Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Excellent collection! And what do we have here? 100 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 09/10/2026In this dark time, I find comfort in the deterministic glow of PostgreSQL. Over 15 years now and it has never failed me. #postgresql 020 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I’d love to know what Mike Vining would have to say about this. 030 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Don you want a frame? How about proper waist straps? Can’t go wrong with osprey anything, just so many options. I really like their older designs, found this one at a used gear store. 250 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Hey, Mephistopheles was way cooler than an LLM. We are just dumb + evil. 051 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 07/08/2026This wizzard is leading the current round of NRCS RIFs, masked as a reorganization. If the reorg happens as planned, NRCS and the US Soil Survey will be ruined. 100+ years of hard work protecting our nation’s soil resources, squandered. Your tax dollars wasted, our future food supply jeopardized. 140 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Yuck. In a perfect “cherry on top” ironic flair: there is an option to have copilot summarize this idiotic email. 021 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Well done @olivia.science, these are the concise responses many of us understand intuitively but may not be quick enough on our feet to articulate when necessary. olivia.science/ai/#allies 12112 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Accidental art while working with landform classification (geomorphons), generated in GRASS GIS, visualized in QGIS. The colors and patterns are strangely prescient: human greed spilling both blood and oil, contaminating social and natural systems. 040 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Playing with the ggraph package. There are some neat layouts available; I find the circle-packing layout is especially interesting. Here are the first four levels of Soil Taxonomy, with circle size proportional to "area mapped" in the US. 010 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Summary of fall colors in the Sierra Nevada foothills, within a single leaf. 020 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Soil depth functions that never were. Experiments with the beta distribution, R, a pen, and paper. Hard work done by an uneven surface and AxiDraw. 000 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Fall colors in the Sierra Nevada, sorted according to perceptual distances (CIE dE2000) and divisive hierarchical clustering. R packages used: cluster, grDevices, ape, farver, aqp. 150 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 21/10/2025I needed something outside of politics for a few hours. Adding family mineralogy classes (from Soil Taxonomy) to SoilWeb/STE in the next release. These are very broad groupings of soil minerals that can have profound effects on use/management. kaolinitic (R), siliceous (G), smectitic (B): 173 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Two levels of organization (horizon designation / moist soil color). Visually interesting, but harder to make and interpret that the standard (rectangular) treemap. 140 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Experimenting with the {WeightedTreemaps} package for visualizing soil color proportions. Added the blue color for sanity check. Cell area proportional ~ soil color (Munsell) frequency. Positioning of colors is based on average human color perception of color similarity. github.com/m-jahn/Weigh... 130 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Just when we thought MS Office couldn't get any worse. 010 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 06/09/2025At this point, I feel safer with this many messages in my inbox. 020 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Great reference, thanks for sharing. You can imagine the damage caused by future runoff or dust. You can "see" the Red Hills in imagery, or have a look at the local Soil Survey. Details in ALT text. casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/gmap/?loc=37... 131 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Fire above Sonora, CA. Thankfully just about contained. View from the office. 060 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Ghostly glacial valleys of the Brooks Range, AK. 010 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 15/08/2025A section of the Yukon River in Alaska, as it might appear in an 8-bit video game. 000 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 14/08/2025More soil colors, this time from the eastern edge of the San Joaquin Valley. East of Modesto, CA. These soil colors are from the detailed soil survey of the US. See if you can spot the valley--foothill interface. 241 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Just some pretty soil colors, related to variability in parent material, drainage conditions, and sediment redistribution by water. 030 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Found this beauty on a free book pile at the library. A little dated but a nice counterpoint to the genAI slop-coding nightmare. 000 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 07/08/2025These people are insufferable. They aren’t even trying to sound convincing. Can we just skip to this: 020 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 05/08/2025I guess we were the clowns: we trusted GitHub was some kind of community for developers with an option for paid, professional support/hosting. Instead these assholes used our code to train bullshit machines which they are trying to force down our throats. Cory Doctorow was right: we are the product 010 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 23/07/2025According to this map we are in deep trouble. 230 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Trading accuracy and reputable sources for convenience—what could possibly go wrong? Haven’t humans learned this lesson already? 010 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Great keyboards! I love my 104key model. 010 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Mowing clover with an Austrian-pattern scythe and ditch blade. It is fun to see the cut clover slide off on the return stroke. 000 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Cracks in the foundation. Feels like more than just comfort is at stake these days. 000 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 25/06/2025This is what happens when you hitch your organization to broken software. Hopefully nothing important depends on these computers or the systems that they support. 000 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Best part of being a soil scientist: 3121 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Beautiful! Mine is getting a little worn: 110 0
Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 06/05/2025This is what it feels like as a federal worker lately. Do what you can to support public service, science, and environmental protection. Our collective health and safety depends on it. 020 0
