Here's a brief cartographic exploration of Brittany's resident population by age, using Eurostat gridded data at 1km resolution ! Thread: ↪️ #map #gis #demography #gischat #cartography

Three #parcels from #EVRI on the step today. No knock at the door. Only one of them ours.

Winter colour at #Poole Quay #Dorset #PhotoHour

Winter walk #Highcliffe #Beach #Dorset #PhotoHour

Thank goodness for that. Something that shouldn’t have happened, happened. And now it’s set to unhappen. Great for students, great for research in general and great for Britain. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

#NHS DAILY WORKLOAD since 2022 111 - 55k calls a day - unchanged 999 - Ambulance 21k - up 1.6k Hospital - Urgent Admissions - 13k - unchanged - A&E - 48k Majors - up 2.5k - A&E - 28k Minors - up 2.5k - Treatment - up 8k - Outpatients - up 50k General Practice - 1.6m - up 230k

Another great release of #openaddresses, freshly geocoded for mapping and other fun times: Wigan Council in North West England has released its Council Tax address list as open data www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad... Thx @wigancouncil.bsky.social! #FOI #localgov #UKhousing #proptech #opendata

The recent release of the Index of Multiple Deprivation by UK Gov. allowed me to indulge my twin interests of psephology and demographics. The results a visualisation of the deprivation profiles of the 296 English local authorities. More info here www.opendatamanchester.org.uk/revisiting-p...

Is welfare spending ''out of control''? It's estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP this financial year. That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️ buff.ly/s5mz97u

#Autumn #PhotoMontage of my 16 most recent images from around #Southampton #Romsey and the #NewForest. All available free on www.geograph.org.uk/profile/13502

REMINDER: #OfficeForNationalStatistics #Census2031 topic consultation is open. If you're a user of demographic and social #data, have your say: you won't find them on @bsky.app @ukdataservice.bsky.social #census consultations.ons.gov.uk/census/censu...

#Frost in the shadows, BlackHill, #NewForest, UK #PhotoHour

What a lovely legacy: read it (especially if you're a father or father-in-law!)

Nice to see my #photo of #ThorneyIsland as "picture of the day" on Geograph - the place to go for CC licensed photos for #Geography teaching (and more) www.geograph.org.uk/photo/8191094 #SeaDefences

As #OfficeForNationalStatistics still aren't here :-( this is the link to their blog on changes to #migration #statistics #methodology blog.ons.gov.uk/2025/11/18/u...

Petition to save #Geography department at University of #Leicester c.org/sn4LPqkvxp

Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.

#datascience the foundation behind the #python programming language, has rejected a $1.5 million grant, as it required removing DEI and diversity efforts of the foundation arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Making sure Census 2031 reflects modern society... (if only Office for National Statistics were on @bsky.app!) blog.ons.gov.uk/2025/10/28/m... @ukdataservice.bsky.social

'Net migration will fall very sharply in future years... Any political benefit the government may gain from this fall in immigration could be jeopardised by the economic damage that it causes'. Some eye watering estimates here from @jamesbowes01.bsky.social ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...

GCSE students from three local schools came onto campus to learn about the flood risks affecting Southampton. They took part in interactive workshops with the More Than Maps team, learning about the models and methods used to assess and adapt to flood risks. southampton.ac.uk/geography/ne...

Join us today at 10am for our How to become a computational social scientist workshop. Please follow the link to watch the livestream: www.youtube.com/live/ot7-TB1...

We have been awarded £16.3m from NIHR to do applied health research over the next 5 years. I will be leading the Healthy Communities and Prevention Theme focusing on addressing population health inequalities. The team is amazing and so motivated to make change! www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2025/10...

🚀 We’re pleased to announce the launch of our new UK Data Service Data Catalogue! This updated data catalogue has been designed with user feedback at its core to make finding and working with data faster and easier. 🔗 ukdataservice.ac.uk/2025/10/08/l...

So I spent much of my working life working on #redistricting computations and #census methods... they weren't exactly mainstream issues: maybe I retired a couple of years too soon!

Who benefits from the abolition of stamp duty land tax? The first answer: people buying very expensive homes. Average saving for someone buying a £10m+ home is £1.7m. Average saving for someone buying a £250k-£500k home is £5k.

