Reposted by Jorge Ruiz-CabrejosHaus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 20/09/2026We are not getting El Niño this year. We are getting El Hombre. 201468297
Reposted by Jorge Ruiz-CabrejosMichael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Recursive self-improvement of AI visualized Now I understand what the hype is all about 081
Jorge Ruiz-Cabrejos @jruizcabrejos.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A William Farr quote taken completely out of context: "An excess of females in a town reduces its general rate of mortality." 000
Jorge Ruiz-Cabrejos @jruizcabrejos.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Dear Santa: For christmas I was the book on "Vital Statistics: A Memorial Volume of Selections from the Reports and Writings of William Farr" People don't make Vital Registry statistics like these anymore. 210
Jorge Ruiz-Cabrejos @jruizcabrejos.bsky.social · 10/09/2026look i'm all for vaccines that prioritizes public health benefits but with Bartonella Bacilliformi you should know self inoculating yourself with wart liquid that if you get Carrion's Disease you got everything you aimed for 120
Jorge Ruiz-Cabrejos @jruizcabrejos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026(Unfortunately) journals do not provide the space in their platforms to share articles in languages other than english. Funding institutions should encourage academia to, at the very least, include translations for the language in which the research is being conducted www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comScientists who don’t speak fluent English get little help from journals, study findsAn analysis of hundreds of journals finds limited efforts to accommodate scientists who are not native English speakers. 031
Jorge Ruiz-Cabrejos @jruizcabrejos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026@victor.earth Why @aemet-bot.bsky.social no work? >:( 000
Jorge Ruiz-Cabrejos @jruizcabrejos.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I just went through a blog post I did less than 2 years ago. Most of the links I cite are now broken. 300
Jorge Ruiz-Cabrejos @jruizcabrejos.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Falsehoods programmers believe about time - There are always 24 hours in a day.gist.github.comFalsehoods programmers believe about time, in a single listFalsehoods programmers believe about time, in a single list - falsehoods-programming-time-list.md 000
Reposted by Jorge Ruiz-CabrejosDr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 29/07/2026No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.news.com.auAI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare booksIf you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines. 14336921925
Reposted by Jorge Ruiz-CabrejosBernardo Mateiro Gomes @blmg.bsky.social · 29/06/2026kucharski.substack.com/p/no-the-nor...kucharski.substack.comNo, the normal distribution isn't in your gymAnd we should stop telling people it is 1115
Reposted by Jorge Ruiz-CabrejosCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/05/2026The US withdrawal from its global public health responsibilities is a disaster for local communities and a risk to everyone worldwide. Gift linknytimes.comLarge Ebola Outbreak Is Declared in Congo 420188
Jorge Ruiz-Cabrejos @jruizcabrejos.bsky.social · 12/05/2026One day, "Google AI" will get countries right. Not yet though. Not yet. 000
Reposted by Jorge Ruiz-CabrejosJesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 29/04/2026From #OWID: "What is the most #unequal country in South America? It depends on what metric you look at" ourworldindata.org/data-insight... In my country, #Peru, 0.1% gets 22% of the income. Extremely unequal. #SouthAmerica #Economics #Disparityourworldindata.orgWhat is the most unequal country in South America? It depends on what metric you look atOne way to measure income inequality is to look at the share of all income that goes to the top income earners. The chart plots this for all seven South American countries with comparable 2022 pre-tax... 031
Reposted by Jorge Ruiz-CabrejosColin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 09/04/2026New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 10709362
Reposted by Jorge Ruiz-CabrejosNew Scientist @newscientist.com · 03/03/2026Feedback is excited to learn that University of Maryland researchers are measuring farts in a bid to build a Human Flatus Atlas, a project that seems destined for an Ig Nobelnewscientist.comThe Human Flatus Atlas plans to measure the explosivity of fartsFeedback is excited to learn that University of Maryland researchers are measuring farts in a bid to build a Human Flatus Atlas, a project that seems destined for an Ig Nobel 173
Reposted by Jorge Ruiz-CabrejosRádio Linguiça FM (Spooky Mode 🎃) @supremeloser.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Que lindo! Um Sci-Hub em seu habitat natural! 021
Reposted by Jorge Ruiz-CabrejosNicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Genuary Day 26: Recursive Grids. Split the canvas into a grid of some kind and recurse on each cell again and again. #genuary #genuary2026 #genuary26 #RStats 28214
Reposted by Jorge Ruiz-Cabrejospublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 23/01/2026channel 2 leaning into it this morning 24626116
Jorge Ruiz-Cabrejos @jruizcabrejos.bsky.social · 21/01/2026"Contrary to public perception, we observe considerably lower felony arrest rates among undocumented immigrants compared to legal immigrants and native-born US citizens and find no evidence that undocumented criminality has increased in recent years." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 000
Reposted by Jorge Ruiz-CabrejosDr. Dominic Royé @drxeo.eu · 15/01/2026🆕 Our new Nature Health commentary highlights the urgent need to standardize and strengthen early warning systems for heat‑related health risks. Most heat‑related deaths are preventable if we integrate epidemiology with real‑time climate forecasting. #PublicHealth 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s44... 0136
Reposted by Jorge Ruiz-Cabrejossecontreras.bsky.social @secontreras.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Popcorn was 'invented' at least 6700 years ago geneticliteracyproject.org/2025/03/03/p...geneticliteracyproject.orgPopcorn was 'invented' at least 6700 years agoou have to wonder how people originally figured out how to eat some foods that are beloved today. The cassava plant is toxic if not carefully processed 132
