Amanda Shendruk
@ashendruk.com
https://www.not-ship.com/
Explaining the world through data and design • Formerly Washington Post, Quartz, the Guardian. 🇨🇦 🏴
Explaining the world through data and design • Formerly Washington Post, Quartz, the Guardian. 🇨🇦 🏴
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It's not just you. Uncertainty is through the roof.
The world is a lot right now.
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This is Not-Ship: a newsletter using data and visuals to navigate our turbulent world.
Everything is A LOT lately. It's all so uncertain. And the way I try to make sense of things is with data. So, that's what Not-Ship is all about. Come chart the chaos with me.
www.not-ship.com/its-not-just...
Everything is A LOT lately. It's all so uncertain. And the way I try to make sense of things is with data. So, that's what Not-Ship is all about. Come chart the chaos with me.
www.not-ship.com/its-not-just...
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The stakes: If the 2003 European heatwave was repeated in a world 1.5C hotter (basically now), it would kill 18,000 people in a week
- that is comparable to peak COVID-19 mortality
#cop30 #climatecrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- that is comparable to peak COVID-19 mortality
#cop30 #climatecrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Increasing risk of mass human heat mortality if historical weather patterns recur - Nature Climate Change
The authors couple calculations of historical heatwave intensity at present and future global temperatures with exposure–response functions to quantify mortality from extreme heat events in Europe. Th...
www.nature.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Banking with carbon-intensive institutions may mean 20-30% of your deposits go toward dirty industries. Choice of bank can be more impactful than air travel habits. 🤯
My latest: Banks behaving badly, and this striking finding from @projectdrawdown.bsky.social
www.not-ship.com/banks-are-fu...
My latest: Banks behaving badly, and this striking finding from @projectdrawdown.bsky.social
www.not-ship.com/banks-are-fu...
Banks are funding climate chaos. You don't have to.
Switching banks could be one of the most climate-friendly decisions you make.
www.not-ship.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Banking with carbon-intensive institutions may mean 20-30% of your deposits go toward dirty industries. Choice of bank can be more impactful than air travel habits. 🤯
My latest: Banks behaving badly, and this striking finding from @projectdrawdown.bsky.social
www.not-ship.com/banks-are-fu...
My latest: Banks behaving badly, and this striking finding from @projectdrawdown.bsky.social
www.not-ship.com/banks-are-fu...
Do you bank at one of these banks? You could be contributing to the climate crisis a lot more than you think.
But you can do something about it!
www.not-ship.com/banks-are-fu...
But you can do something about it!
www.not-ship.com/banks-are-fu...
November 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Do you bank at one of these banks? You could be contributing to the climate crisis a lot more than you think.
But you can do something about it!
www.not-ship.com/banks-are-fu...
But you can do something about it!
www.not-ship.com/banks-are-fu...
Reposted by Amanda Shendruk
Where you bank might have a greater impact on your carbon footprint than your air travel 🤯
www.not-ship.com/banks-are-fu...
www.not-ship.com/banks-are-fu...
November 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Where you bank might have a greater impact on your carbon footprint than your air travel 🤯
www.not-ship.com/banks-are-fu...
www.not-ship.com/banks-are-fu...
Reposted by Amanda Shendruk
Climate variations over the last 2000 years provide valuable context and help answer questions about how unusual the recent changes are.
Now with added global sea level rise: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/climate-ch...
Graphics: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Now with added global sea level rise: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/climate-ch...
Graphics: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
November 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Climate variations over the last 2000 years provide valuable context and help answer questions about how unusual the recent changes are.
Now with added global sea level rise: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/climate-ch...
Graphics: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Now with added global sea level rise: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/climate-ch...
Graphics: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Where you bank might have a greater impact on your carbon footprint than your air travel 🤯
www.not-ship.com/banks-are-fu...
www.not-ship.com/banks-are-fu...
November 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Where you bank might have a greater impact on your carbon footprint than your air travel 🤯
www.not-ship.com/banks-are-fu...
www.not-ship.com/banks-are-fu...
Reposted by Amanda Shendruk
My new big visualization project is out: The Trans News Initiative, a collaboration between UM's School of Communication, the Trans Journalists Association, and Polygraph (The Pudding): transnewsinitiative.org Here's a piece about it in the Columbia Journalism Review: www.cjr.org/news/visuali...
Trans News Initiative
A database and analysis of news coverage affecting trans communities.
transnewsinitiative.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
My new big visualization project is out: The Trans News Initiative, a collaboration between UM's School of Communication, the Trans Journalists Association, and Polygraph (The Pudding): transnewsinitiative.org Here's a piece about it in the Columbia Journalism Review: www.cjr.org/news/visuali...
True: Our world is messy and uncertain.
Also true: Trying to understand it can be fun!
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Also true: Trying to understand it can be fun!
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Not-Ship
A newsletter charting the age of uncertainty
www.not-ship.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
True: Our world is messy and uncertain.
Also true: Trying to understand it can be fun!
Sign up to Not-Ship: A data-friendly (and human-friendly) dive into the chaos. Once a week, right to your inbox.
Next one lands in less than 24 hours!
www.not-ship.com
Also true: Trying to understand it can be fun!
