*Social Data & Tools: Prizes for Academics* We felt inspired by the recent #DataGrants experiment sponsored by Twitter that generated more than 1,300 proposals from 60 countries and resulted in six extremely interesting awards. One thing is clear: many more grants of social data licenses are needed to fuel academic research. Texifter is sponsoring social data and tools prizes for academics as a simple contest with 12 winners a month this summer. In addition to social data access, we understand that many academic researchers also need “point & click” web-based tools to simplify the data access and management tasks involving social media APIs and jSON. To learn how to enter: http://bit.ly/1pGuUJo The first dozen winners were selected from June entries. You can read about the winners' projects here: http://bit.ly/1m9v1xU We will select another dozen prize winners at the end of July. It takes five minutes to enter by creating a free Historical Twitter estimate and submitting a CV. -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman http://people.umass.edu/stu Founder and CEO, Texifter http://texifter.com LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartwshulman Twitter https://twitter.com/StuartWShulman