youtu.be/zFpamnNEyBw?... beautiful visualisation. Not mine.credit Jeran Poehls

Simulating Grass with Real Data - Blender Dataviz Tutorial

YouTube video by But Why Me?

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‘More than just objects’: Australian booksellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

‘More than just objects’: Australian booksellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI

Secondhand booksellers believe they may have been caught up in the AI supply chain that sees old books scanned then destroyed

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The Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open Letter in Support of the Cognition Group, University of Exeter

To Executive members of the University of Exeter, including Vice Chancellor Prof. Lisa Roberts, Senior Vice-President and Provost Prof. Dan Charman, Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean Prof. Sallie...

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Last week I presented a keynote at #SIGIR2026 titled "Emancipatory Information Retrieval: Towards Critical IR Theories and Practices". Slides: bhaskar-mitra.github.io/files/emanci... I went in nervously excited but several people appreciated talking openly about this topic. A quick thread. 🧵 1/

Seems not broadly announced yet, but a website is up: giscience2027.org #Giscience2027 @giscience-conf.bsky.social

I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork} www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...

How to use a histogram as a legend in {ggplot2} | Andrew Heiss

Land isn’t unemployed—people are. Here’s how to use R, {ggplot2}, {sf}, and {patchwork} to create a histogram legend in a choropleth map to better see the distribution of values.

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Joey Cherdarchuk - Obumbratta@obumbratta.com · 2y ago

Your map’s legend can be turned into a histogram, helping your audience understand the distribution in addition to decoding the colours.

EXCELLENT: The Netherlands new OA policy seems to be well thought through obc.copim.pub/when-scaling... Policy explicitly recommends redirection & reallocation of funds from existing ‘big deal’ budgets towards community-driven alternatives, incl university-led diamond OA & Netherlands Uni Presses

When 'scaling small' becomes national policy

The Netherlands' new open access strategy echoes the principles the Open Book Collective was built on - 'scaling small' and community-led publishing

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Y'all absolutely the fuck not. In fact, I think this is makes a STRONG case for why conferences like CHI and FAccT should pull out of the ACM. I highly recommend that you tell ACM what you think about your work being co-opted into planet-killing misinformation machines.

Association for Computing Machinery@acm.org · 3w ago

If you would like to share your thoughts, please use this link (buff.ly/fnANR1x). ACM leadership will take your feedback into account while we develop and implement our AI content strategy over the coming months.

This is the weirdest request for input that I've seen in a while. It's almost like the ACM is sitting at the table with the "change my mind" sign. So, let's do it. Short thread with the input I gave them:

Association for Computing Machinery@acm.org · 3w ago

If you would like to share your thoughts, please use this link (buff.ly/fnANR1x). ACM leadership will take your feedback into account while we develop and implement our AI content strategy over the coming months.

In collaboration with the Munk School, I am sharing a ten-lecture course I taught at @utoronto.ca this past year. The course is called “Hitler and Stalin Today.” Watch the first lecture here: snyder.substack.com/p/new-lectur...

The refusal by corrupt politicians to ditch all fossil fuels means the coming years will be much worse ... "We are witnessing something beyond any imagination with 220+ countries/territories (>95% of the total) smashing records with insane margins WORLD RECORD can fall next days ..."

As someone who has been asked many many time to make satellite images of open ocean to show the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” (no, you can’t see tiny bits of plastic distributed over 1,000s of square kilometers), this story really resonates with me.

Dr. Jonathan Foley@globalecoguy.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is a great read about why the "Ocean Cleanup" project didn't work as well as hoped. There are so many parallels with other well-intentioned efforts -- including in the climate space -- that don't pan out because folks ignored the science.... therevelator.org/why-ocean-cl...

Ah, damn, I stuffed up the numbers here. I meant to compare DP27 (435+ days) to DP23 (191) because DP23 didn't have the 2-step process and was quite a "typical" duration for the ARC at that time.

ARC Tracker@arc-tracker.bsky.social · 3w ago

The UK government’s research grant agency wants to cut grant processing times from 195 days to 90. Meanwhile, the Australian equivalent, has increased it from 195 days to at least 435 (DP26 vs. DP27). This is for comparable, “applicant led grants”. Make it make sense.

Heinrich Berran’s granddaughter collected all his perspective maps in one place! www.berann.com/panorama/arc...

Publication update: Research Professional News to discontinue publication at end of 2026. (Archives will be available): www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o...

