Miriam Quick
@miriamquick.bsky.social
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Journalist, author, musician, sonifier. I make things with data. Half of Loud Numbers.
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/...
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Nick Grimshaw - Toheeb Jimoh - BBC Sounds
Toheeb Jimoh. star of Ted Lasso and Industry joins Nick to discuss his favourite music.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002pbv0?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
about 1 month ago
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Grey Moran
3 months ago
Turkey industry workers make around $18 per hour, at great risk to their health.
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& 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...
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Heat Exhaustion, Amputated Fingers, Crushed Limbs: The Hidden Cost of American Turkey
Three charts reveal details of the 351 workplace injuries experienced by turkey industry workers in 2024, which include severed fingers, injured corneas and musculoskeletal disorders.
https://sentientmedia.org/the-hidden-cost-of-american-turkey/
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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...
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How to Win Eurovision in 7 Easy Steps
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/arts/music/how-to-win-eurovision-in-7-easy-steps.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HU8.YuEK.Ev4o9qadp_EL&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
10 months ago
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Ed Hawkins
10 months ago
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.
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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...
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11 months ago
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Saloni
12 months ago
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.
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Ilya Kashnitsky
12 months ago
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...
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Interesting. Sleeping badly is linked with belief in conspiracy theories
theconversation.com/how-poor-sle...
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How poor sleep could fuel belief in conspiracy theories
By prioritising good sleep we may be able to boost our ability to think critically and resist misinformation.
https://theconversation.com/how-poor-sleep-could-fuel-belief-in-conspiracy-theories-251669
12 months ago
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Good news! The current lack of transparency about UK land ownership is ridiculous.
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12 months ago
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Owen Winter
12 months ago
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...
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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/
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High Performance, Low Friction Large Language Model Chat
Introduces a Copilot-like completion experience, but it knows how to talk to the objects in your R environment. ellmer chats are integrated directly into your RStudio and Positron sessions, automatica...
https://simonpcouch.github.io/gander/
about 1 year ago
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New bedtime reading
about 1 year ago
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Old post but I just joined Bluesky so here you go ❤️
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about 1 year ago
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What the actual Europe reels after Trump announces US-Russia talks over Ukraine
on.ft.com/40VnfzW
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Europe reels after Trump announces US-Russia talks over Ukraine
Germany criticises US for making ‘public concessions to Putin before negotiations have even begun’
https://on.ft.com/40VnfzW
about 1 year ago
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“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.”
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’s article on sonification is a must-read 👇
manifest.audio/signal-001-w...
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SIGNAL 001 Why Sonify? — MANIFEST AUDIO
Manifest Audio provides creative music production tools for Ableton Live: Max for Live effects, modulators, sequencers, and more - for studio, stage, and beyond...
https://manifest.audio/signal-001-why-sonify
about 1 year ago
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