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Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez

@alfredohs.com
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Computational social scientist studying narratives in politics and finance. Quantitative Text Analysis | Data Visualization | Open-Source Tools in R www.alfredohs.com

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FIRSA @firsa.eu · 12h
🎥 New FIRSA webinar What have we learned from regulatory sandboxes across Europe — and what could make them work better? A short presentation drawing on the FIRSA project’s research on sandbox design, regulatory learning, and coordination. Watch here 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBjd...
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Lessons from European FinTech Sandboxes
YouTube video by FIRSA (MSCA-Horizon Project)
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Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez @alfredohs.com · 02/10/2026
I am super happy to see this paper finally out. We have a lot of research on how central bankers talk about inflation and growth were the stakes are clear. But what about something newer like FinTech? I explore this on a sample of speeches from the global north AND south. doi.org/10.1080/1356...
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Circumscribed disruption: FinTech narratives in central banking
The proliferation of financial technologies has sparked debate about their capacity to disrupt the political, regulatory, and monetary status quo. In policy discourse, FinTech is often framed as a ...
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FIRSA @firsa.eu · 13/09/2026
New FIRSA policy brief! 🏛️ Regulatory sandboxes are spreading across Europe, but their lessons are hard to compare and reuse. We propose a common reporting framework and joint thematic calls to turn experimentation into shared regulatory learning. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
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<div> Learning from Regulatory Sandboxes: A Common Reporting Framework and Joint Thematic Calls for European Innovation Facilitators </div>
<p>Regulatory sandboxes have expanded rapidly across Europe, but the evidence needed to assess and compare them remains limited. Drawing on eleven anonymised pr
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Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez @alfredohs.com · 09/09/2026
A great start to #ECPRGC26 in Kraków! Yesterday I co-chaired “The Political Economy of FinTech Disruptions” with Amy Verdun and presented a paper on central-bank narratives of fintech. Many thanks to Robert Csehi, the panellists and everyone who joined us!
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Journal of Open Source Software @joss-openjournals.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Just published in JOSS: 'DocuScope Corpus Analysis &amp; Concordancer: A Streamlit Application for Rhetorical and Linguistic Text Analysis' doi.org/10.21105/joss.10418
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Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez @alfredohs.com · 03/08/2026
📄 Paper + LaTex Beamer → 👨‍🦳💾 I made a Quarto + RevealJS AI skill that transforms papers into pretty and modern slides effortlessly. Just copy the GitHub repo or paste the url to your AI agent of choice! alfredohs.com/blog/quarto_... #Quarto #RevealJS #RStats #AcademicSky
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A Small Quarto Skill for Better Research Talks
A small, opinionated skill for turning papers and other source material into concise Quarto RevealJS presentations with AI coding agents.
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Jumping Rivers @jumpingrivers.com · 21/07/2026
We're hiring a DevOps Engineer, Newcastle or fully remote. Deploying and maintaining Posit products for clients across AWS, Azure, GCP and on-prem, with Terraform and CI/CD behind it. 2+ years, full-time. Details and how to apply: jumping-rivers.welcomekit.co/jobs/devops-... #DevOps #Hiring
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Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez @alfredohs.com · 19/07/2026
If you think you need to brush up on Homer before seeing The Odessey you are dead wrong! You also need to read Cline's "1177 B.C. The Year Civilization Collapsed"... #SeaPeoples
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FIRSA @firsa.eu · 16/07/2026
New FIRSA preprint 📄 Why do some European regulators adopt FinTech sandboxes while others choose different tools? Choosing Not to Experiment finds that non-adoption follows a clearer institutional logic than adoption. Early comments welcome. doi.org/10.33774/aps...
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Choosing Not to Experiment: Regulatory Sandbox Adoption and Policy Instrument Choice in Europe
Regulatory sandboxes are widely read as signals of innovation-friendly financial regulation and as evidence of regulatory modernity. Yet only eleven of thirty EU and EEA jurisdictions operate one. Thi...
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Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez @alfredohs.com · 16/07/2026
🐵 💵 Monkeys can trade, bargain, remember favours, and learn what a token buys. Yet they never developed money. I wrote about the infamous Yale “monkey brothel” and what it reveals about a harder question. When does a token become money? alfredohs.substack.com/p/no-monkey-... #EconSky
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No Monkey Business
What Yale's capuchin experiments reveal about where money actually comes from.
