Lucas Johnson

‘There could very well be consequences’: Trump’s team pressures wary GOP lawmakers to draw new maps The new pressure campaign from Trump and outside groups shows the party’s desperation to cling to its razor-thin majority next year.

NEW: Reporting from @politico.com reveals that the White House is ramping up its pressure campaign to gerrymander red states, going as far as promising “consequences” to Republican lawmakers who don’t fall in line.

This is dangerous new territory for our nation. politi.co/4nDMcKk

hey spatial folks: if anyone has a great "parquet versus zarr" write-up, let me know. I'm never going to write a serializer but I'm really interested in the performance impacts of format for cloud downloads 👀

#geosky

The US wine industry today employs more people than coal did at its peak a century ago

Economic loss from the White House's NSF FY 2026 Proposed Budget

New from #SCIMaP - analysis of the White House’s Proposed FY 2026 National Science Foundation Budget.

Take-home: Slashing NSF by >50% will lead to ~$11 billion in economic loss and extensive job loss and reduced training opportunities in communities nationwide.

Report: osf.io/e8rnc

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wow cooking is easier than i thought

Forest Age Rivals Climate to Explain Reproductive Allocation Patterns in Forest Ecosystems Globally Forest allocation of net primary productivity (NPP) to reproduction is poorly quantified globally, despite its critical role in forest regeneration and a well-supported trade-off with allocation to g...

The first chapter of my dissertation is out in Ecology Letters! We pooled data from forest sites across the globe to understand how forests differ in their carbon investment in reproduction (flowers, fruits, seeds). #ForestEcology #GlobalEcology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

neat!

lotta headlines this AM

*TRUMP’S LA TROOP DEPLOYMENT VIOLATED FEDERAL LAW, JUDGE RULES

The authoritarian checklist It is time to admit that America is no longer a functioning democracy

New, from me:
America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism.
This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...

Re-posting here for the late crowd. We are hiring a new TT position in Data Science/Biostatistics. Please apply or re-skeet!

America Tips Into Fascism Today is different than before.

“I think many Americans wrongly believe there would be one clear unambiguous moment where we go from “democracy” to “authoritarianism.” Instead, this is exactly how it happens — a blurring here, a norm destroyed there, (…) Then you wake up one morning and our country is different. ”

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is the last one they come for before they come for you.

Do not give the Gestapo a moment's peace. Do not let them believe for a second they will ever be respected, trusted, or seen as anything but invaders.

Detective F: Not all the sandwiches were harmless. Some were clubs. People were too frightened of sandwiches to build a Subway in Georgetown. Officer K: I still have a scar from when I took a meatball sub to the chin in '96 and, afterward, got into an unrelated knife fight. Officer J: I started here after transferring from the bread-crimes division in France. I spent decades hunting down a man who stole bread one time. My name is Javert, but that's not important. His name was Jean Valjean. I also resented him because I had just the one name and he had two.

the sandwich crimes unit contemplates the incident
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying!

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Concerning news regarding Salt Lake City’s ability to design its own streets and implement traffic calming. The people behind SB 195 are apparently back at it and want to make the law even more restrictive. We need to build a broader coalition to Save Our Streets (SOS)

PhD opportunity available at @westsyduhie.bsky.social with the brillant Dr Laura Williams - hyperspectral data and process-based modelling of tree diversity 🌳🌲 please share with your networks tinyurl.com/ms6mjz8y

Life comes at you fast

The commercial remote sensing industry relies extensively on NASA data from missions like MODIS, VIIRS, and PACE for calibration & atmospheric correction. It’s not just about climate & the environment.

The White House posted a video of armed law enforcement officers arresting the sandwich man

Image is a snip from Flann O'Brien's letters, reading: "It is a pity you did not like my beautiful book. As a genius, I do not expect to be readily understood but you may be surprised to know that my book is a definite milestone in literature, completely revolutionises the English novel and puts the shallow pedestrian English writers in their place. Of course I know you are prejudiced against me on account of the IRA bombings."

Today, academics, ask yourself:

Am I bringing enough of a Flann O'Brien energy to my R&R work?

Building CDRXIV in the open – CarbonPlan How we built our platform for research in carbon dioxide removal using open source tools.

We wanted @cdrxiv.org to have a distinctive design built on a reliable, open source publishing software. Getting both required collaboration with @janewayolh.bsky.social to overcome technical challenges. Here's how we did it: carbonplan.org/blog/cdrxiv-...

Thank you! And yes, please do! Always happy to chat or discuss

Nice set of papers in this special issue coming out of last year's FIA Science Symposium www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

🚨 New paper alert 🚨

The last chapter of my dissertation, "From pixels to parcels: Flexible, practical small-area uncertainty estimation for spatial averages obtained from aboveground biomass maps," is now freely available in Remote Sensing of Environment!

🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

Making Sense Remotely

Very good series of videos on using GDAL + Python. They’ve been super helpful to me. #cartography #gis

www.youtube.com/@makingsense...

The End of Information Donald Trump doesn't need statistics because there is only one truth

My latest premium newsletter is about Trump's firing of the BLS head, his war against data, and how fascists view truth.

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Marketing?

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(Sound on unfortunately)

Signal Acquired From NASA-ISRO’s NISAR Earth Satellite! - NASA Science Mission controllers for the NASA-ISRO NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) mission have received full acquisition of signal from the spacecraft.

🆕️ Update on the recently-launched NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar Earth Observation mission. 🛰🧪

🔗 go.nasa.gov/4okZ88C