2026 continuing to offer small boat big waves energy

Amanda standing in front of the workshop smiling

Sam standing in front of the workshop gesturing in front of a slide deck

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

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

five people standing around a laptop screen in DSE's office with a large monitor behind them displaying data visualizations

🥳 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

Afterplace - weird, funny, deeply moving, taught with it at UC Berkeley last year. Also ❤️ @evankice.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...

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

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

As temperatures rise, the US Corn Belt could see insurance claims soar Crop insurance is a lifeline for farmers. But research shows it's not ready for climate change.

Check out this excellent @grist.org story featuring DSE's @sampottinger.com! Sam discusses our team's latest #OpenSource tool & research on opportunities and challenges for US corn #farmers and insurance companies: grist.org/food-and-agr... #AgPolicy #FoodSecurity

Thank you!

Incredibly proud to have been part of this team. After 1.5 years of insufferable badgering my coworkers about corn - we made it! Neural network monte carlo simulations explore the future of crop insurance in the US Corn Belt.

🎉 🌎 🪐 I'm thrilled to announce GeoJupyter, an effort to imagine and build rewarding new user experiences for working with geospatial data in JupyterLab!

🤗 I hope to see you in an upcoming community meeting or in our Zulip chat (see the post for links)!

geojupyter.org/blog/2025010...

Getting examples ready to teach my upcoming interactive data science / data visualization course (interactivedatascience.courses). Can’t wait to see you soon Berkeley! #creativeCoding

Afterplace OST, by Evan Kice 31 track album

I really liked the music from Afterplace and how they used it to complement indirect characterization. evankice.bandcamp.com/album/afterp...

Image of ocean waves washing up on a shore covered in plastic

📢ICYMI: DSE's new research on pathways to end global plastic pollution was published in @science.org!

Explore our cutting-edge model & interactive data visualization depicting what the planet's future could look like without plastic pollution: dse.berkeley.edu/news/critica...

#EndPlasticPollution

California scientists unveil policy blueprint for stopping global plastic pileup in its tracks The uniform adoption of just four waste management policies around the world could eliminate more than 90 percent of the planet’s plastic waste and nearly a third of associated carbon emissions by …

💥 Check it out!

Our research on modeling policy for UN Plastic Treaty featured in a few notable news articles.

👉The Hill: thehill.com/policy/energ...
👉Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
👉Newsweek: www.newsweek.com/plastic-trea...

📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@sampottinger.com

Pathways to reduce global plastic waste mismanagement and greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 Plastic production and plastic pollution negatively affect our environment, environmental justice, and climate change. Using detailed global and regional plastics datasets coupled with socio-economic ...

Congrats to the team on the publication in Science today. 🎉 Honored to be co-authors with you and good luck at the upcoming UN negotiations as you carry our hope forward for a healthier and more sustainable future. #science #climate #plastics - www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Dark clouds gather over mountains. In the foreground some tulips and a windmill.

Moody Tuesday… #pixelart

Picture of a beach with soft waves. A bird and some dolphins are visible in the distance.

Happy Monday … sending some calm as you start your week. #pixelart

Fog covered mountain range with tree and well in the foreground.

Happy Sunday #pixelart

Little white dog at a beach with hills and whales in distance. Calm waves washing up on shore.

In the middle of papers so there hasn’t been any new viz for a while but here’s my dog at the beach. #pixelart #art

Global Plastics Tool Interactive data science courses / workshops for UC Berkeley: interactive data visualization, simulation, science.

Thanks ESPM / UC Berkeley! Had a lot of fun at today’s talk on 4 perspectives & frameworks in data visualization. Slides & recoding posted. If you are in the UC Berkeley community, I have other workshop opportunities and a full course in the spring. See interactivedatascience.courses for details!

It works on mobile!

Global Plastics Tool Interactive open source tool for estimating impacts of plastics policies using machine learning / artificial intelligence, serving as a resource in data-driven policy.

Just added Monte Carlo to the simulation tab of global-plastics-tool.org! Do quantitative policy experiments in your browser!

Feltron.com Information designer Nicholas Felton

I’m a fan of Felton Bars. I’ve been able to get really compact displays this way even with text wrapping. feltron.com/FAR14.html

Welcome Brazil! 🇧🇷

Olympic shooter doing a fancy backwards leaning pose, wearing futuristic anime locking gear

Yusuf Dikec dressed in slacks and a t-shirt with one hand in his pocket and a pistol in the other

React on best practices load balanced edge-service architecture VS static html over ftp

Post a dog!

White plane with blue stripes. A pilot sits in front with pots in the back. A wind sock is seen in the background in front of a hill.

#pixelart for when you have ceramics that need to go places