Ryan McGrady
@antisomniac.bsky.social
The internet, YouTube, Wikipedia, NYC, birds, media... Sr Research Fellow at UMass Amherst Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Media Cloud.
Places:
rhododendrites.com
Rhododendrites @ Wikipedia/Instagram/Threads
Antisomniac @ Mastodon.social
Places:
rhododendrites.com
Rhododendrites @ Wikipedia/Instagram/Threads
Antisomniac @ Mastodon.social
SuperHamster has wiki games and wants to make/share wiki games #wikiConferenceNA
October 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
SuperHamster has wiki games and wants to make/share wiki games #wikiConferenceNA
Sohom on the Kafkaesque struggle of trying to preserve your privacy through Tor on Wikipedia. Broadly disallowed and preemptively blocked, but supposedly possible to get an exception... But it's hard. #wikiConferenceNA
October 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Sohom on the Kafkaesque struggle of trying to preserve your privacy through Tor on Wikipedia. Broadly disallowed and preemptively blocked, but supposedly possible to get an exception... But it's hard. #wikiConferenceNA
Wikipedia readers want more images - and more galleries! Wikipedia guidelines generally discourage galleries (not a fan of that guidance myself). This presentation is effectively about trying to cater to what readers want where wiki guidelines fail. #wikiConferenceNA
October 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Wikipedia readers want more images - and more galleries! Wikipedia guidelines generally discourage galleries (not a fan of that guidance myself). This presentation is effectively about trying to cater to what readers want where wiki guidelines fail. #wikiConferenceNA
Noooo SJ. A defense of experimenting with bot edits that I like but noooo to appropriating/making silly a recent wiki meme about humans getting harassed/sued/jailed #wikiconferenceNA
October 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Noooo SJ. A defense of experimenting with bot edits that I like but noooo to appropriating/making silly a recent wiki meme about humans getting harassed/sued/jailed #wikiconferenceNA
Hopped out of #WikiConferenceNA during lunch to take a few pictures at the #nokings march in Manhattan. Steady, dense stream of people the whole short time I was there. Big police presence, no hint of drama. gj everyone.
October 19, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Hopped out of #WikiConferenceNA during lunch to take a few pictures at the #nokings march in Manhattan. Steady, dense stream of people the whole short time I was there. Big police presence, no hint of drama. gj everyone.
One of the only areas of the new "integrate ai" push that I think is worth entertaining wrt wikipedia is in flagging potential problems (before or after they happen). We've done it for many years, after all. ToneCheck looks for WP:TONE issues and may be a good example #wikiConferenceNA
October 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
One of the only areas of the new "integrate ai" push that I think is worth entertaining wrt wikipedia is in flagging potential problems (before or after they happen). We've done it for many years, after all. ToneCheck looks for WP:TONE issues and may be a good example #wikiConferenceNA
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil and Laerdon Kim presenting a new interface tool to give people a chance to reword or reconsider when starting to veer a wikipedia discussion into counterproductive incivility. #wikiConferenceNA
October 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil and Laerdon Kim presenting a new interface tool to give people a chance to reword or reconsider when starting to veer a wikipedia discussion into counterproductive incivility. #wikiConferenceNA
At #wikiconferencena a man pulled a gun on stage wearing a "non-offending pedophile" sign, aggrieved, seemingly, that wikipedia doesn't allow him to write about that subject. Disarmed by hero Wikipedians Pharos and Fuzheado and arrested.
October 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
At #wikiconferencena a man pulled a gun on stage wearing a "non-offending pedophile" sign, aggrieved, seemingly, that wikipedia doesn't allow him to write about that subject. Disarmed by hero Wikipedians Pharos and Fuzheado and arrested.
Familiar bluet, twice-stabbed stinkbug (yes, really), pipevine swallowtail, and tiger bee fly. The end. Birds are starting to come back, which means the summer of macro bugs may be at an end.
August 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Familiar bluet, twice-stabbed stinkbug (yes, really), pipevine swallowtail, and tiger bee fly. The end. Birds are starting to come back, which means the summer of macro bugs may be at an end.
Chinese mantis and eastern amberwing in greenwood cemetery, red admiral in brooklyn bridge park, northern flatid planthopper nymph (teeny tiny fuzzball) in prospect park
August 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Chinese mantis and eastern amberwing in greenwood cemetery, red admiral in brooklyn bridge park, northern flatid planthopper nymph (teeny tiny fuzzball) in prospect park
Then the bugs: transverse banded flower fly, brown-belted bumble bee, orchard orbweaver, pearl crescent in brooklyn botanic.
August 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Then the bugs: transverse banded flower fly, brown-belted bumble bee, orchard orbweaver, pearl crescent in brooklyn botanic.