Research Professional News to discontinue publication at end of 2026 - Research Professional News

A message for readers about the publication’s closure and continued community access to past reporting

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GeoLibre v2.0.0 is here! Try it out - Launch GeoLibre Web: web.geolibre.app - GitHub: github.com/opengeos/Geo... - Documentation: geolibre.app - Release notes: github.com/opengeos/Geo...

Resource for NAIDOC week: Wiley's compendium of leading research and special editions by and about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders: www.wiley.com/en-au/resear...

NAIDOC 2026 | Wiley

Wiley's content page to support the National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance conference.

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🇬🇪 Human Rights Watch about Georgia👇🏼 “Georgian authorities are using repressive laws, funding restrictions, and politically motivated criminal investigations to dismantle independent civil society. “ www.hrw.org/news/2026/07...

Georgia: New Laws Devastate Independent Civic Groups

Georgian authorities’ use of increasingly repressive laws and politically motivated criminal investigations is decimating independent civil society and silencing critical voices, Human Rights Watch sa...

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This👇 5 years ago, @jodiebradby.bsky.social & 15 Laureate Fellows led a bid to the Government with 1000+ signatories to advocate for this to change ▶️ treasury.gov.au/sites/defaul... But @arc-gov-au.bsky.social & the Ministers did nothing.

Luca Cortese@astroquokka.bsky.social · 4w ago

Wondering what is the point of an ARC assessment review process if assessors are just asked to amend text removing the most dubious parts of assessments but likely not change the grade. Happened twice in a row. May deter people from even asking for a review in the future @arc-tracker.bsky.social

The Royal Belgian Football Association have released a statement following FIFA's decision to allow the USA's Folarin Balogun to play on Monday despite picking up a red car in his team's Round of 32 match against Bosnia and Herzegovina. #FIFAWorldCup

"totally hypothetical", "phantom investments", "disingenuous" Australians should be EXCEEDINGLY wary of Government-AI company deals

Creatives sound alarm on copyright as Pocock calls $50bn datacentre proposal ‘ultimate dirty deal’

Proposal has been put to cabinet to allow AI companies to mine content, in exchange for investment and $350m fund to compensate artists, sources say

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Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last mo.

The Guardian is reporting neither OpenAI nor its partner NScale visited Cobalt Park, a key Stargate UK site. Only Nvidia did months later. Also £20B of the £30B investment the UK government touted appears to be hypothetical. The massive UK data center announcement now seems to be vaporware.

‘They ate the shrimp, they even ate the crab’: Thai fishers count the cost of a voracious invader

‘They ate the shrimp, they even ate the crab’: Thai fishers count the cost of a voracious invader

Huge numbers of blackchin tilapia, a fish native to west Africa, are wreaking havoc among Thailand’s river ecosystems. Experts – and some chefs – are seeking sustainable solutions

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“Springer about to hijack Statistics & Computing” xianblog.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/s...

Springer about to hijack Statistics & Computing

I recently learned that Springer Nature is about to make the reference journal Statistics and Computing, where I published close to twenty papers over the years, fully “open access”, wh…

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We're constantly told that women can never compete with men and yet Kelsey Pfendler is about to set the record for the fastest solo row from California to Hawaii, beating the men's record by a full week. What an incredible feat of athleticism, endurance, and grit.

#ARCschedule Jul26 No outcomes expected. There’s not even a plan for schemes beyond Nov! Other events: 🔹Rejoinders: Laureate Fellowships (open & close); Discovery Projects (close). 🔹Selection meetings: DECRAs & Linkage Projects Data ▶️ docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Really important that every creator, and anyone who cares about Intellectual property rights, signs this petition. Please do!

Jennifer Mills@jennifermills.net.au · last mo.

The @asauthors.bsky.social CEO is in Canberra today fighting against the ongoing theft of our books, stories, and illustrations to feed LLMs. Sign the open letter from Australia’s creatives: www.surveymonkey.com/r/WBXGKN7

New interactive blog! "Why Adjusted Regression Coefficients Are Less Descriptive Than They Look" rpsychologist.com/descriptive-...

[1/8] Une étude d’économistes d’Allianz sur les canicules en Europe démontre que la chaleur n’est plus seulement un risque sanitaire ou climatique, mais un risque économique structurel pour le travail. #geography #heatrisk #productivity #climateadaptation

“Il fait trop chaud pour travailler” : les vagues de chaleur affectent la productivité en Europe

Les canicules à répétition ont un impact significatif sur la productivité et constituent une menace pour les économies européennes. La prise en compte des vague...

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🇬🇪"Since 28th of October 2024, people have protested every single day, turning protest into community, fear into creativity, silence into solidarity. Search Justice for Protesters Georgia - Amnesty" @amnesty.org Thank you 👇 1/

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"