Brian T Jacobs

Big news 🌎🌍🌏: Earthling Maps v1 has launched! Read about it, give it a try, and reach out with any feedback. They're maps that aim to work well even when really small, with defaults to set the stage for great cartography regardless of map-making experience.

My talk in article form for #NACIS2026 www.earthlingmaps.com/updates/naci...

In which I processed a ton of multispectral solar raster data into epic videos [free but email wall] #spacejournalism www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/gra...

Making progress

Area masking means only the labels within your area of interest are visible. It's one of over 40,000 areas on Earth currently available to highlight in Earthling Maps v2

Nothing like a leader line when you need it. Basemap improvements and region highlighting coming up next

Pinhead v5 is now released with 38 icons added since v3, including icons from the OSM Americana map style. I also added a page where you can compare Pinhead to the likes of Maki, NPS, and OSM Carto pinhead.ink/coverage/ github.com/waysidemapping/pinhead/releases/tag/v5.0.0

*New article*: How to create maps for Substack posts that look great in email and on the web www.earthlingmaps.com/learn/add-a-...

Mars, just prior to the Psyche gravity assist on May 15th. flic.kr/p/2sdBnYJ

NASA's Psyche spacecraft captured this stunning view of Mars on Friday, while approaching the planet from the night side for a flyby. #Psyche 🔭🧪 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß flic.kr/p/2sdBDyw

Let's give a Bluesky welcome back to my friend Brian Jacobs. If you're into journalism, design, maps – follow! And check out his new tool that allows you to create beautiful maps for your stories, essays, etc!

Doing some casual reading on fused quartz and happy to see that the Time Magazine deep archive is right there on the internet serving up articles from 1924 with a take from Einstein time.com/archive/6651...

📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on! “Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤 A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.

This is a real timelapse video of the Moon transiting in front of the Earth. It was captured by the Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft in November 2022 while flying at it's furthest point from the Earth. The video covers about 3.75 hours of real time. 🔭🧪

Spoiler alert, great maps and words from @rsimmon.bsky.social

It's like my hometown dentist Lou Smoler • “Cartesian” comes directly from Cartesius, the Latinized name of René Descartes. • “Cartography” is rooted in the Latin charta and Greek -graphē, concerning maps and writing — with no connection to Descartes’s name or mathematical concepts.

I have been experimenting with different ways of visualizing the curvature of meandering rivers. Plotting curvature in the context of the meanders themselves helps QC-ing the curvature data ⚒️🧪

Geospatial pareidolia: when you stare at maps all day, things like the eastern seaboard appear in coral shadows

The Alliance of Freelance Cartographers needs your help! By taking our short annual survey, you strengthen your #cartography community. This survey is for anyone (globally) who did any amount of freelance mapping last year (even a little). forms.gle/VaZqPpxeB8Qu... Please help spread this widely!

I wrote a short interactive article👆 It uses simulations to demonstrate how different cardiac arrhythmias can develop. Try it out! (It has defibrillators ⚡️) jenevoldsen.com/posts/excitable-cells #medsky #cardiosky #cccsky #emimcc

Yesterday's eclipse captured in 2 frames about 2 hours apart, from the eyes of DSCOVR's EPIC camera (epic.gsfc.nasa.gov) parked around Lagrange point L1. I've been working a lot with this data recently, project coming soon...

Today, Doogie Typer is loaded up with Doogie's first entry, written on his 16th birthday in the pilot episode. He would have turned 50 today, just a tad younger than @nphstuff.bsky.social. Happy birthday Doogie. 🎂⌨️🔊 btjak.es/doogie/

Cover illustration I did for the book “Ultimate Dinosaurs: Stegosaurus” by the talented Professor Ben Garrod. The book is out today! 🐡 🎨 🧪 #paleontology

Happy belated crab day

Everything’s fine

I can think of few things better to do on a holiday Sunday than wander through this meticulous 3-D reconstruction of Tenochtitlan at its height. tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl (I particularly dig the overlays between modern Mexico City and Tenochtitlan as it was.)

Dream machine

To be fair, I’d be proud of such a ‘shop effort

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Another day, another amazing anatomy fact! 🧪 Your teeth are joints. They're a fibrous joints called dento-alveolar syndesmoses. Science speak for: pegs of tooth fit into jaw socket. LOOSE teeth are bad right? Why's it a joint? Because a tiny bit of movement tells you how hard you're cronching!

All aboard the crustacean cruise ship

On the shores of the Rockies

Congrats to @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com for winning the first Tiny Awards! rotatingsandwiches.com was chosen from over 300 nominees and publicly voted from 16 finalists as best representing the small, playful web. https://twitter.com/kleinkleinklein/status/1683822941895532545

Obsessed with the colors Chloé (Tardibabe on other socials) created with her microscope set-up 🧪 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfbuotMzo2U

Summer sequel

Fixed a dang bug