Ericka Menchen-Trevino

I didn’t touch it, but I guess it was woodie in texture

Round fungus, res and yellow on a tree trunk

Possibly Ischnoderma resinosum, found in Tennessee #fungifriends

Then, once you scrape that news, make it available to others for "non-consumptive research" - osf.io/gz3xf_v1 @jbgruber.bsky.social @vanatteveldt.com #ica25

Very impressive work to build a modular open-source infrastructure for news scraping by @jbgruber.bsky.social that should be adapted and built upon by anyone scraping news!

In ChatGPT Case, Order to Retain All Chats Threatens User Privacy Tomorrow, Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York will convene an in-person conference between the parties in the New York Times Co. v. OpenAI cop...

A conference in the NYT v OpenAI case today impacts the privacy of 400m+ ChatGPT users. No matter the case’s merits, there’s no way the chat outputs of *all* users should be saved without constraint. CDT’s @bankston.bsky.social on why the judge must craft a nuanced approach: cdt.org/insights/in-...

Forgetful by Design? A Critical Audit of YouTube's Search API for Academic Research This paper critically audits the search endpoint of YouTube's Data API (v3), a common tool for academic research. Through systematic weekly searches over six months using eleven queries, we identify m...

YouTube's API search function is "not adequate for robust academic research, especially concerning Digital Services Act requirements".

Clear and problematic conclusions by @riederb.bsky.social Adrian Padilla & Oscar Coromina

#commsky #DSA #dataacess #youtube

arxiv.org/abs/2506.11727

@jbgruber.bsky.social & @vanatteveldt.com argue that as data become more difficult to collect (no APIs, scraping more difficult) we need to share existing data more. And how non-consumptive research is a way to do that without goi g to jail! #ica25

Stellar panel on data donations at #ica25 @lionw.bsky.social presenting on across platform sample biases, Yangliu Fan @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social on sequence mining in digital trace data, and @ernesto-deleon.com on tailored recruitment messages. Full room shows how important #datadonation is

GitHub - JBGruber/ica25_tool-demos: Tool Demo Scripts for ICA 2025 Tool Demo Scripts for ICA 2025. Contribute to JBGruber/ica25_tool-demos development by creating an account on GitHub.

@jbgruber.bsky.social kicking off @icacm.bsky.social 's tool demo session, and the best thing is: everything is on github! github.com/JBGruber/ica... - check it out if you need to scrape news or retrieve tiktok data and want sth that just works! #ica25

Bye Denver! An amazing and well organized #ica25 conference as usual.

Check out the tracker here: www.hamiltonproject.org/data/trackin...

A 25-year view of Research Publishing using Dimensions - James Butcher

Proportion of "Gold" OA fell in 2024

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH_U...

Network Analysis - How-to Use Communalytic Network Analyzer - Communalytic - A no-code computational social science research tool for studying online communities and public discourse on social media This tutorial will demonstrate how to use Communalytic’s built-in Network Visualizer. This feature allows you to visualize your dataset as an interactive network visualization inside your browser with...

DYK our @communalytic.org social media research tool has a built-in network analyzer? What sets this network analyzer apart is that the edges that connect the nodes can carry weights such as sentiment scores or toxicity & prosocial scores. communalytic.org/docs/network...

Internet Archive played crucial role in tracking shady CDC data removals Internet Archive makes it easier to track changes in CDC data online.

The Internet Archive continues to do important work! arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... @archive.org

I'm happy that my submission with @cjkarr.bsky.social "Tool demo: Ongoing quality assurance for computational data collection using Passive Data Kit (PDK)" has been accepted for presentation at the International Communication Association - see you in Denver! #ica25

American Psychological Association Urges FTC to Investigate AI Chatbots Claiming to Offer Therapy The American Psychological Association sent a letter to the FTC urging the agency to investigate Character.AI and other chatbot makers.

After two lawsuits filed against Character AI, "the American Psychological Association (APA) sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) urging the regulating body to investigate whether any chatbot companies are engaging in deceptive practices."

Good.

futurism.com/american-psy...

I second ‘visit’ - life is short 🤗

It doesn't have to be fact checking OR community notes

They can and should work hand in hand to make platforms better

#AGU24 Today I am participating in a session on Publication Transparency - talking about bringing publications closer to day-to-day research tools, to improve transparency, openness and give researchers much more control over how their work is communicated.

agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/me...

Don't (or Do) Share My Online Posts Consenting (or not) to third-parties sharing your Bluesky posts.

After last week's kerfluffle over AI "researchers" harvesting Bluesky posts to train LLMs and other models, I created a mechanism that I'll be curating here for folks to register their preference.

Follow @dont.sharemyposts.online to just say "no".

Follow @do.sharemyposts.online to say "yes".

Highly recommended: my colleagues at the GESIS Computational Social Science department are searching for a new team lead.
Great people, great research, work on research infrastructure and open science. Plus: tenure option ("Entfristung")

Web Scraping for Research: Legal, Ethical, Institutional, and Scientific Considerations Scientists across disciplines often use data from the internet to conduct research, generating valuable insights about human behavior. However, as generative AI relying on massive text corpora becomes...

New white paper on web scraping issues: arxiv.org/abs/2410.23432 by @michaelzimmer.bsky.social and colleagues - important topic!

I love this about UIC where I did my MA and where I’ll be teaching in the spring: today.uic.edu/uic-wall-str...

This visualization makes me think about a presentation I saw on translating survey response scales. Think about how this would look in another language and trying to choose equivalent words…

Has someone been granted access to the Meta Content Library/API? I'm trying to collect feedback on pros and cons for a report, and would love to have a chat with people who have used it.

On Friday, we'll tell you more re: the new Civility Analyzer in @communalytic.org, our computational social science research tool for studying online communities & public discourse on social media.

The Civility Analyzer will find what the AI and human content moderators have "decided" to leave up.

YouTube video by SydJS Max Bo - Reactive HTML Notebooks

What if we could do data exploration, visualization, modeling, writing, typesetting, and publishing all on *one* platform? What if it was HTML? Check out this technical talk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMUt... and the Celine library: maxbo.me/celine/

Germany has the best government funding for media studies I've found (Hans-Bredow-Institut is just one example) --- maybe we will have it as well in the aftermath

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