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Opening communication science // pre-conference hackathon at the 2025 meeting of the ICA. June 11 & 12 2025 in Boulder, CO. Registration open now: https://forms.gle/ssZFtZmfWYaCE7MU9

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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · Jan 10

🚨 Big news! 🚨 Another year of ICA, another pre-conference hackathon: The 2025 hackathon is happening in Boulder on June 11-12! Stay tuned 🚀

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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · 6d

📩 Contact our SEC Rep Aditi Dutta at [email protected]
to share leads, volunteer, or ask questions.

This hackathon is a fantastic way to meet collaborators, learn by building together, and make #ICA26 even better.

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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · 6d

1️⃣ UCT venue leads:
Have contacts at the University of Cape Town or nearby venues with solid Wi-Fi, power, & breakout rooms? Please get in touch — any leads are welcome! 🙌

2️⃣ Organisers:
We’re recruiting a few more organisers (early-career especially!) to help plan & be on-site during the hackathon.

hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · 6d

🚀 Exciting news! The CM Hackathon is back at #ICA26 in Cape Town — and this year’s edition has been officially accepted as a pre-conference 🎉
It’s one of our signature community-building events, especially for early-career scholars. And we need your help 👇

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Computational Methods Division of ICA @icacm.bsky.social · Jun 13

Patrick walks us through some of the highlights of the #ICA25 @hackingcommsci.bsky.social preconference

Over 50 participants engaging in 16 projects!

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · Jun 13

This year's #ica25 hackathon was a blast! A huge thank you to @hackingcommsci.bsky.social for making it a reality!

With 13 other great participants, we explored +2 million of Telegram messages around the 2024 US election. I can really recommend checking out the data!

dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · Jun 13

Photo credits: @jbgruber.bsky.social 🙌

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Computational Methods Division of ICA @icacm.bsky.social · Jun 13

Excited to kick off #ICA25 with many great computational methods sessions today!

Today's topics include multimodal analysis, text classification, data donation. semantic network analysis, and gen AI

Be sure to also swing by our poster session, business meeting, and reception!

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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · Jun 12

From text-as-data to sleep data collection, this year‘s #hackica25 in Boulder, CO, was a blast and we‘re proud to say that we‘ve (again) successfully hacked communication science. Thanks to all participants and see y‘all at #ica25 ✨

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Hannah Overbye-Thompson @overbye.bsky.social · Jun 12

@rachaelkee.bsky.social blowing us all away with her project at @hackingcommsci.bsky.social. Super impressive project with the goal of collecting high-throughput sleep and media data ✨😴📺

#ICA25

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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · Jun 12

Already using AI tools in coding or thinking about it? Here‘s @patrickparschan.bsky.social giving us an introduction to Cursor 👀

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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · Jun 12

Hackers learning how to write a package in R and bring it to CRAN with @justinho.bsky.social 🙌 #hackica25

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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · Jun 11

#hackica25 at #ica25 is in full swing. One of my favourite events of the year. A room full of nerds working on data and tools, learning new things and having fun 🤓

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icasecac.bsky.social @icasecac.bsky.social · Jun 12

Hi #ICA25 students & early-career scholars! 🎓 We've built a "Student Track" just for you!

Find it in the ICA app: Schedule -> More Filters -> Tags -> Student Track.

From your friends at the Student and Early Career Advisory Committee (SECAC), we can't wait to see you there!

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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · Jun 12

Day 2 of #hackica25 and we‘re fully in hacking mode 💻🔥

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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · Jun 12

We’re thrilled to see MNL represented at @hackingcommsci.bsky.social!
Huge thanks to @jacobtfisher.online and @kyliewoodman.bsky.social for organizing another fantastic hackathon and sharing valuable comm sci insights such as using GitHub and running fMRI analyses.
#hackica25 #ica25

Kylie leading an fMRI analysis breakout session

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Hannah Overbye-Thompson @overbye.bsky.social · Jun 11

Great presentation by @kyliewoodman.bsky.social on fMRI analysis at @hackingcommsci.bsky.social. I am always blown away by how clearly Kylie is able explain complex topics

#ICA25

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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · Jun 11

Looking forward to @kyliewoodman.bsky.social explaining how brain imaging fits into comms research at #hackica25 🧠🧠

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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · Jun 11

Thanks to our Git master @jacobtfisher.online for giving a workshop on version control with Git and GitHub 🙌

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M. Saïd H. Unger @mshu.bsky.social · Jun 11

Arrived yesterday in Denver for #ICA25 and already look forward to #hackica25 in Boulder (although not to the early busride...).

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Jacob T. Fisher @jacobtfisher.online · Jun 11

Kicking off our fourth(!) annual #hackica this year at @colorado.edu. This is always the highlight of ICA. Super excited to get hacking! #hackica25

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Computational Methods Division of ICA @icacm.bsky.social · Jun 11

So many great Computational Methods sessions coming up at #ICA25!!

Check them out, and we look forward to seeing you there!
👇👇👇

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International Communication Association @icahdq.bsky.social · Jun 11

A peaceful “No Kings” protest rally is planned for this Saturday in the general vicinity of the ICA25 conference. Please read more for details, including advice for those who wish to avoid the area and those who may wish to participate. buff.ly/Mcs3Wdq

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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · Jun 11

Welcome to #hackica25 & #ica25 everyone! We‘re starting the morning with our project pitches. Big thanks to @kyliewoodman.bsky.social for designing our awesome stickers again! 💛🧡❤️

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Jun 11

Pro tips #ica25 & Bluesky:

1️⃣ Pin the feed below (👍 @vkarnowski.bsky.social)

2️⃣ SHARE stuff, no algorithmic amplification so if you see something colleagues should see, SHARE it ♾️

3️⃣ Be considerate when sharing research, get presenter consent 👏

Share this msg 🦋

Go #ica25 🚀
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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · Jun 11

Whoop whoop we’re ready to get started!

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