"[Matt Yglesias] can write whole essays claiming that fracking is good and we need fossil fuel friendly energy policies, dismissing progressives as childish, while never engaging with the scientific literature on the consequences of climate change"

Matt Yglesias Is Confidently Wrong About Everything

The Biden administration’s favorite centrist pundit produces smug pseudo-analysis that cannot be considered serious thought. He ought to be permanently disregarded.

currentaffairs.org

New blog post on Obstore, fast, multi-provider cloud storage access for Python: developmentseed.org/blog/2025-08...

We Needed Better Cloud Storage for Python so We Built Obstore — Development Seed

Obstore solves the friction we kept hitting in cloud-native workflows.

developmentseed.org

Open source, open science for earth, climate and geospatial science? Coming to #AGU25? Build tools in #Python @jupyter.org? Submit an abstract for this session and come meet us and like minded scientists!

Wilson Sauthoff@wilsonsauthoff.bsky.social · last yr.

📣 Call for submissions: AGU25 IN029 "Open Source Geospatial Workflows in the Cloud" 🌍 Please submit your work using cutting-edge practices and tools that are shaping the future of geospatial science. More info: events.geojupyter.org/conferences/... #opensource #geospatial #jupyter #AGU25

Will Alpine co-wrote Microsoft's manifesto on how AI will be a powerful force for good for climate change In a new interview, Alpine disavows the manifesto, saying he believes Microsoft used his work to distract from the much larger climate harms the company enables through contracts with Big Oil

He helped Microsoft build AI to help the climate. Then Microsoft sold it to Big Oil.

A former Microsoft project manager reveals how the tech giant is using AI to help Big Oil drill—and how he and his partner are now pushing for change.

heated.world

This is fucking insane. Closing these NOAA labs would obliterate our ability to observe, understand, and forecast the Earth System, from weather systems tomorrow to sea levels 50 years from now.

Zack Labe@zacklabe.com · last yr.

What a tragedy this is even being proposed on paper... 💔 NOAA FY2026 Congressional Justification: www.noaa.gov/sites/defaul...

NASA is being told to cancel 19 *active* missions to save $6B, which looks to be less than the ICE *hiring/retention* budget going forward. I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last yr.

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029: - $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion - $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million - $8 billion for hiring/retention - Billions more.

I've been adding new accounts to the Open Source Geospatial starter pack. Who else wants on or off? #gischat #geosky go.bsky.app/PGYLmPG

It's outrageous that NASA GISS, one of the best earth & space science labs in the world, is being kicked out of its Columbia home. The outstanding scientists who work there can't say that publicly, but I can. And so can you --- call your reps, esp. (but not only) if you live in NYC or NY state.

Marcus van Lier-Walqui@mvanlierwalq.bsky.social · last yr.

Nice Guardian article about us losing our office in Manhattan www.theguardian.com/environment/...

𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝐼𝑐𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑘 𝑎𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠? Icechunk stores only new or changed chunks for each version —no redundant copies or rewrites. You get instant time travel, branching, and efficient updates, all with negligible storage overhead. More: bit.ly/3F1XFST

Excellent post by Brian Davis laying out why doing "Open Science" for data-driven workflows is almost impossible in practice, at least without much better data pipeline tools.

Earthmover@earthmover.io · last yr.

Our latest blog post dives into the chaos of the status quo - where every tweak means regenerating the 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑡 and collaboration and experimentation is often stifled by silos and secret knowledge. Check out the full post: earthmover.io/blog/tensoro...

The proposed cuts to NOAA cold have profound consequences not just for climate change, but for our national security and the entire economy. Here's what I learned: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On

Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.

propublica.org

It's fun to work with real hardcore software engineers like @functionth.bsky.social who can teach you about database consistency and transactions and all that Scientific data infrastructure should be built on solid foundations like this instead of on piles of janky code written by postdocs...

Earthmover@earthmover.io · last yr.

1/ 🚨 New Blog Post Alert: "𝐿𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐴𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝐼𝑐𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑘 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝐶𝑙𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑒́𝑑 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝐸𝑥𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒" 🏦🔁 👉 Read it here: earthmover.io/blog/learnin...

the fact that I've never once thought about making a range request, and yet make them constantly for extremely targeted data pulls, is absolutely an invisible technical miracle

I wrote the article I wish I could have read back when I first heard of Zarr and cloud-native science back in 2018. This explains how object storage and conventional filesystems are different, and the key properties that make @zarr.dev work so well in cloud object storage.

