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All too often negative results fail to appear in scientific literature. Hear how funders, publishers and researchers are finding ways to change this. go.nature.com/3MpbTNJ

🚀 GAEZ v5 is online! Explore the new GAEZ v5 Data Portal — an open-access platform offering updated datasets, enhanced methodology, and improved tools to assess land productivity and climate change impact. 🌾 More info ➡️ fao.org/gaez/en/

the kids (9 & 8) asked for a computer so I made a quest for them: build an Apple 1 from scratch and get a MacBook Air. kit just arrrived, I’ll keep you posted

It's all about "tables", so rela-table;) youtube.com/watch?v=NTdnkl… More awareness & care abt what goes into raster->table (grid cell level masks, uncertainty/QA; temporal-then-spatial agg., aggregation weights e.g., land cover share, population density etc.; etc.) should be good..

👀 cloudnativegeo-tutorials.github.io/cng-tutorials.…

"win-settle (do-no-harm)" is good enough and often more realistic than "win-win"

A course in which the group together built a functioning cluster using a dozen of Raspberry Pi units and ran an MPI application - in one morning!

🌍 Historic Launch Ahead: ISRO Set to Launch NISAR, a joint satellite with NASA ! 🚀 On July 30, 2025 at 17:40 IST, ISRO’s GSLV-F16 will launch #NISAR, the first joint Earth observation satellite by ISRO & NASA, from Sriharikota. 🛰️ NISAR will scan the entire globe every 12

Seems geospatial (satellite) data and data products have more consistent standards for sharing and structuring e.g., STAC, than survey data 😅

Scientists overwhelmingly recognize the value of sharing null results, but rarely publish them in the research literature go.nature.com/472poOC

NEW ESSAY: "Dispatches from India" A year ago I was living in New Delhi, India 🇮🇳. I traveled across 10 states and 30 cities+villages writing for The Economist, including a cover story on the economy Since then I’ve been chewing on how to capture what I learned It still

In a new op-ed Esther Duflo reminds us: “'Development aid is not a waste of public money.” 📖 Read via Le Monde: lemonde.fr/en/opinion/art…

One good tip from agile training the other day: an agile clock to time and track "salami-sliced" (down to 1 minute!) tasks ⏳

The difference between

New paper: "What Does Consulting Do?" w/ Gert Bijnens, Simon Jäger Consulting is a storied but opaque industry. Our VAT-based B2B data permit the 1st comprehensive study: Which firms buy consulting? What happens when they do? nber.org/papers/w34072 eml.berkeley.edu/~schoefer/scho…

With a coupled environment-socioeconomic system (markets, constraints, adaptations!), all pathways/mechanisms seem can be plausible, and literature very mixed

Watch the 2025 Summer Institute Methods Lectures, Uncovering Causal Mechanisms: Mediation Analysis and Surrogate Indices. nber.org/research/video…

Introducing a new way to see our planet! 🌍 🛰️ Using Google DeepMind’s new geospatial AI model, AlphaEarth Foundations, we’re making satellite data more analysis-ready, packing a year of info into each pixel. bit.ly/3GZqK2j #EarthEngine #AIforGood

For a long train ride; Before: Trying to find good podcast episodes or audio books Now: Make own podcast episodes from papers we've been wanting to read 😃