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From global environmental change to economic transformation, we're teaching, researching and understanding the major issues affecting our planet.
Artificial developments are weakening the natural defenses of our shorelines, leaving people vulnerable to rising sea-level, says our visiting researcher Dr Dhritiraj Sengupta.
Writing in @uk.theconversation.com, he says mapping them can help👇
theconversation.com/artificial-d...
Students draw flood-adapted homes as part of the workshop
GCSE students from three local schools came onto campus to learn about the flood risks affecting Southampton.
They took part in interactive workshops with
the More Than Maps team, learning about the models and methods used to assess and adapt to flood risks.
southampton.ac.uk/geography/ne...
A quote graphic of Professor Andy Tatem.
What will the world look like in a decade? We might have the answer 🌎📊
Our WorldPop experts are launching new global population data, offering insights into where people live, their demographics, and more.
Register to watch the launch👇https://eventbrite.pulse.ly/oowjsp4mty
Rugged green mountains on Tahiti shrouded in mist and low-hanging clouds, with patches of sunlight.
A major shift in South Pacific climate conditions around 1,000 years ago may have drawn people east to settle on the region's more remote, wetter islands, away from the drier west.
New research from our geography researchers and
@uniofeastanglia.bsky.social 👉 tr.ee/UJpEVL
🌍📊 WorldPop's cutting-edge research showcased at #JSM2025
#SatelliteData to improve #population estimates - esp. where data is scarce.
📡 >40% less bias.
📍 Smarter models.
🚀 Better decisions for health, aid & planning.
#Statistics #DataForGood
www.worldpop.org/blog/worldpo...
🌍 Big data, big impact! Join us on 4 Sep for the launch of WorldPop Global 2015–2030 - a new open-access, high-res, age & sex-disaggregated population estimate dataset covering 242 countries
📅 4 Sep | 🕒 3 pm BST
🔗 Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1374590861...
#PopulationData #OpenData
🌍 How can data save lives during disasters?
WorldPop co-produced high-resolution population data for a new UN study, helping map how vulnerable groups face risks from floods, earthquakes & more.
Smarter data = smarter planning. 💡📊
#UNFPA #UNDRR #DataForGood
www.worldpop.org/blog/worldpo...
📊 Discover The Power of Population Data! 🌍
Join WorldPop’s free webinar on Sept 4 to learn about our new high-res, open-access population datasets (2015–2030) for 242 countries.
Learn from experts + get your questions answered!
🔗 Register now: www.worldpop.org/blog/discove...
#PopulationData
🚨 New preprint: 73 high-res, global, multi-temporal geospatial datasets! Covering 2015–2023 at ~100m resolution, these open data power better population modelling for health, policy & more.
#GeospatialData #OpenData #PopulationMapping #DataForGood #PublicHealth
www.worldpop.org/blog/new-ope...
Grocery store display with stacked canned goods, jars of pasta sauce, and assorted fresh produce.
Our researchers are working with local councils and food aid services to improve food pantries across the South as the demand for them surges.
The project will ensure food is distributed to pantries more fairly and with less waste.
Read more 👉 https://tr.pulse.ly/b6in27yuaf
Photo of Professor Dame Wendy Hall, Professor Andy Tatem and teams from WorldPop and Data Science Nigeria
🚀 A true honour to welcome Professor Dame Wendy Hall to WorldPop!
We had an inspiring & wide-ranging conversation on using AI to fill global demographic data gaps 🌍 - plus insights into UK data sharing initiatives & the power of interdisciplinary collaboration.
#AIforGood #Demographics #DataScience
White and yellow text, on a blue background with several round pictures of the UoS Roadshow taken at Southampton Mela 2024. The text says: University of Southampton, We are going to Southampton Mela Festival, Saturday 12th July 2025, 12-5PM, #UoSRoadshow. Accompanying logo: Southampton Mela Festival, artasia.org.uk.
We are ready to go! 🎉
Join researchers and staff from @unisouthampton.bsky.social, and friends of the Public and Community Engagement Hubs at #SouthamptonMela Festival this Saturday 12th July (12-5PM)!
#UoSRoadshow #UoSPCEHubs #WeAreUoS
@southamptonctu.bsky.social @johnhansardgallery.bsky.social
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The 2025/26 Public Engagement Development Fund Call is now open!
Staff, PGRs and community partners can apply for funding to develop, explore and deliver projects that strengthen public engagement with our university’s research and its impact.
Read more 👉 bit.ly/44tkR57
As part of our Faculty Inaugural Lecture Series - celebrating the careers of some of our newly promoted Professors - Professor Dianna Smith gave an insightful lecture on Food Aid and Fish Fingers: Towards a Fairer Food System. @geodianna.bsky.social
Watch here 👇 youtu.be/VPnajLQf5L4
Our Faculty Inaugural Lecture Series celebrates the careers of some of our newest Professors. Prof. Jo Nield opened the series with a fascinating talk on TLS: Telling Landscape Stories (or playing with laser patterns in deserts).
Watch here 👇
youtu.be/1MSreSzCoAY
A joy to be listening to @geodianna.bsky.social's @sotongeogenviron.bsky.social inaugural lecture "Food aid and fish fingers: towards a fairer food system" Not just a fascinating life and academic journey, but telling it like it is: #FoodPoverty is poverty poverty
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Map showing spatial distribution of health facility types and changes in services provided overlayed on 2022 population.
