Meg Williams
@mappedinnz.bsky.social
Spatial data scientist. R/python/esri things and pretty data. hydrology/ecology/environmental mapper. boy mom. dog mom.
Whakatu Nelson, Aotearoa New Zealand
Whakatu Nelson, Aotearoa New Zealand
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just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
neorsd.medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
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A story from a few years back, when the team got caught in a whiteout blizzard. Hari is very old now, but he's still the sweetest gentleman I know.
August 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
A story from a few years back, when the team got caught in a whiteout blizzard. Hari is very old now, but he's still the sweetest gentleman I know.
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'Wild Poppies' by Colleen Parker, contemporary artist and illustrator #womensart
July 6, 2025 at 7:46 AM
'Wild Poppies' by Colleen Parker, contemporary artist and illustrator #womensart
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Here's the end-of-workday update, on Day 1 of the United States of Science.
A whopping 57% of the map has been covered in the first 24 hours which is *amazing*. Thank you to everyone who filled bubbles!
The top 5 states are still open: CA, NY, PA, NJ, FL
Fill a few bubbles! givebutter.com/USS2025
A whopping 57% of the map has been covered in the first 24 hours which is *amazing*. Thank you to everyone who filled bubbles!
The top 5 states are still open: CA, NY, PA, NJ, FL
Fill a few bubbles! givebutter.com/USS2025
June 30, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Here's the end-of-workday update, on Day 1 of the United States of Science.
A whopping 57% of the map has been covered in the first 24 hours which is *amazing*. Thank you to everyone who filled bubbles!
The top 5 states are still open: CA, NY, PA, NJ, FL
Fill a few bubbles! givebutter.com/USS2025
A whopping 57% of the map has been covered in the first 24 hours which is *amazing*. Thank you to everyone who filled bubbles!
The top 5 states are still open: CA, NY, PA, NJ, FL
Fill a few bubbles! givebutter.com/USS2025
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I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.
June 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.
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They were planning on streaming from the NASA GISS building on the last day it was a NASA building. However, NASA officials are preventing speakers from entering the building.
Join the stream and show your support!
Join the stream and show your support!
Tune into the 💯 hour Weather & Climate Livestream, brought to you by US meteorologists and climate scientists whose research is at risk due to proposed budget cuts. Learn about the federally funded science that makes weather forecasts and climate predictions possible!
www.youtube.com/live/CcWR6Cd...
www.youtube.com/live/CcWR6Cd...
Live from NASA GISS, kicking-off the Weather and Climate 100-hour livestream
YouTube video by The Weather & Climate Livestream
www.youtube.com
May 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
They were planning on streaming from the NASA GISS building on the last day it was a NASA building. However, NASA officials are preventing speakers from entering the building.
Join the stream and show your support!
Join the stream and show your support!
Some rare, storm-brought surfable waves: Tasman Bay
May 29, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Some rare, storm-brought surfable waves: Tasman Bay
Post-storm glassy estuary reflections.
May 29, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Post-storm glassy estuary reflections.
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NASA launches giant balloon from Wānaka Airport
NASA launches giant balloon from Wānaka Airport
The balloon was the size of a rugby stadium.
www.rnz.co.nz
April 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
NASA launches giant balloon from Wānaka Airport
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Attention: Musk’s staffers are now seeking access to a sensitive Medicare database as part of their crackdown on undocumented immigrants. DOGE was never about saving the U.S. money—it’s about building a government-run machine to weaponize personal data.
April 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Attention: Musk’s staffers are now seeking access to a sensitive Medicare database as part of their crackdown on undocumented immigrants. DOGE was never about saving the U.S. money—it’s about building a government-run machine to weaponize personal data.
Sunset/Moonrise at Boulder Bank in Nelson, New Zealand.
13km naturally formed spit of cobbles.
13km naturally formed spit of cobbles.
April 13, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Sunset/Moonrise at Boulder Bank in Nelson, New Zealand.
13km naturally formed spit of cobbles.
13km naturally formed spit of cobbles.
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Almost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects.
Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):
Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):
US Weather Agency Websites to Vanish Under Planned Contract Cuts
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency is poised to eliminate most websites tied to its research division under plans for the cancellation of a cloud web services contract, a move that could s...
www.bloomberg.com
April 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Almost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects.
Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):
Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):
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NEW @vanityfair.com: When Americans died, were blinded, had eyeballs removed from tainted eye drops,
@fda.gov relied on Dr Timothy Pohlhaus, among its few top sterile drug manufacturing experts. He, thousands more, were fired from US health agencies yesterday. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
@fda.gov relied on Dr Timothy Pohlhaus, among its few top sterile drug manufacturing experts. He, thousands more, were fired from US health agencies yesterday. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
The Expert Who Kept Eye Drops From Blinding You Was Fired Yesterday
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency terminated thousands of experienced public health professionals in an April Fools’ Day massacre. We’re all about to pay the ...
