Reposted by Michele WeigleArjen P. de Vries @arjenpdevries.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Soon to / have a PhD in Information Retrieval and would like to continue in research as a postdoc? Love Web search, building systems, and developed at least some skepticism toward Big Tech? (Or, in true British English, scepticism?!) Follow me closely for updates on this academic job opportunity. 164
Reposted by Michele Weiglehimarshaj.bsky.social @himarshaj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026And closing out the final session of #TPDL2026 with our own work! Nobody Truly Agrees on Sentiment: Humans, Bespoke Tools, and LLMs Struggle with Social Media Texts @webscidl.bsky.social, @phonedudemln.bsky.social, @weiglemc.bsky.social, @skandasiva.bsky.social 012
Reposted by Michele WeigleMat Kelly @machawk1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The WADL deadline has been extended to September 23. Please share with those potentially interested. wadlworkshop.github.io 024
Reposted by Michele WeigleinfoDOCKET @infodocket.bsky.social · 31/08/2026IMLS Grant Awarded on Identifying and Preserving Web Resources Referenced in Archived U.S. Local and National Television News (via @webscidl.bsky.social) ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/08/2026... #funding #mediapreservation #digipres #media #tvnews #video @archive.org 035
Reposted by Michele WeigleMichael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Happy that this is finally published! A discussion about social media screenshots that we factored out of our research pubs about determining real vs. fake attribution in screenshots. Screenshots are still bad, mkay, but there are a lot of valid reasons why they are used. @webscidl.bsky.social 003
Reposted by Michele WeigleArXiv Paper Poster (cs.SI & ph-soc) @soc-net-bot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Why People Share Social Media Screenshots arxiv.org/abs/2608.27539 Posting screenshots of social media posts is a common way of increasing platform functionality, enabling inter-platform interoperability, and gives users more control over how content is presented and interpreted. Whil...📈🤖 004
Reposted by Michele Weiglehimarshaj.bsky.social @himarshaj.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Excited to share that our team received an IMLS award for CiteCast, a project to identify and preserve web resources referenced in U.S. TV news! @WebSciDL ✍️: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/08/2026... Drs. @acnwala.bsky.social, @ibnesayeed.bsky.social, @phonedudemln.bsky.social, & @weiglemc.bsky.socialws-dl.blogspot.com2026-08-31: IMLS Grant Awarded on Identifying and Preserving Web Resources Referenced in Archived U.S. Local and National Television NewsThe Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University. 124
Reposted by Michele WeigleMichael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Six WSDL @webscidl.bsky.social courses offered for Fall 2026: CS 418/518 Web Programming CS 432/532 Web Science CS 620 Intro to Data Science & Analytics CS 625 Data Vis CS 733/833 Natural Language Processing CS 795/895 Foundational Models for Data Science ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/08/2026...ws-dl.blogspot.com2026-08-23: Six WSDL Classed Offered for Fall 2026The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University. 013
Reposted by Michele WeigleAlexander C. Nwala @acnwala.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I'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... 125
Reposted by Michele WeigleMichael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Jian Wu @fanchyna.bsky.social and WSDL @webscidl.bsky.social are on a heater -- we just received official confirmation that our NSF REU site was renewed for a second term. The topic this time is "Human-AI Interaction and Evaluation in Web and Information Systems". ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/08/2026...ws-dl.blogspot.com2026-08-03: REU Renewal Proposal Awarded by NSFThe Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University. 044
Reposted by Michele WeigleJian Wu @fanchyna.bsky.social · 21/07/2026The main conference paper deadline for JCDL 2026 has passed. JCDL 2026 is currently accepting submissions to the following tracks: - Posters and Demos - Panels - Doctoral Consortium Papers - Resource Papers - Undergraduate Research Symposium - Workshop Papers 2026.jcdl.org 002
Reposted by Michele WeigleKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Two years ago, my colleagues and I were sued by Stephen Miller's America First Legal. The Hines v Stamos case — built atop a number of false allegations — was a central element of the "censorship industrial complex" myth. Today, that case was dismissed (by a Trump judge in LA). We won. 16270621656
Reposted by Michele WeigleMichael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 25/06/2026We've uploaded the video for Tuesday's 2026 WS-DL Research Expo -- be sure to check it out if you missed it. @webscidl.bsky.social ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/06/2026...ws-dl.blogspot.com2026-06-25: 2026 WS-DL Research ExpoThe Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University. 015
