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Aatish Bhatia

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Graphics editor and reporter, NYT Upshot
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Website: aatishb.com

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Jim Zub's avatar Jim Zub @jimzub.bsky.social
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This photo is pure 2024.

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Marco Hernández 's avatar Marco Hernández @mhernandez.bsky.social
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What Ukraine has lost during Russia's invasion. The print version just came out today. I just published a technical note to my blog if you want to learn more about this project: bit.ly/3RESnzJ

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Aatish Bhatia's avatar Aatish Bhatia @aatishb.bsky.social
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Thanks Eli! 🙏 Glad you liked it.

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Eli Holder's avatar Eli Holder @elibryan.bsky.social
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This is a great, positive example of equity-oriented dataviz 📊. It shows people + policy + impact without shying away from essential complexity. I'd love to see more of these social research (Sean Reardon + Demetra Kalogrides) + data journalism collaborations (aatishb.bsky.social + Emily Badger).

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Matt Muir 's avatar Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social
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Today's the last day to nominate YOUR favourite fun/weird/heartfelt/beautiful/terrifying/baffling website of the past year for a TINY AWARD, celebrating the small, non-commercial and creative web. So please do! tinyawards.net

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Aatish Bhatia's avatar Aatish Bhatia @aatishb.bsky.social
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Great piece about monkeys learning to get along after a climate disaster. Makes you wonder about us. (Gift link)

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Ele Willoughby 's avatar Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social
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Happy birthday to Alan Turing, OBE, FRS (1912 – 1954), British #mathematician, #cryptanalyst, computer scientist, prophet & hero. 🧪🐡🧮 #histsci Turing foresaw not only that machines might quite likely develop the capacity to think (after all, our brains are only made of matter, & complex systems 🧵1/n

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Alisa Bokulich's avatar Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social
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Happy Solstice!!!🌞
(evidently occurring 18 hrs earlier than last bc of leap year & 45 min earlier than previous leap year in a drift that continues until corrected by going back to skipping century leap years in 2100, bc not divisible by 400 like 2000 was...)
www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024...

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Dangerous levels of heat are forecast across the U.S. this week, including the Northeast, South and Midwest. See how hot it will feel in your area.

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Tom Reagan’s Hat's avatar Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social
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It’s Prince’s birthday This is my favourite story about him by a country mile

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Kathleen Bachynski 's avatar Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social
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“It’s still possible that wind power could rebound… The fate of the wind industry could be a test for whether the country can build large energy projects more generally, said Ryan Jones, a co-founder of Evolved Energy Research. “If we can’t… getting to zero emissions is pretty darn challenging.”

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Marco Hernández 's avatar Marco Hernández @mhernandez.bsky.social
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I spend months using satellites to trace what years of war have done to settlements in Ukraine. I found about 210,000 damaged or destroyed buildings, many of them protected under the Geneva Conventions t.co/q3bpXlAKwM this is the grim picture of what Ukraine has lost.

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Aatish Bhatia's avatar Aatish Bhatia @aatishb.bsky.social
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The first episode of Joss Fong and Adam Cole's new show Howtown is out and it's so great. Super fun presentation and it changed how I think about dog perception. m.youtube.com/watch?v=EJXG...

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Aatish Bhatia's avatar Aatish Bhatia @aatishb.bsky.social
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Droughts and heat waves are killing the mites and springtails that help the soil absorb carbon. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/c... "Each degree of Celsius increase in temperature corresponds with a drop of springtail populations by almost 10 percent"

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Alex Holcombe's avatar Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social
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"A lot of biology is ‘why not?’ rather than ‘why?’” said Julie Blommaert, a genomicist at the New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research who was not involved in the new study. "
Both a great line and an exciting principle I hadn't heard before! www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/s...

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Ele Willoughby 's avatar Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social
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Happy birthday physicist Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), who came up with a truly beautiful experiment to test whether the weak force conserves parity (whether beta decay would be the same if reflected in the mirror)! 🐡🧪👩🏻‍🔬🎢 #histsci In my print on the left I show Wu in her lab & a schematic diagram 🧵1/n

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New Delhi recorded its highest temperature ever on Wednesday — 126 degrees Fahrenheit, or 52.3 degrees Celsius. For weeks now, temperatures in several Indian states have been well over 110, and hospitals have been reporting a rise in heatstroke. nyti.ms/450I6U2

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I found this quite surprising, partly because my mental model of food wastage was more of a consumer side problem and I underestimated wastage in the supply chain.

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Karen Yourish's avatar Karen Yourish @karenyourish.bsky.social
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Heads, I Win; Tails, You Cheat: Trump has already cast doubt about the fairness of the 2024 election hundreds of times, essentially setting up a no-lose future for himself: Either he wins, or the election will be "rigged." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Aatish Bhatia's avatar Aatish Bhatia @aatishb.bsky.social
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Very interesting and informative episode about the science of climate change.

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This is excellent, Pablo!

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Corey S. Powell's avatar Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social
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Colors of an aurora depend not only on which element is emitting light, but also on *where* it is. Oxygen at high altitudes glows red; at lower altitudes it glows green. Purple nitrogen is lower still. Weird, right? 🧪

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Corey S. Powell's avatar Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social
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So many beautiful aurora photos going around right now. Wonder where those amazing aurora colors come from? Here's a useful breakdown.
When you split up the light of a typical aurora, it looks like this. Many colors from just nitrogen & oxygen!
www.swpc.noaa.gov/content/auro... 🧪

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Notorious RBMK's avatar Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social
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please enjoy some Related Phenomena i have imaged in the past 24 hours 🔭🧪

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Aatish Bhatia's avatar Aatish Bhatia @aatishb.bsky.social
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Will take any reading recommendations if you have them! I'm only superficially familiar with his work through podcasts and videos, always found him to be very insightful.

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Thanks Dan. One reason is to tie this to the global data (and not Mauna Loa specifically) even though the latter has a longer record. Also my colleague Elena Shao did this great piece on the Keeling curve a while back, so we opted for a different visual approach here www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Obsessed with these people who made tiny cars for their pet rats and then trained them to drive. "After only a couple months of 5-10 minute lessons each day, we’ve been blown away by how skilled Kuzko and Kronk have become" www.instagram.com/reel/C5jam-E...

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If you were lucky enough to see totality in today's total solar eclipse, you might have seen a purplish dot poking out from the sun. This piece explains what it was — a solar prominence, or a massive loop of plasma colored red by hydrogen www.scientificamerican.com/article/red-...

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"recent years have taught me that I’m less when I’m not actively looking after myself, that I have value to my world and my community beyond ceaseless production, and that pursuits like birding that foster joy, wonder and connection to place are not sidebars to a fulfilled life but their essence."

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Diana Urge-Vorsatz's avatar Diana Urge-Vorsatz @dianaurge.bsky.social
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Behind me, you can see 1 tonne of CO2 at atmospheric pressure.
It's enormous.
In a few hours of flight, we emit that amount (per passenger!). To remove it with #DACCS, you need to pump air 35,000 times through 20% efficient devices.
Preventing emissions is much easier than fixing the problem later.

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