Hurrah🎉🎉🎉! #RStats

📄 New(-ish) post by David O’Sullivan A clear, hands-on exploration of the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem using simulation and R, showing how scale and aggregation can reshape spatial patterns and interpretation. geospatialstuff.com/posts/2026/0... #GIS #SpatialStats #RStats #RSpatial

I am very excited to release GeoLibre v1.0 🌍 GeoLibre is a free and open-source, lightweight, cloud-native GIS platform for visualizing, exploring, and analyzing geospatial data. Try it: geolibre.app GitHub: github.com/opengeos/Geo... Full video tutorial: youtu.be/87Cm0QagtxI

new diamond open-access Journal of Statistical Ecology launched 🎉🎉🎉 jse.centre-mersenne.org @fredbarraquand.bsky.social @oaggimenez.bsky.social @marieaugermethe.bsky.social @vianeylb.bsky.social (apologies to any Bsky editors I missed)

Evolution of arborescence 🍁 - read a new paper from @spacetimeeco.bsky.social member published in @currentbiology.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social and @czechacademy.bsky.social

🤩 New open datasets just dropped for Europe's #forests! Three satellite maps. Whole continent. Free on Zenodo. → Disturbances 1985–2023 → Canopy height, cover & complexity → Dominant tree genus Read more about the maps and their impact: forestpaths.eu/news/new-hig...

Interested in developing your skills in #topographic analysis? Join us in this two-part webinar series by EGU Geomorphology Division. During this #webinar, you will learn how to address scientific problems by using TopoToolbox. 📆: 2 June 2026! 👉: egu.eu/2LPGCJ 📸: Ryan Teuling on #imaggeo

sad but TRUE

Announcing #RStats package ggcube, now on CRAN -- make 3D #ggplot2 figures using `coord_3d()` matthewkling.github.io/ggcube/

Geolocating a photograph without embedded GPS data is a recurring challenge in open source investigation, field verification, and conflict documentation. When metadata is absent or stripped, analysts must work from visible landmarks, architectural features, and terrain to determine where an image…

Introducing QGIS Terminal Plugin: An Integrated Terminal for QGIS Discover the new QGIS Terminal Plugin that lets you run terminal commands directly inside QGIS , no more switching between your GIS desktop and external terminals.

The much-awaited FLUXNET Shuttle is here. A new system for accessing eddy covariance data that captures how carbon, energy, and water are exchanged between the land surface and the atmosphere. (more at the following blog by @fluxnet.bsky.social ) fluxnet.org/2026/05/14/f...

Our new review article “Calibration, Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis of Complex Ecological Models—A Review” now online and freely available in #EcologyLetters dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.... #Ecology #EcologicalModelling #SensitivityAnalysis #UncertaintyQuantification 🌐

David O’Sullivan shows how spatial autocorrelation makes sampling fundamentally important: even when two surfaces contain the same values, their spatial arrangement means different sampling schemes can “see” very different patterns 🗺️ URL: geospatialstuff.com/posts/2025/1... #GIS #rspatial

Thank you to everyone who came to discuss my PICO at #EGU26 today 👋 “Assessing residual spatial autocorrelation in machine learning models” Slides & details: jakubnowosad.com/egu2026/ #MachineLearning #SpatialAnalysis #EGU2026

Splines are cool and they form the backbone of every #GAM. Here is a great (and visual!) explanation how different splines work:

🚨Join us on Wednesday, 6. May 2026, 16:00 CET (Prague) for🧪 #forest🍁#ecology #seminar. Welcome to Christoph Leuschner, University of Göttingen with a review on " #Drought and #heat resistance of Central #European #tree species" ZOOM: excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/SEMINAR-SERIES. Free access, Q&A.

On my way to #EGU26, perfect time to drop a new post! 🗺️ Something I've been wanting to write about: Mercator projections still showing up in high-profile journals. So here it is: projections you should stop using (for most things) 👇 #gis #rstats #dataviz dominicroye.github.io/blog/map-pro...

Installing #microclimate loggers is always fun, but especially if you decide to study #forest microclimate in 3D 🍁

Looking for geospatial conferences in 2026? Here’s a growing community-maintained list: github.com/Nowosad/conf... 🗺️ Add missing events via PR. #gischat #GIS #geocomputation

We had 165+ people joining our #dataviz session on "Guide the View" 📈 from all around the world on Monday 🎉 Thanks for all the enthusiasm and engaging participation 👐 If you missed it or want to revisit an example, I’ve uploaded the slides here: 🔗 cedricscherer.com/slides/Scher...

📊 Five #ggplot2 functions I wish I'd known about earlier 📊 I've written a short blog (with examples) of some of the lesser-known {ggplot2} functions and arguments that make it easier to create better charts! Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/five-gg... #RStats #DataViz

Geomorphometry Coffee Talk on YouTube: “Geomorphometry with GRASS” by Corey White. DEM fusion tools, terrain uncertainty modeling, and overland flow simulation. Also a good look at how GRASS plugs into reproducible terrain workflows via Python and Jupyter, plus the open addon ecosystem for […]

For those who use sedimentary charcoal records to reconstruct past fire histories, good news! Phil Higuera has just released a CharAnalysis 2.0 #paleofire #fire #paleoecology github.com/phiguera/Cha...

I am excited beyond description to lift the veil on what we have been working on in 2026: Please meet ggsql! A new extension of the SQL language for creating visualisations using the grammar of graphics. Read all about it in the blog post or visit the website at ggsql.org

Still a WIP but I've been building a new #rstats 📦 for cloud optimised reads of #GEDI and IceSat-2 data. It's 20 x quicker than direct download and saves 10-100s of GiB on disk. The #rust powered hdf5 parser is crazy fast - with help from the 🤖. belian-earth.github.io/spacelaser/ #rspatial #rextendr

Excellent tweetorial by @ericjpedersen.bsky.social on Simon Wood’s new Neighborhood Cross Validation smoothness selection method, which is especially useful when fitting data with temporal and spatial dependence among observations

This looks like an amazing dataset, exploring an important shift in European plant communities. Can we please move on from analysing ad-hoc community summaries from multi-species data? The statistical problems run so much deeper than people appreciate.

