Samuel Huron
@cybunk.bsky.social
Associate Professor in #SHS #Design #Dataviz #délibération
at Telecom Paris / Institut Polytchenique de Paris
Website : https://samuel-huron.github.io/
Last book : https://makingwithdata.org/
Views are my own.
at Telecom Paris / Institut Polytchenique de Paris
Website : https://samuel-huron.github.io/
Last book : https://makingwithdata.org/
Views are my own.
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Samuel Huron
@cybunk.bsky.social
· May 28
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😍 We are hiring a new Prof. in digital design and psychology! 🔭 🧪
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🕐 Deadline: August 25th 2025
🤝 Hiring: Between September & October
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#academic #design #DIS2025 #HCI #socialsciences #Psychology #sciences
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Books on display at #ieeevis! CRC Press📚/discount for attendees (code: 25EFLY3). Includes books by several presenters (incl @tnagel.bsky.social @cybunk.bsky.social ). Most feature in the www.routledge.com/AK-Peters-Visualization-Series edited by Tamara Munzner & @albertocairo.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Books on display at #ieeevis! CRC Press📚/discount for attendees (code: 25EFLY3). Includes books by several presenters (incl @tnagel.bsky.social @cybunk.bsky.social ). Most feature in the www.routledge.com/AK-Peters-Visualization-Series edited by Tamara Munzner & @albertocairo.com
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In car-dependent communities like my own, careless driving on Halloween can pose massive risk to families trick-or-treating.
If you need not drive today, then DO NOT. If you do, use utmost patience and care and set aside some extra time for your commute: drive slow. Keep our streets safe. 🎃
If you need not drive today, then DO NOT. If you do, use utmost patience and care and set aside some extra time for your commute: drive slow. Keep our streets safe. 🎃
Yes, Halloween is the deadliest day of the year for child pedestrians—great advice from @mcbazacophd.bsky.social
(It’s also our kid’s birthday)
(It’s also our kid’s birthday)
October 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
In car-dependent communities like my own, careless driving on Halloween can pose massive risk to families trick-or-treating.
If you need not drive today, then DO NOT. If you do, use utmost patience and care and set aside some extra time for your commute: drive slow. Keep our streets safe. 🎃
If you need not drive today, then DO NOT. If you do, use utmost patience and care and set aside some extra time for your commute: drive slow. Keep our streets safe. 🎃
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What's a data object, and why are they innovative as hell?! Check out today's blog post! datasoapbox.com/book-review-... Edited by @cybunk.bsky.social @tnagel.bsky.social Lora Oehlberg & Wesley Willett, featuring projects by @dietoff.bsky.social @flowingdata.com @kimsauve.bsky.social & many others!
Book Review: Making with Data - Data Soapbox
If you’ve been around Ye Olde Blog for a while, you may have seen me geek out about data art. So, when I heard about Making with Data (MWD), I had to check it out.* MWD features more than 25 physical ...
datasoapbox.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
What's a data object, and why are they innovative as hell?! Check out today's blog post! datasoapbox.com/book-review-... Edited by @cybunk.bsky.social @tnagel.bsky.social Lora Oehlberg & Wesley Willett, featuring projects by @dietoff.bsky.social @flowingdata.com @kimsauve.bsky.social & many others!
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We are hiring a Posd-Doctoral Research Fellow @standrewssgsd.bsky.social @phrg-standrews.bsky.social to work on #family and #housing #projections using #microsimulation. DL: 1 October. More info: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Research Fellow (or Research Assistant*) – AR2690
Research Fellow (or Research Assistant*) – AR2690,
School of Geography and Sustainable Development,
Salary: £38,784 - £46,049 per annum,
Start: As soon as possible,
Fixed term until May 2027,
<p st...
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk
September 12, 2025 at 8:35 AM
We are hiring a Posd-Doctoral Research Fellow @standrewssgsd.bsky.social @phrg-standrews.bsky.social to work on #family and #housing #projections using #microsimulation. DL: 1 October. More info: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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Wow. Check this out.
Politicians actually trying to solve problems can achieve a lot!
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
Politicians actually trying to solve problems can achieve a lot!