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Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez @alfredohs.com · 15/07/2026
For years, serious research presentations required an ugly LaTeX Beamer template. 🤮 Those days are over. 📊 I made a small AI skill for turning papers into Quarto and RevealJS presentations. Link to post below: alfredohs.com/blog/quarto_... #Quarto #RevealJS #AIAgents #AcademicTwitter
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A Small Quarto Skill for Better Research Talks
A small, opinionated skill for turning papers and other source material into concise Quarto RevealJS presentations with AI coding agents.
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FIRSA @firsa.eu · 24/06/2026
🚨 New Tutorial! A practical walkthrough for deploying an R Shiny app on Google Cloud Run, starting from a working app, a Dockerfile and a GitHub repository. 🔗 firsa.eu/posts/cloud_... #RStats #Shiny #GoogleCloud #OpenScience
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R Shiny and Google Cloud Run
This tutorial walks through a simple point-and-click workflow starting from a GitHub repository with an app.R and Dockerfile and then shows how to connect it to Cloud Run.
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Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez @alfredohs.com · 01/06/2026
📢 Join us on 17 June for an online webinar on Quantitative Text Analysis in the Age of LLMs. With @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social and Bertrand De Longueville. 17:00 UK, 18:00 Brussels, 19:00 Vilnius Register here: tinyurl.com/2pkcjxsw #QTA #LLMs #TextAsData
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FIRSA @firsa.eu · 13/05/2026
📊 FIRSA webinar on building research dashboards with R and Shiny is now online. It covers the basic structure of a Shiny app and practical design choices for clearer dashboarding, using the FIRSA dashboard as an example. 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=FICw... #RStats #Shiny #OpenScience
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Building Research Dashboards with R and Shiny
YouTube video by FIRSA (MSCA-Horizon Project)
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Teresa Talò @teresatalo.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Playing with census data, I built this interactive map of population density for Rome (my city 🫶). Data is v granular, you can zoom down to specific blocks 🤯. Rome is the EU's largest city by area, ~ the size of London, but with less than a third of its population teretalo.github.io/rome-pop-map...
spike map of Rome's population densitychoropleth map of Rome's population density
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FIRSA @firsa.eu · 28/04/2026
📊 Free webinar on 12 May Building Research Dashboards with R and Shiny RShiny basics for researchers, students, analysts, and other R users interested in interactive dashboarding for research communication. 18:30 Vilnius time (EEST) Registration: forms.gle/f9t9dpYTT3Gc... #RStats #dataviz
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Building Research Dashboards with R and Shiny
Free online webinar Tuesday 12 May 2026, 18:30 CEST (Vilnius) A practical introduction to building research dashboards with R and Shiny for researchers, PhD students, analysts, and other R users inte...
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FIRSA @firsa.eu · 14/04/2026
Happy to see our most recent tutorial on RSelenium featured in RWeekly (2026-W16)! The screencast below shows a minimal example of what can be done with automated browsers. Use responsibly! Tutorial: firsa.eu/posts/rselen... Follow RWeekly rweekly.org #Rstats #OpenScience #DataVisualization
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FIRSA @firsa.eu · 08/04/2026
Want to an easy way to learn web scraping? 🤖 Check out this new tutorial on Selenium in R. It covers how to automate web browsers to collect data from dynamic websites ➡️ firsa.eu/posts/rselen... #RStats #RSelenium #WebScraping #DataScience
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Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez @alfredohs.com · 07/04/2026
State of the world today: I got an email notification “The Great Taco Party”, Not immediately clear if it was from Uber Eats or @foreignaffairs.com …
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Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez @alfredohs.com · 01/04/2026
Some hot takes on AI: 1) LLMs are amazing editors but atrocious writers. They lack the creativity that comes from having an underlying model of the world. #AI #LLMS #coding #writing
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Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez @alfredohs.com · 31/03/2026
Trump will soon put his signature on the dollar. Why does this matter? I discuss this in my new Substack post. Link: alfredohs.substack.com/p/dollar-sig... #DonaldTrump #USDollar #AmericanPolitics
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Dollar Signs and Portents
In the Simpsons episode “Bart to the Future” (S11E17) a Native American shaman shows Bart a vision of his future as a warning for his misdeeds.
