Emma Balkind
@emmabalkind.bsky.social
Interested in commons and data analysis. Currently studying Data Science with the OU. Recent projects at https://eblknd.leaflet.pub
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Emma Balkind
@emmabalkind.bsky.social
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Mapping the cultural boycott of Israel in Scotland
A Flourish data visualization by Art Workers for Palestine Scotland
public.flourish.studio
A new Data Visualisation created with Art Workers for Palestine Scotland showing the currently 218 supporters and a selection of non-supporters of PACBI in Scotland. Please give it a try and see the vast spread of solidarity across the arts!
public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...
public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...
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Watery Commons: The Tweed River Festival, 2025. By Maria Howard. Curated by Connecting Threads, the inaugural edition of the Tweed River Festival took place in Peebles, in the Scottish Borders, from 31 October to 2 November.
Watery Commons: The Tweed River Festival 2025 — Corridor8
Curated by Connecting Threads, the inaugural edition of the Tweed River Festival took place in Peebles, in the Scottish Borders, from 31 October to 2
corridor8.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Watery Commons: The Tweed River Festival, 2025. By Maria Howard. Curated by Connecting Threads, the inaugural edition of the Tweed River Festival took place in Peebles, in the Scottish Borders, from 31 October to 2 November.
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🗺️ Back with another map-making blog post! 🗺️
Learn how to make your own custom GPS route map entirely in #RStats 📊 Perfect timing whether you're looking for a #30DayMapChallenge idea, or planning a Christmas gift for your running friend 🎅
Link in comments 👇👇
#ggplot2 #DataViz #RSpatial
Learn how to make your own custom GPS route map entirely in #RStats 📊 Perfect timing whether you're looking for a #30DayMapChallenge idea, or planning a Christmas gift for your running friend 🎅
Link in comments 👇👇
#ggplot2 #DataViz #RSpatial
November 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
🗺️ Back with another map-making blog post! 🗺️
Learn how to make your own custom GPS route map entirely in #RStats 📊 Perfect timing whether you're looking for a #30DayMapChallenge idea, or planning a Christmas gift for your running friend 🎅
Link in comments 👇👇
#ggplot2 #DataViz #RSpatial
Learn how to make your own custom GPS route map entirely in #RStats 📊 Perfect timing whether you're looking for a #30DayMapChallenge idea, or planning a Christmas gift for your running friend 🎅
Link in comments 👇👇
#ggplot2 #DataViz #RSpatial
Looks like there are no data analysis courses mooted for the relaunch of Code Clan. The offerings are Applied Agentic AI or Software Engineering.
codeclan.com/register-int...
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Register Your Interest | Join the Next Cohort | CodeClan
Be first to hear about upcoming courses in AI and software engineering. Register your interest and take the first step toward a future in tech.
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November 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Looks like there are no data analysis courses mooted for the relaunch of Code Clan. The offerings are Applied Agentic AI or Software Engineering.
codeclan.com/register-int...
codeclan.com/register-int...
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NEW: Learning Disabilities
Some 2,025 people with a learning disability, autism or both were "detained" in hospitals across England at the end of September
@autisticsociety.bsky.social said "change is urgently needed", calling the current situation a "human rights scandal"
🔗: app.radarai.com
Some 2,025 people with a learning disability, autism or both were "detained" in hospitals across England at the end of September
@autisticsociety.bsky.social said "change is urgently needed", calling the current situation a "human rights scandal"
🔗: app.radarai.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM
NEW: Learning Disabilities
Some 2,025 people with a learning disability, autism or both were "detained" in hospitals across England at the end of September
@autisticsociety.bsky.social said "change is urgently needed", calling the current situation a "human rights scandal"
🔗: app.radarai.com
Some 2,025 people with a learning disability, autism or both were "detained" in hospitals across England at the end of September
@autisticsociety.bsky.social said "change is urgently needed", calling the current situation a "human rights scandal"
🔗: app.radarai.com
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Sofia Corradi, founder of the Erasmus program, passes away at 91. Known as 'Mamma Erasmus,' she viewed the program, which has sent approximately 16 million students to study abroad through Europe, as her 'personal pacifist mission.'
Bless her - an inspirational lady.
Bless her - an inspirational lady.
October 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Sofia Corradi, founder of the Erasmus program, passes away at 91. Known as 'Mamma Erasmus,' she viewed the program, which has sent approximately 16 million students to study abroad through Europe, as her 'personal pacifist mission.'
Bless her - an inspirational lady.
Bless her - an inspirational lady.
