We’re running a study on applying aesthetic enhancements to visualizations of 3D scientific data. If you work with spatial scientific data (as a researcher, viz expert, or user), we’d love your perspective. 🔗 ~15 min survey → utah.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

🥇 As the Olympics end, we’re spotlighting a SCI PhD student who contributed to innovative coverage of the last Games. @kalinab.bsky.social helped @nytimes.com visualize the closest 100m finish in modern history, and her team won a top award. More on this rising star's dynamic work: bit.ly/sci-kalina

How a Scientific Visualization PhD Student Became an Award-Winning Sports Journalist - Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute

As U.S. sprinter Noah Lyles surged in the final stride to win the men’s 100‑meter dash at the Paris 2024 Olympics—the closest finish in modern history—The New York Times graphics team faced a race of ...

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The University of Utah wrote a profile about my work. It covers an award-winning Olympics project I contributed to at The New York Times, my ACM SIGGRAPH leadership, and my research at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute. sci.utah.edu/borkiewicz-n...

How a Scientific Visualization PhD Student Became an Award-Winning Sports Journalist - Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute

As U.S. sprinter Noah Lyles surged in the final stride to win the men’s 100‑meter dash at the Paris 2024 Olympics—the closest finish in modern history—The New York Times graphics team faced a race of ...

sci.utah.edu

Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on board? Me: Yes, but I'm not that kind of... Flight attendant: It's 11:52 pm and the passenger in 37F has a conference abstract due in 7 minutes. It's currently 50 words over the limit. Me: It's okay. I'm here. (Credited to Leslie Berntsen @ leslie_bern)

Anyone going to UIST next week? Are there any visualization meetups I can crash?

Back to fully WFH after 5 days a week in the office. Feels like March 2020 again. What even are pants?

We’re gathering women in our industry to share strategies for navigating change, tap into the strength of our community, & chat about how AI tools are opening creative new doors. Enjoy breakfast, icebreakers, collaborative discussions, & real stories from inspiring pros at #SIGGRAPH2025

We’ve teamed up with Netflix Animation Studios for a can’t-miss panel at #SIGGRAPH2025! Hear from top leaders in tech+entertainment as they share how career reinvention happens—adapting, growing, & using new tech to pave the way forward. Ready to get inspired & take your career to the next level?

Announcing the launch of the Women of SIGGRAPH Conversations website! Dive into a world of inspiration, mentorship, and empowerment for women in computer graphics & interactive techniques. Visit wosc.siggraph.org & join our growing community! #SIGGRAPH #WOSC #WomenInTech #WomenInComputerGraphics

Big #SIGGRAPH2025 news! I'm excited to announce our collaboration with NVIDIA to offer Courses, Labs, & sessions which help prepare attendees for professional certification in GenAI and OpenUSD. Attendees can take any proctored NVIDIA DLI exam and get certified on-site for free ($125-$400 value).

Use the code SIGGRAPHSAVINGS to get a free Exhibits Only pass or $50 USD off any registration level to #SIGGRAPH2025. s2025.siggraph.org/register

I'm running for the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee. If you are a member, check out the ballot and cast your vote here: www.acm.org/elections/si...

2025 ACM SIGGRAPH Election

Voting page for SIGGRAPH Elections

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Today I finished my last class ever. I've said that before (twice) but this time I mean it. Somebody stop me if I start browsing grad school websites again.

Museum and Planetarium Friends, Many of you use NASA SVS material. Right now it is critical that we are able to document SVS's impact. Please let us know how you are using our content (use my email address at the bottom of this page: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov). Thank you!

Getting paid to teach journalism students about data storytelling. Which is wild because I’ve never taken a journalism class in my life. NYT title: ✅ Decade of experience: ✅ Persistent fear I’m a fraud: ✅✅✅

Twas the night before the VIS deadline, and all through the space, The reviewers were waiting to judge my disgrace. The figures were crammed, the text full of might, But let’s be real—Reviewer 2 won’t think it’s right.

New profile just dropped. Follow Women of SIGGRAPH Conversations for professional development and DEI topics relating to computer graphics and interactive techniques: @womenofsiggraph.bsky.social

Global sea level rose faster than expected in 2024 www.nasa.gov/missions/jas...

Register now! Women in Data Science conf at @uarizona.bsky.social on March 28 (hybrid, UA campus). Our keynote speaker this year will be Dr. Catherine D'Ignazio @kanarinka.bsky.social (co-author of Data Feminism w/ Dr. @laurenfklein.bsky.social). Join us! wids-tucson.github.io/conf2025.html

Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach." Salary: $120K-$140K Remote: ✅ Come join us!

aww yiss got irb approval, time to commit ethical acts of research

Recently learned about Letterboxd. Check out these films which feature my cinematic scientific visualizations. "Birth of Planet Earth" is my favorite. boxd.it/EHT2o

Kalina's CineSciViz

A list of 7 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Birth of Planet Earth (2019), Atlas of a Changing Earth (2023), A Beautiful Planet (2016), Solar Superstorms (2013) and SuperTornado: Anatomy of a M...

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Throwback to the time I narrated my own visualization like a true PI. Couldn’t afford Morgan Freeman, but we did get team t-shirts.

Flight to Milky Way galactic center stellar orbits around supermassive black hole

YouTube video by Kalina Borkiewicz

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they call me 007 0 lines of code 0 commits 7 open issues

My hot take: The erasure of scivis in vis research needs to stop. Just read a paper aiming to define universal visualization types. Even TABLES made the cut, but no mention of scivis. This happens often. If you mean infovis, say infovis, but don’t call it "universal" while ignoring an entire field.

Recently had a CT scan and obviously requested the data. Plot twist: I have become the scientific visualization.

Academic research is just learning something cool, writing it up in a way that makes it sound boring, and then begging strangers to let you publish it.