Listening to a great talk by Craig Silverman at #NISLYON who just quoted my lovely ex colleague Jonathan Corpus Ong

Can one image change the political debate? Together with Farida Vis & Hannah Guy from Visual Social Media, our #NISLYON participants are learning how to go beyond verification & better interrogate social media images.

Great first project meeting in New York today. Now listening to Charlton McIlwain at Strand Book Store for launch of his new book Black Software. Discussion to follow with Ruha Benjamin

Great book talk by Charlton McIlwain and fantastic discussion with Ruha Benjamin about Black Software and the decades long pre-history to Black Lives Matter. Also optimism about growing body of work in the area of race and technology (highlighting work by Ruha Benjamin @safiyanoble thot leedurr et al)

20 questions for investigating social media images (in context of disinformation, misleading context), from First Draft Farida Vis

IT’S HERE! The new Verification Handbook for Disinformation and Media Manipulation is online and avialable for free. Let some of the world’s best experts teach you to investigate our chaotic information environment. Link and thread: datajournalism.com/read/handbook/… #OSINT #journalism

The first Handbook had foundational advice for verifying images/video. Read: verificationhandbook.com Now we have a great chapter by Farida Vis and co. to help you "critically question and assess images to understand how and why they are being deployed." datajournalism.com/read/handbook/…

This is so exciting. It's such an important contribution to the industry. Can not recommend this highly enough for working journos, students, people who care about accurate information. Congrats to the ridiculously hardworking granddaddy of verification Craig Silverman

Lovely early evening conversation joining Farida Vis and #CherylMagowan to discuss some of their early encounters with the Pan African Congress as part of the #PAC75 Manchester Metropolitan Uni ESRI @MMUEducation

Agreed DrRajYouthWorker How privileged are we to get to listen into Farida Vis and Cheryl's memories-sharing. So many layers to each story! #PAC75

'You must be bigger than the pain': See video of magical session Farida Vis +Cheryl Mcgowan Sunday youtube.com/channel/UC8f7i… Calls for action by young leaders like Cheryl +new friendships thru #pac75 give us new tools +new hope for post-pandemic future @mcphh_mmu UoM BAME SNG

It was my absolute joy and privilege to have this conversation yesterday. It’s encounters like this that make teaching magical. I also reflected on why it was then simply standard to teach race and racism whereas decolonising curricula efforts feel more like a PR activity #PAC75

This symposium on research on Race and Research at Manchester Met is an absolute highlight of my 4 years at Research & Innovation at Manchester Met ESRI Incredible threads of research in race and racism across the university and deeply principled work to mobilise together. So grateful to Farida Vis

At the start of the Manchester Metropolitan Uni inaugural event of the Centre for Race and Racism Farida Vis is already talking about the future. Let's hope it is the start of something big kai syng tan phd pfhea art adhd asc has left X Karen Pashby @PatrickWillia17 @MMUEducation ESRI

So thrilled you could join us Erinma! Your contributions were so appreciated!

Closing today!

Really powerful discussions this afternoon about building an anti-racist University Manchester Metropolitan Uni. Thankyou to Farida Vis and panelist’s for such important contributions. It’s great to join a Faculty with staff so dedicated to EDI and intersectionality.

Exploring circles on maps with @andrew_c_clarke and @moominlounge manchesterhistory.net/manchester/gon… #ODMOctopus #JoyDiversion

This was so much fun yesterday. Thank you Open Data Manchester All Away Days should start like this!

This is going to be a great collaborative PhD between the museum and with Simon Faulkner and Farida Vis as academic supervisors ✊✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿✊