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Dark navy promotional poster with neon-style city graphics. Large white text reads “CALLING ALL NEW YOKERS!” with icons and details: “March 22–29, 2026” and “opendataweek.nyc.” Logos for NYC OTI, BetaNYC, and Data Through Design appear above an “Open Data Week 2026” graphic, with “Powered by NYC Open Data” at the bottom.

We’re celebrating a decade of NYC Open Data Week! 🗽✨

From March 22–29, join the city’s open data community for a week of learning, sharing, and connection.

See the full program and sign up at opendataweek.nyc

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Workshops to enrich your work with the sunshine of info transparency!

Detecting & Investigating Healthcare Fraud 3-11

FOIA Under the 2nd Trump Administration 3-12

Book Bans with The Marshall Project & The Data Liberation Project 3-18

and more!

Register: www.sunlightresearch.net/research-tra...

Barbie driving down the road singing, text reads "downloading data for reuse. bottom panel: barbie and Ken screaming with text reading "there's no README"

It's important for the public to be able to reuse #RescuedData, but the context a README or similar documentation provides is necessary for understanding.

Be like Barbie. Help yourself have a great day every day, and on this #MemeMonday, remember to document your data.

A person observing the paw of a monkey that is hanging from a tree under a microscope. The person is wearing a very big hat.

*News research webinar alert*

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Learn to navigate ProPublica’s database of Trump appointees’ financial disclosures and potential conflicts of interest.

Apr 4

4:00pm–5:00pm Virtual

(img: The Magnifying Glass by Toriyama Sekien ca. 1775 via metmuseum)

NYC Open Data Week 2026 schedule is up. Excited to have a panel in the lineup on public scholarship & open data with colleagues at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social and @ccnysustainability.bsky.social, and to attend many other events, including @schoolofdata.nyc.

opendataweek.nyc

#OpenData

Flyer for ‘Discovering NYC Open Data,’ a free monthly online workshop from NYC Open Data Ambassadors and BetaNYC. Text highlights learning how to find, filter, and visualize NYC datasets, with a QR code to sign up and an illustration of two people holding data charts.

Open Data is full of stories waiting to be uncovered. Want to learn how to search, filter, and make sense of it? 🕵️‍♀️

This free workshop will guide you through the basics and show how communities are turning data into action.

📅 Wednesday, Mar 11, 2026 at 6 pm ET
🔗 RSVP: www.beta.nyc/event/e260311

Flyer with a close-up sesame bagel background and the headline ‘BetaBagels.’ Text reads: ‘A Fireside Chat with NYC Council Member Carmen De La Rosa, Chair of the Committee on Technology.’ Event details: ‘11:30am Friday, February 27.’ Registration: ‘beta.nyc/betabagels014.’”

If you care about how NYC uses technology, this is your invitation. 📨 🥯

We're having a fireside chat with Council Member Carmen De La Rosa on Committee priorities, transparency, and what responsible tech looks like in public services.

Fri, Feb 27, 11:30 am
Register: www.beta.nyc/event/betaba...

TRAC is a clearinghouse for immigration data. Today's current trends shows that as of 2-7 ICE had ~68,000 people in detention (up from ~41K last year) and is _monitoring_ more than 2.6 times as many. (The # monitored has been more steady since last year). More here: tracreports.org/immigration/...

A table with four books: The Fort Bragg Cartel - Drug trafficking and murder in the special forces, by Seth Harp; Algorithms for the People - Democracy in the age of AI by Josh Simons; Stolen Focus by Johann Hari; and Nothing More of This Land - Community power and the search for indigenous identity by Joseph Lee

We just got more books! Here are a few of them. Members of they CUNY community should come by and check them out, like, literally.

Journalism lost its culture of sharing Here’s how we rebuild it

Sharing data, resources and research methods across the newsroom is an everyday occurrence in our program. In the industry at large, the practice is losing popularity. Check out this Source article exploring ways we can bring resource sharing back to journalism: source.opennews.org/articles/jou...

Be sure to check this out! We ❤️ DataLumos and @icpsr.bsky.social

The Research Center is returning to instagram. Follow newmarkjresearch for information about our events and ideas about news research.

Image of four newspapers on a table. One is the New York Daily News from today with a new font and three are the Daily News from last week with the old font.

informal, small-n newsroom poll finds that old font was preferred but also had a tacky tabloid feel while new font seems more business-y. @nydnunion.bsky.social

Image with text “Data Communication Scholarship. Deadline: Feb 23. For undergraduate and graduate students. Find out more at https://myumi.ch/Xeo1y.”

Students have a chance to gain money, knowledge & recognition through the ICPSR Data Communication Scholarship. Due 2/23, please share this opportunity! ➡️ myumi.ch/Xeo1y #data #scholarship

Happy Black History Month! Learn how Graduate Center scholars are illuminating and making Black history through books, breakthroughs, and bold leadership www.gc.cuny.edu/news/honorin... @kushya.bsky.social #BHM #BHM26 @cuny.edu

Bad Bunny made history winning Album of the Year for Debí Tirar Más Fotos the first Spanish language album to do so.

