Reposted by Samuel Huron Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 01/06/2026It seems we are now entering a new phase of the rise of inequality in the US. It's not just wealth and billionaires — it's a broader acceleration. Here's who benefited from economic growth in 2025, according to the latest estimates available on realtimeinequality.org 9438203
Reposted by Samuel Huron Dr. Jordan Taylor @jordant.bsky.social · 04/04/2026How are professional visual artists dealing with generative AI in the workplace? In our #CHI2026 poster, @hhj14.bsky.social, @willie-agnew.bsky.social and I share results from a survey of 378 verified professional visual artists 🧵 Preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2603.04537 1116
Samuel Huron @cybunk.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Jordi Valls - "a similar problem in technology and politics is control, who is in control" - #chi2026 an introductary word from the mayor of Barcelona 010
Reposted by Samuel Huron Pedro Lopes @pedrolopes.org · 13/04/2026The ACM CHI 2026 paper program is live on the ACM Digital Library, so please enjoy all the new 1702 pieces of science that #CHI2026 has for you: dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi... (cc @acm_chi ). p.s.: You can read our welcome message at dl.acm.org/action/showF...dl.acm.orgProceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | ACM Conferences 13611
Samuel Huron @cybunk.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Ce soir il y aura la première rencontre pour la sortie de la dernière BD de Tiphaine Riviére, à la librairie l'Atelier, dans le 20 arrondissement : venez si vous êtes parisiens, on ira boire un verre après ! #comics #bd #BandeDessinée #librairie #book #kafka #socialsciences 020
Reposted by Samuel Huron Elliott Morsia @elliottmorsia.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Books 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 072
Reposted by Samuel Huron sean connaughton @kalevalament.bsky.social · 31/10/2025In 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. 🎃 021
Reposted by Samuel Huron Lori Palen @loripalen.bsky.social · 08/10/2025What'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!datasoapbox.comBook Review: Making with Data - Data SoapboxIf 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 ... 253
Reposted by Samuel Huron Julia Mikolai @jmikolai.bsky.social · 12/09/2025We 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/...vacancies.st-andrews.ac.ukResearch Fellow (or Research Assistant*) – AR2690Research Fellow (or Research Assistant*) – AR2690, School of Geography and Sustainable Development, Salary: £38,784 - £46,049 per annum, Start: As soon as possible, Fixed term until May 2027, <p st... 089
Reposted by Samuel Huron Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Wow. Check this out. Politicians actually trying to solve problems can achieve a lot! www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...washingtonpost.comParis 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. 292020743
Reposted by Samuel Huron Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Important reading as you prepare for your semester 7367104
Reposted by Samuel Huron Samuel Huron @cybunk.bsky.social · 28/05/2025😍 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 #scienceslnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 053
Reposted by Samuel Huron The Pudding @pudding.cool · 28/07/2025New 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... 29628
Reposted by Samuel Huron AAUP @aaup.org · 24/07/2025You 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.nytimes.comColumbia Agrees to $200 Million Fine to Settle Fight With Trump 551772629
Reposted by Samuel Huron Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 17/07/2025It is a major policy failure that the US cannot accommodate top AI conferences due to visa issues. buff.ly/DRJOGrB 48421
Samuel Huron @cybunk.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Cuba durant la « période spéciale », bifurcation socio-écologique ? aoc.media/analyse/2025...aoc.mediaCuba durant la « période spéciale », bifurcation socio-écologique ? - AOC mediaÀ 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... 010
Reposted by Samuel Huron Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 06/07/2025'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/...journals.plos.orgToo poor to science: How wealth determines who succeeds in STEMFrom student to researcher, a career in science can come with a high price tag. This Perspective explores how persistent financial barriers limit who can succeed in science, revealing how wealth shape... 5244113
Reposted by Samuel Huron Cristi Proistosescu @cristiproist.bsky.social · 04/07/2025People 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 18787112
Reposted by Samuel Huron Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/06/2025The 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.arstechnica.comAnthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI modelsCompany hired Google’s book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize “all the books in the world.”… 9368158
Reposted by Samuel Huron Joseph Lindley @designresearch.works · 22/06/2025Blogged about the survey I ran regarding the future of alt.chi within the #chi conference: designresearch.works/blog/future-...designresearch.worksDoes alt.chi have a future? – Design Research WorksSurvey results and a discussion on why we should preserve alt.chi 2107
