iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Miska Knapek @miskaknapek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

UK Meteorological Office bringing 3d data visualisation #datavis to the next level #datascience well done :D

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So excited to have finally seen the Guggenheim!

Photo of a car park with a spiral ramp in Worcester UK

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My list of data-related resources had a bit of a re-fresh recently! They're now all in the one site. You can still browse by topic or see them all at once! 📊 Link: nrennie.rbind.io/resources/ #RStats #DataViz #StatsEd

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026

What on earth is happening?

This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.

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Ash @ashstoneman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Time to burn my Ed Sheeran cd

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The RNLI has said the abuse of volunteers in Portsmouth has forced it to close the lifeboat station there and stop operating since September 10. Nearby stations have been providing cover to the area instead. One of the UK's largest coastal cities without a lifeboat because of the far-right.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New: Macklemore will donate entire $1M of his earnings from Ed Sheeran's tour to six orgs helping Palestinians — and invites Robert Kraft to match him. Says he wants to center Palestinians being killed + journalists & aid workers who keep going. "Their risk is of a far different order than mine."

With everything that has happened over the last 48 hours, I want to bring the conversation back to where it belongs: to the Palestinian people who are still being killed, still living under military occupation, and still fighting for their freedom.
I will be donating the entire $1 million of my net earnings from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour to six organizations working directly to support the Palestinian people. And I invite Robert Kraft to match my donation. Whatever we disagree about, perhaps we can agree on this: Palestinian lives are worth protecting. A Palestinian life is no less valuable than any other life on this earth.
That is what this has always been about. Not me. Not a tour. Not the headlines or the controversy. It is about Palestinians right to freedom, dignity and safety in their own homeland. I want to center the parents carrying their children into hospitals without the basic resources to treat them, and the physicians, paramedics, journalists and aid workers who keep going back in. I want to center the organizers and activists who have paid real costs for standing with Palestine. Their risk is of a far different order than mine.
Just yesterday, 15 year old Muhammad al Zinati was killed in an Israeli strike while rushing to help aid worker Sherif Lubbad, who had already been injured. He was a child. Both were murdered. Both should be alive. And the ones still under the rubble, whose names exist only in the memories of people who may not have survived to speak them. Writing a check is one of the least costly forms of solidarity available to me. I am doing it because I can, and because these organizations are doing the work while much of the world debates it.
But aid alone cannot address the conditions that make it necessary. This is a manmade injustice, and I believe it requires immediate political change. Palestinians have lived for decades without basic rights and should not have to wait another day to be free. That is where my focus will remain. I will …

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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 05/08/2026

“Everyone has a strong incentive to lie about how much AI is delivering for their companies”: Cory @doctorow.pluralistic.net on why the people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: the people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying. “AI” written in large wonky font against a black background

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Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith @mewefree.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Is there a market on Kalshi where I can bet on the British Museum refusing to return the #BayeuxTapestry?

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 15/07/2026

The report demonstrates how 2025 was the warmest year in the UK series from 1884, with the last four years in the top five warmest. The number of days over 30C has quadrupled for Greater London for the most recent decade compared to 1961-1990. 🧵2/

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Sarah Drummond @rufflemuffin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Took a break to build BinFax for the people of Clacton binfax.netlify.app

A ceefax page in black with yellow and white font. It says One man, one bin, one chance to save clacton.

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Jo Wood @jwolondon.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

London Data Week #LDW starts today with an interesting and packed programme of free events (but book in advance): londondataweek.org/ldw26-events/ I will be giving a talk on Friday about revealing voting biases with 📊 following the recent local elections. londondataweek.org/ldw26-events...

BallotMap for London showing name-ordering bias in ranked votes

A grid of 32 squares arranged in an approximate diamond shape representing the 32 boroughs of London.

Each square is a London borough. Within each, the candidates for the main parties are shown as coloured lines (Greens: green, Labour: red, LibDems: orange, Conservatives: blue, Reform: cyan, Aspire: pink). They are ordered in rows where the top row is the alphabetically first candidate within their party and ward, the second row alphabetically second, and the bottom row alphabetically last. Darkest lines are those where the candidate received most votes within their party; medium lines where they received the middle number of votes within their party and lightest lines where they received the fewest.

Only those in ballots where they were one of three party candidates shown.

This allows us to see where people have split their vote between parties, choosing just one or two from the slate of three in a given party.

A darker lines in the top row compared to the bottom row of each square indicates voting perference for candidates with names closer to start of alphabet.