Bashakill and Wallkill NWRs
August 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Bashakill and Wallkill NWRs
Fork-tailed flycatcher on Randall's Island, momma house sparrow feeding chicks in Prospect Park, wild dog, cottontail in brooklyn botanic garden
August 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Fork-tailed flycatcher on Randall's Island, momma house sparrow feeding chicks in Prospect Park, wild dog, cottontail in brooklyn botanic garden
Warbling vireo in Greenwood Cemtery, pewee in Prospet Park, yellow warbler at JBWR, cliff swallow leaves its nest on Randall's Island.
August 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Warbling vireo in Greenwood Cemtery, pewee in Prospet Park, yellow warbler at JBWR, cliff swallow leaves its nest on Randall's Island.
Trying not keep bird/bug/wildlife posting and everything else separate (IG vs. bsky), but here's the periodic best-of-the-other-one: First the birds: Least bittern and brown-headed cowbird in Prospect Park; cardinal and titmouse in Central Park.
August 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Trying not keep bird/bug/wildlife posting and everything else separate (IG vs. bsky), but here's the periodic best-of-the-other-one: First the birds: Least bittern and brown-headed cowbird in Prospect Park; cardinal and titmouse in Central Park.
Notes from the NYC #nokings protest today: (1) Crowded, wet; (2) two "I have friends everywhere" signs made me smile; (3) umbrella awareness, folks; (4) OM Systems does good weather sealing; (5) seemed like the crowd skewed older this time; (6) Cuomo catching lots of strays here.
June 15, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Notes from the NYC #nokings protest today: (1) Crowded, wet; (2) two "I have friends everywhere" signs made me smile; (3) umbrella awareness, folks; (4) OM Systems does good weather sealing; (5) seemed like the crowd skewed older this time; (6) Cuomo catching lots of strays here.
The Prospect Park Vale of Cashmere, blue grosbeak and hermit thrush in Brooklyn Bridge Park. This concludes the monthly bluesky birdpost.
April 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The Prospect Park Vale of Cashmere, blue grosbeak and hermit thrush in Brooklyn Bridge Park. This concludes the monthly bluesky birdpost.
Cattle egret in Green-Wood Cemetery, palm warbler, pine warbler, and eastern red bat in Prospect Park...
April 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Cattle egret in Green-Wood Cemetery, palm warbler, pine warbler, and eastern red bat in Prospect Park...
Trying not keep bird/wildlife posting and everything else separate (IG vs. bsky), but how about a monthly roundup of favorites that went to instagram? Ring-billed gull comes in for an unfriendly landing, northern cardinal and tufted titmouse in Central Park, American woodcock in Bryant Park...
April 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Trying not keep bird/wildlife posting and everything else separate (IG vs. bsky), but how about a monthly roundup of favorites that went to instagram? Ring-billed gull comes in for an unfriendly landing, northern cardinal and tufted titmouse in Central Park, American woodcock in Bryant Park...
I don't do much birdposting on Bluesky, but birding (and taking bird photos for Wikipedia) is a key part of the sanity formula these days. Sharing here my 250th Wikimedia "Featured Picture," a rufous motmot (seen on a recent trip to Costa Rica)! #wikipedia #birdsky?
February 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I don't do much birdposting on Bluesky, but birding (and taking bird photos for Wikipedia) is a key part of the sanity formula these days. Sharing here my 250th Wikimedia "Featured Picture," a rufous motmot (seen on a recent trip to Costa Rica)! #wikipedia #birdsky?
Tonight at Pioneer Works: the latest "scientific controversies" event on birds and language. (And the official event patch, with dog for scale).
November 18, 2024 at 1:53 AM
Tonight at Pioneer Works: the latest "scientific controversies" event on birds and language. (And the official event patch, with dog for scale).
Flaco the celebrity owl is on the main page of Wikipedia right now! Thanks Roy for the nomination and Nan Knighton for sharing her photo of Flaco the peeper!
February 18, 2024 at 12:34 AM
Flaco the celebrity owl is on the main page of Wikipedia right now! Thanks Roy for the nomination and Nan Knighton for sharing her photo of Flaco the peeper!
Nobody is better than Lane Rasberry at communicating the importance and influence of @wikipedia.bsky.social (at #wikipediaday NYC, Brown Institute) #wikimedianyc #wikipedia #wikipediaday
January 14, 2024 at 7:20 PM
Nobody is better than Lane Rasberry at communicating the importance and influence of @wikipedia.bsky.social (at #wikipediaday NYC, Brown Institute) #wikimedianyc #wikipedia #wikipediaday
At @wikipedia.bsky.social Day NYC at the Brown Institute / Columbia, @eryk.bsky.social is talking about the importance of archives like WikiCommons and its contributors in AI training data (which we should be thinking about as an archive)
January 14, 2024 at 5:39 PM
At @wikipedia.bsky.social Day NYC at the Brown Institute / Columbia, @eryk.bsky.social is talking about the importance of archives like WikiCommons and its contributors in AI training data (which we should be thinking about as an archive)