Blas M. Benito
🌍 Spatial Data Scientist | Team Lead | 🌱 AgTech | PhD in Computational Ecology + MSc in GIS
#rstats developer | geospatial engineering | soil microbiome and crop health mapping | product development
github.com/BlasBenito - www.blasbenito.com
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- Today is my son's 6th birthday. Kinda bittersweet day though: it is a tough remembrance of our hardest day ever and a milestone nobody though he would reach. But here he is, living the worst possible life one can imagine with the unwavering resolve of someone that doesn't know better. 💔
- Reposted by Blas M. Benito#rstats I'm very happy to announce Jarl 0.4.0! Jarl is a very fast R linter, written in Rust. This release brings lots of improvements and fixes. See the blog post: www.etiennebacher.com/posts/2026-0... And the full changelog: jarl.etiennebacher.com/changelog 🧵 to highlight some features below
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- Me: I need to lose some weight... Nutella: not today, honey 😘
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- Reposted by Blas M. Benito🚨 GAMs have moved on—so it’s time for an update. On March 3, 2026 (17:00–19:00 CET) I’ll be livestreaming an updated introduction to Generalized Additive Models in R 📺 YouTube livestream link: youtube.com/live/A9U8e1K... #RStats #mgcv #GAMs #gratia #statistics 🧪
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- TIL _ can be used as a placeholder (like . in dplyr) when working with the base pipe.
- I just watched the game, and Marina "Crash-Out Queen" Mabrey was ABSOLUTE CINEMA Her ball handling is eclipsed by her shooting, but pay attention, it is incredibly tight!
- "How AI Impacts Skill Formation", by Judy Hanwen Shen and Alex Tamkin, both working at Anthropic: arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245
- Reposted by Blas M. BenitoDear colleagues, we are searching for candidates to fill a Full W3 Professorship for Plant #Ecology at the University of Regensburg, Germany. For details, see www.nature.com/naturecareer... 🌐 🌎 #AcademicJobs
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- Reposted by Blas M. Benito❓ Do you want to level up your #SDM skills? Learn Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART) for SDMs in R. A hands-on course with @jbyoder.org on predictor selection, model training, interpretation & spatial projections using embarcadero and dbarts 🚀 www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #Rstats
- Reposted by Blas M. BenitoDo you want to join @epic-biodiversity.org to do research on biodiversity, disease emergence, equity in data access, or related topics? We are looking to support one application for the Impact+ program. 🗓️ Jan. 30 (the application is ~ 1 page) 💰 120k$ epic-biodiversity.org/opportunities/ 🧪🌎😷
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- Call me silly, but hosting Copernicus Data Space (s3://EODATA) in AWS us-east-1 rather undermines the whole idea of "European data sovereignty", whatever that means. #geospatial #eo
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- Reposted by Blas M. BenitoFloat like a glass squid. What might it feel like to reach a state where your body’s density perfectly matches your surroundings? Their buoyant bodies are filled with ammonium chloride, which is lighter than seawater, helping them to conserve energy while traveling. 1,729 m #ArgentinianDeepSeeps
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- I've been optimizing an #rstats function, as one usually does at 7AM on Sunday. The benchmark uses 30k points to compare spatialRF::thinning() (plain R), its C++ version, and an optimized C++ algorithm using spatial indexing. Result: ~500x speed-up 🚀 Additional outcome: I didn't waste my morning!
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- What asking Claude Code to "ultrathink" feels like
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- These are some fun stats! bluefacts.app/profile/blas...
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- I just watched the whole Back To The Future trilogy and Part 1 still slaps.
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- Reposted by Blas M. BenitoOf all the things that exist on the internet. Right now, this clip from #grahamNorton is by far my favourite thing right now. youtube.com/shorts/cV_tA... ❤️ Alexander Skarsgård ❤️ Miriam Margolyes
- Reposted by Blas M. BenitoWorking with big spatial data sets in #rstats? You should try {duckspatial}. The dev version of #duckspatial (soon on CRAN) uses #duckdb to perform super fast and memory efficient spatial operations cidree.github.io/duckspatial/... In a benchmark against, {sf}....
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- I've been doing plenty of loaded hinge workouts lately, and my sitting cushion has gotten firmly bigger. Glute activation is REAL, but my pants are refusing to see this as a win.
- Claude Code running several independent agents (each one with their own context) in parallel to fix small bugs throughout a full #rstats package. This feature sounded like scifi BS to me just weeks ago.
- At first I thought that having more than one instance of Claude Code running on the same codebase was a bit silly, but here we are.
- Reposted by Blas M. Benito🚀 Watch the Earth Change: New QGIS Plugin Creates Satellite Timelapse Animations in Seconds 🌍 A QGIS plugin for creating timelapse animations from satellite and aerial imagery using Google Earth Engine. Supports NAIP, Landsat, Sentinel-2, Sentinel-1, MODIS NDVI, and GOES weather satellite imagery.
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- The {spatialRF} R package is back from the dead 🧟 Version 1.1.5 🚑, now available on CRAN, patches issues introduced by recent API changes across several dependencies. A development roadmap for the coming months is available here:: blasbenito.github.io/spatialRF/ar... #rstats
- Today I got a job rejection, but Uwe Ligges accepted my #rstats package submission without minding a check NOTE. Life balances itself in weird ways.
- I am configuring Claude Code to help with the boring and time-consuming parts of coding #rstats packages. Currently I have two subagents under testing: - Roxy: reviews and edits roxygen docs. Knows how to hit the rate limit. - CRANcop: ensures CRAN compliance (or so it hopes).
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- I just watched an episode of Yellowjackets, and this scene with Shauna spilling it all while his husband spirals down was an absolutely hilarious trainwreck 😂 The guy really sells it here. I still chuckle when I remember it!
