The hits keep coming... NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations (@unidata.bsky.social): www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/e... "As a result of the freeze, NSF Unidata faces a significant current funding gap."

I share @rabernat.bsky.social excitement about icechunk!!! On top of delivering 100x performance, it can make impossible tasks possible. Why am I so excited to endorse #icechunk and #virtualizarr? bsky.app/profile/eart...

In response to some new mappers wanting to pitch in to help first responders in Myanmar, I created a quick tutorial for beginners using OpenStreetMap and HOTOSM tasks. Let's get mapping. #MyanmarEarthquake #Myanmar www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaQj...

Does anyone know of any scholarships or funds for career development/conference attendance for federal folks recently laid off? Trying to get some amazingly talented and knowledgable people at some upcoming summer conferences...

I've long accepted (and really enjoyed) moving from scientist to science-enabler in the type of day-to-day work I do, but nothing replaces the stoke of teaching students some basic amount of geospatial analytics & watching them quickly adapt codes to perform climate risk assessments on the fly 🥹 💚🌎

I'm a long time DevSeed admirer, not just for their tech expertise, leadership & incredible commitment to open-source dev - but also the way everyone on this team carries themselves with kindness and curiosity. The org and folks have my utmost respect and I'm grateful to join such an amazing team!

A project I've been working on for the last 6 months. I feel really strongly about making geospatial technology and data available and understood by as many people as possible. And that requires getting creative with the ways we share information. This is my small contribution to that effort.

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a reminder to not close your eyes and turn away from what is happening in the US right now. Fascism is an assault on scientific integrity, knowledge, and innovation. www.chron.com/news/space/a...

A colleague just had to convince her institution that the FAIR data principles are not DEI.

Who here provides contract services to support open source GIS software like GDAL, PROJ, QGIS, PostGIS, GeoTools, Leaf map, etc.? I am not looking myself for said services, but I would love to see how diverse the ecosystem is. #gischat

blog: The Abundance of Community at the 2024 AGU Meeting. Reflections following the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, December 2024. openscapes.org/blog/2025-01... #OpenScience #KinderScience

The surge in wildfire disasters that wipe whole towns, neighborhoods, and suburbs off the map is simply not sustainable (for so very many reasons). We see this through wholesale collapse of communities & mass displacement, though skyrocketing rents & imploding insurance markets.

When my house and community burned - where was the satellite information? A very raw blog post I am putting up so folks in the satellite, geospatial and tech fields can listen firsthand why I think we are failing the situations that need us the most. www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-o...

We lost our home in the #PalisadesFire and right now I don’t have many words. We love these mountains, the animals and our communities. Grateful for every moment of sunshine and peace in this little cottage and grateful that we got out in time.

🧪🛰️ In 1999, NASA's first EOS mission went up and the way we look at Earth from above has changed. Since then , the Earth Observatory has been sharing fantastic imagery and its related science with everyone. The EO is now a grown up. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15273...

I missed giving my AGU talk, but I joined #ScenefromAbove for an extended version - chatting about the need for federated compute, finding the right abstraction for satellite data distribution, and how the not-so-sexy work of metadata standards (and their gaps) are holding us back. 🎧

NASA has recently released updated websites for data! Check out the new Science, Earth, and Planetary data sites! #OpenScience #NASA #AGU24 science.data.nasa.gov earthdata.nasa.gov planetary.data.nasa.gov

Photo from partner taken on Carbon Mesa - currently being evacuated #FranklinFire

Woke up to my partner letting me know the #FranklinFire is approaching our place. Flying back early from #AGU24. We’ve been prepared for something like this but still in disbelief of the photos.

Running into a few of my open science inspirations today at #AGU24 it’s going to be a great week! @openscapes.bsky.social @juliesquid.bsky.social @cgentemann.bsky.social @eliholmes.bsky.social

I’m on my way to #AGU24, remembering AGU 2015 when Elon Musk was a keynote. I was a very broke PhD student at UCLA and paid to change my flights for a chance to hear Elon. He began with a blunt statement to a room of mostly Earth scientists - that the largest discoveries on Earth were over.

With Twitter becoming a textbook example of enshitification - I'm very happy to have joined Bluesky and find once again a meaningful feed of posts/connections. A real question - can enshitification of any social media platform ever be prevented?