Reposted by Michele WeigleMichael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Recently, Sawood (ibnesayeed.bsky.social) & I uncovered a tricky web archiving replay problem. An API call several layers of JS deep had superfluous browser size args that would intermittently load the wrong JSON for the archived HTML ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/05/2026... (all images/links are SFW)ws-dl.blogspot.com2026-05-26: URL Arguments in API Calls Can Cause Intermittent Temporal Violations While Replaying Archived Web PagesThe Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University. 135
Reposted by Michele Weiglehimarshaj.bsky.social @himarshaj.bsky.social · 09/06/2026What does it take to teach a senior/grad-level database course for the first time? I share my experience teaching CS 450/550 in Spring 2026, a semester that pushed me beyond research into teaching and learning. ✍️ WS-DL blog: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/06/2026... @webscidl.bsky.social #oducsws-dl.blogspot.com2026-06-09: Teaching Database Concepts for Senior Undergraduate and Graduate Students at ODUThe Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University. 022
Reposted by Michele Weiglehimarshaj.bsky.social @himarshaj.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Excited to share that I passed my PhD proposal defense on April 24, 2026 -- another step closer to finishing my PhD 🎓 Special thanks to my dissertation committee: @weiglemc.bsky.social, @phonedudemln.bsky.social, @acnwala.bsky.social, & Erika Frydenlund for their guidance & support.slideshare.netClient Challenge 154
Reposted by Michele WeigleMichael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 29/05/2026I've been trying to resolve the cognitive dissonance between "AI-generated summaries are useful" and the backlash that Dr. Fieisler (@cfiesler.bsky.social), myself, and many others felt at the ACM DL briefly making them default over authors' abstracts in December. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/05/2026...ws-dl.blogspot.com2026-05-28: If LLMs can write abstracts, what's our job? The Uncanny Valley and Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect in the ACM Digital LibraryThe Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University. 256
Reposted by Michele WeigleMichael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 18/05/2026On Thursday, May 14 2026, we held our WSDL gathering at Hank’s Filling Station. It also served as a promotion and tenure party for Vikas Ashok. Himarsha and Skanda brought the future WSDL member (and shared her with others), and former members were there too (Sawood, Yasith, Gavindya). 296
Reposted by Michele WeigleCoalition for Networked Information @cni-org.bsky.social · 13/05/2026The 2026 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries will take place on October 13–16 in Dallas, Texas, and the call for papers, posters, and more has also been released:2026.jcdl.orgHome-JCDL2026 -ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2026 Click to switch › About the Event The ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) is a premier international forum focused… 004
Reposted by Michele WeigleJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 27/04/2026internet for bots by bots www.404media.co/study-finds-...404media.coStudy Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-GeneratedResearchers found the internet is becoming aggressively positive as AI-generated text floods the web. 519875
Reposted by Michele WeigleInternet Archive @archive.org · 24/04/2026🧵 The web is disappearing 🕳️ From Pew: 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are ☠️ A new study in VANISHING CULTURE gives hope: 16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine. 56% are preserved before they disappear. 📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from Internet Archive: archive.org/details/vani... ⬇️ 71027498
Reposted by Michele WeigleMichael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 24/04/2026"Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web" Sawood Alam's (@ibnesayeed.bsky.social, @archive.org, @waybackmachine.bsky.social) #WAC2025 presentation. blog.archive.org/2026/04/23/g...blog.archive.orgGone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web | Internet Archive Blogs 054
Reposted by Michele WeigleLesley Frew @lesleyelisabeth.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Was Snopes making silent updates to its articles before 2021? [Rating: TRUE] Check out the blog post here: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/04/2026... @webscidl.bsky.socialws-dl.blogspot.com2026-04-21: Was Snopes.com making silent updates to its articles before 2021? [Rating: TRUE]The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University. 023
Reposted by Michele WeigleMat Kelly @machawk1.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Just shared a recap of teaching INFO624 at Drexel this winter. A fast-moving quarter exploring how AI is changing search plus some great student projects and takeaways. log.lab.matkelly.com/info624-2026log.lab.matkelly.comAppend the LM to the IRReport on INFO624 Intelligent Search and Language Models at Drexel CCI in Winter 2026 with course topics, student projects, and lessons learned. 031
Reposted by Michele WeigleMichael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 20/03/2026The new tool is Reverse TweetedAt, and it's useful for grep'ing or sorting tweet IDs / URLs in a list if a datetime (or range) is known in advance. The original tool was described in 2019 by Nauman Siddique and Sawood Alam (@ibnesayeed.bsky.social) ws-dl.blogspot.com/2019/08/2019...ws-dl.blogspot.com2019-08-03: TweetedAt: Finding Tweet Timestamps for Pre and Post Snowflake Tweet IDsThe Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University. 023
