Rob Wells

GitHub - profrobwells/nicar2026: Talks and code for NICAR 2026 presentations Talks and code for NICAR 2026 presentations. Contribute to profrobwells/nicar2026 development by creating an account on GitHub.

Here's the repo for my computational text analysis talks at #nicar2026

Thanks to the brave souls who attended!

github.com/profrobwells...

Here is the best of journalism's present and hope for the future: the #nicar2026 data journalism conference

Chatterbox jazz bar in Indianapolis. Great spot. #nicar2026

NICAR 2026 schedule | March 4-7, 2026 | Indianapolis Welcome to the NICAR 2026 schedule! Browse sessions, speakers, sponsors and exhibitors.

Come on by my #NICAR2026 talk Thursday with Tiasia Saunders about narrative analysis in R. schedules.ire.org/nicar-2026/#...

Hi Sharon! Will you be at the conference?

Dashboard-style web app titled "NICAR 2026 Posts on Bluesky from Jan. 13 to Feb. 26." At the top are three large summary tiles showing total posts, unique authors, and total likes. A left sidebar lets you select a date range and filter by authors (with checkboxes) and optionally show only posts containing external URLs, plus a button to download the current dataset. The main area contains a searchable, filterable table of posts with columns for timestamp, post text snippet, author, likes, reposts, replies, and tags; entries include links to open the original post. [Alt text by ChatGPT]

Browse, search, and filter all the NICAR 2026 posts on Bluesky R Shiny app collects all the posts with the #NICAR26 or #NICAR2026 hashtags
App: apps.machlis.com/shiny/nicar2...
#RStats code: github.com/smach/bskyconf
#RShiny
[Did this for Twitter years ago, now updated]

Opinion | Kevin Warsh on Fed Policy and Independence — The Wall Street Journal The former member of the Board of Governors says the central bank has wandered too far from its core mission.

Where I struggle with the Warsh critique—Fed blew it on price stability and bond buying had side effects—is that it never seems to engage on how it could have been done differently and what happens in future. Would Warsh have sat on his hands during the pandemic and left it all to electeds?

The trump administration is planning to pursue a legal arrangement that would put Columbia University into a consent decree, according to people familiar with the matter, says the Wall Street Journal.

Universities need to band together, go to court, and use their endowments to get through the next four years -- or let Donald Trump and his minions take over everything. Those are the only choices.

Trump administration’s censorship of Central High museum website broader than initially reported  - Arkansas Times Changes have been made to a webpage about Central High’s Memory Project, an annual assignment where high school students complete unique community projects centered on civil rights struggles of the pa...

Great reporting by @milostrain.bsky.social in @arktimes.bsky.social about the extent of changes made to LR Central High National Historic Site webpage amid Trump administration's anti-DEI purge.
#arpx #arnews #arleg #Arkansas
arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

Guest_Lectures/Text_Analysis at master · profrobwells/Guest_Lectures Guest Lectures on Data and Other Projects. Contribute to profrobwells/Guest_Lectures development by creating an account on GitHub.

Finding narratives in a pile of documents 🧵 7/11

Speaker: @robwells.bsky.social

GitHub repo: github.com/profrobwells...

This was a great session on using #RStats to dig through a large batch of files by exploring two-word pairs, running sentiment analysis & examining keywords in context #NICAR25

Thanks Silvia!

The biggest win Trump got from ABC wasn’t the $15 million.

It was squeezing the network to make the amount public.

The eventual value of that announcement — in terms of intimidating other weak-kneed media execs — is priceless.

Tracking Putin’s Most Feared Secret Agency—From Inside a Russian Prison and Beyond The spy unit that arrested a Wall Street Journal reporter is leading the biggest campaign of internal repression since the Stalin era.

Worth reading: Evan Gershkovich's first story since his release: www.wsj.com/world/russia...

58 Jazz Musicians Were Photographed for ‘Harlem 1958.' Only One Remains. Art Kane’s “Harlem 1958” gathered giants of the music. Sonny Rollins, 94, looks back at the historic picture.

What a wonderful immersive story experience: 58 Jazz Luminaries Assembled for This Photo. Only One Remains. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Boone! Loved that tug of war

“Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!”
Heywood Broun, born on this day in 1888

Young journalists will reimagine a better press "The newest generation of journalists will not give in to pessimism about whether their profession still matters in an age of cynicism about the press."

This is why I love to teach

Great column by @mergerson.bsky.social

Young journalists will reimagine a better press
www.
niemanlab.org/2024/12/young-journalists-will-reimagine-a-better-press/

my mother asked me if after the shooting Pat was a father figure for us

I laughed

because no, Pat was never an authority

he was a comrade

he was a salty joke and a conspiratorial wink

he was scorn for the man and keep going, kid for the rest of us

I will never know anyone else like him

Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic' Journalists are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky than on the platform they used to know as Twitter.

I talked to journalists and writers who have found a larger and more engaged audience for their work on Bluesky, without having to see “AI bots and Nazis” at the top of their replies.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

Impressive!!

Here's the Nov. 16 edition of the Jazz Scoop, the Saturday night jazz show on KUAF 91.3 in Fayetteville. Maria Albero is an amazing talent. Enjoy: www.mixcloud.com/Gizmofo/nov-...

Maryland grants help businesses avoid debt after Key Bridge collapse Visit the post for more.

Sasha Allen and Emily R. Condon, two fine Capital News Service journalists, asked where the millions in state and federal relief money went following the Key Bridge collapse in Maryland. Here's what they found. Great work. cnsmaryland.org/2024/11/22/k...

Just saw trumpet genius Adam O'Farrill at Rhizome. So lucky to see a major artist in an intimate venue. open.spotify.com/track/5OZm3V...

Wish I had this bad boy back in 1986. But I did have the mighty TRS-80. 💻

This is one kick-ass list of high quality local and regional journalists.

Reuters taps Sally Buzbee to be News Editor for US and Canada Sally Buzbee, most recently the executive editor of the Washington Post, will join Reuters as News Editor for the United States and Canada, overseeing the global news agency’s coverage of a second Donald Trump presidency, among other priorities, Reuters said on Tuesday.

Many congratulations to Sally Buzbee for her new gig at @reuters.com - they are very lucky to get an editor with such talent and experience. www.reuters.com/business/med...

seeing like 2 or 3 of these stickers a week now in the bay

Dang, a lot of new people on this platform all of a sudden. Guess I'll start paying attention! Here is my contribution for a better social media experience. Here's Boone on a run. Good boy.

NEW: US adults who say they use
YouTube 85%
Facebook 70%
Instagram 50%
Pinterest 36%
TikTok 33%
LinkedIn 32%
WhatsApp 30%
Snapchat 27%
Reddit 24%
X/Twitter 21%
www.pewresearch.org/internet/fac...
* Maybe Bluesky will show up on this chart in a year or two

Thank you and keep up the good work. You guys are essential!