Reposted by Samuel Huron Andrew McNutt @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Encountered a lot of people at eurovis who don’t know this is happening! It is! It’s gonna be sick! 021
Reposted by Samuel Huron matt brehmer @mattbrehmer.bsky.social · 04/06/2025📢 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 1sites.google.comMERCADO Meetings - VIS '25 WorkshopOur half-day workshop Multimodal Experiences for Remote Communication Around Data Online (MERCADO) 2025 will take place in November in Vienna at IEEE VIS 2025. An archival version of our IEEE VIS work... 034
Samuel Huron @cybunk.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Submit 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/#Callinputvisualization.github.ioInput Visualization Workshop - IEEE VIS 2025 012
Reposted by Samuel Huron Designing Interactive Systems Conference @acm-dis.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Another 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 041
Samuel Huron @cybunk.bsky.social · 28/05/2025😍 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 #scienceslnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 053
Reposted by Samuel Huron Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 19/05/2025If 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. 1163333318597
Reposted by Samuel Huron The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/05/2025In @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.”nytimes.comOpinion | 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. 771137524897
Reposted by Samuel Huron David Mouritsen @davidmouritsen.bsky.social · 10/05/2025“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...” 044
Reposted by Samuel Huron Vlasta Sikimić @vlastasikimic.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Wybo 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...tue.nlPhD on Philosophy of Science 02414
Samuel Huron @cybunk.bsky.social · 30/04/2025🎈 🎓 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 #Programmingdiva.telecom-paristech.frDIVA: Professor of Human-Computer InteractionDIVA Group: Design, Interaction, Visualization at LTCI Telecom ParisTech 142
Samuel Huron @cybunk.bsky.social · 28/04/2025🎈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-...pepr-ensemble.frProposition de thèse : Psephos: Artifact ecologies & Participatory Design of Physical Data Representations for Deliberation - PEPR collaboration numériqueTitre / Title: Psephos: Artifact ecologies & Participatory Design of Physical Data Representations for Deliberation Projet Ciblé (PC) / Targeted Project (PC): PC4 CONGRATS – Collectives for knowledge ... 043
Reposted by Samuel Huron Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 19/04/2025The 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...medpagetoday.comMedical Journals Get Letters From DOJAt least three journals received letters from a U.S. Attorney asking about 'competing viewpoints' 0128
Reposted by Samuel Huron Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 15/04/2025“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.” #AcademicSkynature.comExclusive: the most-cited papers of the twenty-first centuryA Nature analysis reveals the 25 highest-cited papers published this century and explores why they are breaking records. 043
Reposted by Samuel Huron Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 02/04/2025I 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/ 31798275
Reposted by Samuel Huron Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 18/03/2025Columbia 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.arstechnica.comAI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study saysCJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests. 12045992431
Reposted by Samuel Huron Ricci @riccisergienko.bsky.social · 17/03/2025There 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. 912335
Reposted by Samuel Huron David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Holy 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”nytimes.comTrump Administration Aims to Eliminate E.P.A.’s Scientific Research Arm (Gift Article)More than 1,000 chemists, biologists and other scientists could be laid off under a plan to dismantle the Office of Research and Development. 13528031194
Reposted by Samuel Huron The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 18/03/2025Critical 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.kyivindependent.comCritical Ukraine coverage at risk as Trump slashes Radio Free Europe fundingThe U.S. decision to cut off funding for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty came as a surprise for the outlet’s newsroom, a source in the RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service told the Kyiv Independent. “We unders... 18360120
Reposted by Samuel Huron Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 16/03/2025So 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! 45011
Reposted by Samuel Huron 🍁 Alex Smith 🍁 @alexsmithants.bsky.social · 08/03/2025🧪 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 🧪core-coeur.caCoalition for Research Excellence – Coalition pour l'excellence en recherche – Contact: core.coeur.vote@gmail.com 04117
Samuel Huron @cybunk.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Yvonne Jansen & Céline Coutrix are introducing the #tei2025 conference @tei-conf.bsky.social 050
Samuel Huron @cybunk.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Hello 👋 I am at #tei today @tei-conf.bsky.social . Hope to see you and enjoy the conference! 140