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grayhaem.bsky.social
Doctor: I’m sorry, you have Microsoft Teams Exposure…. the only cure is watching a movie from the 90s on mute at your local dive bar
November 20, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Political cartoon titled 'Rebrand of the Week' showing the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) logo with its blue background and white diagonal lines transforming into a simplified orange logo reading 'CD' (Center for Disease). The cartoon suggests the CDC is being rebranded to remove 'Control and Prevention' from its name. Signed by Gorb.
August 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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eke.bsky.social
yo this guy is cooking
August 29, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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gelliottmorris.com
The best two things I ever did for my productivity/sanity was (1) I schedule time to answer email and I ONLY have the app open during these windows (1-1:30 and 4-4:30) and (2) I turn off all notifications on my phone except calls + texts from my family. I highly recommend this.
July 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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volts.wtf
Interesting research! Human beings are, by nature, extremely bad at noticing & appreciating the significance of gradual change over time. We notice binaries, on/offs, either/ors.

"Winter temperatures gradually rising." - no one cares

"Lake X used to freeze over; now it doesn't." - people notice
rachitdubey.bsky.social Rachit Dubey @rachitdubey.bsky.social · Apr 17
🚨 New in Nature Human Behavior! 🚨

Binary climate data visuals amplify perceived impact of climate change.

Both graphs in this image reflect equivalent climate change trends over time, yet people consistently perceive climate change as having a greater impact in the right plot than the left.

👇1/n
April 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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@mjskay.com i read the entrails of gudetama
Gudetama the depressed egg laying sideways. Gudetama the depressed egg laying on his back and saying "look away" Gudetama the depressed egg going "sigh..."
February 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
I think about this map a lot.

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/201...
This is a cartogram map of the United States depicting land use by different categories. The map distorts state shapes to represent proportional land usage. Key land use types include cow pasture/range (covering much of the central U.S.), private and federal timberland in the Pacific Northwest, corporate timberland in the Southeast, and urban housing/commercial areas in the Northeast. Other categories include agriculture (livestock feed, wheat exports, ethanol/biodiesel, cotton), protected lands (national parks, federal wilderness, state parks), and infrastructure (railroads, airports, highways). Additional specialized land uses include wildfires, golf courses, Christmas tree farms, and maple syrup production.
February 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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andrew.heiss.phd
Some context for what that kind of drop looks like. That's the lowest US score since the Civil War + a 1-year drop of that size puts us in the same company as events like Belarus's 1995 coup (though not as bad as Gambia in 1994 or Thailand in 2006)

#rstats code here: gist.github.com/andrewheiss/...
Plot showing US Polity scores since 1800, with the line consistently in the democracy range except for a drop into anocracy during the Civil War, a drop into anocracy in 2017, and a huge drop in 2025 Table showing the top 21 drops in Polity scores since 1985 Gambia 1993 → 1994 -15 Sudan 1988 → 1989 -14 Thailand 2005 → 2006 -14 Pakistan 1998 → 1999 -13 Bangladesh 2006 → 2007 -12 Comoros 2017 → 2018 -12 Nepal 2001 → 2002 -12 Peru 1991 → 1992 -12 Congo-Brazzaville 1996 → 1997 -11 Iran 2003 → 2004 -10 Thailand 2013 → 2014 -10 Fiji 2005 → 2006 -9 Mauritania 2007 → 2008 -9 Niger 1995 → 1996 -9 Niger 2008 → 2009 -9 Belarus 1994 → 1995 -8 Cambodia 1996 → 1997 -8 Solomon Islands 1999 → 2000 -8 Venezuela 2008 → 2009 -8 Congo Kinshasa 2015 → 2016 -8 United States 2024 → 2025 -8
February 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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theonion.com
‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson
‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson
February 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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coatless.bsky.social
See where $2.05B in NSF grant funding cuts hit hardest with an interactive dashboard showing impacts by state, institution & research area.

🌐 Dashboard: dashboard.thecoatlessprofessor.com/nsf-grant-cu...
💻 Code: github.com/coatless-das...

#highered #rstats #quarto
Dashboard overview of NSF funding cuts showing four key metrics at the top: Total Funding Lost ($2.059B), Total Grants Affected (3,483), Average Grant Size ($591,076), and Affected Institutions (700). Below is a choropleth map of the United States showing the financial impact of research funding cuts by state, with a color scale ranging from purple (<$50M) to yellow ($200M). Bar chart showing NSF grant funding distribution by institution type, with public universities receiving the most funding at around $1.4M, followed by private universities. Below the chart is a table titled 'Most Impacted Institutions' showing the University of Illinois at the top with $65.9M in lost funding across 32 grants Venn diagram showing overlap between different grant categories: Social Justice (1417 grants), Gender (238 grants), Race (120 grants), and Environmental (165 grants). The diagram shows various intersections between these categories, with numbers indicating the count of grants in each overlapping section Screenshot of a data explorer interface showing a table of NSF grant funding cuts. The table includes columns for Award ID, Recipient Name, State, Total Award Amount, NSF Funding Office, Award Type, and Social Justice Category. Notable entries include large grants to the University of Illinois and other institutions, with amounts ranging from $14.9M to $29.4M
February 13, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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anildash.com
I am ready to fist fight the world personally.
February 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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smachlis.bsky.social
The goal of the {findSVI} #RStats 📦 is "to calculate regional CDC/ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) at a geographic level of interest using US census data". Functions include find_svi() and get_census_data(). By Heli Xu & others
heli-xu.github.io/fi...
Calculate Social Vulnerability Index for Communities
Developed by CDC/ATSDR (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry), Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) serves as a tool to assess the resilience of communities by taking into account socioeconomic and demographic factors. Provided with year(s), region(s) and a geographic level of interest, findSVI retrieves required variables from US census data and calculates SVI for communities in the specified area based on CDC/ATSDR SVI documentation. Reference for the calculation methods: Flanagan BE, Gregory EW, Hallisey EJ, Heitgerd JL, Lewis B (2011) <doi:10.2202/1547-7355.1792>.
heli-xu.github.io
February 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM