Please retweet: I am recruiting PhD students at Berkeley! Please apply to UC Berkeley EECS or UC Joint Computational Precision Health Program if you are interested in ML applied to health, inequality, or social science, and mention my name in your app. More details on work/how to apply: cs.cornell.edu/~emmapierson/

Halloween is almost here. Let’s rewind and look at the history of Devil’s Night in Detroit, and the city’s response to the phenomenon. outliermedia.org/devils-night-d…

It’s incredibly easy for property owners to shield their identities. All you need is to set up a limited liability company, or LLC. It’s perfectly legal and extremely common. outliermedia.org/detroit-specul…

Need to analyze campaign finance data? Check out the new tool from Big Local News, DataTalk. #ddj #journalism buff.ly/3U4VfH8

🚨 New elections expert help desk for newsrooms 🚨 Apply to join the Election Urgent Care Slack channel to access rapid resource matching for election-related support like: ✅ Safety & legal assistance ✅ Data analysis, data gathering & more Learn more: hubs.ly/Q02WCy_C0

New from me at the BBC: In the lead up to the election, Google is showing people radically different search results based on tiny differences in their queries – even when you ask the exact same question two different ways 👇🧵bbc.com/future/article…

Y'ALL. The Votebeat experts desk is up and running through Dec. 11. Are you a journalist? Do you want to ask on the record questions of more than 75 *extremely qualified* experts on voting and election admin? Sign up — >300 journalists already have! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

JSK and Stanford’s Institute for Advancing Just Societies launch partnership buff.ly/3TSFx1K

💬 Interested in becoming a JSK Fellow? Join our upcoming webinar on Monday, Nov 4, for a deep dive into the program. Meet our directors and learn how this fellowship can take your career to the next level. https://bit.ly-nov04

Join us tomorrow! Don’t miss your opportunity to change your career and life! John S. Knight Fellowships application is now open.

Ready to invest in yourself and the future of journalism? Register to join us live for our first webinar Monday, Nov. 4 at 9 a.m. PT to get your questions answered about the John S. Knight Fellowships fellowships. Applications for the 2024-25 fellowship are now open. stanford.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Our team has created a Google Doc we'll be updating all week with suggested language for explaining both elections AND news coverage of elections. Keep it handy, and steal any helpful language. lnkd.in/gisvNQBJ

Journalists, bookmark this Google Doc that addresses common questions and complaints around elections and election news. 👇

Check out our conversation with developer Ryan Murphy for a behind the scenes look at the "why" and "how" of building his wildly popular ActBlue Ticker Tracker on Observable: buff.ly/404UjXi

JOURNALISTS! Are you covering the election today? Do you need quick sources who are happy to talk on the record? Join Votebeat's and Knight Foundation's expert desk. Sign up here, we'll process reporters in throughout the day: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

🗳️ With elections underway, you may be exploring individual campaign contributions using FEC data. Use our story recipe to learn how to work with the most up-to-date data: biglocalnews.org/content/news/2…

Don’t miss this John S. Knight Fellowships info session today! jsk.stanford.edu/become-a-fellow

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