Books on display at #ieeevis! CRC Press📚/discount for attendees (code: 25EFLY3). Includes books by several presenters (incl @tnagel.bsky.social @cybunk.bsky.social ). Most feature in the www.routledge.com/AK-Peters-Visualization-Series edited by Tamara Munzner & @albertocairo.com

In car-dependent communities like my own, careless driving on Halloween can pose massive risk to families trick-or-treating. If you need not drive today, then DO NOT. If you do, use utmost patience and care and set aside some extra time for your commute: drive slow. Keep our streets safe. 🎃

What's a data object, and why are they innovative as hell?! Check out today's blog post! datasoapbox.com/book-review-... Edited by @cybunk.bsky.social @tnagel.bsky.social Lora Oehlberg & Wesley Willett, featuring projects by @dietoff.bsky.social @flowingdata.com @kimsauve.bsky.social & many others!

We are hiring a Posd-Doctoral Research Fellow @standrewssgsd.bsky.social @phrg-standrews.bsky.social to work on #family and #housing #projections using #microsimulation. DL: 1 October. More info: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Wow. Check this out. Politicians actually trying to solve problems can achieve a lot! www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

Important reading as you prepare for your semester

The deadline is soon!

😍 We are hiring a new Prof. in digital design and psychology! 🔭 🧪 Full description: bit.ly/hiring2025IMT Link to apply: bit.ly/hiring-2025-R 🕐 Deadline: August 25th 2025 🤝 Hiring: Between September & October 🙏❤️! #academic #design #DIS2025 #HCI #socialsciences #Psychology #sciences

New project! @yufeng.bsky.social analyzed all of the words found on NYC Streets. The data comes from from 8 million Google Street View images, which yielded 138 million snippets of text: 🔗: pudding.cool/2025/07/stre...

You can never bend the knee enough to appease an authoritarian bully. This is a devastating blow to academic freedom & freedom of speech at Columbia. Never in the history of this nation has there been an administration so intent on the utter destruction of higher education as we know it.

It is a major policy failure that the US cannot accommodate top AI conferences due to visa issues. buff.ly/DRJOGrB

Cuba durant la « période spéciale », bifurcation socio-écologique ? aoc.media/analyse/2025...

So sad not to be at #DIS2025, enjoy!

'The myth of meritocracy in science collapses under the financial sacrifices expected at every career stage. From unpaid internships and self-funded conferences to underpaid graduate and postdoctoral positions, the hidden costs of ‘doing science’ are profound.' journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

People always ask me : “Cristi, how do you manage parenting a baby while going up for tenure?” It’s easy. The secret is *flow-based-scheduling*. Here are its three core strategies for new academic parents: Sleep when the baby sleeps Cry when the baby cries Publish when the baby publishes

The part in the sci-fi story where the villain explains that the only way they could create their monster was to destroy millions of books.

Blogged about the survey I ran regarding the future of alt.chi within the #chi conference: designresearch.works/blog/future-...

Encountered a lot of people at eurovis who don’t know this is happening! It is! It’s gonna be sick!

📢 The MERCADO Workshop is back at IEEE VIS 📊 - Nov 2 - 7 in Vienna 🇦🇹! MERCADO = Multimodal Experiences for Remote Communication Around Data Online #ieeevis #datavis #dataviz #hci #cscw #socialVR #ImmersiveAnalytics 👉 Call for Papers: sites.google.com/view/mercado... ⏰ Deadline: Aug 1

Submit and attend our "Input Visualization" during the @ieeevis.bsky.social Conference in Vienna, Austria, happening November 2 to 7 - 2025! #dataviz #academicsky #visualization More information on : inputvisualization.github.io/vis2025/#Call

Another day, another call 🔖 Join this one-day workshop to explore feminist, embodied ways of engaging with (bio)data—beyond screens and dashboards. Bring Your Own Biodata (#BYOB) + tools! Submit by June 1st (AoE) to hear back before early bird registration. #DIS2025

😍 We are hiring a new Prof. in digital design and psychology! 🔭 🧪 Full description: bit.ly/hiring2025IMT Link to apply: bit.ly/hiring-2025-R 🕐 Deadline: August 25th 2025 🤝 Hiring: Between September & October 🙏❤️! #academic #design #DIS2025 #HCI #socialsciences #Psychology #sciences

If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”

“West Point scrapped two history courses… and an English course… The sociology major was dissolved, and a Black history project at the history department was disbanded. Department leaders forced professors to remove from their courses works by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker...”