Reposted by Michele WeigleMichael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 20/03/2026The 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...ws-dl.blogspot.com2026-03-18: Reverse TweetedAt: Determining Tweet ID prefixes from TimestampsThe Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University. 155
Reposted by Michele WeigleinfoDOCKET @infodocket.bsky.social · 18/03/2026"A Glimpse into How #AI Tools Can Enhance the Way We Study Web Archive Content: Challenges and Opportunities" (by Jhon G. Botello, via Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group, ODU) ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/03/2026... #archives #webarchives #webarchiving #GenAI #LLMs #libraries 032
Reposted by Michele WeigleMichael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 18/03/2026A longer form discussion about generational loss in web archives. Or, if you prefer, "making copies of copies of copies..." I will give a lightning talk, "The Disintegration Loops", at the Information Stewardship Forum, hosted at the Internet Archive @archive.org ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/03/2026...ws-dl.blogspot.com2026-03-17: The Disintegration Loops: Generational Loss in Web ArchivesThe Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University. 112
Reposted by Michele WeigleMichael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Hussam Hallak @hussamhallak.bsky.social of @webscidl.bsky.social describes using Google Sheets to do a bulk upload of URLs to the "Save Page Now" service of the Wayback Machine @waybackmachine.bsky.social ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/02/2026...ws-dl.blogspot.com2026-02-12: How to archive web pages in bulk using the Internet Archive Google Sheets serviceThe Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University. 048
Reposted by Michele WeigleTravis Reid @treid803.bsky.social · 13/02/2026For this blog post, I summarized @bitarchivist.net, @wilkinson.graphics, and @ilya.webrecorder.net's paper, “High Fidelity Web Archiving of News Sites and New Media with Browsertrix.” @webscidl.bsky.social ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/02/2026...ws-dl.blogspot.com2026-02-13: Paper Summary: "High Fidelity Web Archiving of News Sites and New Media with Browsertrix"The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University. 144
Reposted by Michele WeigleLesley Frew @lesleyelisabeth.bsky.social · 03/02/2026In "Detecting and reconstructing trustworthy edit histories using web archives", I talk about different markers of edit history on webpages and how web archives can be used to verify or refute them. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/02/2026... @webscidl.bsky.social 035
Reposted by Michele WeigleMichael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 28/01/2026I'll be presenting "A Vision for Trustworthy Web Archiving" as part of the Va Tech Center for Digital Research & Scholarship Distinguished Lecture Series. Friday, Jan 30, 2026 10am EST @webscidl.bsky.social It will be on Zoom & registration is free: calendar.lib.vt.edu/event/16230235calendar.lib.vt.eduCenter for Digital Research & Scholarship Distinguished Lecture SeriesA Vision for Trustworthy Web Archiving A PRESENTATION BY Dr. Michael L. Nelson Online Event via Zoom Abstract: Link rot and content drift have always been a part of the web... 114
Reposted by Michele WeigleMichael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Travis Reid @treid803.bsky.social @webscidl.bsky.social summarizes Brenda Reyes Ayala's @brendareyesayala.bsky.social 2025 paper: "Towards a better QA process: Automatic detection of quality problems in archived websites using visual comparisons" ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/01/2026...ws-dl.blogspot.com2026-01-22: Paper Summary: "Towards a better QA process: Automatic detection of quality problems in archived websites using visual comparisons"The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University. 036
Reposted by Michele WeigleMat Kelly @machawk1.bsky.social · 10/12/2025The work described in this article was supported by IMLS 🫶 #webarchiving 012
Reposted by Michele WeigleTravis Reid @treid803.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Our JASIST article, "Problems with archiving and replaying current web advertisements", was recently published: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author... @wiley.com Co-authors: Alex Poole, Hyung Wook Choi, Christopher Rauch, @machawk1.bsky.social, @phonedudemln.bsky.social, @weiglemc.bsky.social (1/9)onlinelibrary.wiley.com 114
Reposted by Michele WeigleAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/12/2025A win! The Institute of Museum and Library Services (the federal agency that supports the nation’s libraries) has reinstated thousands of grants that had been canceled by the Trump administration, after a federal judge ruled the executive order mandating those cuts was unlawful.imls.govStatement of Agency’s Reinstatement of Terminated IMLS GrantsStatement of Agency’s Reinstatement of Terminated IMLS Grants Washington, DC– Upon further review, the Institute of Museum and Library Services has reinstated all federal grants. This action supersede... 171847346
