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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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👏Today DSE and @unep.org are thrilled to launch Kigali Sim, an #OpenSource tool to help reduce global #GreenhouseGas #Emissions. Explore how Kigali Sim can improve policymaking under the #MontrealProtocol.

🎥 www.youtube.com/shorts/Yyy3S...

#KigaliSim #UnitedNations
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Introducing Kigali Sim: an Open Source, Climate Data Tool for the United Nations
YouTube video by Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley
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👏 Last year DSE released 7 (!!) #OpenSource #AI tools that are helping advance global environmental #policymaking and improve #LandManagement. See them all in our 2025 annual report!

📘https://dse.berkeley.edu/2025-annual-report

#KigaliSim #DataScience #EnvironmentalScience #AIForGood
January 21, 2026 at 6:25 PM
📣NEW in Mongabay: DSE's McKalee Steen & Magali de Bruyn share insights on how #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge and Indigenous digital sovereignty are key to creating #ResponsibleAI for achieving #conservation and environmental goals.

📰 Read the story now: bit.ly/4bqbrfG
AI-centered conservation efforts can only be ethical if Indigenous people help lead them (commentary)
In November, we joined more than 50,000 Indigenous and world leaders, diplomats, scholars and activists at the 30th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP30) in Brazil. Some of the most central...
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January 9, 2026 at 6:06 PM
🥳 We're #Hiring!! Are you a #SoftwareEngineer and/or #DataScientist interested in #biodiversity and #bioacoustics research? 🦉🐸 🐻

This role will build and maintain high-performance computing workflows, data infrastructure, and research software & so much more. Apply now: bit.ly/Bioacoustics...
January 8, 2026 at 5:38 PM
2025 #wrapped: DSE data viz 📊 🎨

One of our favorites from last year, designed by DSE's Amanda Anderson-You, depicts the inner-workings of "Josh": our new, open source vegetation modeling software codeveloped with the National Park Service.

➡️ dse.berkeley.edu/news/2025-wr... #DataVisualization
January 5, 2026 at 10:13 PM
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If you are into vegetation modeling and disturbance recovery, meet me at #AGU25 this week!

❄️ Oral on disturbance recovery in the boreal forest - Tue, 8:50 - 9:00 tinyurl.com/oralBoreal
🔥 Poster on new approaches in fire recovery modeling - Wed, 14:15 tinyurl.com/joshmodels

@schmidtdse.bsky.social
Assessing the Role of Post-Disturbance Recovery in 21st-Century Boreal Forest Vegetation and Carbon Dynamics Using a Dynamic Vegetation Model
Ecosystem disturbances, such as wildfires, windthrows, or biotic attacks, play ...
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December 15, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Thank you @bigadshaban.bsky.social and Raj Mathai @nbcbayarea.com for featuring
@sampottinger.com & the United Nations #KigaliSim tool! Kigali Sim could help some countries ⬇️greenhouse gas emissions by 5% by 2040, developed here @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

📰 www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/u...
UC Berkeley offers tech to United Nations to reduce pollution
A Berkeley mathematician has designed a new, easy-to-use interactive tool to help countries reduce harmful greenhouse gases
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December 16, 2025 at 9:58 PM
👏Today DSE and @unep.org are thrilled to launch Kigali Sim, an #OpenSource tool to help reduce global #GreenhouseGas #Emissions. Explore how Kigali Sim can improve policymaking under the #MontrealProtocol.

🎥 www.youtube.com/shorts/Yyy3S...

#KigaliSim #UnitedNations
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
Introducing Kigali Sim: an Open Source, Climate Data Tool for the United Nations
YouTube video by Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley
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December 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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🌟 BIDS in 2025: Making geospatial data analysis and exploration free, open source, & accessible to everyone

@geojupyter.bsky.social led by the teams at BIDS, @schmidtdse.bsky.social, @quantstack.bsky.social, @2i2c.org and @developmentseed.org

➡️ Hackathon highlights - geojupyter.org/blog/2025090...
December 3, 2025 at 11:48 PM
📣 Our colleague Prof. Ted Grantham is #hiring a postdoctoral researcher to help lead development of hydrologic models & predict seasonal flow dynamics in CA streams. Bonus: you'd get to collaborate with our team!

👩🏻‍💻 Apply: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05228

#CaliforniaHydrology #JobOpening #NowHiring
December 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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
YouTube video by JupyterCon
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November 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Join @ucbids.bsky.social on 11/20 for a conversation & Q&A about open data science at the state of CA! Details below⬇️
📣 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
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.
November 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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
November 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Raise your hand if you're going to #JupyterCon 🙋‍♀️ See you there @ucbids.bsky.social! #JupyterCon2025 #DataScience
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
October 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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
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
September 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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

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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
September 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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
September 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Congrats to DSE postdoctoral researcher @lucialayr.bsky.social for her feature in @australia.theguardian.com last week!
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
👏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
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