Never let the north-up convention get in the way of a good election map!

Stealworkers

strange that people in love with the "metaverse" conveniently forgot the word "gargoyle" coined in the very same book

The number of global deaths of children under-5 is projected to increase this year (from 4.6m to 4.8m) for the first time this century. (FT) The price of aid cuts.

Hi! I made a wordle-like game where you guess the country based on stats! joewdavies.github.io/statle/ Let me know what you think!

It's hard to grasp the immense scale of the Indonesia floods until you see it from space. And this is just a fraction of the full extent.

OK, so I just got really obsessed with a very arcane question. There are 'land' and 'water' hemispheres that maximize the amount of each (below). But can you divide the earth into two hemispheres that are each 29% land, 71% water, just like the earth as a whole? The LLMs said no… but I persisted.

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance. @MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

Satellite Imagery xkcd.com/3173/

🔴⚠️🌀🇮🇩Catastrophic aftermath of Cyclone Senyar in #Sumatra: 442 died,404 still missing, more than 1 M people affected by the first cyclone formed in the Malacca strait. ⬇️Northern Aceh with devastating floods covering 500km2 in #Sentinel2 view of Nov.29 #ClimateEmergency #indonesia

#30daymapchallenge · Jour 30 · Relooking 🌍 Europe · Europa · Ευρώπη · Європа 🔍 Zoomez pour découvrir les villes d'Europe dans leur langue. 🔽 L'ancienne carte, en commentaire, utilisait un texte de substitution, réalisée pour le #30daymapchallenge 2024. #cartographie #map #europe #europa

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

The creator *is* known: the South African division of travel agency Flight Centre. It used pie charts to promote 5 of its destinations in a brilliant way digitalsynopsis.com/advertising/...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

Earlier this week, I had the honour to speak at @geomob.bsky.social Belgium. Geomobs are informal meetups, organised in many cities thegeomob.com I took the opportunity to talk about some fresh open geodata published by some of my colleagues at the World Bank 1/4

It's a huge Geomob week coming up with not one, not two, but three events coming up. On Tuesday (18th) in Antwerp 🇧🇪 is Geomob Belgium: https://thegeomob.com/post/nov-18-2025-geomobbe-details Followed on Wednesday (19th) by events in Berlin 🇩🇪 and Lisbon 🇵🇹:

THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS

Details of the Garzweiler surface mine - Germany 🌍 : maps.app.goo.gl/JJbyiLQvkJ8R... 4K link : imgur.com/a/h5r35F5

It's been a while, but I'm doing a little public talk again soon

This is Monty Python and I refuse to believe otherwise

New video: A glacier on Antarctica’s Eastern Peninsula experienced the fastest retreat recorded in modern history—in just two months, nearly 50 percent of the glacier disintegrated. Watch this video to understand what happened. Study by @ciresnews #Antarctica #glaciermelt

At 185 mph maximum sustained winds, Cat 5 Hurricane #Melissa is now just 7 mph shy of what @michaelfwehner.bsky.social r.bsky.social & Jim Kossin have defined as the cutoff for a prospective "Cat 6" hurricane: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

12 hours of Hurricane #Melissa, one frame every minute. 🛰️🗺️

The before and after of the East Wing demolition is wild... 😨 See for yourself: shorturl.at/TrWu3 #WhiteHouse #WhiteHouseWall #EastWing #Trump

Absolutely delighted to catch up with Xenographics, an initiative of @maartenzam.bsky.social. It was a big thing on Twitter some 4-5 years ago and I wish that the conversation would carry over on Bluesky. 📊 xeno.graphics

Waimakariri River, New Zealand

Hi. It's me. 2 weeks later. This is done. 58 frames over 3 seconds, *50* layers in the final image. WOO. This was a long edit, felt like ACTUAL work so unless I get it again with the actual sunset I doubt I'll be editing more like this. Psyched for the final piece tho! 🪶

Very sad data journalist job posting

Part of Wadden Sea in false color More: whc.unesco.org/en/list/1314/ 📸🛰 #Sentinel2 Footage: @sentinelonline.bsky.social

Salesforce owns Tableau. Time to drop all mentions from classes and trainings #dataViz

Excellent graphics in this one

"The data's in PDF."

Since I keep rediscovering it: David Rumsey's Historical Map Collection is an absolutely fantastic resource, also for historical #datavis www.davidrumsey.com

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today. Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

These must be some of the most morally bankrupt graphics ever made

Updated a classic.

The war in Gaza has been going on for two years. It must end.

2015-2024 😊📹 bsky.app/profile/kosm...

Our researchers have noticed today that NASA FIRMS, one of the main free and available open source sites for monitoring fires around the world has a new notice on it stating that NASA is no longer updating the site due to a lack in federal funding. firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/

The amazingly astonishing Assiniboine River, Manitoba, Canada, again.

So here it is: my dumb data viz experiment. 🍩 ✔️ Solves the continuity problem ❌ Harder to spot patterns ❌ Hours are visually distorted But hey… not everything has to be practical, sometimes it’s just fun! 😅 Also: how cool would it be to create a physical object like this?

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

Happy September Equinox! Today the dividing line between day and night runs exactly from the North pole to the South pole, and the sun is directly over the equator. This is an actual image of the Earth today, taken from the Himawari-8 satellite.

Fresh Planet Labs imagery (15Sep v 1Sep) shows already displaced Gazans leaving for the south. Most tents gone - as expected - first from north (Naser) and south (Tel El Hawa) n'hoods.

A lovely ocean tides map using the Spilhaus projection for some Wednesday mappy goodness #MapoftheWeek mapoftheweek.substack.com/p/a-world-of...

I naively thought: let's roughly extrapolate the height at which Mondo Duplantis's pole vault world record series would end. The second derivative turns out to be positive! 😱 #math in the wild #tokyo2025 #worldathletics

This year, the ozone hole presented an early development, reaching a larger-than-average area mid-September. On #WorldOzoneDay, #CopernicusAtmosphere continues to provide tools for everyone to monitor the health of our planet.

Gazans displaced from the city due Israeli op have set up tents in Deir al Balah, and near Khan Yunis' Hamad Town. Almost none have yet made it to the south near Rafah, where Israel is setting up two new GHF centers Planet Labs 14Sep/05Sep