Sign up to Not-Ship: A data-friendly (and human-friendly) dive into the chaos. Once a week, right to your inbox.
Next one lands in less than 24 hours!
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Reposted by Amanda Shendruk
This is all the data that Elon and the DOGE criminals stole from us in January/February.
Also, only citizens can have voter registrations.
Also, only citizens can have voter registrations.
license plate data merged with credit header data, marriage records, vehicle ownership, and voter registrations, in one app for ICE agents. oh and it sends push notifications when someone they're seeking is nearby.
🆒: www.404media.co/this-app-let...
🆒: www.404media.co/this-app-let...
This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country
Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.
www.404media.co
November 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This is all the data that Elon and the DOGE criminals stole from us in January/February.
Also, only citizens can have voter registrations.
Also, only citizens can have voter registrations.
This is Not-Ship: a newsletter using data and visuals to navigate our turbulent world.
Everything is A LOT lately. It's all so uncertain. And the way I try to make sense of things is with data. So, that's what Not-Ship is all about. Come chart the chaos with me.
www.not-ship.com/its-not-just...
Everything is A LOT lately. It's all so uncertain. And the way I try to make sense of things is with data. So, that's what Not-Ship is all about. Come chart the chaos with me.
www.not-ship.com/its-not-just...
It's not just you. Uncertainty is through the roof.
The world is a lot right now.
www.not-ship.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
This is Not-Ship: a newsletter using data and visuals to navigate our turbulent world.
Everything is A LOT lately. It's all so uncertain. And the way I try to make sense of things is with data. So, that's what Not-Ship is all about. Come chart the chaos with me.
www.not-ship.com/its-not-just...
Everything is A LOT lately. It's all so uncertain. And the way I try to make sense of things is with data. So, that's what Not-Ship is all about. Come chart the chaos with me.
www.not-ship.com/its-not-just...
Reposted by Amanda Shendruk
My October newsletter, issued to subscribers at the end of the month, is now opened for all to view. Check out the latest 50 best things I've encountered in the #dataviz field.
visualisingdata.com/2025/11/the-...
visualisingdata.com/2025/11/the-...
The October 2025 newsletter is now open to all - Data Viz Excellence, Everywhere
My October newsletter, sent out to subscribers at the end of last month, is now open for all to read. You can access this issue, as well as visit the growing catalogue of previous issues, on the Newsl...
visualisingdata.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM
My October newsletter, issued to subscribers at the end of the month, is now opened for all to view. Check out the latest 50 best things I've encountered in the #dataviz field.
visualisingdata.com/2025/11/the-...
visualisingdata.com/2025/11/the-...
Reposted by Amanda Shendruk
I sent a couple freelance pitches out to cover beehiiv’s launch and thought maybe outlets didn’t think it was newsworthy but apparently they did!
November 14, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I sent a couple freelance pitches out to cover beehiiv’s launch and thought maybe outlets didn’t think it was newsworthy but apparently they did!
When you need a break from doomscrolling through Epstein's emails, here's something uplifting: One of Europe's capital cities figured out how to reduce traffic deaths to .... zero. None. Not. A. Single. One.
www.not-ship.com/huh-apparent...
www.not-ship.com/huh-apparent...
Huh. Apparently cars don't have to kill people.
For a fast way to reduce traffic deaths: Just slow down.
www.not-ship.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:52 AM
When you need a break from doomscrolling through Epstein's emails, here's something uplifting: One of Europe's capital cities figured out how to reduce traffic deaths to .... zero. None. Not. A. Single. One.
www.not-ship.com/huh-apparent...
www.not-ship.com/huh-apparent...
"Some generations get a nationally televised car chase featuring O. J. Simpson fleeing police in a white Bronco. Others get the communal adrenaline rush of frantically “CTRL-F”-ing a House Oversight Committee trove of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails."
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
The Dumb Truth at the Heart of the Epstein Scandal
When QAnon meets Veep
www.theatlantic.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:58 AM
"Some generations get a nationally televised car chase featuring O. J. Simpson fleeing police in a white Bronco. Others get the communal adrenaline rush of frantically “CTRL-F”-ing a House Oversight Committee trove of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails."
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Reposted by Amanda Shendruk
I am shooting my shot.
I love writing op-eds.
@teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you.
Signed,
A Black woman who writes for the public
I love writing op-eds.
@teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you.
Signed,
A Black woman who writes for the public
November 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I am shooting my shot.
I love writing op-eds.
@teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you.
Signed,
A Black woman who writes for the public
I love writing op-eds.
@teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you.
Signed,
A Black woman who writes for the public
Reposted by Amanda Shendruk
Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.
Reposted by Amanda Shendruk
The White House is now saying that October jobs and inflation data will "likely never be released" — blaming the government shutdown.
November 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The White House is now saying that October jobs and inflation data will "likely never be released" — blaming the government shutdown.
Reposted by Amanda Shendruk
This is a great opportunity to work with our founder, @maxroser.bsky.social, and colleagues at Oxford — and the data produced by the project will be hosted on Our World in Data.
