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Chris Jeavans
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Senior data journalist at BBC News / BBC Verify. Social trends, health, elections, inequality. Runner, nature-lover, Midlander in London.
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Last week I learned that gerrymandering gets its name from a Massachusetts governor called Elbridge Gerry and the shape of a redrawn Boston district, said to resemble a salamander. H/T @therestpolitics.bsky.social US!
The front page of the Salem Gazette, Friday, 2 April, 1813. It has an image of the redrawn district of Boston which has been turned into a contorted dragon shape, with clawed feet, wings and sharp teeth
August 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos, writes @georginarannard.bsky.social
The intricate tattoos of leopards, a stag, a rooster, and a mythical half-lion and half-eagle creature on the woman's body shed light on an ancient warrior culture.
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A drawing of the tattoo on the ice mummy's skin. It shows two tigers and a leopard brinking down two deer. It is stylised and flowing in style.
July 31, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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"The impact this has had on me can be summed up by one word: trauma.... For Alice, Elsie, Bebe, Heidi and the surviving girls, I’m surviving for you."
Southport dance teacher Leanne Lucas on the devastation wrought by Axel Rudakubana
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...
January 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Not many icebergs you can see from space! Really interesting read from @georginarannard.bsky.social and @erwanrivault.bsky.social on the mega berg A23a
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Satellite image of the whole Earth with Iceberg A23a visible as a white square
January 23, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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A good news story AND a pretty chart 🤩 🌬️🪁 !
Wind provided more electricity than ever last year as the UK moved further away from planet-warming fossil fuels to power the nation, new data shows.
Lovely work by @beckydale.bsky.social and Mark Poynting
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Chart of the growth of wind power in GB, with a blue-coloured slice for each day from 2009 to 2024. The intensity of the colour increases as a higher proportion of GB electricity in generated from wind. In 2009 the chart is very pale blue, indicating that a low proportion of wind power was used. By the 2020s this has increased significantly and there are now lots of days with 50% or more wind power being used.
January 7, 2025 at 9:47 AM