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Are you a postdoc working on global environmental change? Apply for the new #TenureTrack professorship on #Geography of #Global Environmental Change and join us at the Geography Department of Humboldt-University Berlin! @humboldtuni.bsky.social --> hu.berlin/GeographyGEC

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

The large clinical trial of a new Covid vaccine pill (not shot) was halted by RFK Jr www.aol.com/multimillion... The Covid nasal vaccines may be next up to be axed.

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So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

submitted 20 hours ago • 441 comments

Hochschulwettbewerb: Ein Team vom Institut für Geoinformatik erhält Fördermittel für das Projekt „Windscope“, das die Planung von Windparks für Jugendliche erlebbar macht. Nutzer*innen können mit KI und „Augmented Reality“ Szenarien durchspielen. @w-i-d.de fördert das Projekt mit 10.000 Euro.

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"The comparison with the right-wing populists in Italy, the Netherlands and France is misleading. I don't want to trivialize the right-wing parties there. But the AfD is much sharper. It is not just far right. It is far-right and wants to change the system."

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It's amazing what you can do with #Quarto nowadays. If you're into scrollytelling, take some time to scroll through the winners

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While I'm still employed for now by the USGS, it seems like the writing on the wall is clear -- I'm officially looking for a new position. I'm a data scientist with 5+ years of experience with #rstats and spatial data, plus experience with Python/Rust/JS, looking for Boston or remote positions.

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

Excited to present at #GeoPython2025 in beautiful Basel, Switzerland! This one's on a brand-new 'geography' extension for @duckdb.org and a few examples of how the Geography and S2Cell/Center/Union types can help scale workflows for truly global extents. Slides @ dewey.dunnington.ca/slides/geopy...!

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AMA about my love of maps observablehq.com/blog/maps-an... thanks @allisonhorst.bsky.social for the cosy chat

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The community effort to make the penguins data accessible to all R users took almost exactly 2 years to date!! Our first email exchange was February 19, 2023. Thank you to our international forces of nature that made this happen! @ellakaye.co.uk @HeathrTurnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy 🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

hereR 📦 v1.1.0 is now on CRAN! 🚀 - Add speed limit configuration for isolines & routes ⏱️ - Expand isoline transport modes: bicycle, bus & more 🚴 - Migrate deprecated mocking functions and fix test coverage ⚙️ Details: cran.r-project.org/package=hereR #rstats #rspatial #routing #datascience

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The United States appears to be in violation of the Budapest Memorandum which disarmed Ukraine of nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees. The agreement signed by the US in 1994 specifically prohibits economic coercion against Ukraine.

submitted 5 days ago • 81 comments

@lionelhenry.bsky.social and I are so excited to finally announce Air - an extremely fast R code formatter! 🎉 With Air, you'll never need to worry about styling your #rstats code ever again. All you need to do is save, and Air takes care of the rest. www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/02...

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

Save the date: The Münster Center for Open Science and @forrt.bsky.social will hold the Replication Research Symposium from May 14-16 2025 in Münster, Germany. More info here: lukasroeseler.github.io/replicationr...

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Ein neues Promotionsnetzwerk erforscht räumliche Kommunikationsfähigkeiten im Alter. Es wird mit 4,5 Millionen Euro gefördert. Die Koordination übernimmt die Uni Münster zusammen mit der @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social www.uni-muenster.de/news/view.ph...

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“Now is the moment to recognize the scale of the seismic change unfolding, and to find new ways to live in the world that a very different kind of America is beginning to create” www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

submitted 6 days ago • 71 comments

A terrified Josh Hawley high-tailing it out of the Capitol will forever symbolize Congress in this moment.

submitted 7 days ago • 217 comments

stares in historian

submitted 7 days ago • 41 comments

The legality (not wisdom) of putting European private data on US clouds hinges on the availability of the US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. Trump neutered this board, and the European parliament has taken notice & asked the European Commission what they think:

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

It's hard for people in the Global South to focus on dealing with climate change when they don't have adequate electricity, water, sanitation, and transportation infrastructure. It turns out it's also hard in the Global North to focus on climate change when there's not a functioning democracy.

