Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026abolish the death penalty 383126517
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)CosmicRami 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 28/09/2026Just saw this news now (looks like it is a few days old) arXiv has received private funding -- $17.2M to be distributed across the next 3-5 years to help it establish and transition to an independent not-for-profit. This is good news for the preprint server and open access resources! 🔭🧪blog.arxiv.orgarXiv receives Multiyear Philanthropic Commitments to Support Its Launch as an Independent NonprofitarXiv is pleased to announce that three leading philanthropic organizations have provided multimillion-dollar support for arXiv. These new multiyear… 16412
Nicole Mark (she/her) @nicoledesignsdata.com · 28/09/2026That’s ridiculous. To use your metaphor, like with guns, the problem is the people. Pit bulls are the sweetest, most loyal dogs you’ll ever meet, and they consistently score in the top 5 on the American Temperament Test Society’s assessment. atts.org/breed-statis...atts.orgATTS Breed Statisticsas of January 2023 The pass-fail rate is not a measure of a breed's aggression, but rather of each dog's ability to interact with humans, human situations, and the environment. See a description of t... 100
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 24/09/2026In the newsletter: "Visualization as epistemic representation" openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/visualizat... Or: Building bridges between information design and the philosophy of science & scientific representation #dataViz #dataVisualization #infographics 2227
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 25/09/2026Unveiled today. 📊 092
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)Tan G. @tangandhara.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This interactive op-ed by Giorgia Lupi on creativity and AI is so good (and Miles Davis also gets a mention) #dataviznytimes.comOpinion | A.I. Shortcuts Are Ruining How We ThinkAnything worth remembering came from a person who did not know where she or he was going until arriving. 1173
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend. 20643371112
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)PETA @peta.org · 27/09/2026Together with @marchforanimals.bsky.social, 1,000+ people joined the 207-mile March to Abolish Animal Testing from Albany to Marshall BioResources, the world’s largest breeder of dogs destined for laboratories to demand an end to animal testing. Animals are NOT ours to experiment on ✊🐾 22712
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You know, if you *really* cared about the wellbeing of women in college, instead of carping about the statistically insignificant number of trans athletes in sports minding their own business, you’d be railing against these Cornell fraternity cretins who drugged and gang-raped a passed-out women: 39872052872
Nicole Mark (she/her) @nicoledesignsdata.com · 27/09/2026Florida, let’s elect Jolly for governor & @angieforfl.bsky.social to the U.S. Senate! 🌴✊💙! We can win if we all show up! 100
Nicole Mark (she/her) @nicoledesignsdata.com · 27/09/2026Happy Sunday ☀️, free Palestine 🇵🇸, free the beagles at Marshall BioResources ✊🐾, and fuck Donald Trump. 000
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)Gale Sinatra @galesinatra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Oh yes, let’s make cars and trucks less fuel efficient while gas and diesel prices are at an all time high. Not to mention the impact on air quality and the climate. Trump Administration Plans to Gut Clean Car Rules www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/c...nytimes.comTrump Administration Plans to Gut Clean Car RulesNew fuel-economy standards, which President Trump said he finalized Saturday, would kill a federal effort to speed the transition to electric vehicles. 2137
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)Team Animal Voice @tav4accmedicals.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"There are cattle dogs & then all other dogs" Meet Oreo McFlurry nycacc.app#/browse/265037 #AdoptMe Oh baby girl, how did you end up in NYC? Oh my.... they have no idea the treasure they found Intelligent, playful, trainable, active, loving, loyal, protective; did I say active? 0119
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.theguardian.comICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious. 10885511
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)Rowdy Girl Sanctuary @rowdygirlsanctuary.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Denver Vegans, come out to hear my talk at the University of Denver on Tuesday, September 29 from 6-8pm! I'll be sharing stories from my memoir, “Rowdy Girl: Confessions of a Vegan Cattle Rancher.” Learn about this program put on by the Animal Law Program: buff.ly/TESkeND 0131
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Susan Collins is always horrified by the predictable results of her own vote, which means Mainers who genuinely care about Susan Collins should elect Troy Jackson as he won’t vote for things that wind up upsetting Susan Collins, unlike Susan Collins 794146953
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 25/09/2026Early voting has already begun for the midterm elections. Here’s a guide to the key deadlines for voting in your state. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.com2026 Midterm Elections: When to Register, Vote Early or Vote by Mail in Your StateSee the important deadlines for registering to vote, mailing ballots and voting early in person. 197
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 25/09/2026Where things stand for the weekend in the Northeast corridor: rain, flooding and gusty winds. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/w... 021
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)Dylan Freedman @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com · 25/09/2026EXCLUSIVE: A new report recovers nearly one million link shortener URLs used by OpenAI's agents while hacking Hugging Face. The agents attempt to message other chatbots like Claude, solve CAPTCHAs and exfiltrate Hugging Face's internal Slack messages. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...nytimes.comHow OpenAI’s Rogue A.I. Agents Tried to Trick a Robot Detector (Gift Article)A new report by a Bay Area start-up called Parse adds new details to an incident that has shocked the A.I. world and led to calls for closer government regulation. 44721
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 121121825179
