NEW RESOURCES Global Investigative Journalism Network: New Investigative Tools for Monitoring Social Media Platforms. “Originally designed to monitor disinformation and ‘junk news,’ Junkipedia has developed to the point where the tool will […]
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Silhouette Portraits, Glaze, Twitter, More: Tuesday ResearchBuzz, March 21, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Smithsonian: Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery Reveals Identities of Hundreds of People in Early 19th-Century Portrait Album. “The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced the launch of William Bache’s Silhouettes Album, […]
Minority-Serving Institutions, Mastodon, Twitter, More: Monday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, March 20, 2023
NEW RESOURCES New York University: Researchers launch database with new classification system for minority-serving institutions in US. “The MSI Data Project, launched in March 2023, offers dashboards with data on MSI eligibility, […]
Turn Wikipedia into an RSS Search Engine With WikiRSS

RSS is still the most underrated tech on the Internet. I am constantly amazed about all the lip-curling and “dead technology” derision toward something without which I could literally not do my […]
Sheet-Shaped Wikipedia: Turn Wikidata Into Spreadsheet-Ready Text Files

Wikipedia can be invaluable for searching, but sometimes it’s hard to extract Wikipedia’s Wikidata in a way that makes it immediately-useful for ongoing research. If you wanted to get all the official […]