Levi John Wolf

In this episode, Anthony offers up one of the most incisive analogies about AI I've heard so far—really do give this a listen!

A bit late to post about, new episode w/ @rsfrankl.bsky.social and @levijohnwolf.bsky.social of the #GLaDpodcast. If nothing else, be enticed by the title; if something else, delight in Anthony Robinson’s views on maps, AI, and microwave ovens!

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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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Just in time for a cozy listen this coming break, a new #GLaDpodcast ep.! This time @rsfrankl.bsky.social @levijohnwolf.bsky.social & I welcome Serge Rey for all things open, open source, and academia! Come for the code, stay for the stories of lives changed!

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Fast and furious: the productivity effects of the geography of experienced internet speeds Abstract. The link between digital technologies and productivity has long intrigued researchers. Key to unpacking this relationship is detailed data connec

🚨📣 We have a new paper with Emmanouil Tranos & @levijohnwolf.bsky.social in the Journal of #Economic #Geography linking #internet speeds to #firm level #productivity benefits. There is a 2% productivity boost pulling slowest to fastest speeds across #UK LAs 👀👇

#geosky
#econsky 📈📉

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🎧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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relationship diagram showing different spatial interaction structure(s) underlying alternative concepts of spatial correlation and the Moran's I coefficient, as shown in https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/24694452.2024.2326541

cool news from PySAL world: the (imminent) next release of the `esda` module will have (1) spatial correlograms and (2) (more importantly) @levijohnwolf.bsky.social's partial Moran's I estimator described in

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(both already in main if you can't wait 😎)

🎧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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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!

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I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?

It did actually answer my question though 😅

I've just had the most surreal experience: I googled a relatively niche question about an academic topic and got an AI response paraphrasing *my own* crossvalidated (the stats stack overflow) answer from years prior.

Episode 23: Navigating the Academic Job Market (Part 2) The GLaD Podcast · Episode

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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Haha it’s certainly HPC the “hard” way….

It is so constraining to write in a TUI... I'm finally admitting that git+vim+Hugo is a bit masochistic for me, and have moved blog.ljwolf.org back to Tumblr. Just having an iOS app already means it's 1000x easier to keep up to date!

We’ve gotta do that ourselves!

Hence why the big platform firms push these things so strongly… just like PyTorch/Pyro/JAX+Tensorflow jockeying, these tools don’t *remove* friction per se, they displace it in the stack. I love llms for learners, but I’m not sold that they end this “front” of the “language war…”

I wonder whether this will make the *library side* of these debates even more winner-take-all? Lower barriers for users make it more important for language library developers to “keep parity” with one another, and even possibly slightly ahead. It also intensifies the value of network/ecosystem!

For users, this is probably true! Who can be territorial when the most basic barriers to usage (like installation and familiarity) get ground down by Copilot-type things…but!

if you're curious: doi.org/10.1177/0309...

I never looked into it, but it’s a solid idea—Ron used to have this “classics that weren’t” project w/ books/papers he thought were primed to be impactful but, for whatever reason, never were. That catmog and the associated paper about London housing is *very* ahead of its time.

Thanks again #GISRUK2025 for coming by!

New episode of the #GLaD podcast just dropped, Time (mis)management. Everything you always wanting to know (or not) about why we (@rsfrankl.bsky.social, @levijohnwolf.bsky.social and yours truly) are always late, and maybe that’s OK…

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Spatial Inequality This paper explores the concepts and computational methods used tomeasure spatial inequality, emphasizing a reproducible approach thatsocial scientists can apply to their research. The analysis focuse...

Some, like #27, are startlingly contemporary! Also, @fcorowe.bsky.social is editing a revival w/ the Digital CATMOGs at ERSA’s REGION journal! AFAIK, Serge’s got the first! doi.org/10.18335/reg...

Episode 3: How to Conference Podcast Episode · The GLaD Podcast · 03/18/2023 · 1h 59m

Second day at #AAG2025 is about to start and maybe you are already overwhelmed as a first time attendee? Here is a podcast by @rsfrankl.bsky.social @darribas.bsky.social @levijohnwolf.bsky.social that you should listen while you get ready for conferencing! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Last day to register for #GISRUK2025 at the early bird rate and get in before the prices increase! More details on the programme and events can be found on the conference website - gisruk.github.io

Look forward to seeing many in Bristol in a few weeks!

Sure to be a good time! Come join us in Bristol for all sorts of cool geographic and environmental data science in a beautiful and cool setting 😎

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

Looking forward to seeing you at Spatiotemporal Causal Analysis (#STCausal2025), stcausal2025.spatial-causal.org with @grantdmckenzie.bsky.social and Cecile de Bezenac!

Thanks for hosting me, @maynoothuniversity.ie! It was a really great time!