quoted in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung this weekend discussing Trump's latest attacks on science www.faz.net/aktuell/wiss...

The same view from the top of Southampton’s medieval walls, circa 1903 compared to the modern day. 1/24

Yes, it actually did look that colour at couple of hours ago! #PhotoHour #sunset #Shaldon #Devon

Interesting (and distressing for those involved!) example of why geographical optimisation algorithms must be properly specified #Maps #geospatial #ZoneDesign www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Quoted in @ketanjoshi.co's piece in @theguardian.com: a year ago Spain's grid collapsed. Solar was blamed, return to fossil predicted. Investigations found voltage failures. Then Hormuz closed. Spain was shielded as renewables cut wholesale prices by 40%. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

"There is a profound contradiction between implementing progressive proposals for collective bargaining in social care while making hundreds of thousands of the sector's existing workers more economically and socially insecure." @guardianheather.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Well, this is looking good for the weekend... Osmington Mills, #Dorset #PhotoHour

Join us today at 10am for our Using QGIS to map 2021/22 census data from the UK Data Service workshop. Please follow the link to the livestream: www.youtube.com/live/HfKb317...

Sad to see that Open Addresses Limited is being dissolved find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/0917... (UK company register) Context web.archive.org/web/20170716... #opendata #openaddresses

France 🇫🇷 doubles electrification support to €10bn/year through 2030 — EVs, heat pumps, industry. The reason? The Strait of Hormuz crisis making fossil fuel dependence impossible to ignore. Geopolitical shocks don’t just raise prices. They change what’s politically possible.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Yesterday's favourite view: good blue sky above and #reservoir levels looking healthy. Underbank Reservoir, South #Yorkshire

One county including three cities and a National Park demonstrating why local government #redistricting is will be so painful... #Hampshire #NewForest #Southampton #Portsmouth #Winchester How the map of Hampshire's councils is changing after devolution - BBC News share.google/XxuYvCRGmPtT...

Gas only sets Spain's electricity price 15% of the time. When gas costs spike it barely registers on the electricity bill. In countries like Italy and the UK gas sets the price 90% of the time. The difference is enormous. I spoke to @politico.com about this. www.politico.eu/article/spai...

So I sent my guys to stir up that hornet's nests in your yard. Boy, are they ANGRY! And you're such a coward staying out of the way. Anyhow, we might go home soon, or use a bigger stick - I'm not sure.

"if Britain manages to stick to its net zero path, then by 2040 even a substantial Ukraine war-sized oil shock would raise energy bills by a barely noticeable 4%, compared with 59% in a high-carbon world." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’

Dear Shabana, Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

"Putting the foundations in place to make #Census 2031 a success" blog.ons.gov.uk/2026/03/04/p... #OfficeForNationalStatistics #Population

"Ministers need to wake up." Indeed. Some shift away from the exceptional levels of overseas recruitment 21-24 was natural/desirable. But current "strategy" - no new visas and making life as unpleasant as possible for migrants already here - is madness. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

How the Trump administration blew up the upcoming one-and-only field test of the 2030 census www.science.org/content/arti...

"You could say I'd lost my belief in our politicians They all seemed like game show hosts to me" (Sting, 1993) How apt

The campus here at @unisouthampton.bsky.social looking alright this afternoon.

Having spent four decades involved in some way with #censuses (and teaching about them), it matters to me that politicians get the #statistics right - and it should matter to you... #population #migration

Refocusing the ONS on its core statistics... blog.ons.gov.uk/2026/02/19/r... published today, with links to more detail #Statistics #OfficialStatistics

ONS has paused production of ONSUD and NSUL indefinitely due to "inconsistencies in the geographies" assigned to UPRNs geoportal.statistics.gov.uk Most geographies can be matched to UPRNs in GIS using other products, but ONSUD and NSUL are the only #opendata source that links UPRNs to postcodes.

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

A reminder: ICE vehicles waste a whopping 80% of energy in their fuel. EVs are propelled by entirely different mechanisms. Energy enters the vehicle as electricity, which directly powers the drivetrain making it 3-4x more efficient.

“Heavy rains that often fall in February have flooded the low-lying meadows in the broad valley.” ‘What to Look for in Winter’, 1959 Artist: CF Tunnicliffe Writer: EL Grant Watson

For decades as an academic I reviewed the #citations of my #publications and valiantly tried to correct them if incorrect (there are a lot of D Martins!) Automated systems now multiply misattribution errors to a completely overwhelming level. I am hereby officially admitting defeat.

Levelling down? Running down universities has huge consequences for local communities, with implications far wider than Higher Education. Very sad at many levels...

"The princples are always worth repeating..." A pity our representatives seem to find it so hard! #NolanPrinciples www.good-governance.org.uk/publications...

👀 Here's a quick preview of all the articles in the NEW Changing Populations - to read them, head to: sway.cloud.microsoft/WzAYgcw05ELX... @ukri.org @uossocstatdemo.bsky.social @cra-soton.bsky.social @standrewssgsd.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @ncrm.ac.uk @publicpolicyuos.bsky.social

Hot off the press - a letter from the Exec Chair of @ukri.org explaining his plans and in particular the financial position of STFC. It notes curiosity driven research is protected and will make up around half of UKRI spend over the coming period www.ukri.org/news/open-le...

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