Mike Mahoney
@mikemahoney218.com
Helped build NYS's Forest Carbon Assessment. Currently helping build public water data infrastructure. PhD in Environmental Science.
#rstats, ML, Boston and spatial data.
Opinions my own. RTs imply causation.
https://mm218.dev
github.com/mikemahoney218
#rstats, ML, Boston and spatial data.
Opinions my own. RTs imply causation.
https://mm218.dev
github.com/mikemahoney218
it's so bananas that OGC maintains **several** decent standards for specifying SRS, including the WKT spec, and still went with "use a literal URL to our privately maintained list of XML-encoded EPSG CRS" for their API standards
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 AM
it's so bananas that OGC maintains **several** decent standards for specifying SRS, including the WKT spec, and still went with "use a literal URL to our privately maintained list of XML-encoded EPSG CRS" for their API standards
My shutdown hobbies are getting weirder
(Poll worker training in preparation for Boston's municipal election on November 4th!)
(Poll worker training in preparation for Boston's municipal election on November 4th!)
October 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
My shutdown hobbies are getting weirder
(Poll worker training in preparation for Boston's municipal election on November 4th!)
(Poll worker training in preparation for Boston's municipal election on November 4th!)
lumen outage yet again
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
rm -rf ~/
rm -rf ~/
"The chancellor approved it"
October 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
lumen outage yet again
Reposted by Mike Mahoney
the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault
October 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault
my partner finished his journey of visiting every blue bike station today (please clap)
unfortunately the app does NOT throw confetti when you hit 100%
unfortunately the app does NOT throw confetti when you hit 100%
October 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
my partner finished his journey of visiting every blue bike station today (please clap)
unfortunately the app does NOT throw confetti when you hit 100%
unfortunately the app does NOT throw confetti when you hit 100%
hey spatial folks: if anyone has a great "parquet versus zarr" write-up, let me know. I'm never going to write a serializer but I'm really interested in the performance impacts of format for cloud downloads 👀
#geosky
#geosky
October 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
hey spatial folks: if anyone has a great "parquet versus zarr" write-up, let me know. I'm never going to write a serializer but I'm really interested in the performance impacts of format for cloud downloads 👀
#geosky
#geosky
October 2, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Reposted by Mike Mahoney
Hey @universalhub.com does this qualify as storrowing?
Holy shit this big truck just got stuck under an overpass on Mass Ave in DC. I've never witnessed this before but thought about it a lot as a kid (lol).
You can't see it but there's a police car behind the truck under the bridge, diverting traffic to one lane.
You can't see it but there's a police car behind the truck under the bridge, diverting traffic to one lane.
September 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Hey @universalhub.com does this qualify as storrowing?
damn it's a pretty city
September 19, 2025 at 10:54 AM
damn it's a pretty city
Saying he can more positively impact the city by dropping out is the first time I've agreed with Kraft
JUST IN: Josh Kraft is dropping out of the mayoral election in Boston.
This means that Mayor Michelle Wu, the progressive incumbent, is certain to win a second term.
via WCVB: www.wcvb.com/article/josh...
This means that Mayor Michelle Wu, the progressive incumbent, is certain to win a second term.
via WCVB: www.wcvb.com/article/josh...
September 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Saying he can more positively impact the city by dropping out is the first time I've agreed with Kraft
Reposted by Mike Mahoney
JUST IN: Josh Kraft is dropping out of the mayoral election in Boston.
This means that Mayor Michelle Wu, the progressive incumbent, is certain to win a second term.
via WCVB: www.wcvb.com/article/josh...
This means that Mayor Michelle Wu, the progressive incumbent, is certain to win a second term.
via WCVB: www.wcvb.com/article/josh...
September 11, 2025 at 11:32 PM
JUST IN: Josh Kraft is dropping out of the mayoral election in Boston.
This means that Mayor Michelle Wu, the progressive incumbent, is certain to win a second term.
via WCVB: www.wcvb.com/article/josh...
This means that Mayor Michelle Wu, the progressive incumbent, is certain to win a second term.
via WCVB: www.wcvb.com/article/josh...
Happy election day #Boston ! Thrilled to cast my vote to re-elect @wutrain.bsky.social this morning -- and grateful for our poll workers who got me in and out in about two minutes.
Polls are open until 7! Find your voting location here:
www.sec.state.ma.us/VoterRegistr...
#mapoli
Polls are open until 7! Find your voting location here:
www.sec.state.ma.us/VoterRegistr...
#mapoli
September 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Happy election day #Boston ! Thrilled to cast my vote to re-elect @wutrain.bsky.social this morning -- and grateful for our poll workers who got me in and out in about two minutes.
Polls are open until 7! Find your voting location here:
www.sec.state.ma.us/VoterRegistr...
#mapoli
Polls are open until 7! Find your voting location here:
www.sec.state.ma.us/VoterRegistr...