We see darker lines in the top row for every borough in London. Some boroughs with particularly strong name bias (strong contrast between top and bottom rows) include Enfield (Enf), Havering (Hvg), Bromley (Brm) and Merton (Mrt). Slightly weaker effects can be seen in Richmond (Rch) and Tower Hamlets (Tow) where party preference exerts a strong influence.

Voting data: Democracy Club, 21st May, 2026.

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I feel like I've been seeing a lot less #England flags around my neighbourhood for #WorldCup2026 than during previous major football tournaments... Which got me thinking whether it might have anything to do with culture wars and most people generally being decent human beings?! #VennDiagram

Infographic venn diagram titled "Why aren’t there moreEngland flags for the World Cup?". Small circle for people who hang flags because "England is for the English". Larger overlapping circle for people who usually hang flags to support the England team. Most of the larger circle shaded to suggest that people who think foreigners should feel welcome are less likely to hang flags in 2026 than in previous years.

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

What if we made data tables where the numbers were sized according to the size of the number! No?!? #BadDataViz

Illegible data table showing the populations of local authorities in the North East of England where the numbers are scaled based on how big the number is

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Dario Perkins @darioperkins.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

such a cool chart. The UK just has no highly-productive mid-sized cities... look at the gap in the middle of the orange bubbles

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Henry Lau @henrylau.co.uk · 21/05/2026

Today we published an explainer looking at ONS numbers on British migrants; what we know and what we don't know. www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

Emigration of British nationals has been broadly stable recently - but remains lower than in September 2021

Estimated migration levels to and from the UK are higher after applying improved methods

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Isaac Arroyo @isaacarroyov.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

A ceasefire was declared in Lebanon on April 16. The data tells a different story. @fadahjassem.bsky.social and I analysed figures from @acleddata.bsky.social, UNHCR, and Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health, and here are some of the numbers🧵 #datajournalism #datavisualization #dataviz

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I shared the data from this recent interactive #TwinCities visualisation for this week's #TidyTuesday #DataViz challenge. So cool to see what people came up with. A few examples in this 🧵... bsky.app/profile/both... 1/n

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Ooh. Stats explained using the art of witchcraft...

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Israeli soldiers are detonating entire villages in South Lebanon while taking selfies. Ancient mosques, churches, cemeteries, schools, hospitals - all being obliterated by the genocidal regime www.instagram.com/reel/DWrg5xi...

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Fantastic piece this on neuroscience, brain development and what this tells us about AI in educational settings:

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The Cost of No Friction

Adolescence happens once.

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Visualising Climate @visualisingclimate.com · 24/04/2026

⏳ Deadline extended! Submissions for Visualising Climate 2026 are now open until 14 May (00:00 CET). We welcome talks, workshops & papers. Science, art & data storytelling meet. Come see the data. Imagine new ways forward. #VisualisingClimate2026 #DataViz Join us in Bologna visualisingclimate.com

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Visualising Climate 2026 — Conference

The first global conference dedicated to how data visualisation can transform public understanding of climate change and support informed decision-making.

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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

People are good sometimes. I’m a disabled writer and editor who can’t offer preorders but everyone is coming together to make sure that I have my needs met while I put together this anthology. Just 10% to go now. www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...

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Thyme Travellers 2

An anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction

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Surbhi Bhatia @surbhaai.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

#Day19: Evolution Tried a chart about the evolution of charts! Centuries of trying to understand the world through data and graphics visualised. Data: www.datavis.ca/milestones/ by @datavisfriendly.bsky.social #30DayChartChallenge #dataviz @infobeautiful.bsky.social @datavizsociety.bsky.social

A horizontal timeline chart titled “Viz-ibly, we’ve come a long way: The evolution of maps, graphs and data visualisation,” spanning from 6000 BC to the 2000s. Events are grouped into four rows: Cartography, Statistics & Graphics, Technology, and Other.

In Cartography, milestones are marked such as first known map (6200 BC), first world map (550 BC), latitude/longitude (90 AD), cylindrical projection (1569), first modern atlas (1570), choropleth maps (1819, 1826), London Underground map (1933), GIS (1960), and early weather and disease maps.

In Statistics & Graphics, markers include early star charts and Earth measurements (240–134 BC), planetary diagrams (950), first data graph (1644), bar and line graphs (1786), pie chart (1801), mortality curves (1828), age pyramid (1874), and later methods like Chernoff faces, treemaps, parallel coordinates, ISOTYPE, Grammar of Graphics, and Gapminder.

In Technology, markers include parchment (170 BC), paper (105 AD), movable type (1453), graph paper (1794), lithography (1798), first photograph (1827), first digital computer (1944), Fortran (1957), and S language (1978).