Dr. Damaris Zurell (University of Potsdam) will be giving April's Funk Biogeography Seminar! What does forward-looking biodiversity modeling look like? What can it tell us, and what needs more work? Learn more and register at: www.biogeography.org/news/news/ap...

In our next WSL Biodiversity Seminar (8 April), Lalasia Bialic-Murphy @wslresearch.bsky.social will discuss the demographic functional diversity of forests across biogeographic gradients. The seminar is hybrid, and everyone is welcome! biodiversitycenter.wsl.ch/en/events/de...

Today I’m excited to finally start a project I’ve been wanting to launch for a long time: Color for #Geoscience. 🎨🌍 ℹ️ to build an open, community‑driven collection of palettes 📄 Contribution: github.com/dominicroye/... 🌐 APP dominicroye.github.io/color-for-ge... #ScientificVisualization #dataviz

European #forests, #grasslands, and #alpine plant communities are reflecting climate warming differently See our new study in @nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415... #forestREplot #GLORIAnetwork #thermophilization #forestecol

Dr. Catherine Graham (Swiss Federal Research Institute, WSL) is our Funk Biogeography Seminar speaker this month! Join us for an exploration of the past, present, and future of studying biodiversity in environmental space. Learn more and register at: www.biogeography.org/news/news/ma...

QGIS users: ATTENTION! We now have a convenient #QGIS plugin to integrate the latest version of the Scientific colour maps directly into the style manager: plugins.qgis.org/plugins/scie... Shout-out and big thanks to Silvain Théry. ⭐️ Happy mapping, everyone! #UseBatlow 🐡

Have you used the CAST R package? We’re running a short survey on use cases, challenges, and feature needs. Your input will guide CAST priorities during developer days in Mar 2026. 🔗 uni-muenster.sciebo.de/apps/forms/2... #RStats #RSpatial #OpenSource

☀️Hotter and drier conditions under ongoing climate change are causing tree mortality events and altering forest dynamics worldwide. 🧑‍💻Learn more in the webinar: ☀️Limits and opportunities in predicting drought-induced forest mortality 🗓️24 March 2026; 🕓4:00 pm CET 🔗 zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🌲 A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for the NASA’s new PACE mission: introduction to PACE’s hyperspectral, near daily observations of the world’s forest ecosystems Workshop!🌲 Registration for ForestSAT 2026 is now open: carlos-alberto-silva.github.io/silvalab/For...

Save the date! 48th New Phytologist Symposium: Forest interactions 📅 13–16 October 2026 📍 Leysin, Switzerland www.newphytologist.org/events/48-nps #PlantScience

🚨 GAMs have moved on—so it’s time for an update. On March 3, 2026 (17:00–19:00 CET) I’ll be livestreaming an updated introduction to Generalized Additive Models in R 📺 YouTube livestream link: youtube.com/live/A9U8e1K... #RStats #mgcv #GAMs #gratia #statistics 🧪

We just extended the talk/poster abstract submission deadline for the next international microclimate conference! You can now register until March 1st at meb-network.com/meb-2026/ Thank you for your great contributions so far! 🌅

Oooh love this. Easiest way to parallelise anything in #rstats. Just add futurize() to your favourite function call www.jottr.org/2026/01/22/f... Thanks @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social HT @rstats.blaze.email

🗺️ fastfocal: fast moving-window and point extraction for rasters in R, optimized for large windows and common focal stats via FFT. Built on terra. https://cran.r-project.org/package=fastfocal #rstats #giscience #rspatial

New on the Belowground blog: How old do herbs live? plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/h...

Back from holiday and it's finally time to post about this. I am taking on a section editor role for the new diamond open access journal Biogeography, put together by @biogeographyjfab.bsky.social. That means that it's free to publish and free to read. (thread) biog.journals.sup.org/index.php/bi...

Forests in Šumava and Bavarian Forest NP are getting wild - describing their structure with #LiDAR was very helpful for #microclimate modelling. Here are a just few pics from the #fieldwork:

We paired #microclimate with #LiDAR to create 5m resolution temperature grids for the #BohemianForestEcosystem (NP Šumava and NP Bavarian Forest)🍁 Beside large microclimatic variability, our data reveals also systematic differences from #SoilTemp, #ForestTemp and #ERA5-Land doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Introducing the NASA Earthdata Plugin for QGIS! With the NASA Earthdata plugin, you can search, filter, preview, and download NASA datasets directly inside QGIS, no programming needed. It’s designed for anyone who wants fast, seamless access to NASA data within their existing GIS workflow.

🚀 Exploring COGs (Cloud‑Optimized GeoTIFFs) in R with the terra package (e.g., visualizing the internal tile structure). See: guide.cloudnativegeo.org/cloud-optimi... #RStats #RSpatial #Geospatial #CloudNativeGeo #GISchat

I ignored the strip.clip argument in #ggplot2 for way too long 😲 Combined with a small negative margin tweak, you can place facet labels inside each panel. A tiny trick that makes small multiples feel so much cleaner. 🔵 no manual coordinates 🔵 inherits theme styling 🔵 scales nicely when resizing

A growing list of 2026 geospatial conferences is live 🌍 URL: github.com/Nowosad/conf... If you know of additional GIS or remote-sensing events, please contribute. PRs and suggestions are welcome. #GISchat #Geospatial #SpatialData #Conferences2026