Matt Fisher

@mfisher87.bsky.social

He/him 🏳️‍🌈. Research software engineer @ UC Berkeley Schmidt Center for Data Science and Environment. Open Science / open source enthusiast. Nature lover 🌱🐕🌵🦌🌼🐦. Music lover 🎶🎹🥁🎵. Tinkerer 🛠️. github.com/mfisher87

I had such a good time at JupyterCon. Great to see all those faces in real life that I'd only seen on a screen before. What an awesome community :)

Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)@ucbids.bsky.social · 9mo ago

So much activity at #JupyterCon 2025 -> tutorials 🧠, meetups 🤝, talks 🎤! Thankfully, Silas Santini captured some highlights and shared some valuable resources! Read "Themes of Day 1, JupyterCon 2025: Collaboration and Modularity" for details: bids.berkeley.edu/news/themes-...

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HUGE congrats to the amazing QuantStack team for their work on releasing JupyterCAD 3.0!!! I feel so privileged to work with you folks :)

Arjun Verma@arjxn-py.bsky.social · last yr.

JupyterCAD 3.0 is here! 🎉 We are excited to announce JupyterCAD 3.0, bringing major improvements to the web-based collaborative CAD editor for JupyterLab: blog.jupyter.org/announcing-j... ✅ Color Customization 🐍 Embedded Python Console 🎯 Improved UX 🖱️ Mouse-based 3D Controls 🤝 Suggestions Support

By definition, numerical weather models require international data. The atmosphere knows no geopolitical boundaries: any model that begins and ends at its country’s border is unable to generate reliable predictions until after a weather system crosses its boundaries. Which defeats the purpose!

NOAA Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’

An internal email obtained by WIRED shows that NOAA workers received orders to pause “ALL INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENTS.”

wired.com

Worried about losing access to US federal data that may go off-line, or already is? You’re not alone—but duplication isn’t the answer. Many ongoing efforts have already archived key datasets and many more are ongoing. Check out these existing resources and, if you can, support their work. 🧵

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media.tenor.com

We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab

Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...

lil.law.harvard.edu

Listening to The Joy of Painting while reviewing pull requests 🎨 Let's put a happy little suggestion to remove that comment 🖌️ 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞. However you think it should be, that's exactly how it should be.