Just arrived in Chennai to be at the NISAR satellite launch this evening from Satish Dhawan Space Centre as a NASA guest. I'm so honored to see this monumental collaboration between NASA and ISRO! science.nasa.gov/mission/nisar/

Favourite bookstore in the city 🤝favourite cafe in the city. The new Champaca bookstore, that’s sharing space with Copper + Cloves and No Nasties, is lovely! #Bangalore

I'm so excited for this! Being able to preview work-in-progress directly in Jupyter without 'bouncing' to QGIS.

Spent last week in Singapore attending #GeoConnectAsia2025, hanging out with some map needs, and enjoying delicious meals!

Eid Mubarak!

Once again, openness. "The most interesting battle over AI may not be between the US and China, but between closed and closing societies, and nations that remain open to free speech and scholarship." www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/column...

1/ 🚀 Solving #NASA ’s cloud data dilemma: Icechunk unlocks 100x faster access to archival data formats We're thrilled to publish results from our pilot project with NASA and @developmentseed.org to enable high-performance cloud-native access for NASA’s 100s of petabytes of Earth observation data.

Went to Misinfocon yesterday. Haven't been to an event like this in Bangalore for so long! Learnt so much about what people are building to mitigate and educate around cyber scams, deep fakes and general lack of trust.

4.30am coffee

This is so delightful!

"More than 800,000 people were displaced and made homeless, the highest yearly number since records began in 2008". www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New Groundwork 02, our latest batch of experimental tools and open-source contributions, explores: 👇 : 📌 STAC APIs with stac-geoparquet 📌 AI-powered knowledge management 📌 Wildfire response data resources 📌 STAC Auth Proxy for access control 📌 GPU-native xarray workflows ds.io/groundwork-02

We launched a fun, educational project on cloud-native data formats. Our zine, 𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱, follows C.O.R.A and Vector, as they help scientists around the world tackle challenges with the aid of cloud data formats such as COG, Zarr, and Geoparquet. ds.io/cloud-native-zine

Looking through @malabartearoom.bsky.social's cookbooks to find a soup recipe for iftar today. Our friend is sending sandwiches. Mmm

Please share! 👇 I know the job market is wacky right now with all the unjustly laid off federal employees. Come work with us and continue to make a difference!

Ramadan Mubarak! I've been waking up at 4.30am every day and making coffees. I'm a morning person for exactly 30 days a year.

SatCamp Tickets are Live! Join us for SatCamp 2025: Resilience Through Uncharted Terrain! 📍 Boulder, CO | Sept 24-26 🎟️ Register now: satcamp.xyz Let’s shape the future of geospatial together! 🌍🔥 #SatCamp2025

studio.camp is at the MoMa! So incredible to see Shaina, Ashok, @batpad.bsky.social and the rest of CAMP crew's work last week. I've learned so much from Sanjay about videos over the years -- for telling powerful stories of people and places. www.moma.org/calendar/exh...

A few pics from Day 1 of Team Week.

There are a lot of things happening that are out of my control. One thing I can do is give my time towards something where I can meaningfully contribute. That is what motivated me to run for the @osmus.bsky.social Board. You can read my statement here: wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundat...

ProPublica has launched a handy tracker to keep tabs on who’s who among Musk’s little fash goons projects.propublica.org/elon-musk…

💾 Presenting cloud optimized satellite data 🔬 Refining with powerful analysis tools 🌍 Predicting environmental futures using AI 🎯 Prescribing actionable recommendations 🏝️⛵ Explore how we're tracing the routes of EO tools @developmentseed.org : developmentseed.org/blog/2025-01...

i am looking for work. www.deobald.ca/essays/2025-...

We have just shipped a solution for managing storage quotas in JupyterHub with @developmentseed.org 🚀 No more worrying about users filling up shared storage space. Check out our blog post for more: https://2i2c.org/blog/2025/per-user-storage-quota/

I sat down with @geospatial.money to discuss #LAfires and disaster response. TL;DR we invest $10s of billions in building, launching, and operating EO satellites. Isn't it time we allocate just 1% of that to improving user access, open data, tools, and dissemination? www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOFS...

Just got back from a great week in New Orleans for #AMS25. Three observations about where things are headed with weather data in 2025. 🧵

In response to the fires in the LA area, we saw many maps, tools, and datasets being shared. We created a list of geo-resources to assist responders, researchers, decision-makers, and analysts. Thanks to my amazing colleagues @kiricarini.com and @maxrjones.bsky.social docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

🎉 🌎 🪐 I'm thrilled to announce GeoJupyter, an effort to imagine and build rewarding new user experiences for working with geospatial data in JupyterLab! 🤗 I hope to see you in an upcoming community meeting or in our Zulip chat (see the post for links)! geojupyter.org/blog/2025010...

Risky post... here are my 1, 3 and 6 year predictions for LLMs/AI, expanded from my appearance on the Oxide and Friends podcast (My confidence in my ability to predict the future is extremely low) simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/10/...

Reading these posts is the best way to appreciate the depth and breadth of the work @developmentseed.org. I've really enjoyed contributing to some of them!

Starting my 8th year @developmentseed.org! I'm as excited as my first day but with a deeper sense of responsibility, stewardship and a better understanding of the stakes. Poured myself a swan to celebrate!

Happy new year! 🎉

It's become a tradition to go on a tiny bike ride in Kannur at the end of the year.

Merry Christmas! 🎄 I spent Christmas eve getting a health checkup after several reminders this year followed by a really good meal. More really good meals in future today!

It is *so* satisfying to see @2i2c.org enabling so many communities sharing work at AGU. It feels good to be a supporting member of many projects rather than a "first author".

Gloomy morning Calicut morning.

DevSeed HQ socials are legendary. Please go if you're at #AGU24!

Last week we had a chance to see some of the new galleries at Museo Egizio in Turin with their assistant director. Safe to say museums are ruined for me because it was such an amazing experience. I can't imagine going to another museum without being guided by the person who put it together!

Excited to be on Bluesky! Someone's squatting my usual username but I love that I can verify with my domain name. 🤝