iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
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Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia

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Brockmann Consult @brockmannconsult.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Offshore wind turbines can leave their mark on the sea — quite literally. 🌊 #Sentinel2 reveals striking sediment plumes behind turbine foundations in the shallow waters off eastern China. Our new #BCEarthGallery post explores these patterns. #EarthObservation #Sediment Check it out: bit.ly/4rAXtO5

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Koen Van den Eeckhout @vandeneeckhoutkoen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've been wanting to make this for ages... finally got around to finishing it. Here's my family tree of French sauces! Are you hungry yet? #infographic #dataviz #cooking #sauces #foodinfographic

Family tree of French sauces. A diagram in which lines run from basic ingredients on the left, through intermediate preparations like roux and mirepoix, to the five mother sauces in a central column (hollandaise, béchamel, velouté, espagnole and tomato sauce) and then on to their derivative sauces on the right. Design: Koen Van den Eeckhout.

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Joshua Stevens @jscarto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy to finally build and release the color ramp creator I’ve always wanted to use. Phosphor generates perceptually linear gradients and lets you edit, share, and export them for use in ArcGIS Pro, QGIS, GDAL, and other formats. I hope you find it helpful. www.joshuastevens.net/phosphor/

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Phosphor

Multi-hue color gradients with perceptually linear lightness. Export to CSS, Python, QGIS, ArcGIS Pro or GDAL.

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Boston, redrawn so distance is drive time: the streets swell as the roads clog. Harvard Square to Logan runs about 14 min before dawn, 21 in the evening crush. Method: Jeremy Vonderfecht. Streets: OpenStreetMap. #boston #maps #dataviz

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Bert Spaan @bertspaan.nl · 24/09/2026

I've made an interactive map for exploring the terrain of the world! It uses @mapterhorn.com data and tiles, and WebGL for dynamic colors and animations. relief.bertspaan.nl/world?lang=en

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Very cool #dataviz touch

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Information Plus Conference @infoplusconf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Information+ 2027 is coming to Milan! Join us on 7-9 June 2027 at Politecnico di Milano for three days of presentations, talks, workshops and exhibition pieces around information design and data visualization. The website is now live: informationplusconference.com #InformationPlus2027

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

1/x In the 1840s, a lame American naval officer, grounded at a desk in Washington, cut weeks off the world's ocean voyages without inventing a single machine. His raw material: a warehouse of logbooks nobody had ever read. Matthew Fontaine Maury, Pathfinder of the Seas. A 🧵 #maritimehistory

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Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Just like many planes don't have a Row 13, the UNEP overshoot report does not have a "Section 1.5".

1. Entering an era of 1.5°C overshoot..... 13

1.1 Global warming approaching 1.5°C..... 13
1.2 Futures lost and futures still available...... 15
1.3 The climate impacts of entering a 1.5°C world..... 18
1.4 Global warming reversal after overshoot...... 19
1.6 Adaptation and mitigation must move together in tackling overshoot....25

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Maarten Lambrechts @maartenzam.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Instant classic, like the original. I learned so much from these

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 19/08/2026

Woah.

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Mira Rojanasakul @rjnskl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Come work with my team on the very best beat: the Economics of Climate Change!!! Excited to make many beautiful charts with whoever gets this gig :) job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...

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Philippe Smet @pfsmet.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

De #Sentinel satellieten maken beelden in verschillende golflengtegebieden. Het nabije infrarood (SWIR) geeft duidelijk de brandhaarden op 16/08 aan in de #HogeVenen (met geel-oranje kleur). De satelliet passeert echter maar om de paar dagen over dezelfde plaats. Is de start zichtbaar? 1/n

Valsekleurenbeeld van de Hoge Venen met brandhaarden (vooral in het noordoosten) en afgebrand gebied (donkere kleur).

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Google Earth, a tool often used as a source of satellite imagery to verify photos and videos, has added a feature that allows you to alter satellite imagery with AI, for reasons. blog.google/products-and...

blog.google

Transform any place with Nano Banana in Google Earth

Custom images — generated from Google Earth satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery — help you redesign any location.