102,000 hairdressers in England with 40,000 salons 27,000 GPs with 6200 Surgeries 31 million people visit GPs every month a similar number have haircuts You can see the problem @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social judging by Wes’s trim he is going to the hair salon a lot more than his GP unlike many

Last September: stood on the shore of #GreatCumbrae thinking #Arran looked stunning. This September: stood on Arran looking back - it IS stunning! #Scotland

Impassioned plea for more mixed-methods research (quant & qual) from @timharford.ft.com "The hard data is never as eloquent as a good story. Humboldt would measure the cactus but also sketch it; drag his barometer up a volcano, but spin a yarn about the epic climb." www.ft.com/content/d419...

Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

The modern kitchen. Why serving hatches are a necessity from ‘Look and Learn’ 1963

This is Britain's most popular media outlet. Not a single aspect of this headline is remotely true, and I don't know anyone in economics or industry who would recognise these statements as having any relationship with reality.

Spot on. The insanity is that we are moving to a model that will cost nearly all of us more, may not actually cover our times of greatest need, and diverts yet more of our health spend to private providers and insurers...

I'm sorry, how have I NEVER heard of this website before? This is incredible. You can view basically every train's location in the country? www.map.signalbox.io?location=@54...

From Wikimedia to the wider web: What the High Court's judgment means for the Online Safety Act 2023 www.sharpepritchard.co.uk/latest-news/... legal analysis from Sharpe Pritchard LLP (UK) #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #openweb

Quick report: 3 months of #EV ownership (inc 1100 mile trip): - Great to #drive - #Range is fine - Easy to find #EVChargers via App - Home charging v. cheap - Mway services not much cheaper than #ICE - Charger payment systems still a mess: too many #apps - Would do it again? *Definitely*

Delete your old emails to save water during drought, Environment Agency tells Britons. This is desperate. How about building new reservoirs; renewing old pipes; not contaminating rivers with sewage; building a national grid, ending privatisation.

The evidence for more 20mph zones ⤵️ ✔️ Cut deaths and serious injuries by 1/3 ✔️ Protect children ✔️ Reduce crashes ✔️ Lower noise ✔️ Boost walking & cycling

@sheencr.bsky.social and I wrote about how Kennedy is systematically undermining vaccines in a coordinated and very effective way in the US for @uk.theconversation.com full article here: theconversation.com/how-rfk-jr-i...

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So I've been mostly offline, travelling for a while in the #NorthOfEngland. A few favourite photos #PhotoHour #Geograph #Hartlepool #Warkworth #NewcastleUopnTyne #SeatonSluice

Southern Water applies for permission to draw water from rare chalk stream. Macquarie controlled company loses 91m litres of water per day to leaks. No new reservoirs built since 1989. Dumped sewage for 300,000 hours into rivers. Customer bills up 47% this year. End fleecing. Nationalise water.

Policy exchange, backed by Sajid Javid, think we need to switch the NHS funding model to social insurance, and introduce new charges for NHS services, like to see a GP policyexchange.org.uk/publication/... These are not new ideas, but they are bad ideas A thread with some evidence

Ladybird book in the Spotlight ‘Public Services: Water Supply’ 1969 [Deep sigh] Artist: John Berry

2031 #Census @ukdataservice.bsky.social ##Population www.ons.gov.uk/news/news/hm....

Govt should withdraw its guidance which prevents civil servants from speaking at public or stakeholder events as this will reduce the quality of policymaking. I’m a co-signatory of this letter in The Times coordinated by @instituteforgovernment.org.uk a asking for this guidance to be reconsidered

What better possible alternative could there be to motorway services on a hot day? #AynhoWharf #OxfordCanal #PhotoHour

The United States has recorded its highest annual measles cases in 33 years. The milestone marks a public health reversal in defeating a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease as the anti-vaccine movement gains strength.

This comparsion in the NYTimes today is pretty stark. China is racing ahead to be a high-tech exporter of 21st century technologies, while the US is doubling down on being a petro-state exporting the technologies of the 19th century: www.nytimes.com/inte...

Well, this is very #Geographical - Memorial at the point where the #GreenwichMeridian crosses the south coast of England #Peacehaven #Longitude