Ken-ichi Ueda

Making waterway networks from OSM data is one of the more fun recent features in underfoot.rocks. The National Hydrography Dataset is great, but it doesn't cover culverted creeks very well, and they're some of the more interesting urban hydrological features.

Whether or not you agree with them, @oaklandreviewofbooks.org has the best voter guide: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/orbs-totally...

Happy California New Year's Day!

Trying to figure out how to vote in Oakland's city council and mayoral election, and on local ballot measures? Oaklandside doesn't do endorsements. But we do round up as many local voter guides as we can each election season. Here's the big list for 2026. oaklandside.org/2026/10/05/o...

@reckless.bsky.social I recently started listening to Decoder and I think it's a great balance of tech, wonk, and skepticism, BUT... any chance you could go a few episodes without saying the word "Decoder" in your own podcast? Constant self-reference distracts from your subject matter, IMO.

Finally restored upstream and downstream visualization of waterways in underfoot.rocks, using the National Hydrography Database.

Last summer I encountered a very rare Sunflower (Helianthus winteri) and grabbed a few seeds in the hopes of growing it out and providing seeds since no nursery carries it. The time has come to share seeds preferably in California. Fill out this form for seeds forms.gle/NoY1xaJBHSs1... #sunflower

Anyone know what's up with the construction at Laney by the Lake Merritt channel in #Oakland? They cleared all the vegetation right down to the water, which is a bummer. A lot of that was restored native plants.

RIP Dr. Sevarius. Hope you and Dolly get on famously at orientation.

We're hiring! Our search for an Assistant Professor in Arthropod Biodiversity just opened. Come join us at UC Berkeley in the amazing Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management! Feel free to contact me if you have questions. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05523

This is the funniest and most accurate piece I've read in the Times for a while: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Here for this. And hopefully at Raimondi for this some time soon!

For the @nytimes.com Magazine, I wrote about the increasingly fervent native plant movement; its esteemed guru, the entomologist and bestselling author Douglas Tallamy; and the complexities of ecologically responsible gardening in our modern era. Gift link 🎁 : www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/m...

Y'all - the Smithsonian is hiring three new curators - herpetology, ichthyology, and ornithology! Notably, this is a 2nd fish curator position - i.e., not the same as the one advertised last month. So if you applied for that one apply again. www.usajobs.gov/job/873849000

Blacksky is building ~the intercommunal net~ where communities create virtual spaces collectively managed by their members -- from moderation policies to recommender algorithms. We're hiring a Founding Engineer (Rust) @ $180K base who will report directly to me and lead our atproto implementation.

I really want PWAs to work. Browsers, FANG, and the Universe seem to want something else.

this deserves an Emmy award, what an incredibly fun and charming hour long tv show — Colbert at his very best (my favorite person in this entire broadcast was Genevieve though)

If I make an alternate instance of cuanto.bio (currently down thanks to the Railway outage), should I call it cuantoo, cuantwo, or [insert suggestion]?

Do math-based bot checks actually work? Like "what's 4+5"? It seems unlikely to me that a human would be better at simple computation than a literal computer, but am I missing something?

I tried to tell Duolingo's AI that I used Bluesky and it heard "Plus Guy" so please, someone, make plusguy.social.

TIL that caltopo.com will print GeoPDFs. I'm guessing onxmaps does that too? Anyway, always impressed with caltopo's functionality. It ain't pretty, but it does a lot of useful things for exploring.

📢CALL FOR COLLABORATION📢 My PhD student Warre is looking for flies infected with #Laboulbeniales fungi. Especially Musca domestica! If you have any, store in 96% ethanol or in the freezer, record on @inaturalist.bsky.social, and/or contact Warre. #TeamLaboul #LFEE #LuminaQuaeruntur

Anthropocene strata of Oakland. Makes me wonder, what's the deepest core you could drill through a road and have all strata still be road?

observ.ing now has automated species suggestions based on photos thanks to @rwell.org and huggingface.co/imageomics/b.... Just a list of scientific names for now, but so cool!

Maybe a stupid #atproto newbie question, but are lexicons ever versioned (e.g. blog.lexicons.v1.post or something) and are there examples of tools for migrating between major versions of the same lexicon, or tools for migrating between similar lexicons (e.g. from one blog post lexicon to another)?

Really enjoying the #atscience talks at #atmosphereconf today. Learning about so many projects!

Listening to music I copied off my 2005 iPod to my 2011 Macbook running a 2025 version of Ubuntu using a 2019 version of Rhythmbox by streaming to my 2025 Macbook via a 2026 version of Jellyfin. What a world.

baynature.org/2026/03/11/c...

Lightning and thunder over Oakland *while I'm awake*?! Long have I waited...

Just updated to v1.18.7b of @zen-browser.app and my pinned tabs are gone and I can't pin new ones. Back to Firefox I guess.

COYOTE's featured alongside a handful of our fellow worker-owned outlets in @niemanlab.org today, talking about the reality of doing democratically managed journalism. Summary: It's a lot of fucking meetings! www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/jour...

"The best drink they serve here," said a man named Walter Riley, "is the Walter Riley." "What's in it?" I asked. "You'll have to ask." That man was Boots Riley's dad.