Edzer Pebesma

🚀 Excited to speak at the Rome R User Group Thu, Nov 27 (6PM CET)!

I’ll show practical workflows for geospatial predictive mapping in R — including tools to avoid spatial bias and improve prediction reliability.

More info: www.meetup.com/rome-r-users...

#RStats #Geospatial #GISchat #RSpatial

OGC creates more friction than it resolves.

The CRAN Spatial Task View just got a proper table of contents (thanks to Krzysztof Dyba) -- easier to navigate all those R spatial packages now. 🌍

> cran.r-project.org/view=Spatial

#RStats #RSpatial #OpenSource #gischat

Starting in 30 min

su.bmc.nu/Modules/Even...

today our postdoc @schwalb-willmann.de will talk at the GI forum in Münster about the power of #animaltracking data for innovative #earthobservation information @edzer.bsky.social @jakubnowosad.com Hanna Meyer - thanks for the invite!

R version 4.5.2 "[Not] Part in a Rumble" (source version) has been released. (You can find it in cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/, or wait for CRAN to be updated.)

Computer scientist: High Performance Computing and Modeling with Earth Observation data using C++, Python and Julia - OpenGeoHub Foundation: Connect | Create | Share | Repeat Come to OpenGeoHub and help us improve, optimize and extend HPC infrastructures for Machine Learning so we can contribute together to the global good.

We are still #hiring! "Computer scientist: High Performance Computing and Modeling with Earth Observation data using C++, Python and Julia" (opengeohub.org/jobs/compute...).
Deadline: 1st of December 2025
Duration: 2+ years,
Bruto monthly salary: starting at €4,494 gross per month

Screenshot of the CRAN Task View "Anomaly Detection" at https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=AnomalyDetection

🚨 New CRAN Task View: Anomaly Detection
#rstats #anomalydetection

By Priyanga Dilini Talagala, Rob J. Hyndman @robjhyndman.com, Gaetano Romano

URL: cran.r-project.org/view=Anomaly...

The European Open Source Awards marks a celebration and one of a kind recognition of open source excellence in Europe.

Open Call for Nominations: https://europeanopensource.academy/open-call-nominations-european-open-source-awards-2026

Well, yeah, or just x[order(as.numeric(x))]

I think this is just on point:"The publishers, I mean these are businesses, and businesses go for growth ... There just isn't that much good material that needs to be published. And so what they're ending up publishing is stuff that should never be published."-Bishop

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NJ8...

plumber2 0.1.0 plumber2, a complete rewrite of plumber, has landed on CRAN, providing a modern, future proof solution for creating web servers in R. Read all about the new features here.

I am super hyped to finally share the first release of plumber2 with all of you. This has been the center of my attention for a big part of 2025 and I hope you'll find it a worthy update to the venerable plumber package.

The blog post will tell you more

#rstats

🚀 Book in progress: Spatial Data Visualization with tmap

A guide to creating thematic maps in R with the tmap package.
Covers everything from loading data to interactive and animated maps, with reproducible code.

Read online: tmap.geocompx.org

#rstats #rspatial #geocompx #gischat #maps

🚨 R developers, apply now!

The R Consortium ISC has opened its 2025 Cycle 2 grant window!

💡 Got an idea that helps the R community? Package it, submit it, and get funded.

🗓 Deadline: Oct 1, 2025

📍 Apply: r-consortium.org/all-projects...

Make your mark on #rstats 🚀

Group picture and impressions from the course

Taught #QGIS for groundwater applications to #ErasmusMundus #GroundwatCH MSc students last week at Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon. With inspiring guest lectures from @timlinux.bsky.social & alumna Namrata Karki. Students received the official QGIS certificate. #IHEDelft

Looking to leave GitHub?

Try Codeberg — it's Git, but based in Germany (Europe), without all of Microsoft's nonsense. They're also on the Fediverse: @Codeberg.

But wait — it gets better!

Codeberg is open source, and you can even host your own instance. The software is called Forgejo, built by […]

Prof. David De Vleeschouwer vom Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie wurde zum Leitautor der AG I des Weltklimarats ernannt. Für den 7. Sachstandsbericht wird er das Kapitel zu großräumigen Veränderungen des Klimasystems und deren Ursachen verantworten. Wir haben ihn dazu interviewt.

