Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley

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Thank you @schmidtfellows.bsky.social & @schmidtsciences.bsky.social for attending our workshop on #DataVisualization best practices!

💡Are you a #scientist looking to improve your data visualization game? Check out a our top tips & tool recs: dse.berkeley.edu/news/best-pr...

📸Claudine Gossett

2025 DSE infographic

👏 Last year DSE released 7 (!!) #OpenSource #AI tools that are helping advance global environmental #policymaking and improve #LandManagement. See them all in our 2025 annual report!

📘https://dse.berkeley.edu/2025-annual-report

#KigaliSim #DataScience #EnvironmentalScience #AIForGood

AI-centered conservation efforts can only be ethical if Indigenous people help lead them (commentary) In November, we joined more than 50,000 Indigenous and world leaders, diplomats, scholars and activists at the 30th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP30) in Brazil. Some of the most central...

📣NEW in Mongabay: DSE's McKalee Steen & Magali de Bruyn share insights on how #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge and Indigenous digital sovereignty are key to creating #ResponsibleAI for achieving #conservation and environmental goals.

📰 Read the story now: bit.ly/4bqbrfG

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🥳 We're #Hiring!! Are you a #SoftwareEngineer and/or #DataScientist interested in #biodiversity and #bioacoustics research? 🦉🐸 🐻

This role will build and maintain high-performance computing workflows, data infrastructure, and research software & so much more. Apply now: bit.ly/Bioacoustics...

2025 #wrapped: DSE data viz 📊 🎨

One of our favorites from last year, designed by DSE's Amanda Anderson-You, depicts the inner-workings of "Josh": our new, open source vegetation modeling software codeveloped with the National Park Service.

➡️ dse.berkeley.edu/news/2025-wr... #DataVisualization

If you are into vegetation modeling and disturbance recovery, meet me at #AGU25 this week!

❄️ Oral on disturbance recovery in the boreal forest - Tue, 8:50 - 9:00 tinyurl.com/oralBoreal
🔥 Poster on new approaches in fire recovery modeling - Wed, 14:15 tinyurl.com/joshmodels

@schmidtdse.bsky.social

UC Berkeley offers tech to United Nations to reduce pollution A Berkeley mathematician has designed a new, easy-to-use interactive tool to help countries reduce harmful greenhouse gases

Thank you @bigadshaban.bsky.social and Raj Mathai @nbcbayarea.com for featuring
@sampottinger.com & the United Nations #KigaliSim tool! Kigali Sim could help some countries ⬇️greenhouse gas emissions by 5% by 2040, developed here @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

📰 www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/u...

YouTube video by Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley Introducing Kigali Sim: an Open Source, Climate Data Tool for the United Nations

👏Today DSE and @unep.org are thrilled to launch Kigali Sim, an #OpenSource tool to help reduce global #GreenhouseGas #Emissions. Explore how Kigali Sim can improve policymaking under the #MontrealProtocol.

🎥 www.youtube.com/shorts/Yyy3S...

#KigaliSim #UnitedNations
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🌟 BIDS in 2025: Making geospatial data analysis and exploration free, open source, & accessible to everyone

@geojupyter.bsky.social led by the teams at BIDS, @schmidtdse.bsky.social, @quantstack.bsky.social, @2i2c.org and @developmentseed.org

➡️ Hackathon highlights - geojupyter.org/blog/2025090...

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📣 Our colleague Prof. Ted Grantham is #hiring a postdoctoral researcher to help lead development of hydrologic models & predict seasonal flow dynamics in CA streams. Bonus: you'd get to collaborate with our team!

👩🏻‍💻 Apply: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05228

#CaliforniaHydrology #JobOpening #NowHiring

YouTube video by JupyterCon GeoJupyter: An Open Community for Accessible, Collaborative, and Interactive... M. Fisher & F. Pérez

Missed #JupyterCon25? You can catch up on YouTube! Check out @mfisher87.bsky.social and @fernandoperez.org's live demo of #GeoJupyter tools to help open and democratize geospatial data analysis: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5h7...

📹More from JupyterCon: www.youtube.com/@JupyterCon

Join @ucbids.bsky.social on 11/20 for a conversation & Q&A about open data science at the state of CA! Details below⬇️

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Great to see you at #COP30, Governor @gavinnewsom.bsky.social!

Magali de Bruyn (R) and McKalee Steen (L) are leading several events @ COP30, including providing recommendations for how Indigenous communities can leverage tech and #DataScience to advance #EnvironmentalStewardship and #Sovereignty.

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We're live at #JupyterCon! Here's @mfisher87.bsky.social walking attendees through #GeoJupyter with @fernandoperez.org 🧑🏻‍💻

🌏 GeoJupyter is an open and community-driven effort to reimagine #geospatial interactive #computing experiences for education, research, & industry: bit.ly/49CMRY1 #GIS #Jupyter

& thanks to @aksulehikoinen.bsky.social, Kristin's PhD advisor!

Raise your hand if you're going to #JupyterCon 🙋‍♀️ See you there @ucbids.bsky.social! #JupyterCon2025 #DataScience

Congrats Kristin Davis for her #ecology research that challenges the #NicheConservatismHypothesis: the theory that a species' ecological niche (conditions where individuals can survive and reproduce) remains stable over space & time.

🐦 Findings: bit.ly/3LeZyOL #Europeanstarling #housesparrow

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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

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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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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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

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

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! 👇

Maya holding resprouted plants while conducting fieldwork in Spain

👏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

🛠 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.

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 🤔💡

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

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

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

🎉 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

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).

📣 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/...