Samuel Huron
@cybunk.bsky.social
Associate Professor in #SHS #Design #Dataviz #délibération at Telecom Paris / Institut Polytchenique de Paris Website : https://samuel-huron.github.io/ Last book : https://makingwithdata.org/ Views are my own.
It 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
How 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
Jordi Valls - "a similar problem in technology and politics is control, who is in control" - #chi2026 an introductary word from the mayor of Barcelona
The 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...
Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | ACM Conferences
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Ce 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
Books 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
In 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. 🎃
Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social · 9mo agoYes, Halloween is the deadliest day of the year for child pedestrians—great advice from @mcbazacophd.bsky.social (It’s also our kid’s birthday)
What'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!
Book Review: Making with Data - Data Soapbox
If 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 ...
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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...
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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.
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Important reading as you prepare for your semester
The deadline is soon!
Samuel Huron @cybunk.bsky.social · last yr.😍 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
😍 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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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...
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
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It is a major policy failure that the US cannot accommodate top AI conferences due to visa issues. buff.ly/DRJOGrB
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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'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...
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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
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.”…
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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
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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 · last yr.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
📢 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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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
Input Visualization Workshop - IEEE VIS 2025
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derya@gotdairyya.bsky.social · last yr.Happy to announce the call for papers for the Input Visualization workshop co-located with @ieeevis.bsky.social Interested?! For more details, visit the workshop's website at: inputvisualization.github.io/vis2025/
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
😍 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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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.
