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Alexander C. Nwala @acnwala.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I remain deeply grateful to #IMLS for this award. A lot of good projects don't get funded, so thank you Lord Jesus! for this award.

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Alexander C. Nwala @acnwala.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We will identify & preserve web resources that are referenced in archived US local & national TV news. By linking TV news to cited web resources, this project will provide richer context for both collections & enable us to trace how information moves between the web & TV news

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Alexander C. Nwala @acnwala.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'm honored to lead this project at @wm.edu, and sincerely grateful for the opportunity to work with an exception team of collaborators: @phonedudemln.bsky.social & @weiglemc.bsky.social at ODU, and @ibnesayeed.bsky.social at @archive.org.

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Alexander C. Nwala @acnwala.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'm humbled to share that our project, "CiteCast: Linking US local & national television news to cited web resources," has been selected to receive an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants - Libraries award. www.imls.gov/grants/award...

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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

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...

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2026-03-18: Reverse TweetedAt: Determining Tweet ID prefixes from Timestamps

The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.

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Alexander C. Nwala @acnwala.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

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.

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Alexander C. Nwala @acnwala.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

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

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Alexander C. Nwala @acnwala.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

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...

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Shawn M. Jones, PhD @shawnmjones.org · 10/03/2026

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/...

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Making Sure Your Prompt Will Be There For You When You Need It

At Google, our team (Google Cloud Samples) uses Gemini to produce thousands of samples in batches. In doing so, we’ve learned that the biggest hurdle isn’t the AI, it’s our own expectations about thes...

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Alexander C. Nwala @acnwala.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

* 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

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Alexander C. Nwala @acnwala.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

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...

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Michael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

@webscidl.bsky.social's own Lesley Frew! big congrats to @weiglemc.bsky.social for recruiting her. www.odu.edu/article/odu-...

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ODU Helps Fill Virginia's Need for More Computer Science Teachers

By Tiffany Whitfield

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Mat Kelly @machawk1.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

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-...

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Mink - Integrate Live & Archived Web +Memento - Chrome Web Store

Integrating the Live and Archived Web Viewing Experience Using Memento

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Alexander C. Nwala @acnwala.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

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.

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Alexander C. Nwala @acnwala.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

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-...)

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Alexander C. Nwala @acnwala.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

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!

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GitHub - wm-newslab/toporesolve

Contribute to wm-newslab/toporesolve development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Bergis Jules 🇱🇨 @bergisjules.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

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/

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WArc School – ATBW

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