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Andrew McNutt @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social · 56m

University of Utah/SCI is hiring in (data) vis this year! It's an open rank position! Come do cool vis work in the land of mountains and canyons

utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/188...

#ieeevis

Assistant/Associate/Professor in The Kahlert School of Computing

utah.peopleadmin.com

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Roly Perera @dynamicaspects.org · 1d

Reposting — looks like organisers uploaded a new video with better audio and different timings. Authoring Tools for Transparent Climate Reporting, presented at
@propl.dev 2025: youtu.be/IIRJeleXeuU?...
@iccscambridge.bsky.social

[ICFP/SPLASH'25] Peony NE - PROPL (Oct 13th)

YouTube video by ACM SIGPLAN

youtu.be

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Alark Joshi @alark.bsky.social · 2d

Revisit by @laneh.bsky.social and team is an excellent option. It requires some configuration and setup, but it works beautifully and all your data stays on your server. (revisit.dev)

Home | ReVISit

reVISit: Reproducible and Powerful Visualization User Studies

revisit.dev

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Andrew McNutt @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social · 1d

osf ui refresh makes browsing faster and less annoying! hell yea

Center for Open Science @cos.io · 3d

🟢 OSF is back online with a refreshed design.

We’ve rolled out the updated OSF design, making it faster, easier to navigate, and ready for future improvements. Log in, explore the new experience, and see what’s changed: osf.io.

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Andrew McNutt @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social · 1d

The accepted papers list for alt.vis is now out! IMO it's one of the best (if not the best) year of alt.vis yet. We got it all: games, religion, alchemy, critiques, and more!!

ugh! such an exciting set of papers

altvis.github.io

alt.VIS

A half-day workshop at IEEE VIS 2025

altvis.github.io

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Andrew McNutt @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social · 1d

have now played it, can confirm my initial suspicions: is sick

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Andrew McNutt @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social · 1d

this looks sick

Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 7d

Need a new job? Pocket Boss is OUT NOW!

pocketboss.ch 📊 💬

A delightfully odd fusion of work and play. Now available on iOS, Android, Steam and itch.io.

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Adrian Wojcik @adwojcik.bsky.social · 3d

I’m looking for an easy-to-use survey platform to replace Qualtrics. The prices have recently skyrocketed, and it seems we can no longer justify the cost.

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Roly Perera @dynamicaspects.org · 5d

Language-Based Dependency-Tracking for Explorables, presented at LIVE 2025. Joint work with Joe Bond, Cristina David, @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social and Alfonso Piscitelli. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gds8...

LIVE 2025 - Language-Based Dependency-Tracking for Explorables

YouTube video by The LIVE Workshop

www.youtube.com

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Matthew Varona @matthew.wiki · 6d

Unreasonably excited to present THEORY IS SHAPES at alt.vis this November! Read on to find out what the "BLT Sandwich Theory of Visualization Consumption" (and other shape-based shenanigans) can teach us about theorycrafting in research 🥪🧲🧊♾️

Matthew Kay @mjskay.com · 6d

to appear at #alt.vis 2025: THEORY IS SHAPES

sure "theory figures" are great, but @matthew.wiki, @maryamhed.bsky.social, me, and Carolina Nobre wonder: why always a 2D plane or a flowchart? why not icebergs, horseshoes, Möbius strips, or BLT sandwiches?
arxiv.org/abs/2510.01382

#ieeevis #hci

Abstract and teaser figure of the paper "Theory is Shapes" by Matthew Varona, Maryam Hedayati, Matthew Kay, and Carolina Nobre.

The teaser figure is an "iceberg" theory figure, showing four levels: the tip of the iceberg, containing a nested set diagram and a Cartesian plane. The next level down (just under the water) has a complicated flow charts and a combination flow chart and matrix. The next level down has the iceberg figure itself and a horseshoe. The final level contains a Möbius strip and a BLT sandwich.

The abstract reads:

"Theory figures" are a staple of theoretical visualization research. Common shapes such as Cartesian planes and flowcharts can be used not only to explain conceptual contributions, but to think through and refine the contribution itself. Yet, theory figures tend to be limited to a set of standard shapes, limiting the creative and expressive potential of visualization theory. In this work, we explore how the shapes used in theory figures afford different understandings and explanations of their underlying phenomena. We speculate on the value of visualizing theories using more expressive configurations, such as icebergs, horseshoes, Möbius strips, and BLT sandwiches. By reflecting on figure-making's generative role in the practice of theorizing, we conclude that theory is, in fact, shapes.

