Redefining ecosystem integrity for an Anthropocene biosphere: a process‐ and lineage‐based framework for restoration Restoration increasingly operates in rapidly transforming landscapes shaped by human-driven global change, where historical reference states no longer represent achievable or even desirable targets. ....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Landscape Features

xkcd.com/3221/

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity We conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find th...

This study found software developers using AI take ~19% longer to complete tasks than without

metr.org/blog/2025-07...

I spoke to AI agent Claude YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders

www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3At...

It’s not too late. It’s never too late.

This is me too a T

Tis the season to contemplate if that flooded section of your ag-field is even profitable and might be better suited for a windrow, wetland or grassed waterway

Chad Vangaalen - Shrink Dust The Darcys - Warring The Darcys - Self Titled The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters Beliefs - Habitat Trojan Hits! A Collection of Reggae Classics

I listened to these records today

We Are The City — Punch My Face YouTube video by We Are The City

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

The Neeganii-iishawin 2026 gathering backdrop

Over the last 3 days I’ve had the honour and privilege to attend Neegani-Iishawin in Thunder Bay to learn more about the exciting economic development opportunities being led by First Nations communities in Northern Ontario (some of which might include bioeconomies like forestry). Chi Miigwetch!!

Interesting! I’ll take a look and scope it out!

Like a Pomodoro timer? I might be able to cook something up

If you aren’t learning, you aren’t living

Pretty Math Pretty Math is a geographer and sound designer who creates in a place now called Guelph, ON (Treaty 3 Territory)

It’s Bandcamp Friday! Show some love!

prettymath.bandcamp.com

Assessing the impact of afforestation on forest vegetation structure using fraction of vegetation cover and leaf area index indicators from harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 imagery Reliable regional monitoring of afforested sites is hampered by the cost of in-situ surveys and limitations of land-cover mapping for assessing canopy…

I co-authored a paper assessing the impacts of afforestation on LAI and Fcover in Ontario, Canada. Check it out!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It's only built for an Intel Mac atm, but I'll do a Windows and Linux build ASAP! Need a solid eyeball break though.

Habico by databoi Wave Foundation Game Jam Jan 2026

First submission to a game jam. Second ever game. It's super rough, but I'm high key super proud of myself to even get it to this point considering I made everything from scratch in one month.
prettymath.itch.io/habico

What Americans Lose If Their National Center for Atmospheric Research Is Dismantled - Eos Five ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it.

eos.org/opinions/wha...

National remote sensing-derived aboveground biomass yield curves for Canada Abstract. Accurate and current estimates of aboveground biomass (AGB) are essential outputs of forest inventories and are critical for carbon accounting. T

Well this is exciting
academic.oup.com/forestry/adv...

Game dev peaked here

cdrom.ca/games/cancon...

‘I rarely get outside’: scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI In the race to embrace new technologies, some ecologists fear their field is losing touch with nature.

Some researchers are now studying ecology without touching a single plant

go.nature.com/3NaS1Bs

Exciting News to Wrap Up 2025!

I’m thrilled to announce the release of the QGIS Geemap Plugin, which allows you to run Google Earth Engine and Jupyter Notebooks directly within QGIS!

GitHub Repo: github.com/opengeos/qgi...
Video Tutorial: youtu.be/QHFp0v579Hc

Screen cap of the simulation world. An isometric tile based grid with green (plants), blue(herbivores), red (carnivores) and grey (rocks)

Screen cap of the phase plot chart of the simulation, showing the populations are stable

The populations graphed through time show the populations roughly follow Lotka Volterra cycles.

Recently finished a side project where I simulated a stable 3-tier ‘ecosystem’ of plants, herbivores and carnivores in pygame. Herbivores eat plants and carnivores eat herbivores in stable phases, in line with Lotka Voterra equations, but with added spatiality. You can read about it on my GitHub

Colourful dog toys arranged on the couch

A collection of Midnights favourite toys 💕

awhhh yeah!

Some important thoughts here, especially around seed collection

The world is cruel, so I won’t be

Bathroom stall graffiti art that reads “My transphobe grandmother is a pain in the ass” in red marker

My (partners) transphobe grandmother is a pain in the ass

Jfc that’s honestly sad. When will people realize “inconveniences” are what make life beautiful?

I’ve been making an ecological management sim (a non game game if you will) in pygame and I gotta say, I’m having a blast, but it’s clearly a masochistic black hole endeavour and I should really just stop and get back to working on music…