Once upon a time, industry was powered by rivers. Once upon a time, industry was powered by coal. Things change. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

Big announcement: The final project of my thesis work, Skeleton: Visual Authoring of Non-visual Data Experiences, has now been accepted for publication at IEEE VIS! 🎉 🎉 🎉

Announcing: Skeleton 🩻, the culminating project of my PhD!

My final research project looked at the barriers that sighted practitioners face when authoring non-visual data experiences. We co-designed, built tooling, built a UI prototype, and ran a study.

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This idiot has probably never been to the BOREAL FOREST a day in his life. It is 5.5 times the size of Texas. You cannot "groom" it. It's burning because of climate change. The utter bullshit from these climate deniers. Canadians are sick of this bullying and they are not going to take it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Rep. Jeff Van Drew: "Canada isn't working because they are so far left. This should be a warning shot to them. You better come to America, say, 'We're sorry, we're gonna mend our ways and do what we used to do and groom and maintain the forest.'"

When using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, don't just make text bigger and bolder to make it a heading. That will work for sighted users, but screen reader users will miss that and just hear it as normal paragraph text. Use actual heading styles, like level 1 through 6.

I am a climate scientist and, same.

Kim McCauley@kimischilling.bsky.social · 3w ago

I am not a climate scientist but when I was a kid the number of times we couldn’t go outside because of Canadian wildfire smoke was zero times

It’s noon and the sky is yellow in Pittsburgh. Wildfires are here.

The CDC quietly scaled back a surveillance program for foodborne illnesses. As of July 1, a critical surveillance program is monitoring for only two pathogens instead of the usual eight. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

The CDC quietly scaled back a surveillance program for foodborne illnesses

As of July 1, a critical surveillance program is monitoring for only two pathogens instead of the usual eight.

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Alongside the new Mosaic 0.29, we just released an (experimental) Python API for vgplot. idl.uw.edu/mosaic/vgplo...

Next 🤯 talk @localfirstconf.com by @jheer.org is about high-performance / high-volume data viz with mosaic github.com/uwdata/mosaic @duckdb.org mentioned 🦆 TIL that @jheer.org is a co-creator of D3

i take it back, abstractions are dead gist.github.com/willcrichton...

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

Oha, das klingt aber nicht gut. Hoffentlich wird das schnell wieder ganz.

ÖPNV Berlin@opnv-berlin.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨 ACHTUNG! Wegen einer netzweiten Störung im Kommunikationssystem der Deutschen Bahn fahren derzeit keine S-Bahnen, Regional- und Fernzüge in Deutschland! Weitere Informationen folgen… 🚨

a little over a year ago elon was dancing around having successfully cut off USAID, which caused ~600,000 people to die including ~400,000 children). now he is our first trillionaire. hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s....

USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...

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If every billionaire is a policy failure, a trillionaire is 1000 policy failures in a trenchcoat.

Had the weirdest subversion of expectations today. I’m biking 🚲 in the middle of a narrow road when the car behind me honks. I stop and am prepared to be told off by a jagoff driver… but it was a lovely old Pittsburgh lady who wanted to know what shoes and helmet to get for her friend’s son.

Played this game a bunch tonight at Like Like and had a blast including with the bumping into people.

Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! DEMO OUT@molleindustria.org · 2mo ago

I implemented the most important feature of a GTA-like game: BUMPING INTO PEDESTRIANS

A colleague raised their feeling of Deep Blue (simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/...) about visualization libraries: what's the place for visualization libraries like @vega-vis.bsky.social when frontier models can write SQL and D3 directly?

Deep Blue

We coined a new term on the Oxide and Friends podcast last month (primary credit to Adam Leventhal) covering the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many …

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In this notebook, @laotzunami.bsky.social visualizes a state space of possible chart types and transitions among them along defined edges. Transitions between unconnected types are achieved by routing through intermediate types. observablehq.com/d/3c8b082818...

Being in Brazil for ICLR now and learning a wild geography fact. Brazil is so huge that the northernmost point is closer to Canada than to the southernmost point of Brazil.

I’m at #iclr2026 this week. Come and say hi to chat about interpretability, visualization, interactive systems, human computer interaction, or anything else you are passionate about.

I’ll be at @chi.acm.org and @iclr-conf.bsky.social this year. Come and say hi if you’re there! Happy to talk about HCI, AI, visualization, interpretability, and interactive systems.

Scored my first hattrick (of three in a row) at soccer yesterday.

What's up with that font? From the Anthropic Mythos model card PDF.

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Happy birthday 🍎

Wait, so they are considering autonomous buses for a route that previously had… checks notes…a train.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette@post-gazette.com · 5mo ago

Driverless shuttles could replace buses at Pittsburgh International

You can write your @ieeevis.bsky.social papers in @typst.app (fast, modern, and accessible alternative to LaTeX)! To make it easier, here is a template I helped make typst.app/universe/pac....

ieee-vgtc – Typst Universe

Templates for IEEE VGTC conferences and TVCG journal papers.

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You can catch my full, open course on accessibility in visualization here: openvisualizationacademy.org/courses/acce...

1.1 Introduction - Accessibility in Data Visualization - Open Visualization Academy

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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

YouTube just recommended this, and I can't in good conscience keep it to myself www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVpr...

Cyberstress!

YouTube video by Found Footage Fest

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