Valeria Garro

Conservative Org. Requests Materials for 70 Chapel Hill Courses The Oversight Project, founded by the Heritage Foundation, is using an open records request to search for terms like “DEI” and “gender identity.” Faculty say it encroaches on academic freedom.

IMPORTANT: “‘At many public universities, syllabi are considered intellectual property. As such, professors are not required to share their syllabi in response to public records requests. Check your university policy prior to complying advance.’"

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

The General-Purpose AI Code of Practice The Code of Practice helps industry comply with the AI Act legal obligations on safety, transparency and copyright of general-purpose AI models.

The European Commission has issued the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice this month. It is a voluntary tool designed to help industry comply with the AI Act’s obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models. Read more:

I totally agree, it's sad to see how reviewers sometimes use this as a list of negative points for their quick and careless (sometimes LLM-based) reviews.

Yet Another Study Finds That AI Is Making Us Dumb LLM users displayed the "weakest" brain connectivity in a new MIT study that hints AI use harms critical thinking. It's not the first such study.

Another study by #MIT @nataliyakosmyna.bsky.social, @eugenehp.bsky.social & co. finds #AI boosts productivity but weakens critical thinking. Can’t say I’m too surprised. Productivity ≠ better thinking! #GenAI #CriticalThinking #ResearchSky

Paper: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature’s research papers From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science.

Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature's research papers 🧪👇
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Bokeh Accessibility Audit Summary Findings and recommendations to make Bokeh tools and plots more accessible

I'm officially announcing a massive collaboration that I've been able to participate in: evaluating the accessibility of the Python visualization library, @bokeh.org! 🎉

In collab with folks from @quansight.com and @anacondainc.bsky.social, we present 76 documented findings plus our summary here:

The Art of the Trump Tracker: How Data Viz Can Combat News Fatigue, Nightingale Since coming into office for his second term, President Donald Trump has issued more than 124 executive orders—with nearly as many lawsuits filed in...

📊 Navigating a deluge of information can be a challenge, especially when tracking complex political developments.

Teo Popescu explores how data visualization can help combat news fatigue in the context of tracking Trump's executive orders.

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Spread the word.
#ScienceMatters #AcademicSky #ResearchSky #NIH #NSF

Xbox Accessibility Guidelines - Microsoft Game Dev Game development documentation for creating accessible games.

The Xbox Accessibility Guidelines are a set of best practices compiled by industry experts, gamers, and disabled people. The guidelines have been written to help developers, designers, and testers make games more accessible to people with disabilities.

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/gaming...

A screenshot of the reVISit interface showing the answers and provenance from a participant who completed the question. The study shown is a replication of He et al.’s pattern design study.

Going to #CHI2025 in Japan? Interested in running user studies?

Sign up for our virtual CHI 2025 course that teaches you how to use reVISit, a new, open-source user study tool reducing the tedium of study design. Come learn through some practical examples.

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NEW 🧵

The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border.

Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...

This is very sad but also terrifying.

standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience

navy blue background with white text that says "3 days until we stand up for science"

On Friday, we Stand Up for Science in locations Nationwide (& internationally!) to support science as a public good that benefits everyone.

Join us! Visit www.standupforscience2025.org for more information & other ways to get involved ☀️

Dear US colleague scientists exposed to multiple unprecedented pressures on academic freedom, up to brutal and unfair firing,

I do not know how to best help you in these horrible circumstances.

You are not alone.

Once again, the New York Times gives the dataviz community an opportunity to reflect on its purpose.

Can everything be quantified and turned into a chart?

Most important: what are the consequences of a chart?

If words matter, charts matter too.

The report from the Dagstuhl (DE) workshop on "Art, Visual Illusions, and Data Visualization" I attended last year is available online now: doi.org/10.4230/DagR... #dataviz #AI #art #perception

A quote by H. Holden Thorp, Editor-in-chief of Science journals, reads: "The weeks ahead may be the greatest test that the US scientific community has ever faced." The text is presented on a black background with white lettering.

"… it is the words and actions of all members of the scientific community … that form the collective voice of science …," writes @holdenthorp.bsky.social in a new #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/4hR6ux0

Hi there, after some years of silence on the other platform I've just joined BlueSky. #hope