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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 04/10/2026

Ready to free yourself from Big Tech tools? Opt Out October is the time to do it. Once you manage to make some changes, give yourself one of these merit badges and share your accomplishments! www.eff.org/pages/welco...

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Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I know there is so much bad news out there, but here is some more. This is how you destroy entire disciplines.

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Alyssa Fowers @alyssafowers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I started a thread in March asking for examples of data visualizations that focus on the human cost of violence, tragedies, and disasters. Today, the course I built with those examples is out on the Open Visualization Academy, free for everyone: openvisualizationacademy.org/courses/visu...

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1.0 Introduction - Visualizing Loss and Tragedy - Open Visualization Academy

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Ashley Kirk @handle.invalid · 30/09/2026

The Guardian’s Visual & Data Journalism team is expanding! We have three exciting new roles, and we're looking for people who can help us push the boundaries of how we find, report and tell stories. 🧵⬇️

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you are already a DVS (free) member, take the next step to paid and help support the important (and beautiful!) work of the Data Visualization Society.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Have you ever tried to read a scientific journal article and been told “you don’t have access, pay to download this article?” Did you know that the author of that article gets $0 if you pay? Instead, you can email the author and ask for a free copy! I’d be delighted to help and answer questions!

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Alark Joshi @alark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Early bird registration for IEEE VIS ends today!! The program looks amazing and has lots of relevant content for practitioners too! Sign up for in-person attendance in Boston, Paris, or Tianjin!!! Registration: ieeevis.org/year/2026/in... Follow @ieeevis.org for more details about #ieeevis 📊

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One way to prevent climate disaster is to stop studying it and act really surprised when there are floods, fires, and crop failures. Then say: "How could anyone have known, or allocated resources for this? How sad that you are starving and exposed to extreme temperatures. We're praying for you."

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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...

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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

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Alark Joshi @alark.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

ICYMI, we have a limited-series podcast called "Postdoc Matters" that includes new interviews with faculty, industry professionals, and administrators. We just posted our latest interview with Alex Yen from MIT/BU. The podcast is on all platforms, including Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0aAl0WE...

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Postdoc Matters

Podcast · Victoria Hallinan & Alark Joshi · This limited-series podcast contains interviews and conversations with postdocs, professors, academic administrators, industry professionals, and more. The ...

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 04/09/2026

But you don’t hire talented juniors *for the routine tasks they do*. You hire them because you want to develop them into talented seniors. When a firm says "AI can do the research and make the slide decks, so we don’t need juniors" either they don’t realise this, or... (2/3)

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Alark Joshi @alark.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Thank you, John and Rebecca, for interviewing us about our new book. It was wonderful talking to you both about the hidden curriculum associated with being a successful postdoc. It is a dream come true to be featured in the Tea for Teaching podcast!

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026

There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”

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Alark Joshi @alark.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This cartoon from 2015 is especially amusing in today’s AI age, as the value of coding in industry has declined significantly. 😅

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Navigating your postdoc career? We have your guide by Victoria Hallinan and Alark Joshi. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... @alark.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social #HigherEd #AcademicSky

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Alark Joshi @alark.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Thanks to Jenny Frederick, Anubha Sheth, Jovana Milosavljevic-Ardeljan, Ph.D., and Ivonne Vidal Pizarro, PhD for writing glowing blurbs for our book. Thank you to our Deans Evbuomwan and Paris and our supervisor, Erin Heckler, Ph.D., for their support.

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Alark Joshi @alark.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

You can get a copy of the book at www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/.... A little birdie (JHU Press) told us that you can get 30% off the book with code HAUG26. If you know a postdoc or a postdoc mentor, please share a link to the book with them. Thanks!

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Alark Joshi @alark.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We are delighted to announce that our book, "Postdoc - How to Navigate Your Career After Grad School," is now available through Johns Hopkins University Press! The book also contains 19 interviews from faculty, administrators, and current postdocs. Thanks to @gmbritton.bsky.social and team at JHUP!

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Alark Joshi @alark.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

We have to stop pretending that meanness in academic reviews is the same as scientific rigor. Every now and then we get exceptionally thoughtful and constructive reviews of how a manuscript can be improved, but that is becoming increasingly rare.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u... an ominous trend: graduate admissions are down 15 percent from last year, on top of an 11 percent decrease from the previous year we are destroying our seed corn

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Research Universities Are Admitting Fewer Ph.D.s, a Bad Sign for Science

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

'The career ladder in academia is of particular interest as it is a “greedy” occupation due to its lack of substitutability among workers, long hours with increasing returns to productivity, and the importance of establishing and maintaining personal contacts.' Academia is a "greedy" occupation.

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The lack of women at the top of the academic ladder is driven by unequal childcare responsibilities - LSE Impact

Motherhood, and the unequal childcare responsibilities that follow, explain a large share of the observed gender gap in academic employment. Sofie Cairo, Ria Ivandic, Anne Sophie Lassen and Valentina ...

