Check it out! @roundaboutlocal.bsky.social, our local community app, is now here on Bluesky.

Roundabout@roundabout.town · 6d ago

Hi Bluesky! We’re the team making Roundabout, an app built to help people live a flourishing life in their local town or neighborhood. Find resources, connect with neighbors, celebrate your community.

Since I’ve shared about him so much over the years, I wanted to share the sad news that Sage passed earlier this week 😢 He brought joy through so many life phases and adventures, and I miss him so much 💔

Do you have exceptional user research skills, strategic thinking abilities, and a collaborative mindset? If you're passionate about creating more engaging, inclusive, healthy, and impactful online communities, you might be the perfect Staff UX Researcher for our Local Lab.

Job: Staff UX Researcher, Local Lab | New_ Public

We are seeking a Staff UX Researcher, Local Lab to join our team! This role is an essential part of our Local Lab, a small, cross-functional product team dedicated to developing a new community platfo...

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This grumpy little old man turned 12 yesterday, and celebrated with a yogurt frosted chicken rice cake and an afternoon of barking out the window at neighbor kids to get off his lawn 🥰

Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations

One of the coolest jobs in social media right now IMHO

Mary Beth Hunzaker@mbhunzaker.bsky.social · last yr.

The Local Lab team at New_ Public is hiring for a Staff Researcher! The team's at a really exciting stage of developing a new pro-socially oriented platform, focused on supporting local community & connection- with lots of opportunity for research to inform strategy! newpublic.org/jobs/staff-r...

Reposting for morning Bluesky folks 😄 Details in the 🧵 and job description link -- please share broadly with researchers you think might be interested and a good fit!

Mary Beth Hunzaker@mbhunzaker.bsky.social · last yr.

The Local Lab team at New_ Public is hiring for a Staff Researcher! The team's at a really exciting stage of developing a new pro-socially oriented platform, focused on supporting local community & connection- with lots of opportunity for research to inform strategy! newpublic.org/jobs/staff-r...

The Local Lab team at New_ Public is hiring for a Staff Researcher! The team's at a really exciting stage of developing a new pro-socially oriented platform, focused on supporting local community & connection- with lots of opportunity for research to inform strategy! newpublic.org/jobs/staff-r...

Job: Staff Researcher, Local Lab

We are seeking a Staff Researcher, Local Lab to join our team! In this role, you will drive strategic research initiatives while leading tactical studies to refine and evaluate our approach. You'll be...

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THE RESIST LIST IS HERE. Proud my team just started this @resistlist.bsky.social, which will list actions that happened and that are slated to happen.

BREAKING: The court has granted our request for a temporary restraining order to stop the federal government from unlawfully sharing personal financial data with DOGE. This must now stop, pending a full hearing, and any downloaded data must be deleted.

What is the purpose of this neutral, no context, both sidesy framing? Who is this for? Maybe someone should buy npr a Wired subscription. 🤨

NPR@npr.org · 2y ago

President Trump said the entity would focus on cutting government waste and slashing federal regulations, and he put tech billionaire and adviser Elon Musk in charge.

1. Show up. Go to the places Musk is taking over, bring cameras, demand to find out what's going on and where it breaks the law. 2. Refuse to allow standard business to continue unimpeded. Deny unanimous consent, delay votes, etc. 3. Be public about how illegal all of this is 4. Lay out a plan

For anyone who hates the idea of phone calls (hi, fellow millennials!), sitting on the fence about calling your representatives -- a pro-tip that if you call on the weekend/outside of hours you're likely to get a voicemail vs having to talk to a live person.

I keep thinking re: the years of blue-state residents thinking they were immune from these politics, alternately telling people living in red states to call our legislators and seeing us as a write-off, a joke or just stupid--

Uhm, what???

NPR@npr.org · 2y ago

Analysis: Trump has shown an affinity with many of the little guys — what he called in 2017 "the forgotten men and women." But he also has shown an affinity with some of the fattest cats of all.

Trump is openly violating the law on a vast and unprecedented scale and everyone is acting like it's normal. NPR had a long story about finding a rare shrew. NYT said he was disregarding "legal niceties." This is an attack on the Constitution as profound as the attempt to overturn the 2020 election.

