After a long time in development, {traktok} #rstats is now finally on CRAN! Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered jbgruber.github.io/traktok/

Let me tell you a story (before the ship explodes):

This is about 100 minutes worth of bird migration paths directly over my house, played back in just under one minute. Captured in infrared around 1am last night (October 2nd). Approximately 10 degree field of view, looking straight up. The occasional bat too! Most birds heading southwest. #birds

We used @sciam.bsky.social's 180th anniversary as an excuse to revisit an old favorite. Familiar with the efficiency of locomotion chart from the March 1973 issue? Here it is again, reimagined for 2025 by DTAN Studio, w/text by @parshallison.bsky.social 📊 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

1.5 Grad Marke bis 2100 einhalten? Pariser Abkommen? Vergisst es - die Staaten haben versagt, Politiker, Medien und die gesamte Gesellschaft. Neueste Projektionen zeigen 2029 ist die Marke endgültig verloren. Ist übrigens nicht umkehrbar. Dankt der #Milliardenlobby. #Klimakatastrophe

Der Anstieg der Covid-Zahlen (auch in den Krankenhäusern) geht jetzt sehr schnell. Einer von 100 ist mit SARS-2 infiziert. Wer sich in diesem Jahr noch nicht hat impfen lassen, sollte das jetzt so bald wie möglich nachholen. Deshalb ausnahmsweise eine Bitte: Bitte teilt diese Information‼️

Verwechslungsgefahr beim Schnitzel? Bezeichnungen wie Soja-Schnitzel oder Veggie-Burger könnten bald Vergangenheit sein: Das EU-Parlament sprach sich für ein Verbot dieser Bezeichnungen aus. Bundesumweltminister Carsten Schneider hat kein Problem, Fleisch von Tofu zu unterscheiden.

when my students open the reader I upload for them, to - you know, read - they see this:

Over on X you can see how the Trump administration is using every channel of communication to frame the shutdown as the fault of Democrats. Using such official communication channels for partisan politics obviously erodes trust. As with many things we are witnessing, this will have lasting effects

This page implements Borges' Library of Babel: containing everything that could ever be written on 410 pages, all possible 10⁴⁶⁷⁷ books. And the craziest thing: it has a search function. libraryofbabel.info

I would LOVE to make a proper network graph for those 18,000 emails from Epstein’s personal Yahoo account obtained by Bloomberg News. If anyone from Bloomberg News would like to share… I mean you can’t just call it “The Network” without a network graph 🤓 archive.is/2025.09.25-2...

Tylenol/acetaminophen/paracetamol use in pregnancy probably doesn't give babies autism. Now unlocked for all to read gidmk.substack.com/p/tylenol-us...

@mpoessel.de - warum hast Du denn bsky.app/profile/oyst... repostet? Soweit ich das sehe, ist das wieder einer der "Haha, ich habe einen Bot auf Twitter enttarnt"-Posts, die letztendlich bloß einem Troll auf den Leim gingen. Fake News, IMHO. Siehe auch bsky.app/profile/dave...

Huch, jetzt gibt's in #Regensburg morgen doch eine #Klimademo. Wegen der kurzfristigen Ankündigung vermutlich etwas kleiner als sonst. Bis dann, Domplatz West, 15:30 Uhr futureforregensburg.de #fff #KlimaKrise #klimastreik #fridaysforfuture #scientists4future

Oops, I thought I had already opted out of LinkedIn using my data for AI training. Turns out I did not. Maybe I confused it with one of the other platforms trying to recycle my data for other purposes. Thanks for the reminder! www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

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Imagine all cars were electric, and then one Volkswagen engineer comes up with another idea … #EMobility

10 Jahre gibt es dekoder nun schon! Du willst, dass wir auch weiterhin so arbeiten können wie bisher? Dann kannst du dekoder jetzt mit einer Geburtstagsspende Zukunft schenken: 👉 specials.dekoder.org/geburtstagss... 🎁❤️

Buying an Apple Watch was the single most effective step to improve my life with LongCOVID. Here is how I learned to properly “pace” with it.

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

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- feel welcome to share - I'm looking for long and short term #datascience #datavis #frontent work. I am best at making web based interactive data analysis tools, but also do backend, data science, APIs, UX, and frontend development. Find my portfolio here: miskaknapek.eu

It is precisely not data, and I feel like everyone knows that and just decides to let people skate on it anyway.

