Samuel Huron

Book Review: Making with Data - Data Soapbox If you’ve been around Ye Olde Blog for a while, you may have seen me geek out about data art. So, when I heard about Making with Data (MWD), I had to check it out.* MWD features more than 25 physical ...

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/...

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change. Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

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:
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🕐 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...

Columbia Agrees to $200 Million Fine to Settle Fight With Trump

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.

😊 I am saying that I am not sure we have paper that big but I always tend to have heavy pictures

I am sorry.
But I like to think that everyone have a copy on a open online repository.
But yes why not

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 À quoi pourraient ressembler des sociétés radicalement moins consommatrices et socialement désirables ? Pendant la « période spéciale », dans les années 1990, Cuba combine une nette réduction de l’uti...

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/...

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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

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models Company hired Google’s book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize “all the books in the world.”…

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.

Does alt.chi have a future? – Design Research Works Survey results and a discussion on why we should preserve alt.chi

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.

Opinion | We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S. The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.

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...”

PhD on Philosophy of Science

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 #academicsky

🎈 🎓 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-...