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🆕 The "Machine learning of spatial data" section is now live on the CRAN Spatial Task View! 🌍

Check it out at https://cran.r-project.org/view=Spatial

Have suggestions or improvements? Contributions are welcome!💡

#rstats #rspatial #MachineLearning #gischat

🍾 We're thrilled that several of our nominees have won prizes in the 2025 @rgsibg.bsky.social Awards! It's fantastic to see the work of #quantitative #geographers being recognised. Huge congratulations to Mark Green, @rsfrankl.bsky.social, @caitrobin.bsky.social , and Tony Champion! 🏆

1️⃣ Mark Green of the @geodatascience.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social has been awarded the Back Award 🏆 for scientific geographical studies which make an outstanding contribution to the development of national or international public policy! You can find out more here 💫👉 tinyurl.com/2ywxtwk4

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library Despite being a key mechanism via which people are exposed (or not) to uncomfortable or dangerous ambient environments—the conditions of the air or other medium that surround us—housing is rarely con...

#OpenAccess in Transactions:

'Uneven ambient futures: Intersecting heat and housing trajectories in England and Wales' by @caitrobin.bsky.social et al.

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #geosky #geo

ERSA REGION has pioneered the publication of computational notebooks as a way to reproducible & portable research that can be reuse for research & teaching. In association with @rgsibg.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social, we have revived & published the first digital version of CATMOG.

What is CATMOG?👇

Annual Conference The British Society for Population Studies holds an annual conference in a different venue each September.

⏰ Submit your abstract for @bspsuk.bsky.social 2025! I am co-organising a session on 'Innovative Data and Methods for Population Science' with @fcorowe.bsky.social and @carmen-cabrera.bsky.social!

We are looking forward to receiving your abstracts by this Friday (9th May)! ➡️ tinyurl.com/mzrsmpxz

Low emission zones are successful in cutting air pollution, study finds Team in Belgium find improvement in air quality after launch of traffic measures in Brussels, Antwerp and Ghent

Low emission zones are successful in cutting air pollution, studies find

- "We found significant improvements in respiratory health and mental wellbeing, as well as an 18.5% reduction in the likelihood of taking sick leave"

Story by @drgaryfuller.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency.

Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

2 year post-doc in the Emerging Fields project REMASS on the "materials-energy-GHG-Nexus in Social Metabolism of Global Production-Consumption Networks" at the Institute of Social Ecology, BOKU, Vienna.
Deadline May 19.

Details here: boku.ac.at/wiso/isec/jobs

A group photo in the playground of Craigdhu Primary School in Milngavie. Sustrans' Lee Muir alongside school teachers and pupils with their bikes and scooters celebrate the launch of the Children's Walking and Cycling Index Scotland report with their hands in the air.

School pupils scooting and cycling in a playground.

A school pupil on a bike in a playground.

Yesterday we launched our first ever Children’s #WalkingCyclingIndex for Scotland 🎉

We joined Craigdhu Primary School in Milngavie during the #BigWalkAndWheel to celebrate 🌞

The Index report gives children a voice on transport issues.

Hear their views 👉 sustrans.org.uk/childrens-index/scotland

DOGE preferentially cancelled grants and contracts to recipients in counties that voted for Harris. No matter where you stand on the political spectrum, this is a wild finding. Source: buff.ly/2vBLXx2

The programme for #GISRUK2025 is now live! See whats happening at this years conference in Bristol, April 22-25th. Registration is still open for if you haven't yet registered! gisruk.org/gisruk-2025

@levijohnwolf.bsky.social @caitrobin.bsky.social

British University Redundancy Map - Google My Maps Mapping redundancies from 2023

This is what the redundancy wave in British Higher Education currently looks like on the map:

‘British University Redundancy Map’ maps.app.goo.gl/yUteDm2MCXUi...

Our next FOSS4G:UK will be an in-person event in Leeds on 1st & 2nd October 2025. More details soon at uk.osgeo.org. Start thinking about your submission for the Call for Talks - we want to hear what you have been up to with Free & Open Source 4 Geospatial! #GISchat

Myanmar: Facebook’s systems promoted violence against Rohingya; Meta owes reparations – new report

Facebook already caused a genocide in 2017 thanks to shitty moderation and now they're making it worse. Despicable. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Releases · movingpandas/movingpandas Movement trajectory classes and functions built on top of GeoPandas - movingpandas/movingpandas

I've had smoother releases 🙃

But hey, #MovingPandas 0.21 is here https://github.com/movingpandas/movingpandas/releases

Make sure to update if you want to use the new #QGIS #Trajectools plugin version which will be released soon 🆙

#MovementDataAnalytics #MobilityDataScience

People keep asking me about positive things for climate and the environment under Trump and there isn’t any. As long as we keep electing sociopaths, things are going to suck.

