Dear hackers, meet Marvin!! 🐧 Marvin is a South African Penguin who loves eating squid and developing R packages for his friends. Marvin's also here to remind you to register for some #hackica26 fun 🔽
One of my favourite events of the year! Learn about new tools/methods/people and hack on some dataset/tool/project 😍
Good news! 🎉
The registration issue has been resolved — everything should now work smoothly.
🔗 Direct link: www.icahdq.org/event/Hackat...
🗓 Registration is open until April 5, 2026
Looking forward to seeing you at the ICA Hackathon 2026 @SU School for Data Science and Computational Thinking! 🚀💡
#note for the registration: you need to be logged in to be able to register through this link.
Otherwise use this link to get an Hashtag#overview of all the pre conferences. When you access the page for the 4th of June you should be able to see the registration link. www.icahdq.org/mpage/ICA26-...
In case the link does not work, here is the official website with all the pre conferences where you can also find the registration link for the Hackathon. - Looking forward to seeing you in Stellenbosch www.icahdq.org/BlankCustom....
📅 Also: Registration for the Hackathon is now open on the official ICA Pre- and Post-Conferences Site — register here! www.icahdq.org/events/regis...
✨We’re live!
Our updated Hackathon website is online — explore it here for more information: hackingcommsci.org 🎉
You’ll find everything you need to know for the event at the SU School for Data Science and Computational Thinking in Stellenbosch on 3rd–4th of June 2026 🇿🇦
The updated website and registration link are on their way — stay tuned!
A big thank-you to all our #sponsors for their generous support this year. This #event would not be possible without you. 🙌
🚀 Save the Date!
If you're considering joining us, now is a great time to block the dates and start planning your #trip.
We can’t wait to see you at the SU School for Data Science and Computational Thinking in Stellenbosch on 3rd and 4th June 2026 for this year's #Hackathon! 🌍✨
To be continued - Can’t wait to see you for the 2026 Hackathon in Cape town.
🚀 May your bugs be shallow,
🔐 your systems secure,
📊 your data be meaningful,
🎯 and your ideas disruptive.
To the HackingCommsci community:
where code meets communication, and ideas become experiments.
Keep hacking.
Keep researching.
Keep building change.
💫 HAPPY NEW YEAR 2026 - HackingCommSci 💫
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After a long time in development, {traktok} #rstats is now finally on CRAN!
Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered
jbgruber.github.io/traktok/
We’re excited to share that #hackica26 on June 3 & 4 will be hosted at the SU School for Data Science and Computational Thinking! Huge thanks for welcoming us 🫶🇿🇦
Learn more about them here: www.su.ac.za/en/
Follow us for more updates and announcements regarding the upcoming Hackathon.
🚨 Big reveal! New year, new logo, same event! 🚨
Join us for some fun at the 2026 ICA pre-conference hackathon in Stellenbosch, June 3-4. Stay tuned!
📩 Contact our SEC Rep Aditi Dutta at ad882@exeter.ac.uk
to share leads, volunteer, or ask questions.
This hackathon is a fantastic way to meet collaborators, learn by building together, and make #ICA26 even better.
1️⃣ UCT venue leads:
Have contacts at the University of Cape Town or nearby venues with solid Wi-Fi, power, & breakout rooms? Please get in touch — any leads are welcome! 🙌
2️⃣ Organisers:
We’re recruiting a few more organisers (early-career especially!) to help plan & be on-site during the hackathon.
🚀 Exciting news! The CM Hackathon is back at #ICA26 in Cape Town — and this year’s edition has been officially accepted as a pre-conference 🎉
It’s one of our signature community-building events, especially for early-career scholars. And we need your help 👇
Patrick walks us through some of the highlights of the #ICA25 @hackingcommsci.bsky.social preconference
Over 50 participants engaging in 16 projects!
This year's #ica25 hackathon was a blast! A huge thank you to @hackingcommsci.bsky.social for making it a reality!
With 13 other great participants, we explored +2 million of Telegram messages around the 2024 US election. I can really recommend checking out the data!
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Photo credits: @jbgruber.bsky.social 🙌
Excited to kick off #ICA25 with many great computational methods sessions today!
Today's topics include multimodal analysis, text classification, data donation. semantic network analysis, and gen AI
Be sure to also swing by our poster session, business meeting, and reception!
From text-as-data to sleep data collection, this year‘s #hackica25 in Boulder, CO, was a blast and we‘re proud to say that we‘ve (again) successfully hacked communication science. Thanks to all participants and see y‘all at #ica25 ✨
@rachaelkee.bsky.social blowing us all away with her project at @hackingcommsci.bsky.social. Super impressive project with the goal of collecting high-throughput sleep and media data ✨😴📺
#ICA25
Already using AI tools in coding or thinking about it? Here‘s @patrickparschan.bsky.social giving us an introduction to Cursor 👀
Hackers learning how to write a package in R and bring it to CRAN with @justinho.bsky.social 🙌 #hackica25
#hackica25 at #ica25 is in full swing. One of my favourite events of the year. A room full of nerds working on data and tools, learning new things and having fun 🤓
Hi #ICA25 students & early-career scholars! 🎓 We've built a "Student Track" just for you!
Find it in the ICA app: Schedule -> More Filters -> Tags -> Student Track.
From your friends at the Student and Early Career Advisory Committee (SECAC), we can't wait to see you there!
Day 2 of #hackica25 and we‘re fully in hacking mode 💻🔥
Jacob leading a GitHub breakout session
Kylie leading an fMRI analysis breakout session
We’re thrilled to see MNL represented at @hackingcommsci.bsky.social!
Huge thanks to @jacobtfisher.online and @kyliewoodman.bsky.social for organizing another fantastic hackathon and sharing valuable comm sci insights such as using GitHub and running fMRI analyses.
#hackica25 #ica25
