Did anyone else get absolutely destroyed by this year’s COVID/Flu vaccines?

I feel bad that I randomly stopped my series. I got sick and then life happened :(

We need this asap

My backpacking itinerary

👽🛸 Spooktober: Data After Dark - October 8 Today is part one of a multi-part segment on a UFO sighting dataset. For part 1, I created an interactive Shiny app to explore the data. Map points are clickable! colewb.shinyapps.io/alien-atlas/ #DataViz #R #Shiny #ggplot2 #RStats #Alien #UFO

🎃👻 Spooktober: Data After Dark - October 7 Today's plot shows inflation adjusted U.S. Halloween spending across 4 categories from 2005 to 2025 (2025 anticipated). #Spooktober #DataViz #R #ggplot2 #RStats #Tidyverse #Retail #Halloween

🎃👻 Spooktober: Data After Dark - October 6 Spirit Halloween stores seem to pop up almost everywhere out of nowhere. I wanted to see just how ubiquitous these temporary shops are across North America. #Spooktober #DataViz #R #ggplot2 #RStats #Tidyverse #SpiritHalloween #Retail #Halloween

🎃👻 Spooktober: Data After Dark - October 5 Want to know which Halloween candy is most popular? Look no further. This Halloween candy constellation plot shows which candy traits are the most popular together. #Spooktober #DataViz #R #ggplot2 #RStats #Tidyverse #HalloweenCandy #Candy #TrickOrTreat

🎃👻 Spooktober: Data After Dark - October 4 Today, I looked into U.S. pumpkin production. Illinois dominates in the U.S. due to its ideal soil type and favourable conditions for pumpkin growing. #Spooktober #DataViz #RStats #Tidyverse #Pumpkins #Pumpkin

Almost non-stop lightning—in October. #mbwx #mbstorm

🎃👻 Spooktober: Data After Dark - October 3 Today, I looked at the number of haunted places in each U.S. state. CA and TX have the highest number of haunted places. Does this have something to do with population...? #Spooktober #DataViz #RStats #Tidyverse #Hauntings #HauntedHouse

🎃👻 Spooktober: Data After Dark - October 1 🧵 Kicking off this spooky data series by looking at when horror movies are released. Unsurprisingly, October dominates! From the 2000s onward, October became the clear peak for horror releases. #Spooktober #DataViz #RStats #Tidyverse #HorrorMovies

🎃👻 Spooktober: Data After Dark - October 2 Continuing off yesterday's theme of horror movies, for today's graphic I made a word cloud from >32K horror movie titles using the tidytext and wordcloud2 packages. #Spooktober #DataViz #RStats #Tidyverse #HorrorMovies

🎃👻 Spooktober: Data After Dark - October 1 🧵 Kicking off this spooky data series by looking at when horror movies are released. Unsurprisingly, October dominates! From the 2000s onward, October became the clear peak for horror releases. #Spooktober #DataViz #RStats #Tidyverse #HorrorMovies

Starting October 1! I have been a busy beaver curating spooky datasets! #RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz #R #Tidyverse

Google: here's an AI summary! Adobe: want an AI assistant? Zoom: get more done with an AI companion! Outlook: don't you want to turn on copilot?? Me: I trained for 10 years to think. I like thinking. Please just let me think.

👻 Spooktober is around the corner! 🎃 This October, I’ll be posting a daily spooky-themed data viz created entirely in R/ggplot2. From horror movie heatmaps to haunted word clouds, expect a full month of creepy charts! Stay tuned & watch this space… 🕸️ #RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz #R #Tidyverse

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

Skipped ahead to next week's (2025-09-02) #tidytuesday because I love frogs. #r4ds #datavisualization

I spotted an Aedes vexans mosquito in my bathroom waving her hind legs back and forth. They do this when threatened to evaluate their environment and air currents.

#TidyTuesday Week 32, 2025 - Extreme Weather Attribution Studies 📊 It's almost like there's a connection between extreme weather events and climate change...

I made a triple layer carrot cake for my grandma’s 82nd birthday! #bakingsky #baking

Black swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes), north of Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana. #biodiversity #mothweek

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Trying to decipher LaTeX error logs be like

Preparing an article analyzing some data from my recent job search. The x axis is a custom application progression metric measuring how far I made it. Sometimes, a lot of effort in an application and process leads nowhere. Other times, low effort processes can be relatively fruitful.

A busy bee!

Some black swallowtail late instar caterpillars resting on dill.

Made some chocolate cupcakes for Father’s Day #baking #bakers #bakingsky #cake #cupcake

I thought these were all engorged ticks

This is extremely interesting just how similar the wings are to a wasp.

Moth in my flower

Do not bring hummus around me I will eat all of it.

New profile pic

#catsofbluesky #cat

For all my entomology followers, I made a Bluesky version of the Twitter bot that tweets when the city updates their mosquito data.

Kitchen supervisor #cat #catsofbluesky

Post a pic of yourself from a different era: 2014.

Pluto watching Hank rank all of the planets and excluding him😔 #P4A2025

Are you using any of these platforms? X Facebook Instagram Threads Truth Social TikTok Did you know that all of these platforms support and encourage hate and incitement of violence towards minorities? Stop using all of them today. Delete. Don’t look back. Do the right thing.

My mirror is dirty in all the pics of myself that I like

The power of the mind. I took 45lb plates off each side of an exercise and I meant to replace it with a 25lb and 10lb plate for 35lb. But I unknowingly used 35lbs instead of 25lbs and the exercise was easier.

#EntomologyConsult post-of-the-year award goes to @colebaril.ca for this post on M ulcerans transmission by aquatic bug bite. There was stiff competition this year, with many fascinating posts, and I look forward to another strong year of medical entomology posts!

It’s pronounced GIF.

I didn’t take it but this my favourite picture for sure

Capitalism really popped off today (did most of my Christmas shopping today)