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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 28/09/2026

Before he was building cloud infrastructure for geospatial data, Henry Rodman was trying to find the right datasets as a forest scientist. That experience still shapes his work today. Get to know Henry in the latest Behind the Tech 👇 developmentseed.org/blog/2026-0... #Geospatial #OpenData

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Michele Tobias, PhD @micheletobias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For a bit, we thought the optics were messed up on the viewer but it turns out that the eye pieces weren't in there. They were on the table behind us. 🤦

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Michele Tobias, PhD @micheletobias.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If you're interested in seeing it in person, I'll be doing a Map Room tour on Oct. 2nd from 10:00-12:00 with one of our librarians. I also have the room open on Tuesdays from 1:00-3:00 (and by appointment).

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Michele Tobias, PhD @micheletobias.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This campus map had a note that it can't be cataloged because it has no date. Challenge accepted! It's probably from 1950. It took me, @wildintellect.com , and my intern 20 minutes using building dates. Don't freak out about the sticky notes. The map is encapsulated in milar.

A linework map of the UC Davis campus with blue sticky notes with dates.

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Michele Tobias, PhD @micheletobias.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The call for proposals is really closing on Wednesday, like a week earlier than we planned, because we've got plenty of talk proposals. So this is your absolute last chance to get a proposal in. Lightning Talks and Posters will remain open. #gischat #geosky

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Alex @wildintellect.com · 19/05/2026

@abridgedpbskvie.bsky.social I'm honestly a little disappointed in your recent article on youth Australian Rules Football in Sacramento. Didn't mention it's a contact sport with full tackling at age 10. Some important unbiased information for parents was left out. play.afl/sites/defaul...

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 04/02/2026

Groundhog Day Meaning xkcd.com/3202/

Comic. [Person talking to person with black hat.] PERSON 1: Historically, it refers to a ceremony to predict the weather using a rodent. But nowadays people often use it to mean “a time loop experienced by one person.” PERSON 2: …What. [caption] Easily our weirdest holiday.

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Alex @wildintellect.com · 12/12/2025

#gischat may your holidays be filled with maps

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Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · 09/12/2025

Call for papers: Coding Earth — Open Source Solutions in Physical Geography for Progress in Physical Geography ⚡ Show how open-source tools, coding workflows, and open science are reshaping physical geography. journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/PD... Deadline: 1 March 2026. #GISchat

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Michele Tobias, PhD @micheletobias.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I'm prepping for tomorrow's FOSS4GNA version of Hand Drawn Maps, making sure the camera works with this computer. Join me tomorrow for some map fun! #gischat

An overhead document camera films a pile of papers and the nearby computer shows the image.

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Michele Tobias, PhD @micheletobias.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

If you're presenting research at @foss4gna.bsky.social, join our special issue with @stacksjournal.bsky.social as an author! You can also participate as a reviewer whether or not you're presenting! The call for posters is still open #gischat #geosky #opensource #geospatial www.foss4gna.org/journal

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Stacks-Journal — FOSS4G North America

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Michele Tobias, PhD @micheletobias.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I am incredibly proud of the quality of the workshops and the support that #maptimeDavis community has for each other. I am especially thankful to our organizing Council team for all the careful thought they put into making it happen. New Fall Quarter lineup: maptimedavis.github.io #gischat #geosky

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#maptimeDavis

#maptimeDavis is the heart of the mapping community in Davis, CA.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

TOP TEN CAT BREEDS 1. Super Bingus 2. Tender Loaf 3. Crime Bean 4. Le Squishe 5. Load-bearing Tater 6. Royal Softling 7. Electric Spiceweasel 8. Pantaloosian 9. Tammy 10. Dinky Porch Pebble

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

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Kiri Carini @kiricarini.com · 27/08/2025

I really don’t feel like posting anything except hummingbirds. Sorrynotsorry.

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Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · 27/08/2025

📦 New R package: sfhotspot by Matt Ashby Identify & analyze spatial clusters of points (places/events) entirely with sf objects. Includes tools for counts, change over time, kernel density, Getis–Ord Gi*, etc. 🔗 GitHub: github.com/mpjashby/sfh... #RStats #GISchat #Geocomputation #RSpatial

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Jara Villanueva @jaravillanueva.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

🚨 Applications are now open! We are excited to announce that the @geospatialwomen.bsky.social Mentorship Programme is now accepting applications for our 25/26 cohort, open until 7th September! 🔗 Interested? Apply here: lnkd.in/ek7veWdG #gischat #remotesensing #geospatial #eo #gis #mentorship

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Gus @gusbecker.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Zines are a great tool for science communication. Earlier this year, I put one together with @kiricarini.com of @developmentseed.org. The zine provides a visually interesting jumping off point for folks learning cloud-native geospatial data!

"Optimizing Geospatial Data for the Cloud"
"A zine exploring common formats"
"Development Seed"
"Gus Becker Kiri Carini"
A floating robot with one hand on a keyboard to a computer that has a glove on the screen. The other hand is giving a thumbs up.

