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Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social · 14d

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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Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social · 28d

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

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Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) @ucbids.bsky.social · Sep 5

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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Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social · Sep 3

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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Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social · Sep 3

Congrats to DSE postdoctoral researcher @lucialayr.bsky.social for her feature in @australia.theguardian.com last week!

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...

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Maya Zomer @mayazomer.bsky.social · Aug 27

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! 👇

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Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social · Aug 26

👏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

Maya holding resprouted plants while conducting fieldwork in Spain

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Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) @ucbids.bsky.social · Aug 13

🛠 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.

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Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) @ucbids.bsky.social · Aug 14

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 🤔💡

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Diego Ellis Soto @diegoellissoto.bsky.social · Aug 19

Shoutout to my amazing mentors and collaborators @cboettig.bsky.social @liamtaylor.bsky.social Christopher J. Schell, Elizabeth Edson, Avery Hill and Rebecca F. Johnson
@calacademy.bsky.social
@schmidtdse.bsky.social ‪
@inaturalist.bsky.social

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Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social · Aug 4

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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Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social · Jul 31

🎉 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
📸 National Park Service

Image of the Copper River in Alaska surrounded by boreal forests and mountains. Credit: national park service

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Matt Fisher @mfisher87.bsky.social · Jul 26

📣 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).

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Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social · Jun 30

📣 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

Image of four Schmidt DSE staff members smiling and standing around a conference table. Credit: UC Berkeley by Mathew Burciaga

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David Brochart @davidbrochart.bsky.social · Jun 24

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

david-brochart.medium.com

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Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social · Jun 4

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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Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social · May 14

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.

grist.org

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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

📸aquaArts studio

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Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social · Apr 23

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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Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social · Apr 16

🌎 We're #Hiring a full-time #DataAnalyst! Apply now & share with your networks. First review is 4/29: bit.ly/DSE-Hiring-D...

This role will be integral to our work w/ the National Park Service. You'll analyze and prepare vegetation monitoring data and get to work with an amazing group of people!

Image of a crop of Joshua trees in the California desert, with a large boulder and mountains in the background

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Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social · Apr 11

Good news - the application deadline has been extended! Join our incredible team working on sustainable agriculture #DataScience tools & research. Apply by 4/25 for the first round review. #Hiring #Agroecology

Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social · Mar 3

🌱 DSE is #Hiring! Are you a (current or soon-to-be) postdoc with experience in #DataScience, #Agroecology, #AgriculturalEconomics, and/or #AgriculturalPolicy? Apply by 3/15: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04804

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Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social · Apr 11

💡 Thank you Dr. Carlie Wiener @schmidtsciences.bsky.social for recently leading impactful communications workshops for @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social students and postdocs studying science! nature.berkeley.edu/news/2025/04...
📸Eric Xie, UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society

Dr. Carlie Wiener of Schmidt Sciences took students through the process of building a successful story that effectively communicates their research findings and real-world impact. Credit: Eric Xie, UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society

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Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social · Mar 24

One week left to apply!

Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social · Mar 3

🌱 DSE is #Hiring! Are you a (current or soon-to-be) postdoc with experience in #DataScience, #Agroecology, #AgriculturalEconomics, and/or #AgriculturalPolicy? Apply by 3/15: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04804

Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social · Mar 19

McKalee Steen, DSE team member and PhD candidate in
@natureatcal.bsky.social uses #DataScience to analyze Indigenous land reclamation across the US, & the social and ecological impacts of those acquisitions. We're honored to have McKalee on our team! cdss.berkeley.edu/news/mapping...

#LandBack

Mapping the return of Indigenous lands using data science

McKalee Steen traces her career in data science to her family's efforts toward environmental justice when the creek running through their farm in northeastern Oklahoma had been polluted by a chicken p...

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Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social · Mar 10

"Now is the time to reaffirm our promise: to live up to CA's track record of bold environmental action and keep CA at the forefront of the fight against #PlasticPollution for generations to come." - Wendy Schmidt & Julie Packard @montereyaq.bsky.social. More: capitolweekly.net/california-m...

California must not miss critical deadline to tackle plastic pollution - Capitol Weekly

OPINION - California has long been a leader in environmental protection. Now is the time to reaffirm our promise: to live up to our state's track record of bold environmental action and keep Californi...

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