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I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
October 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
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The situation with Blackboard - now its owner is bankrupt and it's coming under new private equity ownership and control - is serious enough the UK agency for HE tech is advising all affected universities to seek assurances regarding data security inspiringlearning.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/10/s...
October 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The situation with Blackboard - now its owner is bankrupt and it's coming under new private equity ownership and control - is serious enough the UK agency for HE tech is advising all affected universities to seek assurances regarding data security inspiringlearning.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/10/s...
At the OU we call this BA (Hons) Open but you'd have to finish next year too as it's 16 years maximum duration!
bsky.app/profile/xkcd...
bsky.app/profile/xkcd...
![Comic. PERSON 1 to person with white hat: I finished all the gen-ed back in 2010, and I’m up to the 400-level courses in most departments. But now one of my advisors is saying I “can’t have more than 20 majors” and “need to graduate next year.” It’s outrageous! [caption] My university is making it really hard to finish a 100% all achievements speedrun.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreigl6eeo62a2vwfi5hsaakrhvcqhoh7zpjgqslpteem2vfdmtxh4si@jpeg)
October 1, 2025 at 10:19 PM
At the OU we call this BA (Hons) Open but you'd have to finish next year too as it's 16 years maximum duration!
bsky.app/profile/xkcd...
bsky.app/profile/xkcd...
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"I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why."
- Nina Simone
- Nina Simone
September 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why."
- Nina Simone
- Nina Simone
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Jared Kushner and the Saudi PIF buying EA wasn’t on my bingo card
September 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Jared Kushner and the Saudi PIF buying EA wasn’t on my bingo card
No kisses for sisters down avenues
No loose lips and no good nights
Be forever in the bed
But not in my bones
If I have to trace for you every line
Then angles lose their urgency
Trickle down my skeleton like hunks of honeycomb
music.youtube.com/watch?v=WSNt...
No loose lips and no good nights
Be forever in the bed
But not in my bones
If I have to trace for you every line
Then angles lose their urgency
Trickle down my skeleton like hunks of honeycomb
music.youtube.com/watch?v=WSNt...
Mirror Me
YouTube video by Cate Le Bon - Topic
music.youtube.com
September 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
No kisses for sisters down avenues
No loose lips and no good nights
Be forever in the bed
But not in my bones
If I have to trace for you every line
Then angles lose their urgency
Trickle down my skeleton like hunks of honeycomb
music.youtube.com/watch?v=WSNt...
No loose lips and no good nights
Be forever in the bed
But not in my bones
If I have to trace for you every line
Then angles lose their urgency
Trickle down my skeleton like hunks of honeycomb
music.youtube.com/watch?v=WSNt...
Mushrooms I saw today: trooping funnel, shaggy scalycap, the goblet, clustered toughshank, ghost bolete, and various puffballs 🍄🟫 🍄
September 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Mushrooms I saw today: trooping funnel, shaggy scalycap, the goblet, clustered toughshank, ghost bolete, and various puffballs 🍄🟫 🍄
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Honestly, I just keep coming back to something @ibogost.bsky.social said years ago: “We were not meant to talk to each other this much.”
September 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Honestly, I just keep coming back to something @ibogost.bsky.social said years ago: “We were not meant to talk to each other this much.”
Trying out putting my recent projects up on @leaflet.pub at eblknd.leaflet.pub
eblknd
A place for Emma Balkind to put her various projects
eblknd.leaflet.pub
September 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Trying out putting my recent projects up on @leaflet.pub at eblknd.leaflet.pub
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Throwback to that time (1987) when the good folk of Whitehall thought that Jura would be the perfect location to dump nuclear waste and my grandad wrote a booklet about why this was a bad idea. Kinda puts those offshore windfarms into perspective.
#Jura #IsleOfJura #NuclearWaste #LocalHistory
#Jura #IsleOfJura #NuclearWaste #LocalHistory
August 31, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Throwback to that time (1987) when the good folk of Whitehall thought that Jura would be the perfect location to dump nuclear waste and my grandad wrote a booklet about why this was a bad idea. Kinda puts those offshore windfarms into perspective.
#Jura #IsleOfJura #NuclearWaste #LocalHistory
#Jura #IsleOfJura #NuclearWaste #LocalHistory
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"Tao is one of the most prominent mathematicians and academics to publicly oppose the administration’s actions, calling them an “existential threat” to his field, and academic science, more broadly. He said public advocacy is a priority over his research, for now."
www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
The 'Mozart of Math' rarely speaks about politics. The wide-ranging cuts to science funding made him change that.
