I'm proud to announce the latest release of 🧬 #Oxbow 🏹, with new features to make NGS data analysis more powerful, efficient, and "composable".

Learn more at: oxbow.readthedocs.io

We all love upset plots (the best way to represent set data), but how do we make them accessible to everyone?

To answer this we { @maggiemccracken.bsky.social, @alex-lex.bsky.social, and others } developed a system (and ran a bunch of studies) to figure it out!

vdl.sci.utah.edu/blog/2025/06...

Do you use data visualizations 📊 or add annotations to them? My collaborators and I are doing a study on how people use visualizations in their work — we'd love to interview you!

Survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Book a time: calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0...

We systematically analyzed the visualizations used in 1,846 subfigures from 45 human single-cell atlas publications in a survey on The State of Single-Cell Atlas Data Visualization in the Biological Literature. 📝: osf.io/preprints/os... 🔍: keller-mark.github.io/sc-star-site/

If you're in the CS faculty job market, consider joining a NextStarFaculty Slack workspace. It's a space to share information and experiences with each other. I was invited a while ago, but it's currently a quiet space. With more people, it can be a more helpful place. join.slack.com/t/nextstarfa...

Love the influx of academics to Bluesky. Will this be our new 🏠? To help grow the community, I just created an HCI+Accessibility "starter pack". Help me grow the list! Many are missing! go.bsky.app/PZxHNqP

Adding accessibility tags using Adobe every time I export PDFs from Google Docs is laborious, but it's a good practice for testing and improving PDF accessibility. I'm getting more familiar with VoiceOver shortcuts!

I switched from Outlook to Apple Mail simply because using Alt+Arrow to navigate between words conflicted with the menu focus in Outlook. One feature I miss a lot is Outlook's smart filtering—It looks like I have to manually set up every filter rule in Apple Mail.

I made a data visualization academics starter pack! go.bsky.app/wzjzNi

Let me know who I should add. #datavis

Important lesson learned today: when writing important academic documents, use Overleaf instead of Google Docs. Arranging figures in Google Docs is such a painful experience 😵‍💫

Over my 15-year career as a faculty member, I have come up with two surefire ways to Get Sh*t Done: (1) adding something to my calendar ensures that I will attend to it, and (2) adding something to my TODO ensures that I complete it. Pro tip: condition yourself to obeying these two important tools!

Ooh, nice. I can use my personal website domain as the account name in Bluesky

UpSet won the #ieeevis InfoVis 10-year test of time award 🎉. Thanks to @ngehlenborg.bsky.social @henstr.bsky.social Romain Vuillemot, and Hanspeter Pfister for being an awesome team to work with on this. I wrote up my reflections on what made UpSet successful: vdl.sci.utah.edu/blog/2024/10...

How can we combine multiple visualization interfaces to make a system learnable and expressive?
Our 🏆 Honorable Mention paper at #ieeevis introduced a conceptual framework, Blended Interface, and its implementation for genomics data visualization.

Read our paper at t.co/prQlzG8W6B