Jorge Ruiz-Cabrejos @jruizcabrejos.bsky.social · 16/01/2026While the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest continues to be destroyed by (illegal) mining, and increasingly powerful organized crime bands take control of those areas...science.orgIllegal miners have forced Peru’s oldest environmental research station to suspend workStaff at the Panguana biological research station have received death threats 110
Reposted by Jorge Ruiz-CabrejosUlrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 24/11/2025📢 Paper alert 📢 Chirality is known to be important for the movement of microorganisms and active matter. In our new paper out today in @natphys.nature.com, we show that chirality is used by malaria parasites to control their motion patterns: doi.org/10.1038/s415... Here comes a 🧵 ... (1/9) 18233
Reposted by Jorge Ruiz-CabrejosThe Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change @lancetcountdown.bsky.social · 05/11/2025🔥 The latest data from the 2025 Lancet Countdown Global Report exposes that climate change is intensifying heat exposure, with serious consequences for health. 👉 Visit lancetcountdown.org to learn more. #LancetClimate25 054
Reposted by Jorge Ruiz-CabrejosThe Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change @lancetcountdown.bsky.social · 29/10/2025🚨 JUST PUBLISHED 🚨 ⚠️ The 2025 @lancetcountdown.bsky.social report reveals climate change inaction is costing lives and livelihoods, and harming the economy. ❤️🩹 Protecting people’s health demands all hands on deck. Read more: www.lancetcountdown.org/2025-report/ #LancetClimate25 013085
Reposted by Jorge Ruiz-CabrejosTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/10/2025You Can Kill a Democracy Without a Dictator www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o... With a gift link because I think it is very important for people to understand this:nytimes.comOpinion | You Can Kill a Democracy Without a Dictator 161030400
Reposted by Jorge Ruiz-CabrejosDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 22/10/2025The New England Journal of Medicine and the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy will be publishing regular public health alerts to replace the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which has been paused due to the federal government shutdown. 141707641
Reposted by Jorge Ruiz-CabrejosCalle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 20/10/2025UK weather data #TidyTuesday Temperature changes over time and some individual temperature extremes highlighted on map 🌡🇬🇧 Code: github.com/borstell/tid... #DataViz ##ggplot2 0305
Jorge Ruiz-Cabrejos @jruizcabrejos.bsky.social · 08/10/2025"Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time I had an h-index of, like, 27" @charliejgardner.bsky.social 051
Jorge Ruiz-Cabrejos @jruizcabrejos.bsky.social · 01/10/2025"The promotion and creation of good health, even more than the treatment of illness, demands that art and science work from and with each other."thelancet.comVisualising relationships between the arts and healthThe American photographer Irving Penn (1917–2009) described a good photograph as one “that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it”. This photo... 000
Reposted by Jorge Ruiz-CabrejosHadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 11/09/2025when the editor asks if you will revise and resubmit 514716
Reposted by Jorge Ruiz-CabrejosNature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 09/09/2025A study in Nature Climate Change suggests that global warming may be associated with an increase in added sugar intake in the form of sugar-sweetened drinks and frozen desserts in the US, especially among more socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. go.nature.com/41Gch2u 🧪 🍎📃 0169
Reposted by Jorge Ruiz-CabrejosNicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 09/09/2025There was lots of data to play with for #TidyTuesday this week where we're looking at the power of different passports! ✈️ I decided to try out the idea of using small multiples and highlighting to untangle a spaghetti chart with lots of lines 📊 #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2 810716
Reposted by Jorge Ruiz-CabrejosSaloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 08/01/2024TIL Microsoft Word still has fun patterned gradients that you can use in bar charts. This will improve my dataviz so much now! 8668
Reposted by Jorge Ruiz-CabrejosMichael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 30/07/2025📊 #rstats This seems to break new ground in uncertainty visualization. The map example is compelling, and extends to other area-based #dataviz. There's a good graph perception study here for someone comparing this to other uncertainty vizzies like blurr, ... 3201
Reposted by Jorge Ruiz-CabrejosDavid Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 28/07/2025It’s one manuscript, Michael. How many typos could be in it? 0112
Reposted by Jorge Ruiz-CabrejosThe Economist @economist.com · 19/07/2025America could suffer some 42,500 excess deaths annually by 2034 as a result of Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, researchers estimate. That is more people than currently die of breast cancerecon.stQuantifying TrumpcareResearchers estimate the Big Beautiful Bill could result in 42,500 excess deaths a year 65033
Reposted by Jorge Ruiz-CabrejosOnisillos @onisillos.bsky.social · 08/07/2025It is every researcher’s duty to use indirect prompt injection. 181
Reposted by Jorge Ruiz-CabrejosHadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 27/06/2025me: there’s nothing worse than opening a blank document microsoft word: hold my beer 311011181
Reposted by Jorge Ruiz-CabrejosMetJam @metjam.co.uk · 21/06/2025I believe I’ve won at #ShowYourStripes day 59413
Jorge Ruiz-Cabrejos @jruizcabrejos.bsky.social · 15/05/2025"LARGE amount of the hundreds of millions of dollars that annually are spent for federal construction projects is wasted because the United States lacks adequate maps" SCIENCE - July 22, 1938science.org 011
Reposted by Jorge Ruiz-CabrejosHadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 14/05/2025if we start dating now, we could be editing each other’s drafts by june 813510
Reposted by Jorge Ruiz-CabrejosJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 09/05/2025Folks, always share your code. It doesn’t have to be perfect to be helpful. And if you feel that it’s still too messy or not sufficiently clean to be shared, you shouldn’t submit yet. After all, there could be mistakes in your mess. 412044