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Wow. Check this out.
Politicians actually trying to solve problems can achieve a lot!
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
Politicians actually trying to solve problems can achieve a lot!
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
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Important reading as you prepare for your semester
August 31, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Important reading as you prepare for your semester
The deadline is soon!
😍 We are hiring a new Prof. in digital design and psychology! 🔭 🧪
Full description:
bit.ly/hiring2025IMT
Link to apply:
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🕐 Deadline: August 25th 2025
🤝 Hiring: Between September & October
🙏❤️!
#academic #design #DIS2025 #HCI #socialsciences #Psychology #sciences
Full description:
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🕐 Deadline: August 25th 2025
🤝 Hiring: Between September & October
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#academic #design #DIS2025 #HCI #socialsciences #Psychology #sciences
LinkedIn
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August 3, 2025 at 10:33 AM
The deadline is soon!
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😍 We are hiring a new Prof. in digital design and psychology! 🔭 🧪
Full description:
bit.ly/hiring2025IMT
Link to apply:
bit.ly/hiring-2025-R
🕐 Deadline: August 25th 2025
🤝 Hiring: Between September & October
🙏❤️!
#academic #design #DIS2025 #HCI #socialsciences #Psychology #sciences
Full description:
bit.ly/hiring2025IMT
Link to apply:
bit.ly/hiring-2025-R
🕐 Deadline: August 25th 2025
🤝 Hiring: Between September & October
🙏❤️!
#academic #design #DIS2025 #HCI #socialsciences #Psychology #sciences
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May 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
😍 We are hiring a new Prof. in digital design and psychology! 🔭 🧪
Full description:
bit.ly/hiring2025IMT
Link to apply:
bit.ly/hiring-2025-R
🕐 Deadline: August 25th 2025
🤝 Hiring: Between September & October
🙏❤️!
#academic #design #DIS2025 #HCI #socialsciences #Psychology #sciences
Full description:
bit.ly/hiring2025IMT
Link to apply:
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🕐 Deadline: August 25th 2025
🤝 Hiring: Between September & October
🙏❤️!
#academic #design #DIS2025 #HCI #socialsciences #Psychology #sciences
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New project! @yufeng.bsky.social analyzed all of the words found on NYC Streets. The data comes from from 8 million Google Street View images, which yielded 138 million snippets of text:
🔗: pudding.cool/2025/07/stre...
🔗: pudding.cool/2025/07/stre...
July 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
New project! @yufeng.bsky.social analyzed all of the words found on NYC Streets. The data comes from from 8 million Google Street View images, which yielded 138 million snippets of text:
🔗: pudding.cool/2025/07/stre...
🔗: pudding.cool/2025/07/stre...
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You can never bend the knee enough to appease an authoritarian bully.
This is a devastating blow to academic freedom & freedom of speech at Columbia.
Never in the history of this nation has there been an administration so intent on the utter destruction of higher education as we know it.
This is a devastating blow to academic freedom & freedom of speech at Columbia.
Never in the history of this nation has there been an administration so intent on the utter destruction of higher education as we know it.
Columbia Agrees to $200 Million Fine to Settle Fight With Trump
www.nytimes.com
July 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
You can never bend the knee enough to appease an authoritarian bully.
This is a devastating blow to academic freedom & freedom of speech at Columbia.
Never in the history of this nation has there been an administration so intent on the utter destruction of higher education as we know it.
This is a devastating blow to academic freedom & freedom of speech at Columbia.
Never in the history of this nation has there been an administration so intent on the utter destruction of higher education as we know it.
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It is a major policy failure that the US cannot accommodate top AI conferences due to visa issues.
buff.ly/DRJOGrB
buff.ly/DRJOGrB
July 16, 2025 at 11:53 PM
It is a major policy failure that the US cannot accommodate top AI conferences due to visa issues.
buff.ly/DRJOGrB
buff.ly/DRJOGrB
Cuba durant la « période spéciale », bifurcation socio-écologique ? aoc.media/analyse/2025...
