I went on the Nick Grimshaw show on BBC 6 Music talking about turning data into music, and about visualising David Bowie’s Space Oddity. Listen back from 1:41:30 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Turkey industry workers make around $18 per hour, at great risk to their health. @miriamquick.bsky.social & I looked at the 351 injuries - from severed fingers to injured corneas - suffered by the workers who produce the turkey many will enjoy in the coming days sentientmedia.org/the-hidden-c...

I crunched the numbers for this @nytimes.com piece by Alex Marshall on how to win Eurovision. What would you add to this list? Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/a...

87 years ago. In April 1938, Guy Callendar published the first evidence from thermometer observations that the world’s land areas were warming. He also linked the observed warming to the increase in atmospheric CO₂ from burning coal. 87 years ago. rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

If you want to join the broader US govt data rescue efforts, there’s a list of ways to help at www.datarescueproject.org/current-effo...

Estimates by @charlesjkenny.bsky.social @justsand.bsky.social: US foreign aid likely prevents 2.3 to 5.6 million deaths annually, largely in Africa. And that a complete disruption would result in over 4000 lives lost per day.

A huge shoutout to @christian.czymara.com 🙌 who created a customised #rstats chatgpt called Code Nerd that replies only with bare code. It's absolutely magnificent 😍 chatgpt.com/g/g-J5futwiV...

Interesting. Sleeping badly is linked with belief in conspiracy theories theconversation.com/how-poor-sle...

Good news! The current lack of transparency about UK land ownership is ridiculous.

After the AfD's surge on Sunday, far right parties are the most voted-for of any grouping in Europe, for the first time in history: www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

So I’ve just discovered you can use the R packages gander and ellmer to chat with AI assistants directly in RStudio. Sooooo much easier than copy pasting chunks of code into ChatGPT. simonpcouch.github.io/gander/

New bedtime reading

Old post but I just joined Bluesky so here you go ❤️

What the actual Europe reels after Trump announces US-Russia talks over Ukraine on.ft.com/40VnfzW

“In a visually-dominant culture, sound can mobilize inanimate data into affective experience that resonates beyond the intellect, bypassing typical information processing, giving voice to the unheard.” @noahpred.bsky.social’s article on sonification is a must-read 👇 manifest.audio/signal-001-w...