This Deep Dive reflects on using power with intention and centering Puerto Rican culture. Watch the full conversation on YouTube.

🔗 youtu.be/YYh1WJ2fEUs?...

#badbunny #grammys

There's a lot of misinformation floating around NYC socials the past couple of days... *List of neighborhoods where unverified sightings occurred.* Yes, enforcement has been and continues to be sighted throughout the city in many of the neighborhoods listed above BUT...

Warning to anyone concerned about ICE in NYC, or really anywhere else in the U.S. 🧵/

Recently, accounts on Instagram, Reddit, and other social media platforms have been blowing up with reports of sightings across the city, like in the image below.

I want to point out that ICE IS IN NYC, but...

(1) Immigration Attorney Tamara Bloom

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Announcing spring 2026 public programs! Join us in person or online - reserve now: www.gc.cuny.edu/public-progr... Feat. journalist Frank Rich, former FTC chair Lina Khan, Nobel winner @pkrugman.bsky.social, author @elijahwald.bsky.social, designer Qween Jean, singer Rocío Márquez & more! @cuny.edu

New Data Sources to Improve Federal Statistics Today, we have the seventh post in the series to help diverse audiences understand and support the federal statistical system. This post is from Barry Johnson, and provides an overview of different…

Check out the latest from @datarescueproject.org on New Data Sources to Improve Federal Statistics: www.datarescueproject.org/new-data-sou...

City Tech students have been contributing to Wikimedia Commons! https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/library/city-tech-students-have-been-contributing-to-wikimedia-commons/

How the Meaning of 'Publicly Accessible' Shapes Researcher Data Rights Under the DSA | TechPolicy.Press Researchers eager to begin work under DSA Article 40(12) may be deterred by uncertainty about what data counts as 'publicly accessible,' writes Daphne Keller.

My second post about researchers’ rights to scrape data under DSA Article 40.12 is up! This is dense with legal arguments for researchers to use if they get sued. Or to show their lawyers before that.

www.techpolicy.press/how-the-mean...

verfassungsblog.de/dsa-fine-x-r...

My linocut portrait of Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska shows her as in slacks and sleeveless button down with collar turned in a 3/4 view with her right arm extended and left arm bent and resting on the small of her back. She has short hair and appears brightly lit from the left side. In front of her are the Fighting Dinosaurs fossils: a protoceratops and velociraptor entwined. Above her hand is a Cretaceous rodent Catopsbaatar and behind her is a Deinocheirus dinosaur. She is in the field in Mongolia with mountains in the distance. The print is made in a gradient of sandy golden green through dark green-brown through a dark rust from the bottom to the top.

Day 15 #artAdventCalendar is my #linocut 🐡🧪👩🏼‍🔬⚒️ #histsci of Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925-2015) a Polish #paleobiologist, famous for a series of Polish-Mongolian expeditions she lead from 1963-1971 to the Gobi desert, where she discovered dinosaurs including the Deinocheirus, where she & team found 🧵

Inside the Immigration Beat: Reporting truth and protecting communities YouTube video by Freedom of the Press Foundation

Thanks to our panelists, @maritzafelix.bsky.social, @arelisrhdz.bsky.social, @lamthuyvo.bsky.social, and to everyone who tuned in to our event on immigration reporting.

🔁 Missed it? Watch the replay here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPPo...

@conectaarizona.bsky.social @documentedny.bsky.social

State Research Bureau (organisation) - Wikipedia The State Research Bureau (SRB), initially the State Research Centre (SRC), was a Ugandan intelligence agency. Active from 1971 until 1979, it served as a secret police organisation for President Idi…

The Research Center also, unfortunately, shares a name with a secretive oppressive police force. Fortunately the Ugandan State Research Centre is no longer active. Maybe someday the Institute for Collaborative Studies can reclaim their name.
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Join us Dec 10 at 6:30pm for DEEP DIVE: Listening to Bad Bunny — a look at key tracks from DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS with Jorell Meléndez-Badillo and Grammy winner Miguel Zenón. 🎧🐰

Explore the sound and the impact behind Benito’s work.

Link: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/deep-...

Report: DOT is Undercounting The E-Bike Boom - Streetsblog New York City A new study from an MIT grad student shows that e-bikes are the most popular vehicle for those using New York City's bike lanes.

Nice audit of bike counts from nyc open data!

manual count found:
9% more vehicles at the Williamsburg Bridge
23% more at the Queensboro Bridge
27% more at Prospect Park W
100% more at 50th St & 8th Av
when compared to the automated counters at these locations

nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/12/02/r...

Listen to the Queen Bee this #MemeMonday and save a copy of the important data-- especially if you think it may be at risk for deletion or alteration! Here today, gone tomorrow-- so put a proverbial ring on it. Or just download a copy.

❤️ ❤️
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