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Juuso Koponen @juusokoponen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

📊 My and @jhilden.bsky.social’s book has been out of print for some time, as our publisher closed down its general publishing arm. We are working on a 2nd edition, but it is not going to be ready anytime soon, so we’re making the current edition available as an e-book for €9.90. payhip.com/b/zbl43

payhip.com

Data visualization handbook

The Data visualization handbook by Juuso Koponen and Jonatan Hildén is a practical guide for creating compelling graphics to explain and explore data. It is primarily aimed at designers, journalists, ...

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Dailybits @dailybits.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

🤘🇧🇪😀

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I simply think you shouldn't be allowed to 1) have enough money to solve world hunger and 2) not do that.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Title:
“A pie chart of what the Mars Rover can see”

Image:
A pie chart. The lower half is orangy red. The upper half is divided into three, with a small browny red area and a small darker browny red area on each side with a larger cream section in the middle

Key:
Orangy red area: Surface of Mars
Cream : Sky
Browny red: Mountain
Dark browny red: Another mountain

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 12/06/2026

A London bus stop. Seems accurate to me.

A bright pink poster covers the front of a London bus shelter. A picture of Elon Musk in black tie, waving his arms about. Above it: 'If you have a trillion dollars in a world where children are starving, you're not a visionary, you're just a cunt.'

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Never pass up the chance to re up a delicious ternary diagram:

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Micah McCurdy @hockeyviz.com · 11/06/2026

⬣⬣⬣ WORLD CUP VIZ ⬣⬣⬣ Luke Benz (@recspecs730.bsky.social) made a model to measure the strengths of the teams in the Men's 2026 World Cup and I made viz from one million sims that shows the chances and the pathways for each team through the tournament. This thread updates (at least) daily.

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 09/06/2026

Just found this intriguing new function by Wadea Abu Dahoud for making a log-scale axis squiggly, mostly to act as a visual cue/speed bump that the axis isn't linear. github.com/wade31985-ar... #rstats #dataviz

Scatterplot showing acceleration time on the x-axis and logged price on the y-axis, with a squiggly y-axis to signal that it's logged

library(tidyverse)
library(qatarcars)

ggplot(qatarcars, aes(x = performance, y = price)) +
geom_point() +
annotation_squiggled_log_y_axis(
ymin = min(qatarcars$price),
ymax = max(qatarcars$price),
x0 = 0,
amplitude = 0.3,
linewidth = 0.35,
base = 10,
waves = 35,
n = 4000,
amplitude_power = 1.2,
wave_power = 0.5
) +
scale_y_log10(
breaks = c(1e4, 1e5, 1e6, 1e7),
labels = scales::label_currency(prefix = "QR "),
expand = expansion(mult = c(0, 0.1))
) +
labs(title = "Car performance and price for cars in Qatar") +
theme_classic() +
theme(
axis.line.y = element_blank(),
axis.ticks.y = element_blank(),
plot.title = element_text(hjust = 0.5, face = "bold")
)

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

And the shirts say “This is not a jersey” on the back:

Swatch of pink and blue cloth with small text written in French

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Maarten Lambrechts @maartenzam.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

We've just launched the Atlas of Global Development, an online publication presenting interactive stories and data visualizations (95 of them!) on key global trends In this thread I give some background and highlight some parts of the Atlas that I find noteworthy data360.worldbank.org/en/atlas/ 1/n

A square banner showing a sample of charts and maps, with a title that reads "Atlas of Global Development 2026"

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Aria Argenta 🏳️‍⚧️ @ariargenta.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Sometimes I really… Really would like to get the reciprocal of the current situation in the world 🫩

A two-panel math meme comparing a function and its inverse using the "This is Fine" dog.

Top panel: On the left, the text reads "f(x)". On the right, the original "This is Fine" comic shows a dog sitting at a table with a mug while the room is engulfed in flames. The dog says, "This is fine."

Bottom panel: On the left, the text reads "f to the power of negative 1 of x", representing the inverse function. On the right, the roles are reversed: a character made of fire sits at the table saying "This is fine," while the room is filled with many small dogs instead of flames.