Earthmover@earthmover.io · last yr.

1/ 💡 Our latest blog post in the fundamentals series, written by @tegnicholas.bsky.social, demystifies cloud-optimized scientific data formats! Read more: earthmover.io/blog/fundame...

1/ Flux solves the impedance mismatch between geospatial data providers and consumers. Providers want to manage data lakes stored in cloud-optimized formats like Zarr, but consumers want their applications to keep being fed data in ways they already understand.

Earthmover@earthmover.io · last yr.

1/ Today we are launching Flux, a powerful new addition to the Earthmover platform. Flux is a high-performance gateway for exploring, querying, and visualizing geospatial data via standards-compliant APIs (EDR, WMS, and OPeNDAP).

Hard to overstate this plan's reach, which touches nearly every aspect of NOAA's work - dissolving its research arm, gutting climate science, diminishing sat observations, boosting fossil fuels. With amazing colleagues Daniel Cusick and @scottpwaldman.bsky.social : www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

White House outlines plan to gut NOAA, smother climate research

The agency’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research would be “eliminated as a line office,” according to a memo from the Office of Management and Budget.

politico.com

You could also do this for arbitrarily large scientific array datasets using Xarray + Icechunk + R2/Tigris juhache.substack.com/p/0-data-dis...

0$ Data Distribution

Ju Data Engineering Weekly - Ep 78

juhache.substack.com

📣 Blog post alert! 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐜𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐤 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲: 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝟑'𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐱 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲. This technical post by @functionth.bsky.social dives deep into the internals of how S3 shards data, showing that distributed Icechunk can easily perform 230,000 object reads/sec and beyond. earthmover.io/blog/explori...

Exploring Icechunk scalability: untangling S3's prefix story | Earthmover

We show Icechunk can scale to extremely high concurrency levels, and explain how it achieves this in modern object stores.

earthmover.io

Several times some database comp sci nerd has suggested to me that you could just do everything in array land using tabular database tools. Whilst they are technically correct that you _could_, this article convincingly shows why you _should not_ - that would be horribly inefficient.

Earthmover@earthmover.io · last yr.

⭐ We just released the first post in our Fundamentals series. This one is called 𝐓𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐯𝐬. 𝐓𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬 - 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚. earthmover.io/blog/tensors...

I am so excited to share this new project with NASA and @developmentseed.org . By applying Icechunk and the "virtualization" approach, we can make Petabytes of archival data accessible to high performance analytics. Unlocking NASA's cloud archives will have immense downstream benefits for the world.

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.

Very proud to be working on enabling this - the potential improvements for NASA (and eventually all fields of science) are enormous, benefiting users and internal staff.

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.

Who else is going to @cloudnativegeo.org conference this year?

Earthmover@earthmover.io · last yr.

Register to attend our team's workshop at @cloudnativegeo.org! The workshop will teach attendees how to use the @zarr.dev data format model for cloud-native geospatial datacube analysis. 🗓️ Apr 30-May 2 📍Snowbird, Utah 🔗 Register here: 2025-ut.cloudnativegeo.org

Register to attend our team's workshop at @cloudnativegeo.org! The workshop will teach attendees how to use the @zarr.dev data format model for cloud-native geospatial datacube analysis. 🗓️ Apr 30-May 2 📍Snowbird, Utah 🔗 Register here: 2025-ut.cloudnativegeo.org

With Flux all the data engineers serving climate and weather data for maps, timeseries, and scientific analysis will no longer need to run their own servers

Earthmover@earthmover.io · last yr.

Join our upcoming webinar to learn about our new product, Flux. Flux hosts standards-compliant WMS, EDR, and OPeNDAP endpoints, allowing seamless integration between Arraylake data and other tools, including web maps, GIS applications, and even Excel spreadsheets. Register here: bit.ly/4kEGeaV

You nailed it a while back.

As a non-US-citizen living in NYC on an O-1 visa, previously at Columbia University, who has been outspoken on Climate Change, I must say this kind of authoritarian repression has me worried. It makes me much more likely to take my skills and USCIS-approved "Exceptional Ability" to another country.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last yr.

The unmistakable message is that any legal non-citizen can be deported if Marco Rubio does not like public positions or actions they have taken in relation to the war in Gaza (for now, but perhaps other things in the future).

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

lotta people trying very very hard to win the 2024 election instead of adapting to the rapidly shifting environment

Banger.

All websites that depend on NOAA data should display something like this. earth.nullschool.net