Michele Weigle
@weiglemc.bsky.social
Associate Dean (Graduate School) and Professor at ODU (CS, @webscidl.bsky.social, #webarchiving, #infovis), alum of UNC (CS '98, '03) and ULM (NLU '96), and lifelong LSU fan.
Also around at @weiglemc@digipres.club
Also around at @weiglemc@digipres.club
Our 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
@phonedudemln.bsky.social @webscidl.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Our 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
@phonedudemln.bsky.social @webscidl.bsky.social
Of 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).
October 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Of 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).
Reposted by Michele Weigle
Javed 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...
“‘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...
2025-10-28: Summary of "As an Autistic Person Myself:" The Bias Paradox Around Autism in LLMs
Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT have become ubiquitous in our lives.
ws-dl.blogspot.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Javed 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...
“‘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...
Reposted by Michele Weigle
To 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...
Tarannum Zaki of @webscidl.bsky.social explores and classifies the different UIs.
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...
2025-10-26: Exploring the Different Generations of Twitter/X's Tweet UI
The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.
ws-dl.blogspot.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
To 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...
Tarannum Zaki of @webscidl.bsky.social explores and classifies the different UIs.
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...
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Excited 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.
✍️ 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.
2025-10-10: An Internship Experience With the Internet Archive as a Google Summer of Code Contributor
The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.
ws-dl.blogspot.com
October 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Excited 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.
✍️ 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.
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Faculty search ODU Data Science:
Critical Infrastructure and Data Transformation (CID) to Advance National Security
T/TT, open rank
jobs.odu.edu/postings/24241
Critical Infrastructure and Data Transformation (CID) to Advance National Security
T/TT, open rank
jobs.odu.edu/postings/24241
Faculty in Data Sciences - Critical Infrastructure and Data Transformation (CID) to Advance National Security
The 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...
jobs.odu.edu
October 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Faculty search ODU Data Science:
Critical Infrastructure and Data Transformation (CID) to Advance National Security
T/TT, open rank
jobs.odu.edu/postings/24241
Critical Infrastructure and Data Transformation (CID) to Advance National Security
T/TT, open rank
jobs.odu.edu/postings/24241
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Faculty search ODU Data Science:
AI-Infused Autonomous Systems for Medicine and Health
T/TT, open rank
jobs.odu.edu/postings/24399
AI-Infused Autonomous Systems for Medicine and Health
T/TT, open rank
jobs.odu.edu/postings/24399
Faculty 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...
jobs.odu.edu
October 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Faculty search ODU Data Science:
AI-Infused Autonomous Systems for Medicine and Health
T/TT, open rank
jobs.odu.edu/postings/24399
AI-Infused Autonomous Systems for Medicine and Health
T/TT, open rank
jobs.odu.edu/postings/24399
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Faculty search ODU Data Science:
Accelerator Science
Tenured, associate or full prof
jobs.odu.edu/postings/23963
Accelerator Science
Tenured, associate or full prof
jobs.odu.edu/postings/23963
Faculty in Applications of Physics, Data Science and/or Engineering to Particle Accelerators (Tenured, F1117A
The 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...
jobs.odu.edu
October 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Faculty search ODU Data Science:
Accelerator Science
Tenured, associate or full prof
jobs.odu.edu/postings/23963
Accelerator Science
Tenured, associate or full prof
jobs.odu.edu/postings/23963
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They 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...
@tarannum44.bsky.social #ACMHT2025
📄 doi.org/10.1145/3720...
September 16, 2025 at 9:58 PM
They 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...
@tarannum44.bsky.social #ACMHT2025
📄 doi.org/10.1145/3720...
