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The 2022 Computation + Journalism (C+J) Symposium was held in-person at Columbia University and online, June 9-11 . The proceedings are now available with links to PDFs of the referred submissions. I virtually attended several of the sessions on Thursday and Friday, but unfortunately missed the Saturday sessions. A full hybrid session in motion… #cj2022 pic.twitter.com/WhPE7kL6x9 — Bahareh Heravi (@Bahareh360) June 10, 2022 After the success of the fully online C+J 2021, the organizers again used the ohyay.co platform for the online attendees and speakers. In general it worked great again. My only complaint is that the speakers' slides were sometimes too small because of the space given to speaker and panel video and other decorative elements (or maybe it was just too small to view on my laptop screen). Most of the sessions were parallel, so like last year , I had a little trouble deciding which sessions to attend; they all contained interesting work. I didn't ta...

Figure 1:  Both military and medical personnel are at risk for  psychological trauma [ BBC.com ] Health care workers are working in unfamiliar territory in recent times. Hospitals in major cities are overwhelmed by the number of patients they are handling as a result of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. There are accounts of people dying in the hospital hallways before help can arrive due to an insufficient amount of space, equipment and staff to handle the influx of patients. Hospital morgues are overflowing. To make matters worse, doctors and nurses have to worry about exposure to COVID-19 and/or possibly exposing their families largely due to a lack of personnel protective equipment (PPE). The current environment is putting health care works at greater risk of developing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) . As a matter of fact, hospital personnel have started to report symptoms consistent with those suffering with PTSD from sleep disturbances...