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Andrew McNutt @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social · 11d

They massacred my boy

the FRIGHTENING marnix @dragom.bsky.social · 11d

WHY DID THEY GENTRIFY THE AUDACITY LOGO

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Andrew McNutt @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social · 12d

Funny to see one of my favorite of this years alt vis papers summarized by (what appears to be) a slop machine

GetNews.me @getnews-me.bsky.social · 12d

A preprint proposes treating visualizations as infrastructure, noting NASA Mission Control dashboards as continuous, background tools. It was accepted to the alt.vis track of IEEE VIS 2025. Read more: https://getnews.me/visualization-research-shifts-focus-to-background-roles/ #visualization #ieeevis

Visualization Research Shifts Focus to Background Roles

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Justin Falcone @justinfalcone.com · Jan 31

A periodic table of "nothing" values in computers

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Tomas Petricek @tomasp.net · 15d

I'm at #uist2025 presenting our new work with @jonathoda.bsky.social!

𝗗𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗸 is a computational substrate for end-user programming that makes it easy to implement programming experiences like programming by demonstration, collaborative editing and more!

tomasp.net/academic/pap...

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Room40 // Lawrence English @room40.bsky.social · 15d

A beautiful text on Steve Roden and the nature of archive.

ON MIND: Steve Roden, An Archive, An Unreliable Narrator

The Kitchen is one of New York City’s oldest nonprofit spaces, showing innovative work by emerging and established artists across disciplines. Our programs range from dance, music, performance, and th...

thekitchen.org

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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 16d

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 ...

www.linkedin.com

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Maëlle Salmon @masalmon.eu · 22d

"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner" by Annie Mueller 😅 😂 😭

anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...

How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog

“Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!)  and I like working with ...

anniemueller.com

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 22d

omg the talk/speaker lineup for Roguelike Celebration (@roguelike.club) 2025 looks sooo good:
www.roguelike.club/event2025.html

So obviously one of the most vital events in videogames right now, I really hope I can make the time to attend this year.

Roguelike Celebration - Event 2025

www.roguelike.club

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matt brehmer @mattbrehmer.bsky.social · 23d

📣 We are excited to have Hilda Tellioğlu hildatellioglu.com from TU Wien as the keynote speaker of the MERCADO workshop at the #ieeevis @ieeevis.bsky.social Conference in Vienna! 📊 Nov 2 14:00

⏰ Abstracts (~ 500 words) for the discussion track are due Sept 30. See sites.google.com/view/mercado...

Hilda Tellioğlu

hildatellioglu.com

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Sam @sammiekate.bsky.social · 24d

A favorite quote from my research: “Traditional zines are composed of pages we can touch that are uncensored by the state, corporate capital, or social norms” (Scheper, 2023, p. 22).

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Josh Horowitz @joshuahhh.com · 25d

12 exciting live-programming projects will be presented at LIVE this year. It's free, online, and coming up soon!

Sat 9/27: Videos premiere
Sat 10/4: Q & A and discussion over Zoom

Details on projects are up already at liveprog.org; more schedule & links coming soon.

Hope to see ya there!

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · Sep 15

A few days ago, amidst everything else, I pressed send on the book I've been working on (and off) for over a decade. It's still a long way from finished, but the final phase has begun. Watch for DATA BY DESIGN: FROM THE HISTORY OF VISUALIZATION TO THE FUTURE WE NEED in print and online in Fall 2026!

A screenshot of the table of contents, reading:

Preface

Introduction: A History of Visualization and Power

Chapter 1
Data: The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade and Responsible Visualization Design
Before there are data, there are people. How can the lives behind the data guide our visualization work?

Chapter 2
Image: William Playfair and the Politics of the “Simple View”
Visualization has never been neutral or objective. How can we learn to recognize the human decisions that shape each design?

Chapter 3
People: Shanawdithit and our Place in the Colonial Frame
Maps, like all visualizations, tell stories. How can we learn to see the lines of power that they draw?

Chapter 4
Knowledge: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody and the Idea of Epistemology
Visualization can produce knowledge in many ways. What ideas do we gain when we expand our view of the past?

Chapter 5
Change: Lula Iola Mack, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Path to Liberatory Data Visualization
Visualization can bear powerful witness to oppression. How can we use charts to make change in the world?

Chapter 6
Labor: Data by Design and What We Learn from Visualization Work
By Margy Adams and Tanvi Sharma, with Shiyao Li, Jay Varner, and Lauren Klein
Any visualization project is the work of many hands. How can we surface the significance of this labor?

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

Notes

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Andrew McNutt @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social · Sep 15

Hmm yea youre right what a specific moment in time

Andrew McNutt @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social · Sep 15

Based on some context clues I suspect I am extremely wet in this photo

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Estelle Smith @estellesmithphd.bsky.social · Sep 7

Are you working on a #CHI2026 paper w/tricky anonymization? Per the official policy (chi2026.acm.org/chi-anonymiz...), "Note that the use of any references marked “anonymous” is grounds for desk rejection."

I would've had 3 papers desk rejected on these grounds. 😵 Watch out, folks. 👀 RT, please!

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