Maarten Lambrechts

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2322597121

At 185 mph maximum sustained winds, Cat 5 Hurricane #Melissa is now just 7 mph shy of what @michaelfwehner.bsky.social r.bsky.social & Jim Kossin have defined as the cutoff for a prospective "Cat 6" hurricane:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

12 hours of Hurricane #Melissa, one frame every minute. 🛰️🗺️

The before and after of the East Wing demolition is wild... 😨

See for yourself: shorturl.at/TrWu3

#WhiteHouse #WhiteHouseWall #EastWing #Trump

Absolutely delighted to catch up with Xenographics, an initiative of @maartenzam.bsky.social. It was a big thing on Twitter some 4-5 years ago and I wish that the conversation would carry over on Bluesky. 📊

xeno.graphics

Waimakariri River, New Zealand

Hi. It's me. 2 weeks later. This is done. 58 frames over 3 seconds, *50* layers in the final image. WOO. This was a long edit, felt like ACTUAL work so unless I get it again with the actual sunset I doubt I'll be editing more like this. Psyched for the final piece tho! 🪶

Very sad data journalist job posting

Part of Wadden Sea in false color

More: whc.unesco.org/en/list/1314/

📸🛰 #Sentinel2

Footage: @sentinelonline.bsky.social

Salesforce owns Tableau. Time to drop all mentions from classes and trainings #dataViz

Excellent graphics in this one

I was also curious.It's here: www.google.com/maps/@51.799...

"The data's in PDF."

Since I keep rediscovering it:

David Rumsey's Historical Map Collection is an absolutely fantastic resource, also for historical #datavis

www.davidrumsey.com

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

That is not how icebergs float :) joshdata.me/iceberger.html

These must be some of the most morally bankrupt graphics ever made

Updated a classic.

The war in Gaza has been going on for two years. It must end.

2015-2024

😊📹

bsky.app/profile/kosm...

Our researchers have noticed today that NASA FIRMS, one of the main free and available open source sites for monitoring fires around the world has a new notice on it stating that NASA is no longer updating the site due to a lack in federal funding. firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/

The amazingly astonishing Assiniboine River, Manitoba, Canada, again.

So here it is: my dumb data viz experiment. 🍩

✔️ Solves the continuity problem
❌ Harder to spot patterns
❌ Hours are visually distorted

But hey… not everything has to be practical, sometimes it’s just fun! 😅 Also: how cool would it be to create a physical object like this?

Sentinel Hub works like that, which was acquired by Planet, where Rob and I were colleagues. It seems like a nice paradigm, bit interfaces are clunky and very limiting

Ik know where *that*'s coming from ;)

An array of 9 purple discs on a blue background. Figure from Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt.

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.

The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.

From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

A photograph of the Earth taken from Himawari-8, showing the earth perfectly divided into day on the left and night on the right, with the day/night divider running from the north pole to the south pole.

A photograph of the Earth taken from Himawari-8, showing the earth perfectly divided into day on the left and night on the right, with the day/night divider running from the north pole to the south pole. A thin circle and dotted line are overlaid to show the division of the full circle into two semicircles.

Happy September Equinox! Today the dividing line between day and night runs exactly from the North pole to the South pole, and the sun is directly over the equator. This is an actual image of the Earth today, taken from the Himawari-8 satellite.

Fresh Planet Labs imagery (15Sep v 1Sep) shows already displaced Gazans leaving for the south. Most tents gone - as expected - first from north (Naser) and south (Tel El Hawa) n'hoods.

A World of Tides The most recent issue of ArcUser, a magazine for Esri GIS software users spotlights cartographer Dave Taylor’s striking Oceanic Oscillations map.

A lovely ocean tides map using the Spilhaus projection for some Wednesday mappy goodness #MapoftheWeek mapoftheweek.substack.com/p/a-world-of...

Graph based on the data in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_pole_vault_world_record_progression , showing the world record height evolution from 1965 (about 5.3m) to 2025 (6.30m). The world records by Sergey Bubka are indicated in blue. In the first part of his career, there was a rapid succession of world records and then it leveled off (second derivative of the curve is negative). After about 20 years without world records (flat line in the curve, first derivative ~0), Armand Duplantis started breaking world records, cm by cm (indicated in orange). The second derivative is positive, which means the curve bends upwards.

I naively thought: let's roughly extrapolate the height at which Mondo Duplantis's pole vault world record series would end. The second derivative turns out to be positive! 😱
#math in the wild #tokyo2025 #worldathletics