#30DayMapChallenge Day 10 - Air: Common Swift (Apus Apus) sightings in Finland in 2025 from eBird (+one Taylor Swift (Private Jet))

#30DayMapChallenge Day 4 - My Data The 2025 citybike season in Helsinki has come to an end last week. As an avid user of the bike sharing system, Robert Klein has plotted his more than 350 trips of this year's season on a map. #bikesharing #cycling #mobility

#30DayMapChallenge Day 1 - Points Creating a #centroid is not as trivial as you might think! If you are dealing with regional population data, the locational difference between a regular geometric centroid and a population-weighted centroid can be vast! Map by @waeiski.bsky.social #GIS #QGIS

📢 Come join us!! We are looking for a project planner to coordinate our new UrbanISE VR Proof of Concept, funded by @erc.europa.eu and based at the @helsinki.fi. 🏙️ Work at the forefront of applied Virtual Reality research in cities! 📝 Read more and apply here: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Our collaboration with Metsähallitus is moving ahead even more efficiently and with greater impact as we have signed MoU with Metsähallitus Parks & Wildlife Finland to deepen our research cooperation and streamline the two-way sharing of data and knowledge. blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...

Do you ever use your mobile phone when spending time outdoors? The answer is probably yes. In that case, you leave digital footprints about your visit. 🦶 How are these data useful for the sustainable management of nature areas? 👉 Watch our video for that and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U5G...

In our new @ijgis.bsky.social paper, @ollejarv.bsky.social and I analysed 9M geolocated tweets from the Greater Region of Luxembourg within the #BORDERSPACE project at the @digigeolab.bsky.social, funded by the Research Council of Finland and @koneensaatio.fi.

Our lab is growing! We're super happy to introduce Anna Saarinen, who joins DGL to support coordination and management of the Geoportti Research Infrastructure!! 🌟 Learn more about Anna here 👉 👉 blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog.... Welcome Anna! We're very excited to be working with you 💚

Hei #sinitaivas tarvitsemme osanottajia tulevaan työpajaamme! Jos aluekehitys, aluepolitiikka ja muuttoliikkeet kiinnostavat etenkin kun kyseessä on #Suomi ja tarkemmin itäiset ja pohjoiset osat, niin mukaan vaan! #Finland #Finnish #Region #Europe #EU

Hei sinä Itä- tai Pohjois-Suomalainen! Kiinnostaako sinua kotiseutusi aluekehitys ja tulevaisuus? Tule mukaan työpajaamme! 🗓️ Syyskuun 12. päivä 2025 ⏰ Kello 11:00 – 12:30 Osallistumistiedot blogissamme: blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog... #Savo #Lappi #Kainuu #Alue #Tulevaisuus #Mikkeli

What a cool conference #ERSA2025 was! Many sessions from @mobi-twin-project.bsky.social project, lots of new people, interesting research, and great food! It was my first time at #ERSA and hopefully one of many to come!

Wrapping up the second day of #ERSA2025 we have @ollejarv.bsky.social from @digigeolab.bsky.social presenting his work on using #BigData describing #mobility of people to assess #CrossBorder integration in #Europe.

Summer in Helsinki always brings smiles to our faces, as do the scholars that visit and collaborate with us 😊 We're thrilled to introduce Francesc Comalada, a PhD Researcher who visits us this autumn from the Catalan Institute of Water Research! Learn more here 👉 blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...

Our open course on #cartography and #GIS was run for the second year. Kamyar reflects back on this year and the course principles: how we focus not (only) on building technical capabilities, but on maps as means of visual storytelling: Read more here! blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...

📢 New Paper Out! Led by our very own Kerli Müürisepp 👉 “Spatial Integration or Isolation? Capturing the Rhythms of Daily Lives Across Neighbourhoods in Helsinki Using Mobile Phone Data” in Population, Space and Place! 📄 Read the open access article here: doi.org/10.1002/psp....!

We are very happy to congratulate our very own @ollejarv.bsky.social for receiving the Research Council of Finland Award on his work on #CrossBorder #Mobility #Transnationalism #Segregation and #NatureRecreation using #BigData such as #SocialMedia and #MobilePhone data.

Robert Klein presented his cool work on exposure to greenery during everyday travel at #LBS20205 Photo by Davi Gressler

Location Based Services conference #LBS2025 continues with @miladmzdh.bsky.social presenting his work on characterizing the attractiveness of regions in Europe.

Rounding the day off was @waeiski.bsky.social who presented his work on regional student mobility and how Covid-19 has affected the regional structure of the flow network at #LBS2025. Photo by Oleksandr Karasov.

Our visiting researcher Davi Gressler presents his work on assessing realized 15-minute trips in US cities and comparing that to trips that were longer but could have been made in 15 minutes using SafeGraph data. #15MinuteCity #Segregation

Next up is @tadusko.bsky.social presenting his work on the rise and fall of Flickr and use of its data in geographical analyses at #LBS2025 conference.

Next up at #LBS2025 is our alumni member @karasov.bsky.social presenting his work on exploring cultural ecosystem services in #Ukraine using #PPGIS data collected from #Telegram.

Our amazing Leyi Xu presents her work on place modeling using Place2Vec to capture euclidean and semantic aspects of POI information at #LBS2025

Our brilliant @matabatchi.bsky.social is presenting his work on quantifying the role of nature in tourism on global and regional scales at #LBS2025.

Second day of #LBS2025 is about to start and so are the @digigeolab.bsky.social presentations.