The GIS Research UK (GISRUK) 2025 Call for Abstracts is live!

This year's theme is **Process in Geographic Information Science,** re-thinking the link between the patterns we see and what we represent on our computer screens.

See you in Bristol April 23-25!

gisruk.org/gisruk-2025

AGILE 2025 full paper deadline extended to January 15th, 2025. The deadline for workshop proposals has been extended to January 10th. agile-gi.eu/conference-2...

Bradford Clean Air Zone health impact 'encouraging' - researchers - BBC News Experts find a fall in GP appointments linked to respiratory issues since Bradford's zone launched.

600 fewer respiratory patients a month since Bradford's clean air zone 🤯

Interim findings still but wow www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Heads up📢! Scholarship opportunity for Brazilians to pursue a full-time Master of City Planning at MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) dusp.mit.edu/admissions#d... (DUSP Lemann Fellowship)

We are looking for a new editor for Geographical Analysis Geographical Analysis, a premier peer-reviewed journal specializing in spatial analysis, geographic theory, and quantitative methods, is seeking a dynamic new editor-in-chief to lead its editorial ope...

Exciting news for those who like geographical analysis and also editing journals! The search is on for a new editor for Geographical Analysis! Full details in link. #geography #geosky

geography.osu.edu/news/we-are-...

Photo of call for papers, including topics of interest: Linked data for better estimating impacts and outcomes Satellite and street-view imagery for studying neighborhood change, poverty, and wellbeing Historical data to understand today's spatial inequalities Uses or evaluations of commercial data providers (referenceUSA, DataAxle) New ways of measuring the effects of neighborhood context Novel uses of Census and administrative data Using text to understand space and place Cell phone or other human mobility sources (except for micro mobility) Data product development "Smart" or "digital footprints" data for better understanding behaviors, preferences, and mobilities Impactful and useful applications of AI and geographic data science Enhancements of any of the above

Hey, quantitative geographers! Heading to Detroit for @geographers.bsky.social #AAG2025 and looking for a home for your paper?

Our "Interesting Data and Methods Session" might be just the session you've been looking for! #geosky

We are hiring 2x Assistant Professor in Climate, Environment and Urban Policy. One with a focus on “Energy and Climate” and the other on “Urban Sustainability”. Closing date 25 November, details here: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/?unit=u0...

As Bluesky is growing 🥳, I have updated this starter pack with more people who post about cities, science, and policy.

go.bsky.app/Gf7viP1

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

🚨 We are hiring! Come work with me, Karen Chapple and Matt Zook on a post-pandemic cities project.

We’re looking for an RA for 12 months. Details below. Closing date 31 October.

Please RT / share! #geosky ##EconSky 📉📈

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Fellows or Senior Fellows - Center for Global Development - Career Page Apply to Fellows or Senior Fellows at Center for Global Development in Washington, DC.

🚨 Jobs: The wonderful @cgdev.bsky.social is hiring several new fellows, all at once. A rare moment

It's a unique and wonderful place to truly and deeply integrate rigorous research and deep policy engagement.

centerforglobaldevelopment.applytojob.com/apply/ZrMvIh...

More power to labour revolutions and unions. ✊🏽

City Talks: Why we are seeing a boom in urban economics research - Centre for Cities Andrew discusses how urban economics is advancing – from new topics and new sources of data to the theoretical developments of the moment – with three people immersed in the latest research.

👀📚 Yes! It’s me, Helen Simpson, @neillee.bsky.social and @andrewcities.bsky.social discussing the state of urban economics and quant economic geography 👇👇👇

#EconSky 📉📈 #geosky

www.centreforcities.org/podcast/city...

reading is the most important and valuable (i’d argue even more than writing, running experiments etc) aspect of doing research and now we have gen ai “read” and “summarise” scientific work… we are sleepwalking into mediocrity