Here are some ideas about how to better portray heat - an invisible threat - in images: www.climateresilience.org/guidelines-f...

10 Guidelines for Effective Extreme Heat Visuals

climateresilience.org

Ed Maibach@maibached.bsky.social · last yr.

3 thoughts: A) @nytimes.com, it’s lame to feature a sunbather in this story. B) Heat kills, especially early in heat season. Be careful. C) Most importantly, tell @EPA we need LESS not MORE heat-trapping gas & mercury pollution. Public comment period ends Aug 7. @docsforclimate.bsky.social

After two weeks, I'm finally done! In this post, I explain different approaches for solving linear regression in R: directly, using QR, singular value and Cholesky decompositions, and do some benchmarking for comparison with in-built approaches. thomvolker.github.io/blog/2506_re...

Thom Volker@thomvolker.bsky.social · last yr.

Having the time of my life writing a blog post about different ways to perform linear regression. It contains all the good stuff: a small piece on gradient descent, QR and singular value decompositions and R code.

Last than one week until #ShowYourStripes day! Check out some of our tools from @climatecentral.org to design and share your own climate changes stories: trello.com/b/bpDKOhd5/s...

Shiny has so many good features, it was hard to fit them all in a single title! Join me on the 25th to explore how to use them to create a tailored dashboard for your stakeholders! Register here: events.zoom.us/ev/AreIOxaCV...

Posit@posit.co · last yr.

Join us on June 25th at 11 am ET with @ivelasq3.bsky.social at Posit for our Monthly Workflow Demo on Build Tailored Dashboards: Inline Code, Drill Down Visualizations, and LLM-Powered Summaries with Shiny. Register here 👉 events.zoom.us/ev/AreIOxaCV... #RStats #Python #LLM

Wrote this snippet on reproducibility, replicability, and reusability of research code - very much just my notes made public as opposed to a full article. Would be interested to head if you define these differently - this is just my "mental model" murphyqm.github.io/work-notes/p...

𝗡𝗼, 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗞𝟮-𝟭𝟴𝗯'𝘀 𝗮𝘁𝗺𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲. K2-18b is back in the news, now with a bold claim that biosignature molecules (DMS and/or DMDS) have been 'detected at 3σ'. Most exoplanet astronomers are extremely sceptical about these claims, let's see why (1/n). 🔭🧪🪐 #exoplanet

The Moon is not just a bunch of resources for the use of billionaires. The Moon is a celestial body with its own environment and integrity. Tearing the Moon up won't save Earth.

Stephen C. Smith@wordsmithfl.bsky.social · 2y ago

#Space A new #BlueOrigin promotional video about moving industry off-planet to protect Earth's ecosystem. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH8D...

My sister just wrote this great piece on recent upheavals for teaching staff at the college she attended: www.socialistparty.ie/2025/01/bimm...

BIMM Dublin job cuts: A cultural and educational crisis driven by capitalist greed

By Kate Quinlan, BIMM graduate, class of 2024 The proposed mass redundancies at BIMM Dublin, one of Ireland’s most prestigious music colleges, represent not just an attack on workers’ rights but the p...

socialistparty.ie

🗣️ Arts and Humanities Scholars: Are you ready? 🗣️ We are 👏 thrilled 👏 to announce that ORCID now supports an expanded range of work types, such as 🎼 musical compositions, 🎨 still and 🎞️ moving images, and even 📝 teaching materials!! Learn more: https://info.orcid.org/new-work-types/

The Murky History between Hasbro and Irish Convent Workhouses

The Murky History between Hasbro and Irish Convent Workhouses

A dive into the toy company's alleged relationship with the Magdalene Laundries

rascal.news

A rambling post about the difficulties of teaching git, prompted by one of the talks at the recent Edinburgh Pair Programming Winter School - I don't really have solutions, so am very keen to hear about people's experience teaching git to researchers! murphyqm.github.io/posts/2025-0...

If you're a PG student, researcher, or professional who uses/ needs to use #EO satellite data for marine research, I cannot recommend this free course (or the trainers) highly enough. From ocean colour to sea surface temperature and altimetry, the training (and #python code!) you get is top notch 🌍🛰️

EUMETSAT Users@eumetsat-users.bsky.social · 2y ago

Don't forget the deadline is later this month to apply to join the Supporting #Marine Earth Observation Applications #training course, held online 24 Feb-21 March, in conjunction with @UniOfHull tinyurl.com/EUM-SMA-2025 @brloveday.bsky.social @hayleyeversking.bsky.social

Cognitive load refers to how much working memory or short-term memory someone is using at a time. Minimizing the cognitive load it takes to use your site makes it more accessible for people with cognitive disabilities. Limit what you're asking users to remember to use your site.

