The first part (left-to-right) of a tweet ID encoded the datetime that it was tweeted. @tarannum44.bsky.social of @webscidl.bsky.social has released an expansion of our early tool, TweetedAt, that takes datetimes of varying granularity and returns a tweet prefix.
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/03/2026...
This work was started by William & Mary undergrad. Greatness-Emmanuel King (now at MicroSoft). We were quite unlucky with reviewers until our Romans 9:16 moment.
Identifying where local news covers requires disambiguating toponyms (Paris Texas vs. Paris France?) & identifying geo-foci. We contribute to both.
Our model can help assess shifts from local to national narratives, & more broadly provide primitives for local media research
Congratulations to my PhD student Gangani Ariyarathne for her #WebSci26 paper.
Identifying the Geographic Foci of US Local News: our NLGF model labels US local news articles with salient geo-locations central to their subject matter
* arxiv.org/abs/2603.00787
* github.com/wm-newslab/N...
Your prompt can be there when you need it. My post talks about how we evaluate prompt templates. Highlights:
1. Build a foundation with Ground Truth
2. Finding Your Candidate Prompt (Ground Truth)
3. Statistical Trials -- Because Unit Tests Alone Don't Work
dev.to/shawnmjones/...
* Behavior change is consistent for authentic users
* Social bots exhibit either very low or very high behavioral change
* Coordinated inauthentic accounts exhibit highly similar distributions of behavioral change within the same campaign, but diverse across campaigns
Congratulations to my PhD student Isuru Ariyarathne for his #WebSci26 paper. Thank you @osome.iu.edu @fil.bsky.social & Sandro Flammini for their valuable contributions.
Behavior change can be used for identifying social media manipulation
arxiv.org/abs/2603.03128
github.com/wm-newslab/b...
Excited to share my internship experience with the @archive.org as a Google Summer of Code 2025 contributor!
✍️ blog post: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...
🙏 @ibnesayeed.bsky.social, @mark.bsky.social, @weiglemc.bsky.social, @phonedudemln.bsky.social, @acnwala.bsky.social, @webscidl.bsky.social.
@webscidl.bsky.social's own Lesley Frew!
big congrats to @weiglemc.bsky.social for recruiting her.
www.odu.edu/article/odu-...
Just released Mink 3.0!
The Chrome extension integrates live & archived web. In v 3.0 we've:
* updated to MV3
* integrated #MementoWeb aggregator fallback
Give it a spin 🔗 & report any bugs🪲
#WebArchiveWednesday #webarchiving
🪲 github.com/machawk1/mink
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mink-...
Lecturer in Data Science (#F1048A)
non-TT position, starting Fall 2025
4+4 teaching load
reviews start on 2025-06-23
jobs.odu.edu/postings/23300
Is it just me, but has anyone else been noticing a rise in CAPTCHA's? I now have to prove to a lot of websites that I'm a human being.
Introducing 3DLNews2: version 2 of our
three-decade dataset of US local news articles built from a 3.5 month-long scraping effort:
github.com/wm-newslab/3...
* 1995 -- 2024: 4 million URLs (with HTML text)
* 14k local newspapers, TV, & radio in 50 states (newsresearch.lab.wm.edu/tools/local-...)
I would love to visit Paris.
Which Paris?
Paris, France or Paris, Virginia, or Paris, Texas.
Welcome to annoying problem of toponym disambiguation
Greatness Emmanuel-King (@WMdatascience, @Microsoft) tested a dozen tools for this so you don't have to:
github.com/wm-newslab/t...
You're welcome!
Applications now open for @atbw.bsky.social’s Web Archiving School. We’re recruiting fellows, instructors, and teaching assistants. Everyone is paid. Apply by January 31st, 2025. www.archivingtheblackweb.org/warc-school/
@webscidl.bsky.social #CIKM2024 Trip Report:
33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2024
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2024/11/2024...