Jorge 🐀
@jxmartinez.bsky.social
Data strategist at BakerRipley. I love all things science, data, #Rstats, pugs, and mushrooms. 🍄🟫 #htx
Excellent.
New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped
February 4, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Excellent.
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“[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."
Data centers are driving a surge in the construction of power generation facilities involving fracked gas.
Fracking Industry Executives Are Salivating Over the AI Data Center Boom
Data centers are driving a surge in the construction of power generation facilities involving fracked gas.
buff.ly
January 4, 2026 at 2:28 PM
“[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."
Happy New Year! We spent the first afternoon of 2026 strolling through a favorite: Buffalo Bayou Park.
January 2, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Happy New Year! We spent the first afternoon of 2026 strolling through a favorite: Buffalo Bayou Park.
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Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
n.pr
December 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
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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.
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.
www.quantamagazine.org
December 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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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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.
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.
www.houstonpublicmedia.org
December 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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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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...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“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…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Gross.
Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI to bring characters like Mickey Mouse and Luke Skywalker to the AI company's Sora video tool.
Disney invests $1B in OpenAI in deal to bring characters like Mickey Mouse to Sora AI video tool
Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI to bring characters like Mickey Mouse and Luke Skywalker to the AI company's Sora video tool.
bit.ly
December 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Gross.
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Know your rights.
Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
December 9, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Know your rights.
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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
go.nature.com/4oFomNQ
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.
go.nature.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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
go.nature.com/4oFomNQ
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You can access the Center for American Progress article by clicking here: www.americanprogress.org/article/raci...
November 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
You can access the Center for American Progress article by clicking here: www.americanprogress.org/article/raci...
Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁🦃🍽
November 28, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁🦃🍽
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🎉 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...
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...
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.
surveydown.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
🎉 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...
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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Winter Is Coming: And the Earth’s oldest organisms are prepping. 🥶
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.
www.quantamagazine.org
November 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Winter Is Coming: And the Earth’s oldest organisms are prepping. 🥶
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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.
I'm so tired of all this.
October 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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.
I'm so tired of all this.
“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.” 💯
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.
www.forkingpaths.co
November 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
“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.” 💯
I need this mug!
November 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I need this mug!
This is sending me!
Stop being a lame-o and replace dplyr with the more slappin genzplyr.
November 7, 2025 at 2:21 AM
This is sending me!
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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
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
November 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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
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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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
November 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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
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. 🤔 🌈
Artists are painting their own rainbows in Houston after Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the removal of a roadway symbol supporting the city's LGBTQ+ community.
Paint as protest: Artists push back against Montrose’s rainbow crosswalk removal
Artists are painting their own rainbows in Houston after Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the removal of a roadway symbol supporting the city's LGBTQ+ community.
www.houstonpublicmedia.org
October 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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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Some doctoral programmes in the US are admitting no students at all amid uncertainty about federal science funding
go.nature.com/4o63boK
go.nature.com/4o63boK
US PhD admissions shrink as fears over Trump’s cuts take hold
Some doctoral programmes are admitting no students at all amid uncertainty about federal science funding.
go.nature.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Some doctoral programmes in the US are admitting no students at all amid uncertainty about federal science funding
go.nature.com/4o63boK
go.nature.com/4o63boK
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If you haven't got a website and want to give #quarto a go, the first video in my "Quarto Websites" series with @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social could be a good place to start:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7r2...
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Quarto Websites 1: Build your homepage | Charlotte Wickham & Emil Hvitfeldt | Posit
YouTube video by Posit PBC
www.youtube.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:51 PM
If you haven't got a website and want to give #quarto a go, the first video in my "Quarto Websites" series with @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social could be a good place to start:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7r2...
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