Late to this, but - very good (and entertaining!) read from @frank.computer on the Tufte school of data viz. Friends who like to agonize over whether each gridline has earned its ink will relate:
I stumbled on Terry Pratchett as a teenager working in a library - couldn't figure out why I had to shelve those books constantly, read one, figured it out.
Decades later and he holds up great. The watch books pulled me in first, nowadays bopping my way around the witches.
vanishing commons at low resolution:
india.mongabay.com/2026/05/how-...
"This stance is based on an implicit belief that Indians are somehow more ‘adapted’ to air pollution. Such arguments are pervasive and have gained legitimacy from the political denial of the air pollution problem" ☠️
excellent reporting from @rishpardikar.bsky.social on the clean air crisis:
www.frank.computer
Excited to share our latest work, published today in Eos! The U.S. has led and helped to fund about a third of all global sea level projections ever produced. Now, attacks on science in the U.S. have left the field at a precipice.
How much minimalism is too much minimalism? I explore this question and propose the most minimalist, highest scoring data-to-ink ratio on a visualization ever made as a thought piece. Why? Well novice...
Tracing the collapse of a giant ancient Himalayan glacier. Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh, Eastern Himalaya.
Be10 dating shows pulses of glacier retreat over the past 60,000 years.
www.nature.com/articles/d44...
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One of England’s funniest writers is in danger of being lost to history.
Now all done but the synthesis! Thanks to the ~110 scientists and practitioners, not to mention @agu.org and our local volunteers, for a great three days in Montreal!
Just because your party has lost deposit in this state in every election doesn't mean you can't reverse it with some nice bronzer
