The National Science Foundation is terminating and suspending grants again, and at Grant Witness we need you to help to track them! 🧪 We can only identify research being suppressed by under-the-radar suspensions directly from researchers. Please report! grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF

Big speedups in deck.gl-raster v0.7: Retina display support, faster GPU pixel filtering, minimized latency to render 200GB COGs, center-out tile loading developmentseed.org/deck.gl-rast... Thanks to @developmentseed.org for supporting this work!

I absolutely should buy a zoom lens for my iphone to be able to take photos of the hummingbird nesting in my yard, right??

And this cute little one that iNaturalist says is a Marine Blue (Leptotes marina)

More saguaros

I really only care about documenting saguaro blooms right now.

Fish don’t stay put — they migrate through spawning grounds, feeding areas, and long corridors. But most policy still relies on catch locations. We helped build the Global Fish Tracking System with @Ifremer and @SimulaRL to change that.

Sometimes, often lately, I feel like taking care of myself is a part-time job on top of my full-time job, on top of parenting. It's fine, though, just makes me realize how much I wasn't taking care of myself in the past.

Kinda forgot about Bluesky for a bit. I get really burned out on LinkedIn, though, and then I come back around. I'm working on a bunch of blog posts that are cool - deck.gl-raster, NISAR, osm-seed, titiler-cmr, healpix visualization, and more. And the saguaros are blooming already!

Good to see Lyft stepping up as an @osmus.bsky.social organizational member 👏 Using OSM at scale and contributing back is what keeps the ecosystem alive. openstreetmap.us/news/2026/03...

Groundwork 04 is our quarterly look at small, practical experiments by our team that are shaped by real questions we’re hearing across the cloud-native geospatial community. GeoAI agents. Browser-native raster rendering. STAC tooling. Transit data as GeoParquet. ds.io/groundwork04

New preprint! We propose "anergiobiosis" to describe microbial life at thermodynamic limits as a way of separating the physiological state from questions about aeonophilic extremophile specialization. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... #Microbiology #Extremophiles #SubsurfaceMicrobiology #MicroSky

Visualize a mosaic of NAIP imagery loaded from @microsoft.com Planetary Computer COGs, all in your browser, no server involved. Render true color, false color infrared, or NDVI. developmentseed.org/deck.gl-rast... Built at @developmentseed.org with deck.gl-raster: github.com/developments...

Earth observation data is everywhere. Getting it in time is still the hard part. EO Predictor is a map-first tool that estimates where satellite observations are likely to happen over the next 48 hours—useful for disaster response & other time-sensitive work. developmentseed.org/blog/2026-01...

🏔️ Snowpack futures The VEDA Dashboard shows how climate change could reshape Western U.S. “water towers.” Explore + share your ideas for resilience. 👉 www.earthdata.nasa.gov/dashboard/s...

Introducing 𝐀𝐬𝐲𝐧𝐜-𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐅, a new library for reading GeoTIFFs and COGs. developmentseed.org/async-geotif... - Fast, with a Rust core - Uses a non-blocking thread pool for image decoding - Integrates with NumPy, PyProj, Affine & Morecantile - Remote data support with Obstore - No GDAL dependency

What does “cloud‑friendly” Earth data mean? In this @thrivegeo.bsky.social interview, @yayyyimee.bsky.social breaks it down — from NASA’s cloud migration to why geospatial needs its own “Amazon fulfillment center” moment. Great listen! scenefromabove.podbean.com/e/scene-from...

Just published: our story working with the Vanuatu Bureau of Statistics to make climate science and satellite data practical for local decision-making. Tutorials & an interactive dashboard are open and reusable. Read more: ds.io/vanuatu

Join us on Tuesday, Feb 24th, for an epic send-off for our Washington, DC office. Food, beverages, music, community & memories! RSVP: luma.com/d8leo2k9

• STAC-based discovery • Browser-based visualisation • Reproducible openEO workflows • No downloads Explore: explorer.eopf.copernicus.eu Read more: developmentseed.org/blog/2026-02... Webinar on March 9: www.tickettailor.com/events/thriv... 🧵2/2

Sentinel data is moving to Zarr. The real question: is the ecosystem ready? We built the EOPF Sentinel Zarr Explorer with @esa.int , @eox.at & @thrivegeo.bsky.social to demonstrate cloud-native Sentinel workflows in practice: 🧵 1/2

Fun part of my job is testing out new shirts. This one looks cool but the graphic is like crunchy. I had a hard time picking a shirt color for this graphic but ultimately just went blue on blue. @kylebarron.dev released v0.14 last week: developmentseed.org/lonboard/lat...

