand its corporate structure, and more! 👇 bit.ly/4nRdqNK

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91

Big fan of Jenn’s work. Always rigorous, always insightful. A must-read (and must-see) 👇

LinkedIn user? Starting November 3 posts will be used to train their AI. Unless you opt out, actively. Your text, your data, your choice! This should have been an opt-in, not op-out.

I have just learned of the passing of Hermeto Pascoal. Rest in peace, mestre. An immense and irreplaceable loss. My deepest condolences and love to my brothers and sisters in Brazil. ❤️🇧🇷 open.spotify.com/track/51QU7R...

Sponsors of the National Academies help support a wide range of projects and activities — including workshops, roundtables, fellowship programs, and much more. Learn more about working with the National Academies: buff.ly/F1Uh967

So I guess antitrust isn't a thing anymore, huh?

"Because that infrastructure was the people" 🙌

The Computation+Journalism Symposium will take place on December 11-12 at the University of Miami. Join us: cplusj2025.com The deadline to submit a talk, workshop, or panel is September 7th: cplusj2025.com/submissions/ We've already announced several speakers. More coming soon!

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Global Media and China AI and its Environmental and Labour Implications: China and Beyond journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/PD...

🚆 Great data journalism by @suryamattu.com, @agordon.me & @mariepastora.bsky.social: NJ Transit Is NYC’s Least Reliable Commuter Rail — By a Long Shot. Analysis of real-time data (190,000+ trains) shows NJT riders face service disruptions 6× more than other NYC commuter rails.

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Just learned of Leonard Tow’s passing. Grateful to have met him as a Tow-Knight Fellow. His vision and generosity left a lasting mark on many journalists. Here’s @jeffjarvis.bsky.social’s column in his honor: buzzmachine.com/2025/08/12/l...

They found Alec Luhn alive! I’m not a man of faith, but thank God. www.vg.no/nyheter/i/B0...

My heart is with Alec Luhn, missing in Norway’s Folgefonna national park. Hoping with everything that he’s found safe and sound soon. 🙏 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Have you checked out our educational resources? ¿Conocés los recursos educativos de #AmenazaRoboto? 🎯 "From Data To Action" - "De los datos a la acción" This project was carried out through the ISF @pulitzercenter.bsky.social. amenazaroboto.com/from-data-to...

Still feeling grateful for the honor. Thanks again to @scicommexcellence.nationalacademies.org, @schmidtsciences.bsky.social, and the amazing team @amenazaroboto.bsky.social — especially my dear friend and data jedi @gabrielfarias.bsky.social, co-author of the awarded investigation.

@migueldobrich.bsky.social is a journalist, educator, and digital entrepreneur based in Uruguay. He's also the CEO and Editor-in-chief of Amenaza Roboto, a science and technology news website that hosts Uruguay's only data and climate journalism vertical. He shared a few of his #BTS moments with us.

The Maintainers have released their “Maintainers Study Guide: A Guide to Ground Your Practice in Principles of Maintenance, Repair + Care” — a resource that “reflects nearly a decade of work” across The Maintainers’ conferences, fellowships, research networks, etc themaintainers.org/study-guide/

"The artificial intelligence boom means the Environment Agency has no idea how much water England will be short of in future decades, as datacentres do not have to report how much they are using to cool their servers."

Our Digital News Report 2025 is out! 📊48 markets 🌏Almost 100K respondents 📰Key headline: Audiences lean into video news and influencers, raising misinformation concerns and new dilemmas for publishers 📱Explore now buff.ly/xLP67Tg 🧵Findings in thread #DNR25

“Piracy is piracy”: Disney and Universal sue AI image generator Midjourney in a Hollywood first www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/pira...

"By 2028, the researchers estimate, the power going to AI-specific purposes will rise to between 165 and 326 terawatt-hours per year. That could generate the same emissions as driving over 300 billion miles—over 1,600 round trips to the sun from Earth." www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

Grateful to receive the @schmidtsciences.bsky.social / UCSC SciCom Catalyst Grant to pre-report and build an AI protocol analyzing corporate climate narratives—boosting Amenaza Roboto’s mission as independent sci/tech media. Thanks @erikacheckhayden.bsky.social & @khickok.bsky.social!

