Episode 30: Predictions for (the rest of) 2026
Happy new year!!! We know, we know, we’ve been in 2026 for a while already (already too long?). But this is the first episode we recorded this year, the first one with Levi as a dad (yay!), and one wh...
New episode of the one and only #GLaDpodcast. For this one, @rsfrankl.bsky.social , @levijohnwolf.bsky.social and yours truly dust off our oracles to speculate what 2026 (whatever is left of it anyway) has in store for Geography, Life, Geography Life, and Data!
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13.02.2026 16:43 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot of lecture 1 from our embeddings workshop
Photo of Dani lecturing on autoencoders
Photo of a busy workshop room
🛰️ Embeddings for the rest of us! All part of our Imago mission to make satellite imagery useful, usable, and used in social research and policy!
Team Imago* are at MHCLG today to talk imagery, embeddings & why research/policy folks should care.
* @darribas.bsky.social @pietrostefani.bsky.social ++
27.01.2026 14:55 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
EMBED2Social Workshop 2026
Yesterday, we (the Imago team) gave a workshop on satellite embeddings for a room with ca.50 people from the UK Government. It’s so exciting to see these ideas and technology move at the speed of light from state of the art research to Gov. Materials at:
imago-sdruk.github.io/EMBED2Social...
28.01.2026 11:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Episode 29: The oldest profession in geography
📍 What is the oldest profession in geography and why should you care about it in 2026?
The #GLaDpodcast has answers (and 🔥 takes)! No spoilers 🤐 but @darribas.bsky.social, @levijohnwolf.bsky.social & I are joined this time by special guest @arobinson.bsky.social.
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09.01.2026 17:01 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
Catch up fodder for next AAG!!!
29.12.2025 23:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
2025 in reads
12 more months of reading non-fiction, fiction, and the …
Just in time before the year’s out, I managed to collate all the reads that made a mark on me this year! If there are others I should read, hit me up with recommendations. Life’s too short to fill it with mediocre reads.
me.darribas.org/2025/12/29/i...
29.12.2025 13:20 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Episode 27: Are you GLaD about GeoAI? A conversation with Kryzsztof Janowicz
🎧 new episode of the #GLaDpodcast is out!
You can run but you can’t hide. @levijohnwolf.bsky.social, @darribas.bsky.social and I went to the source (Krzysztof Janowicz) to hear more about Geo + AI, AI for Geo, and my personal bugbear GeoAI.
#geography #geoAI
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13.11.2025 15:38 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Dispatch from the Human Planet Forum
I’m just back from my first Human Planet Forum. In its own …
Back from this year's Human Planet Forum, organised by the Group on Earth Observations (GEO). I had to summarise the whole event in 10min., so I decided to write it up also:
me.darribas.org/2025/11/24/d...
The JRC team did a truly stellar job at putting the event together, thank you so much!!!
24.11.2025 11:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I have an entry today at the GDSL’s #30DayMapChallenge with an attempt at “Dimensions”. It’s a story of 64 dimensions, mapped in two, with a bit of an extra dimension.
me.darribas.org/2025/11/06/e...
06.11.2025 14:57 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
(Satellite imagery) embeddings for the rest of us
My five(ish) minute contribution to the Leeds workshop on …
This week I gave a (5'ish min.) talk about democratising satellite embeddings in social research and policy. Here's the write up in case of interest!
me.darribas.org/2025/10/24/s...
#satellite #embeddings #geofoundationmodels
24.10.2025 14:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Episode 26: A day in the life of… Wenfei Xu
Today we’re “repeating” special guest. We enjoyed so much talking to Wenfei Xu anbout mobile phone data in our last episode (Episode 25: What we talk about when we talk about mobile phone data), that ...
🎧New episode of the #GLaDpodcast 🎧 @rsfrankl.bsky.social, @levijohnwolf.bsky.social and I liked talking to @wenfeixu.bsky.social so much that we invited her back! Come for the fancy data, stay for engaging conversation™️ and… an Exhibitions entry in your CV.
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16.10.2025 10:47 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Episode 25: What we talk about when we talk about mobile phone data
Here's an episode all about data—mobile phone data, to be exact. What are we talking about when we talk about using “mobile phone data” in our research? How are these data generated? Who produces them...
🎧New #GLaDpodcast 🎧 Everything you ever wanted to know about mobile phone data in social science and never dared to ask, all in an entertaining™️ conversation btw @levijohnwolf.bsky.social, @rsfrankl.bsky.social, yours truly and the one and only @wenfeixu.bsky.social.
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17.09.2025 11:00 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Episode 25: What we talk about when we talk about mobile phone data
Here at your friendly "Geography, Life, and Data" podcast, we do a lot of Geography, a lot of Life, and a lot of Geography Life. This one's for the Data—mobile phone data, that is. ☎️
@darribas.bsky.social @levijohnwolf.bsky.social @wenfeixu.bsky.social #geography
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12.09.2025 21:06 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
AI & GLaD in Practice: a field report
The GLaD Podcast · Episode
AI is now definitely changing how we live our (geography) lives!
Join @rsfrankl.bsky.social, @darribas.bsky.social, and me for another episode of GLaD, where we discuss whether you should be vibe coding w/ Claude, sending ChatGPT review requests, or running on AI-made routes!
shorturl.at/GLNKd
13.08.2025 13:45 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
PhD Funding: Multi-Scale Urban Remote Sensing with AI
We have another exciting Geographic Data Service PhD opportunity based at the University of Liverpool. This project is sponsored by IBM Research as part of a EPSRC Industrial Doctoral Landscape Award ...
New PhD project out, a collab between IBM Research, @sdruk.bsky.social's own Geographic and Imagery Data Services to explore using vision foundation models & high resolution imagery of the Liverpool City Region. If this sounds like you (or a friend!), all info at: geods.ac.uk/2025/07/02/p...
02.07.2025 08:32 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Getting excited for ESA’s Living Planet Symposium, to happen in Vienna in just over a week! I’ll be there Sunday to Thursday, who else is coming? hit me up if you’d like to talk all things Imago or just catch up!
13.06.2025 11:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Episode 23: Navigating the Academic Job Market (Part 2)
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Ep. 2 of our "Navigating the Shoals of the Academic Job Market" is live! we dive into putting an application together, what interviews might be like, and share @rsfrankl.bsky.social , @darribas.bsky.social and I share our experiences in these rough and wild waters!
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10.06.2025 11:50 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
LinkedIn
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📢 Announcing the first-ever @geodatascience.bsky.social Summer School!🌍📊
Boost your skills in Data Science, Geography, ML/AI with our dream team: Elisabetta, @carmen-cabrera.bsky.social, @darribas.bsky.social, Gabriele, Mark, Zi, Olga & Ron
🗓️Apply now! Early Bird: June 30.
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03.06.2025 12:34 — 👍 9 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
The case for satellite imagery in social science and policymaking: A sketch from my talks in China
It’s never been a better time to use something …
I wrote up the essence of my recent talks in China about why social researchers and policy makers should pay more attention to satellites. Tl;dr: it's never been a better time to use something we've never needed more. Longer form (6mins according to Firefox!): me.darribas.org/2025/05/29/t...
29.05.2025 22:43 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Episode 22: Navigating the Academic Job Market (Part 1)
The GLaD Podcast · Episode
🎧 #GLaDpodcast listeners asked for an episode on the academic #geography job market.
We're so responsive we recorded not one but TWO episodes on the topic! Join me, @levijohnwolf.bsky.social & @darribas.bsky.social as we talk academic jobs and how get one...part 1
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06.05.2025 17:15 — 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
"Geospatial AI for Land Use" (my talk at OECD's WPTI'25)
What I told the OECD is worth watching in AI for land use
I wrote up my 10min contribution to last week's OECD Working Party in Territorial Indicators on (geospatial) AI for land use: me.darribas.org/2025/04/27/g...
27.04.2025 09:11 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Headed to #GISRUK2025 (@gisruk.bsky.social). Not presenting, chairing, paneling or anything official, just taking it all in as a consumer this time. Hit me up if you want to talk Imago, satellites, cities… or just say hi! 👋
23.04.2025 08:19 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Re-upping this, still time to put in your suggestions :-)
30.03.2025 15:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Updates from the research community of the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) Social Science - this is not the institutional GSSI account.
Cities, Data, Inequality, Global South
Lecturer in Geographic Data Science at the University of Liverpool
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Applied economist | gender, crime, violence & places | now @gssisocialsci.bsky.social | previously LSE| ☕️📚🧳🎧
Formerly @districks on the birdsite. Geography, demography, GIS, redistricting, fairmaps. Oh, and dataviz. NC native trying to learn some Dutch.
The science of data about people. We are proud to be pioneering this science across a range of data-intensive initiatives. Find out more about us on our website https://popdatasci.swan.ac.uk
housing + environmental health.
Asst. Professor of urban planning @gsd.harvard.edu
Co-lead healthy places design lab
Formerly OECD, Paris planning, Ad’A
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currently working on hospitals x housing, any lead/personal story welcome
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currently writing https://notetoself.studio 📓 @notetoself.studio
heart-forward question-asker | into communities, cities, & systems | phd student @umsociology.bsky.social @um-psc.bsky.social | they/them | https://kaimath.github.io/
Co-founder & CEO of Hidden Door. I <3 cheeseburgers and making beautiful things. I know a thing or two about AI, but it's people who matter. I am interested in many things.
NYC
San Francisco 🌁
City Planning, Sustainable Transportation, Spatial Science. Union Member. Assistant Professor. Banner by Bellows.
"End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
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Urban Analytics & Geospatial Sci. Asst. Prof. @hacibayramedutr
VS @UniofNottingham
PhD Geomatics Engr @itu1773
BSc Urban Planning @METU_ODTU
Into bikes, nuclear energy, vegetables, coffee, scientific computing, & public radio. Currently a professor at UIUC NPRE . Former NE-1. (she/her)
Feminist. Mexican. political economy/ labour/health/crime . @ITAM_mx @UniofWarwick @gssisocialSci @UNISS @mercatorum.
Visited @fundacioIEB @CINCHessen
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool
Full professor of Applied Economics
nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • ASU-CSI • opinions my own
Geography PhD Candidate University of Colorado Boulder
I am a geographer that uses big data at fine grained scales to answer questions about natural hazards, health, and population dynamics to better inform decision making in and for those communities.
