Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaHydrologyNL @hydrology.nl · 09/10/2026The Vienna Basin, just northeast of Vienna, remains a remarkable mix of river channels. Scale: 16.6 x 26.5 km 0245
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaCarlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 08/10/2026The best definition of "slop" I can think of: it's slop if it took the person responsible for producing it less time to make it than it'll take for the person reading it I think it's a good definition because it also captures pre-LLM anti-social behavior, eg shit emails that needed time to respond 184
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-Menajuli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The new APG V has just been published @journalsysevo.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... An updated classification of Angiosperms It includes a poster! www.tudelft.nl/en/hortus-bo... 🧪🌸🌳🌱🍁🌱🌴🌾🌿 #plantsci botany #plantbiology 413352
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaGavin Simpson @gsimpson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026📝 My paper on generalized additive models (GAMs) in animal science is out! Learn nonlinear relationships from data, estimate growth rates and compare treatments, with cows, pigs and quail + reproducible #RStats code. Open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.an... #mgcv #AnimalScience #Statistics 🧪 110329
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaVirginia García - CreatiVegan @creativegan.net · 02/10/2026La patata tiene más de 5.000 variedades conocidas, se cultiva en más de 100 países y lleva 8.000 años alimentando a la humanidad. Y aún así, en España solemos comprar siempre la misma bolsa sin saber qué variedad es (ni lo pone a veces) ni para qué sirve. Voy a contar un poco sobre las patatas 🧵🥔 9283138
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-Menaworm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent 10161091708
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaJoshua Stevens @jscarto.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Phosphor now supports bivariate color palettes! 👉 www.joshuastevens.net/phosphor/ Bivariate palettes can be exported directly to #ArcGISPro styles, #RStats (using biscale), and #QGIS (via the Bivariate plugin). 1124
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaBen Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Check out this talk by Ludwig Schmidt from a few years ago. The transformer is important not because of some magical geometry fact, but because it's the most efficient at memorizing massive datasets given our current hardware constraints. simons.berkeley.edu/talks/ludwig...simons.berkeley.eduAre Transformers necessary? A data-centric view on generalizationResearchers have proposed many methods to make neural networks more reliable under distribution shift, yet there is still large room for improvement. Are better training algorithms or training data th... 2112
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaThomas Cullen @thomascullen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026With all the news of museums being closed and/or defunded, I feel the message of our paper on the importance of natural history research (and the collections housing those specimens) is just as relevant (or more) today as it was when it was published. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 3187102
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaJakub Nowosad @nowosad.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026⛰️ Want to see geomorphometry in action? Book chapter "Geomorphometry Using Open-Source Programming Languages" comes with a companion collection of code and practical examples in #Rspatial #Geopython #Juliageo. 📖 Chapter […] [Original post on fosstodon.org] 042
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-Menatj mahr 🤘 @tjmahr.com · 25/09/2026what a handy page easystats.github.io/effectsize/r...easystats.github.ioInterpret Correlation Coefficient — interpret_rInterpret Correlation Coefficient 092
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-Menamdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Measurement in two #RStats spatial 📦 packages www.hypertidy.org/posts/2026-0... (Details matter, measurements are not absolutel and assertions of "correctness" are specious at best)hypertidy.orgDistance, perimeter and area in sf and terra: which number do you get? – hypertidyGeospatial data, GDAL, and R — Michael Sumner 132
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaESA Earth Observation @esaearth.esa.int · 21/09/2026What if we could 'see' beneath the desert sands? 🏜️ Designed primarily to study forests, @esa.int’s Biomass mission is also helping scientists investigate ancient river systems hidden beneath the Sahara, thanks to its unique P-band radar. Read the full story🔗 earth.esa.int/eogateway/su...earth.esa.intBiomass helps study ancient rivers below deserts - Earth OnlineScientists have been using satellites for decades to study hydrological structures hidden below the sand in deserts. Now, with its unique P-band synthetic aperture radar, Biomass is playing a role too... 13512
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaHans van der Kwast @qwast-gis.com · 22/09/2026Another native hydrology tool coming to #QGIS 4.4: Thin Plate Spline interpolation. 💧📈 Great for interpolating #groundwater data. Thanks to everyone who supported the crowdfunding, and to @north-road.com for the implementation! 🚀 QGIS 4.4 will be big for #hydrology. #GIS #OpenSource 131
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaNicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026My list of data-related resources had a bit of a re-fresh recently! They're now all in the one site. You can still browse by topic or see them all at once! 📊 Link: nrennie.rbind.io/resources/ #RStats #DataViz #StatsEd 25615
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaJan Vanhove @janhove.bsky.social · 18/09/2026New blog post: "Cluster analysis: A skeptic’s guide". In which I ask a few questions that social scientists wishing to identify hidden classes in their data ought to address. janhove.github.io/posts/2026-0... 416547
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaRobert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“requests or suggestions to change the colour palette are often met with rebuttal, misunderstanding, or are simply ignored.” link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comThe misuse of colour in science communication - Nature CommunicationsThe accurate representation of data is essential in science communication. However, colour maps that visually distort data through uneven colour gradients or are unreadable to those with colour-vision... 1213
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaFrancisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Periodic reminder that we should avoid testing the Normality of the response variable. For a linear model, what matters is the Normality of residuals (and not that much). Visual checks better than test. #statistics 110932
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaMFCarter @mfcarter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Anyone who has ever had a dog knows this look. It's the one they give you when they can tell something is wrong, and they have decided they are not leaving your side... This beautiful painting is called Fidelity, and it was made by British artist Briton Rivière in 1869. 1075076810
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaSamuel Lampa @smllmp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Super stoked that SciCommander (track provenance for any file produced by your ad-hoc shell usage into HTML reports & more) is now on @conda-forge.org! 🥳 Install with: conda install conda-forge::scicommander pixi add scicommander anaconda.org/channels/con... Poster for info 👇 1136
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaGareth Funning @gfun.earth · 26/08/2026All of the Jupyter notebooks used in the sessions are available through GitHub here: github.com/isceplus/202... (Note that the OSL online system that we used in the course is operated by ASF and only available during the course, so please don't bother the EarthScope staff with requests for access.)github.comGitHub - isceplus/2026-isceplus: Contains materials for the 2026 Technical Short Course: InSAR Processing and Analysis (ISCE+)Contains materials for the 2026 Technical Short Course: InSAR Processing and Analysis (ISCE+) - isceplus/2026-isceplus 174
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaKurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Today I learned of github.com/pytest-dev/p... for running pytest in parallelgithub.comGitHub - pytest-dev/pytest-xdist: pytest plugin for distributed testing and loop-on-failures testing modes.pytest plugin for distributed testing and loop-on-failures testing modes. - pytest-dev/pytest-xdist 002
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaRowena Lohman @rowenalohman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Happy to see @rbiessel.bsky.social 's paper out: "Displacement Heterogeneity and Associated InSAR Closure Phases in a Permafrost Landscape". MORE ways that we can end up with non-zero phase misclosure, on top of all the effects from vegetation and soil moisture. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/116... 021
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaGlyph @glyph.im · 30/08/2026the social contract that allows the web to exist at all is literally collapsing in real time people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/cree…people.kernel.orgCreepy crawliesComments 654126
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaStats For Bios @statsforbios.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Using a causal lens to help understand spatial models. No maths. Particularly relevant to spatial epidemiologists and species distribution modellers. But others as well. timcdlucas.github.io/spatial_mode... #SDM #malaria #GIS #episky #CausalInferencetimcdlucas.github.ioSpatial_models_with_a_causal_lens 252
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaMarkus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Want to try forest LiDAR but don't know where to start? This new paper by Cushman et al. looks like a good introduction. 🧪🌳🌲https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecs2.70730 13613
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaGareth Funning @gfun.earth · 26/08/2026The videos from this year's incarnation of the ISCE+ training course, supported by @earthscope.org are now online! Lots of great material in there for your edification! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...youtube.com2026 Technical Course: InSAR Processing and Analysis (ISCE+) - YouTubeThis 5-session course covers basic and advanced InSAR theory and hands-on processing of Sentinel-1 and NISAR data using the JPL/Caltech InSAR Scientific Comp... 155
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaJakub Nowosad @nowosad.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026Working with spatial data in R? The terra cheat sheet is a quick reference for raster/vector operations, projections, plotting, and more. Check it at rspatial.org/_static/terra_cheatshe… #rstats #GISchat #rspatial 097
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaJaime Rodríguez-Guerra @jaimergp.dev · 21/08/2026CEP 48, which brings conditionals and extras to your @conda.org dependencies, is now accepted! This means you will soon be able to type things like `typing-extensions[when='python<=3.10']` and `scipy[extras=test]` 🚀 github.com/conda/ceps/b...github.com 196
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaRyan Johnson @ryjohnson09.bsky.social · 21/08/2026New Quarto extension: interactive Git exercises that run entirely in the browser. A real repo, real git commands, live diagrams of staging and history, a checklist that ticks itself off. Authored in Markdown and YAML, nothing to install. Demo: ryjohnson09.github.io/quarto-git-s... 34417
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaDaniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 18/08/2026A Spanish translation of my textbook Improving Your Statistical Inferences, made by Juan G. Fernández Fernández, is now available here: juangff85.github.io/inferencias-... I am very grateful Juan worked so hard to made the contents available to Spanish speakers!juangff85.github.ioMejora de tus Inferencias EstadísticasTraducción al castellano de “Improving Your Statistical Inferences” de Daniël Lakens 11910
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaGöktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Fuck I just found out about this: when trying to download a PDF from Taylor&Francis---*ptew*---if you wanna skip their slow and shitty "PDF viewer", scroll to the bottom and below the list of notes/references there's a "Download PDF" link! 011
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaPaola Mazzoglio @paolamazzoglio.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Our new paper "Personal weather stations in hydrology and meteorology: a review of applications, challenges and future directions" is out in Hydrological Sciences Journal! In this review, we cover applications in hydro-meteorology, pros/cons and quality-control methods. doi.org/10.1080/0262... 041
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaGöktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Slop-free software index codeberg.org/brib/slopfre...codeberg.orgslopfree-software-indexA list of open-source projects that reject AI-generated code 052
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaMarta Peirano @minipetite.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Precioso: Bill Swearingen, fundador de SIXCYBER y Python king, tiene un algoritmo que escribe patrones capaces de cegar a las cámaras de seguridad. Para gorras, hoodies, coches, paraguas. “You’re still on video; you’re still recorded, but it doesn’t say, ‘Jim walked by at 11'” 43922
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaSentinel Online @sentinelonline.bsky.social · 10/08/2026We are pleased to announce a new processing baseline ID for #CopernicusEU #Sentinel-3 concerning the following products: - #OLCI L1 Earth Observation: OL_1_EFR___ - #SLSTR L1: SL_1_RBT___ 🔗 sentinels.copernicus.eu/web/sentinel...sentinels.copernicus.euCopernicus Sentinel-3 TBD OLCI and SLSTR L1: New Processing Baseline 3.37 - Sentinel Online 022
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaEOMasters @eomasters.org · 09/08/2026Awesome Spectral Indices by @dmlmont.bsky.social is on the the road to V1. buff.ly/vqfC3sf Explore what's new: awesome-spectral-indices.github.io/awesome-spec... 011
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaDevelopment Seed @developmentseed.org · 07/08/2026Massive raster collections, but without the pain. lazycogs lets you open huge COG archives as an xarray dataset using STAC Geoparquet—fetching only the pixels you actually need. More in Groundwork 05 → developmentseed.org/blog/2026-0... 012
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaJulio Novoa @julionovoa.ca · 07/08/2026Native #Zarr in #DuckDB : first-class DuckDB extension with no external query engine in the loopgithub.com 001
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaEarth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 05/08/2026🌲We know very well where forest disturbances occur. But how much biomass loss do they cause? Our new paper led by @katjakowalski.bsky.social provides the first Europe-wide assessment of biomass losses from natural disturbances and harvest between 1985 and 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comAccelerating biomass loss from forest disturbances across Europe - Nature GeoscienceSatellite observations reveal accelerating aboveground biomass loss across Europe’s forests since 2018, increasingly driven by natural disturbances. These trends weaken the forest carbon sink and chal... 1118
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaRobert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 30/07/2026This shapefile of the Sentinel-2 tile structure has been an absolute lifesaver for a project I’m currently working on. #gischat #remotesensing github.com/justinelliot...github.comGitHub - justinelliotmeyers/Sentinel-2-Shapefile-Index: Index of Sentinel-2 scene boundaries and nameIndex of Sentinel-2 scene boundaries and name. Contribute to justinelliotmeyers/Sentinel-2-Shapefile-Index development by creating an account on GitHub. 1104
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaBen Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Adding fuel to the fire, here's a post I wrote about open corpus models last July. It's all still true. www.argmin.net/p/an-open-mi...argmin.netAn open mindsetThe commitments required for fully open source machine learning 12910
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaRowena Lohman @rowenalohman.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Data from the NASA-ISRO NISAR mission is now available not only through the Alaska Satellite Facility @ak-satellite.bsky.social , but also in Worldview (worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov), where you can compare the normalized backscatter (i.e., the GCOVS) with other NASA-supported data and models. (1/3) 182
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaJakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · 02/07/2026🚦 New workshop from #ML4EO2026: "Where your models can be trusted" Learn how to evaluate spatial ML using kNNDM CV, Area of Applicability, and more. All with R examples. Materials: jakubnowosad.com/ml4eo2026wor.... #SpatialML #MachineLearning #RStats #RSpatial 0137
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaRemote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Interested in forest disturbance monitoring, Sentinel-2 time series, or deep learning for remote sensing? Check out the papers Christopher published during his PhD: 🎓 shorturl.at/EDvKn 🎓 shorturl.at/SLLu8 🎓 shorturl.at/MQvnmshorturl.atForest disturbance detection in Central Europe using transformers and Sentinel-2 time seriesForests provide important ecosystem functions such as carbon sequestration and climate regulation, particularly in countries with high forest cover. C… 041
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaDanielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 18/07/2026And so after a very brief hiatus, version 0.7.0 of "learning statistics with R" exists. Full rebuild in quarto, stylistic fixes, "epilogues from 2026" to comment on how the world changed since original publication, and as an added bonus, no longer misgenders the author learningstatisticswithr.comlearningstatisticswithr.comLearning Statistics with R 217146
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaFrancisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · 18/07/2026'AI does result in deskilling. Some things I’m okay deskilling in, and others I’m not. I’m going to be more intentional with what I hand off to LLMs. I’m no longer handing over the work I’d miss if I forgot how to do it, or anything I’ll ever need to understand, defend, revise and own' 091
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaPolars @pola.rs · 16/07/2026A float column can hold two different kinds of missing: null for a value that is absent, and NaN for arithmetic that had no valid answer (think 0.0/0.0). Polars keeps them strictly separate. 071
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaEarth Observation Lab @humboldteolab.bsky.social · 16/07/2026A new study by @jalsleben.bsky.social et al. introduces a national approach to map tree dieback across Germany using Sentinel-2 time series. Instead of just measuring greenness, it directly quantifies non-photosynthetic vegetation at a sub-pixel scale. Let's have a closer look ⬇️ 173
Reposted by Ignacio Borlaf-MenaRobert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Pro tip: if you archive and/or distribute GeoTIFFs containing 16- or 32-bit data, these commands are magic: --co COMPRESS=DEFLATE --co PREDICTOR=2 --co TILED=YES 1.77 *GB* to 55.8 *MB* (most of the dataset is blank, but still…) 2142