Academic friends: let’s give Felix a hand, please.

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Brandon (@cbo.bsky.social) bridges science and culture like no one else — it’s genuinely inspiring. He’s a brilliant scientist, thoughtful communicator, and a true Hip Hop and boxing connoisseur. You’re gonna love his work.

Giant data centers are taking over the U.S. — and angering local residents

Miguel, @migueldobrich.bsky.social, is one of the most driven, innovative, and impactful science communicators I've ever met. Check out his story and his work!

Still grateful for the @scicommexcellence.nationalacademies.org award from @nationalacademies.org & @schmidtsciences.bsky.social Honored to share it with my friend and co-author @gabrielfarias.bsky.social, the scientists we collaborated with, and the editorial team at @amenazaroboto.bsky.social.

I am so delighted that my former entrepreneurial student, @migueldobrich.bsky.social, has won the Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communication. He is innovative, brilliant, generous, entrepreneurial. Well earned. www.nationalacademies.org/awards/excel... See his work at amenazaroboto.com

2024 award winner @migueldobrich.bsky.social ‬is a journalist, educator, and entrepreneur based in Uruguay. His stories use multimedia techniques and data visualization tools to illustrate the impacts of climate change at a personal and local level. Watch here: youtu.be/P2yfuhUS2jM #scicomm

Delighted to circulate this call for grant applications in my capacity as the Senior Research Advisor of the National Recording Preservation Foundation, a charter of the 106th US Congress and a partner affiliate of the Library of Congress.

Only in New York. Gotta love it 😉

Going to #LivingData2025? Submit an abstract to our session 💪🏼 We are interested in the diverse experiences of community-based projects that cover any of the various stages of data mobilisation, from data collection and management to publication and use www.livingdata2025.com/sessions.htm... 🧪🌎

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Re: my last two posts: Please come to my zoom talk — Case Logics: Furnishing a Bureaucratic Implosion" — on Thurs, May 8, at 5pm ET! We'll talk about Oval Office bling, Mar-a-Lago banquet table grift, the executive order tiny desk, the filing cabinets of civil service, and community card catalogs!

Our event with @shannonmattern.bsky.social is this week! Free and virtual. Sign up here to get the zoom link: www.eventbrite.com/e/dr-shannon...

📣Registrations are open for our free online conference: Digital Pasts & Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality & Reimagining Digitality 📆 23-24 June 2025 Keynotes: Valérie Schafer, @sesamescholar.bsky.social @ethanz.bsky.social, Ramesh Srinivasan 🔗 www.uni-jena.de/en/313137/re...

Grateful for the incredible days shared with inspiring professors and brilliant peers at the AI: Journalism Lab program @newmarkjplus.bsky.social(@cuny.edu). So much insight, exchange, and energy. Looking forward to the next sessions! 🇺🇸🇷🇴🇺🇾🇫🇷🇨🇦🇹🇷🇳🇬🇨🇴🇵🇭🇮🇩 #NewmarkJSchool #AIJournalismLab

Had to share this one. Enjoy your weekend!

AI in journalism is moving fast, and so are we. The AI Journalism Lab: Adoption cohort just kicked off in NYC, diving into the foundations of generative AI and hands-on experimentation. 💡 Excited to see how they bring these insights back to their newsrooms!

There are 3 days left to apply for the #scicomm awards given by @nationalacademies.org in partnership with @schmidtsciences.bsky.social, which honor science communicators, science journalists, and research scientists! 🏆 Apply now: www.nationalacademies.org/awards/excel...

The NAM's Climate and Health Summit on April 22 will highlight top experts at the intersection of climate and health. Be part of advancing solutions for better health and increased resilience! Register to join the Summit virtually: buff.ly/GOBslBv #ClimateActionforHealth