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1. 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
September 16, 2025 at 9:52 PM
1. 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
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Another reason fake tweets are shared is for satire. 100k likes and no comments is suspicious. How can you tell it's real? Web archives serve as a good src of evidence that it's real. Their goal is to build an automated method for evidence that a tweet is authentic @tarannum44.bsky.social #ACMHT2025
September 16, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Another reason fake tweets are shared is for satire. 100k likes and no comments is suspicious. How can you tell it's real? Web archives serve as a good src of evidence that it's real. Their goal is to build an automated method for evidence that a tweet is authentic @tarannum44.bsky.social #ACMHT2025
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Dominik Soós from @webscidl.bsky.social asks "Can LLMs Beat Humans on Discerning Human-written and LLM-generated Science News?" Their contribs inc. benchmarks & findings, new dataset w/ 362 article triplets, & a novel method to improve perf on open-weight LLMs #ACMHT2025
dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
September 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Dominik Soós from @webscidl.bsky.social asks "Can LLMs Beat Humans on Discerning Human-written and LLM-generated Science News?" Their contribs inc. benchmarks & findings, new dataset w/ 362 article triplets, & a novel method to improve perf on open-weight LLMs #ACMHT2025
dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
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@tarannum44.bsky.social from @webscidl.bsky.social is up next at #ACMHT2025 describing web archives usage for verifying attribution of Twitter screenshots with a compelling use case of one's love for pineapple pizza. 🍍🍕 @phonedudemln.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 9:45 PM
@tarannum44.bsky.social from @webscidl.bsky.social is up next at #ACMHT2025 describing web archives usage for verifying attribution of Twitter screenshots with a compelling use case of one's love for pineapple pizza. 🍍🍕 @phonedudemln.bsky.social
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Dr. Michele Weigle's (weiglemc.bsky.social & webscidl.bsky.social) interview with WAVY about the Computer Science for Teachers Graduate Certificate @ ODU.
www.wavy.com/news/educati...
www.wavy.com/news/educati...
August 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Dr. Michele Weigle's (weiglemc.bsky.social & webscidl.bsky.social) interview with WAVY about the Computer Science for Teachers Graduate Certificate @ ODU.
www.wavy.com/news/educati...
www.wavy.com/news/educati...
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📢🚨🔔 JCDL 2025 has extended the deadlines CFPs:
All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time:
- Full/Short Paper Submission Deadline: September 12, 2025
- Author Notification: October 31, 2025
- Camera-Ready Deadline: November 14, 2025
2025.jcdl.org/registration/.
All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time:
- Full/Short Paper Submission Deadline: September 12, 2025
- Author Notification: October 31, 2025
- Camera-Ready Deadline: November 14, 2025
2025.jcdl.org/registration/.
Registration - JCDL 2025
More details about registration for ACM/IEEE JCDL will be announced soon. The anticipated registration fee is expected to be: Regular $195 ($160 for ACM/IEEE members) Student $140 ($115 for ACM/IEEE s...
2025.jcdl.org
August 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
📢🚨🔔 JCDL 2025 has extended the deadlines CFPs:
All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time:
- Full/Short Paper Submission Deadline: September 12, 2025
- Author Notification: October 31, 2025
- Camera-Ready Deadline: November 14, 2025
2025.jcdl.org/registration/.
All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time:
- Full/Short Paper Submission Deadline: September 12, 2025
- Author Notification: October 31, 2025
- Camera-Ready Deadline: November 14, 2025
2025.jcdl.org/registration/.
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8 @webscidl.bsky.social classes for Fall 2025:
CS 418/518 Web Programming
CS 432/532 Web Science
CS 433/533 Web Security
CS 620 Intro to Data Science
CS 625 Data Vis
CS 733/833 NLP
CS 734/834 Info Retrieval
CS 795/895 Foundational Models for Data Science
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/08/2025...
CS 418/518 Web Programming
CS 432/532 Web Science
CS 433/533 Web Security
CS 620 Intro to Data Science
CS 625 Data Vis
CS 733/833 NLP
CS 734/834 Info Retrieval
CS 795/895 Foundational Models for Data Science
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/08/2025...
2025-08-18: Eight WSDL Classes Offered for Fall 2025
The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.
ws-dl.blogspot.com
August 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
8 @webscidl.bsky.social classes for Fall 2025:
CS 418/518 Web Programming
CS 432/532 Web Science
CS 433/533 Web Security
CS 620 Intro to Data Science
CS 625 Data Vis
CS 733/833 NLP
CS 734/834 Info Retrieval
CS 795/895 Foundational Models for Data Science
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/08/2025...
CS 418/518 Web Programming
CS 432/532 Web Science
CS 433/533 Web Security
CS 620 Intro to Data Science
CS 625 Data Vis
CS 733/833 NLP
CS 734/834 Info Retrieval
CS 795/895 Foundational Models for Data Science
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/08/2025...
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@webscidl.bsky.social's own Lesley Frew!
big congrats to @weiglemc.bsky.social for recruiting her.
www.odu.edu/article/odu-...
big congrats to @weiglemc.bsky.social for recruiting her.
www.odu.edu/article/odu-...