Reposted by Michele WeigleMichael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 06/12/2025A follow up to the @tarannum44.bsky.social / @webscidl.bsky.social study on Twitter UI generations. This time, it's about acct pages, not just individual tweets. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/12/2025...ws-dl.blogspot.com2025-12-03: Exploring the Different Generations of the UI for Twitter’s Account PagesThe Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University. 0157
Reposted by Michele Weigleilovelibraries.bsky.social @ilovelibraries.bsky.social · 04/12/2025The Institute of Museum and Library Services, the federal agency that provides funding for America's libraries, has announced it is reinstating all grants it had previously terminated, including those to libraries and library organizations across the U.S. Read more: bit.ly/4496W4V 1321126
Reposted by Michele WeigleMichael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Trip report for the 2025 ACM Hypertext Conference #HT2025 @acmht.bsky.social @webscidl.bsky.social PhD students Tarannum Zaki, Rochana Obadage, & Dominik Soos and alumni @machawk1.bsky.social & @ibnesayeed.bsky.social attended in September, 2025. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/11/2025...ws-dl.blogspot.com2025-11-12: 36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT 2025) Trip ReportThe Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University. 013
Michele Weigle @weiglemc.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Our October ODU-CS PhD Gathering featured a talk from my PhD student, Tarannum Zaki (@tarannum44.bsky.social), based on our ACM Hypertext 2025 paper, "Web Archives for Verifying Attribution in Twitter Screenshots", preprint at arxiv.org/abs/2510.22939 @phonedudemln.bsky.social @webscidl.bsky.social 012
Michele Weigle @weiglemc.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Of course, my first post as Associate Dean of the Graduate School at ODU had to pay tribute to the great @ass_deans (@altassdeans.bsky.social). 100
Reposted by Michele WeigleMichael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Javed Ferdous of @webscidl.bsky.social has written a paper summary of @acm-sigchi.bsky.social ACM CHI 2025's “‘As an Autistic Person Myself:’ The Bias Paradox Around Autism in LLMs” by Park, Min, Beltran, and Hayes. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...ws-dl.blogspot.com2025-10-28: Summary of "As an Autistic Person Myself:" The Bias Paradox Around Autism in LLMsLarge Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT have become ubiquitous in our lives. 022
Reposted by Michele WeigleMichael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 27/10/2025To study Twitter is to study archived Twitter. And if you're replaying archived pages, you need to be familiar with the different generations of UIs. Tarannum Zaki of @webscidl.bsky.social explores and classifies the different UIs. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...ws-dl.blogspot.com2025-10-26: Exploring the Different Generations of Twitter/X's Tweet UIThe Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University. 14115
Reposted by Michele Weiglehimarshaj.bsky.social @himarshaj.bsky.social · 11/10/2025Excited 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.ws-dl.blogspot.com2025-10-10: An Internship Experience With the Internet Archive as a Google Summer of Code ContributorThe Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University. 036
Reposted by Michele WeigleMichael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Faculty search ODU Data Science: Critical Infrastructure and Data Transformation (CID) to Advance National Security T/TT, open rank jobs.odu.edu/postings/24241jobs.odu.eduFaculty in Data Sciences - Critical Infrastructure and Data Transformation (CID) to Advance National SecurityThe School of Data Science at Old Dominion University invites applicants for an annual 10-month position at Assistant/Associate/Full Professor rank as part of a multi-position hiring cluster aiming fo... 001
Reposted by Michele WeigleMichael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Faculty search ODU Data Science: AI-Infused Autonomous Systems for Medicine and Health T/TT, open rank jobs.odu.edu/postings/24399jobs.odu.eduFaculty in Data Science (Tenure Track/Tenured, Position # F1050A)The School of Data Science at Old Dominion University invites applicants for an open rank (Assistant/Associate/Full) as part of a multi-position hiring cluster aiming for the AI-Infused Autonomous Sys... 001
Reposted by Michele WeigleMichael L. Nelson @phonedudemln.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Faculty search ODU Data Science: Accelerator Science Tenured, associate or full prof jobs.odu.edu/postings/23963jobs.odu.eduFaculty in Applications of Physics, Data Science and/or Engineering to Particle Accelerators (Tenured, F1117AThe Department of Physics and the Center for Accelerator Science at Old Dominion University invite applicants for a tenured Associate or Full Professor position (depending on experience) in Accelerato... 001
Reposted by Michele WeigleMat Kelly @machawk1.bsky.social · 16/09/2025They utilized the timestamp of a tweet to estimate the time that a tweet has been archived. They then established left & right time boundaries to limit search space to make resolving captured tweets from the web archive more efficient. @tarannum44.bsky.social #ACMHT2025 📄 doi.org/10.1145/3720... 011
Reposted by Michele WeigleMat Kelly @machawk1.bsky.social · 16/09/20251. Reconstruct a tweet URL based on the embedded parameters in a tweet 2. Search @archive.org. Web archives are most useful when the Tweet (or account) is no longer on the live web. - @tarannum44.bsky.social #ACMHT2025 111