The hits keep coming... NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations (@unidata.bsky.social): www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/e... "As a result of the freeze, NSF Unidata faces a significant current funding gap."

NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations

unidata.ucar.edu

I share @rabernat.bsky.social excitement about icechunk!!! On top of delivering 100x performance, it can make impossible tasks possible. Why am I so excited to endorse #icechunk and #virtualizarr? bsky.app/profile/eart...

Earthmover@earthmover.io · last yr.

1/ 🚀 Solving #NASA ’s cloud data dilemma: Icechunk unlocks 100x faster access to archival data formats We're thrilled to publish results from our pilot project with NASA and @developmentseed.org to enable high-performance cloud-native access for NASA’s 100s of petabytes of Earth observation data.

In response to some new mappers wanting to pitch in to help first responders in Myanmar, I created a quick tutorial for beginners using OpenStreetMap and HOTOSM tasks. Let's get mapping. #MyanmarEarthquake #Myanmar www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaQj...

Quick HOTOSM tutorial for beginners - Myanmar response

YouTube video by Kevin Bullock

youtube.com

Does anyone know of any scholarships or funds for career development/conference attendance for federal folks recently laid off? Trying to get some amazingly talented and knowledgable people at some upcoming summer conferences...

I've long accepted (and really enjoyed) moving from scientist to science-enabler in the type of day-to-day work I do, but nothing replaces the stoke of teaching students some basic amount of geospatial analytics & watching them quickly adapt codes to perform climate risk assessments on the fly 🥹 💚🌎

I'm a long time DevSeed admirer, not just for their tech expertise, leadership & incredible commitment to open-source dev - but also the way everyone on this team carries themselves with kindness and curiosity. The org and folks have my utmost respect and I'm grateful to join such an amazing team!

Development Seed@developmentseed.org · last yr.

Excited to welcome @briannaritapagan.bsky.social as a Technical Project Lead! 🚀🌍 She brings expertise in remote sensing, cloud infrastructure, & geospatial data, across startups, research labs, open-source communities, and NASA. Welcome to the team! 🙌 🔗 developmentseed.org/team/brianna...

A project I've been working on for the last 6 months. I feel really strongly about making geospatial technology and data available and understood by as many people as possible. And that requires getting creative with the ways we share information. This is my small contribution to that effort.

Development Seed@developmentseed.org · last yr.

🚀 We made a zine! "𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱: 𝗔 𝗭𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘀" is our answer to the notion that Big Ideas are best shared through accessible, creative, and impactful formats. 🔗 ds.io/cloud-native... by @kiricarini.com & @gusbusdraws.bsky.social

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a reminder to not close your eyes and turn away from what is happening in the US right now. Fascism is an assault on scientific integrity, knowledge, and innovation. www.chron.com/news/space/a...

NASA to wipe mentions of women, Indigenous people from websites

NASA employees told to remove mentions of women, indigenous people, and environmental justice from websites.

chron.com

A colleague just had to convince her institution that the FAIR data principles are not DEI.

FAIR data - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Who here provides contract services to support open source GIS software like GDAL, PROJ, QGIS, PostGIS, GeoTools, Leaf map, etc.? I am not looking myself for said services, but I would love to see how diverse the ecosystem is. #gischat

blog: The Abundance of Community at the 2024 AGU Meeting. Reflections following the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, December 2024. openscapes.org/blog/2025-01... #OpenScience #KinderScience

The surge in wildfire disasters that wipe whole towns, neighborhoods, and suburbs off the map is simply not sustainable (for so very many reasons). We see this through wholesale collapse of communities & mass displacement, though skyrocketing rents & imploding insurance markets.

When my house and community burned - where was the satellite information? A very raw blog post I am putting up so folks in the satellite, geospatial and tech fields can listen firsthand why I think we are failing the situations that need us the most. www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-o...

When our community burned where was the satellite information?

Video of our home burned down taken by a neighbor after the Palisades Fire. I am writing this as a follow-up to my brief post last week showing a video of our home destroyed by the Palisades fire.

linkedin.com

We lost our home in the #PalisadesFire and right now I don’t have many words. We love these mountains, the animals and our communities. Grateful for every moment of sunshine and peace in this little cottage and grateful that we got out in time.

🧪🛰️ In 1999, NASA's first EOS mission went up and the way we look at Earth from above has changed. Since then , the Earth Observatory has been sharing fantastic imagery and its related science with everyone. The EO is now a grown up. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15273...

25 Years, 25 Images

Over the past two and a half decades, EO has published more than 15,000 image-driven stories. This video highlights some of our favorites.

earthobservatory.nasa.gov

I missed giving my AGU talk, but I joined #ScenefromAbove for an extended version - chatting about the need for federated compute, finding the right abstraction for satellite data distribution, and how the not-so-sexy work of metadata standards (and their gaps) are holding us back. 🎧

S15E2: Is the future of geospatial in the cloud? A conversation with Dr. Brianna R. Pagán

open.spotify.com

NASA has recently released updated websites for data! Check out the new Science, Earth, and Planetary data sites! #OpenScience #NASA #AGU24 science.data.nasa.gov earthdata.nasa.gov planetary.data.nasa.gov

Photo from partner taken on Carbon Mesa - currently being evacuated #FranklinFire

Woke up to my partner letting me know the #FranklinFire is approaching our place. Flying back early from #AGU24. We’ve been prepared for something like this but still in disbelief of the photos.

Running into a few of my open science inspirations today at #AGU24 it’s going to be a great week! @openscapes.bsky.social @juliesquid.bsky.social @cgentemann.bsky.social @eliholmes.bsky.social

I’m on my way to #AGU24, remembering AGU 2015 when Elon Musk was a keynote. I was a very broke PhD student at UCLA and paid to change my flights for a chance to hear Elon. He began with a blunt statement to a room of mostly Earth scientists - that the largest discoveries on Earth were over.

With Twitter becoming a textbook example of enshitification - I'm very happy to have joined Bluesky and find once again a meaningful feed of posts/connections. A real question - can enshitification of any social media platform ever be prevented?