We’re recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher to join a new Oxford Martin programme led by renowned innovation scholars: Prof @maxroser.bsky.social, Prof @doynefarmer.bsky.social & Dr @francoislafond.bsky.social.
Help shape global insights into how technologies evolve.
Link in thread ⬇️
Help shape global insights into how technologies evolve.
Link in thread ⬇️
November 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This is a great opportunity to work with our founder, @maxroser.bsky.social, and colleagues at Oxford — and the data produced by the project will be hosted on Our World in Data.
I thought I was pretty content in life.
But now I know I'll never be happy until Canada joins Eurovision.
But now I know I'll never be happy until Canada joins Eurovision.
Canada pushes to join Eurovision: ‘This is about protecting our identity’
Canada pushes to join Eurovision: ‘This is about protecting our identity’
Country explores taking part in the glitzy song contest as it distances from the US and seeks to deepen ties with Europe
When Canada released its federal budget this month, much of it was standard fare, from the plans to downsize the public service to the boost in defence spending.
But one line tucked in the nearly 500-page document has captured imaginations on both sides of the Atlantic: a mention that the government is working with Canada’s national broadcaster to explore participation in the Eurovision song contest. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I thought I was pretty content in life.
But now I know I'll never be happy until Canada joins Eurovision.
But now I know I'll never be happy until Canada joins Eurovision.
You know that boyfriend meme "If he wanted to, he would"?
That, but applied to road deaths and city law makers.
Apparently they're not an inevitability of having cars.
www.not-ship.com/huh-apparent...
That, but applied to road deaths and city law makers.
Apparently they're not an inevitability of having cars.
www.not-ship.com/huh-apparent...
Huh. Apparently cars don't have to kill people.
For a fast way to reduce traffic deaths: Just slow down.
www.not-ship.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
You know that boyfriend meme "If he wanted to, he would"?
That, but applied to road deaths and city law makers.
Apparently they're not an inevitability of having cars.
www.not-ship.com/huh-apparent...
That, but applied to road deaths and city law makers.
Apparently they're not an inevitability of having cars.
www.not-ship.com/huh-apparent...
Continuing its streak of exceptionalism — the US has one of the highest rates of traffic deaths in the OECD.
Americans are 1.5x more likely to die in an automotive accident than Egyptians, 3x more likely than Canadians, and 6x more likely than the Brits.
www.not-ship.com/huh-apparent...
Americans are 1.5x more likely to die in an automotive accident than Egyptians, 3x more likely than Canadians, and 6x more likely than the Brits.
www.not-ship.com/huh-apparent...
November 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Continuing its streak of exceptionalism — the US has one of the highest rates of traffic deaths in the OECD.
Americans are 1.5x more likely to die in an automotive accident than Egyptians, 3x more likely than Canadians, and 6x more likely than the Brits.
www.not-ship.com/huh-apparent...
Americans are 1.5x more likely to die in an automotive accident than Egyptians, 3x more likely than Canadians, and 6x more likely than the Brits.
www.not-ship.com/huh-apparent...
Reposted by Amanda Shendruk
We often moan that Edinburgh isn’t doing enough about [lots of things]. But it seems our 20mph speed limits are pretty advanced internationally. Haven’t got to zero deaths from road traffic yet though.
Enjoying @ashendruk.com’s new newsletter.
www.not-ship.com/huh-apparent...
Enjoying @ashendruk.com’s new newsletter.
www.not-ship.com/huh-apparent...
Huh. Apparently cars don't have to kill people.
For a fast way to reduce traffic deaths: Just slow down.
www.not-ship.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:38 AM
We often moan that Edinburgh isn’t doing enough about [lots of things]. But it seems our 20mph speed limits are pretty advanced internationally. Haven’t got to zero deaths from road traffic yet though.
Enjoying @ashendruk.com’s new newsletter.
www.not-ship.com/huh-apparent...
Enjoying @ashendruk.com’s new newsletter.
www.not-ship.com/huh-apparent...
Here's a crazy thought.
What if we just didn't have vehicle deaths?
Well — one city pulled it off.
www.not-ship.com/huh-apparent...
What if we just didn't have vehicle deaths?
Well — one city pulled it off.
www.not-ship.com/huh-apparent...
Huh. Apparently cars don't have to kill people.
For a fast way to reduce traffic deaths: Just slow down.
www.not-ship.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Here's a crazy thought.
What if we just didn't have vehicle deaths?
Well — one city pulled it off.
www.not-ship.com/huh-apparent...
What if we just didn't have vehicle deaths?
Well — one city pulled it off.
www.not-ship.com/huh-apparent...
Catherine's work is some of the best! She's at the Bulwark now. Check it out!
Check out my inaugural newsletter for @thebulwark.com. And enjoy the Will Ferrell easter egg if you find it.
"Fortunately for Donald Trump, there’s One Weird Trick that can help cure stagflation without turning to Congress or the Fed. He could just cut tariffs." Or SCOTUS could do it for him - and us.
The first edition of Receipts from @crampell.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/how-the-su...
The first edition of Receipts from @crampell.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/how-the-su...
November 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Catherine's work is some of the best! She's at the Bulwark now. Check it out!