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Maarten Lambrechts
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Data visualization consultant at the Development Data Group of the World Bank
www.maartenlambrechts.com
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Details of the Garzweiler surface mine - Germany

🌍 : maps.app.goo.gl/JJbyiLQvkJ8R...
4K link : imgur.com/a/h5r35F5
November 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
It's been a while, but I'm doing a little public talk again soon
Less than two weeks to go until Geomob Belgium 🇧🇪 on November 18th, this time in Antwerp!

Great line-up of speakers thanks to organizers Han Tambuyzer of Nazzka Mapps and Ben Abelshausen of Anyways. Thank you to Buurtcentrum Cortina for hosting the event.
November 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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This is Monty Python and I refuse to believe otherwise
The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground.

"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.

"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
November 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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New video: A glacier on Antarctica’s Eastern Peninsula experienced the fastest retreat recorded in modern history—in just two months, nearly 50 percent of the glacier disintegrated. Watch this video to understand what happened. Study by @ciresnews #Antarctica #glaciermelt
November 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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At 185 mph maximum sustained winds, Cat 5 Hurricane #Melissa is now just 7 mph shy of what @michaelfwehner.bsky.social r.bsky.social & Jim Kossin have defined as the cutoff for a prospective "Cat 6" hurricane:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
October 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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12 hours of Hurricane #Melissa, one frame every minute. 🛰️🗺️
October 28, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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The before and after of the East Wing demolition is wild... 😨

See for yourself: shorturl.at/TrWu3

#WhiteHouse #WhiteHouseWall #EastWing #Trump
October 24, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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Absolutely delighted to catch up with Xenographics, an initiative of @maartenzam.bsky.social. It was a big thing on Twitter some 4-5 years ago and I wish that the conversation would carry over on Bluesky. 📊

xeno.graphics
Xenographics – Weird but (sometimes) useful charts
xeno.graphics
October 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Waimakariri River, New Zealand
October 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Hi. It's me. 2 weeks later. This is done. 58 frames over 3 seconds, *50* layers in the final image. WOO. This was a long edit, felt like ACTUAL work so unless I get it again with the actual sunset I doubt I'll be editing more like this. Psyched for the final piece tho! 🪶
September 28, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Very sad data journalist job posting
October 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Part of Wadden Sea in false color

More: whc.unesco.org/en/list/1314/

📸🛰 #Sentinel2

Footage: @sentinelonline.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Salesforce owns Tableau. Time to drop all mentions from classes and trainings #dataViz
Salesforce told ICE that its A.I. software could help the agency nearly triple its staff, according to internal documents, as President Trump expands immigration raids and deportations around the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
October 17, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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"The data's in PDF."
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/
"The chancellor approved it"
October 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Since I keep rediscovering it:

David Rumsey's Historical Map Collection is an absolutely fantastic resource, also for historical #datavis

www.davidrumsey.com
October 12, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology
October 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States
I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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October 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
These must be some of the most morally bankrupt graphics ever made
NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
October 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Updated a classic.
October 8, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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The war in Gaza has been going on for two years. It must end.
October 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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2015-2024

😊📹

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October 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Our researchers have noticed today that NASA FIRMS, one of the main free and available open source sites for monitoring fires around the world has a new notice on it stating that NASA is no longer updating the site due to a lack in federal funding. firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/
October 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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The amazingly astonishing Assiniboine River, Manitoba, Canada, again.
September 30, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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So here it is: my dumb data viz experiment. 🍩

✔️ Solves the continuity problem
❌ Harder to spot patterns
❌ Hours are visually distorted

But hey… not everything has to be practical, sometimes it’s just fun! 😅 Also: how cool would it be to create a physical object like this?
September 29, 2025 at 11:29 PM