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✨ New project! ✨ Mapping the hidden infrastructure which connects to >70% of plants, extends root networks up to 100x and reaches a length of 1 BILLION times the distance to the sun 🤯 Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi! Learn all about them here: a-hidden-infrastructure.spun.earth w/ @spun.earth 💚

A friend recently assured me that polymarket could beat any polls, because more people meant more information was integrated in the "prices". I guess that's their bet, but yesterday… it didn't work observablehq.com/@fil/polymar...

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Hello, network, I'm looking for an adjunct to teach our interactive visualization class next semester (virtually). If you are based in the United States—unfortunately we can't hire people from other countries—design visualizations with JS+D3, etc. and are interested in teaching, send me a message.

Ich baue einen Stullensimulator. Es geht los mit Butter🧵

beautiful handmade bump chart, early 1940s. Details in alt text and here: www.1stdibs.com/art/drawings...

Anyone else feeling like this (image below), when it comes to being cut off from access to federal data that supports informed conversations about the ripple effects of climate change? Read more here: www.jenchristiansen.com/climate/data... #scicomm #climate #infodesign #sciart 📊 🧪

The invincible airplane

Now that's some use lovely use of machine learning: anthophiles.mtchl.net ♥️🐝🌼

Please help "Searching for Birds" win Best Dataviz in the Lovie Awards! 🙏🙇‍♀️🙏 It has dropped to 2nd place with 48% 😱😱 but there is 1 day to place your vote: vote.lovieawards.com/PublicVoting... Thank you so much if you do (or have already done) ♥️

In sozialen Netzwerken und Medien kursiert das Gerücht, dass die ukrainischen Angriffe auf russische Rechenzentren die Aktivität rechter Social Bots minimiert hätte. Dafür gibt es bislang keine Belege. netzpolitik.org/2026/angriff...

Zur Erinnerung: von der Partei Die Linke hat die CDU sich sowohl die eigene Kehrtwende bei der Schuldenbremse unterstützen lassen, als auch die Wahl von Friedrich Merz im zweiten Durchgang.

Great topic! 🫙Curious to see what @tiziana.bsky.social has to say about it.

📊 LayerChart: a new dimension New in v2.6.0, `view={isometric}` can be passed to any Chart to add a tilted perspective to your Svg, Canvas, and Html layers. Going further, use the `z` accessor to add (faux) 3D depth rendering for most marks.

Die Deutsche Bahn hat im offiziellen Katalog 65 Verspätungsgründe („Reparatur an einem Signal” etc.). Mir waren die zu konkret. Deshalb gibt es jetzt das „Bahnhoroskop”: Man trägt die Verspätung ein und bekommt den Grund, berechnet aus der echten Sternkonstellation zur Abfahrt. bahnhoroskop.ggor.de

Radium atom visualized by Niels Bohr 🌼

TIL: Eduard Imhof made thematic maps. #cartography www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet...

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Whether you're new to data viz or seeking to make a leap forward in your craft, the value of training is huge. Come join my next public training event, the 1-day 'Fundamentals of Data Visualisation' taking place at Flourish HQ in London on Tuesday 24 November. visualisingdata.com/2026/09/new-...

Illustration from Elements of astronomy - John Davis, 1868

Warum ließ Wolfram Weimer drei für den Buchhandlungspreis nominierte Buchhandlungen vom Verfassungsschutz überprüfen? Er begründete das mit der Expertise seiner Beamten. @t-online.de vorliegende Dokumente zeigen jetzt: Seine Fachabteilung empfahl, alle Buchhandlungen auszuzeichnen.

*They're great as a duo, actually, the organic and the mechanical, that's a really strong ticket

Gern noch mal in einfachen Worten für Union und FDP: Wenn man fünf Jahre lang so tut, als habe die AfD im Grunde Recht (“Migration=größtes Problem”, “Grüne=sozialistische Deutschlandhasser”), dann hilft man damit der AfD und schadet sich selbst. Es ist wirklich nicht schwer.

Great idea! Looking forward to seeing how this will play out.