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FIRSA @firsa.eu · 23/03/2026
What are the odds you own crypto assets? 📉 How is financial literacy related to ownership? 📖 Our new dashboard lets you simulate the probability of recent crypto-asset ownership based on a statistical model. 🔗 dashboard.firsa.eu #bitcoin #rstats #shiny #crypto #fintech #OpenScience
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FIRSA @firsa.eu · 20/03/2026
📄 New FIRSA working paper. Are crypto holders really more overconfident? Using recent EU-wide data, I find the answer depends a lot on how overconfidence is measured. Pre-print version, comments welcome. 🔗 firsa.eu/posts/crypto... #FinTech #OpenScience #EUData #RStats
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MethodsNET @methodsnet.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The roadmap to your 2026 research goals starts here. 🗺️ Join the MethodsNET Summer School with CEU for advanced methodological training. Designed for researchers and faculty. Apply by April 20th. 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez @alfredohs.com · 10/03/2026
🚨 New Medium article on AI and expertise. We talk a lot about what AI can do for researchers, but much less about the precarious human labor quietly training these systems in the background. I wrote a short reflection on that tension here: medium.com/@alfredo-hs/... #AI #Inequality #FutureOfWork
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What happens after AI is done farming our expertise?
I was left unsettled after reading The Verge’s recent feature on Mercor and the growing market for expert training data. The piece explains…
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Now do the scam LIS jobs popping up on sites like Indeed that claim to be hiring for librarians but are just AI training.
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Teresa Talò @teresatalo.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
✊For International Women's Day, I built an interactive map tracking attitudes like "a man earns, a woman stays home." The east-west divide is stark. And as an Italian… yeah, Italy is not doing great 🙁 Built with Claude Code 🤯 → gender-attitudes.netlify.app #IWD2026 #GenderEquality #DataViz
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Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez @alfredohs.com · 08/03/2026
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A Crypto Coin Is Gobbling Up U.S. Treasuries
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Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez @alfredohs.com · 04/03/2026
🚨 New substack post AI and the future of social science research Will AI's speed "break" academia? What if AI changes what counts as research output in the first place? Link below: 🔗 substack.com/home/post/p-... #AI #SocialScience #ResearchMethods #AcademicTwitter
https://alfredohs.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-costs-of-doing-social
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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 28/02/2026
🔴 Los objetivos atacados por Israel y Estados Unidos, la respuesta de Terherán y el resto de mapas del ataque lanzado este sábado contra Irán
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Los mapas del ataque de Israel y Estados Unidos y la respuesta de Irán | Especial
Tras los bombardeos en varias ciudades de la República Islámica, han sido golpeadas las bases norteamericanas en Kuwait, Qatar, Emiratos Árabes y Bahréin
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Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez @alfredohs.com · 26/02/2026
💰 Is Bitcoin money or myth? 📢 Presenting this Saturday at the 6th Money View Symposium hosted by @ineteconomics.bsky.social Register here: 🔗 fs8.formsite.com/CNZLjX/0acgs... 📍 Online event, free attendance 📅 Saturday, February 28 ⏰ 12:30 New York #PoliticalEconomy #Monetarytheory #Bitcoin
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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
FinTech isn’t upending global finance as much as it’s being harnessed by central bankers to serve a controlled narrative. This paper presents a unified stance among regulators: innovation is welcomed but must be balanced against financial stability. By @alfredo-hs.bsky.social buff.ly/UJly81U
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(PDF) Narratives of FinTech: The Political Economy of Disruptive Discourse
PDF | In policy discourse, financial technology (FinTech) is commonly framed as a challenge between fostering innovation and safeguarding financial... | Find, read and cite all the research you need…
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Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez @alfredohs.com · 17/02/2026
🚨 I just released easytable 2.1.0. It is a small R package I built because I was tired of spending more time fixing regression tables than actually writing. Still in early stages, feedback is much appreciated! Tutorial alfredohs.com/posts/easyta... #RStats #openscience #datascience
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easytable 2.1.0
A short tutorial for easytable 2.1.0, an R package for creating regression tables with strong defaults.
