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! gladpodcast.podbean.com/e/episode-29...

📍 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. open.spotify.com/episode/02JW...

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...

Why "Science-as-a-Service" Doesn't Work for Earth (or social!) Science me.darribas.org/2025/12/18/w...

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! gladpodcast.podbean.com/e/opening-th...

🎧 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 open.spotify.com/episode/7zZj...

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!!!

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...

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

🎧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. www.podbean.com/ew/pb-cfz7e-...

🎧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. www.podbean.com/ew/pb-ufnqe-...

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 open.spotify.com/episode/7Hmx...

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

We gave in to the hype and did one #GLaDpodcast episode on how we use AI, for Geography, Life, Geography Life, and data… www.podbean.com/ew/pb-hva24-...

We are still recruiting for another PhD for the next academic year, working with IBM Research - geods.ac.uk/2025/07/02/p...

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...

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!

🎧 Part II of the #GLaDpodcast on Navigating the Academic Job Market is out! Here we go all the way from application stage to (ideally) getting the job. Grab it wherever you get your podcasts! www.podbean.com/ew/pb-j4g23-...

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! open.spotify.com/episode/2PNm...

📢 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. 🔗 lnkd.in/eW976945

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...

🎧 #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 open.spotify.com/episode/6DXZ...

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...

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! 👋

Re-upping this, still time to put in your suggestions :-)

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… gladpodcast.podbean.com/e/episode-21...

Detroit quote darribas.micro.blog/2025/03/28/w...

After last year's success, we have opened a registration to 2025 instalment of **Spatial Data Science in Python** as a standalone course open to anyone.  It is perfect for anyone looking to dive spatial data analysis using Python, regardless of prior experience. 🔗 martinfleischmann.net/sds/micro/

I have an in-between day in New York City next week, what should I do/visit/check out? (I’ve been several times before and done all the “basics”)

Headed to Detroit for #AAG2025 Excited to spend a week with fellow Geography nerds in one of the most interesting urban stories of the XXth Century! Catch me at the sessions (image via Rachel, thanks!) we’re organising w/ @rsfrankl.bsky.social , Elizabeth Delmelle and Isabelle Nilsson. Come say hi!

More #AAG2025 session goodness! For the @geographers.bsky.social annual conference in Detroit next week, @darribas.bsky.social, Elizabeth Delmelle, Isabelle Nilsson and I have assembled four sessions chock full of the latest in spatial data, methods, and applications. Details 🔽 #geography

Come and work with us at Newcastle on the exciting Imago data service!

Hey UK #geosky, we’ve got a new job opening on our @sdruk.bsky.social Imagery Data Service (code name: Imago) project. Great team, great project! ⬇️

Imago the @sdruk.bsky.social Imagery Data Service, is looking for a lead Research Software Engineer to help us design, build and run the tech platform that’ll power the service. Join us to make satellite data more useful, usable and used! jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

As Imago 🛰️ , we are organising our second stakeholder engagement workshop. This is an exciting opportunity to learn about the power of satellite imagery in shaping a better future! and contribute your views to shape our this new data service. Register: eventbrite.co.uk/e/satellite-...

We have three PDRA roles out currently (until March 7th!) looking for candidates at @sdruk.bsky.social Imago. If you're all about making satellite imagery more useful, usable, and used for social scientists, public health folks & policy makers, this is your job! 📜 lnkd.in/eBMHYe7G

We're running our first engagement event at Imago, the @sdruk.bsky.social Data Service for imagery, and we have some slots available. Grab one before they go!

If you haven’t sone so yet, go and listen this interview with @geoffboeing.com by @rsfrankl.bsky.social, @levijohnwolf.bsky.social and @darribas.bsky.social. Esp. the last section on open source in academia is something that should be a part of every syllabus. podcasts.apple.com/cz/podcast/t...

This was a fun one!!! Geoff is full of insight and entertainment, a rare pair to find in the same person!!! As they say, find it "wherever you get your podcasts"! gladpodcast.podbean.com

🎙️ New #GLaDpodcast episode! @darribas.bsky.social, @levijohnwolf.bsky.social and I are joined by the amazing @geoffboeing.com (@priceschool.usc.edu) to talk streets, disasters, urban form & open source software. It's a pretty good one, if I do say so myself. #geosky open.spotify.com/episode/4H6K...

🧚‍♀️ Jobs! Our @sdruk.bsky.social Imagery Data Service (code name: Imago) is hiring for our first roles! Come be part of the imagery for social science, health, and policy revolution! 📍 Role 1: Data Service Manager: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN363/d... (see thread for next role!)

Second open post for Imago, the Smart Data Research UK Data Service for Imagery. This is for an outreach & PE officer. If you like working on making satellite data more useful, usable, and used by social science, public health and policy making folks, get in touch! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO468/i...

This is the first on a list of new and exciting jobs we're announcing for Imago, the @sdruk.bsky.social Data Service for Imagery. If you like working on making satellite data more useful, usable, and used by social science, public health and policy making folks, get in touch!

Sat down and wrote a bit about the books I've read in 2024. Didn't _love_ all of them, but if you do read The Deluge, please please please, let me know and let's hang! darribas.org/anotes/artic...

On this, we crunched the numbers on what the Green Belt is made up of, based on our own (urban) form and function classification (urbangrammarai.xyz/story/). Results (+ code) over at: urbangrammarai.xyz/green_belts_... The gist is there are different "shades of green", some of them not very green.

I'm going to try using BlueSky more reliably for a while. Here are a few thoughts that are guiding my engagement here, and hopefully learning from our collective experience over at Twitter. chrisholdgraf.com/blog/2024/bl...

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

And I guess that makes my entrance into the world of blue sky thinking... Mixed views (pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/u...) but the vibes are so close to the good days of the bird that I'll give it a go. Come for the cities, computers, and data, stay for the occasional sci-fi and jazz!

The Geospatial Commission published today the report (there's a blog post too) of the project we've been collaborating on for several months. To add a bit of a personal view, I wrote a summary and some thoughts here also: darribas.org/anotes/artic...