Cuba durant la « période spéciale », bifurcation socio-écologique ? - AOC media
À quoi pourraient ressembler des sociétés radicalement moins consommatrices et socialement désirables ? Pendant la « période spéciale », dans les années 1990, Cuba combine une nette réduction de l’uti...
aoc.media
July 12, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Cuba durant la « période spéciale », bifurcation socio-écologique ? aoc.media/analyse/2025...
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'The myth of meritocracy in science collapses under the financial sacrifices expected at every career stage. From unpaid internships and self-funded conferences to underpaid graduate and postdoctoral positions, the hidden costs of ‘doing science’ are profound.'
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Too poor to science: How wealth determines who succeeds in STEM
From student to researcher, a career in science can come with a high price tag. This Perspective explores how persistent financial barriers limit who can succeed in science, revealing how wealth shape...
journals.plos.org
July 6, 2025 at 12:58 AM
'The myth of meritocracy in science collapses under the financial sacrifices expected at every career stage. From unpaid internships and self-funded conferences to underpaid graduate and postdoctoral positions, the hidden costs of ‘doing science’ are profound.'
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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People always ask me : “Cristi, how do you manage parenting a baby while going up for tenure?”
It’s easy. The secret is *flow-based-scheduling*. Here are its three core strategies for new academic parents:
Sleep when the baby sleeps
Cry when the baby cries
Publish when the baby publishes
It’s easy. The secret is *flow-based-scheduling*. Here are its three core strategies for new academic parents:
Sleep when the baby sleeps
Cry when the baby cries
Publish when the baby publishes
July 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
People always ask me : “Cristi, how do you manage parenting a baby while going up for tenure?”
It’s easy. The secret is *flow-based-scheduling*. Here are its three core strategies for new academic parents:
Sleep when the baby sleeps
Cry when the baby cries
Publish when the baby publishes
It’s easy. The secret is *flow-based-scheduling*. Here are its three core strategies for new academic parents:
Sleep when the baby sleeps
Cry when the baby cries
Publish when the baby publishes
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The part in the sci-fi story where the villain explains that the only way they could create their monster was to destroy millions of books.
Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
Company hired Google’s book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize “all the books in the world.”…
arstechnica.com
June 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The part in the sci-fi story where the villain explains that the only way they could create their monster was to destroy millions of books.
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Blogged about the survey I ran regarding the future of alt.chi within the #chi conference: designresearch.works/blog/future-...
Does alt.chi have a future? – Design Research Works
Survey results and a discussion on why we should preserve alt.chi
designresearch.works
June 22, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Blogged about the survey I ran regarding the future of alt.chi within the #chi conference: designresearch.works/blog/future-...
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Encountered a lot of people at eurovis who don’t know this is happening! It is! It’s gonna be sick!
It's happening again!! alt.VIS is returning to #IEEEVIS for another year of creativity, criticality, and alterity! Bring us your hot takes, bring us your work that falls outside of mainstream academic vis, bring us your weird stuff!!
Deadline is August 1st
altvis.github.io
Deadline is August 1st
altvis.github.io
alt.VIS
A half-day workshop at IEEE VIS 2023
altvis.github.io
June 3, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Encountered a lot of people at eurovis who don’t know this is happening! It is! It’s gonna be sick!
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📢 The MERCADO Workshop is back at IEEE VIS 📊 - Nov 2 - 7 in Vienna 🇦🇹!
MERCADO = Multimodal Experiences for Remote Communication Around Data Online #ieeevis #datavis #dataviz #hci #cscw #socialVR #ImmersiveAnalytics
👉 Call for Papers: sites.google.com/view/mercado...
⏰ Deadline: Aug 1
MERCADO = Multimodal Experiences for Remote Communication Around Data Online #ieeevis #datavis #dataviz #hci #cscw #socialVR #ImmersiveAnalytics
👉 Call for Papers: sites.google.com/view/mercado...
⏰ Deadline: Aug 1
MERCADO Meetings - VIS '25 Workshop
Our half-day workshop Multimodal Experiences for Remote Communication Around Data Online (MERCADO) 2025 will take place in November in Vienna at IEEE VIS 2025. An archival version of our IEEE VIS work...
sites.google.com
June 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
📢 The MERCADO Workshop is back at IEEE VIS 📊 - Nov 2 - 7 in Vienna 🇦🇹!