"Verbindung liegt in der Vergangenheit" — DB Fahrplanauskunft

Die AfD schaltet aktuell Werbung auf Twitter, um die Union zum Durchhalten und/oder Hinwerfen aufzurufen. x.com/Beatrix_vSto...

Whenever I’m coding in Python, having a good cheatsheet handy is a lifesaver! 🐍🛠️ Check out this Comprehensive Python Cheatsheet by Jure Šorn,

If you ask the new Grok (via grok.com without any custom instructions) for opinions on controversial topics it runs a search on X to see what Elon thinks I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar...

great stuff @alexanderobenauer.com in a world of tech slop, this quote feels relevant as ever:

Mad TV 1997. The “Take Back America” Tour. It seemed like such a broad and unfair parody of American conservatism. Now it feels like premonition. youtu.be/oqZaQKskP-A?...

So that's these great AI suggestions for coding you're all talking about? :D

„Das ist so krass, es müsste eigentlich tagelang die Schlagzeilen bestimmen.“ Aber in Deutschlands Medien waren die extrem hohen Temperaturen im #Mittelmeer bislang nicht einmal EINEN Tag in den Schlagzeilen… #Klimakollaps #Medienkinskrise @klimajourno.bsky.social @netzwerkklimajourn.bsky.social

The International Energy Agency has launched an interactive map showing locations of #datacenters @iea.org and their estimated power needs. Also useful map of major electrical grid lines and internet cables :) www.iea.org/data-and-sta... #datavis #datascience

What is #dataviz animation good for? An updated thread with examples.

THIS IS IT! THIS IS HUGE!! PLAINTIFF'S WIN!! Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!

Stolen from a friend's IG:

NEU: Wir starten ein Fellowship für Lokale Recherche – und Ihr könnt Euch ab sofort bewerben. Es gibt Unterstützung, Mentoring, Seminare, Geld, Spesen. Dieses Fellowship ist eines der größten und wichtigsten Projekte, die wir beim @netzwerkrecherche.org jemals gemacht haben. Endlich geht es los! 1/4

Steuerbetrug und -hinterziehung belaufen sich auf 100 bis 150 Milliarden Euro pro Jahr. Und dennoch will die Regierung Geld durch Einsparungen bei sozialen Einrichtungen einnehmen. Besser wäre es, mehr Steuerfahnder einzustellen und die Gesetze zur Steuerhinterziehung zu reformieren.

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

ProPublica obtained the code underlying DOGE’s AI-tool used to „munch“ government contracts and published the actual prompts www.propublica.org/article/insi...

thread of very nice new features in Our world in data #datavis #datascience #internationaldevelopment

HELP! Do you have an Android phone and would be willing to test out and provide brief feedback an app I've developed? (I need 12 people to test it on and off for about two weeks, though you only need open the app once). Please let me know!

📺 Shout Out to Greta Loot for taking the time to create an awesome decade-by-decade walkthrough of MyRetroTVs on her YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHRt...

Can you imagine that in 2010 if you worked in psychology you could not publish a replication study that yielded a null result if your life depended on it? You might think: So how did they identify Type 1 errors in the literature? They didn't! >>>

« Gleichschaltung, meaning "synchronization" or "coordination", was the process of Nazification by which Adolf Hitler […] established a system of totalitarian control […] "from the economy and trade associations to the media, culture and education" » en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung

We've still got a couple spots open for a free WebAssembly workshop with me and @marianoguerra.org! This Saturday @ 9:30am in Munich (near Ostbahnhof). Sign up here: lu.ma/900h6e3a

Well this is a powerful but depressing take of how “America” dissolves. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTju4YLFC/

Armin Laschet (2021): "Weil jetzt so ein Tag ist, ändert man nicht die Politik." Friedrich Merz (2023): "Es ist eben nicht so, dass morgen die Welt untergeht." Katherina Reiche (2025): "Klimaschutz ist in den vergangenen Jahren überbetont worden."

It seems that the now infamous "AI in a materials science lab" paper had been submitted to the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Given that the journal's data policy requires full availability of raw data, I wonder how the author intended to navigate this issue. economics.mit.edu/news/assurin...