🧵 127/x The Long Roundabout (October 2021 - ?)

23-26 Sep 2026
New 4-month circumnavigation begins in Braga, PT for Spatial Humanities 2026 at U Minho. Talking regions and my new #EDOPS environmental data project edops.computingplace.org

Kommunala skolan har lärarlag, vi har EdOps

#EDOPS is the environmental half of my Computing Place initiative; a cultural-dimensions companion (#CDOP) is 2 early stage. Showing pilot work on African subregions (Lovejoy, et al) at Spatial Humanities in Braga, 23-25 Sep.

computingplace.org
github.com/kgeographer/edops

DMs open

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Three ways in to #EDOPS, + an API + good docs

• Sandbox: look up place or polity, choose spatial scope, explore signatures several ways
• Workbench: Pilot environment/culture correspondence studies
• Data Explorer: global & regional maps of underlying variables

edops.computingplace.org

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🧵 The Environmental Dimensions of Place Service (EDOPS) v0.4 is live: edops.computingplace.org

Give it a place (settlement, historical polity) & get a structured "environmental signature" of the drainage basin(s) it occupies: hydrology, climate, terrain, etc. + climate & land use over time

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youtube.com/shorts/A4KkH...

Some teaser screenshots for v0.4 update to Environmental Dimensions of Place Service (EDOPS) platform, releasing in a couple of weeks. Delivers parameterized environmental data profiles ('signatures') for any terrestrial location, w/tools to explore in sandbox and workbench pages. Writing docs now.

#fossilfriday a contrast in Permian amphibians. The left jaw and tooth fragment belongs to Eryops, one of the most common Permian critters. The right belongs to the much bigger Edops craigi. On display at Texas Through Time, Hillsboro.

#texasthroughtime #prehistorictexas #permian #amphibians

Just pushed a v0.3 of Environmental Dimensions of Place Service (EDOPS) edops.computingplace.org, delivering env signatures for places. There's a sandbox, API, repo with lots of docs (github.com/kgeographer/...), and an arm-wavy blog post (kgeographer.org/category/res...). Early stages, progressing.

First day trip on this 2 month Santa Fe stay: Rio Grande near Pilar and Taos Pueblo. A day off from #EDOPS environmental sig work, fieldwork you might say. Three hours later the skies exploded in massive thunder/hail storm. For an hour.

Returned to Santa Fe, settling in for 10 weeks to work on my Environmental Dimensions of Place service (#EDOPS) and do some wandering in clear light.

Development of the EDOPS environmental signature is focused mostly on detailed hydro and climate variables, but #ecoregions will be linked also. A *very* preliminary interface for viewing them w/wiki text is in place. cedop.kgeographer.org/edop
Also, ishi.pitt.edu is now a project partner! #wiring

I have a work in progress, EDOPS, Environmental Dimensions of Place that I think will serve this request, and much more, globally. Explainer: kgeographer.org/computing-pl.... Very early prototype sandbox: cedop.kgeographer.org/edop

I like this, and plan to get Claude Code to generate some 'narrative notebooks' exposing decisions taken in developing my EDOPS environmental signature service. kgeographer.org/computing-pl...

My first presentation on Computing Place and its Environmental Dimensions of Place signature service (EDOPS) is to the @pelagios.bsky.social Place Working Group meeting, 6 April, 14:00 UTC. Easy signup to attend: pitt.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Carboniferous Vertebrates Series #14: Tetrapods of the Gzhelian of North America part I: Limnoscelis, Fedexia, Diasparactus, Edops, Aerosaurus

#temnovember2025 day 1: Adamanterpeton
And so the annual madness of #temnovember beging with #Adamanterpeton, a small basal cochleosaurid from the late carboniferous of Linton
#paleoart #sciart #temnospondyl #amphibian #edops #carboniferous

All to the good! But the longest-standing reason not to is because legitimate opinions are used to mainstream the fascist lunatics on the opposite page that the Editorial staff solicit/ghost-edit edops for. Just don’t write for the centrist-socialite fascists who own the Times.

Happy #FossilFriday! The big guy here is Edops craigi, a temnospondyl from the Permian on display at Harvard MNH.

I can only assume he chomp 🧪