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FIRSA @firsa.eu · 15/01/2026
Who owns crypto in Europe? Join the FIRSA Academic Roundtable (link below) to learn more about research on FinTech (CBDCs, Crypto, Regulatory Sandboxes) from top scholars. 📣 20 Jan · 10:00 CST (Chicago) / 18:00 EET (Vilnius) zoom.us/j/9443773243... Passcode: 995511
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FIRSA @firsa.eu · 14/01/2026
🚨 Academic roundtable on fintech regulation. Join the conversation with Colin Chia (University of Victoria), Ghita Chraibi (University of Virginia), and Vytautas Kuokštis (Vilnius University). 📣 (TUE) 20 Jan · 10:00 CST (Chicago) / 18:00 EET (Vilnius) 🔗: zoom.us/j/9443773243... #fintech #finance
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Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez @alfredohs.com · 21/11/2025
A quick scan of UNGA speeches shows a huge gender gap. From 1946 to 2024 almost all pronoun mentions are he/his. The only real bumps in she/her appear in the few years with a woman as UNGA President 👇 GitHub 🔗: github.com/alfredo-hs/u... #DataViz #TextAnalysis #GenderGap #DataForGood #RStats
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Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez @alfredohs.com · 02/11/2025
New tutorial out! 🚀 Learn how to chat with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini inside R using the {ellmer} package. Covers safe API setup, workflow integration, and structured outputs for text + images. 👉 alfredohs.com/posts/ellmer... #RStats #LLMs #DataScience
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The ELLMER Package
A tutorial for using the R Ellmer package for API access to LLMs
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Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez @alfredohs.com · 08/10/2025
Vibes capitalism ♈ 💰 didn’t start with Musk, it started in 1995. In my new Medium article I argue that the mid-90s shift lines up with shareholder-value culture and the rise of the celebrity CEOs. 🔗 medium.com/@alfredo-hs/... #SP500 #Markets #ShareholderValue #DataVisualization
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Vibes Capitalism and the Stock Market
One of the most surprising economic trends of the past few years has been how the stock market has kept climbing despite nearly a decade of…
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Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez @alfredohs.com · 25/09/2025
🇺🇸💔🇪🇺 Trump’s 2025 UN speech was the longest U.S. address on record and the most negative toward Europe. This is the focus of my first Medium article, where I track how Europe appears in U.S. UNGA speeches from 1946–2025 and visualize the results. 📖 Read on Medium: medium.com/@alfredo-hs/...
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Trump’s 2025 UN Speech Was the Most Anti-European on Record
Every September, world leaders speak at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) about the global issues they deem most important. These…
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FIRSA @firsa.eu · 24/09/2025
💡 FinTech = financial technology. ✅ Cheaper, faster, more inclusive finance ❌ New risks for consumers & regulators FinTech is central to the EU’s Digital Finance Strategy. 🔗 EU Digital Finance Strategy: finance.ec.europa.eu/digital-fina... #FinTech #DigitalFinance #EU
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Digital finance
New financial technologies can facilitate access to financial services and improve the efficiency of the financial system.
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Teresa Talò @teresatalo.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Perhaps we're getting closer to that day. Can't help but think of those who said it was "too complicated", who cast doubt on the death tolls, who claimed the images from Gaza couldn't be trusted.
One day, everyone will have always been against this.
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Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez @alfredohs.com · 16/05/2025
Are you an R user tired of missing out on the LLM craze? In my new tutorial I show how to use OpenAI’s GPT and Google’s Gemini models to classify political texts. I connect to the APIs directly from R using reticulate. alhdzsz.net/posts/llms_r... #rstats #dataviz #ai #python #textdata
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FIRSA @firsa.eu · 22/04/2025
Zero-shot classification and natural language inference (NLI) offer a powerful way to analyze political texts without labeled training data. This tutorial shows how to classify sentences using a pre-trained transformer model. Google Colab Link: colab.research.google.com/drive/1gCZBy...
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Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez @alfredohs.com · 20/04/2025
I’ve just published a hands-on tutorial on how to perform Named Entity Recognition (NER) using Python’s transformers library from within R via reticulate as part of my @firsa-eu.bsky.social project. #rstats #dataviz #python #ggplot2 #tidytuesday #nlp #ner firsa.eu/posts/ner_re...
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Named Entity Recognition in R
A tutorial for applying Named Entity Recognition in R with the reticulate package.
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Teresa Talò @teresatalo.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Total *number* of valid resident permits in the EU *by reason* (2023)
Map and waffle charts displaying the number of valid resident permits by reason in the EU at the end of 2023
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Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez @alfredohs.com · 27/11/2024
First post on Bluesky!
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
This map is art! Source: buff.ly/3V0rRSV
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milos makes maps @milos-makes-maps.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I had so much fun giving this vintage map of Europe a fresh twist by adding exaggerated relief! The original map comes from the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Want to learn how to bring old maps back to life? Check out my tutorial here: youtu.be/0HFEQU-ELKk
A beautifully detailed vintage map of Europe highlighting the continent's physical geography. The map showcases mountain ranges, such as the Alps and Scandinavian ranges, in raised relief with rich brown tones, while flatter regions are depicted in lighter shades of green. Water bodies, including the North Sea and Mediterranean, are colored in soft blue. The map provides a timeless aesthetic, combining historical cartographic techniques with geographic clarity.
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
If you recently found a romantic (heterosexual) partner in the US and you haven't met through an online platform you are part of a minority. Source: buff.ly/3NoN05y
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