www.vanityfair.com
April 2, 2025 at 9:22 PM
NEW @vanityfair.com: When Americans died, were blinded, had eyeballs removed from tainted eye drops,
@fda.gov relied on Dr Timothy Pohlhaus, among its few top sterile drug manufacturing experts. He, thousands more, were fired from US health agencies yesterday. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
@fda.gov relied on Dr Timothy Pohlhaus, among its few top sterile drug manufacturing experts. He, thousands more, were fired from US health agencies yesterday. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
Latest Puppy Gossip:
Likes: dried goat trachea, forestry trails and his new blanket from thebrooklyn.co.nz
Dislikes: slightest rain ☔️🌧️
Likes: dried goat trachea, forestry trails and his new blanket from thebrooklyn.co.nz
Dislikes: slightest rain ☔️🌧️
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Latest Puppy Gossip:
Likes: dried goat trachea, forestry trails and his new blanket from thebrooklyn.co.nz
Dislikes: slightest rain ☔️🌧️
Likes: dried goat trachea, forestry trails and his new blanket from thebrooklyn.co.nz
Dislikes: slightest rain ☔️🌧️
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Q made a wedding registry for his Kobuk, if you care to sponsor dog jackets, etc! Or just read through for a glimpse into equipment. (I'm with his family and showed them this and his cousin pulled me aside, concerned, and said "Does Q know what watersports means?")
www.zola.com/registry/bra...
www.zola.com/registry/bra...
BraverMountain Mushing and the Amazing Ugly Dogs.'s Wedding Registry on Zola
BraverMountain Mushing is having a wonderful 2025 mushing season and we would like to continue into spring with a visit to Kotzebue, AK (above the Arctic Circle!) for the Kobuk 440, a wonderful race (...
www.zola.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Q made a wedding registry for his Kobuk, if you care to sponsor dog jackets, etc! Or just read through for a glimpse into equipment. (I'm with his family and showed them this and his cousin pulled me aside, concerned, and said "Does Q know what watersports means?")
www.zola.com/registry/bra...
www.zola.com/registry/bra...
BRB Stuck here admiring the 50lb baby asleep on my arm.
March 16, 2025 at 8:39 PM
BRB Stuck here admiring the 50lb baby asleep on my arm.
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This, precisely, is what I think Dem voters want from their representatives: direct confrontation with people who are used to bullying others both as a matter of substance and style. You don't have to back down to these fucking clowns.
Texas Republican Keithself storms out of the meeting he's supposed to be running because a Democrat asked him to treat his colleague Sarah McBride with respect. These people would not last one day as a trans person.
March 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This, precisely, is what I think Dem voters want from their representatives: direct confrontation with people who are used to bullying others both as a matter of substance and style. You don't have to back down to these fucking clowns.
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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
February 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
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Elon Musk has shut down a team of tech-savvy civil servants responsible for developing the IRS’s free tax-filing service and improving government websites. As a result, 90 employees were immediately locked out of their devices and informed that their jobs were deemed non-essential.
March 2, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Elon Musk has shut down a team of tech-savvy civil servants responsible for developing the IRS’s free tax-filing service and improving government websites. As a result, 90 employees were immediately locked out of their devices and informed that their jobs were deemed non-essential.
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Finally…someone is doing something. 🥳
Breaking news: A federal judge ordered the Office of Personnel Management to rescind directives that initiated the mass firing of probationary government workers in several agencies across the government, ruling that the terminations were probably illegal.
Judge blocks Trump administration’s mass firings of federal workers
A federal judge ruled that the terminations at several agencies, including the Department of Defense, were likely illegal.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 28, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Finally…someone is doing something. 🥳
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Here are our 5 bullet points of what we did this week; keep in mind that NASA receives less than 1% of the entire federal budget.
1 week. All in 1 week. 🚀🚀
1. NASA installs heat shield on first private spacecraft bound for Venus
phys.org/news/2025-02...
1 week. All in 1 week. 🚀🚀
1. NASA installs heat shield on first private spacecraft bound for Venus
phys.org/news/2025-02...
NASA installs heat shield on first private spacecraft bound for Venus
Led by Rocket Lab of Long Beach, California, and their partners at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Rocket Lab's Venus mission will be the first private mission to the planet.
phys.org
February 28, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Here are our 5 bullet points of what we did this week; keep in mind that NASA receives less than 1% of the entire federal budget.
1 week. All in 1 week. 🚀🚀
1. NASA installs heat shield on first private spacecraft bound for Venus
phys.org/news/2025-02...
1 week. All in 1 week. 🚀🚀
1. NASA installs heat shield on first private spacecraft bound for Venus
phys.org/news/2025-02...
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Opposition is growing against Trump outsourcing executive power to Musk, including the Treasury’s unlawful sharing of Americans’ financial data with “DOGE.” Public Citizen, AFGE, SEIU, and others have sued to stop it.
The Contrarian will continue covering this unprecedented power grab.
The Contrarian will continue covering this unprecedented power grab.
CONSTITUTIONAL STANDOFF
*Special Alert from The Contrarian*
contrarian.substack.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Opposition is growing against Trump outsourcing executive power to Musk, including the Treasury’s unlawful sharing of Americans’ financial data with “DOGE.” Public Citizen, AFGE, SEIU, and others have sued to stop it.
The Contrarian will continue covering this unprecedented power grab.
The Contrarian will continue covering this unprecedented power grab.
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If you're thinking about flooding your Congressional rep's offices with mail, here's a starting place:
www.wonkette.com/p/an-open-le...
www.wonkette.com/p/an-open-le...
An Open Letter To The Majority Of Congressional Democrats
The norms are gone. Wake the hell up!
www.wonkette.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:10 AM
If you're thinking about flooding your Congressional rep's offices with mail, here's a starting place:
www.wonkette.com/p/an-open-le...
www.wonkette.com/p/an-open-le...