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

submitted 9 days ago • 845 comments

#Rstats package sits 1.5.2 is now on CRAN! An end-to-end solution for LUCC mapping of big Earth observation data using ML and AI. Full support for multi-source analytics (SAR + optical + DEM +...). Operational and efficient. See e-sensing.github.io/sitsbook/.

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 12 days ago • 540 comments

The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

submitted 11 days ago • 942 comments

JD Vance is a hypocrite

submitted 12 days ago • 33 comments

🎉 The "Geocomputation with Python" book has been officially published today! Dive into the world of spatial analysis and geospatial data with Python. 📖🐍 Book's website: https://buff.ly/3NK2uBq #geocompx #geopython #spatialanalysis

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

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New blog post! After archiving USAID data last week, I decided to play around with and recreate parts of the ForeignAssistance dot gov dashboard with #QuartoPub and #ObservableJS. I learned a ton about D3 projections and making pretty Javascript plots #dataskyence www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

My institute is looking for a project coordinator / innovation manager - a permanent academic position. It's a great insitute, very international, pleasant and informal atmosphere. Deadline Feb 28; see stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/d...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

French TV channel France 2: Orbán has been found to own an undeclared luxurious Austro-Hungarian-era palace worth €45 million. Trying to emulate his idol - Putin?

submitted 17 days ago • 87 comments

Open Science and Open Source only with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility. Inclusion is essential to science, and science is only worthwhile if it lifts everyone up together. ropensci.org/blog/2025/02... #OpenSource #OpenScience

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Unfortunately, all Census TIGER/Line and cartographic boundary shapefiles are down as of this evening. This means that the tigris #rstats and pygris #Python packages will not work, and geometry support in tidycensus will also fail. The Census API, for now, is still up.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 23 days ago • 1328 comments

gahhh I use these shapefiles all the time IPUMS has a bunch of them still, fortunately usa.ipums.org/usa/volii/bo...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

The shapefiles are gone! 🎉 The {spData} package has officially dropped all datasets in the shapefile format, moving toward modern and efficient geospatial data standards. 🚀🌍 Upgrade your workflows with {spData}: https://buff.ly/4htZ5D3 #rspatial #rstats #GIS #Geocompx

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Recently, someone mentioned #STAC as a general purpose geodata catalog (not just for imagery but also vector). Is that a thing? And even if it is possible, is it a good idea? #GISChat #OSGEO #OGC

submitted 25 days ago • 8 comments

📖 Our latest paper has been published in Nature Scientific Data. We present key concepts for federated processing and related interoperability aspects based on openEO, a standardized EO cloud processing API, and openEO Platform, a federated public cloud platform. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Your leaders call this "hybrid war" because if they called it "war" they might have to do something about it.

submitted 27 days ago • 19 comments

🚨 After years of development, the new version of #rstats tmap (4) is now available on CRAN! 🎉 Huge thanks to author Martijn Tennekes and all contributors. 🔧 Install: `install.packages("tmap")` 📚 Vignettes: https://buff.ly/4aAYNbq 📖 Book Chapter: https://buff.ly/43TokaF #maps #tmap #rspatial

submitted 29 days ago • 5 comments

Renaming axis labels has never been easier. Just add `rename_x_axis_labels()` 🤩 Check out tidyplots.org #rstats #dataviz #phd

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

🌍 Excited to share the 1st edition of Geocomputation with Python is complete! 📖 Learn geospatial with Python. Read it online: https://buff.ly/3NK2uBq Get the book: https://buff.ly/42t4dD7 Blog post: https://buff.ly/42s5fiN Open-source + community-driven! #geocompx #geopython #GIS #SpatialData

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

I’m completely delighted to be invited back to #GIScience2025 in August, in Aotearoa New Zealand. GIScience has been my conference “home” since the very first, in Savannah, GA. Any one else on #bsky remember #GIScience in 2000? (Looking at you @resieber.bsky.social, @mgould.bsky.social?)

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments