So... #gischat ... How many of us received or gave a Geohipster calendar this holiday season?

Merry Christmas! My house is very lazy today because we've been awake since 4:00am when an intense thunderstorm passed over the house bringing us hail, high wind gusts, and lightning.

My Christmas gift to everyone? SEVEN new species and a new GENUS of starfish (Astrophylax!) from Papua New Guinea with these insane bivalve pedicellariae- and an overview of other species with same! OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.11646/meg...

Welcome new geographers & geospatial people! Here's my starter pack to get you started finding the open source geospatial folks here. If you want to be added or removed, just let me know. #gischat go.bsky.app/PGYLmPG

In what could plausibly represent a Christmas miracle* SFU Geography has two (2) new tenure track hires. One is urban/climate, which I will repost below. The other is a Landscape Ecologist. Please share ... #academicsky *actually just the good decisions of our new Dean www.sfu.ca/geography/ab...

Wishing everyone all things merry and bright!

If this doesn't motivate you to vote in the Midterms, nothing will.

List of all Los Angeles area evacuation warnings before the #LARain storm

What if I told you that you have a large language model sitting right in your head that’s completely free to use, runs on renewable energy, has virtually infinite capacity, and actually improves the more you use it

Please repost! The LOC Lab @UCSB is recruiting a #PostdoctoralScholar in forest ecology and data science to develop data-driven models of forest resilience to compound disturbances (e.g., fire, drought, insects). 🌱🍁🌏🧪🌐 Applications due Feb 5 Apply here: www.landscapesofchangelab.com/were-hiring-1

The current circulating strain(s) of influenza are causing severe morbidity & deaths in pregnant people and young children. Vaccines are still available but it takes about 2 weeks for them to take effect. If you’re part of one of these populations, be cautious around holiday gatherings. 😷 💉

Inspections in this house extended to work products, not just crafts. almost #caturday

Nothing makes me feel more geeky than running scripts (that my colleague wrote in Fortran) via the command line over night.

The whole situation with the Kennedy Center is terrible, but what this administration doesn't understand is that a theater is like a church. It's not about the building. It's about the people. Or the Grinch who doesn't understand that Christmas isn't about the gifts. Art will continue.

The sun is out!!! And it's in the 60s! Gotta recharge the California solar cells in my body while I can so I'm working in the backyard.

If you signed up to participate in the the FOSS4GNA Special Issue with @stacksjournal.bsky.social check your email for more details about how to submit your article. We also need reviewers with open source geospatial expertise. Sign up here: aj5simwj6qe.typeform.com/to/cU3Ils9j #gischat

A silly little thing I did to wish everyone a little joy in this dark time. #rstats #gischat

There's a special place in heck for these people dropping projects and problems right before I take some much needed time off.

I had this idea to write a workshop that teaches control structures in R (loops, if/else) with fun/silly/not-very-serious examples like writing a Magic 8 Ball function and a function that writes out the Hokey Pokey looping through lists of appendages. I'm so tired of very serious workshops.

Our library staff holiday party had tiny quiches and bacon and a surprisingly fun trivia game. And now I need to get my head back in the game for a grant meeting and workshop planning for next quarter.

The gingko trees by PES at UC Davis were pouring down leaves this morning like rain. I didn't get there in time to get a video but it was magical. The construction workers were similarly impressed.

Just when I was making progress, my hard drive is full. Why does spatial data have to be so large?

I brought my version of Gochujang Chocolate Chip Cookies to the office cookie party and most of them are gone so I think they went over well. In case you need a chocolate chip cookie with a bit of heat: experimentalcraft.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/g...

I popped over to my local shoreline for some quick #KingTides views this morning, 12/4/2025. This trail was completely flooded. SW corner of north basin in Berkeley, where Cesar Chavez Park/Marina Blvd meets Virginia St Extension/McLaughlin Eastshore State Park. Rocks on the right are riprap.

A Shake Alert for an earthquake 131 miles away on the other side of a granite mountain range seems little unnecessary. That being said, I hope all is well in Dayton, NV.

I'm so glad for code when it's time to write the methods section for a paper for an analysis I did like three years ago. Like hell if I know what I did back then! Oh, this code that I don't really remember tells me exactly what happened.

Do you ever have those moments where you're like, damn, my career is cool? I mostly am grumbling about the details of stuff, especially when stuff isn't working, but sometimes it hits me that I get to do impactful research with amazing teams of people and that makes me really happy.

I got to talk to a student in office hours today who is interested in Kite Aerial Photography which is totally my jam... crafting things, solving problems, remote sensing imagery...

Let me tell you, it's worth the extra cost to get data entry folks who will pay attention to detail. I've spent about an hour cleaning and troubleshooting mistakes and missing data in a small dataset of addresses that needed geocoding.

New adventures in how to confuse a geocoder: "CA" != "CA " to the geocoder.

Babysitting my Pelias geocoder install while wrestling my hair into a bun. Will this all get finished before I have to leave for dance class?

At the @ucdavis.bsky.social Bodega Marine Lab, scientists are fighting to restore endangered @whiteabalone.bsky.social amid complex pressures — and seeing remarkable spawning success, offering this iconic species a path home. More from @pressdemo.bsky.social: www.pressdemocrat.com/2025/11/26/b...

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Starting my day with mechanical keyboard surgery to make me E and Space Bar keys work again. Thank goodness I had some extra switches on hand!

"The cure for burnout is not 'self-care'; it is all of us caring for one another." From Burnout by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski Damn, this book makes a lot of sense. I highly recommend this read for anyone who is just so damn tired all of the time. bookshop.org/p/books/burn...

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen (ok, but mine are dance concerts) Alvin Ailey Momix Company Wayne McGregor Capitol Dance Project Tahoe Dance Festival

happy thanksgiving!

Darn it all to heck! My Pelias Geocoder is matching all my addresses to their city centers. I guess that didn't install correctly.

I'm back to working on an NIH funded project that was reinstated! Good news: at some point I installed a Pelias geocoder on this computer and the new dataset is reasonably formatted. It looks like I cleaned the last set by hand (remove apartment numbers, etc.). But maybe I can run this tomorrow.

It's stuff like this that makes it hard for me to explain exactly what I do for my job. I think the data structure for Medieval Murder Maps might be a useful starting point for a new database design project. medievalmurdermap.co.uk

Today at 1:00 pacific time! But watch PostGIS talks all day too!

Dear publishers, If you want me to use a specific font in my maps, please tell me that in your art specs, not at the end of the publication process. In addition, please choose a freely available font. Signed, an academic cartographer who is just trying to get things off her to-do list.

Take a little break and look at these tidepools.

Happy GIS Day, fellow map 🗺️ nerds!! 🤓 #GISday2025 #GISchat

Happy GIS Day! #GISChat

Score one for my draft Maps in R workshop! I used it in office hours to help someone visualize their data.

As I work through popular ways to make maps in R for this new workshop, I have come to the conclusion that labels are by far the hardest part of cartography. Hands down the hardest.

Yes. 90s alternative is the right music for writing the ggplot section of my Maps in R workshop.

Today's goal: assess the status of the Maps in R workshop I started writing 6 months ago. How's it going? Well, it's 3:30 and I'm just now actually going to look at the text.