Spatial Data Science Symposium 2025 December 4-5 | Distributed & Online. The symposium aims to bring together researchers from both academia and industry to discuss experiences, insights, methodologies, and applications, taking spatial and temporal knowledge into account while addressing their domain-specific problems.

Spatial Data Science Symposium 2025 is announced. Check it out, it's hybrid!
http://sdss2025.spatial-data-science.net/index.html

📦 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

Tracking the Health of Earth’s Ecosystems with New Global Productivity Data Gross primary productivity (GPP) is a key indicator of ecosystem health. New data from Land & Carbon Lab provides the first global, higher resolution GPP data.

The global bimonthly 30m GPP product (2000-2024) is now ready for use (landcarbonlab.org/insights/glo...); available on GEE, STAC... so proud of the @opengeohub.bsky.social and @worldresources.bsky.social & colleagues!
📝 doi.org/10.7717/peer...
🖥️ stac.openlandmap.org/gpw_ugpp.dai...

Making Replications Count Hackathon 22-24 Oct 2025, Munster Join us for a three-day hackathon to boost the visibility of replication studies! Apply by September 7th

🚀Making Replications Count Hackathon - in-person🚀

3 days. 2 open tools. 1 goal: make replication studies impossible to ignore

📅22–24 Oct 2025 | Münster, Germany ✈️Travel & accommodation covered (UKRI-funded)

Find out more below 👇
#OpenScience #Metascience #Replication #Hackathon #CodingForScience

Doctoral Research Associate (Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in, salary level E 13 TV-L) The Institute of Landscape Ecology in the Faculty of Geosciences at the University of Münster, Germany, in collaboration with the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC),…

🚀 From soil to space (and back) : PhD position using satellites & ML to study peatland carbon flux. Based in Münster, with research stays in Enschede.

📅 Apply before 15 Sept 2025

🔗 stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/1...

#RemoteSensing #PhD #ClimateResearch #Peatlands

Thematic Maps Thematic maps are geographical maps in which spatial data distributions are visualized. This package offers a flexible, layer-based, and easy to use approach to create thematic maps, such as choroplet...

Making my own map for our homeschool classroom because all the maps available to buy online are wanting. A bespoke approach lets me make decisions that mass producers won't, such as use other projections besides Mercator and make sure Palestine is included.

Super impressed with {tmap}'s API & docs!

Trump Has a New Definition of Human Rights State Department reports portray Germany as more oppressive than El Salvador.

On the State Department reports that portray Germany as more oppressive than El Salvador.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Screenshot of first page of commentary.

After one too many conversations about the ways GenAI + peer review = shitshow for all involved, I dashed off this slightly polemic commentary on how I think we should talk about GenAI as an epistemic carcinogen.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Screenshot of title slides. Reads: Don't be dense! Embracing sparsity in tidymodels Emil Hvitfeldt Salt Lake City R Users Group

Slides from yesterdays talk "Don't be dense, embracing sparsity in tidymodels" are live if you are interested!

emilhvitfeldt.github.io/talk-slc-spa...

@ecmwf.int invites tenders to expand #C3S climate data in Land & Ocean domains available in the Climate Data Store (CDS). Five Lots: Sea Surface Salinity, Permafrost, Above-Ground Biomass, Surface Albedo, LAI & fAPAR. Deadline 17/09/25. climate.copernicus.eu/c3s2313g-pro...

🌍 New blog: Working with Sentinel Data in the Cloud
ds.io/eopf101

EOPF 101 is your hands-on guide to using Sentinel data in cloud-native formats like Zarr and STAC. Includes working notebooks, applied workflows, and an open processing environment.

Computer scientist: High Performance Computing for Earth Observation data - OpenGeoHub Foundation: Connect | Create | Share | Repeat Come to OpenGeoHub and help us improve, optimize and extend HPC infrastructures for Machine Learning so we can contribute together to the global good.

We are looking for a Computer scientist 🤖 High Performance Computing for EO data. Come and work for @opengeohub.bsky.social join our high profile projects @openearthmonitor.bsky.social Open Geospatial Carbon Reg, @landcarbonlab.bsky.social ... Apply before 01-Aug: opengeohub.org/jobs/compute...

R, Python, and Calculus: Are They on the Same Page?

@amstatnews.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....