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Alark Joshi @alark.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Great example of scrollytelling with remarkable detail about beef prices not dropping anytime soon by @ilenapeng.bsky.social and team @bloomberg.com. 👏 The illustrations, charts, and timeline are wonderfully designed. 📊Link: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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Why Beef Prices Won’t Drop Anytime Soon

Pressures at every stage of the 18-month cattle supply chain are expected to keep prices high at least through 2026.

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Mike Reilley @mikereilley.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The Journalist's Toolbox YouTube channel features more than 155 training videos on free tools useful for journalists. The videos include exercises and demos on how to use the tools. And it's free!

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Journalists Toolbox

This channel provides short training videos for professional journalists to learn new digital skills. Use the short primers to train your newsroom, students, staff, etc. It is operated by UIC…

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

This is good from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com on how AI will impact on the labour market - two different effects pulling in different directions. Which will be more powerful? www.ft.com/content/becb...

Earlier this week Harvard's Seyed Mahdi Hosseini Maasoum and Guy Lichtinger outlined another helpful framework for thinking about this. Where AI enhances individual workers' productivity it widens wage inequality by multiplying the returns to specialist skills and knowledge; where it reduces barriers to entry by eliminating the need for specialist skills it has the opposite effect. Interestingly, they find evidence that both dynamics are already playing out in measured AI usage, and that at the whole economy level they can to an extent cancel one another out.

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Amanda Montañez @unamandita.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

🚨Internship opportunity!🚨 Now accepting applications for Scientific American summer/fall graphics internship: springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Spring... Apply by March 26. Please feel free to share, especially within the 📊 dataviz community.

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Graphics Intern

Job Title: Graphics Intern Location: New York Application Deadline: March 26th, 2026. About Springer Nature Springer Nature is one of the leading publishers of research in the world. We publish the la...

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Alark Joshi @alark.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

As a fan of small multiples, I love this. I have shared it with my students in the data visualization course. 📊

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Alark Joshi @alark.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Beautifully hand-crafted interactive data visualization about birds by @nadiehbremer.com !! The tooltips and transitions are particularly fantastic. The only person I know who's a huge birder that may enjoy this website is @derekbruff.bsky.social. 🦉

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Alark Joshi @alark.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Paper details: Saske, Antonia, et al. "A Multidimensional Assessment Method for Visualization Understanding (MdamV)." IEEE TVCG (2026).

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Alark Joshi @alark.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

They also found that the topic of the chart matters, and readers were skeptical of the chart if they had preconceived notions of the topic, such as climate change. More details can be found at arxiv.org/pdf/2410.238....

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Alark Joshi @alark.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

There is research from last year's IEEE VIS that talks about how aesthetically pleasing charts are believed by participants in their study a lot more than basic charts.

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I made some maps to help @climate.us explain how we’re still getting winter storms — sometimes big ones! — despite Global Warming. www.climate.us/news-and-fea...

Map of snowfall totals in the contiguous United States for the weekend of January 23–26. A band of accumulation of at least 8 inches stretched from northern Texas to Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Map of winter temperature trends in the contiguous United States. In the three-month winter average, it’s warming everywhere (red). In the single month averages there are some small cooling regions (light blue) including the extreme Pacific Northwest in December and the Mississippi Delta in January.

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Alark Joshi @alark.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

This is unbelievably fantastic!! Congratulations, @albertocairo.com and team. What an amazing resource!! 🙏

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Alark Joshi @alark.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Fantastic write-up about data visualization issues such as clarity, accessibility, using descriptive text, and more with great examples from @ourworldindata.org by Saloni (@scientificdiscovery.dev). Great place to start for data visualization enthusiasts and students. 👏

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Alark Joshi @alark.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Happy birthday, Craig!! 🎉 Thank you for supporting our students at the University of San Francisco.

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Nick Diakopoulos @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

🚨 Postdoc opening -- Come work with us at Northwestern! 🚨 This position is to work on evaluating LLMs for sociopolitical value expression: postdocs.northwestern.edu/announcement... -- Please share!

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Postdoctoral Research Opportunity – Global LLM Values Benchmarking Working Group: Postdoctoral Affairs - Northwestern University

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Jonathan Ellis @jonathanellis.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

YOU, or someone talented you know, could be the next @upshot.nytimes.com fellow. It’s a paid, full-time, one-year job working on the staff of (dare I say) the coolest desk in the newsroom. But hurry — applications close on Wednesday, so apply now and/or share with friends!

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Fellow, Upshot

New York, NY

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Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

🗺️ The true size of the world's countries. 👉 The widely used Mercator projection distorts their size.

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Jason Dykes @jsndyks.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

#IEEEVIS - we’re hiring @ City St George’s, University of London. Does this sound like you? bit.ly/3WEYlmm It's a permanent (tenured) position: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPC906/l... Join us @ giCentre & be part of our amazing new ... Data Visualization Doctoral Training Centre: bit.ly/diverseCDT25...