MERCADO = Multimodal Experiences for Remote Communication Around Data Online #ieeevis #datavis #dataviz #hci #cscw #socialVR #ImmersiveAnalytics
👉 Call for Papers: sites.google.com/view/mercado...
⏰ Deadline: Aug 1
MERCADO = Multimodal Experiences for Remote Communication Around Data Online #ieeevis #datavis #dataviz #hci #cscw #socialVR #ImmersiveAnalytics
👉 Call for Papers: sites.google.com/view/mercado...
⏰ Deadline: Aug 1
Submit and attend our "Input Visualization" during the @ieeevis.bsky.social Conference in Vienna, Austria, happening November 2 to 7 - 2025!
#dataviz #academicsky #visualization
More information on : inputvisualization.github.io/vis2025/#Call
#dataviz #academicsky #visualization
More information on : inputvisualization.github.io/vis2025/#Call
June 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Submit and attend our "Input Visualization" during the @ieeevis.bsky.social Conference in Vienna, Austria, happening November 2 to 7 - 2025!
#dataviz #academicsky #visualization
More information on : inputvisualization.github.io/vis2025/#Call
#dataviz #academicsky #visualization
More information on : inputvisualization.github.io/vis2025/#Call
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Another day, another call 🔖 Join this one-day workshop to explore feminist, embodied ways of engaging with (bio)data—beyond screens and dashboards. Bring Your Own Biodata (#BYOB) + tools! Submit by June 1st (AoE) to hear back before early bird registration. #DIS2025
May 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Another day, another call 🔖 Join this one-day workshop to explore feminist, embodied ways of engaging with (bio)data—beyond screens and dashboards. Bring Your Own Biodata (#BYOB) + tools! Submit by June 1st (AoE) to hear back before early bird registration. #DIS2025
😍 We are hiring a new Prof. in digital design and psychology! 🔭 🧪
Full description:
bit.ly/hiring2025IMT
Link to apply:
bit.ly/hiring-2025-R
🕐 Deadline: August 25th 2025
🤝 Hiring: Between September & October
🙏❤️!
#academic #design #DIS2025 #HCI #socialsciences #Psychology #sciences
Full description:
bit.ly/hiring2025IMT
Link to apply:
bit.ly/hiring-2025-R
🕐 Deadline: August 25th 2025
🤝 Hiring: Between September & October
🙏❤️!
#academic #design #DIS2025 #HCI #socialsciences #Psychology #sciences
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May 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
😍 We are hiring a new Prof. in digital design and psychology! 🔭 🧪
Full description:
bit.ly/hiring2025IMT
Link to apply:
bit.ly/hiring-2025-R
🕐 Deadline: August 25th 2025
🤝 Hiring: Between September & October
🙏❤️!
#academic #design #DIS2025 #HCI #socialsciences #Psychology #sciences
Full description:
bit.ly/hiring2025IMT
Link to apply:
bit.ly/hiring-2025-R
🕐 Deadline: August 25th 2025
🤝 Hiring: Between September & October
🙏❤️!
#academic #design #DIS2025 #HCI #socialsciences #Psychology #sciences
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If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
May 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
Opinion | We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S.
The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.
www.nytimes.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
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“West Point scrapped two history courses… and an English course… The sociology major was dissolved, and a Black history project at the history department was disbanded. Department leaders forced professors to remove from their courses works by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker...”
Faced with the "sweeping assault" on critical thinking at our top military academy, West Point, a professor of military ethics resigns.
"However much I admire America, uncritically asserting that it is 'the most powerful force for good in human history” is not something an educator does'."
"However much I admire America, uncritically asserting that it is 'the most powerful force for good in human history” is not something an educator does'."
Opinion | West Point Is Supposed to Educate, Not Indoctrinate
www.nytimes.com
May 10, 2025 at 3:07 AM
“West Point scrapped two history courses… and an English course… The sociology major was dissolved, and a Black history project at the history department was disbanded. Department leaders forced professors to remove from their courses works by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker...”