Horizontal bar chat showing multiple-choice responses from respondents on the use of, exposure to, and attitude towards generative AI. 85% of respondents never use generative AI in their work, whereas 88% never use image generative AI. 45% of respondents encounter AI-generated images in their practice daily, while 25% do weekly, and 6% never encounter it. The vast majority of respondents dislike generative AI (99%), with 92% expressing a strong dislike.

How are professional visual artists dealing with generative AI in the workplace? In our #CHI2026 poster, @hhj14.bsky.social, @willie-agnew.bsky.social and I share results from a survey of 378 verified professional visual artists 🧵

Preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2603.04537

When is it ? Is it open?

Jordi Valls - "a similar problem in technology and politics is control, who is in control" - #chi2026 an introductary word from the mayor of Barcelona

I am at #chi2026 it s starting

Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | ACM Conferences

The ACM CHI 2026 paper program is live on the ACM Digital Library, so please enjoy all the new 1702 pieces of science that #CHI2026 has for you: dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi... (cc @acm_chi ).
p.s.: You can read our welcome message at dl.acm.org/action/showF...

Ce soir il y aura la première rencontre pour la sortie de la dernière BD de Tiphaine Riviére, à la librairie l'Atelier, dans le 20 arrondissement : venez si vous êtes parisiens, on ira boire un verre après ! #comics #bd #BandeDessinée #librairie #book #kafka #socialsciences

Who is the next one ?

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

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. 🎃

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 ...

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!

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/...

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.

Wow. Check this out.
Politicians actually trying to solve problems can achieve a lot!
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

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

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...

Columbia Agrees to $200 Million Fine to Settle Fight With Trump

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.

😊 I am saying that I am not sure we have paper that big but I always tend to have heavy pictures

I am sorry.
But I like to think that everyone have a copy on a open online repository.
But yes why not

It is a major policy failure that the US cannot accommodate top AI conferences due to visa issues.
buff.ly/DRJOGrB

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...

Cuba durant la « période spéciale », bifurcation socio-écologique ? aoc.media/analyse/2025...

So sad not to be at #DIS2025, enjoy!

'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/...

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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.”…

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.

Does alt.chi have a future? – Design Research Works Survey results and a discussion on why we should preserve alt.chi

Blogged about the survey I ran regarding the future of alt.chi within the #chi conference: designresearch.works/blog/future-...

Encountered a lot of people at eurovis who don’t know this is happening! It is! It’s gonna be sick!

📢 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