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Kelsey Jordahl
@kajord.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
Geophysicist by training, software engineer by profession. Interested in science, computing, data.
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#remotesensing #python #scicomm #geospatial

[bridged from https://hachyderm.io/@kajord on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
tomkahe.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:24 PM
I get it, some people want to feel superior for realizing what the site formerly known as Twitter had become earlier than others, but shaming people and organizations about how long it's taken them to make that same realization isn't necessarily the motivation that you think it is. There is a […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
January 12, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Reposted by Kelsey Jordahl
*I wrote a long design essay about my adventures with the world's oldest and weirdest multitool.

https://medium.com/@bruces/ancient-everyday-weirdness-591955f40a2d
January 2, 2026 at 8:55 AM
I had no idea so many countries didn't have a well established highest point! These two brothers have apparently found 7 new country high points. So far, Gambia, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Togo, and Guinea-Bissau, with Botswana and Colombia pending peer review.

(gift link) […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
December 29, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Reposted by Kelsey Jordahl
The documentation for this image processing library is one of the most interesting things I've read in weeks:

https://github.com/celoyd/potato/blob/main/docs/personal.md
https://github.com/celoyd/potato/blob/main/README.md
https://github.com/celoyd/potato/blob/main/docs/concepts.md […]
Original post on infosec.exchange
infosec.exchange
December 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Reposted by Kelsey Jordahl
Two incredibly talented students led the project. We figured out a much less hand-wavy analytical way to calculate close approach rates using real data from public catalogues. And then we also ran n-body simulations to double check. They agree very well! And […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
December 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
December 12, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Reposted by Kelsey Jordahl
@kajord unforgettable Robert X Cringley moment https://youtu.be/AxFMV6tAg64
December 9, 2025 at 11:41 PM
RE: https://dice.camp/@strangequark/115691561340578788

"It was common to begin the work day at an IBM office with a group song"!?
dice.camp
December 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Uh oh, saw a very plausible N+1 bike for sale used in town. Much cheaper than new options I was looking at for steel frame, flat bars, rigid front fork, big tires. It hits my niche for a little more than gravel, a little less than an XC mountain bike, adventure bike. Very tempted!

#BikeTooter
December 7, 2025 at 12:09 AM
RE: https://mstdn.social/@bjn/115674812398634924

The live stream of the lateral lava fountain at Kilauea right now really is quite something!
Kilauea is putting on a spectacular show right now. Huge gouts of lava spewing high into the air. The USGS has several live cameras watching it and camera 3 was taken out by the lava fall. If you scrub back in time you can watch as the rain of molten rock creeps forward and “Pompeiis” the camera […]
Original post on mstdn.social
mstdn.social
December 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Reposted by Kelsey Jordahl
Kilauea is putting on a spectacular show right now. Huge gouts of lava spewing high into the air. The USGS has several live cameras watching it and camera 3 was taken out by the lava fall. If you scrub back in time you can watch as the rain of molten rock creeps forward and “Pompeiis” the camera […]
Original post on mstdn.social
mstdn.social
December 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Reposted by Kelsey Jordahl
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it,

despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost,

and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise,

Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut […]
Original post on c.im
c.im
December 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
December 6, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I was starting to think my temperature sensor was offline, but no, the temperature really has been nearly constant over the past 3 days, hovering right around freezing.
December 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Current sunspot cluster is nearly as large as the one that led to the Carrington event in 1859.

"Any explosions today will be geoeffective", meaning that if there is a solar flare today related to this giant sunspot cluster, it would likely impact Earth […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]
December 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Reposted by Kelsey Jordahl
"Even Carrington would be impressed" 😬

https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=02&month=12&year=2025

Hopefully we just get "someone should check on our satellites" levels of auroras and not "A bunch of open questions in solar-terrestrial physics are about to be answered"
December 2, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Reposted by Kelsey Jordahl
FFS. For the first time, non-citizens will be charged a hefty surcharge to enter US national parks (an extra $100/person, and annual passes for noncitizens will cost $250 instead of $80).

Our national parks are absolute jewels, and a significant contributor […]

[Original post on federate.social]
November 26, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Reposted by Kelsey Jordahl
My favorite non-fiction book, Kenneth Brower’s The Starship And The Canoe (1978), is a memoir of time spent with both Dysons, juxtaposing Freeman's dreams of manned rockets to the edge of our galaxy with George's ambitious voyages in fragile, traditional […]

[Original post on merveilles.town]
November 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I find it incredibly sad and lame that Google's latest AI product release has stolen the name of an XKCD comic about restoring joy to programming (without attribution, as far as I can tell) for something that destroys joy, and creativity.
November 18, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Reposted by Kelsey Jordahl
my husband made it so the home assistant voice assistant can use full-on ollama to interpret instructions. then he told it to turn the lights on. it's been explaining its thought process for over five minutes now and the lights are still off.
November 15, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Reposted by Kelsey Jordahl
I am on my way home to Toronto and the aurorae are absolutely phenomenal.

If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.
November 12, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Reposted by Kelsey Jordahl
HOLY SHIT THE SKY IS FUCKING INCREDIBLE AAAAHHHHHH WOWWWWWWW
November 12, 2025 at 12:43 AM