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

Lucia Walinchus@walinchus.bsky.social · 9mo ago

There are a lot of great posts out there that aren't very highly ranked. Don't rely on bluesky to find you great content; you can find it on your own! Here's how: #Rstats via @northeasternu.bsky.social's Storybench www.storybench.org/how-to-analy...

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.”

Krishna Karra@krishnakarra.bsky.social · last yr.

read our report which uses satellite imagery to map environmental catastrophe in gaza with @denisedslu.bsky.social 🎁: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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...

Weed Regulation is Foundering. For Answers, Look to the Labs

Lots of legal marijuana is sold with inflated THC levels or unsafe contaminants. Can the oversight system be reformed?

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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

Teresa Carr@teresacarr.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

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-...

How to transform public meetings into engaging social media clips

Testing Descript, OpusClip and Veed.

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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...

Getting the most out of the Wayback Machine

Tips for the Wayback Machine browser extension, API, and more!

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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

Youtube-Tools | User Comments History

Search any YouTube user comment history with ease. Access over 20 billion comments from more than 1.4 billion users, recorded since 2005. Quickly find and explore user comment histories for research, ...

youtube-tools.lolarchiver.com

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-...

How this year’s Pulitzer awardees used AI in their reporting

For a second year, the Pulitzer Prizes required applicants to divulge AI usage — one winner and three finalists disclosed.

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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...

Three New Tools to Explore Social Media

The Observatory on Social Media (OSoMe, pronounced “awesome”) is excited to introduce three new tools that will make it easier to study and engage with...

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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...

Stop pretending journalism matters on its own

Learning to measure journalism by its human value.

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

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🚨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:

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Application Instructions Please list all professional experience and explain any gaps in employment history. All of your application materials, which may include PDF files of work samples and/or links...

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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...

The push alerts of the first 100 days of the Trump administration

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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.

This triangle helps explain a titanic shift in how Australia votes

This triangle is going to help us explain how Australian politics has fundamentally changed over the past five decades.

abc.net.au

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.

They Criticized Musk on X. Then Their Reach Collapsed.

Three users who disagreed with the site’s owner saw views for their posts plummet.

nytimes.com

“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...

Exclusive: a Nature analysis signals the beginnings of a US science brain drain

A trawl of job views and application data suggests jobseekers are looking abroad as the Trump administration’s cuts to science take hold.

nature.com

“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...

DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants

DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, an IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.

wired.com

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...

Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More

By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose con...

propublica.org

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...

Elon Musk gets government policy ideas from X. Here’s how.

A look at which accounts — big and small — have Musk’s ear and how some appear to have sparked action from Musk and the Trump administration.

washingtonpost.com

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...

Max Kozlov@maxkozlov.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW: Entire scientific fields have been wiped out by the nearly 800 grants cancelled at NIH, finds a @nature.com analysis of the unprecedented cuts. About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone. See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:

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...

Science Misinformation: Journalism in the Age of Truth Decay

The Pulitzer Center is seeking applications for in-depth and investigative stories related to science misinformation, science denial, and the spread of pseudoscience. We’re also interested in...

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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 -->

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“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-...