Trying one more time for the morning bluesky crowd. Was really hoping someone in my network would have (evidence informed) advice 🤞

Mary Beth Hunzaker@mbhunzaker.bsky.social · 2y ago

A sincere (if uninformed 😳) question: Say I want to contact my representative with regards to *waves arms* going on, and live in an area w no elected Dem senators or representatives (thanks, gerrymandering) at the nat'l level. Who would be the most effective person/offices(s) to contact?

I’ve spent about 2-3 hours each day on calls or chats with my US gov friends. Here’s an anonymized recap of what’s going on. First, I am so very sorry that they are living our last year at Twitter. I never wanted to think about that time again, and I hope my advice is helpful. 1/

Sending such love & care to my former Twitter colleagues being forced to re-live this chaos & heartbreak, now at higher stakes & grander scale 💙 If there's something I learned in my experience, it's that the cruelty & the chaos is the point. Take care of yourselves and try not to get lost in it.

Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 2y ago

I mean, it did such wonders for Twitter. Lost significantly more than half its revenue, drove users and advertisers away in record numbers. Made the site less usable, and less stable. Who wouldn't want that for an entire country? Besides everyone who can think.

A sincere (if uninformed 😳) question: Say I want to contact my representative with regards to *waves arms* going on, and live in an area w no elected Dem senators or representatives (thanks, gerrymandering) at the nat'l level. Who would be the most effective person/offices(s) to contact?

*stares into the void in platform safety veteran*

a woman is laying in a bed with a blanket on her head .

Alt: Kim kardashian is laying in a bed staring into the ceiling

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Will Oremus@willoremus.com · 2y ago

the crazy part is this means the facebook we’ve all been experiencing for the past 5 years was the *good* version

To balance out the higher than usual volume of tech skeets from this acct, please enjoy this update from Sage. He’s so proud he figured out his little puzzle toy 🥰

Who are the 60,000 voters being challenged by Justice Griffin in NC's state supreme court race? I did a brief analysis to find out. Available at the link below. #ncpol www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/fxt46...

"Several fact-checkers over the years have suggested to Meta how it could improve this labeling to be less intrusive and avoid even the appearance of censorship, but Meta never acted on those suggestions." -- @factchecknet.bsky.social www.poynter.org/ifcn/2025/an...

An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg from the world’s fact-checkers, nine years later - Poynter

From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their car...

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And surely Meta’s going to let folks re-run all those studies that found no effect under old algos/enforcement systems now with the announced changes 🤨

Will Oremus@willoremus.com · 2y ago

Still wild to me that so many "savvy" folks on left and right have bought into the idea that online misinformation is overblown and doesn't really matter. From lies about migrants to transgender people to crime to election denial to climate denial, it's literally driving our country's politics.

Okay, so just a few* thoughts (*this got longer as I wrote 😅….long thread)-

Mary Beth Hunzaker@mbhunzaker.bsky.social · 2y ago

Having a lot of thoughts & feelings today as someone who’s worked both on FBs misinfo interventions (back when they were making investments) and Birdwatch (pre-Musk Community Notes) 💔. Debating if a thread is worth the inevitable headache 😓

Having a lot of thoughts & feelings today as someone who’s worked both on FBs misinfo interventions (back when they were making investments) and Birdwatch (pre-Musk Community Notes) 💔. Debating if a thread is worth the inevitable headache 😓

The local lab team at New_ Public is growing again! Come join our small but mighty team, as we work to develop a new platform to support local communities.

New_ Public@newpublic.org · 2y ago

New role: Head of Product, Local Lab! Looking for an entrepreneurial product leader who can drive the creation of a community platform for local connection

Definite Saruman vibes, which is honestly a little on the nose

🚨🚨Here we go🚨🚨 Tucked into a "recovery" bill for Western NC, Republicans in the state legislature are using the last days of their lame-duck supermajority to try passing some pretty crazy stuff that has nothing at all to do with Helene recovery. Let's dive in. 🧵👇