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Michele Weigle
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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 @[email protected]
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Hussam Hallak @hussamhallak.bsky.social of @webscidl.bsky.social describes using Google Sheets to do a bulk upload of URLs to the "Save Page Now" service of the Wayback Machine @waybackmachine.bsky.social

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2026-02-12: How to archive web pages in bulk using the Internet Archive Google Sheets service
The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.
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February 14, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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For this blog post, I summarized @bitarchivist.net, @wilkinson.graphics, and @ilya.webrecorder.net's paper, “High Fidelity Web Archiving of News Sites and New Media with Browsertrix.”

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2026-02-13: Paper Summary: "High Fidelity Web Archiving of News Sites and New Media with Browsertrix"
The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.
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February 13, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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In "Detecting and reconstructing trustworthy edit histories using web archives", I talk about different markers of edit history on webpages and how web archives can be used to verify or refute them. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/02/2026... @webscidl.bsky.social
February 3, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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I'll be presenting "A Vision for Trustworthy Web Archiving" as part of the Va Tech Center for Digital Research & Scholarship Distinguished Lecture Series.

Friday, Jan 30, 2026 10am EST

@webscidl.bsky.social

It will be on Zoom & registration is free:

calendar.lib.vt.edu/event/16230235
Center for Digital Research & Scholarship Distinguished Lecture Series
A Vision for Trustworthy Web Archiving A PRESENTATION BY Dr. Michael L. Nelson Online Event via Zoom Abstract: Link rot and content drift have always been a part of the web...
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January 28, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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Travis Reid @treid803.bsky.social @webscidl.bsky.social summarizes Brenda Reyes Ayala's @brendareyesayala.bsky.social 2025 paper:

"Towards a better QA process: Automatic detection of quality problems in archived websites using visual comparisons"

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2026-01-22: Paper Summary: "Towards a better QA process: Automatic detection of quality problems in archived websites using visual comparisons"
The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.
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January 23, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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The work described in this article was supported by IMLS 🫶

#webarchiving
treid803.bsky.social Travis Reid @treid803.bsky.social · Dec 10
Our JASIST article, "Problems with archiving and replaying current web advertisements", was recently published: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
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Co-authors: Alex Poole, Hyung Wook Choi, Christopher Rauch, @machawk1.bsky.social, @phonedudemln.bsky.social, @weiglemc.bsky.social
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December 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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treid803.bsky.social
Our JASIST article, "Problems with archiving and replaying current web advertisements", was recently published: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
@wiley.com
Co-authors: Alex Poole, Hyung Wook Choi, Christopher Rauch, @machawk1.bsky.social, @phonedudemln.bsky.social, @weiglemc.bsky.social
(1/9)
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December 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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A win! The Institute of Museum and Library Services (the federal agency that supports the nation’s libraries) has reinstated thousands of grants that had been canceled by the Trump administration, after a federal judge ruled the executive order mandating those cuts was unlawful.
Statement of Agency’s Reinstatement of Terminated IMLS Grants
Statement of Agency’s Reinstatement of Terminated IMLS Grants Washington, DC– Upon further review, the Institute of Museum and Library Services has reinstated all federal grants. This action supersede...
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December 5, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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A follow up to the @tarannum44.bsky.social / @webscidl.bsky.social study on Twitter UI generations. This time, it's about acct pages, not just individual tweets.

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December 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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The Institute of Museum and Library Services, the federal agency that provides funding for America's libraries, has announced it is reinstating all grants it had previously terminated, including those to libraries and library organizations across the U.S.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4496W4V
Photo of a banner featuring the logo for the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Photo credit: Shannon Finney / Institute of Museum and Library Services. Text below reads: "ALL PREVIOUSLY CANCELED FEDERAL LIBRARY GRANTS HAVE BEEN RESTORED: Following a court decision, the Institute of Museum and Library Services—the federal agency that provides funding for America’s libraries—announced it had reinstated all grants that it had previously terminated." Logos for I Love Libraries and the American Library Association.
December 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Trip report for the 2025 ACM Hypertext Conference #HT2025 @acmht.bsky.social

@webscidl.bsky.social PhD students Tarannum Zaki, Rochana Obadage, & Dominik Soos and alumni @machawk1.bsky.social & @ibnesayeed.bsky.social attended in September, 2025.

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2025-11-12: 36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT 2025) Trip Report
The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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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
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October 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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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
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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.

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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.
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October 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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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.

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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.
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October 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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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.
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.
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October 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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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
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...
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October 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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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
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
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Faculty search ODU Data Science:

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...
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October 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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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

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September 16, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Reposted by Michele Weigle
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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
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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
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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

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September 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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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
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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.

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August 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM