this fucking rules too, honestly. bless dropout for it

The Don Hertzfeldt Collection@donhertzfeldtfilms.bsky.social · yesterday

🥄Out now on @dropout.tv - The Don Hertzfeldt Collection!

Some big news: I’ve accepted a position at University of British Columbia 🇨🇦🇨🇦!! I’ll be starting at the beginning of next year (Jan 2027). I’m delighted to return to the pacific northwest (my home) and overwhelmingly excited to get to work with such a thriving and vibrant department

I wrote a blog post, “Beyond the Demo: Building Visualization Research Software That Lasts”, based on a keynote I gave at VisGap at EuroVis in Nottingham last month. It reflects on what it takes to build visualization software that survives beyond the paper. www.visdesignlab.net/blog/2026/07...

Interested in accessibility, visualization, or data ethics? I'm looking for Ph.D. students to join @data-and-design.org in Fall 2027. I've updated this post with additional information about this year's focus area. data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd

Recruiting Ph.D. Students for Fall 2027

We are an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Colorado Boulder that uses design to understand and reimagine socio-technical systems.

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goals

ShitMyReviewersSay@shitmyreviewerssay.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"I am afraid this manuscript may contribute not so much towards the field's advancement as much as towards its eventual demise."

WELCOME TO WASHINGTON, SOCCER FANS. Get acquainted with our state via this highly accurate and mostly-to-scale map.

This wonderful work shows an AI-assisted workflow that could reduce reproducibility check cost and time by orders of magnitude. Soon, large-scale projects like SCORE may only be needed for training and validation evidence. Talk www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijad... Paper www.leoyang.org/publication/...

Keynote: Yiqing Xu

YouTube video by Stanford Data Science

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Something cool: at IEEE VIS this year the VIS X Vision workshop (visxvision.com/vis-2026/) has a track for replications of prior studies Even cooler: they suggest using revisit (revisit.dev) as the platform for those replications. If yr revisit curious, this is a special opportunity to try it out

VIS 2026

We’re excited to announce that VISxVISION will be hosting a workshop at IEEE VIS 2026! It will include keynote, paper talks, and a panel discussion. The theme of the workshop this year is: Leveragi…

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👏 Congrats to SCI's Andrew McNutt, who recently received the 2026 Johanna Beyer EuroVis Early Career Researcher Award! The @eurovisconf.bsky.social distinction means @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social has already made notable contributions to the field and is likely to make more. Details: bit.ly/sci-mcnutt

SCI’s Andrew McNutt Receives EuroVis Early Career Award - Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute

Adapted from the European Association for Computer Graphics announcement The European Association for Computer Graphics this week named University of Utah Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Instit...

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We’re doing a user study to find out how adding always-on live values alongside code effects writing and debugging experiences for functional programming. See reply for sign-up details

it has come to my attention that busytown is anti pig

There's a good joke about non-constructive proofs

📣 Call for submissions: Grand Unified Grammar of Graphics (GUGOG) workshop at #IEEEVIS2026! Share your work on vis grammars: position papers (<4pp) or discussion abstracts (500 words). Non-archival. Deadline: Aug 1. 🔗 gugog-vis.github.io/2026/ #dataviz #GrammarOfGraphics #ggplot2 #VegaLite

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...

“A citation is a formal assertion of a relationship between works, and when that relationship is fabricated, the integrity of the entire document and the scholarly record is compromised.”

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Good decision and statement! 👏👏 "(...) preserving the integrity and reliability of the ACL proceedings is our responsibility and these measures are necessary to uphold the standards of our community and to ensure that the work published remains a credible resource for future scientific inquiry."

Are you working to make programming more direct, tangible, and alive? Share your work at LIVE, the world's premier gathering on live programming, held online this October! LIVE welcomes submissions from academia, industry, and individuals. Call for submissions and more details on liveprog.org/

Workshop on Live Programming (LIVE)

The 12th Workshop on Live Programming (LIVE 2026) will take place online. LIVE invites submissions of ideas for improving the immediacy, usability, and learnability of programming.

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📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣 New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268

This video of @hankgreen.bsky.social crashing out for 30 straight minutes over graph manipulation & rhetoric makes me feel very seen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSgD...

A Masterclass in Manipulation

YouTube video by Hank Green

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gotta keep iterating on the STS program shirt design, probably

Boastful Quaker Oats ad, Chicago 1891

This is such a good idea. We should do this in NYC. "All Chicago Public Schools students now have access to nearly everything the city’s libraries have to offer — including physical items like books as well as extensive digital resources." blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/08/c...

Chicago Turns All Public School IDs Into Library Cards To Boost Student Access

Chicago Public Library and CPS announced the expansion of The 81 Club, building on a pilot launched in 2022 to give students access to the library system's vast collection and databases.

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hey that's my high school! the ol alma matter lookin great

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Really enjoying this so far! Basically, what if you went back 20 years later and re-investigated "the incident" from your high school. www.kuow.org/podcasts/focus

I made a tiny tool for quickly sharing small datasets (< ~1000 rows) without uploading any data to a server. 🔗 ziptbl.com It compresses the data into the link itself, so there’s no account, hosting, or storage layer involved. Here's Florence Nightingale's famous 📊 data: ziptbl.com#d=eNpdlE-LGz...

DIY Methods, our little conference-by-zine about unconventional approaches to research, rises again! Maybe you'd like to make a zine on your weird/cool approach to methods, and receive a bundle of similarly weird/cool zines in the mail? Pitch submissions are due April 20th. diymethods.net

DIY Methods 2024

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Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

Am I accidentally building a Color OS? :D Different needs require different stats, so I decided to let users rearrange, show, or hide color stats however they want.

a computer cannot have nemeses therefore a computer must not be trusted with scholarly sensemaking

Lizzie K.@lizz-iek.bsky.social · 5mo ago

the point of doing this as a phd student is not just to summarize stuff and make a knowledge map. it is actually primarily to identify your allies, foes, rivals, and to decide who you want to start beef with

HCI summer research opportunity 📣 My group has two openings for research assistants this summer, both in scientific tools for thought. Applicants are welcome at any level. Please help me share the news! andrewhead.info/positions/20...

“But don’t get distracted by all this; the software was intended to kill people.” — @calebhearth.com

Don't Get Distracted

I’m going to tell you about how I took a job building software to kill people. But don’t get distracted by that; I didn’t know at the time.

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