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Alex @wildintellect.com · 9d

ripe in front, still ripening in back

pile of passionfruit , brown and crinkled ripe fruit in front, fading through purple to green and smooth in back

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Alex @wildintellect.com · 9d

they actually take a long time to ripen, and will last a month+

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Michele Tobias, PhD @micheletobias.bsky.social · 13d

If you're presenting research at @foss4gna.bsky.social, join our special issue with @stacksjournal.bsky.social as an author! You can also participate as a reviewer whether or not you're presenting!

The call for posters is still open #gischat #geosky #opensource #geospatial

www.foss4gna.org/journal

Stacks-Journal — FOSS4G North America

www.foss4gna.org

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Michele Tobias, PhD @micheletobias.bsky.social · 23d

I am incredibly proud of the quality of the workshops and the support that #maptimeDavis community has for each other. I am especially thankful to our organizing Council team for all the careful thought they put into making it happen. New Fall Quarter lineup: maptimedavis.github.io
#gischat #geosky

#maptimeDavis

#maptimeDavis is the heart of the mapping community in Davis, CA.

maptimedavis.github.io

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 23d

TOP TEN CAT BREEDS
1. Super Bingus
2. Tender Loaf
3. Crime Bean
4. Le Squishe
5. Load-bearing Tater
6. Royal Softling
7. Electric Spiceweasel
8. Pantaloosian
9. Tammy
10. Dinky Porch Pebble

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · Aug 28

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

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Kiri Carini @kiricarini.com · Aug 27

I really don’t feel like posting anything except hummingbirds. Sorrynotsorry.

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Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · Aug 27

📦 New R package: sfhotspot by Matt Ashby

Identify & analyze spatial clusters of points (places/events) entirely with sf objects.
Includes tools for counts, change over time, kernel density, Getis–Ord Gi*, etc.

🔗 GitHub: github.com/mpjashby/sfh...

#RStats #GISchat #Geocomputation #RSpatial

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Jara Villanueva @jaravillanueva.bsky.social · Aug 11

🚨 Applications are now open!

We are excited to announce that the @geospatialwomen.bsky.social Mentorship Programme is now accepting applications for our 25/26 cohort, open until 7th September!

🔗 Interested? Apply here: lnkd.in/ek7veWdG

#gischat #remotesensing #geospatial #eo #gis #mentorship

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Gus @gusbecker.bsky.social · Aug 8

Zines are a great tool for science communication. Earlier this year, I put one together with @kiricarini.com of @developmentseed.org.

The zine provides a visually interesting jumping off point for folks learning cloud-native geospatial data!

"Optimizing Geospatial Data for the Cloud"
"A zine exploring common formats"
"Development Seed"
"Gus Becker Kiri Carini"
A floating robot with one hand on a keyboard to a computer that has a glove on the screen. The other hand is giving a thumbs up.

A raccoon character asking about smoke data, and a floating robot describes how vector format may be more efficient than raster in some cases.

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Michele Tobias, PhD @micheletobias.bsky.social · Jul 30

I submitted this design to the @foss4gna.bsky.social design contest. (We're having a hootenanny instead of the traditional gala this year because we're not really gala people.) Don't you want this as a sticker?

You can submit a design too! www.foss4gna.org/contest

#gischat

A black line drawing of an owl is on the left. On the right is text that says hootenanny FOSS4G North America 2025 Reston, VA. The hoot part of hootenanny is emphasized with larger text.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · Jul 24

You guys, I just love this garden so damn much. Six months ago, this was a dying lawn!

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Jul 25

Motherfucker I can barely access Microsoft teams from my computer

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · Jul 24

Microsoft and Mercedes‑Benz are working together to let people access Teams from the car.

Benz is the first car maker to enable in-car camera use for Teams while a car is being driven.

The companies are also partnering to put Microsoft 365 Copilot into vehicles.

www.theverge.com/news/708481/...

Mercedes-Benz will let you use an in-car camera in Microsoft Teams while driving

The all-new CLA gets this first

www.theverge.com

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Alex @wildintellect.com · Jul 24

Organic maps is actually by the original author of mapsme before it was bought.

MAPS.ME (MapsWithMe), detailed offline maps of the world for iPhone, iPad, Android

MAPS.ME (MapsWithMe) are offline maps of the whole world. Map of the USA: New York, San Francisco, Washington. France Paris. Italy: Rome, Venice, Florence, Rimini. Spain: Barcelona, Madrid. Japan, Gre...

maps.me

Alex @wildintellect.com · Jul 24

who hasn't had this issue #gischat

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Cartonaut @cartonaut.bsky.social · Jul 24

These boundaries don't line up...which one should we use?

Let me propose some light reading
www.usgs.gov/data/nationa...