A raccoon character asking about smoke data, and a floating robot describes how vector format may be more efficient than raster in some cases.

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Michele Tobias, PhD @micheletobias.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I submitted this design to the @foss4gna.bsky.social design contest. (We're having a hootenanny instead of the traditional gala this year because we're not really gala people.) Don't you want this as a sticker? You can submit a design too! www.foss4gna.org/contest #gischat

A black line drawing of an owl is on the left. On the right is text that says hootenanny FOSS4G North America 2025 Reston, VA. The hoot part of hootenanny is emphasized with larger text.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 24/07/2025

You guys, I just love this garden so damn much. Six months ago, this was a dying lawn!

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 25/07/2025

Motherfucker I can barely access Microsoft teams from my computer

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Cartonaut @cartonaut.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

These boundaries don't line up...which one should we use? Let me propose some light reading www.usgs.gov/data/nationa...

A visual comparison of about a dozen boundaries in the database

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State of the Map US @stateofthemapus.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Check out this #SOTMUS retrospective blog post: openstreetmap.us/news/2025/07... A big thank you to Alyssa Castronuovo, OSM US program coordinator, for capturing the experiences of folks who attended the conference. Thanks for sharing your reflections. #StateofMapUS #OSM #OpenStreetMap #SOTMUS

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Greetings from State of the Map US 2025

Another year another State of the Map US! Over 300 mappers gathered in Boston, Massachusetts in late June for OpenStreetMap US’s 13th annual conference, and to celebrate the organization’s 15th…

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 23/07/2025

📢 We’re hiring and looking for a Geospatial & AI Engineer. This is a remote-first position; however, you must reside in an ESA member country to be eligible to apply. This role focuses on backend engineering & cloud-native pipelines. AI/LLM skills are a plus, but not a must. grnh.se/al8eavv03us

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/07/2025

iNaturalist Animals and Plants xkcd.com/3118/

Comic. The Most-Observed Animal and Plant in Each State on iNaturalist. (Not the most common species in the state, just the one people have reported the most times.) [labeled map of the US] WA: Mallard/Western Sword Fern. OR: Mule Deer/Western Ponderosa Pine. CA: Western Fence Lizard/California Poppy. HI: Green Sea Turtle/‘Ōhi’a Lehua. ID: Mallard/Big Sagebrush. NV: Common Side-Blotched Lizard/Creosote Bush. MT: White-Tailed Deer/Common Yarrow. WY: American Bison/Sticky Geranium. UT: Mule Deer/Utah Juniper. AZ: Ornate Tree Lizard/Saguaro. CO: Mule Deer/Great Mullein. NM: Mule Deer/Creosote Bush. AK: Moose/Fireweed. ND: American Bison/Prairie Rose. SD: American Bison/Hoary Vervain. NE: American Robin/Common Milkweed. KS: Ornate Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. OK: Pond Slider/Eastern Redcedar. TX: Northern Cardinal/Pinladies. MN, WI, IL: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Common Milkweed. IA, MI: White-Tailed Deer/Common Milkweed. MO: Brown-Belted Bumble Bee/Amur Honeysuckle. AR: Three-toed Box Turtle/Chinese Privet. LA: Green Anole/Baldcypress. IN: American Robin/Amur Honeysuckle. OH: Eastern Pondhawk/Virginia Springbeauty. KY: Common Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. TN: American Robin/Christmas Fern. MS: Northern Cardinal/Pale Pitcher Plant. AL: Gulf Fritillary/American Sweetgum. GA: Green Anole/American Sweetgum. FL: Brown Anole/White Beggarticks. NY: Eastern Gray Squirrel/White Snakeroot. PA: White-Tailed Deer/Garlic Mustard. WV: White-Tailed Deer/Great Rhododendron. VA: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern Poison Ivy. MD: White-Tailed Deer/Wineberry. DE: Fowler’s Toad/American Pokeweed. NC: Eastern Gray Squirrel/Christmas Fern. SC: Northern Cardinal/American Sweetgum. NJ: Spotted Lanternfly/Common Mugwort. VT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. NH: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern White Pine. MA: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. CT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Striped Wintergreen. RI: American Herring Gull. ME: American Herring Gull/Canadian Bunchberry.

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Hamish @polemic.nz · 17/07/2025

Hey #gischat - you've got just 24 hours left to submit a talk or get early bird pricing for @foss4g.org - it won't be extended again! Community voting will start on over 200 talks and 40 workshop proposals from next week. 2025.foss4g.org

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FOSS4G Auckland 2025

FOSS4G stands for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial, a conference hosted in partnership with OSGeo.

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Rebecca Fordon @thefordon.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

My 7yo wanted to read Red Fish Blue Fish today, then I showed him this video, and he lost his MIND, he is now convinced this guy is the best rapper ever. (Tbf, it is really good) youtu.be/I8-EXMxufG8?...