➡️New research: Spatio-temporal patterns of #health service delivery and access to maternal, child, and outpatient healthcare in #Volta region, #Ghana
📊New approach monitoring service changes using #HealthData & #SpatialAnalysis
#DHIMS2 #GhanaHealthService @dhis2.org
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1654...
Join us for the launch of Sacred Connections: Heritage Revival by Indian-origin Communities in the UK—a panel and exhibition exploring legacy and living heritage through sound, photos and sacred objects.
🗓️ 21 June, 1–4 PM | John Hansard Gallery
🔗 bit.ly/4dWlVCV
📸 Amit Guha
Dry, bleak field with scorched trees that has been ravaged by extreme drought.
Our climate experts report that Planet Earth is getting thirstier, which is making droughts more extreme 🌍💧
They believe the atmosphere is demanding more water out of the soil, rivers, and plants due to climate change.
Find out more 👉 tr.ee/lALd7k
📣Listen to Professor Andy Tatem to hear how WorldPop is changing lives and improving decision making in low- and middle-income countries in #TheWeSociety podcast from @acadsocsciences.bsky.social and #WillHutton
🔗 www.worldpop.org/blog/the-we-...
🌍 #LMIC #SocialScience #Data4Good
🎙️ New podcast alert 🎙️
Don't miss our Prof Andy Tatem on the latest episode of @acadsocsciences.bsky.social's popular We Society podcast.
He's been talking about the pioneering work of @worldpop-uos.bsky.social 👇👇
Another fantastic Faculty Technicians Away Day hosted by Psychology and @sotongeogenviron.bsky.social thanks Pete Langdon and Agnes Michalik for organising.
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An image of vast desert land with a person stood in the distance taking readings from a distance measuring device
An image of vast desert land with a measuring device in the foreground
Our researchers have uncovered the mystery on how ‘mini sand dunes’ form.
The findings could tell us not just how they form on beaches and in deserts, but also on other planets.
Read more 👉 tr.ee/drHBy4
Figure 1 from Toomey, M., Ashton, A. D., & Perron, J. T. (2013) Profiles of ocean island coral reefs controlled by sea-level history and carbonate accumulation rates. Geology, 41(7), 731-734. Figure shows examples of various carbonate reef systems arrayed as a function of an ecomorphodynamic feedback between relative sea-level forcing and reef growth rates.
Thinking of @drkingothebeach.bsky.social today: teaching Toomey et al. (2013: doi.org/10.1130/G341...) [one of my all-time favourite papers] and Ortiz & Ashton (2019: doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...) as we near the end of this year's @sotongeogenviron.bsky.social Y2 coastal module.
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Four people sat around a bar table in The Stag's pub. All are looking to camera and smiling. The bar is behind them.
Pint of Science is coming to Southampton (May 19 to 21) 🍻🔬
Where science and beer join forces for a series of wacky and insightful sessions led by our amazing researchers 🤖
Read more 👉 tr.ee/0J2MLN
@pintofscience.uk
Large group of people in India bathing in water and some standing on steps.
In April 2021, India had the highest number of new and active cases of Covid in the world.
Our @worldpop-uos.bsky.social researchers have scoured data on India during the Covid-19 pandemic to provide insights for future pandemic management.
Read more 👉 brnw.ch/21wSmvK
Drone photograph of busy market. Yaoundé, Cameroon.
📣Beta test our new global #population #data - 2015 to 2030
⬇️Now freely available to download ⬇️
www.worldpop.org/blog/beta-te...
#HDX #HumanitarianData @sotongeogenviron.bsky.social @sotongeospatial.bsky.social @cpc-cg.bsky.social @uosmedia.bsky.social @geone-ws.bsky.social @aphrc.bsky.social
Graphic showing a–i Proportion of reported ages ending in 5 or 0 of all adults between 23 and 62 (’age heaping’) at (a) 5 × 5 km grid-cell level; (b) district level (admin-2); (c) country level. Share of interviewed women (15–49 years) with either the year or month of birth missing relative to all interviewed women (’incomplete age’) at (d) 5 × 5 km grid-cell level; (e) district level (admin-2); (f) country level. Missing or biologically implausible values for the attained heights of children (height-for-age z-scores, HAZ) according to World Health Organization (WHO) standards (’flagged HAZ’) at (g) 5 × 5 km grid-cell level; (h) district level (admin-2); (i) country level. Countries in dark grey are not in the sample. Grid cells with fewer than 10 people per 1 × 1 km and classified as barren or sparsely vegetated or grid cells with population data not available are colored light grey83,94,95,96.
🚨New research: Subnational variations in the quality of household survey data in sub-Saharan Africa
Easy-to-access geospatial estimates of survey data quality highlight the need to invest in better targeting of household surveys in remote areas.
Nature Communications 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s414...
A bustling African outdoor market scene set near railway tracks, featuring numerous vendors selling various goods. The area is populated with people browsing and purchasing items, while others transport goods. Colourful clothing and merchandise are displayed on makeshift tables alongside the tracks, with buildings and buses visible in the background. The sky is overcast, hinting at an urban environment.
📣Wed 30 Apr 13:00 CAT (UTC+2) join Senior Enterprise Fellow @heatherchamberlain.bsky.social speaking on how high resolution mapped #PopulationData support health programme planning
With the #Zambia #Climate Change #Sustainability & #Health Network
Zoom 🔗 us02web.zoom.us/j/8160107575...
