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

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...

Graphic that says 5 days until #ShowYourStripes Day, which is on June 21st, 2025. Resources are provided by Climate Central, and this example is for Sacramento, California.

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...

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...

Artist's impression of the exoplanet K2-18b. Credit: A. Smith, University of Cambridge.

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.

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...

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

🗣️ 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/

Text reads: Solo But Not Alone is a bundle of singleplayer TTRPGs of all kinds, sold for $10 to benefit mental health. We'll be partnering with Take This, a charity working to support mental health in the gaming community and industry by decreasing stigma and making supports available to people who need them. Take This had a rough 2024 so let's help them start 2025 off right! We have games from literally around the world, from first-time designers and veteran experts. We have rituals and meditations, we have adventures and kid-friendly games, we have lyric games and artifact creation games! We have a helpful spreadsheet so you can find the perfect game for you, from our collection of over 100 (over $400 worth) games that you can play on your own!

Solo But Not Alone is a phenomenal initiative
It's so worth the $10 for the solo rpgs included in the bundle
itch.io/b/2865/solo-...

The Murky History between Hasbro and Irish Convent Workhouses A dive into the toy company's alleged relationship with the Magdalene Laundries

The Murky History between Hasbro and Irish Convent Workhouses

Thanks for both the comment and the link to the presentation!! Yes I love Hypothesis - I've found it great as a teaching tool.

I think your comment on complexity is interesting - I'm going to be honest I didn't even consider that perhaps researchers don't need to utilise branches!

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 🌍🛰️

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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.

Thank you!!

(this was with a small laptop and separate Bluetooth keyboard btw)

I got the mirrored glasses originally for crochet. I think the whole set up could have been improved with a split keyboard so I could have one half on either side and my arms flat by my sides

What I've used when unable to move my head with a migraine but still had to work (the toxic life of a PhD student, glad that's over) - mirrored glasses over my actual glasses so I could lie flat and see my screen (zoomed in massively, across my torso on a bed tray), with my keyboard in front of it

Data Feminism

data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu 10/

Design Justice An exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequality, and advance collective liberation and ecological survival.

designjustice.mitpress.mit.edu 9/

YouTube video by UAL Creative Computing Institute Post-growth: Can knowledge exchange dismantle systems of power? | Jazmin Morris

youtu.be/cAtKs9de-e4?... 8/

Feminist pedagogy and online learning: youtu.be/5FhzF1tEKrc?... 7/

This is all still very much an imperfect work in progress, but I think that there are some fantastic, fun, exciting ways to teach coding if we integrate the incredible work on equitable, intersectional feminist pedagogy. I'm going to link some resources I found accessible and useful 6/

I've found that interactive code templates can work well, e.g. the prototype here: quick-subplots.streamlit.app - I plan on writing this up into a static webapp with Quarto (or a more robust webapp with Shiny for Python). See also software-dev.streamlit.app for more advanced learners. 5/

In terms of asynchronous communication, I've liked working with Hypothes.is annotations/comments on Quarto docs; private groups can be made for individual courses (and the public option is always there); it's easy to check for new comments on your domain. 4/

The flipped classroom approach looks like it has benefits, and would solve some of the anxiety caused by live coding sessions. I like that the asynchronous material is more usable by the general public then (can be published open-source) - with rigorous citation of sources and inspiration. 3/

I want the learners to have a copy of what's being shown on screen, so modelling code dev can include documentation with step-by-step code snippets (non-linear to model the thought process), animated and copyable code snippets, interactive documentation (eg pyodide with quarto) 2/

A little thread on my thoughts and findings: I think a key takeaway is that the "active learning" part of coding classes should be predicting/running code and not typing/transcribing what the instructor is doing on screen. We can model the non-linear dev. of code without relying on live coding 1/