Jeremy Smith

Shroud: A gripping first contact story from the Arthur C. Clarke Award winner An expedition to a distant star system discovers a pitch-black moon alive with radio activity.

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Such a good story

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Will this do? clarkesworldmagazine.com/ogden_12_21/ it’s not full-on aryastarking, but on the other hand everyone gets to keep all their limbs in the first place

This happens in Around the World in Eighty Days - but not saying it doesn’t appear in other stories too.

I was laid off from the Washington Post today, along with hundreds (!!!) of incredible colleagues. If you need a data journalist, chart designer, or wacky-idea-specialist, give me a shout!

Amid the hundreds of colleagues we’ve lost today, I wanted to highlight the BRILLIANT data/graphics folks who any newsroom should be fighting to hire right now—threading here:

A Conventional Boy by @cstross.bsky.social is currently a quid on Kindle. If you're even a little bit into TTRPGs, it is glorious. (I also need to scour the thrift shops to find a dollhouse-sized teapot for my dice bag.)

A yellow storage bench with feet and teeth

IKEA has The Luggage

I feel your pain - I had to check very carefully before I was sure.

Beside the point, I admit, but is that not Jennifer Lawrence? (Cannot comment on relative wealth / endowments etc)

At the Rumble Museum | The Oxford Sausage Today I am heading east, up Headington Hill to visit Oxford’s Rumble Museum. I’m intrigued for I had not heard the name before. Yet the place has secured accredited status from Arts Council England on...

Today's blog from the Oxford Sausage is about the Rumble Museum at Cheney School: theoxfordsausage.com/at-the-rumbl...

SUBversive! I’d like to think I am usually faster than that...

Very ashamed to say I got about three quarters of the way into typing the title into Kobo (they carry it too!) before I realised what you'd done

@visualisingdata.com sports data vis!

Map My Pizza Run: Turn Your January Run Into Pizza - Franco Manca At Franco Manca, we prefer things a little more fun - and a lot more pizza. That’s why this January we’re launching Map My Pizza Run: a simple challenge that rewards your run with sourdough pizza

I keep shaking my head (complimentary) about Franco Manca's January 'Map My Pizza Run' offer - feels like an ingenious combination of exercise, ingenuity and accountability (and data art, of course) www.francomanca.co.uk/stories-and-...

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@rjbarker.bsky.social the next generation!

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The Open Visualization Academy launches on FRIDAY! openvisualizationacademy.org

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By the way, the journalists and designers at the Star Tribune are doing an incredible job. Principled, courageous, and rigorous.

New Course: ‘Masterclass in Data Visualisation’ (Virtual, Apr 2026) - Data Viz Excellence, Everywhere I'm happy to announce details of a new virtual public training course, the 3-day/4-hours per day 'Masterclass in Data Visualisation' will take place live online over 14-16 April 2026.

NEW! Happy to share news of a scheduled virtual 'Masterclass in Data Visualisation' public training course taking place live/online over 14-16 April, 9am-1pm (UK, BST) each day. Registration open to anyone and everyone now!

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Hey UK readers, apparently there are a bunch of kindle daily deals on my stuff this month! Keep your eyes peeled!

Overly elaborate letter from Father Christmas

A Christmas festival light projection onto the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford during 2020. Errrr I can’t think of an obvious segue here, but I’m putting forward as today’s answer ‘Everyone says I love you’ (which is of course not true, as everyone says they love the Christmas data vis advent calendar)

Happy Christmas from Oxford!

Rodin’s Thinker (the statue) ponders long and deep before a backdrop of Parisian gaiety… and wonders if the answer is Dead Poets’ Society

It kind of rhymes, right?

In an illustration from Thomas The Tank Engine (the books rather than the animated series, thankyouverymuch), James the Red Engine ploughs through snow. The railway controller is either cheering him on or is outraged by his lefty socialist views, it’s hard to tell. Assuming James is making a decent speed, we can consider this Fast And Furious.

Oh, fun!

A photo of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, who on Bridge Over Troubled Water sang a song about a Baby Driver

Not my most Christmassy image

HA!

Will Ferrell in ‘Elf’ thinks the answer is ‘You’ve Got Mail'

I don’t understand that icon. I recognise the envelope, but that seems to be a single-digit number. Where are the other 4-5 digits?

Snoopy and Charlie Brown doze peacefully in the snow. Snoopy’s doghouse is decorated with fairy lights, and a small tree - a branch, really - sports a single bauble. While I have, like Charlie Brown, been disappointed in the past, I am pretty confident that I have today’s answer right: Freakier Friday

I wondered if you were going to do this one!