#Clustering
Male Nomia bees clustering
(Lipotiches australica)

#MacroMonday
#photography #macro #insects #diptera #bees #Lipotriches #EastCoastKin
November 10, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I often highlight the account creation date when I show accounts pushing Kremlin narratives and it is not just a trivia detail.

It’s one of the most reliable tells in information operations because creation-date clustering is a known signature of russian information operations.
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Bad Data Science Time: I threw 80+ advanced stats into a kmeans clustering algorithm and created 4 groups of college football teams.

I circled the teams currently in the projected playoff bracket.

What do the groups mean? You figured it out! Go find your team and their friends
November 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This tactic is well-known and could be better explained to the public.

Academic and forensic research (DFRLab, NATO StratCom COE, Twitter takedown datasets) all document creation-date clustering in Russian online operations.

www.state.gov/wp-con...
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Let me explain how this is stupid and harmful from both moral and material/logical standpoint. Does the clustering (let's imagine it measures "materiality" position) in the first picture, which might be a bit varied and expansive but well-defined feels better for organizing than second one?
November 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Annual mushroom photograph (Galerina Semilanceata)
#Photography
November 7, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I’m calling it. Celestial phenomena—chiefly, unprecedented clustering of the planets within Cancer and the passage of the huì xīng—clearly demonstrate that Mamdani has gained the Mandate of Heaven
November 5, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Next up, wind swaths! 🌬💨

This was created solely using report clustering (no other gridded data). Plenty of events across the entire US, but can see the most intense storms from the Great Plains into the Midwest! 🟦
November 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
😍😍😍 OMG! *How* beautiful is this user interface. So many wonderful ways to search and navigate archival material! The ability to compile life stories clustering personal "life archives"--simply stunning.

Congrats @timhitchcock.bsky.social and all involved.
Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
London Lives
www.londonlives.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I am still puzzled. Clustering is, for me, a tool for finding interesting questions, not answering them. It’s „Oh, there is an interesting pattern… why is it there?“.
It’s astonishing how many researchers seem to believe that a cluster analysis is such a sensible analysis that it needn’t even be justified through a coherent research question. Just cluster analysis go brrrrr
November 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The next sequence analysis webinar will take place on Thursday Nov 13 at 4pm CET

Two great talks from Satu Helske on hidden markov models and Stefan Andrade on robust clustering

Zoom link on sequenceanalysis.org
November 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
it appears that for the clustering for you does; there is no distinction
November 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Yes, I would say most data collection is done with some form of research question in mind.

I don't think clustering is bad, but I find it hard to imagine it as a goal in and of itself...
November 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I walk a different path
Align to yours
Ghostly
Unseen
Wisp of light
Touching your heart

I thieve
Sunshine
From your eyes

Yet promise
Rain
Where there's drought

I'm night
Daring to dream a dream
Of stars
Clustering
Upon my skies
In a multitude of tiny specs
Of wishes
To be true
November 3, 2025 at 7:56 AM
I've been making visualizations for social and political topics, but have learned now that I write far more words than anyone wishes to read 😂

In lieu: How retail patterns reveal demographic structure with precision unavailable through traditional political data sources

I'll drop others in this 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Lineage-specific phylogenetic structure of boreal habitats suggests different assembly processes across phylogenetic and spatial scales vist.ly/4cxrw #Clustering #Phylogeny #Scale #Distance
November 5, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Think this is Clustered Bellflower - Campanula glomerata I saw yesterday, not large plants, not much clustering going on… and quite late in the year. Not recorded in the area for a while #WildflowerHour sorry it’s a bit late 😀 Oh and a late Autumn Gentian from Minchinhampton last wk (diff location).
November 3, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Yesterday’s HiDALGO2 Event brought together experts from across Europe to explore how HPC can drive societal impact. From HLRS, Bastian Koller joined the panel on HPC collaboration across Europe & Dennis Hoppe presented our AI Factory @hammerhai-eu.bsky.social.

More: www.hidalgo2.eu/clustering-e...
November 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
LorBin: efficient binning of long-read metagenomes by multiscale adaptive clustering and evaluation. #LongRead #Metagenomics #MAGs #BinningMethods #UnsupervisedBinning @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
New paper! Fascinating discussion of Optimizing electric vehicle supply equipment allocation using a range of local and global MCDA methods by Emily Zhou & Junyi Yang, #GISchat doi.org/10.1080/1523...
November 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
'Some rural EU regions are generating “remarkable” levels of innovation, a study has found, even though rural areas typically lack the density of actors that can help to drive entrepreneurship by clustering expertise and facilitating interaction.' 1/2
‘Remarkable’ innovation coming from some EU rural regions

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...
November 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The 2024 Pre-Election Polling Report has been released. In this figure, the data shows signed errors across the 50 states, illustrating regional clustering of polling performance.

To read the full report, please visit aapor.org/announcement...

#AAPOR #publicopinion #research #polling
November 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
'Failure at one institution produces contagion effects, the magnitude of which depends on regional centrality and clustering. Government should focus on keeping that transmission reproduction number (or R number – remember that from Covid?) below one.'
The network effects of a university collapse
Higher education institutions are linked together in all kinds of ways. Jamie Warner sets out to calculate how the effects of one insolvency could ripple across the sector Higher education institution...
wonkhe.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:14 AM
These all appear to be "tech journalists"-ish in my clicking around, the clustering is based on who follows you, not who you follow, so this means that people who follow you also follow those other people pretty often
October 31, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Her bosom, smelling sweet:
and, these scarce blown,
Forth flourished thick the
clustering vine, forth crept
The swelling gourd, up stood
the corny reed
Embattled in her field, and
the humble shrub,
And bush with frizzled hair
implicit: Last

VII, 319-323
October 31, 2025 at 9:43 PM