A visual comparison of about a dozen boundaries in the database

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State of the Map US @stateofthemapus.bsky.social · Jul 24

Check out this #SOTMUS retrospective blog post: openstreetmap.us/news/2025/07...

A big thank you to Alyssa Castronuovo, OSM US program coordinator, for capturing the experiences of folks who attended the conference. Thanks for sharing your reflections.

#StateofMapUS #OSM #OpenStreetMap #SOTMUS

Greetings from State of the Map US 2025

Another year another State of the Map US! Over 300 mappers gathered in Boston, Massachusetts in late June for OpenStreetMap US’s 13th annual conference, and to celebrate the organization’s 15th…

openstreetmap.us

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · Jul 23

📢 We’re hiring and looking for a Geospatial & AI Engineer. This is a remote-first position; however, you must reside in an ESA member country to be eligible to apply.

This role focuses on backend engineering & cloud-native pipelines. AI/LLM skills are a plus, but not a must.

grnh.se/al8eavv03us

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Alex @wildintellect.com · Jul 23

if you don't do that the compiler won't find the system C libs it needs

Alex @wildintellect.com · Jul 23

oh I can help you, I just learned it recently github.com/conda-forge/...

GitHub - conda-forge/r-lasr-feedstock: A conda-smithy repository for r-lasr.

A conda-smithy repository for r-lasr. Contribute to conda-forge/r-lasr-feedstock development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Alex @wildintellect.com · Jul 23

ps the bot notifies the listed maintainer in the recipe repo

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Alex @wildintellect.com · Jul 23

conda-forge has a bot, but I think it only rebuilds on new releases. In general the R world in conda-forge is generally behind and only as good as the community contribs. The bot test build will fail if deps change.

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Alex @wildintellect.com · Jul 22

Its used both ways, log what you saw, or get help with ID. I suspect reporting is more common as Seek also from iNaturalist is more often for ID.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Jul 22

iNaturalist Animals and Plants

xkcd.com/3118/

Comic. The Most-Observed Animal and Plant in Each State on iNaturalist. (Not the most common species in the state, just the one people have reported the most times.) [labeled map of the US] WA: Mallard/Western Sword Fern. OR: Mule Deer/Western Ponderosa Pine. CA: Western Fence Lizard/California Poppy. HI: Green Sea Turtle/‘Ōhi’a Lehua. ID: Mallard/Big Sagebrush. NV: Common Side-Blotched Lizard/Creosote Bush. MT: White-Tailed Deer/Common Yarrow. WY: American Bison/Sticky Geranium. UT: Mule Deer/Utah Juniper. AZ: Ornate Tree Lizard/Saguaro. CO: Mule Deer/Great Mullein. NM: Mule Deer/Creosote Bush. AK: Moose/Fireweed. ND: American Bison/Prairie Rose. SD: American Bison/Hoary Vervain. NE: American Robin/Common Milkweed. KS: Ornate Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. OK: Pond Slider/Eastern Redcedar. TX: Northern Cardinal/Pinladies. MN, WI, IL: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Common Milkweed. IA, MI: White-Tailed Deer/Common Milkweed. MO: Brown-Belted Bumble Bee/Amur Honeysuckle. AR: Three-toed Box Turtle/Chinese Privet. LA: Green Anole/Baldcypress. IN: American Robin/Amur Honeysuckle. OH: Eastern Pondhawk/Virginia Springbeauty. KY: Common Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. TN: American Robin/Christmas Fern. MS: Northern Cardinal/Pale Pitcher Plant. AL: Gulf Fritillary/American Sweetgum. GA: Green Anole/American Sweetgum. FL: Brown Anole/White Beggarticks. NY: Eastern Gray Squirrel/White Snakeroot. PA: White-Tailed Deer/Garlic Mustard. WV: White-Tailed Deer/Great Rhododendron. VA: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern Poison Ivy. MD: White-Tailed Deer/Wineberry. DE: Fowler’s Toad/American Pokeweed. NC: Eastern Gray Squirrel/Christmas Fern. SC: Northern Cardinal/American Sweetgum. NJ: Spotted Lanternfly/Common Mugwort. VT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. NH: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern White Pine. MA: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. CT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Striped Wintergreen. RI: American Herring Gull. ME: American Herring Gull/Canadian Bunchberry.

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Hamish @polemic.nz · Jul 17

Hey #gischat - you've got just 24 hours left to submit a talk or get early bird pricing for @foss4g.org - it won't be extended again! Community voting will start on over 200 talks and 40 workshop proposals from next week. 2025.foss4g.org

FOSS4G Auckland 2025

FOSS4G stands for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial, a conference hosted in partnership with OSGeo.

2025.foss4g.org

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