I'll be there this afternoon to chat about open source geospatial tools. I'm looking forward to seeing my friends who work for the state! #gischat

RIP Charlie Brown/Lucy football meme. 😥

I've seen this play before...

How do I recover from three intense conference days bookended by long flights? Do something completely creative and not analytical (and doesn't involve people)! This is a vegetarian pot pie - roasted vegetables (turnips, rutabaga, parsnips, acorn squash) and an onion and garlic bechamel.

If you are planning to attend, please add the session to your schedule in the Whova conference app so I know if I need to ask for a bigger room.

I'm glad we're calling this so soon because this Californian in Virginia (who voted by mail two weeks ago) needs to go to bed.

Being on the east coast during an election is not ideal! I'm going to have to go to bed tonight before I know what happened on the west coast. apps.npr.org/2025-electio...

I'm prepping for tomorrow's FOSS4GNA version of Hand Drawn Maps, making sure the camera works with this computer. Join me tomorrow for some map fun! #gischat

Attending FOSS4G North America 2025? Join " #gischat in person" at 11/05/2025 04:00 PM! RSVP through the Whova event app. Thanks @chris-marx.bsky.social for setting this up! @foss4gna.bsky.social

On my way to @foss4gna.bsky.social and I'm feeling this. All the federal employees who do their jobs keeping us safe but aren't getting paid...

The OSGeo Charter Member nominations are fantastic this year! It makes me so proud to be a part of this global community that is working together to help so many people create and use open source geospatial software! #gischat wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Mem...

Sometimes my job looks like I'm just screwing around. Prepping for the Hand Drawn Maps workshop on Friday. I'll do a less Halloween version at @foss4gna.bsky.social next week.

Carrying around a flash drive of satellite data in my purse makes me sound like a TV show spy. #gischat

Me: I'll just print these workshop instructions for @foss4gna.bsky.social right now to cross that off the list! .md file... how to convert to pdf?... install pandoc... install latex... restart command prompt 100 times... pandoc considers doing it... computer smells like burning... waiting...

What place should we draw at this session? Is there an interesting area near Reston that would be a fun map to draw? @foss4gna.bsky.social #gischat

I'm thinking about applying this cactus vegetation index to my beach imagery to see if that helps pop the plants out... Sentinel is coarse for my little plants, but they are succulent so maybe... #gischat www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11...

Getting distracted from putting together my @foss4gna.bsky.social presentation by botanical Latin. Sigh. Academic life.

I'm doing a version of my Hand Drawn Maps workshop (as a double talk session) at FOSS4G North America on Wednesday 11/5 1:30-2:00! Bring some paper and stuff to write with and we'll draw some maps! #gischat Register: www.foss4gna.org

Watch until the end.

This is incompetence. Johnson is unable to do his job and should be removed.

PhD Position: Spatio-temporal causal modeling of shared EV demand 100%, #eth Zurich, fixed-term https://jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_ethz_RlbuXptleQjHbM3L8g #gischat #giscience

This explains a lot...

As this article points out, 2,050 is probably just the beginning of the cuts. On a personal note, I worked at the USGS Great Lakes Science Center for a couple of semesters during my MS. I learned so much there and the people were amazing to work with. I’m gutted by the proposed cuts there.

Well, this is just delightful. It has everything: data, survey, charts, stories, videos, scrollytelling, animations, 3D modelling, interviews... 📊

I had an incident with a pack of cross country runners this morning while I was biking in to campus (the appropriate people have been notified) and I can't get my brain to understand it's now time to focus. Anyone got any hacks to make a probably neurospicy brain calm down?

My ballot with my YES vote on Prop 50 for California's special election is in the mail!

My to-do list is out of control. I have decided that to-do items will be handled in the order in which they are due. I have scheduled my flu shot and prepped for my Wednesday presentation. Up next is prepping for teaching dance on Wednesday night and then presentations for maptimeDavis & FOSS4GNA.

If you had a list of emergency contacts in your pocket from yesterday's protest, go ahead and take it out of your pocket before you end up paper mache-ing the inside of your washing machine...

It's been a while since I shouted about these pins but they're all still available. I hear they make great gifts for the doctors in your life 😉

The estimate of the Davis, CA #NoKings protest was over 4,500! #DavisCA

The Sacramento #NoKings rally was packed! Someone gave me two tiny plastic frogs and someone else gave me a frog resist sticker! And so many people were dressed up in costumes, inflatable or otherwise. This is how you do it!

Getting crafty in the fight for ribberty!

Antifa Regulars: A blocklist of all the "official gov" accounts swarming onto Bsky, rather suspiciously the day before No Kings.

Ignore these accounts. Engagement will just give them power. It's like the rule about not feeding the gremlins after midnight. Just don't do it.

Are you more of a digital tools or analog tools (pen + paper) kind of person for keeping track of your to-do list?

Making good maps is hard. Learn a workflow to make maps that communicate well! Join my workshop "Cartography for Professional Quality Maps in QGIS" at FOSS4G North America! @foss4gna.bsky.social #gischat www.foss4gna.org/schedule

Look at me writing a grant proposal! Just sitting here typing words into a template.

I'm writing a grant application to fund features and improvements to Literature Mapper, a plugin for QGIS that makes maps of Zotero citations. Has anyone out there used it in it's current state? Or would you use it if only... ? micheletobias.github.io/maps/Literat... #gischat

Thinking about making some kind of frog hat to wear next Saturday because Saturday just feels like a day to dress up like a frog.

Can't take credit for the awesome Amphifa logo, but the one I designed is free to use! Here's a png with no background. You can buy sticker paper everywhere and use a normal printer to print them out!

The California Voter Information Guide has never had so many maps! This is for the Statewide Special Election to temporarily change our congressional voting districts. There are 6 pages of maps! I wonder if the data is available somewhere... #gischat

Having a bunch of publications with large lists of collaborators sounds amazing until you have to fill out one of the COA forms for NSF listing all of the people you've worked with for the last 4 years like it's a background check for the FBI.

We're so thrilled to be partnering with @foss4gna.bsky.social on this Special Issue! Be on the lookout for some exciting new research on #OpenSource #GIS and #GeoSpatial analytics. 🧪

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We deserve better than this.

The little pockets of people who know the Pismo clam consider it an icon. But for Marissa Bills, the species offered a reminder: There are a whole lot of species that have been overlooked, waiting for scientists to dig in. Read more at https://caseagrant.ucsd.edu/news/clams-tiktok #clams #caseagrant

I watched Reading Rainbow as a little kid and while I don't remember any episode specifically, I have a very vivid memory of my happy emotional response to the theme song. That song said something special was about to happen.

The more I read the comments I got back on a proposal the more I feel like the reviewer didn't actually read it. This is frustrating. I don't know how to make it more clear. I'm pretty sure it's gotta just be text and I can't put blinking arrows in this.

If you're presenting research at @foss4gna.bsky.social, join our special issue with @stacksjournal.bsky.social as an author! You can also participate as a reviewer whether or not you're presenting! The call for posters is still open #gischat #geosky #opensource #geospatial www.foss4gna.org/journal

I have to clearly articulate how something I want to do is science, which has sent me down a rabbit hole of understanding what "science" actually is. Even NSF doesn't seem to have a definition of science on their website, but maybe I missed it. Does anyone have a good working definition?