articles of interest - Feb 6
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Don't Fall For This 'Facebook Customer Service' Scam : All Tech Considered NPR
Facebook changes feed to promote posts that aren’t fake, sensational, or spam Tech Crunch
What teens want Snapchat to spend its big IPO bucks on Mashable
***JOURNALISM
OPINION: Remembering the real victims of the #BowlingGreenMassacre College Heights Herald (student newspaper of Western Kentucky University)
Advocates Fear Trump's Stance Against Media Will Block Flow Of Information NPR
Reuters orders reporters to cover Trump like an authoritarian regime: Expect ‘physical threats’ Raw Story
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
The Guardian has gone from 15,000 to 200,000 paying 'members' in the past year Digiday
***GRAMMAR
Trump’s ‘Use’ of ‘Quotation Marks’ Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LANGUAGE
DC to get Language Museum called ‘Planet Word’ Washington Post
This Is Why You Probably Hate Slam Poetry, According to a Linguistic Scholar VICE
Language in 2016, seen through Google Search Trends Flowing Data
Merriam-Webster gets a little bit cheeky USA Today
***LITERATURE
James Joyce, Catholic Writer? Jstor
***GENDER
Why Single Women Are Buying Homes at Twice the Rate of Single Men Bloomberg
Data science is creating a tidal wave of opportunity for women to get into executive leadership Recode
***DIVERSITY
Study finds students' negative diversity experiences, though less common than positive ones, hinder cognitive development and student learning Inside Higher Ed
***FREE SPEECH
Bills Across The Country Could Increase Penalties For Protesters NPR
Breitbart speaker at Berkeley stirs debate over free speech Associated Press
***LEGAL ISSUES
The Copyright Barons Are Coming. Now’s the Time to Stop Them Wired
Art Briles dropped his lawsuit against Baylor after months of fighting SB Nation
Judge Gorsuch’s dissent in the case of a 13-year-old arrested for making fake burps in class Washington Post
Whistleblower gets court backing in defamation case — but at a cost Retraction Watch
California to decide whether personal device communication is public record The Stack
***TECHNOLOGY
A playwright and a children’s novelist among those on a team helping Microsoft give it's personal digital assistant some personality Financial Times
Google has patented a drone for videoconferencing Recode
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
There’s still an important place fo old-school assembler hackers in the brave new world of Deep Learning Pete Warden
How secure is your Hadoop installation? It’s easy to deploy w/poor security while tightening it requires effort Naked Security
The rise of the Bayesians.. looking to automate the scientific method using small data systems Wired
A Pandas cheat sheet for Data Scientists in Python Data Camp
The search for abductive reasoning.. where the machine takes action on incomplete info based on an educated guess Data Science Central
The declining authority of #statistics & the experts who analyze them is at the heart of the “post-truth” crisis The Guardian
***RELIGION
3 Things You Should Know About Jerry Falwell Jr. Chronicle of Higher Ed
Report: Average Christian Spends 37% Of Prayer Time Saying Word ‘Just’ Babylon Bee
The Johnson Amendment, Which Trump Vows to ‘Destroy,’ Explained
New York Times
Campuses Are the Place for Difficult Conversations About Faith Chronicle of Higher Ed
Parents who believe in 'faith healing' charged after daughter, 2, dies from untreated pneumonia New York Daily News
You have to be Christian to truly be American? Many people in the U.S. say so Washington Post
Most Americans oppose churches choosing sides in elections Pew Research
Only 1 in 7 Senior Pastors Is Under 40 Christianity Today
Town rallies after being forced to remove Christian flag WREG-TV
Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi writes choral music for Birmingham Cathedral Telegraph
***STUDENT LIFE
Trump temporarily banned immigration from 7 countries — here's how many students from each attend college in the US Business Insider
You probably didn't need this survey to tell you that millennials are pessimistic USA Today
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
U. of California Will Pay Student $1.15 Million to Settle Sexual-Assault Suit Chronicle of Higher Ed
***RESEARCH
It Just Got Much Harder To Know What’s Going On In US Animal Research Labs BuzzFeed News
A Crime in the Cancer Lab The New York Times
The high-tech war on science fraud The Guardian
The “What does not kill my statistical significance makes it stronger” fallacy Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
***SCIENCE
Scientists protest immigration ban with boycotts of journals, conferences Stat News
The Map of Mathematics: Animation Shows How All the Different Fields in Math Fit Together Open Culture
Getting a scientific message across means taking human nature into account The Conversation
***HEALTH
Printed human body parts could soon be available for transplant Economist
Heat, Humidity And Aging Make Medicine Less Potent NPR
***PSYCHOLOGY
Your Personality Changes When You Move to a New Place NY Mag
A dangerous wait: Colleges can’t meet soaring student needs for mental health care Stat News
***ETHICS
Your Students Crave Moral Simplicity. Resist Chronicle of Higher Ed
***PERSONAL GROWTH
It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become.." Becoming (my site)
***HIGHER ED
Nearly 600 colleges object to Trump’s travel ban Washington Post
Christian Colleges Balance Faith and Politics in Response to Trump’s Ban on Refugees (sub. req.’ed) Chronicle of Higher Ed
With Falwell as Education Adviser, His Own University Could Benefit New York Times
Colleges may be happy Falwell will lead review of higher ed regulations, but students and parents should be worried Washington Post
***TEACHING
Is 'Inclusive Access' the Future for Publishers? Inside Higher Ed
Study explores effect of data dashboards on student performance Inside Higher Ed
New open-access journal Prompt
Teaching materials for visualization Flowing Data
***STUDENT MEDIA
Federal rule change frees student journalists from Institutional Review Board requirements Student Press Law Center
NLRB: Big-time college football players at private institutions should be considered employees Inside Higher Ed
It's no gag: Major-college athletes gain legally protected right to speak with media Student Press Law Center
***ACADEMIC LIFE
AAUP says institutions need to defend professors targeted for online harassment due to their political views Inside Higher Ed