In Other, milestones include color system diagrams (1758), periodic table (1869), and fisheye view (1981).

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

#HottingUp! A visualisation of the warmest years on record in 180 countries around the world. A belated entry for the #30DayChartChallenge Day 20 theme of #GlobalChange. 🧵1/4

Hotting Up! A visualisation of the 20 warmest years on record by country, from 1850 to 2020. The graphic shows a barcode-like visualisation for each country, with the bars clustered towards the right, showing a general warming trend across the globe. For all 180 countries, 2020 was one of the 20 hottest years on record.

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I've recently made some changes to the gallery of all my data visualisations 📊 Most examples now have links to the underlying source code! If you see something you like, you can see how it was made 🤩 #DataViz #RStats

Screenshot of data visualisation gallery

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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

All that remains of the southern Lebanese village of Aita al-Shaab.

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Ever wondered what a network of twin cities around the world would look like? I grabbed some data from #Wikidata a while ago, and thought #Experimental day 5 of the #30DayChartChallenge was a good excuse to share this half-finished gizmo with the world. Enjoy! bothness.github.io/twin-cities/ 1/3

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Ansgar Wolsing @ansgarw.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The share of female astronauts among the crew members on space missions has risen slowly over the past few decades. Nevertheless, the crew remains predominantly male. Inspired by the #ArtemisII mission. #30DayChartChallenge | Day 3 - Mosaic #ggplot2

A mosaic chart which resembles a bar chart, but the width of the bars is proportional to an absolute number. The x axis are the decades from the 1960s to the 2020s (through 2023). The y axis shows the share of crew members by gender.
Female crew members over the decades:
1960s: 0.1%, 1970s: 0%, 1980s: 6%, 1990s: 15%, 2000s: 13%, 2010s: 13%, 2020s: 19%

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

You’ve read heaps about the Strait of Hormuz recently. This visual guide by Al Jazeera features cool maps (worth skimming over even if you’ve done your research already). Source: aje.news/ttm5q7

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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Giving this a go, and I found loops like Dunedin - Edinburgh - Saint Petersburg - Shanghai -Dunedin interesting. But I am just as interested in what must be the history behind singletons like Otaru (only paired with Dunedin) bothness.github.io/twin-cities/

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Charlie Radclyffe @charlierad.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

So grateful to @bothness.bsky.social for introducing me to the Bluesky tag #30DayChartChallenge What a glorious series of posts to appreciate by so many folk around the world, inc @allisonhorst.bsky.social example below ❤️

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Here's a starter pack in case you'd like to follow all of the beautiful nerds responsible for the nifty #charts 📊, #maps 🗺️ and fun interactive #DataVis tools (+ occasional games/quizzes) published by the ONS... And also some #30DayChartChallenge entries this month! go.bsky.app/Cq2r7z6

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#30DayChartChallenge @30daychartchall.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Just one day - or, depending on your timezone maybe just a few hours - until the next #30DayChartChallenge kicks off. 🚀 1 prompt for each day of April across 5 categories to spark inspiration, experimentation, and learning. 📊 Who's in? 👀 #dataviz #datavisualization

A banner with the prompts for the 6th edition of the 30DayChartChallenge

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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The Kickstarter for Thyme Travellers 2 is launching soon. Follow to get notified when the page is live! www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...

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Coming soon: Thyme Travellers 2

An anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Watch out for some exciting charts from the ONS #DataViz team this month as part of the #30DayChartChallenge. I'll try to add them all to this 🧵 1/n

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 29/01/2026

The Open Visualization Academy launches TOMORROW MORNING (EST) openvisualizationacademy.org with 7 courses; we'll release 1-2 more/month beginning in February. Sneak peek at our website, designed by @vsueiro.bsky.social and Melissa Strong #dataViz #dataVisualization #infographics #dataJournalism

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 05/01/2026

🌎 Today, I'm happy to release "First Basemap," a free tutorial that shares one of our most valuable recent innovations at Reuters. palewi.re/docs/first-basemap

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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

A picture is worth 1000 words... This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK. Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect. Chapeau!

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026 🧵

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Maria Abreu @mariaabreu.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Wonderful article, just lovely.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

"The important question is not whether a genocide has been taking place in Gaza, but how it happened and how it was allowed to happen." brunomacaes.substack.com/p/gaza-the-r... @brunomacaes.bsky.social

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Gaza: The Reckoning

The debate on whether Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute a genocide is now closed, and has been closed for a while.

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