ODU Helps Fill Virginia's Need for More Computer Science Teachers
By Tiffany Whitfield
www.odu.edu
August 12, 2025 at 9:51 PM
@webscidl.bsky.social's own Lesley Frew!
big congrats to @weiglemc.bsky.social for recruiting her.
www.odu.edu/article/odu-...
big congrats to @weiglemc.bsky.social for recruiting her.
www.odu.edu/article/odu-...
This semester, all of my federal grants were terminated. In a new blog post, I write about the importance of federal funding for academic research and the impact of these cuts.
@WebSciDL #NEH #IMLS #NSF
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/05/2025...
@WebSciDL #NEH #IMLS #NSF
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/05/2025...
2025-05-08: Thank you to NEH, IMLS, DoD Minerva, and NSF
The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.
ws-dl.blogspot.com
May 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This semester, all of my federal grants were terminated. In a new blog post, I write about the importance of federal funding for academic research and the impact of these cuts.
@WebSciDL #NEH #IMLS #NSF
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/05/2025...
@WebSciDL #NEH #IMLS #NSF
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/05/2025...
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The talk draws upon a decade of research on rumors, conspiracy theories, and disinformation to shed light on how the right-wing media ecosystem evolved (in part through the manipulation of digital and social media) and is reconfiguring politics/governance around world www.youtube.com/live/YnJ5o09...
A Spotlight on Rumors
YouTube video by UW (University of Washington)
www.youtube.com
March 1, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The talk draws upon a decade of research on rumors, conspiracy theories, and disinformation to shed light on how the right-wing media ecosystem evolved (in part through the manipulation of digital and social media) and is reconfiguring politics/governance around world www.youtube.com/live/YnJ5o09...
And buy with cash, not credit card
Tomorrow, February 28, let’s disrupt the status quo by spending ONLY at businesses that uplift our communities.
That means:
🚫 No gas from corporate giants
🚫 No fast food chains
🚫 No big-box retailers (Target, Walmart, Amazon, etc.)
That means:
🚫 No gas from corporate giants
🚫 No fast food chains
🚫 No big-box retailers (Target, Walmart, Amazon, etc.)
February 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
And buy with cash, not credit card
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In 2023, we started a project of putting NCAA football team logos over state outlines, because we noticed that Texas teams do this all the time.
We took a break during the season, but we're starting back up again.
Next up, North Carolina 1/8.
We took a break during the season, but we're starting back up again.
Next up, North Carolina 1/8.
February 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
In 2023, we started a project of putting NCAA football team logos over state outlines, because we noticed that Texas teams do this all the time.
We took a break during the season, but we're starting back up again.
Next up, North Carolina 1/8.
We took a break during the season, but we're starting back up again.
Next up, North Carolina 1/8.
Reposted by Michele Weigle
A powerful talk (that should be published in a book essay someday,) going over the different “phases” of rumor and disinformation research of the past decade, with a powerful call to action. @katestarbird.bsky.social is a legend who I am honored to work with www.youtube.com/live/YnJ5o09...
A Spotlight on Rumors
YouTube video by UW (University of Washington)
www.youtube.com
February 25, 2025 at 2:21 AM
A powerful talk (that should be published in a book essay someday,) going over the different “phases” of rumor and disinformation research of the past decade, with a powerful call to action. @katestarbird.bsky.social is a legend who I am honored to work with www.youtube.com/live/YnJ5o09...
Reposted by Michele Weigle
NEW: Google used to warn you when you were seeing low-quality search results. Then, in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, the company quietly turned that warning off www.platformer.news/google-data-...
February 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
NEW: Google used to warn you when you were seeing low-quality search results. Then, in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, the company quietly turned that warning off www.platformer.news/google-data-...
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I'm giving a talk tonight at UW. Heads up that the subtitle here is a bit of a misnomer. I'm actually going to talk about what my team's decade of research on online rumors reveals about the right wing bullshit machine. If you can't come in person, there's a livestream.
Coming up from 5:30-6:30 p.m. PST: @cip.uw.edu co-founder @katestarbird.bsky.social will present the 2025 UW Faculty Lecture, "A Spotlight on Rumors: Illuminating How Influence and Improvisation Shape Online Conversations." Event is in person and livestreamed.
www.washington.edu/facultystaff...
www.washington.edu/facultystaff...
February 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I'm giving a talk tonight at UW. Heads up that the subtitle here is a bit of a misnomer. I'm actually going to talk about what my team's decade of research on online rumors reveals about the right wing bullshit machine. If you can't come in person, there's a livestream.