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Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley
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The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment (Schmidt DSE) builds tangible, replicable, and inclusive solutions to environmental problems. https://dse.berkeley.edu/about
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Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social · Apr 25
🎉Published today! Our study w/ @uarkansas.bsky.social identifies ways to improve financial security for US #farmers and crop insurance companies: dse.berkeley.edu/New-Ag-Polic...

Explore our findings in our #AI #OpenSource tool 🌽 ag-adaptation-study.pub #AgPolicy #FoodSecurity

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Missed #JupyterCon25? You can catch up on YouTube! Check out @mfisher87.bsky.social and @fernandoperez.org's live demo of #GeoJupyter tools to help open and democratize geospatial data analysis: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5h7...

📹More from JupyterCon: www.youtube.com/@JupyterCon
GeoJupyter: An Open Community for Accessible, Collaborative, and Interactive... M. Fisher & F. Pérez
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November 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Join @ucbids.bsky.social on 11/20 for a conversation & Q&A about open data science at the state of CA! Details below⬇️
ucbids.bsky.social Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) @ucbids.bsky.social · 13d
📣 OSPO Meetup on Thurs, Nov 20 @ 3:30pm PT -> An open approach to data science at the State of California

Meet Monica Bobra (CA Office of Data & Innovation) - Help shape the future of open source at UC Berkeley at a fireside chat, a Q&A session, and community gathering time! 🍿🥤
November 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
schmidtdse.bsky.social
Great to see you at #COP30, Governor @gavinnewsom.bsky.social!

Magali de Bruyn (R) and McKalee Steen (L) are leading several events @ COP30, including providing recommendations for how Indigenous communities can leverage tech and #DataScience to advance #EnvironmentalStewardship and #Sovereignty.
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November 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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We're live at #JupyterCon! Here's @mfisher87.bsky.social walking attendees through #GeoJupyter with @fernandoperez.org 🧑🏻‍💻

🌏 GeoJupyter is an open and community-driven effort to reimagine #geospatial interactive #computing experiences for education, research, & industry: bit.ly/49CMRY1 #GIS #Jupyter
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November 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Raise your hand if you're going to #JupyterCon 🙋‍♀️ See you there @ucbids.bsky.social! #JupyterCon2025 #DataScience
ucbids.bsky.social Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) @ucbids.bsky.social · 26d
Thurs, Nov 6 @ 10am PST -> Meet us on Zoom for a live report from #JupyterCon 2025 as part of our OSPO Monthly Knowledge Exchange! 💡🚀

events.berkeley.edu/BIDS/event/3...

@jupyter.org #UCOSPO #OpenSource #OpenScience
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October 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Congrats Kristin Davis for her #ecology research that challenges the #NicheConservatismHypothesis: the theory that a species' ecological niche (conditions where individuals can survive and reproduce) remains stable over space & time.

🐦 Findings: bit.ly/3LeZyOL #Europeanstarling #housesparrow
October 30, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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How to overcome an "existential modeling crisis" as a science researcher, from DSE postdoc @lucialayr.bsky.social:

✅ Define modeling in your own words
✅ Embrace validation
✅ Find allies
✅ Trust in "the modeler's mindset"
✅ Draw from other experts

📸 @uofcalifornia.bsky.social by Mathew Burciaga
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September 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Welcome Ava Hu to DSE, the newest Journalism Fellow! Ava is a student at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social Graduate School of Journalism. At DSE she'll develop data visualizations re: climate change impacts on local and global communities🌎

dse.berkeley.edu/welcome-ava-hu

@natureatcal.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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We’re still buzzing from our #GeoJupyter Hackathon experience - here’s why... Results from working side by side and a focus on the needs of the community! 🌍 🤝

Thanks, @mfisher87.bsky.social and @schmidtdse.bsky.social!

bit.ly/3JLLlYR
#JupyterGIS #OpenSource #Geospatial @geojupyter.bsky.social
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September 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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We're thrilled to welcome back Max Taniguchi-King as DSE's new Research Data Analyst, & Carolyn Zhuang and Evan Lingo as Undergraduate Data Science Interns!

More on the blog: dse.berkeley.edu/news/welcome...

