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.

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

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

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'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.

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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This website shows you what your browser is leaking about you. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

taken.

A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.

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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...

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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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!

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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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...

🚨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.

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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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. 🦉

Nadieh Bremer@nadiehbremer.com · 6mo ago

📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on! “Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤 A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.

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...

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

Alberto Cairo@albertocairo.com · 6mo ago

The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE! openvisualizationacademy.org Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization

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. 👏

Saloni@scientificdiscovery.dev · 8mo ago

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

🚨 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!

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

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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!

Fellow, Upshot

New York, NY

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

#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...

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.

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.

Really excited to share this new paper on "Data Visualizations as Propaganda", co-led by PhD students Priya Dhawka and Nina Lutz, which just won a Best Paper award at the CSCW conference: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... [Short thread]

Data Visualizations as Propaganda: Tracing Lineages, Provenance, and Political Framings in Online Anti-Immigrant Discourse | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Along with other visual content, data visualizations are increasingly used within online discourse, including political communication. Though often considered to be ''objective'', data visualizations ...

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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....

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.

John Warner@biblioracle.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

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.

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)

!!!* 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…...

!!!* 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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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...

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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Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪 From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

🤖📰 Effective YESTERDAY: China has mandated a digital watermark for all AI-generated content. www.cac.gov.cn/2025-03/14/c... Translating in 🧵.

Finally, someone is saying this out loud!!! “Amazon cloud chief says replacing junior employees with AI is 'one of the dumbest things I've ever heard' How's that going to work when you go 10 years in the future & you have no one that has built up/learned anything?" finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-...

Amazon cloud chief says replacing junior employees with AI is 'one of the dumbest things I've ever heard'

Amazon cloud chief Matt Garman says replacing junior staff with AI is short-sighted, calling it "one of the dumbest things" he's ever heard.

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This data-driven story - "How F1 has evolved since 1950" from @espn.com Creative Studio uses horizontal, vertical, and even diagonal scrollytelling. The hand-drawn illustrations & visuals are spectacular! 🤩https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/43832710/how-f1-evolved-1950-where-headed-2026

75 years of innovation: How F1 has evolved since 1950 and where it's headed

To celebrate F1's 75th anniversary, ESPN charts the sport's evolution since 1950 through its most iconic cars, and details where it's headed in 2026.

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This is why I get annoyed when people say AI will help identify struggling college students. In every big lecture I teach, at least one or two students fail because they never show up or turn in any work—despite weekly emails from me and TAs. We don’t need AI. We need more humans to support them.

📢 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