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Jun 12 • 10 tweets • 8 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
New to open source research? Want to know where to begin? Here’s a useful thread for beginners… 🧵
Start by identifying what you might be good at. If you love solving puzzles, geolocation challenges might be perfect for you. Do you speak another language? Perhaps you know a lot about the military or finance? Discover your specialist field by evaluating your existing skill set.
Find your community! Creating lists on Twitter of key researchers in the field you’re interested in can be really helpful to find new tools or techniques. @malachybrowne from the @nytimes has a publicly available list of over 200 open source researchers: twitter.com/i/lists/839124…
@malachybrowne @nytimes We also have a community of open source researchers from different experience levels in our discord server. It’s free and easy to join via this link here: discord.gg/bellingcat
Don’t forget to introduce yourself upon joining!
@malachybrowne @nytimes We asked our Discord community, what are the open source research tools you couldn’t live without. The most common answers were Google search and Google Earth Pro. Free and easy to use, these are often the tools we use first in any type of research.
@malachybrowne @nytimes We used Google Earth Pro, along with other satellite imagery tools, in our most recent research, mapping instances of building damage in the Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border clashes. See that investigation here: bellingcat.com/news/2023/05/2…
@malachybrowne @nytimes There’s a lot of different tools out there to discover and choose from and we have a collection of resource guides here detailing how to use many of them: bellingcat.com/category/resou…
@malachybrowne @nytimes Within the guides are also instructions on how to use Bellingcat’s own tools, created by our Investigative Tech Team.
You can find a collection of these tools on our @github : github.com/bellingcat
@malachybrowne @nytimes @github Finally, practice! It's important to practice your skills. If getting better at geolocation is your first focus, join our @Twitch stream each week and put your skills to the test in our weekly @geoguessr tournament. m.twitch.tv/bellingcat_live
@malachybrowne @nytimes @github @Twitch @geoguessr Hey open source research community, what would your advice or tips for beginners be?

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