@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @natureatcal.bsky.social
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September 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Congrats to DSE postdoctoral researcher @lucialayr.bsky.social for her feature in @australia.theguardian.com last week!
lucialayr.bsky.social Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · Sep 3
Super honored to have my #TidyTuesday viz featured in last week’s The Crunch newsletter from The Guardian Australia! 🙌 @australia.theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/au...
September 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Happy to share that our new paper is now joined by an insight piece from Anna L Jacobsen & R Brandon Pratt giving context on Mediterranean shrub resprouting 🌿🔥

academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

plus a blog post summarizing our article! 👇
August 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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👏DSE postdoc @mayazomer.bsky.social published new research in the @jxbotany.bsky.social! It explores how #MediterraneanShrubs resprout to recover after #disturbance and their resilience to global change: bit.ly/4mAwH5p

cc @cideinvestiga.bsky.social ‪‪@bmoreira.bsky.social @jgpausas.bsky.social
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August 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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🛠 GeoJupyter Hackathon Summer 2025, co-hosted by DSE (@schmidtdse.bsky.social) and BIDS at the new AI Futures Lab space

From live-coding + mapping integrations to beginner friendly GIS tutorials, this hybrid hackathon is all about open, reproducible geospatial science.
August 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Day 2 of the #GeoJupyter #Hackathon is under way at DSE (@schmidtdse.bsky.social)! Groups will gather and define challenges. The fun comes in when we start talking about solutions – thinking about tools and looking at other communities for inspiration 🤔💡
August 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Shoutout to my amazing mentors and collaborators @cboettig.bsky.social @liamtaylor.bsky.social Christopher J. Schell, Elizabeth Edson, Avery Hill and Rebecca F. Johnson
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@inaturalist.bsky.social
August 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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This week the United Nations will negotiate a global treaty on #PlasticPollution. DSE's findings in @science.org revealed that by 2050, key policies could:

♻️ Reduce mismanaged plastic waste by up to 91%
🌞 Cut associated greenhouse gasses by 1/3

dse.berkeley.edu/programs/end... #EndPlasticPollution
End Plastic Pollution | The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment at Berkeley
The ProblemGlobal plastics pollution is an urgent and growing concern that is exacerbating the climate crisis, creating threats to endangered species and at-risk ecosystems, putting human health at ri...
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August 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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🎉 Congrats to @lucialayr.bsky.social on our team for publishing new research on how #ClimateChange and increasing disturbances, like #wildfires, are impacting boreal forests. Explore Lucia's findings: bit.ly/4miqme3 🌲

@tum.de @anjarammig.bsky.social g.bsky.social @egu.eu
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July 31, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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📣 Join us for our AGU2025 session IN029 "Open Source Geospatial Workflows in The Cloud"! Can't wait to see you there :)

Submissions are due *Wednesday, July 30*! Visit our website for more details and to submit:

events.geojupyter.org/conferences/...
A flyer for our AGU sesion "IN029 - Open Source Geospatial Workflows in the Cloud: Tools and Techniques for Data Access, Analysis, Visualization, Storytelling, and Sharing in the Python and Jupyter Ecosystem". Includes a URL and QR code for our website (https://events.geojupyter.org/conferences/2025-agu/). Lists invited speakers (Dr. Fernando Pérez, co-founder of Project Jupyter, Dr. Tasha Snow, co-founder of CryoCloud, and Dr. Julia Lowndes, Openscapes Founding Director), conveners (Qiusheng Wu, Max Jones, Chelle Gentemann, Tyler Erickson, Wilson Sauthoff) and organizers (Matt Fisher).
July 26, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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📣 We're #hiring a full-time Administrative Manager! Apply now to lead operations, event planning, and day-to-day administrative support for our team at UC Berkeley. First review date is July 11: bit.ly/DSE-Admin-Ma...

📸 UC Berkeley by Mathew Burciaga
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June 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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New blog post: "Create your own layers in JupyterGIS".

Use the power of notebooks to compute custom tiles on-the-fly from Xarray (big) data, interact and collaborate on the map right from JupyterLab.

david-brochart.medium.com/cbb995a89b16
Create your own layers in JupyterGIS
Introduction
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June 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Dr. Kristin Davis, a postdoc on our team, is lead author of new paper on #EasternScreechOwls 🦉 that found the owls were more likely to colonize some #riparian areas in Ft Collins, CO but less likely to persist there over time.

More on our blog: dse.berkeley.edu/news/dse-pos...

📸 Rob Sparks
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June 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Check out this excellent @grist.org story featuring DSE's @sampottinger.com! Sam discusses our team's latest #OpenSource tool & research on opportunities and challenges for US corn #farmers and insurance companies: grist.org/food-and-agr... #AgPolicy #FoodSecurity
As temperatures rise, the US Corn Belt could see insurance claims soar
Crop insurance is a lifeline for farmers. But research shows it's not ready for climate change.
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May 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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🎉Published today! Our study w/ @uarkansas.bsky.social identifies ways to improve financial security for US #farmers and crop insurance companies: dse.berkeley.edu/New-Ag-Polic...

Explore our findings in our #AI #OpenSource tool 🌽 ag-adaptation-study.pub #AgPolicy #FoodSecurity

📸aquaArts studio
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April 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Join our team! We're #hiring a #postdoc to study extreme heat impacts on cattle and other animals. Do you have a PhD in #AgriculturalScience, #AnimalScience, #EnvironmentalScience, and/or #DataScience? Apply by 5/7: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04850

See all open roles at DSE: dse.berkeley.edu/jobs
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April 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM