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Jorge 🐀

@jxmartinez.bsky.social
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Data strategist at BakerRipley. I love all things science, data, #Rstats, pugs, and mushrooms. 🍄‍🟫 #htx

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Posit @posit.co · 30/09/2026
Teaching, presenting, or organizing a meetup? Posit offers free tools and more! Our Community Support Program provides funding, swag, Posit AI credits, and upgraded product access for your event. Applications close Oct 6! See past recipients and submit your app: opensource.posit.co/about/commun...
A collage featuring photos from community events, conferences, and presentations, centered around a large blue hexagon with text reading "Community Support from Posit." The Posit logo appears in the bottom left corner.
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Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Fade on zoom" is one of my favorite cartographic techniques. Interpolate a layer's opacity by zoom level to progressively show more data and eventually show all data at full zoom. Try it live in my latest project which maps the 2020 US Census by age group: walker-data.com/maps/census-...
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Matthew Sanabria @matthewsanabria.com · 30/08/2026
Solving this once and for all.
A flowchart asking if you need a specific OS for your workload and telling people to use that OS if so.
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Jorge 🐀 @jxmartinez.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This…is what happens when you use AI for art. 🤦🏽‍♂️ Found on LinkedIn, but probs unprofessional to point it out in the comments. 🙃
An AI generated map of Texas universities in all the wrong places.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A year ago, just 42% of Americans opposed a data center being built in their community. Today, a staggering 75% do. Are data centers really that bad? Let’s take a look.
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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 22/08/2026
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imo:
success = effort + luck
Some people hardly try and have extremely good luck.
But, the longer you try, the more opportunities for luck to roll your way.
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Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This beautiful dictionary of colours found in nature dates back to more than a century before Pantone. 🎨 Werner's Nomenclature of Colour was an indispensable resource for Charles Darwin, helping him describe new species. We love these natural colours - which page do you like best?
A page of an old book titled “Blues” with a chart of different shades, naming each shade with an example of an animal, vegetable and mineral of that colour.Another page titled “Reds” with a chart various shades with an animal, vegetable and mineral for each.An old book page titled “Yellows” with a chart citing various shades of yellow with an animal, vegetable and mineral of each colour for reference.Another page titled “Greens” with a chart of various shades of green with an animal, vegetable and mineral of each shade.
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Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. @usrbinr.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
hey #houston if you have 5 minutes help fill out the harris county commission survey the will inform how to prioritize spending t.co/VTlNkjNUxv
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https://riceuniversity.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1Upfvqnmz8LZfHE
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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 06/08/2026
This what pivot_wider() was born for
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Jorge 🐀 @jxmartinez.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Get’em.
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Jorge 🐀 @jxmartinez.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
A little bit of generative art made with #RStats and @datawrapper.de #CreativeCoding
Abstract generative artwork of overlapping colourful squares in varying sizes, scattered across a white background.
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uofwa.uw.edu @uofwa.uw.edu · 04/07/2026
Happy 4th of July, Huskies!
A black and white husky-like dog wears a red and blue "USA" headband and a purple bandana with "W DUBS." The dog sits on green turf, looking up with a happy, open-mouthed expression, tongue out. Purple light illuminates the dog and a white wall behind.
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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Schrödinger's security check 🤦
Screenshot of Cloudflare security check with both success and failure messages.
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False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
New Bird Poster! It's got 37 hand painted birdies of Eastern Canada at half their true size, based on photos I've taken myself. Bird names in Latin, English, and French. Link to my store in my story!
It's an ad for a new bird poster I've drawn. The image is of the poster in a gold frame hung on a white wall with dappled light shining. It is an attempt to make the product look like something the customer would like to purchase.
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False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The Seed Song
A chipping sparrow is humming to itself while hopping around a forest floor in early spring. New plants are sprouting through fallen years from the year before. Zoom in on the bird in the second panel as it sings "I never had a seed that I didn't like / dry ones hard ones sharp ones even taste alright / if you don't eat them fast, they turn into a grass! / if you let them be, they become a tree!" It stops to munch on some morsels of sparrow food, whatever that is, at the base of a plant that towers over its head. It looks up and up. The final frame is zoomed out to see the top of the plant, which is a trillium. The sparrow cheerily says "Good morning!". And that's how you make a comic!
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Jen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I really cannot stress enough how unhinged things are getting right now in terms of elections. Three stories you need to have on your radar today 🧵
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Jorge 🐀 @jxmartinez.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
My top three least favorite companies.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
A jury has found that Live Nation has been operating as an illegal monopoly. Live Nation used its dominance to harm customers, artists, and venues alike. Other monopolies take away our freedoms in similar ways. Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains.
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22K likes, 1.3K comments. "The Illusion of Choice: How Big Business Controls Your Life (ft. Lina Khan)"
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 15/04/2026
Countdown Standard xkcd.com/3232/
Comic. One... two... THREE! [text in red] X Deprecated [line break] One... two... three... GO! [text in red] Deprecated [red curly bracket around top two lines] Too easy to mix up [line break] Three... two... one... GO! [text in green] [check mark] ISO Standard [caption] If I were in charge of ISO, the first thing I’d do would be to standardize the way people count out loud before doing something in sync.
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Taint @taint9.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Exactly 💯
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
We couldn’t agree more. Queen guitarist/astronomer Brian May and astrophysicist Derek Ward-Thompson talked with us about their new stereoscopic book of galaxies, that combines art and science to give people a 3D perspective of the universe. Listen to the full podcast episode now: buff.ly/LkdXS62
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 13/03/2026
The data centers needed to train AI can consume as much electricity as 200,000 American homes—and the race to power these digital tools is changing the physical world, Matteo Wong reports:
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Inside the Dirty, Dystopian World of AI Data Centers
The race to power AI is already remaking the physical world.
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Jorge 🐀 @jxmartinez.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Yesss, let’s take over R! 🌈
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Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
#RStats is up baby www.infoworld.com/article/4129...
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Python is slipping in popularity – Tiobe
The world’s most popular programming language is losing market share to more specialized languages such as R and Perl, Tiobe says.
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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
People who say knees are evidence against intelligent design should remember that Microsoft Windows is the result of intelligent design
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Jorge 🐀 @jxmartinez.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Gir says happy Mardi Gras.
Black pug sitting in his bed wearing gold, purple, and green Mardi Gras beads.
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
“[F]racked gas companies are fully backed by the Trump administration, with its ideological dedication to fossil fuels and its cozy relationship with billionaire oil and gas donors. For its part, Big Tech is going along, largely sidelining its purported commitments to renewable energy."
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Jorge 🐀 @jxmartinez.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Happy New Year! We spent the first afternoon of 2026 strolling through a favorite: Buffalo Bayou Park.
Jorge and Armando walking along buffalo bayou trail with downtown in the background.
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NPR @npr.org · 27/12/2025
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
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Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 25/12/2025
A balance of infection and harmony called endosymbiosis helps shape evolution. For the first time, biologists have reproduced this arrangement between microbes in a lab.
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Scientists Re-Create the Microbial Dance That Sparked Complex Life | Quanta Magazine
Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen in the lab.
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Houston Public Media @houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
About 14% of Americans and 17% of Texans are food insecure, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That number is even higher in Harris County, where roughly 2 in 5 households are food insecure.
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Harris County’s Black and Hispanic families see highest rates of food insecurity, study shows
With limited grocery store access in neighborhoods like Gulfton, community food distribution events offer relief.
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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
this is what I hear in my head when I argue with software engineer guys who decide to give back by teaching programming and fail like 90% of their students btw www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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“It's ok — Not everyone can be good at math”: Instructors with an entity theory comfort (and demotivate) students
Can comforting struggling students demotivate them and potentially decrease the pool of students pursuing math-related subjects? In Studies 1–3, instr…
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Jorge 🐀 @jxmartinez.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Gross.
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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are sitting with their backs facing each other, both deep in their own thoughts.

