And I also had the pleasure in helping to award the @casaucl.bsky.social prize for spatial analysis, in memory of Sinesio Alves Junior, with @adamdennett.bsky.social and other CASA researchers, to the well deserving @chris-larkin.bsky.social for his PhD work on cycling and low traffic neighbourhoods

A massive storm is brewing in Brighton over the council's barmy plans for secondary schools. I've been looking at the evidence, latest stuff here - adamdennett.github.io/BH_Schools_C... - I know @fionamillar.bsky.social has written about previous experiments - intriguing political dimension too!

The @casaucl.bsky.social Christmas bash last night in Bloomsbury and the last professors standing, following the live set played by the CASA Band, with @djdunc.bsky.social @adamdennett.bsky.social @vsigno.bsky.social @sjg.dev

Still smiling from the @casaucl.bsky.social Xmas social last night - the CASA band absolutely smashed it. Nice one @sjg.dev @adamdennett.bsky.social @claudelynch.bsky.social Thomas, Adam’s friend and a special nod to Aila who is one of this years USS students! cc @thebartlettucl.bsky.social

Term 1 complete, now to focus on preparing a submission to CUPUM 2025 being organised by the excellent @adamdennett.bsky.social and @casaucl.bsky.social team www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/cas...

🚀 Job Alert!!! 🚀 The first in a series of long term posts within the SDRUK Geographic Data Service which will launch next year -this one is based in UCL- https://buff.ly/4fSyChU - and builds on the work that we have done over the past ten years as part of the CDRC. Deadline 12th Dec!!!

Thanks to @frogo.bsky.social for this! go.bsky.app/Bue7EXj

#30DayMapChallenge, Day 19: Typography. Let me show you a lil project I've been simmering for a while, looking at the quantity of roads named for aristocrats, from kings and queens to the lowliest earl. Turns out there's loads of them in London (though Bar-king is skewing the data a _touch_)

Apparently my mug made the front page of the Argus - but it wasn't me at the restaurant, guv! Nope, some real-life urban analytics in the wild and a policy dust-up with the council. Made a deputation with the incredible support of the most amazing group of parents, which is what the article covers.

As it seems to be getting busy here, we've created a starter pack for UCL People. Check out our brilliant colleagues. Do reply, and we'll add you to the list 👏 go.bsky.app/CXM2zSJ

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

Currently on the train trying to continue the switch from xitter to bsky - feel like I've made a bit of progress on the follow front so here's a nice pic of the new #AI4CI cities team + our esteemed leader @sethbullock.bsky.social in Glasgow

On to the regular old academic posts: Nice little paper this which came out of Bonnie's PhD - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... - on the rise of Build-to-Rent in London, with @jreades.bsky.social and a few others. Open Access too!

Going to shift my socials on to here now, finally, after holding off the inevitable! So to get people going before any boring work stuff, let's have a bit of Stevie Hyper D! What an album if you've ever been to a proper drum and bass night, this will do it for you! open.spotify.com/album/00Jh3e...

Favourite thing I've written in my academic career to date, out today - a brief history of UK beer taxation & its impact on the London beer scene. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... - in the new #GeographiesOfBeer book. Expert analysis by Kuba Wyszomierski and data harvesting by @frogo.bsky.social

Ooh, this is like old twitter - that's more like it! :)