Alexander Kmoch @allixender

#PostDoc position in #GIScience at @zgis.bsky.social

Details: https://www.plus.ac.at/geoinformatik/news/

#gisjobs #Salzburg

TigerBeetlex 0.16.47 now includes structs and functions to decode TigerBeetle CDC events streamed on RabbitMQ.

Bonus material: a guide to create a pipeline to process them in ~50 LOC, powered by Broadway.

hexdocs.pm/tigerbeetlex...

#weBEAMTogether @elixir-lang.org #ziglang @tigerbeetle.com

Witnessing Estonian Song and Dance Festivals just deeply touches the human soul, being Estonian or not 🇪🇪🥹🎼❤️ #Eesti #laulupidu #tantsupidu #Tallinn

Releases · sahrk/DGGRID A command-line application that generates and manipulates icosahedral discrete global grids. - sahrk/DGGRID

Kevin Sahr DGGRID 8.41 was released, with full support for #IGEO7 #Z7 #ZORDER and #Z3 indexing for #ISEA 3,4 and 7 H #DGGS the binaries on conda-forge are updated. And we are now testing HTML readme/docs:

github.com/sahrk/DGGRID...

dggrid.readthedocs.io/latest/

anaconda.org/conda-forge/...

Video Compression for Spatiotemporal Earth System Data Large-scale Earth system datasets, from high-resolution remote sensing imagery to spatiotemporal climate model outputs, exhibit characteristics analogous to those of standard videos. Their inherent sp...

Wow, today is just full of pleasant geospatial treats made for me. I just found out about xarrayvideo, which uses ffmpeg as a video codec to store EO/Climate/Weather data! arxiv.org/abs/2506.19656

Finland Launches Modern Topographic Data System – Built on Open-Source QGIS | Positio This new open-source based system enables more efficient and up-to-date maintenance of the national topographic data and the production of general map products.

Finland Launches Modern Topographic Data System - Built on Open-Source #QGIS

#DGGScon what do you think? #dggs

A #datacube viewer for #biodiversity and #carbon dynamics built with #ElixirLang #phoenixframework and #maplibre - seen at #lps25 by folks from Estonia | #geospatial

GeoServer 3: Crowdfunding Goal Surpassed GeoServer 3 exceeds crowdfunding goal, enabling major upgrades in security, performance, and cloud-native support for open-source geospatial tech.

#GeoServer 3: Crowdfunding Goal Surpassed

When I started Greece |> Elixir, one of the goals was to find companies that use Elixir in Greece and post job openings in the community. Today I am happy to share that we had our very first job post in the community for our members to see! #MyElixirStatus

A few rows of the Tiobe Index table showing the Zig programming language at position 50. It's highest position to date.

Zig enters the Tiobe Index 'Other programming languages' table at position 50.

#Ziglang #programming

TigerBeetlex: An Elixir and Zig Love Story, mer 9 apr 2025, 19:00 | Meetup What if your application database could process financial transactions up to 1000x faster than a general purpose database? That’s the goal of TigerBeetle, a distributed fin

On my way to the Elixir Language Milano meetup to talk about TigerBeetlex, the Elixir client for TigerBeetle.

Unfortunately there are no spots left tonight, but you can still catch my talk at @elixirconf.bsky.social in Krakow this May!

#ElixirLang #ZigLang

www.meetup.com/it-IT/elixir...

Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.

Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform!!! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

@protomaps.com x @maplibre.org is open-source at its best

globe view just dropped

Corpse Flower livestream: A plant to die for YouTube video by Botanic Gardens of Sydney

If you are feeling overwhelmed, I strongly recommend the livestream of the corpse flower at Sydney Botanic Gardens on YouTube. There are currently 1,500 people in chat waiting for a flower to open, and occasionally claiming that it definitely has moved this time.

WWTF: We Watch The Flower.

I came across this course on geospatial analysis with Python and R by the amazing @allixender.bsky.social and team. Worth checking out kodu.ut.ee/~kmoch/geopy...

QGIS on the list of bellingcat open source tools for maps

#QGIS is also listed on @Bellingcat ’s Online Open Source Investigation Toolkit!

#bcattols #gischat #osgeo #opensource #bellingcat #maps

weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt

and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED

this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. 8 135 3.8K 97K ... stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood 5 760 3.2K 82K stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h ... it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors

Well this is grim

Impact of author characteristics on outcomes of single- versus double-blind peer review: a systematic review of comparative studies in scientific abstracts and publications - Scientometrics The purpose of this systematic review was to assess the role of double-blind (DB) peer review on bias against authors when compared to single-blind (SB) peer review in scientific publications. Using…

Single-blind #peerreview leads to more positive outcomes if you are:
- male
- White
- in the US or North America
- well-published or known in your field
- affiliated with a prestigious institution

Can we please make double-blind the gold standard now?

🧪 #academicsky #SciPub

🌍 In our ERC funded WaterSmartLand (water-smart-land.eu) project, we’re building an environmental datacube using DGGS tech.

On Tuesday, @allixender.bsky.social visited #ESA HQ in Paris 🇫🇷 to discuss DGGS and share insights with science and technology staff. 🤝

Logo saying Goatmire Elixir + NervesConf EU. Text below says: 10-12 September, 2025, Varberg, Sweden

Been holding on to this for a little bit now. We are running an Elixir conference.

10-12 September in Varberg, Sweden.

One day of NervesConf EU and two days of Goatmire Elixir. Single track. Andrea Leopardi and Sanne Kalkman are our two first speakers.

A lot more to come :)

#elixirlang

ChatGPT - OTPSparq Spark your creativity! Learn OTP and find out where you can go! Apply elements such as generic servers, state machines, and supervisors using the Erlang and Elixir Languages.

Discover ErlangSparq, ElixirSparq, and OTPSparq! 🚀

We’re thrilled to share that the Education WG of our Foundation has released these three custom GPTs, specifically designed to support early learners of Erlang, Elixir, and OTP.

🔗 Explore them:
OTPSparq: chatgpt.com/g/g-9J9PVFlR...

🌍✨ Dive into the world of stunning web maps with #Svelte 5 and svelte-maplibre-gl! 🚀 Unleash your creativity and transform your web mapping projects! 🌟
#MapLibre #WebMapping #Geospatial

Would Kitty terminal be an option?

Partitioning strategies for bigger-than-memory spatial data | Dewey Dunnington There’s a great discussion going on in the GeoParquet repo about how exactly to split up GeoParquet datasets for optimal querying. This post is my adventure giving the partition strategies a shot for ...

New #gischat post! This one following up as a practical Ibis/ @duckdb.org-powered exploration into a few of the spatial partitioning methods suggested in a recent GeoParquet discussion. Let me know what I missed! dewey.dunnington.ca/post/2024/pa...

YouTube video by Pangeo xdggs: discrete global grid systems with xarray

Justus made a great intro on using #DGGS through #xarray #xdggs at the #Pangeo showcase talk. Xdggs is now in a stage where you can use it fairly robustly with #HEALPIX and #H3. Other integrations like for #DGGRID are developed as separate plugins.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAMG...

Stargate film poster with the gate replaced with a blue Altmetric donut and the title has been amended to Skygate

Bluesky is benefitting from several parallel accelerants:

1) A microblog format is already recognisable to new users
2) Communities are arriving fully-formed from elsewhere. These groups formed on Twitter and beyond.
3) Users are in motivated migration from other platforms.

And it shows.

‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky Researchers say the social-media platform — an alternative to X — offers more control over the content they see and the people they engage with.: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03784-6

There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research.

A Place of Joy.