 Blue turns to listen as Green turns to look at him over his shoulder.
Green: Did I just say that out loud?

Blue frowns in confusion.
Blue: ...No?

Green turns back around, seeming relieved. Blue continues to stare at him, deeply baffled and suspicious.
Green: Oh, thank goodness.
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Jorge 🐀 @jxmartinez.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Know your rights.
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Nature @nature.com · 05/12/2025
Many say that AI tools are saving them time and money, but others have seen the negative effects that such tools can have on research go.nature.com/4oFomNQ
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AI is saving time and money in research — but at what cost?
Artificial intelligence tools are boosting researchers’ productivity, but some worry about the effect of a growing reliance on them.
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U.S. Representative Al Green @algreen.house.gov · 30/11/2025
You can access the Center for American Progress article by clicking here: www.americanprogress.org/article/raci...
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Jorge 🐀 @jxmartinez.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁🦃🍽
Me and my partner sitting on the balcony on a sunny afternoon. It’s chilly so we are wearing hoodies
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John Paul Helveston @jhelvy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
🎉 Announcing surveydown v1.0.0! surveydown is an #opensource #rstats package for building surveys with #Quarto & #Shiny. This release improves the survey design experience, including: - Simplified YAML settings - Auto page navigation - Previous buttons! More at surveydown.org/blog/2025-11...
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Announcing surveydown v1.0.0! – surveydown.org
We are thrilled to announce the v1.0.0 release of surveydown, a stable release with improvements to YAML settings, page navigation, question creation, and a smoother overall developer experience.
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 23/11/2025
Winter Is Coming: And the Earth’s oldest organisms are prepping. 🥶
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Even a Single Bacterial Cell Can Sense the Seasons Changing | Quanta Magazine
Though they live only a few hours before dividing, bacteria can anticipate the approach of cold weather and prepare for it. The discovery suggests that seasonal tracking is fundamental to life.
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ElectroCeratops @ehrenenglish.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Saw something that @realgdt.bsky.social said the other day, and remembered I had something I started a while ago that I should finish up. I'm so tired of all this.
An illustration of a smilodon skull over a green background, pink text reading "I'd rather die than use Ai"
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Jorge 🐀 @jxmartinez.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
“I love feeling like I’m part of the collective human experiment, in which my brain is, quite literally, architecturally reshaped, down to the neuron, by ideas unleashed by thousands of other minds across time and space.” 💯
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The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition
One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.
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Jorge 🐀 @jxmartinez.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
I need this mug!
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Jorge 🐀 @jxmartinez.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
This is sending me!
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
We’re hiring! Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda. Could that be you? Apply using the link below. transition2025.com/apply
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Jen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
One interesting thing about the California redistricting Prop 50 election is lawmakers in Texas, Missouri & North Carolina all redrew their congressional maps this year without having to go to the voters for approval and idk maybe voters in those states would like to change that
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Jorge 🐀 @jxmartinez.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I live along an arterial road in Houston. I have been pondering some protest art to paint along my fence. Maybe this is something I could do since they removed the rainbow crosswalk. 🤔 🌈
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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Isopods!! 🧡
A vibrant illustrated poster featuring 14 species/varieties of isopods of various colors. They are illustrated on a yellow-vibrant orange background and have numbers with a key describing which species is which.
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