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Three really interesting stories on the House of Lords published this afternoon as part of the ongoing Guardian series, The Lords Debate. @michaelgoodier.bsky.social on £109m of donations from peers with A++ subhead 'The lord giveth and the lord taketh away' www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Hey #NICAR25! Did you miss the "Why Accessibility Matters" panel? No worries! We got you! Our slides are available at bit.ly/nicar25-acce.... We share because we care!

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Charts that make you go 🙂 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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JUST OUT! 🚨 Time capsule birds' nests! 🪹 I'm proud to share our discovery of layers of vintage plastic in urban birds’ nests... going back decades in time! 👀 “You flip through these nests like through pages of a history book, uncovering the past.” 📚 Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x #scicomm 🧪🪶

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On the communication side of dataviz — what would you say, were the "hits" in the last few years? Pieces that went viral, found wide adoption, opened new audiences, were shared a lot.

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&& Cloudgraphs Typed on the Lettera 22 in '23.

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Miniature Wanmei shared her craft miniatures featuring maps

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I looked at the first arrest figures published by the Trump administration and explained what it can and can't tell us about what is happening www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Today's the day we finally got to use two very mobile-friendly hemispheres 🌐 on this #dataviz explainer 📊 about US tariffs www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... - thanks to the cartographers community (esp @pinakographos.bsky.social) who generously shared their knowledge when I asked for suggestions 🙂

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Why is Trump imposing tariffs and which countries will be hit hardest? - in charts

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Hardly new info, but BSky should know: Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply. Thank you, little guardian molluscs. 🧪🌏🚰

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#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisd #OTD 📊 📅 Feb 8, 1672 Isaac Newton read his first optics paper before Royal Society in London, published: New Theory about Light & Colors. "light is not homogeneous or the same all through, but rather consists of rays of different forms,..." 👁️‍🗨️ bit.ly/48897oq

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It's our data. From @alexjamesfitz.com www.axios.com/2025/02/07/t...

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Yesterday, I was asked to talk at a local brewery as part of #rvamoonmarket. I don't present outside of the #planetarium often, but I had a good time with this one and wanted to preserve it in a thread. Ostensibly, the reason for my talk was the current array of planets in the night sky...

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New newsletter out. Beware, these could arrive like buses. But also maybe not. open.substack.com/pub/jemimahk...

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Wind Spiral II (2006) by Australian artist Bronwyn Berman #WomensArt

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In the interest of productivity, I sometimes have to remind myself to not investigate the nature and history of some cool thing I've seen in a satellite image. But not today. Today I dive in. billmorris.io/shoals/2025/... #mapping #satellite #space #eo

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Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found

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In 1897, Alfred G. Mayer created his butterfly wing projections, an attempt to gain new insights into natural patterns and laws. Vertical blocks denote individual wings, distorted and stretched mathematically to fill a tidy rectangular space. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/m...

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Human Altitude xkcd.com/3039

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Le télescope spatial Hubble vient de finir une carte hallucinante de la galaxie d'Andromède: 2,5 milliards de pixels, on y voit 200 millions d'étoiles, la galaxie en compte des centaines de milliards! Vous pouvez vous y balader ici: www.esa.int/Science_Expl... Bon voyage!

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I hope this email finds you interesting and wants to write about what you are doing, you know you have a compelling story.

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My piece on Trump and the supreme court just went live 🥳, slowly learning how to do the journalism side of this job! www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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Ghost island 👻 earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15379...

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While fire is not new to California, several factors have helped fan the flames, leading to “one of the most significant fire outbreaks in history”, according to Ariel Cohen, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Los Angeles, who warned of an impending “catastrophe”.

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🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

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Visual explainer: why are the LA wildfires so bad? - Santa Ana winds, drought and a hotter planet have helped exacerbate the Palisades, Hurst and Eaton fires in California #LAfires #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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I stumbled on the collection of the Smithsonian’s Biodiversity Heritage Library yesterday, and am completely blown away by some of these illustrations. www.biodiversitylibrary.org 📊 #dataviz

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United Kingdom as seen from Space

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Across Europe college-educated migrants are locked out of the skilled workforce due to policy failures. @publico.pt & @lhreports.bsky.social reveal how Portugal mitigated brain waste, as well as the limits of this success

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As the nights draw in in the northern hemisphere here is a #dataviz to show night vs day at different latitudes as the year progresses. Note how at the solstices the speed of day length change slows right down meaning it takes a long time to change from those long nights and short days!

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#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 💀Dec 13, 1900 Michael George Mulhall died in Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪 1884: 1st? use of a pictogram, to represent data by icons proportional to a number The train one is accurate; the wheel one commits the area illusion, using diameter to represent the number

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How cool is this ⛰️

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Updated to include @mtolympusut.bsky.social , @garibaldi067.bsky.social , @mtmeager.bsky.social , & @lassenpeak.bsky.social I am once again asking for more chill piles of sand, or maybe a zen endorheic basin.

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Spotify wrapped cartographer's edition

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Cartography — Data visualization Ongoing thread. A personal primer to cartographic approaches 🗾 and works 📚 underlying all my map projects and that go beyond our hobby's perennial dogma on functionality versus form. "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." — Carl Sagan. ⬇️

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Sheena Liam, contemporary embroidery artist of Malaysian Chinese descent

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www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/n... #gischat #cartography #maps

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A bumper for Nickelodeon India, made with incredibly creative stop-motion animation From: Mom and Brat (2018), dir. Anand Babu and Vaibhav Kumaresh, Vaibhav Studios

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I wonder how we experience the effects of enshittification in data visualization. For myself, I have a hard time seeing any clear trends in the last few years it seems like everything is just in a holding pattern. #dataviz gizmodo.com/enshittifica...

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Public service announcement that Charles Booth's 'Maps Descriptive of London Poverty, 1898-9' have been uploaded by LSE archive online to be viewed and reproduced freely. 🗃️ unsplash.com/collections/...

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The annual climate cycle presents a good opportunity to use a radial or polar chart, allowing us to visualize seasonal patterns. It's super interesting to see the geophysical differences between climate zones in the US. #rstats #dataviz 📖 dominicroye.github.io/en/2021/clim...

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