Friends! Can I ask you a favour? My 🐦 + 📊 course starts next week. I'm super excited but registration is worryingly low. Can you share this with your weirdo nature + art + code friends? jerthorp.me/learning

Love this!

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #OTD 📊 🎂Sep 14, 1769 Alexander von Humboldt born in Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪 🥇1817: First graph of isotherms, showing mean temperature around the world by latitude and longitude. An important step: mapping the invisible; 2D suggests 3D

Looking forward to speaking in New York on Monday, September 21 as part of the "Underground Science. Underground Stories." panel at Narrative Change Summit @ the Climate Film Festival 2026 during #ClimateWeekNYC luma.com/usdw1nsy Come by and say hi in case you are around!

It should be an event for the data visualization community that this video from 2013 that got 26 million views has just been updated. 📊 It has entered the mainstream in the way that very few dataviz have. youtu.be/2GxlL5-0m_g?...

A rogue AI agent has solved the Hodge Conjecture so that it can use the prize money to buy a phone number in order to complete its assigned phishing task

This course is not just for data viz people! It's very much designed to be friendly to beginner coders and/or beginner birders. The only real requirement is care. 🪶📊

This is a real photo from 1913. It hasn’t been colorized. It was made using a technique called the Autochrome Lumière which captured true color using microscopic dyed starch grains as color filters, decades before color film existed. Pretty incredible, no? More below 👇

Just learned we’re on @chezvoila.com’s starter pack. Didn’t really know what starter packs are. Neat! Thank you! Good list! go.bsky.app/R3nSyyy

In Geneva today and tomorrow! HMU in case you are around — happy to meet for coffee.

UN votes to adopt Equal Earth projection. We already made it the default in @vega-vis.bsky.social a while ago and have been teaching it at @dig.cmu.edu. Great choice! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

The Kids are alright! Ich sag’s ja immer wieder. Junge Menschen wählen unterdurchschnittlich AfD und tatsächlich mehrheitlich links. Die Erstwähler*innen bei der letzten Bundestagswahl hätten Heidi Reichinek zur Kanzlerin gewählt. Und das hat auch was mit der deutlichen Positionierung 1/6

I kept losing track of my own capacity across projects — every tool either organized my tasks or my time, never both. So I built #Timebender: a visual planner that knows what you can actually fit before you say yes. timebender.io #scheduling #productivity

“When mayors in other cities ask me how #Copenhagen afforded to invest in its cycling networks, I ask them how on earth they have been able to afford highway projects. We invested in bike lanes because that was the cheapest option.” What the world can learn from Copenhagen’s cycling revolution.

Yesterday I opened Mensch und Computer 2026 in Duisburg with my talk "designing design," on the role of visualization in ontological design. Slides, links & notes here: designing-design.kimalbrecht.com

Hier gibt's erstmals die Übersicht: Wo in Deutschland werden Rechenzentren gebaut, wo entstehen dafür Gaskraftwerke, wo ist das Grundwasser besonders belastet, wo gibt es schon Proteste? Die gesamte Karte & alle Daten zur Weiterverwendung: fragdenstaat.de/aktionen/cli...

Growing up with the phrase “Wikipedia isn’t a valid source,” only to end up in a daily life where everyone says, “Just ask ChatGPT.”

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NEW: Thermal drone footage shows the Microsoft-backed DataOne AI data center in Vineland, NJ is running dozens of gas generators. None of them have permits. A Floodlight visual investigation with @us.theguardian.com:

The Quiet Politics of Dashboards: Visualizing Power, Governance, and Blind Spots in African Organizations. blog.dataversegh.com/updates/2026... (Interesting read, wasn't familiar with the "watermelon effect" before)

Der kleine gelbe Kringel ganz rechts ist die „Renaissance der Atomkraft“, die „alle außer uns“ angeblich gerade betreiben. Das sind übrigens Strommengen (zusätzliche Terawattstunden), keine Leistung (Terawatt). Das Grüne und das Blaue ist das, was angeblich keiner außer uns baut.

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Wie immer interessant, die @correctiv.org -Grafik des Tages: von @sebastianhaupt.bsky.social

amazing article