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

I'll be in DC later this month. Stop by the @developmentseed.org spot for the last time and celebrate with us!

cutest little skateboard sticker for the fastest little visualization tool. #lonboard #geospatial #dataviz art by real human: @gusbusdraws.bsky.social

Congrats to Overture for joining such an esteemed organization. 😁

After discussing with the creators of OSMCha and MapRoulette, both projects will become OSM US Programs. This transition enables OSM US to allocate a portion of our main budget to support the maintenance and development of both projects. 🔗 openstreetmap.us/news/2026/01...

It’s election season at OpenStreetMap US! We are seeking two mapping enthusiasts to fill the open seats. Nominations for the #OpenStreetMap US Board of Directors will open on Monday, January 26, 2026. If you are interested in running, check out this blog post:

ooooo I just did my first vibe coding using Cursor. Pretty dang cool. I know just enough to sort of follow along with what it did with my instructions, but not enough to have been able to do it myself. Now I'm just sitting here letting the possibilities sink in. 🤯

I don't have a fancy microphone, so I'm just wondering. Do you have to have it really close when you talk into it, and that's why all the podcasters have their mic in frame? Or is it just to look cool?

I will never forgive Slack for not making the hyperlink/URL shortcut be command + k

I don't remember the last time I gave a talk (probably when I worked at UA), but I'm challenging myself to do some this year. Forcing myself to rip the band-aid off and give a talk next week to a small group about the cloud-native geospatial zine I made last year. Feeling pretty rusty!

“Rain is a blessing counted drop by drop…The desert’s children learn to be patient…they like the land they live on, so they treat it well...They never hurt it. And the land knows.” ~Byrd Baylor, The Desert is Theirs, 1975

Will this year be the year that I have time to do this???

Found some zine inspiration at my local REI

Today I just published two @developmentseed.org blogs that I've been working on. A marketing person would probably spread them out, but I can do what I want, so I'm sharing them both! 🧵

Had a great week spending time IRL with my @developmentseed.org team in Lisbon. I work with the smartest, kindest people and I’m feeling energized to finish the year strong and looking forward to 2026. 🫶

Bom dia! 📍DevSeed Lisbon

I "convinced" @kylebarron.dev to go to New Zealand 😱

From a few weeks ago, but big yikes 😱 If you have a non-profit might want to check if GoFundMe created a page for your org and ask them to remove it. abc7news.com/post/gofundm...

Pretty much sums it up

Released Lonboard v0.13! - New layer types: H3, S2, Geohash, A5 and fixed HeatmapLayer - Render data layers beneath Maplibre text labels - Map UI controls: scale, fullscreen, navigation - Significant performance improvements: fixing earlier regressions developmentseed.org/lonboard/lat...

Say hi at #FOSS4GNA and grab a zine from our table!

I enjoyed listening to this. Great production value and always a pleasure to hear from Dr. Solís! youtu.be/1h8_6bIdKV0?...

All year, it felt like no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get more than 3 blogs out per month. Most of the time, only 2. In October, I finally got 4 blogs out! Sure, there were a couple of short ones, but I put the same love & care into those as well! Here's my October blogs 🧵

You know you’re in New Mexico when you get green chiles with your hotel breakfast.

Nothing quite like hitting "merge" on a blog post PR at 6pm on a Thursday.

Flix Bus in US powered by @protomaps.com and @openstreetmap.bsky.social I love when apps clearly attribute their map source.

DevSeed intern Beatriz Peres used ESA’s new Sentinel-1 Zarr to analyze the 2024 Valencia floods with lightweight, time-series workflows. Her blog shows how Zarr + xarray make flood monitoring faster & more flexible: developmentseed.org/blog/2025-09... #BiDS25 @thrivegeo.bsky.social

Did anyone catch the livestream?? 👀