when the editor asks if you will revise and resubmit

A study in Nature Climate Change suggests that global warming may be associated with an increase in added sugar intake in the form of sugar-sweetened drinks and frozen desserts in the US, especially among more socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. go.nature.com/41Gch2u 🧪 🍎📃

There was lots of data to play with for #TidyTuesday this week where we're looking at the power of different passports! ✈️ I decided to try out the idea of using small multiples and highlighting to untangle a spaghetti chart with lots of lines 📊 #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2

The hex stickers have arrived! :)

TIL Microsoft Word still has fun patterned gradients that you can use in bar charts. This will improve my dataviz so much now!

📊 #rstats This seems to break new ground in uncertainty visualization. The map example is compelling, and extends to other area-based #dataviz. There's a good graph perception study here for someone comparing this to other uncertainty vizzies like blurr, ...

It’s one manuscript, Michael. How many typos could be in it?

"Consider getting more sleep"

When you hate #ggplot

America could suffer some 42,500 excess deaths annually by 2034 as a result of Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, researchers estimate. That is more people than currently die of breast cancer

It is every researcher’s duty to use indirect prompt injection.

me: there’s nothing worse than opening a blank document microsoft word: hold my beer

I believe I’ve won at #ShowYourStripes day

"LARGE amount of the hundreds of millions of dollars that annually are spent for federal construction projects is wasted because the United States lacks adequate maps" SCIENCE - July 22, 1938

if we start dating now, we could be editing each other’s drafts by june

Folks, always share your code. It doesn’t have to be perfect to be helpful. And if you feel that it’s still too messy or not sufficiently clean to be shared, you shouldn’t submit yet. After all, there could be mistakes in your mess.

www.theguardian.com/world/2021/j... 5 years on and we are living with unnecessary airborne infections. Patients are continuing to have elongated stays. Covid continues to cause deaths in vulnerable and each reinfection increases your risk of long covid. We need clean air in our hospitals urgently. 🧵

It is really unfortunate to see Elmo from Sesame Street being censored by LinkedIn.

Best way to keep track of papal news

Can fossil fuel companies be held legally accountable for climate-related damages? Researchers have a new method they say links the emissions from specific companies to trillions of dollars in economic harm.

Call it what it is. Typographic terrorism

I don't know who needs it, but here is a free Sci-Net Invite Code: 08S55S9J (Sci-Net is the "new" Sci-Hub btw)

Learning so much from @adamjkucharski.bsky.social’s “Proof”—for example, I certainly didn’t know before that Francis Galton published a Nature paper on how to cut a cake so that it doesn’t dry out. www.nature.com/articles/075...

One consequence of questionable publishers starting to use fake DOIs in the journals they acquire is that it prevents readers from commenting on those papers through platforms like PubPeer (which relies on DOIs), making it harder to flag other issues the articles might have. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

New on my blog: OpenAI dropped a trio of models yesterday that they claim result from "focusing closely on real-world developer needs." I was curious whether this might mean stronger #rstats coding performance. www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2025-04...

Sci-Net (the new Sci-Hub) is looking great

Hey, wake up. Sci-hub 2 just dropped, and it is now "Sci-net". Supported by the same person (Alexandra Elbakyan), it looks extremely promising.

Democracy will die behind a paywall.

"Technologies are not neutral and neither are the societies into which they are introduced."

An oldie but goodie from @randyau.com. #databs www.counting-stuff.com/whys-it-hard...

🚗💥🐾 NEW PAPER! Led by Clara Grilo, we present Global Roadkill Data, a dataset compiling 208,570 roadkill records of terrestrial vertebrates from 54 countries across six continents. 🌍📊 🧵👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Analysis of Terminated NIH Grants with Word Clouds First, using the titles of grants not to Columbia... Gender and DEI predominate

🧵 1/14 The WHO "Best Buys" have been effective but underutilised. Our paper @lancetrh-europe.bsky.social introduces "Quick Buys"—cost-effective interventions that show measurable public health impact within 5 years. w/ David Stuckler, @gauden.bsky.social and other colleagues at WHO EURO

This website reminds me to an assignment my highschool biology teacher gave us once: "Write about the dangers of Dihydrogen Monoxide" Needless to say, a lot of people fell to the bait.

On World Tuberculosis Day, we acknowledge that “tuberculosis is both a form and expression of injustice,” as @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social put it and recommit to ending TB www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... via @thelancet.bsky.social

Today @natmedicine.bsky.social published our study showing the older individuals born prior to 1968 have more antibodies that cross-react to #H5N1 relative to younger individuals. If H5N1 causes a pandemic, children will likely be the most susceptible. 1/2 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NEW editorial on what public health means under Trump 2.0 At The Lancet Public Health, it still means to stand for the communities we serve, to report, document, support researchers and practitioners, and advocate for better health for ALL. Read #openaccess www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

On the verge: outbreak risk after two years of record-breaking dengue epidemics in Brazil - The Lancet Regional Health – Americas www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The new issue of The HTML Review is here! Twelve pieces of poetry, fiction, essays, and experiments, all of which use and explore the world wide web as medium. The table of contents as always designed by my brilliant co-editor Shelby thehtml.review/04/

📢 Our latest article led by @josiaslr.bsky.social was just published in Nature communications! Our study reveals that the global gridded population datasets contain systematic negative bias in rural population. Read more from the thread below and the full paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Sinipyrstö (Tarsiger cyanurus)" [Taken from a Wayspot in Tampere, Finland]

The effects of abortion bans vary tremendously across counties and demographic groups. New @nber.org working paper with Daniel Dench and @mayrapinedat.bsky.social. [1/10] www.nber.org/papers/w33548

Lungfish xkcd.com/3064

12/🌊 🏃 what's at stake: Saúl's city of Huaraz 🇵🇪. Located directly downstream of the laguna, the city wld be partially devastated within mins in case of an unmitigated glacial outburst. 🔍 If climate change exacerbates this risk, polluters cld be asked to pay for preventive measures.

📊 #psy6135 #rstats Today's topic: Visualizing Uncertainty Topics: Visualizing distributions, Error bars, Bayesian stuff, fitted curves, ... Thx to @elibryan.bsky.social, @mjskay.com, @clauswilke.com, @cedricscherer.com and other folks I stole from. 💻 Slides-- friendly.github.io/6135/lecture...

In the UK meanwhile...

I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork} www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...