articles of interest - June 5
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
How To Network On Instagram DM Medium
Snapchat for Old People PBS Media Shift
Snapchat opens the floodgates to bad ads Digiday
***LEGAL ISSUES
Court Says Facebook Can Block Parents From Deceased Teen’s Account Vocativ
***TECHNOLOGY
Mary Meeker’s 2017 internet trends report: All the slides, plus analysis Recode
***JOURNALISM
The government is spying on journalists to find leakers New York Post
The problem with data journalism is politics (opinion) PBS Media Shift
A Pro-Trump Writer Just Sued A Fusion Reporter For Accusing Her Of Making A "White Supremacist" Gesture BuzzFeed News
121 Right-leaning advocacy group wants its $115K back from UT journalism professor Knox News
Circulation, revenue fall for US newspapers overall Pew Research
How to report on algorithms even if you’re not a data whiz Columbia Journalism Review
Newseum chief fears for future of journalism The Guardian
The AP Stylebook now includes new guidelines on data (requesting it, scraping it, reporting on it, and publishing it) Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Online news outlets employing more women than print, TV Columbia Journalism Review
***FAKE NEWS
Facebook Shareholders Are Not Happy With How It’s Handling Fake News Washington Post
Craig From Craigslist Takes Role in Fighting Fake News The Ringer
***GRAMMAR
The Most Common Words That People Don't Know How To Spell In Every State Digg
After Months of Trolling Trump Merriam Webster has no words about Covfefe Washington Post
***WRITING & READING
Want to be a better writer? Try letting a robot tell you what to do Quzrtz
***GENDER
Some of the top political science journals are biased against women. Here’s the evidence Washington Post
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
College Access Index Shows Shrinking Levels Of Economic Diversity NPR
Students demand firing of Evergreen State professor, Supporters say he’s the one upholding principles of equity and free speech Inside Higher Ed
***DISABILITIES
Airbnb guests who disclose a disability are less likely to be approved for a room and more likely to be outright rejected New York Times
***FREE SPEECH
Interview With NC Student Whose School Canceled the Yearbook Because of Her Donald Trump Senior Quote The National Coalition Against Censorship
Trump Supporters Accuse Liberal Communities Of Hostility Towards Free Speech NPR
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
Machine learning comes to Google Sheets, boosting data visualization for users Tech Republic
NGA, NRO, NSA joining DoD In Silicon Valley Breaking Defense
The New Yorker offers a “practical guide” on “How to Call B.S. on Big Data” The New Yorker
An academic paper surveys the recent advances in big learning with Bayesian methods National Science Review
Google Sheets now uses Machine Learning to help you visualize your data Tech Crunch
Similarities between quantum Machine Learning algorithms and their classical counterparts Phys.org
***RELIGION
Supreme Court exempts church-affiliated hospitals from pension law Reuters
BuzzFeed Shines a Light on the Shortcomings of Christian Health Insurance Providers BuzzFeed News
Gay man says church members beat, choked him for hours to expel ‘homosexual demons Washington Post
Muslims and Islam: Key findings in the U.S. and around the world Pew Research
Wendell Burton, Actor and Megachurch Minister, Dies at 69 New York Times
Largest Methodist Congregation in Mississippi Withdraws Denomination Christian Post
$2 million jury award to Trinity Broadcasting founder’s granddaughter My News LA
***ART & DESIGN
This site expertly pairs fonts using machine learning The Next Web
A workflow enabled by powerful artificial intelligence technologies Photo District News
Artists May Have Different Brains (More Grey Matter) Than the Rest of Us, According to a Recent Scientific Study Open Culture
***MUSIC
Sgt. Pepper's' At 50: Why The Beatles' Masterpiece Can't Be Replicated NPR
Using Music And Rhythm To Develop Grammar NPR
The History of Punk Rock in 200 Tracks: An 11-Hour Playlist Takes You From 1965 to 2016 Open Culture
***SCIENCE
Scientific integrity: dropping points EuroScientist Journal
Crispr’s Next Big Debate: How Messy Is Too Messy? Wired
20,000 Endangered Archaeological Sites Now Catalogued in a New Online Database Open Culture
***HEALTH
Babies’ face scans detect exposure to low amounts of alcohol in utero Stat News
***PSYCHOLOGY
Popular People Live Longer New York Times
Personality traits don’t simply affect your outlook on life, but the way you perceive reality Quartz
***NEUROSCIENCE
Primates Recognize Faces Instantly Using Specialized Neurons NPR
***SOCIOLOGY
Blame The Top 20 Percent, Not The 1 Percent, Author Argues NPR
***RESEARCH
Evaluating research ethics: Study finds most universities lack best practices in NSF-mandated research integrity plans West Virginia University
Fake science publisher accepts (again) a paper already exposed as 'pile of dung' Ottawa Citizen
The Reproducibility Of Research And The Misinterpretation Of P Values bioRxiv The Economist
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Let go of your bitterness and desire for retaliation Becoming (my blog)
How the Self-Esteem Craze Took Over America New York Mag
***HIGHER ED
These Campus Inquisitions Must Stop: the recent ugliness at Evergreen State College (opinion) New York Times
Leaked Trump Rule: Any Religious Employer Can Opt Out of Contraception Coverage “including Christian colleges” Christianity Today
***HUMANITIES /STEM
Humanities Majors Drop but trends at community colleges may cheer advocates for the liberal arts Inside Higher Ed
***TEACHING
No, Student Evaluations Aren’t “Worthless” Chronicle of Higher Ed
***STUDENT MEDIA
Kate Snow Sees ‘a Direct Line’ Between Cornell’s Off-Campus Radio, Her Career NBC News
***STUDENT LIFE
It probably doesn't matter where you went to college — here's why Business Insider
How First-Generation Students See College (The New York Times asked several first-generation students who are campus journalists to interview their first-generation classmates about challenges they've faced) New York Times
Are esports the next major league sport? The Conversation
Shifting Incomes for Young People Flowing Data
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Why Academic Freedom Should Be Covered at Freshman Orientation Chronicle of Higher Ed