I've now added my slides for the talk if anyone would like to see some paths I'm looking at with regards to alternatives to live coding: murphyqm.github.io/talks/code-f...

Maeve ☄️🪐🇮🇪 (she/her)@murphyqm.bsky.social · 2y ago

A little post about my dislike of live coding (as a learner) and other options for teaching Python - murphyqm.github.io/posts/2024-1...

Hi friends! I've created an extensive set of resources for #creativeCoding with single-stroke fonts in #p5js — including archives and adapters for TTF, SVG Fonts, Hershey Fonts, and more: github.com/golanlevin/p... — ideal for #penplotter work! (cc: @emsl.bsky.social @bantamtools.bsky.social

GitHub - golanlevin/p5-single-line-font-resources: p5.js handlers for single-line fonts — for creative coding and pen-plotting

p5.js handlers for single-line fonts — for creative coding and pen-plotting - golanlevin/p5-single-line-font-resources

github.com

A little post about my dislike of live coding (as a learner) and other options for teaching Python - murphyqm.github.io/posts/2024-1...

"Learn Accessibility" is a course that takes you through the essentials for building accessible websites and web apps. Created for both beginners and advanced users, this course can be taken beginning to end, or used as a reference for specific topics. web.dev/learn/access...

Learn Accessibility  |  web.dev

An evergreen accessibility course and reference to level up your web development.

web.dev

Calling all #Shiny #Python people - is there a straightforward and easy way to ensure the URL updates as you swap between navpage tabs, to improve accessibility and to ensure the back button works? Have found solutions for RShiny, or use of starlette that doesn't seem to nicely use the top navbar...

Kasey Bonifacio's 13 Days of Accessibility is a great way to dig into the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, which are international standards used to measure accessibility. Kasey's resource makes WCAG more digestible. a11ycalendar.kaseybon.com

13 Days of Accessibility

Review the 13 WCAG 2.1 guidelines that web designers and developers can follow to create accessible websites.

a11ycalendar.kaseybon.com

Chartability is a resource to help make data visualizations and charts more accessible. It's organized into principles with testable criteria aimed at making sure people with disabilities are able to access data. chartability.fizz.studio

What’s frustrating is that there are accessibility-specific user stories out there, provided by the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). 🥲 www.w3.org/WAI/people-u...

Stories of Web Users

Personas of people with disabilities using the Web that highlight the effect of accessibility barriers and the broader benefits of accessible digital technologies.

w3.org

Last thing: probably the most underused UI tool in vis? Search! 🔍 In research with @mifeng.bsky.social & @laneh.bsky.social, we found that search changes the data people engage with (evanpeck.github.io/files/papers...), & helps folks looking for personally relevant data. Why is this important?...

Just listened to an episode of the Real Python podcast about marimo (marimo.io), a reactive Python notebook framework that seems to fix a lot of my long-standing issues with Jupyter notebooks, incl. git annoyances, and cell order dependence. Just having a poke at it, but seems very cool!

marimo | a next-generation Python notebook

Explore data and build apps seamlessly with marimo, a next-generation Python notebook.

marimo.io

Exciting to see a new, community-run, and Diamond Open Access journal launching for geochemists (Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry). Free to read and free to publish! They have assembled a great team of editors too! (www.agcj.org)

With every passing day I better understand the mothers in Victorian novels who stay in their bedrooms with the curtains closed and complain vaguely about their “nerves.”

Recently realised that lots of people are floundering with conda envs and how to effectively use their environment.yml file, so I wrote this brief/rough blog post that hopefully will help clear up some confusion and give you *one* way to do things! murphyqm.github.io/posts/2024-1...

"Andre shares his experience using the web including his love of headings and consistent design to help him navigate, and his dislike of accessibility overlays and poorly implemented page updates using live regions." #accessibility #disability #life tetralogical.com/blog/2024/11...

Meet Andre: a music producer and blind screen reader user - TetraLogical

Meet Andre, a music producer and blind screen reader user who is not afraid to take his custom elsewhere if your site is not accessible. Andre shares his experience using the web including his love of...

tetralogical.com

Four ways of looking at the Sun -- wonderful new close-up images of a giant sunspot from ESA's Sun-hugging Solar Orbiter spacecraft. In order: visible light, magnetic fields, velocity, and extreme ultraviolet. 🧪🔭 www.mpg.de/23749011/zoo...

📊 vs. 🥧 I made a tiny teaching tool to help me interactively demo + share differences between 📊 and 🥧 Play: I find that tinkering with data + visuals in class reinforces understanding far more than slides or readings Save + share: Copy the url to link the current data 👉 barvpie.netlify.app