I wondered how much podcast rankings change in a category over time. Ran an Apple Podcasts scraper for a bit and created a bump chart to check. It turns out that the top few podcasts in the Science category are fairly stable, but the rest of the rankings change quite a bit. #Podcast #DataAnalysis

So I was just laid off from Vicariously. If you‘ve got an opening in PR/marketing and want to hire someone who does good work and has a family to support, I’m your guy. Any reposts super appreciated.

For those in tech in the Gainesville, FL area, we have our next GNV Tech Chats Happy Hour this Friday. Check it out: luma.com/v4zgqccp #Gainesville #UF

Thinking of applying to a conference? There's a few #RStats and #Python conferences with upcoming CFPs! We'd love to see you there. And if you happen to be in Charlottesville or Baltimore, there are a couple of events that you may be interested in! Are there any that we are missing? 🤔 Let us know!

A reminder that the entire NASA budget is 0.37% of the U.S. government's annual spending. That's one two-hundred-and-seventieth of the yearly federal budget.

Do any #Artists that use Shopify know a good app for making custom product bundles? I want customers to be able to create a custom bundle of a few prints. I’ve never set up anything like that before, so crowd sourcing your fav app recs plz 🫶

Delighted to share our discoveries about one of the brain's neurotransmitter systems: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Together with colleagues at the @alleninstitute.org, we have learned a lot about a tiny cluster of neurons in the brainstem locus coeruleus (LC) that releases norepinephrine (NE). 1

We're entering the final stretch of collecting responses for the 2026 Python Developers Survey! 🐍 📊 It only takes 10-15 minutes, and you could win a US$100 Amazon gift voucher. Complete it here: surveys.jetbrains.com/s3/python-de...

I'm a data scientist @ourworldindata.org and I need help from a botanist or someone local to Kyoto, Japan! 🌸 We present one of the world’s longest climate records: 1,200 years of peak cherry blossom dates in Kyoto. The researcher who maintained it, Prof. Yasuyuki Aono, sadly passed away last year.

Alrighty so NASA (and me and a lot of other people) had a little goof. But I think it’s a great opportunity to remind people that sometimes mistakes can actually be pretty cool and lead to a lot of new perspectives and understanding! 🧪🔭

I never have any proof that a student used an LLM and it generally doesn't feel worth it to pursue, but it's pretty soul crushing to be grading and giving feedback to papers that reads like chat gpt

this is the wallpaper my OLED monitor has been waiting for

Um OKAY. Breathtaking photos from the Artemis II crew's lunar flyby and eclipse viewing

I finally got around to Echoes of Wisdom. I’m loving the design and charm in this and the Link’s Awakening remake. Hope they make another game in this engine.

The first image we get after comms come back is us. All of humanity is in this shot. And I’m crying again. 🧪🔭 📸: NASA, annotations by me

"And to all of you, down there, on Earth, and around Earth, we love you, from the Moon." Victor Glover, Pilot, Artemis II Earthset.

Today, my fellow founding worker-owners and I are launching a subscription drive to @feedravenous.bsky.social. We are a group of experienced and award-winning food journalists here to publish thoughtful writing and incisive reporting from around the food world. www.weareravenous.com

If you’re having problems conceptualizing why going to the moon is such a big deal, here’s your reminder that you can fit every planet in the solar system in between the Earth and the moon. The Artemis II astronauts are going so insanely far compared to anyone else in my lifetime 🔭🧪

The new AAAS Learning Hub offers on-demand professional development resources for STEMM professionals who want to advance their skills and careers — no matter their career stage, location, or availability. Start learning with AAAS today: learninghub.aaas.org

#MondayMood 🐠 Museum technology is shifting how specimens are processed, providing more accessibility for research, education, outreach and collaboration. Explore our online exhibit: Inner Beauty 🩻 Skeletons Revealed from the Museum’s Fish Collection www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/onl...

From 2018 through around 2021, Abdoul Rasnab sold devices with his own proprietary fork of GrapheneOS. That's 4 years after the project was started. He had no involvement in creating or founding GrapheneOS. He also didn't write absolutely any of the GrapheneOS project's code.

I made a tiny tool for quickly sharing small datasets (< ~1000 rows) without uploading any data to a server. 🔗 ziptbl.com It compresses the data into the link itself, so there’s no account, hosting, or storage layer involved. Here's Florence Nightingale's famous 📊 data: ziptbl.com#d=eNpdlE-LGz...

Start calling literature reviews “the lore”

FYI I still need a job @_@

Today is the 10 year (!!) anniversary of my first space pottery. (Thread)

There are few game thinkers out there more qualified to dig into Pokopia than @plante.bsky.social, self-proclaimed First-ever Stateside Pokémon Fan, host of Post Games and The Besties, and also our former boss. If the game hasn't made you misty-eyed yet, this story will!