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ændra. @aendra.com · 05/05/2026

I had the immense honour of being invited to work on the World Bank's Atlas of Global Development 2026 project last year and today it finally launched. I couldn't be more excited, it has been a career highlight to work with such an amazing team on this.

data360.worldbank.org

Atlas of Global Development

The Atlas of Global Development presents interactive storytelling and data visualizations on key global trends related to people, prosperity, our planet, infrastructure, and digital transformations.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 23/04/2026

Border Message xkcd.com/3236/

Comic. Map boundary line between Easy Valley and Southlake. The border is shaped to outline text: We hope you’re enjoying this map [caption] When local legislators get bored

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

A bit of a different take on the amazing Artemis II launch footage. Here I stitched clips from the four Solar Array Wing Cameras to make this panoramic video. This is during the later part of the Core Stage burn until MECO and stage separation, sped up to 10x. 🔭🧪 #Artemis

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Christoph Becker @chwb.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The inaugural FIFA Peace Prize recipient and FIFA World Cup 2026 host on Easter Sunday, 67 days prior to the first game of the World Cup.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/04/2026

Oh my. It's taken from the right side of an aircraft flying past Cape Canaveral just as the Artemis II mission was taking off. Source: Reddit (posted by u/Spook_485; I don't know if that's the person who took the video)

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Antonio Vecoli (@tonyveco on X) @tonyveco.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

🔴 🟡 ⚠️ 🌵 😷 Whole evolution of the #haboob that from southern Algeria and Marocco has crossed Northwestern #Africa, as well as engulfing #Canary Islands, reporting more than 1300ug/m3 of PM10 in #Tenerife ⬇️ 24hrs animation from Meteosat-12 on 30-31 March, with GeoColor and Dust RBG.Data via #EumetView

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Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

In awe of the dust storm we saw earlier today. Just an epic view.

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Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

An 800+ mile long haboob sweeping across northwest Africa. My oh my...

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 🎂Mar 5, 1512 Gerardus Mercator born in Rupelmonde, Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪 1569: he Invented of cylindrical projection for portraying the globe on maps, to preserve straightness of rhumb lines (for better or worse, but it helped Europeans navigate the seas)

An early world map using the Mercator projection, which makes the northern hemisphere appear lager. It takes the form of two circular maps, one for N/S America, the other for Africa/Europe/Asia

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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

NEW MARSUPIALS

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 06/03/2026

Satellite images from NASA Worldview on March 5 reveal the extent of the blackout in Cuba. A failure at the most important power plant, combined with the US blockade on fuel shipments in the country has left nearly 70% of the island's inhabitants without power.

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Gregor Aisch @driven-by-data.net · 04/03/2026

I made an animated map of ship movements in the Straights of Hormuz using data from marinetraffic.com. Ship track frames rendered using #ggplot, base map created using #gdal, video editing using #ffmpeg, video player written in #svelte. 🎁 www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...

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Straße von Hormus: So legt der Krieg die Straße von Hormus lahm

Seit Samstag droht der Iran damit, Schiffe anzugreifen, die die Straße von Hormus passieren. Sehen Sie hier, welche Folgen das für den Verkehr in der Meerenge hat.

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Trump's trying to find the guy who did this.

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Benjamin Strick @bendobrown.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I built a free tool that shows how night-time lights have changed anywhere on Earth. Here's how it works and why it's useful for monitoring conflict, disasters, development and growth. 👇

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Gerard van der Schrier @gerardvdschrier.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

What a difference a year makes! In mid-February 2025, northeastern Morocco was affected by severe drought. One year later and after 2 months of rain, these Copernicus Sentinel-3 images show that the region has been transformed into an expanse of green vegetation.

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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 20/02/2026

using LLMs for certain types of coding tasks has made me crank output faster but I can actively feel my understanding and my sense of craftsmanship diminishing, and I don't like that feeling at all

Diagram showing “Understanding” (blue) and “Execution” (orange) over time. For most of history, they rise together from the same point. After a dashed horizontal line labeled as the present, execution curves upward more steeply than understanding. Text reads: “With AI, execution increasingly outpaces understanding” and “For most of history, what we could do was evidence of what we understood.”

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