🫁 Fast 8.500 Personen stehen in Deutschland derzeit auf der Warteliste für ein Spenderorgan. Aber die Bereitschaft zu spenden ist relativ gering. Der Bundestag hat daher ein Gesetz verabschiedet, das die Spendenbereitschaft einfacher dokumentieren soll. Teil davon ist ein Online-Register, in dem die Entscheidung für oder gegen eine Organspende nach dem Hirntod gespeichert wird. Seit dem 18. März haben sich bereits 110.000 Menschen eingetragen.
Everyone, drop what you are doing - SPURIOUS CORRELATION now has a companion site, SPURIOUS SCHOLAR - that WRITES AN ACADEMIC PAPER based on the spurious correlation! Because "if p < 0.05, why not publish?" 😂
on Day 1 I showed the GDP of countries by continent. While this already showed that Europe was leading, I felt it did not fully represent just how unequal the GDP is across the continent - also given that the continents have different number of counties.
In the makeover I tried to show the inequality better, by showing ALL COUNTRIES.
Personal update, in January I started as associate professor for data visualization in life science!
Teaching and still doing consulting & training - love to collaborate!
Hi social friends, I'm giving a talk next week about online communication, strategies, more big picture than specific nitty gritty. For libraries.
But I do want to include some stuff like "If you're not including alt text, you're not including everybody," focusing on being positive but not chirpy, interactive but not desperately grasping for engagement, being mindful of microaggressions and content warnings and decent apologies if needed. Good policies.
If you are drafting figures for a scientific paper or presentation, remember that https://scidraw.io/ exists: a repository of free SVG cartoons for science.
@G_Devailly@albertcardona none, BioIcons is the project from Simon Dürr, a PhD student in Lausanne. He (collaborating with me) is right now looking for possibilities to continue BioIcons, who is in charge of the Sainsbury collection? I can connect...
