Jorge 🐀

Yesss, let’s take over R! 🌈

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.

#RStats is up baby

www.infoworld.com/article/4129...

People who say knees are evidence against intelligent design should remember that Microsoft Windows is the result of intelligent design

Happy Birthday! 🎈

Black pug sitting in his bed wearing gold, purple, and green Mardi Gras beads.

Gir says happy Mardi Gras.

Excellent.

Me too! 🍲

“[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."

Jorge and Armando walking along buffalo bayou trail with downtown in the background.

Happy New Year! We spent the first afternoon of 2026 strolling through a favorite: Buffalo Bayou Park.

Books We Love Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.

Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Who me?

I don’t love Microsoft; maybe I should check out gitlab 🤔

“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…

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...

Gross.

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.

Me too! I was able to get my team on Linear in my new org. I love a good opinionated software without all the bloat.

Linear – Plan and build products Linear streamlines issues, projects, and roadmaps. Purpose-built for modern product development.

linear.app

That’s so cute! I’m sure all parties involved had a great time. :)

Know your rights.

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.

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

You can access the Center for American Progress article by clicking here: www.americanprogress.org/article/raci...

Me and my partner sitting on the balcony on a sunny afternoon. It’s chilly so we are wearing hoodies

Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁🦃🍽

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.

🎉 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...

Maybe only a little if it’s a fun, not work related project. 🤏🏽

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.

Winter Is Coming: And the Earth’s oldest organisms are prepping. 🥶

An illustration of a smilodon skull over a green background, pink text reading "I'd rather die than use Ai"

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.

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.

“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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