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Julia Mikolai @jmikolai.bsky.social · 27d

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/...

Research Fellow (or Research Assistant*) – AR2690

Research 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...

www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · Aug 30

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

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.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · Aug 31

Important reading as you prepare for your semester

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Samuel Huron @cybunk.bsky.social · Aug 3

The deadline is soon!

Samuel Huron @cybunk.bsky.social · May 28

😍 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

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Samuel Huron @cybunk.bsky.social · May 28

😍 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

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The Pudding @puddingviz.bsky.social · Jul 28

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...

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AAUP @aaup.org · Jul 24

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.

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

www.nytimes.com

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Samuel Huron @cybunk.bsky.social · Jul 21

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

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Samuel Huron @cybunk.bsky.social · Jul 21

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

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Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · Jul 16

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

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Samuel Huron @cybunk.bsky.social · Jul 12

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

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...

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Samuel Huron @cybunk.bsky.social · Jul 9

So sad not to be at #DIS2025, enjoy!

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · Jul 6

'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/...

Too poor to science: How wealth determines who succeeds in STEM

From 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...

journals.plos.org

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Samuel Huron @cybunk.bsky.social · Jul 5

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Cristi Proistosescu @cristiproist.bsky.social · Jul 4

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

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Jun 25

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.

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.”…

arstechnica.com

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Joseph Lindley @designresearch.works · Jun 22

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

Does alt.chi have a future? – Design Research Works

Survey results and a discussion on why we should preserve alt.chi

designresearch.works

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Andrew McNutt @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social · Jun 3

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

Andrew McNutt @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social · May 16

It's happening again!! alt.VIS is returning to #IEEEVIS for another year of creativity, criticality, and alterity! Bring us your hot takes, bring us your work that falls outside of mainstream academic vis, bring us your weird stuff!!

Deadline is August 1st

altvis.github.io

alt.VIS

A half-day workshop at IEEE VIS 2023

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matt brehmer @mattbrehmer.bsky.social · Jun 4

📢 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

MERCADO Meetings - VIS '25 Workshop

Our 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...

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Samuel Huron @cybunk.bsky.social · Jun 3

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

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Designing Interactive Systems Conference @acm-dis.bsky.social · May 23

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

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Samuel Huron @cybunk.bsky.social · May 28

😍 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

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · May 19

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.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · May 14

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.”

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.

www.nytimes.com

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David Mouritsen @davidmouritsen.bsky.social · May 10

“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...”

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · May 8

Faced with the "sweeping assault" on critical thinking at our top military academy, West Point, a professor of military ethics resigns.

"However much I admire America, uncritically asserting that it is 'the most powerful force for good in human history” is not something an educator does'."

Opinion | West Point Is Supposed to Educate, Not Indoctrinate

www.nytimes.com

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