UCLA's Terence Tao called the Trump administration's actions an "existential threat" to academic research in the U.S.
www.nbcnews.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:38 AM
"Tao is one of the most prominent mathematicians and academics to publicly oppose the administration’s actions, calling them an “existential threat” to his field, and academic science, more broadly. He said public advocacy is a priority over his research, for now."
www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
Made a little social bike ride events map for inclusive, free, just-turn-up meets in Scotland. Let me know if there's something to add. public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...
Social bike rides
A Flourish data visualization by eblknd
public.flourish.studio
August 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Made a little social bike ride events map for inclusive, free, just-turn-up meets in Scotland. Let me know if there's something to add. public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...
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Postcodes in Polygon: an #opendata tool from my Datadaptive side project – draw a shape on a map, get a list of postcodes www.datadaptive.com/pip/ (Great Britain only)
Now updated with postcode data from the latest release of the ONS Postcode Directory (August 2025).
Now updated with postcode data from the latest release of the ONS Postcode Directory (August 2025).
August 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Postcodes in Polygon: an #opendata tool from my Datadaptive side project – draw a shape on a map, get a list of postcodes www.datadaptive.com/pip/ (Great Britain only)
Now updated with postcode data from the latest release of the ONS Postcode Directory (August 2025).
Now updated with postcode data from the latest release of the ONS Postcode Directory (August 2025).
A new Data Visualisation created with Art Workers for Palestine Scotland showing the currently 218 supporters and a selection of non-supporters of PACBI in Scotland. Please give it a try and see the vast spread of solidarity across the arts!
public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...
public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...
Mapping the cultural boycott of Israel in Scotland
A Flourish data visualization by Art Workers for Palestine Scotland
public.flourish.studio
August 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
A new Data Visualisation created with Art Workers for Palestine Scotland showing the currently 218 supporters and a selection of non-supporters of PACBI in Scotland. Please give it a try and see the vast spread of solidarity across the arts!
public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...
public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...
My husband Joe is fundraising for Gaza Sunbirds. All profits from this Bandcamp EP will be donated! My fav is WHISTLE
fruitboone.bandcamp.com/album/domo-c...
fruitboone.bandcamp.com/album/domo-c...
DOMO / COMPLAINER / WHISTLE (ALL PROFITS TO GAZA SUNBIRDS), by J.H
3 track album
fruitboone.bandcamp.com
August 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
My husband Joe is fundraising for Gaza Sunbirds. All profits from this Bandcamp EP will be donated! My fav is WHISTLE
fruitboone.bandcamp.com/album/domo-c...
fruitboone.bandcamp.com/album/domo-c...
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If you were born between 1970-1990 you may not have full MMR protection, even if you had parents who took you for all your jabs. The NHS will give you a free booster. With cases surging, this is a great way to protect yourself & your community. I’m getting mine tomorrow www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...
July 20, 2025 at 10:54 AM
If you were born between 1970-1990 you may not have full MMR protection, even if you had parents who took you for all your jabs. The NHS will give you a free booster. With cases surging, this is a great way to protect yourself & your community. I’m getting mine tomorrow www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...
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Our survey is still open for autistic adults in the UK ⬇️ 😀 Thanks to everyone who has taken part already. 🙏
Love dancing? Hate dancing? If you're #autistic, age 18+, in the UK, please take part in our survey (designed with autistic project advisors). We want to hear about why people don't dance, dancing at home (kitchen disco anyone?), socially, or at dance classes. For more info: tinyurl.com/Aut-dance
July 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Our survey is still open for autistic adults in the UK ⬇️ 😀 Thanks to everyone who has taken part already. 🙏
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Very cool! Leverhulme ‘Space for Nature’ MSc Scholarship - fully funded - particularly targeted towards individuals from under-served backgrounds. Deadline 21 July 2025.
📣📣📣 Fully funded MSc scholarships available for this Sept.
Short deadline: 21st July
Kent are offering fully funded taught MSc in Conservation Science #scholarships @dice-kent.bsky.social
For more info: lnkd.in/eiPJG8uE
Any questions, then please email: lhscholars@kent.ac.uk
#phdchat #funding
Short deadline: 21st July
Kent are offering fully funded taught MSc in Conservation Science #scholarships @dice-kent.bsky.social
For more info: lnkd.in/eiPJG8uE
Any questions, then please email: lhscholars@kent.ac.uk
#phdchat #funding
LinkedIn
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July 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Very cool! Leverhulme ‘Space for Nature’ MSc Scholarship - fully funded - particularly targeted towards individuals from under-served backgrounds. Deadline 21 July 2025.