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Daniele Gibney
@danielegibney.bsky.social
She/her. Not Danielle, Daniela, or Daniel. Kneader of words and curator of colours. Afraid for the future. Proud NL/UK dual national. Climate, politics, dataviz, editing, craft, birds. Omni 🏳️‍🌈 Views own. https://datayarns.wordpress.com/
"We should be able to look at a poll and have a reasonable sense of how the country’s votes would translate into seats."

In multi-party Britain our already rubbish voting system is getting ever more inappropriate.

electoral-reform.org.uk/latest-yougo...
Latest YouGov poll shows multi-party Britain breaking the voting system
If there were a general election tomorrow, who would form the next government? It sounds like a simple question if you have access to the latest polls. But when the latest YouGov poll, r
electoral-reform.org.uk
November 2, 2025 at 12:27 PM
What are the most effective climate change solutions? The Drawdown Explorer is a brilliant tool providing the answer to that question.

drawdown.org/explorer
Drawdown® Explorer
We know what we need to do: stop climate change as quickly as possible. Now, with the Drawdown Explorer, we know how to do it.
drawdown.org
November 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Reposted by Daniele Gibney
Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
October 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
PHENOMENAL dataviz howto thread with lots of lovely examples.
Since you folks seem to like lengthy threads, let's look at visualizing distributions. I'll visualize one data set 16 ways and give some other examples of each chart type. #dataViz
October 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Found this on one of my feeds and have signed up to be a finisher.

Spreading for awareness for others who may like to sign up to finish fibre arts projects, or for people who have a project left unfinished by death or disability who would like to match with a finisher.

looseends.org/finisher
September 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Reposted by Daniele Gibney
Psychologically, we're living in very hard times for all who care deeply about science, empathy, equity, nature, and rights for all citizens of the planet, human or otherwise.

Find strength, solace, and community in like-minded others, positive action, and in Mother Earth
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September 14, 2025 at 6:30 AM
The largest ever collaborative embroidery project is an absolute beauty 🤩

www.positive.news/society/the-...
The world in a dress: the project with 1.5 billion stitches
Fourteen years, 380 embroiderers and an estimated billion and a half stitches: the Red Dress project allows people around the world to tell their stories through embroidery
www.positive.news
September 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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The increasing intermittency of….nuclear power stations:

Source: Financial Times | “Heatwaves test Europe’s electricity system as air conditioning use soars” on.ft.com/4fsSclS
August 3, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Love this. Similarly, in the last Secret Santa I took part in, the rule was the presents had to be either home-made or from a charity shop. All the presents were lovely and extremely well thought-out to suit the recipient - no tat in sight!

www.positive.news/society/tats...
Tat’s enough: the No Crap Parties movement
Charlotte Mason-Curl says the No Crap Parties movement has led to fewer awkward moments, less plastic tat – and more true connection
www.positive.news
August 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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July 19, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Important birdfloof info.
After a soft rain, I found out Hummingbirds could be Enfloofenated in July. 🪶
July 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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👇 Those two are the same graph 👇

...but the 2nd one focuses on the message &

follows @helenajambor.bsky.social's checklist for visualizing scientific data

(1/2)
July 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
French onion ramen, an absurdly rude recipe from Tim Anderson's Vegan JapanEasy. We swapped out spinach, cabbage and bamboo shoots for what we had to hand - rocket, green beans and carrot. Also kept in the mushrooms from making the dashi.

Marvellous with a glass of red.

#WhatVegansEat
July 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The power of visualisation. What jumped out at me was that almost all of these cities are in the same band of latitude - only London and Lagos are outliers. Which immediately suggest climate factors underlying cities being able to support large numbers of people. 📊
These cities all can claim that they were the world's largest city at some point in the last 4000 years. This is from a project I've done a decade ago based on one dataset. Historical demography is tricky and the margin or error in estimating historic city sizes is quite large.
July 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Gannets at Bempton Cliffs, May 2023, for #SuperSeabirdSunday 🪶
July 13, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I have a day off and I've started it by sitting next to a lake listening to some reed warblers. Something inside me is unknotting.
July 9, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Cute.
July 9, 2025 at 7:55 AM
I'm slow to the party but just discovered I got a mention in @ajstarks.bsky.social recap of #DuboisChallenge2025 - what a treat! 📊

Lots of beautiful work highlighted in this deck, worth a look.

speakerdeck.com/ajstarks/num...
#Dubois Challenge 2025: Economics
Recap of the Du Bois Challenge 2025
speakerdeck.com
June 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Incredibly in-depth work exploring India's groundwater crisis, linked to agricultural practices and policy.

Great data storytelling to highlight a critical issue, with links to more in-depth stories that make the issues tangible.

site.thibi.co/originals/in... 📊
Deeper and Deeper: India's Water Race to the Bottom
Over exploitation of India’s groundwater for thirsty cash crops is endangering water supplies, leaching the soil and endangering the food security of all Indians, a Thibi data investigation reveals.
site.thibi.co
June 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I'm not sure this in fact made me cheerful, but it is heartening to know that people are out there taking this large-scale, forward looking approach to ecosystem resilience.

reasonstobecheerful.world/conservation...
How Conservationists Are Preparing Nature for Tomorrow's Hotter World
From connecting networks of ecosystems to building routes to higher altitudes, conservationists are working to ensure Earth’s biodiversity can carry onward.
reasonstobecheerful.world
May 25, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Answered one of those questions I didn't realise I'd been asking myself...

perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...
How The Heck Do QR Codes Work? (An Interactive Exploration)
Interactively dive into the layout and encoding of QR codes
perthirtysix.com
May 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Reposted by Daniele Gibney
17th May is the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia.
The date commemorates the World Health Organisation’s decision in 1990 to remove homosexuality from its classification of diseases.
We exist. We don’t need a cure.
#IDAHOBIT
May 17, 2025 at 7:36 AM