Data/design folks, what is your favorite visual that focuses on the human cost of violence, tragedies and disasters? The most emotionally impactful visualization? The most visually striking?
Please share! I'd like to get as many examples as possible.
Sorry, didn't realize it would expire. You can use it unauthenticated. I started here: www.serff.com/serff_filing..., clicked through CA until I got here: filingaccess.serff.com/sfa/search/f... and you can use this tracking number "ACEH-131430723" (or just play around with the search.
Happy National Napping Day from a few of our napping experts! 💤
In this example, around page 15, you'll find "Loss History" is a modifier that, in this plan, can have a 75% to 1.25% impact.
Some rating plans are actually filed publicly, (for 'admitted' policies). You can find one here: filingaccess.serff.com/sfa/search/f... (scroll to "Rate/Rule" and the first doc "Cyber and Digitech Rating Plan 2017-1201 Range.pdf")
Women are leading WCK's Ukraine efforts—one of the largest humanitarian food responses in the world. From coordinating emergency responses after attacks to managing logistics, partnerships & field operations, they are making sure nourishing meals reach communities in need. #ChefsForUkraine
In this how-to for beginners, I explain how to get started with Burp and similar browser tools, we'll explore API basics, how to understand network requests, and getting started. I'll also walk you through some examples of how I found security bugs and data leaks, which I wrote up for TechCrunch.
#2: Jones gets an apology in a Louisiana defamation case
americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2026/03/02/5...
GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.
Four soccer-style scarves with BSIDES BUFFALO woven into them.
GIVEAWAY CONTEST: For those who don't know, these are our Speakers' Scarves - we give these away as a thank you gift every year for the people who volunteer to present at the conference.
A drawing on the cover of the journal Neuron. Each section of the fan has a drawing of a mouse. Each mouse has a slightly different pose. The tassel of the fan resembles a neuron.
My first cover of 2026
"Spontaneous behavior is a succession of self-directed tasks"
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
#sciArt #Scicom #illustration #neuroskyence
Dear conference organizers, selling your attendee list so that vendors email me as if I met with them in the hopes I won't remember everyone I spoke with causes me to ignore _any_ messages related to your conference, whether I spoke with the vendor or not.
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
A digital CAPTCHA verification window titled "Select all squares with PIPES" against a plain white background. The window contains a 3×3 grid of numbered squares, mixing literal hardware, smoking pipes, and programming syntax.
These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats
Here’s a full draft of the upcoming second edition of my “Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction”: socviz.co
198 effect sizes in ego depletion resesrch showed an effect size of d=0.62. Preregistered large replications (including some by original authors) yielded an effect size of 0. No one has been able to offer any other explanation for this huge research waste than massive p-hacking.
Bluesky and mastodon. Prefer Bluesky.
Mastodon is built the way such a service should work. Bluesky is built the way users want it to work.
Plus the scientists are here.
Confirming @lukelbarr.bsky.social -> CISA Acting Director Madhu Gottumukkala is being moved to a new role in DHS, per an official. Nick Andersen will take his place. Big news for the DHS cyber agency:
www.nextgov.com/people/2026/...
Per protocol analysis strikes again!
Folks, if you randomize but then don‘t analyze some of the people who got randomized (maybe because they didn’t adhere to instructions, maybe because they dropped out), randomization will no longer do all the heavy causal inference lifting.
I'm breaking Einstein.
I need play testers to make sure my assignments are possible for humans. You'll need to sign up for my Canvas course.
![The photo shows four images of the same Roman iron stylus (pen) one below the other, with knib to the left. This stylus is octagonal in shape, with an inscription dot-punched along its length on four alternate sides. The stylus is 132 mm long and 5 mm thick, and the letters are circa 2 mm high. The four images of the pen show the four lines of inscribed text (highlighted) which read:
‘ab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi gratum adf(e)ro
acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m)
rogo si fortuna dar[e]t quo possem
largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuus’
Translated as
‘I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift
with a sharp point that you may remember me.
I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give)
as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.’
This inscription is generally interpreted by scholars as a humorous, tongue-in-cheek acknowledgment by the giver of the cheapness of the gift.
The pen was used to write on wax-filled wooden writing tablets. Found in London (Roman ‘Londinium’) by MOLA, during excavations for Bloomberg’s European Headquarters in 2010–2014 . Photo by Juan Jose Fuldain for MOLA](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j56ydp325adovobhwpkzc6sp/bafkreifnagf7o3c3tsvpawfj2o5exyqsg52vwrovvapsjrhwtzd6tv5bf4)
The photo shows four images of the same Roman iron stylus (pen) one below the other, with knib to the left. This stylus is octagonal in shape, with an inscription dot-punched along its length on four alternate sides. The stylus is 132 mm long and 5 mm thick, and the letters are circa 2 mm high. The four images of the pen show the four lines of inscribed text (highlighted) which read: ‘ab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi gratum adf(e)ro acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m) rogo si fortuna dar[e]t quo possem largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuus’ Translated as ‘I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me. I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give) as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.’ This inscription is generally interpreted by scholars as a humorous, tongue-in-cheek acknowledgment by the giver of the cheapness of the gift. The pen was used to write on wax-filled wooden writing tablets. Found in London (Roman ‘Londinium’) by MOLA, during excavations for Bloomberg’s European Headquarters in 2010–2014 . Photo by Juan Jose Fuldain for MOLA
Timeless humour!
A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to:
“I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂
Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA
#Archaeology
Open up your wallets, funders! I want to test a small interaction and will need the gdp of a small country to get enough participants. 💷 📈
That's very interesting. We have a paper showing that people overestimate how much better A is over B when a majority prefers A (i.e., when it's more popular). This can lead to A being much more likely to be preferred when popularity information is communicated academic.oup.com/jcr/article/...
My hot take is that now that we have programming languages, mathematical notation should be retired.
It always reminds me to be humble. Someone can be at the top of their profession, and still be doing more harm than good.
We’re recruiting for a Data Engineer to join our Research team at Liverpool FC. In my (perhaps biased) view, it’s a great opportunity to join an excellent team, work at the forefront of sports analytics, and have a tangible impact.
www.linkedin.com/posts/conorq...
NEW: Def Con banned hackers Pablos Holmes and Vincenzo Iozzo, as well as former MIT Media Lab director Joichi Ito, from attending the conference based on their links to Jeffrey Epstein.
Holmes and Iozzo exchanged emails with Epstein for several years.
You may be tempted to roll your eyes and say that this was obvious, but there is a substantive difference between pointing out there is a slippery slope and having solid evidence that Ring's CEO is planning to expand Search Party beyond lost pets. Kudos to 404 Media.
A fluid can store solar energy and then release it as heat months later arstechnica.com/science/2026...
