I'm planning an internship for next year and need to articulate what the student will learn on the job. What are the broad skills that you think are the most important in the world of geospatial right now and why? #gischat

My role at the UC Davis Library @ucdavislibrary.bsky.social is expanding! My portfolio will now encompass the all of the Library's geospatial collections and services. #gischat 1/3

I made a new open-source app called Hipparchus. It creates clean vector maps from OpenStreetMap data and exports them as layered SVG files. That means roads, buildings, water, parks, labels, railways, coastlines, and other elements stay separate and editable.

This is my achievement for today. Have you ever tried to assemble medical assistive devices? These things are hard and the instructions make no sense.

One of my former students took her final project for my field natural history class and turned it into her Honors thesis: a 100% original, hand-drawn field guide to the rocky intertidal! And she got copies printed for her defense!

I strapped consumer grade cameras to a big kite to take my own airphotos... Probably not what Amanda is thinking of but it's much lower tech than a satellite.

It really is pretty easy & only mildly awkward. I had a cyst; it's genetic. Did some follow up screening with ultrasound, no invasive stuff. No big deal.

I'm going to be spending more time with our map collection as a couple of scanning projects get underway and I'm curious... What would you like to know about academic library map collections? What kinds of social media content around them would interest you? #gischat #geosky

We've got a couple of slots open for reviewers for the first three papers! We've got plenty for the last one. Let me know if you want to help and I'll send you the link to sign up.

PhD Opportunity Studying Coastal and Estuarine Processes at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. See also: csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Jobs

The cats had their own #NoKings protest yesterday.

Stolen from Reddit A bald eagle circles the Minnesota state capitol during the No Kings protest

It's a popular day to make art and hang out on the lawn at the California State Capitol in Sacramento, CA! #NoKings

Ballet class, then getting my bun to the #nokings protest!

Today the ol' cubicle is getting a bit of a spring cleaning. I found piles of printed journal articles in folders, but for the life of me, I can't figure out why they were grouped together. I'm thinking I should just recycle the lot.

Want to learn how to visualise and analyze spatial data in the social sciences? My #R #GIS courses are coming up in Apr-May 2026: Intro to using R as a GIS - No prior knowledge needed! Advanced R as a GIS - For those ready to dive deeper nickbearman.com/training-cou...

One of the many things I didn't know about academic libraries before I started working at one is that there's a whole community of library staff. We help and support each other. As my role has shifted over the years, I've got colleagues all over who help me. I'm so thankful for this.

Every year I get requests for informational interviews because someone assigned it to their students. Colleagues, please stop this. It's not just work for your students, but work for your colleagues. I'm happy to talk to people who are genuinely interested but homework interviews are not that.

The FOSS4G North America @foss4gna.bsky.social 2025 Special Issue with @stacksjournal.bsky.social is taking shape! We need reviewers for 4 articles: 📝PCA + Convolution Kernels 📝Machine Learning-Optimized Tile Grids 📝Bridge Impacts in Rwanda 📝Gaps in Rural Access DM me to sign up! #gischat #geosky

Meet my UC Davis Library @ucdavislibrary.bsky.social intern, Holden! As we wait for more AVAs to be published, we're working on developing a STAC catalog for scanned map images. library.ucdavis.edu/news/meet-ho...

Today I'm reviewing the concepts in point pattern analysis with my cat. He already knows everything he needs to about this topic, but he's for support.

FOSS4G North America is in Sacramento, CA this November! Network and meet people in all aspects of the geospatial industry from users to developers by joining the planning team. Voice your interest here: www.foss4gna.org#contact #gischat #geosky

FedGeoDay is now on ALL your favorite platforms! Follow us for updates on #FedGeoDay2026 — April 22–23 at US Census Bureau HQ. Keynotes, workshops & networking with federal geo leaders. Register: fedgeo.us #GIS #Geospatial #OpenData #FedGeoDay #FedGeoDay2026 #OSGeo

This makes women the problem. The actual problem is unequal pay.

I just reviewed a paper draft for a public health project team that I'm on. Yay paper drafts! Why do I always put that kind of thing off? It takes like 30 minutes but my brain is like omg this will take forever and will be so painful I cannot possibly do it.

I'm so excited that we can finally share this! I'm chairing this year's conference with Nick Santos. It's gonna be amazing! Also, we're looking for volunteers to help with planning. Let me know if you have questions or want the sign up sheet! #gischat

'Tis the season for assembling a list of accomplishments to prove I was a good worker all year. This is patently dumb. My unit keeps data on projects, consultations, office hours attendance, and workshop attendance. Why does everyone in my office need to summarize this data for themselves?

I might need a break. I couldn't find the menu option to open my calendar in Outlook because I was looking for "open attribute table" instead of "open in a new window". #gischat

Day 4 of cartography on this map update. Like really, that's all I'm doing besides some admin stuff. It's all down to details. Maps communicate in very subtle ways. A thread of random cartography thoughts as I finish this up...

I just used my @5calls.org app to call my senators. No looking up phone number or any of that. It puts the number right into your phone and you just have to hit the call button.

This is beautiful! My own great-great-grandfather was an Irish immigrant who learned Finnish so he could help his fellow miners in Michigan's UP. Maybe this is why I'm so drawn to community work; it's in my genes.

Staying on official trails is key to preventing coastal erosion. You want those weedy scrubby plants at the back of the beach. They hold the sand down. If you walk on them, they die. And that is sad.

Today's task (among other things): start turning the map in this article into the map for the book. Unfortunately, I lost the original files in a backup disaster so we're starting from scratch. As expected though, the book needs a much smaller image in grayscale. www.ucdavis.edu/curiosity/ne...

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Sometimes when I feel uninformed I find people smarter than me and read the words they write.

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "We can't learn everything there is to know about projection all at once. We learn projections in layers, like onions and ogres have layers."

There were a couple I just couldn't see. I also realized that a couple of the mistakes were because I was seeing a linear reflection on my monitor.

I can think of a campus that has a lot of ecology PhDs

Today, I'm learning more spatial stats, specifically for health data. People are complicated and I suspect everything we measured in this set of studies comes down to income at the heart of it.

Friday: dress rehearsal for a dance concert Saturday: run-throughs and show Sunday: show How did I hurt my rotator cuff this weekend? Pouring cake batter into a Bundt pan. Yeah.

And how does it change our current descent into darkness?

Not thrilled at the remarkably bad job the tax software did with automatically reading my forms. It's taking 3 times as long with "help". At least when my cat "helps" with things, he's cute and fuzzy.

I sat down to find an R package that can make gantt charts from a table (columns like project, start date, finish) but they all seem to require a list of lists or something else ridiculous. Any recommendations? I'd also go for python at this point.

Grant Witness is hiring! We're seeking a full-time data scientist to join our team building data resources to support journalism, litigation, and activism protecting science, public health, and the rule of law. grant-witness.us/apply.html #rstats

I don't talk about GIS much but I'm currently TAing a lot of students in GIS classes and i'm realizing that most people are not taught that you can do most stuff with a single line in terminal that could crash arcgis. with gdal and a postgis database, you can do 99% of GIS in the terminal.

Is it just me? USGS EROS won't let me log in. For example, hit the login button on Earth Explorer earthexplorer.usgs.gov

This is why I keep doing maptimeDavis. Community is the answer to so many of our problems today.

Mending is the low key creativity my brain needs to counteract all the chaos. I've got the perfect storm of too much going on personally, professionally, and in the world so I'm trying to remember to take breaks.

I am unreasonably proud of these turnips I grew (and also the two ghastly split ones not in the picture).