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 26/09/2026Taken together, European seas averaged 21.6 C (70.9 F) between June and August, the highest in 45 years of available data. 142
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.theintercept.comDoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam 6574018111813
Nicole Mark (she/her) @nicoledesignsdata.com · 26/09/2026Please call your congressional representative and insist that they support this important legislation. 000
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)Florida Phoenix @floridaphoenix.com · 21/09/2026 “These are folks who should be focused on getting the help and care they desperately need, not overcoming even more obstacles.” floridaphoenix.com/2026/09/21/r...floridaphoenix.comMedical groups, patients sue Trump administration over Medicaid work requirements • Florida PhoenixMedicaid enrollees from five states and leading medical organizations filed a lawsuit Friday challenging new Medicaid work requirements. 042
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵 411113586053
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)South Carolina Democratic Party @scdemocrats.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Conservative columnist George F. Will is backing Dr. Annie Andrews in the Washington Post. 👀💙 Will highlights her experience, knowledge & respect for the Constitution. This seat belongs to the people of South Carolina, not one family or politicians in Washington. 616677
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026New in PN: Retire in peace "McConnell would never be allowed to drive a car, babysit young children, or file his own taxes. Why, then, should a cognitively incapacitated 82-year-old retain one of the most important positions of power within the national government?"publicnotice.coRetire in peaceMcConnell is the latest example of an incapacitated politician refusing to let go. 1721258917940
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/09/2026How fast does government run? That’s up to you. This November, there will be 5 questions on your ballot aimed at making government work more efficiently for New Yorkers. Make sure your voice is heard. Register to vote by October 24th. Learn more about the ballot props by heading to nyc.gov/fast. 17280751939
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)Stephen James @stephen5150.bsky.social · 14/09/2026yahoo.comElon Musk is Running a Fake Voter Registration Site Designed to Steal and Sell DataMusk's "VoteSafe.org" is a scam that doesn't actually register voters 14302243
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 15/09/2026“Widow’s Bay” won big at the Emmys in an evening that underlined how television, “despite years of movie stars dominating prestige shows, remains best designed for versatile performers and textured roles,” @shirklesxp.bsky.social argues:bit.lyThe Emmys Made Widow’s Bay Its PersonalityThe Apple TV show’s big night was fitting for a ceremony that celebrated versatile performers, not movie stars. 1405
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Between the Trump and Natalie kissing photo, and the video of Mitch McConnell’s face as he grins like a sentient whoopie cushion, today is a bad day to have eyes 4454
Nicole Mark (she/her) @nicoledesignsdata.com · 14/09/2026The one thing you can do to help a whole lot of animals, explained in 4 charts www.vox.com/future-perfe...vox.comThe one thing you can do to help a whole lot of animals, explained in 4 chartsWhy a bite of chicken hurts way more animals than a hunk of steak. 000
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026🧵US Weekly COVID update: Sep 14, 2026 🔸1 in 92 Actively Infectious 🔸530,000 Daily Infections 🔸3,800,000 Infections In The Past Week 🔸107,000,000 Infections in 2026 🔸190,000 to 760,000 Weekly Long COVID Cases 🔸900 to 1,700 Weekly Excess Deaths Source: pmc19.com 39850
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The Russians are attacking trains right at the border of Poland, shortly after former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and top European security officials had passed through. Kamala Harris told us how it was all going to go. 491043408
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 11/09/2026It should be an event for the data visualization community that this video from 2013 that got 26 million views has just been updated. 📊 It has entered the mainstream in the way that very few dataviz have. youtu.be/2GxlL5-0m_g?...youtu.beWealth Inequality in America (Updated 2026)YouTube video by politizane 1218
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Join me on October 1 for a #ggplot2 workshop as part of the @rinpharma.bsky.social conference! 📊 #RStats #DataViz 2142
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)Datawrapper @datawrapper.de · 14/09/2026📊 This week: "Dual-axis & waterfall charts" on Wednesday, Sept 16 at 6pm CET / 12pm EDT. Get to know our newest chart types! Live Q&A included. You can register here: watch.getcontrast.io/register/dat... 011
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... " 1377339668303
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 14/09/2026One thing not getting as much attention re: Dario's essay. In it, he talks about the need for third party evaluators to review models for safety. But a few days before the essay, Anthropic... refused to submit its latest models to the UK's evaluator: www.ft.com/content/560e...ft.comAnthropic withheld latest AI model from UK testing agencyDecision to exclude Aisi has prompted fears inside British government of protectionist shift among tech groups 4384106
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)Hardcore Vegan @hardcorevegan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Shoutout to whoever managed to get both Bing and Google maps to list Marshall BioResources as a Prison in New York state 🎯🏅 031
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)PETA @peta.org · 10/09/2026The sheer magnitude of this animal breeding factory farm will make you sick 💔 As you're watching this video, 14,000 beagles, 11,000 ferrets, & other animals are suffering at Marshall BioResources. Don't let another animal experience the same fate, text in TODAY! 1188
Reposted by Nicole Mark (she/her)Robb Edwards 🌱 @robedwards1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Marshall BioResources Faces Call for Criminal Investigation riseforanimals.org/news/marshal...riseforanimals.orgMarshall BioResources Faces Call for Criminal InvestigationWhistleblower testimony and veterinary evidence raise serious allegations of cruelty at Marshall BioResources. Help demand a criminal investigation. 21311