Wybo Houkes and I are hiring a PhD student to work on an exciting project in Philosophy of Science 😊 The application deadline is May 18. Please spread the word and consider applying 👇 #AcademicSky www.tue.nl/en/working-a...

🎈 🎓 We are hiring a Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at Télécom Paris ! 🧪 Come and work with us ! 🎈 The deadline is really soon ... 🚀 More infos here : diva.telecom-paristech.fr/jobs/prof-20... #chi2025 #HCI #visualisation #hiring #CHI #fabrication #Design #wearable #mobile #Programming

🎈We are hiring PhD student 🤩 With Nathalie Bressa and @drpi.bsky.social we are looking for a new PhD student 🚀 "Artifact ecologies & Participatory Design of Physical Data Representations for Deliberation.” More infos : www.pepr-ensemble.fr/proposition-...

The intimidation game: Rejections based on criteria of scientific rigor will soon be defined as attacks on freedom of speech. My conspiracy theory is just as good as your data. #academicsky #metascience #medsky www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

“The first quarter of the twenty-first century has produced some huge scientific breakthroughs…. But you won’t find any of these advances described in the top-cited papers published since 2000.” #AcademicSky

I made a comic on how we got here & trump/supporters - collecting things he's said that would seem to have been over the line - and how that never seems to be the case is the real problem... on my site with full alt-text and citations here spinweaveandcut.com/draw-the-line/

Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones. Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.

There is no mechanism to hold the president accountable for defying court orders. This is a serious issue with primarily asserting a “rights” based argument. It is not clear what our “rights” are and the opposition does not care about “the law.” The courts won’t save us. Dems won’t save us.

Holy shit. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say they’re trying to kill us all. “The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists”

Critical Ukraine coverage at risk as Trump slashes Radio Free Europe funding For the Kyiv-based bureau, the halt would bring an end to several prominent projects, including investigations of corruption and Russian aggression, front-line coverage, and coverage of Ukraine’s occupied territories.

So impressed and inspired by the relentless innovation @cleanlined.bsky.social is bringing to compositional design! These pages from Batman dark patterns 4 - with equally smart and compelling storytelling from @danpgwatters.bsky.social. Great stuff all around!

Military aid to 🇺🇦: 🇺🇸: $64.13 billion 🇩🇰: $7.54 billion Pop: 🇺🇸: 347 million 🇩🇰: 6 million Aid per person: 🇺🇸: $184 🇩🇰: $1256 The U.S. was paying the equivalent of 3 large pizzas per person per year to destroy the Russian military & someone convinced them it was a bad deal

🧪 Good morning #Canadian Academics. We know there'll be a federal election sooner rather than later Time to support candidates who support investments in research that make #CanadaStrong. Follow @core-coeur.bsky.social core-coeur.ca #VotonsRecherche #ResearchersVote 🧪

Post human critique of the cyberpunk #tei2025

Yvonne Jansen & Céline Coutrix are introducing the #tei2025 conference @tei-conf.bsky.social

Hello 👋 I am at #tei today @tei-conf.bsky.social . Hope to see you and enjoy the conference!

En clair : Trump abandonne les Ukrainiens, s'allie à Poutine pour miner l'Union européenne et saper les démocraties mondiales Mais nos très grandes fortunes (>100 millions) se soucient davantage de la perspective d'un impôt minimum de 2 (deux) % www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...

Hackivist Visualisation Action :-)

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US's 1994 security assurances in exchange for Ukraine becoming non-nuclear: - Respect Ukraine’s independence and sovereignty; - Refrain from threat of force; - Refrain from economic coercion; - Seek immediate UNSC action in case of nuclear threats. treaties.un.org/doc/Publicat...

If it’s a trade war Trump wants, consumers in Mexico, Canada, Europe, and beyond should unite to ensure that Musk and his fellow oligarchs feel the cost www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/o...

Under Trump 2.0, Europe's dependence on American clouds has become a worry

Intellectual freedom, a good GPU cluster, and a view of the Alps sound pretty good right now.