The National Science Foundation is terminating and suspending grants again, and at Grant Witness we need you to help to track them! 🧪 We can only identify research being suppressed by under-the-radar suspensions directly from researchers. Please report! grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF

New Grant Disruptions at NSF - We Need Your Help to Report! – Grant Witness

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Big speedups in deck.gl-raster v0.7: Retina display support, faster GPU pixel filtering, minimized latency to render 200GB COGs, center-out tile loading developmentseed.org/deck.gl-rast... Thanks to @developmentseed.org for supporting this work!

I absolutely should buy a zoom lens for my iphone to be able to take photos of the hummingbird nesting in my yard, right??

And this cute little one that iNaturalist says is a Marine Blue (Leptotes marina)

More saguaros

I really only care about documenting saguaro blooms right now.

Fish don’t stay put — they migrate through spawning grounds, feeding areas, and long corridors. But most policy still relies on catch locations. We helped build the Global Fish Tracking System with @Ifremer and @SimulaRL to change that.

Sometimes, often lately, I feel like taking care of myself is a part-time job on top of my full-time job, on top of parenting. It's fine, though, just makes me realize how much I wasn't taking care of myself in the past.

Kinda forgot about Bluesky for a bit. I get really burned out on LinkedIn, though, and then I come back around. I'm working on a bunch of blog posts that are cool - deck.gl-raster, NISAR, osm-seed, titiler-cmr, healpix visualization, and more. And the saguaros are blooming already!

Good to see Lyft stepping up as an @osmus.bsky.social organizational member 👏 Using OSM at scale and contributing back is what keeps the ecosystem alive. openstreetmap.us/news/2026/03...

Groundwork 04 is our quarterly look at small, practical experiments by our team that are shaped by real questions we’re hearing across the cloud-native geospatial community. GeoAI agents. Browser-native raster rendering. STAC tooling. Transit data as GeoParquet. ds.io/groundwork04

New preprint! We propose "anergiobiosis" to describe microbial life at thermodynamic limits as a way of separating the physiological state from questions about aeonophilic extremophile specialization. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... #Microbiology #Extremophiles #SubsurfaceMicrobiology #MicroSky

Visualize a mosaic of NAIP imagery loaded from @microsoft.com Planetary Computer COGs, all in your browser, no server involved. Render true color, false color infrared, or NDVI. developmentseed.org/deck.gl-rast... Built at @developmentseed.org with deck.gl-raster: github.com/developments...

Earth observation data is everywhere. Getting it in time is still the hard part. EO Predictor is a map-first tool that estimates where satellite observations are likely to happen over the next 48 hours—useful for disaster response & other time-sensitive work. developmentseed.org/blog/2026-01...

🏔️ Snowpack futures The VEDA Dashboard shows how climate change could reshape Western U.S. “water towers.” Explore + share your ideas for resilience. 👉 www.earthdata.nasa.gov/dashboard/s...

Introducing 𝐀𝐬𝐲𝐧𝐜-𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐅, a new library for reading GeoTIFFs and COGs. developmentseed.org/async-geotif... - Fast, with a Rust core - Uses a non-blocking thread pool for image decoding - Integrates with NumPy, PyProj, Affine & Morecantile - Remote data support with Obstore - No GDAL dependency

Introducing Async-GeoTIFF - async-geotiff

A fast, async GeoTIFF and Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) reader for Python.

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What does “cloud‑friendly” Earth data mean? In this @thrivegeo.bsky.social interview, @yayyyimee.bsky.social breaks it down — from NASA’s cloud migration to why geospatial needs its own “Amazon fulfillment center” moment. Great listen! scenefromabove.podbean.com/e/scene-from...

Just published: our story working with the Vanuatu Bureau of Statistics to make climate science and satellite data practical for local decision-making. Tutorials & an interactive dashboard are open and reusable. Read more: ds.io/vanuatu

Join us on Tuesday, Feb 24th, for an epic send-off for our Washington, DC office. Food, beverages, music, community & memories! RSVP: luma.com/d8leo2k9

• STAC-based discovery • Browser-based visualisation • Reproducible openEO workflows • No downloads Explore: explorer.eopf.copernicus.eu Read more: developmentseed.org/blog/2026-02... Webinar on March 9: www.tickettailor.com/events/thriv... 🧵2/2

Sentinel data is moving to Zarr. The real question: is the ecosystem ready? We built the EOPF Sentinel Zarr Explorer with @esa.int , @eox.at & @thrivegeo.bsky.social to demonstrate cloud-native Sentinel workflows in practice: 🧵 1/2

Fun part of my job is testing out new shirts. This one looks cool but the graphic is like crunchy. I had a hard time picking a shirt color for this graphic but ultimately just went blue on blue. @kylebarron.dev released v0.14 last week: developmentseed.org/lonboard/lat...

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell

Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …

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I'll be in DC later this month. Stop by the @developmentseed.org spot for the last time and celebrate with us!

Development Seed@developmentseed.org · 6mo ago

Join us on Tuesday, Feb 24th, for an epic send-off for our Washington, DC office. Food, beverages, music, community & memories! RSVP: luma.com/d8leo2k9

cutest little skateboard sticker for the fastest little visualization tool. #lonboard #geospatial #dataviz art by real human: @gusbusdraws.bsky.social

Congrats to Overture for joining such an esteemed organization. 😁

OpenStreetMap US@osmus.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Welcome to our latest member, bsky.app/profile/over...! This membership is a step towards supporting the associated maintenance and overhead costs of OSM US tooling, namely MapRoulette, which is now a program of OSM US. Learn more in this blog post: openstreetmap.us/news/2026/01... #OpenStreetMap

After discussing with the creators of OSMCha and MapRoulette, both projects will become OSM US Programs. This transition enables OSM US to allocate a portion of our main budget to support the maintenance and development of both projects. 🔗 openstreetmap.us/news/2026/01...

MapRoulette and OSMCha Become OSM US Programs

The OSM US Charter Projects program provides a long-term home for significant projects in the OSM ecosystem. MapRoulette and OSMCha have been Charter Projects since 2023, which provided both projects…

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It’s election season at OpenStreetMap US! We are seeking two mapping enthusiasts to fill the open seats. Nominations for the #OpenStreetMap US Board of Directors will open on Monday, January 26, 2026. If you are interested in running, check out this blog post:

Nominations for the 2026 Board Elections Open January 26!

It’s election season at OpenStreetMap US! We are seeking two mapping enthusiasts to fill the open seats. Nominations for the OpenStreetMap US Board of Directors will open on Monday, January 26, 2026.…

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ooooo I just did my first vibe coding using Cursor. Pretty dang cool. I know just enough to sort of follow along with what it did with my instructions, but not enough to have been able to do it myself. Now I'm just sitting here letting the possibilities sink in. 🤯

I don't have a fancy microphone, so I'm just wondering. Do you have to have it really close when you talk into it, and that's why all the podcasters have their mic in frame? Or is it just to look cool?