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ONE FISH, TWO FISH, RED FISH, BLUE FISH | Dr. Seuss Raps over Dr. Dre Beats

YouTube video by Wes Tank

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Recently, my book THEY CALLED US ENEMY was banned – again – in Tennessee. Book bans are out of control. Huge parts of American history are being restricted. To join me in standing up for the freedom to read, go to pen.org/action. @penamerica.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com

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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 08/07/2025

🆕 #CNG2025 session recording @kylebarron.dev from @developmentseed.org introduces Obstore, a python library he wrote to access data on the cloud. Watch his talk to hear about the motivations for writing Obstore & its details ▶️ youtu.be/Wxh1G2oCZiU

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[CNG 2025] Fast Cloud Storage Operations with Obstore – Kyle Barron

YouTube video by Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Evergreen reminder that wind turbines are not even remotely a leading cause of human-driven bird mortality. This is classic concern trolling in the interest of fossil fuels - if they really cared about birds they'd focus on domestic cats and building glass. And what's not shown here: climate change.

$Chart by Statista with data from US Fish & Wildlife Service: Annual estimated bird mortality from selected anthropogenic causes in the U.S. Domestic cats are by far the main killers of birds, followed by building glass collision, vehicle collision, poison, electrical lines, electrocutions and, at a small fraction of each of the above, collision with wind turbines.$

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Howard Butler @howardbutler.com · 19/06/2025

I am pleased to announce the release of PDAL 2.9.0 github.com/PDAL/PDAL/re... Goodies include GDAL VSI support by Norman Barker, FileSpec support by Thomas Swamy, filters.supervoxel by Bram Ton, SPZ read/write, `ogr` option for filtering, and greatly enhanced readers.tindex support by Isaac Bell.

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Release 2.9.0 · PDAL/PDAL

Changes of Note GDAL VSI Support @normanb added support for GDAL VSI in #4647. It is now possible to use VSI to control access to remote content. Any /vsi-prefixed file path will go through GDAL's...

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Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

ICYMI githistory.xyz is a great way to navigate #git commits and visualise how a file has been changing across commits Just replace github.com with github.githistory.xyz in the URL and enjoy! #rstats

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Kyle Barron @kylebarron.dev · 17/06/2025

Lonboard v0.11 is released! - Choose between a tooltip and side panel for inspecting data - Supports GeoArrow box arrays from 0.2 spec - fixes some DuckDB and CSS bugs - Ensures compatibility with geoarrow-pyarrow v0.2 See full changelog: github.com/developments...

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Release v0.11.0 · developmentseed/lonboard

Breaking changes 🔨 Require Python 3.9 or higher by @kylebarron in #743 New features ✨ feat: Reinstate tooltip by @vgeorge in #736. You can now turn on the tooltip by passing show_tooltip=True to...

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walking mirage @wolf.observer · 16/06/2025

they're trying to sell off the island in Mono Lake.

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Relevant, as the National Day of Protest is coming up on Saturday. Know your free speech rights.

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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

The video of this is deeply unsettling!!!! This weekend is gonna be a big bad moment I think!!!!!

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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. To understand Los Angeles today, we must remember LA Times reporter Ruben Salazar. In 1970, LASD shot and killed Salazar with a tear gas canister while he was covering protests. So-called "less lethal" munition. Salazar was on break inside a bar.

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FBI Files Shed Little Light on Ruben Salazar's Death

More than 200 pages of documents released by the FBI this week reveal that agents investigated award-winning Times journalist Ruben Salazar on several occasions as he reported on Cuba during the Cold ...

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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Bluesky uploads are extremely slow on scene, so @melbuer.bsky.social has taken over this account to help share video from a better internet connection. Brush planted in the street dividers has been caught on fire due to stun grenades thrown by federal authorities in Paramount, CA.

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Michele Tobias, PhD @micheletobias.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Random thought for #gischat: what should be the mass noun for geospatial people? There's a murder of crows and a business of ferrets. But what's a group of geo people?

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

There are still a few spaces left in my Drawing Bees online course starting tomorrow evening. It's a fun way to spend a few spring evenings. www.eventbrite.com/e/drawing-be... 🌿🎨

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Drawing Bees - May 7, 14, 21, 2025

Will the classes be recorded?

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Alex @wildintellect.com · 06/05/2025

www.madeindavis.net/puzzle-for-s...

A cardboard puzzle box with the Tile When Turkeys Attack. Mostly grayscale images of oversized turkeys attacking people and famous landmarks around the city of Davis California.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Lots of people on my feed are concerned about the destruction of NOAA by the Trump administration and Elon Musk, but much of what I’ve seen people post about is the national weather service. That’s vital, but NOAA does so much more than that! My latest, for @ucsusa.bsky.social 🧪🌎🦑🐠

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Ten Vital Services Provided by NOAA (Beyond the National Weather Service)

Far too much of the media coverage supporting NOAA only mentions one of many things they do: here are 10 more.

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