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Alark Joshi @alark.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Bob Laramee will be presenting our paper "Examining a PCP Intervention through the Anderson and Krathwohl Taxonomy Lens" at the upcoming EduVis workshop at IEEE VIS on Monday, November 3. More details including the PDF of the paper can be found at www.cs.usfca.edu/~apjoshi/pap...

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Alark Joshi @alark.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Teaching data visualization? Our research reveals that students need more support with procedural knowledge (tracing polylines, mapping colors to polylines) when learning Parallel Coordinates Plots. The Anderson & Krathwohl taxonomy helped us pinpoint exactly where interventions should focus.

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Evan Peck @peck.phd · 28/10/2025

This graph that the @economist.com is boosting on Facebook is irresponsible. Titles create powerful frames in the way people interpret data (see: Kong et al 2019, www.hidykong.com/papers/Kong-...). This one tells a story that doesn't exist in the charted data.

Graph with title: Older people are addicted to their digital gadgets. But the graph itself only has data about device ownership %

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Alark Joshi @alark.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

The CS dept at USF is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor. The job is perfect for an individual who enjoys teaching small classes (25-30), mentoring students on research projects, & working in a truly diverse department in an urban setting. Apply at usfca.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USF_Fu....

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Alark Joshi @alark.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Revisit by @laneh.bsky.social and team is an excellent option. It requires some configuration and setup, but it works beautifully and all your data stays on your server. (revisit.dev)

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reVISit: Reproducible and Powerful Visualization User Studies

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Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

AI is not a mere tool for helping teachers. When you remove the human element of teaching and learning, you are not being more efficient nor effective. The ability to learn is what makes us human, and humans teaching humans is a fundamentally human act that is necessary for meaningful engagement.

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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 08/10/2025

This is really one of the best charts by @ourworldindata.org 📊 Amazing how much research and work goes into creating a chart like this. And it's such a good insight into society.

What Americans die from and the causes of death the US media reports on.

4 stacked bar charts. showing in short that while heart diseases and cancer constitutes 55% of the causes of death, they receive about 7% of the media coverages. Homicide is under 1% but receives between 42% and 52%. Terrorisme barely registers in the causes of death, but gets between 11% and 18%.

The first stacked bar is causes of death in the US in 2023
Heart diseases 29%
Cancer 26%
Accidents 9.5%
Stroke 6.9%
Lower respiratory diseases (6.2%)
Alzheimer's disease (4.8%)
Diabetes (4.0%)
Kidney failure (2.4%)
Liver disease (2.2%)
Suicide (2.1%)
COVID-19 (2.1%)
Influenza/Pneumonia (1.9%)
Drug overdose (1.8%)
Homicide (<1%)
Terrorism (<0.001%)

Media coverage of these causes of death in 2023 in...
New York Times
Heart disease (2.8%)
Cancer (4.1%)
Accidents (9.7%)
Suicide (3.8%)
COVID-19 (5.3%)
Drug overdose (7.5%)
Homicide (42%)
Terrorism (18%)

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Heart disease (2.9%)
Cancer (4.7%)
Accidents (5.9%)
Suicide (3.3%)
COVID-19 (7.9%)
Drug overdose (9.5%)
Homicide (46%)
Terrorism (12%)

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Heart disease (2.3%)
Cancer (3.8%)
Accidents (6.1%)
Suicide (4.1%)
COVID-19 (6.0%)
Drug overdose (9.8%)
Homicide (52%)
Terrorism (11%)

Note: Based on the share of causes of death in the US and the share of mentions for each of the causes in the New York Times, the Washington Post and Fox News. All values are normalized to 100%, so the shares are relative to all deaths caused by the 12 most common causes + drug overdoses, homicides and terrorism. These causes account for more than 75% of deaths in the US.
A "media mention" is a published article in one of the outlets which mentions the cause (e.g. "influenza) or related keywords (e.g. "flu") least twice.
Data sources: Media mentions from Media Cloud (2025); deaths data from the US CDC (2025) and Global Terrorism Index.

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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

2026 internships available in my team at The LEGO Group! Internships in Story, Ideation, Concept Model Design (ie, building with bricks), Prototyping (3D printing etc), Hardware (soldering and weird sensors!) Physical (springs and spinny things) Digital (code for doing stuff with bricks)

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!!!* INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY *!!! Hey everyone… great news! please share with your network of budding young students. We have now opened applications for our internships in Story, Ideation, Concept…...

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 18/09/2025

Your regular reminder that measles vaccines are the most lifesaving childhood vaccine in the schedule, and save over a million lives globally per year. ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...

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Measles vaccines save millions of lives each year

Measles once killed millions every year. Vaccines changed this, preventing disease, long-term immune damage, and deadly outbreaks.

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