#mapoli
no one ever warns you how much JavaScript you'll need to write when you're starting in data science
September 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
no one ever warns you how much JavaScript you'll need to write when you're starting in data science
I see we're doing "my ideas are so uniquely brilliant that I shouldn't need to put effort into how they're presented" discourse again
September 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I see we're doing "my ideas are so uniquely brilliant that I shouldn't need to put effort into how they're presented" discourse again
Reposted by Mike Mahoney
woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD
Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!
This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!
This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother
Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.
www.nature.com
September 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD
Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!
This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!
This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Reposted by Mike Mahoney
I should hope so he paid for the condo, campaign, and super pac
August 25, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I should hope so he paid for the condo, campaign, and super pac
PhDs are job training programs. Understand what job you want when you get out, and how spending somewhere between 5%-10% of your total life making almost no money will help get you there.
You owe it to yourself to be brutally honest here: what are the odds? What do you need to do to improve them?
You owe it to yourself to be brutally honest here: what are the odds? What do you need to do to improve them?
What unsolicited advice do you have for incoming PhD students?
August 30, 2025 at 1:35 PM
PhDs are job training programs. Understand what job you want when you get out, and how spending somewhere between 5%-10% of your total life making almost no money will help get you there.
You owe it to yourself to be brutally honest here: what are the odds? What do you need to do to improve them?
You owe it to yourself to be brutally honest here: what are the odds? What do you need to do to improve them?
MBTA bus frequencies are good again? when was someone going to tell me this
August 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
MBTA bus frequencies are good again? when was someone going to tell me this
I love Quarto because when you show the outputs to data scientists they go "oh, a quarto doc, nice" while when you show the outputs to anyone else they go "oh, you're a wizard, that looks incredible"
August 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I love Quarto because when you show the outputs to data scientists they go "oh, a quarto doc, nice" while when you show the outputs to anyone else they go "oh, you're a wizard, that looks incredible"
Reposted by Mike Mahoney
And yet we still have people being like "no, I love that pipe filled with methane that goes into my house"
August 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
And yet we still have people being like "no, I love that pipe filled with methane that goes into my house"
Josh Kraft has a YouTube ad that gets out "I love my family! But I chose a different path." before you can skip to your video
and I feel like that's exactly what a guy tells you to explain why he ran away to Cancun with a mistress
and I feel like that's exactly what a guy tells you to explain why he ran away to Cancun with a mistress
August 19, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Josh Kraft has a YouTube ad that gets out "I love my family! But I chose a different path." before you can skip to your video
and I feel like that's exactly what a guy tells you to explain why he ran away to Cancun with a mistress
and I feel like that's exactly what a guy tells you to explain why he ran away to Cancun with a mistress
TIL geopandas can't correctly read GeoJSON strings and the PR to fix this hasn't been touched in over 3 years 🫠
github.com/geopandas/ge...
github.com/geopandas/ge...
ENH: Add id_as_index argument to GeoDataFrame.from_features by gcaria · Pull Request #2003 · geopandas/geopandas
Closes #1988, closes #1208.
I've set the default to False so this does not surprise anybody in the future.
Probably an error or at least a warning should be raised if id_as_index=True but ther...
github.com
August 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
TIL geopandas can't correctly read GeoJSON strings and the PR to fix this hasn't been touched in over 3 years 🫠
github.com/geopandas/ge...
github.com/geopandas/ge...
my room-temperature take is that social media isn't fun anymore because every platform is botted to hell and back
swear that at least half the comments on any public facing post are either automated or inauthentic enough to not be meaningfully different
and platforms don't (or can't) moderate it
swear that at least half the comments on any public facing post are either automated or inauthentic enough to not be meaningfully different
and platforms don't (or can't) moderate it
August 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
my room-temperature take is that social media isn't fun anymore because every platform is botted to hell and back
swear that at least half the comments on any public facing post are either automated or inauthentic enough to not be meaningfully different
and platforms don't (or can't) moderate it
swear that at least half the comments on any public facing post are either automated or inauthentic enough to not be meaningfully different
and platforms don't (or can't) moderate it
Thrilled to see this paper - helmed by @lucaskjohnson03.bsky.social - out in Remote Sensing of Environment!
Lucas walks through methods for quantifying uncertainty in aboveground biomass estimates for small areas, relevant to the scales management happens over
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Lucas walks through methods for quantifying uncertainty in aboveground biomass estimates for small areas, relevant to the scales management happens over
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
From pixels to parcels: Flexible, practical small-area uncertainty estimation for spatial averages obtained from aboveground biomass maps
Fine-resolution maps of forest carbon and aboveground biomass (AGB) effectively represent spatial patterns and can be flexibly aggregated to map subre…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Thrilled to see this paper - helmed by @lucaskjohnson03.bsky.social - out in Remote Sensing of Environment!
Lucas walks through methods for quantifying uncertainty in aboveground biomass estimates for small areas, relevant to the scales management happens over
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Lucas walks through methods for quantifying uncertainty in aboveground biomass estimates for small areas, relevant to the scales management happens over
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...