How to overcome an "existential modeling crisis" as a science researcher, from DSE postdoc @lucialayr.bsky.social: ✅ Define modeling in your own words ✅ Embrace validation ✅ Find allies ✅ Trust in "the modeler's mindset" ✅ Draw from other experts 📸 @uofcalifornia.bsky.social by Mathew Burciaga

Welcome Ava Hu to DSE, the newest Journalism Fellow! Ava is a student at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social Graduate School of Journalism. At DSE she'll develop data visualizations re: climate change impacts on local and global communities🌎 dse.berkeley.edu/welcome-ava-hu @natureatcal.bsky.social

We’re still buzzing from our #GeoJupyter Hackathon experience - here’s why... Results from working side by side and a focus on the needs of the community! 🌍 🤝 Thanks, @mfisher87.bsky.social and @schmidtdse.bsky.social! bit.ly/3JLLlYR #JupyterGIS #OpenSource #Geospatial @geojupyter.bsky.social

We're thrilled to welcome back Max Taniguchi-King as DSE's new Research Data Analyst, & Carolyn Zhuang and Evan Lingo as Undergraduate Data Science Interns! More on the blog: dse.berkeley.edu/news/welcome... @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @natureatcal.bsky.social

Congrats to DSE postdoctoral researcher @lucialayr.bsky.social for her feature in @australia.theguardian.com last week!

Happy to share that our new paper is now joined by an insight piece from Anna L Jacobsen & R Brandon Pratt giving context on Mediterranean shrub resprouting 🌿🔥 academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-... plus a blog post summarizing our article! 👇

👏DSE postdoc @mayazomer.bsky.social published new research in the @jxbotany.bsky.social! It explores how #MediterraneanShrubs resprout to recover after #disturbance and their resilience to global change: bit.ly/4mAwH5p cc @cideinvestiga.bsky.social ‪‪@bmoreira.bsky.social @jgpausas.bsky.social

🛠 GeoJupyter Hackathon Summer 2025, co-hosted by DSE (@schmidtdse.bsky.social) and BIDS at the new AI Futures Lab space From live-coding + mapping integrations to beginner friendly GIS tutorials, this hybrid hackathon is all about open, reproducible geospatial science.

Day 2 of the #GeoJupyter #Hackathon is under way at DSE (@schmidtdse.bsky.social)! Groups will gather and define challenges. The fun comes in when we start talking about solutions – thinking about tools and looking at other communities for inspiration 🤔💡

Shoutout to my amazing mentors and collaborators @cboettig.bsky.social @liamtaylor.bsky.social Christopher J. Schell, Elizabeth Edson, Avery Hill and Rebecca F. Johnson @calacademy.bsky.social @schmidtdse.bsky.social ‪ @inaturalist.bsky.social

This week the United Nations will negotiate a global treaty on #PlasticPollution. DSE's findings in @science.org revealed that by 2050, key policies could: ♻️ Reduce mismanaged plastic waste by up to 91% 🌞 Cut associated greenhouse gasses by 1/3 dse.berkeley.edu/programs/end... #EndPlasticPollution

🎉 Congrats to @lucialayr.bsky.social on our team for publishing new research on how #ClimateChange and increasing disturbances, like #wildfires, are impacting boreal forests. Explore Lucia's findings: bit.ly/4miqme3 🌲 @tum.de @anjarammig.bsky.social g.bsky.social @egu.eu 📸 National Park Service

📣 Join us for our AGU2025 session IN029 "Open Source Geospatial Workflows in The Cloud"! Can't wait to see you there :) Submissions are due *Wednesday, July 30*! Visit our website for more details and to submit: events.geojupyter.org/conferences/...

📣 We're #hiring a full-time Administrative Manager! Apply now to lead operations, event planning, and day-to-day administrative support for our team at UC Berkeley. First review date is July 11: bit.ly/DSE-Admin-Ma... 📸 UC Berkeley by Mathew Burciaga

New blog post: "Create your own layers in JupyterGIS". Use the power of notebooks to compute custom tiles on-the-fly from Xarray (big) data, interact and collaborate on the map right from JupyterLab. david-brochart.medium.com/cbb995a89b16

Dr. Kristin Davis, a postdoc on our team, is lead author of new paper on #EasternScreechOwls 🦉 that found the owls were more likely to colonize some #riparian areas in Ft Collins, CO but less likely to persist there over time. More on our blog: dse.berkeley.edu/news/dse-pos... 📸 Rob Sparks

Check out this excellent @grist.org story featuring DSE's @sampottinger.com! Sam discusses our team's latest #OpenSource tool & research on opportunities and challenges for US corn #farmers and insurance companies: grist.org/food-and-agr... #AgPolicy #FoodSecurity

🎉Published today! Our study w/ @uarkansas.bsky.social identifies ways to improve financial security for US #farmers and crop insurance companies: dse.berkeley.edu/New-Ag-Polic... Explore our findings in our #AI #OpenSource tool 🌽 ag-adaptation-study.pub #AgPolicy #FoodSecurity 📸aquaArts studio

Join our team! We're #hiring a #postdoc to study extreme heat impacts on cattle and other animals. Do you have a PhD in #AgriculturalScience, #AnimalScience, #EnvironmentalScience, and/or #DataScience? Apply by 5/7: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04850 See all open roles at DSE: dse.berkeley.edu/jobs

🌎 We're #Hiring a full-time #DataAnalyst! Apply now & share with your networks. First review is 4/29: bit.ly/DSE-Hiring-D... This role will be integral to our work w/ the National Park Service. You'll analyze and prepare vegetation monitoring data and get to work with an amazing group of people!

