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

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

Launch day 🚀 We’ve just released @chartlecc.bsky.social - a daily chart game! Your job is to guess which country is represented by the red line in today's chart. You get 5 tries, no other clues! Play today, come back tomorrow for a different chart with new data and share with your chart friends 📈

Kept drawing, but gave up on the silhouette www.ocearch.org/tracker/deta...

Interesting workflow includes GQIS, Mapshaper, & Illustrator. Data from OSM & analysis of Sentinel-2 imagery. Cameo from hi-res Planet Labs data.

Aaaand they’ve just covered it up. Which is just another layer of irony… …given that this is state action against protest about state action against protest.

All maps are subjective. Some are also Sunderland. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Nature’s own beauty generator: tides, winds and coastal shapes combine off Argentina’s Valdés Peninsula, creating breathtaking swirls captured by Sentinel-2. 🌀🌊 #EarthObservation #Sentinel2 #EarthArt #PlanetBeauty Find out more on our new #BCEarthGallery blog! 👉 bit.ly/4mJjVRP

Evolution is just wild and amazing, Exhibit 62627272

Coder tests his productivity with and without AI, collects data and makes charts to argue AI assisted coding is a hype. Great data journalism

✨ I just published a brand-new post! It’s about the notorious SVG <path> element. With its compact Regex-style syntax, <path> can be super intimidating. But they’re also *incredibly* powerful, letting us draw (and animate!) curved lines. You can read it here, and I’ll share more info in thread. 🧵

Weight is an interesting metric for fragility. The Florida grasshopper sparrow, the most endangered bird in the USA, has a total population of about 200 individuals. Adults weight about 17 grams, so there are 3.4 kilos of birds. 7.5 pounds. The weight of a newborn baby.

Yes. This map showing how children’s right to roam free has been removed over four generations always makes me sad.

This outrageously orange Mastigostyla macbridei — spotted at 3000m elevation — represents just the third record of the species in 95 years! 📷 paul-gonzales on iNaturalist 📍 Peru 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDay

I made this video of fog flowing through the Golden Gate from sunrise to sunset, July 27, 2025, to show why #sanfrancisco is so chilly in the summer. Warm air rising over the Central Valley sucks cold marine air from the ocean into the SF bay. #dataviz #cartography #weather

This is amazing

A massive crowd of Palestinians surrounding aid trucks is visible in July 26 SkySat imagery from @planet.com near the so-called Morag Corridor at 31.3104, 34.2822 in southern Gaza. July 26 video from Ibrahim Alsallout on Instagram showed the crowd from the ground: www.instagram.com/p/DMkmVvNo6n...

Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters