If you've seen me give a talk lately, it probably included this 1-slide, hot-take version of an in-progress paper - we talk about 'novices' a lot in data visualization research, but who do we (and *don't* we) implicitly refer to in those papers?

Well it's no longer in-progress and this slide-edit is wonderful to make - 🏆 a Best Paper Award at CHI 2023! Huge shoutout to @AJBurns, who 1st authored and deserves all the credit! 🥳

Preprint: https://www.alyxburns.com/files/preprint_2022_WhoDoWeMeanByVisNovices.pdf

Edit: Link removed! We're close (!) to hitting the maximum number of participants we can have according to our IRB approval. Thanks!!!

Would you miss Twitter if it were gone? What would you say at Twitter’s funeral?

We are researchers at University of Colorado Boulder conducting a survey about how people think about the role of Twitter in their lives, given recent changes to the platform. If you are at least 18 years old and a current or former user of Twitter, we’d love to hear from you!

"For it to sink in, the gross unfairness of our gender expectations must be conveyed early in life, or, at the very latest, upon entering one’s graduate program. We must take women and minorities aside + whisper difficult truths to them: No one is going to stop them from doing too much academic service."

We also have to acklwdg that, with increasing adjunctification + "responsibilization," a growing service load is spread over a much smaller proportion of employees

https://www.chronicle.com/article/women-do-higher-eds-chores-that-must-change

With all of the GPT talk about "the death of writing", can anyone agree with me that we should not care?

http://write.guyhoffman.com/why-i-dont-care-if-students-use-gpt

#writing #gpt3 #ai #education #essay #westworld

Join the 2nd Explainable AI for CV (XAI4CV) workshop at #CVPR2023!
https://xai4cv.github.io/workshop_cvpr23

👥 The workshop will take place on June 19th in Vancouver, Canada. More to follow on in-person/hybrid setup

🎤 We have a fantastic line-up of speakers: @qveraliao, Mohit Bansal, Marina M.-C. Höhne (née Vidovic), @arvind, Alice Xiang, and @davidbau

📄 Submit papers and demos by March 14th (proceedings track) and May 19th (non-proceedings track)

I've had the idea for a weird kind of Twitter client for years. With Mastodon being all open, I've decided to do the experiment:

What if your Timeline looked like iMessage. A normal timeline confuses me to no end because everything is out of context.

My experiment, Ebou, is a Mastodon client that looks like iMessage. Conversations are grouped by friends and sorted by recent postings.

It is super basic right now, but this already feels much more natural to me 😀