Joel Abrams šŸ«–

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Newsie, Director of Digital Strategy for @TheConversationUS, tea drinker, algorithm whisperer.ā€©

In 1998, USA Today described me the person writing "the world's shortest newscast" on the Lycos homepage. This was before social media was a thing.

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Show threadJoel Abrams šŸ«–Jan 8, 2025
@TheConversationUS @jeff Actually, seems to be caching because Iā€™m seeing some posts of newer articles with the link ļ漚Ÿ™‚
Show threadJoel Abrams šŸ«–Jan 8, 2025
@TheConversationUS @jeff But Iā€™m not seeing ā€œMore from The Conversationā€ link below. Do you know if thIs is because the article metadata is cached, or because this needs to be while listed somewhere?
Joel Abrams šŸ«–Jan 8, 2025

Testing out @TheConversationUSā€™s news attribution - with this article, the first from Prof Jay Feinman since Luigi Mangioni allegedly wrote Feinmanā€™s book title on his bullets

https://theconversation.com/americans-rage-at-insurers-goes-beyond-health-coverage-the-author-of-delay-deny-defend-points-to-3-reforms-that-could-help-246598

Americansā€™ rage at insurers goes beyond health coverage ā€“ the author of ā€˜Delay, Deny, Defendā€™ points to 3 reforms that could help

Itā€™s time to move from rage to regulation, an insurance expert argues.

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Joel Abrams šŸ«–Nov 9, 2024
The Conversation U.S.Nov 9, 2024

Johanna Neumann was 8 when she witnessed the 1938 Kristallnacht attack on Hamburgā€™s Bornplatz Synagogue. The windows shattered and Torahs lay burning in the street.

Now, plans to rebuild the synagogue are dividing Germans: is it a symbol of Jewish revival or painful erasure of #history?
https://theconversation.com/kristallnachts-legacy-still-haunts-hamburg-even-as-the-city-rebuilds-a-former-synagogue-burned-in-the-nazi-pogrom-241069
#histodons #holocaust #jewstodon #krystallnacht

Kristallnachtā€™s legacy still haunts Hamburg āˆ’ even as the city rebuilds a former synagogue burned in the Nazi pogrom

Questions about how to represent German Jews, past and present, have complicated plans to rebuild the destroyed temple.

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Joel Abrams šŸ«–Nov 9, 2024
The Conversation U.S.Nov 9, 2024

Most of us know Carl Sagan as the host of ā€œCosmosā€ and author of "Contact,ā€ but his scientific legacy goes much deeper.

But the late scientist, who would have been 90 today, shaped our understanding of space, climate change and the search for extraterrestrial life.
https://theconversation.com/carl-sagans-scientific-legacy-extends-far-beyond-cosmos-240885 #science #space

Carl Saganā€™s scientific legacy extends far beyond ā€˜Cosmosā€™

On what wouldā€™ve been the astronomerā€™s 90th trip around the Sun, hereā€™s a look at his legacy as a scientist, advocate and communicator.

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Joel Abrams šŸ«–Sep 17, 2024

On my way to #ONA24

I havenā€™t been to Atlanta in over a decade - if you see someone wandering around looking for CNN Center, thatā€™s me

Joel Abrams šŸ«–Sep 6, 2024

Inspired by sessions at #INSS, I'm sharing this comment from a reddit user about one of our articles, which captures the value of @TheConversationUS so well:

"This article felt like a huge breath of fresh air, I've been seeing waaay too many AI written articles or just poorly written in general. I actually read the whole thing instead of just skimming through, something I haven't done in a long time"

We're journalism written by humans, edited by humans, for humans.

Joel Abrams šŸ«–Sep 6, 2024
The Conversation U.S.Sep 6, 2024

It's Friday, and that means time for our weekly #News #Quiz! šŸ§ 

Vladimir Putin's visit to Mongolia on Sept. 2-3 was more notable for what didn't happen than what did. What didn't happen?

Check your answer and take the whole quiz here:
https://theconversation.com/the-conversation-u-s-weekly-news-quiz-189437?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=links&utm_source=mastodon

Putin didn't wear a shirt during a formal dinner
1.7%
He didn't shake the hand of Mongoliaā€™s PM
7.5%
He backed out of a planned judo exhibition
1.7%
He didn't get arrested
89.2%
Poll ended at .
The Conversation U.S. weekly news quiz

Test your knowledge with a weekly quiz drawn from some of our favorite stories.

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Joel Abrams šŸ«–Aug 29, 2024
Any #Gmail ninjas out there? I want to be able to train the spam filter to ignore the incessant guest post spam I get - but most of it comes to a group I am part of, so reporting it as spam reports that group (where I also get valuable emails) #lazyweb
Joel Abrams šŸ«–Aug 28, 2024
The Conversation U.S.Aug 28, 2024

Does Tim Walz use the word ā€˜damnā€™ too much?

We know younger adults are more tolerant of profanity, but will Walzā€™s swearing help his ticket win?

Read this linguistā€™s view and then tell us:
https://theconversation.com/does-democratic-vp-candidate-walz-swear-too-damn-much-236854

#News #USPolitics #HarrisWalz

Hell no
61.5%
Damn right
34%
Other (reply with details)
4.5%
Poll ended at .
Does Democratic VP candidate Walz swear too damn much?

It wouldnā€™t be out of character if Kamala Harrisā€™ running mate sprinkles ā€˜damnā€™ throughout his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention.

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