Good news - the application deadline has been extended! Join our incredible team working on sustainable agriculture #DataScience tools & research. Apply by 4/25 for the first round review. #Hiring #Agroecology

💡 Thank you Dr. Carlie Wiener @schmidtsciences.bsky.social for recently leading impactful communications workshops for @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social students and postdocs studying science! nature.berkeley.edu/news/2025/04... 📸Eric Xie, UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society

One week left to apply!

McKalee Steen, DSE team member and PhD candidate in @natureatcal.bsky.social uses #DataScience to analyze Indigenous land reclamation across the US, & the social and ecological impacts of those acquisitions. We're honored to have McKalee on our team! cdss.berkeley.edu/news/mapping... #LandBack

"Now is the time to reaffirm our promise: to live up to CA's track record of bold environmental action and keep CA at the forefront of the fight against #PlasticPollution for generations to come." - Wendy Schmidt & Julie Packard @montereyaq.bsky.social. More: capitolweekly.net/california-m...

🌱 DSE is #Hiring! Are you a (current or soon-to-be) postdoc with experience in #DataScience, #Agroecology, #AgriculturalEconomics, and/or #AgriculturalPolicy? Apply by 3/15: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04804

Announcing JupyterGIS 🌍 🌐 🎉 Real-time collaboration for #GIS workflows with #Jupyter and #QGIS @qgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy @jupyter.org blog.jupyter.org/real-time-co...

On Monday, March 31 @ 11:30am PT, Nicole Starosielski presents “Facilitating Sustainability: Cable Landing Stations and the Alternative History of Network Architectures”. Join us for lunch in person or join us on Zoom! bit.ly/4b5ZqKm #DataScience #UnderseaCables #AI #SocietyAndTechnology

On Monday, March 17 @ 12pm PT, Clancy Wilmott presents “Data practice as theoretical inquiry: machine learning, polygons and other notebook adventures in cartography and GIS”. Join us for lunch in person or join us on Zoom! bit.ly/414Boe6 #DataScience #Cartography #Maps #AI #SocietyAndTechnology

This semester we’re exploring interactions between society and technology in our BIDS seminar series.

JupyterCAD 3.0 is here! 🎉 We are excited to announce JupyterCAD 3.0, bringing major improvements to the web-based collaborative CAD editor for JupyterLab: blog.jupyter.org/announcing-j... ✅ Color Customization 🐍 Embedded Python Console 🎯 Improved UX 🖱️ Mouse-based 3D Controls 🤝 Suggestions Support

We're thrilled to share DSE's 2024 annual report! 🎉 Check out our team's recent successes in #DataScience & #EnvironmentalScience, including new #AI tools to support #wildfire recovery and end global #PlasticPollution. And MUCH more! 👉https://dse.berkeley.edu/2024-annual-report

💻Yesterday the #GeoJupyter effort hosted its first hackathon! 9 attendees w/ @quantstack.bsky.social, @developmentseed.org, U. of Tennessee, ClarkCGA, & DSE collaborated on the JupyterGIS #Python API and a new Docker image! Join a future hackathon: geojupyter.org/blog/2025012...

Fascinating data from @ourworldindata.org showing the majority of people worldwide support climate action. Yet this support is consistently underestimated and leads to a "perception gap" by governments and businesses: ourworldindata.org/climate-chan... #ClimateChange #ClimateAction 🌍

🎉 🌎 🪐 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...

🌱 Introducing: GeoJupyter 🌱 GeoJupyter is a community-owned effort to reimagine #geospatial interactive computing experiences for education, research, and industry! Get to know GeoJupyter's vision & forthcoming #OpenSource tools ➡️ geojupyter.org/blog/2025010... @quantstack.bsky.social #GIS

Are you a forest ecologist or fire scientist? 🌲 @natureatcal.bsky.social is hiring an Associate/Specialist to help study the fate of big-tree forests in the southern Sierra and Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Park. Apply by 1/7! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04757 📷: NPS #ForestEcology #FireScience

📢ICYMI: DSE's new research on pathways to end global plastic pollution was published in @science.org! Explore our cutting-edge model & interactive data visualization depicting what the planet's future could look like without plastic pollution: dse.berkeley.edu/news/critica... #EndPlasticPollution

🌎 "Data & related tech can help translate traditional ecological knowledge into a language that will be heard by decision-makers, corporations, and the public." - DSE's Magali de Bruyn on #DataScience, #AI, and Indigenous data sovereignty at #COP16🇨🇴 ➡️ dse.berkeley.edu/news/magali-...

We're here! 👋 Excited to find & connect with colleagues and collaborators that are advancing data and environmental science!