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Bird migration is changing. What does this reveal about our planet? – visualised www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Privileged to see him play a small venue in Kingston around 2015/16. Was there a specific moment that brought more eyes on him again, like the Daft Punk collab or…?

Putting my Glastonbury envy to one side for a moment, I wanted to look at the impact of the festival's stage announcements on an artist's streaming numbers.

Here are the 10 artists that benefitted the most with a boost in streams:

Bar chart showing 651 NSF-funded research projects, with total terminated days in dark grey or red, completed days in light grey or red. Red highlights projects listed by Ted Cruz as "neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda".

For #TidyTuesday this week, we're looking at data on terminations of NSF grants 📊

🎨 Using colour to highlight one category
📈 Transparency to highlight the important data
✍️ Annotations instead of a legend for transparency

#RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz

Black Mirror's most searched-for episode is Bandersnatch (2018). It was nowhere near the highest-rated episode by critics (74% RT) or audiences (7.1 IMDb), so the 'choose your own narrative' format was likely the element that sparked the search interest.
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In Just Five Days, 'Sinners' Has Become One of the Highest-Grossing Horror Movies of All-Time Ryan Coogler's Sinners has become one of the highest-grossing horror movies of all-time after only 5 days at the box office.

That multigenerational music scene was beeeautiful.
collider.com/sinners-box-...

With ‘AI slop’ distorting our reality, the world is sleepwalking into disaster | Nesrine Malik A perverse information ecosystem is being mined by big tech for profit, fooling the unwary and sending algorithms crazy, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

AI slop: a perverse information ecosystem is being mined by big tech for profit, fooling the unwary and sending algorithms crazy
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Solidarity with trans women after today’s Supreme Court ruling.

The rollback of LGBT rights — especially trans rights — is global, bankrolled by billionaires and the far-right.

Trans rights are human rights. We must defend the Equality Act and its protections for trans people.

Amadou Bagayoko obituary Malian singer-songwrier and guitarist who had international success in a duo with his wife Mariam

One of the greats with an incredible journey to musical acclaim
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...

The Mary Wallopers @ O2 Academy Brixton ☘️
One of the funnest crowds I’ve been in here

@alexcassidy.bsky.social this one launched even before I joined!

How do animals sound across languages? Analyzing animal onomatopoeia across languages can demystify how we shape sound into meaning.

Perhaps the first time I’ve seen an old Digital PR campaign beat the Pudding to a topic: How do animals sound across different languages?

Love the colour-coded phonetic elements in the Pudding version too!

GoCompare: www.indy100.com/viral/animal...
The Pudding: pudding.cool/2025/03/lang...

How artists from the Polish school of posters reimagined films while navigating communist censors:
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Important issues to highlight. But to not mention the Glazers once as the root cause of United’s financial woes is like writing an article on UK austerity without mentioning the Tories.

Together again on the field of heaven

Bayindir saving the pens and the Sunday vibe. A lovely turnaround for Zirkzee since the Newcastle game too. #MUFC

Hopefully no DPR campaigns make an appearance 😅

In order of preference:
1. Chinese 🍵
2. British 🥓
3. Medical 💊

Delays in selected weekday Avanti West Coast services in the 12 weeks from Monday 30 Sep to Friday 20 Dec

Avanti West Coast as Scrooge in A Network Rail Carol (without the redemption arc)
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024... #DataViz #Euston

For once, a Manchester derby didn’t ruin my Sunday. Amad for it. #MUFC

Also add to the crisis: leasehold—a feudal scam of a system with little accountability that belongs in the Middle Ages.

The supermarkets’ worst festive food offences Harry Wallop identifies the greatest crimes against festive food, from bhaji ‘baubles’ to a charcuter-wreath

Supermarket chefs need a tighter brief when creating new Christmas foods
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Exceedingly good needle drops: why a 1915 Kipling poem is the cherry on top of the 28 Years Later trailer Zombie movie action soundtracked by the unhinged vinyl screeches of Boots, Rudyard Kipling’s evocation of soldiers in battle? It’s a match made in horror movie heaven

Detecting folk horror and Last of Us influences. Yes please.
www.theguardian.com/film/2024/de...

Spotify Unwrapped: What Else Can You Learn About Your Listening Habits? Uncovering more insights from my music streaming history that Spotify Wrapped doesn’t tell you

With this year's Spotify Wrapped finally released, I'll plug one of my favourite personal projects from 2024:

Spotify Unwrapped: What Else Can You Learn About Your Listening Habits?

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‘By 8pm it is time to head home’: whatever happened to the big night out? This week, the chief executive of a major bar group suggested 3pm is the new 9pm. Why have we stopped drinking and dancing the night away on a Friday and Saturday night?

Pleased to have contributed some thoughts to this interesting piece in the @theguardian.com about changing nightlife habits www.theguardian.com/music/2024/n... "Great art always starts outside of the cultural institutions; great music starts outside of the major venues".

Why we're allowing PR people to access our course for free - High Flyers PR Young, bright PR people – the future of our industry – are losing out on an industrial scale. The short version: from today, we’re offering the High Flyers PR Course for free to help upskill people lo...

A pretty big announcement - here's why we're allowing PR people to access our training course for free.

TL:DR: the PR job market, and access to training is in a bad place. The graph in this blog might genuinely surprise you.

highflyersprcourse.com/why-were-all...

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UK workers face some of Europe's greatest job stress, report says British workplaces rank among the worst in Europe for long hours, tight deadlines and limited autonomy, without being any more productive.

“British workplaces rank among the worst in Europe for long hours, tight deadlines and limited autonomy, without being any more productive.”

Shock news: limiting workers’ rights makes people miserable, sick and unproductive
www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...

A line graph showing the popularity of the name 'Sean' in the United States over time.

Damn, this is smooth to use. Always love to see how baby name datasets can be reinterpreted for new stories and creative projects. Type in your name and instantly create a line graph showing its US popularity over time.
baby-names.jetpack.ai by @karimdouieb.bsky.social

Consistently brilliant. Telling stories on paper that you don’t find online, like all good zines.

Ruud very quickly identified that Casemiro’s legs no longer work without a sideman like Ugarte