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Submission notifications have now been sent out, please check your inbox/spam to see if your proposal has been accepted! You can still submit posters to the poster gallery on our website! WE WANT YOUR POSTERS!
#gis #ucgisweek

If you submitted a lightning talk, workshop or presentation for UC GIS Week 2025, we will start contacting you this Friday, 10/24.
(oski, zot, and sammy art by me lol)

A great opportunity to Join Harvard Forest as a Senior Scientist to lead eddy flux work with your very own towers in a place that is deeply connected to ecosystem ecology!
@fluxnet.bsky.social @fluxnetecn.bsky.social @agubiogeosciences.bsky.social @cznews.bsky.social @uslter.bsky.social

More destructinon of American research capacity. This is absolutely an attack on the US, executed on behalf of our adversaries.

FYI last call for any UC GIS Week submissions for presentations, workshops, or talks - submissions are due this Friday, October 17. We will accept posters for the virtual gallery until day of Nov 17.

Text over a gray, white and light blue map of the southeast US with a photo of a white woman with brown hair. Text says "Make better maps. Cartography for professional quality maps in QGIS workshop. Taught by Michele Tobias, PhD 11/03/2025 9:00-12:00 FOSS4GNA Reston, VA Register at FOSS4GNA.org

Making good maps is hard. Learn a workflow to make maps that communicate well! Join my workshop "Cartography for Professional Quality Maps in QGIS" at FOSS4G North America! @foss4gna.bsky.social #gischat

www.foss4gna.org/schedule

A possum in a beret with a paintbrush screams in front of a canvas with a possum in a pile of leaves. The words say bad art for good an art + community event and the possum is saying “make the world better with art!” And free beer snacks and art supplies, and Indy hall November 10th 6:30

We’re BACK BABY.

At Bad Art for Good, we’re gonna get together and make some art to make things better.

How can art make things better? Creating makes us feel good! Art moves people! And we need a LOT of people to move right now!

RSVP luma.com/w8v2xk5i

...Would you be interested in an inflatable flamingo costume? I keep it in my office but I have somewhere else to be on Sat. 😆

Last call for registering for our free 1hr introductory Wiki webinar on #Wikipedia, #WikiCommons and #Wikidata which is happening at 3pm NZST today. You can find out more information on the event and the registration link here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

I have a flamingo and they squish quite nicely. Just remember the batteries for the fan.

UC Carpentries starts their first workshop of the series, Introduction to Tidy Data tomorrow morning! Registrations are still open, but time is limited! If you're not into spreadsheets, we still have Version control with Git, Unix Shell, SQL, etc!

Registration is still open for the UC Carpentries series' 9-Day Carpentries workshop that aims to teach participants basic concepts, skills, and tools for R in RStudio, Python, an introduction to the Unix Shell, Version Control with Git, SQL, and Tidy Data. jmjamison.github.io/2025-09-15-UC/

We will cover basic concepts and tools, such as - working with libraries and data frames; reading and plotting data; creating and using functions; the shell using command-line applications; cleaning and transforming data; and more.

This is a 9-Day Carpentries workshop that aims to teach participants basic concepts, skills, and tools for R in RStudio, Python, an introduction to the Unix Shell, Version Control with Git, SQL, and Tidy Data. jmjamison.github.io/2025-09-15-UC/

Psst... Wanna hear a secret?

Ok, it's not REALLY a secret, but the FOSS4G North America @foss4gna.bsky.social conference is partnering with Stacks Journal @stacksjournal.bsky.social to publish our first ever special issue from this year year's conference presentations!

#gischat #opensource

2025 - Hypoxia PhD job ad The Moore lab at the University of Colorado Denver is searching for 1 Ph.D. student to study the elevational limits of dragonflies in Colorado (http://moore-evo-eco.weebly.com). This position is fully...

Are you looking for a PhD position and want to spend your summers in the Rocky Mountains?

My lab @cudenverclas.bsky.social is looking for 1 PhD student to work on a NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts in Colorado! 🧪🌍🐙

Apply by Nov 1!

Details here docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Good thing I bought mine last week then 😅 they just arrived.

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor (Botany & Plant Pathology) The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology invites applications for a full-time (1.00 FTE), 9-month, tenure-track or tenured Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor position.Any hiring at the rank o...

We're hiring an Assistant/Associate/Full Professor and Director for our amazing, newly renovated herbarium!

jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/170...

I’ve been an author of the national climate assessment since the Bush administration. It is an incredible one-stop shop for climate info.

Download the PDFs of NCA5 here:

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Field assistant needed for a bird breeding study (Sept 2025 - Jan 2026) in Canberra. Experience with birds preferred but training provided. Contact Jessica at jessica.mclachlan@unimelb.edu.au. More info: https://www.ecomedina.com/ #job

Announcing Withdrawal of NSF Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems Proposal In September 2024, The Carpentries submitted a proposal to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) Program. This project would position The Carpentr...

ICYMI: In September 2024, The Carpentries submitted a proposal for 1.5 million USD to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) Program, and were extremely pleased to learn that the proposal was recommended for funding.

However...

Postdoc Opportunity Megathread

It's been hard for early career biologists looking for postdocs, so I created a Google Sheet where we can all compile fellowships/job boards/postdoc opportunities in one place. PLEASE SHARE WIDELY! If you're a PI looking for postdocs, you can add to the 4th tab! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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⚡ New version of #rgbif has just been released to CRAN!

Version 3.8.2 new features:
🔹occ_download_doi() accepts a GBIF download DOI and returns the download key. occ_download() now supports download via institutionKey.

Learn more:
🔗docs.ropensci.org/rg...

We're hiring! iNaturalist is searching for a Senior Staff Mobile Engineer team to lead the continued development of our cross-platform applications. Learn more: www.inaturalist.org/pages/jobs

Great news! The FOSS4G North America call for presentations is now open! #FOSS4GNA will be held Nov 3-5, 2025 in Reston, VA. Submit your presentation proposal for consideration by May 15, 2025. Check out the web site to learn more: www.foss4gna.org/

#geospatial

Ready for our community call this Thursday?

It's about getting the right folks into the LTER, and keeping them here.

Recruiting and Retaining Scientists in the LTER: How to find and keep the best and the brightest! 🌟

March 26, 9am PT—register below!
lternet.edu/events/recru...

Data Basin Quarterly Update

The Conservation Biology Institute is looking for volunteers with GIS and spatial data experience to help secure and preserve federally funded environmental datasets on their Data Basin platform 🌿

Cute monsters in witches hats add code and field notes to a bubbling cauldron, set along a picturesque mountain stream

Illustrated representations of different data sets in the package fill a "box," including a buffalo, trout, pika, fiddler crab, maple seedling, snowfall, and hurricane

Wrapping up a quarter-long Intro to Scientific Computing class -- we've had a blast! So grateful for @allisonhorst.bsky.social amazingly joyful illustrations and @uslter.bsky.social LTER datasampler package of simplified environmental datasets for teaching and learning 🧪🌎🌱⌨️