Reel Talk, demo out now on Steam and update coming soon with a whole new island, secret areas, and fish to catch! #ReelTalk #gamedev #steam

Hi scientists of Bluesky! I’m on the lookout for positives. Tell me: Why is your field the best right now? What are you excited about? Have any good news to share? (Yes, I know. I’m working on something.) If you’re willing to talk to me, reach out here or Rebecca.B.Boyle at gmail. Please share!

For complete protocol and potion recipes, see my open lab notebook link here: binomicalabs.notion.site/Petunia-Peta... 14/n

🚨 BIG NEWS!! 🚨 My new book about the oceans is now available for pre-orders! Great for kids ages 7-12 (or even adults!) who like a hilarious story with lots of science in it. Pre-order your copies now: www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1419... (Book #4 in the GreatBigUniverse.net series)

I had a client project that needed Bluesky analysis, so I explored the ATProto Python package & built a quick Streamlit app along the way. It pulls in a user's recent posts and shows metrics, top topics, and who they interact with most. 🔗 bluesky-user-analysis.streamlit.app #ATProto #DataAnalysis

this is such a terrible idea it violates every decent programming principle (like DRY) it wastes massive resources by design it fractures all the good things about shared libraries, & isolates users bc nobody’s code will be identical this is basically juicero for code on steroids

Data/design folks, what is your favorite visual that focuses on the human cost of violence, tragedies and disasters? The most emotionally impactful visualization? The most visually striking? Please share! I'd like to get as many examples as possible.

The impact is already hitting science agencies hard. The NIH—the world's largest public biomedical research funder—has had to rely on leftover stopgap funds. New grant awards have slowed to a trickle — exacerbating the effects of a record-long shutdown in October. (h/t @jeremymberg.bsky.social)

This is a great 2-part series on identifying issues with charts that are going viral. The challenge with articles like this is that the people who most need to read them are usually the least likely to. www.noahpinion.blog/p/how-not-to...

In my latest article, I walk through using OpenSearch from a Python app, including setting up an index, indexing documents, and performing different types of searches. Check it out: frankcorso.me/opensearch-p...

New feature in the Positron Notebook Editor: Inline data-explorer view. Whenever you print a pandas or polars dataframe you get an inline interactive view powered by Positron's data explorer. This allows you to view and sort massive dataframes.

In my latest article, I walk through using OpenSearch from a Python app, including setting up an index, indexing documents, and performing different types of searches. Check it out: frankcorso.me/opensearch-p...

Paper day! My latest first-author work is out!! TLDR: I built a suite of simulations based on SIMBA that varies the energetic efficiency of different modes of AGN feedback. We explored how these modes impacted different galaxy and gas properties and uncovered degeneracies in the parameter space 🧪🔭

My best attempt

A chord diagram is a fun way to visualize connections. It can show both which values are most connected & which have the fewest/most connections. In a recent post, I walked through creating a chord diagram using Holoviews from a dataframe. Check it out: frankcorso.me/chord-diagra...

Our annual shark bite report for 2025 is now available online. The global shark bite numbers return to average last year, with a smaller proportion in the United States. 📉 Full story and data: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/glob... Summary report: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attack...

Today, Apple Podcasts announced a new "video podcast experience." For anyone interested, @stephenrobles.com has a nice overview of hwo it works here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu_k...

Now that GNV Tech Chats has >200 Meetup members, I want to build a presence outside Meetup to make it easier to find, and have an email newsletter that includes other tech events around town. Spending some time today creating the basic landing page for it: gnvtechchats.com #GNV #Gainesville

We are announcing "Python Unplugged on PyTV"! Join us for a free online conference bringing together the leading voices of the #Python community. 📺 Live on YouTube 🗓 March 4, 2026 ⏰ 11:00 am – 6:30 pm CET The best of Python, straight to your living room. Save the date: https://jb.gg/ztocbe

Happy Love Data Week! 💘 Issue 32 of RDM Weekly is out! ➡️ Creating a Data Sharing Community @harvarddataverse.bsky.social ➡️ Affording Reusable Data @nature.com ➡️ README Checklist @christophscheuch.bsky.social ➡️ Project Management Tools and more! #rdmweekly rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

In case you missed it: my full, free, open course on accessibility and visualization is out!

I am working on a new guide for creating scatterplots with the Python Seaborn package and thought I'd use a Fortune 500 dataset for the examples. I was curious to see how revenue compares against the number of employees. #DataAnalysis

We are excited to launch the Data Checkup–a health check for federal data collections. The Data Checkup is a comprehensive framework for assessing the health of federal data collections, highlighting key dimensions of risk and presenting a clear status of data well-being. Learn more below.