Julia Stewart Lowndes

Mount Whitney sunrise. Deep blue clear sky. Reddish mountains with a dusting of snow, with each sharp ridge casting a shadow on the next ridge to the right. Boulders in the foreground.

✍🏼 Openscapes Newsletter, Winter 2026

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Congratulations! It has been great to see you at ESIP Jan meeting :)

Huge thanks and appreciation to NASA Openscapes Mentors Aaron Friesz (now at ESIP), Amy Steiker, Luis Lopez, plus Allison Horst.

Come work with me and the best team!! We work openly, together, with kindness. We care about onboarding, and have the best team culture I've ever experienced.

posit::conf isn’t just another tech event. It's where ideas connect, skills grow, and new opportunities take shape.

You don’t just grow your skills. You grow your network, your confidence, your next chapter.

👥 Bring your team. Find your people.
📅 September 16–18 | Atlanta, GA
👉 posit.co/conference

Open Science Momentum at NOAA Fisheries Dr. Eli Holmes shares how the Openscapes Champions Program is advancing open science at NOAA Fisheries.

✍🏼A celebration of the work of NOAA Fisheries Openscapes Champions published on the Fisheries Blog!
"Open Science Momentum at NOAA Fisheries". Marks our 13th Cohort for NOAA Fisheries involving nearly 500 staff and affiliates 🐟
Mentors community -> impact 💥

www.fisheries.noaa.gov/science-blog...

Two new jobs! PhD and MSc levels.

DATA SCIENTIST - CLOUD MIGRATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL DATA:
coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/info/UCSC_CW...

Development assistant for satellite-based ocean products:
coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/info/CoastWa...

So much going on at rOpenSci! 🥳

ropensci.org/blog/2025/06...

[CNG 2025] Crossing the Chasm: Change and Resilience within Organizations – Julia Lowndes (Keynote) YouTube video by Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum

@juliesquid.bsky.social's #CNG2025 keynote just dropped on YouTube! 🎉 Her talk focused on using the Diffusion of Innovation theory + Openscapes' Flywheel to modernize data & develop the workforce within orgs; based on a paper co-authored w/ Eli Holmes (NOAA)
▶️ Watch it now: youtu.be/A-MjTGJQpbI?...

Hi All, this is a light-weight way to check in on your workflow needs and with other friendly open science people. Starts next week, please join us!

event flyer

Applications close Monday, March 24th! So you are not too late to join us 🤓🌍🌎🌏! pacehackweek.github.io

Thanks @copernicusmarine.bsky.social!

Map depicting projected accumulated precipitation through Friday across Southern California (from ECMWF model). Multiple inches of rain are indicated nearly region-wide from the mountains westward.

Confidence is rising that a major storm--including heavy precipitation--may affect SoCal later this week (Thu into Fri). There is still uncertainty, but risk of significant (i.e., more than "nuisance"-level) flash flooding/debris flows in recent wildfire zones is growing. #CAwx

we are reaching levels of national security threats I did not even realize were possible

this is the kind of thing you put in a terrible b-movie where some nefarious cybercriminal has hacked The Entire Treasury and everyone rolls their eyes at the implausibility

except somehow it's actually real

Done, thank you!

If you’re a workspace admin, this is a solved issue now (or at least was in my instance) - you can just toggle it off.

Takes a minute, feels great.

The January edition of the NCEAS newsletter is here! Read about the Morpho open call for proposals, invasive iceplant research, @arcticdatactr.bsky.social trainings, what our Projects Data Coordinator Jeanette Clark is up to, and our current job openings! Read more here: mailchi.mp/nceas/nceas-...

More than $6 Million in Support of Climate Journalism

Many congratulations to these grant winners! All are doing great and important work covering climate change: www.macfound.org/press/press-...

This guy nails it

This is why basic (aka blue skies) research is so important. It’s fundamental to discoveries that change lives and improve humanity

Back in February 2020, I curated for #WeAreRLadies during Valentine's week. It was an unforgettable experience that made me truly feel the love of our amazing #RStats community 💜

Community Call poster for Pathways to Open Science online workshop, Jan 23, 5-6:30pm Eastern

Whether you’re a data pro or a newbie, open science can enhance your work. Join our 1st “Pathways to Open Science” session tomorrow for stories & data efficiency tips.
zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#BlackSky @blackinx.bsky.social

Thanks @openscapes.bsky.social BIMS @official-bweems.bsky.social

photo inside a restaurant, 20 smiling women and men facing the camera

blog: The Abundance of Community at the 2024 AGU Meeting.
Reflections following the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, December 2024.
openscapes.org/blog/2025-01...
#OpenScience #KinderScience

New #HughesFire now spreading rapidly to W/SW toward I-5 corridors near Castaic, with expanding evacuation amid red flag condition continuing. #CAwx #CAfire

Apply to be an Opportunity Scholar at posit::conf(2025) - Posit We are excited to announce Posit will provide 40 Opportunity Scholarships so they can attend posit::conf(2025) in Atlanta, Georgia.

We’re thrilled to offer Opportunity Scholarships for posit::conf(2025)!

These aim to support folks typically underrepresented at similar confs.

If you know anyone who'd be a good candidate – perhaps you! – apply by Feb 21: pos.it/opp-scholar-2025

#DataScience #positconf2025 #rstats #pydata

🧪 #NativesInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #BlackInMicro #IndigenizeSTEM #NativeInSTEM
#WomenInSTEM @ecohugger.bsky.social @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social

Yes. And all of this - pro bono legal support, mental health support, childcare support - is also what librarians, teachers, health care providers, professors, scientists, organizers, & so many people working for good in this world need.

Our struggles are all intertwined. So are solutions.

To honor them, I’m releasing this poem as a fundraiser for the California Fire Foundation, which is offering support and aid to firefighters families, as well as those who have been impacted by the fires. 💛 Give what you can, help who you can, stay safe, and this too we shall conquer.

photo with narrow dirt hiking trail across a steeply inclined green mountainside in the foreground and a marmot on the trail facing away from camera. Snow covered mountains in background. Dark green conifers in midground. Blue sky with a few happy white clouds.

"Solving the lonely data scientist problem", a post by
@monicagerber.bsky.social to get us in the mindset for the new year! Monica Gerber is a Data Science Manager at @fredhutch.bsky.social and an Openscapes Mentor.

openscapes.org/blog/2025-01...
#OpenScience #KinderScience

Open Source Pledge Our companies feast year after year at the Open Source table. It's time to settle up.

Very proud to announce that @posit.co has joined the opensourcepledge.com. We're committing to spending $2000 / developer / year to support open source software that we use (but don't develop): posit.co/blog/posit-p... #rstats #pydata

Open source software in government - incredibly important work with the story of how they made it happen ✨✨✨✨