Nick Diakopoulos

How I used Claude Code in a real data journalism project This morning three colleagues and I published a story outlining how the federal government is using AI. Here’s how I used Claude Code to help. Agencies are required to publish a spreadsheet of AI use ...

New blog post: A case study on using Claude Code in data journalism ->
kschaul.com/post/2026/02...

Experimenting with AI in a Living Literature Review From automating conference scrapes to stress-testing synthesis: a look at how AI tools like NotebookLM and OpenAI’s Agent mode support—and struggle with—the workflow of a living literature review.

AI is helpful for monitoring, collecting, and helping appraise research for a living literature review, but when it comes to synthesis or interpretation it's still lacking: www.ai-accountability-review.com/p/experiment...

oddly though "sicko fan" also makes perfect sense!

This diagram shows how elections work to create authority, and ultimately are where the buck stops in terms of accountability in a democracy:

At the end of the day the accountability for these actions is in the next election. Connecting the issues to affordability may be a way forward, e.g. data centers raising prices, AI and wages, etc.

Ironic

Sometimes I just want to pack up and get out of this country. Anyone else? Where are people landing?

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Screenshot of a paper entry: Fictional Failures and Real-World Lessons: Ethical Speculation Through Design Fiction on Emotional Support Conversational AI Authors: Faye Kollig, Jessica Pater, Fayika Farhat Nova, Casey Fiesler (There are tabs with "abstract" and "summary" and "summary" is selected.)

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

NSF pares down grant-review process, reducing influence of outside scientists Memo cites overburdened staff, but some say move also aims to elevate White House priorities

NSF plans to streamline merit review to heal self-inflicted staffing wound www.science.org/content/arti...

I have started a public notebook for the C+J conference at the University of Miami today and tomorrow.
notebooklm.google.com/notebook/51e...

What’s the Gen Z hand signal for “check please”? I imagine it’s a sort of phone tapping motion…

Vibe Coding for Newsrooms Why being a good project manager matters more than being a savvy coder

A smart explanation of "vibe coding," including how @jamditis.bsky.social used it to build a dashboard for volunteers in Springfield, NJ who were coordinating food assistance deliveries during the SNAP crisis and beyond generative-ai-newsroom.com/vibe-coding-...

Postdoctoral Research Opportunity – Global LLM Values Benchmarking Working Group: Postdoctoral Affairs - Northwestern University

🚨 Postdoc opening -- Come work with us at Northwestern! 🚨 This position is to work on evaluating LLMs for sociopolitical value expression: postdocs.northwestern.edu/announcement... -- Please share!

Vibe Coding for Newsrooms Why being a good project manager matters more than being a savvy coder

Vibe coding for newsrooms: generative-ai-newsroom.com/vibe-coding-...

Northwestern’s agreement to restore federal funding: www.northwestern.edu/president/do...

Sadly it is pretty normal in academic publishing… and also why I mostly don’t write chapters for these kinds of books anymore. You can request it through inter library loan or get a chapter scanned by our library…

Spread the word! 📢 The FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics) group at @msftresearch.bsky.social in NYC is hiring interns and postdocs to start in summer 2026! 🎉

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YouTube video by AAAS_org AAAS Mass Media Fellowship

For over 50 years, @aaas.org places students and post docs studying science, engineering, mathematics and medicine in newsrooms across the country as #MassMediaFellows. Check out this video to learn more!

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@jeremybmerrill.com you two should chat.

YouTube video by Bellingcat Mapping Midway Blitz in Illinois

We mapped Operation Midway Blitz in Illinois with @evidentmedia.org.
A federal judge will hold a hearing today (November 5th) on whether a temporary restraining order restricting crowd-control tactics in Illinois should be converted into a preliminary injunction.
youtube.com/shorts/HKXEY...

Do you have to have to be a professor or have a PhD to be a scientist?

Check out the datainnovation.org newsletter— it’s almost all beneficial cases they share every week, though I’ve never assessed it in terms of hype…

Well so we focused on the negative impacts there so didn’t actually analyze the benefit side. I would venture the general norm in straight reporting is to focus on concrete but speculation creeps in esp in opinion. Would be a good empirical question…

Interesting premise and project … in our recent paper only about 40% of news articles talked about risks of AI www.arxiv.org/pdf/2507.23718

10% of surveyed Dutch citizens told us they are likely to ask AI for election advice. They shouldn't!

This is especially problematic as we know that the people who usually consult advice applications are undecided and are doing so right before casting their vote.

algosoc.org/results/1-in...

First time in a Waymo last night in Atl. It got me home. Odd route, not the most direct. The acceleration felt … not human. Anxiety crossing roads after a stop or as erratic pedestrians and bikers nearby but the display helps… autonomous cars are here.

Screenshot of the website, showing the dates (December 11-12) and the place (Miami)

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...

GitHub - palewire/open-source-news-analysis: How active are news nerds on GitHub? How active are news nerds on GitHub? Contribute to palewire/open-source-news-analysis development by creating an account on GitHub.

Nice dataset of Github repos from 300+ news orgs back to 2008: github.com/palewire/ope...

The Journalism Benchmark Cookbook: A Template for Benchmarking LLMs in Newsrooms Our approach to creating a community-oriented AI benchmark for journalism

The Journalism Benchmark Cookbook, our attempt to create a framework for ecologically valid evals in journalism: generative-ai-newsroom.com/the-journali...