Exciting milestone for our GREENTRAVEL team!! We’ve officially wrapped up data collection for our VR cycling experiments—with an impressive 151 participants 🚴‍♀️ Juulia Lehtinen explains more 👉 blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog... Now it’s time to dive into data analysis with fresh excitement!

Celebration in our #GREENTRAVEL project @digigeolab.bsky.social #VR experiments now concluded!! 🚴🏻‍♀️🌲🌳 🥳 Two months, 151 participants, a lot of learning. Kudos to the incredible team Silviya Korpilo, Om Ravindran, Ashish Shete, Jussi Torkko, Sini Ruohomäki, Juulia Lehtinen and Mansi Garg 💎🤩

Mobility viewpoint needs to be recognized in urban greening policies! 🚴‍🌳🏙️ New #GREENTRAVEL paper out! A perspective paper by Silviya Korpilo et al., published in Ambio, describes how people’s contact with urban nature often happens when moving through space. Interested? Read the paper here 👇

The onset of spring in Helsinki always inspires and energizes us, as do the amazing researchers who come to visit us! We're delighted to introduce Eline Rega, a PhD researcher from KU Leuven in Belgium who visits us this April! 🤩 Learn more about Eline here 👉

📢 New master's thesis finalised! "Activity tracking data for protected area visitor monitoring: A case study of mountain biking using Strava Metro", by Mikko Kangasmaa 😍 🎓 Find the thesis here: helda.helsinki.fi/items/73ae87... 📄 Find Mikko's summary here: blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...

Are doing #research using #Flickr data? Are you aware of the drawbacks? Check out this cool article where researchers critically assess the use of Flickr #SocialMedia data in research on #conservation and #recreation in #nature. Key insights for #NationalPark and #ProtectedArea management.

🚨 NEW ARTICLE 🚨 How many photos are uploaded to Flickr? Where? By who? Why does any of it matter? We explore the rise and fall of #Flickr in this @digigeolab.bsky.social paper by yours truly, @vuoggis.bsky.social, Johanna Eklund, Anna Hausmann & @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social out now! buff.ly/0hJjPsm

Over 2.2 million regional student mobility flows across Europe from 2014 to 2022, published as #OpenData in Scientific Data! Do check out this cool new work on Erasmus+ student mobility from our very own @waeiski.bsky.social, @miladmzdh.bsky.social, Oula Inkeröinen, and @ollejarv.bsky.social!

🚨🌍 NEW ARTICLE 🌍🚨 We geocoded the #mobility of over 2 million #Erasmus students across #Europe from 2014 to 2022 with @miladmzdh.bsky.social, Oula Inkeröinen & @ollejarv.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1038/s415... @mobi-twin-project.bsky.social @digigeolab.bsky.social @springernature.com #GIScience

📣 Great News!!! ...🚲...🚲...🚲... PhD researcher Xiao Cai has published a new article "Differences in bike-sharing usage and its associations with station-surrounding characteristics: A multi-group analysis using machine learning techniques”! 🎉 Learn more here: blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...

We're growing! We're excited to introduce Mansi Garg, a technical assistant providing vital support in the implementation of #VirtualReality experiments within our ERC-funded GREENTRAVEL project 🌟🌟. We spoke to Mansi to learn more 👉 blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...

We at DGL are delighted to be hosting two new visiting scholars!! 😍 First up, Ping Chang, a PhD researcher from the University of Copenhagen! 🌟🌟 blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog... Next up, Davi Gressler, from the University of São Paulo! 🌟🌟 blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...

Our fantastic Postdoc Aina Brias recently participated in the working group "Ecotopias of Sustainability: From Maldevelopment to ‘Desirable’ Future Forests" at the #DevDays2025 Conference in Helsinki! Aina shares her reflections here 👉 blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...

Huge congratulations to our brilliant @ollejarv.bsky.social who has won the prestigious Research Council of Finland Award for his research on #CrossBorder #mobility! 🎉 A well-deserved award! 🎉🎉 blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog... #tutkimus #research #tiede #science #SuomenAkatemia #AcademyOfFinland

NB. Research is a team effort, and I thank all my colleagues at @digigeolab.bsky.social and collaborators who have contributed to my scientific endeavors 🙏 Let’s keep it rolling! 🥳

Happy Monday! We'd like to welcome Mikko Kangasmaa as a research assistant here at DGL! Mikko is working on course delivery and researching the use of activity tracking platforms for protected area visitor monitoring! We spoke to Mikko to learn more 👉

We're thrilled to introduce Juulia Lehtinen, a new research assistant helping run our VR experiments under the GREENTRAVEL Project! 💚 💚 We spoke to Juulia to learn more about her work! 👉 buff.ly/43inaJq

Starting to recover from the most memorable Friday: a full day seminar and an evening party to celebrate the first 15 years of our lab @digigeolab.bsky.social 😍🤩❤️💃🏽🕺🏿 It was a blast to have some 40 members and alumni to reunite, discuss & celebrate together, many over long distances 🇬🇧🇳🇴🇩🇪🇦🇹🇪🇪🇫🇮 Yay!😍🥳🪩

Onnea 15 vuotias Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social! 🥳 @helsinki.fi @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social

What a great pleasure it was to take part and present at @digigeolab.bsky.social 15 years anniversary. Kudos to @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social for leading such a brilliant group of researchers. 🤩

@digigeolab.bsky.social panel discussion has started with @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social @vuoggis.bsky.social, @thiip.bsky.social, Johanna Eklund, Liisa Kajala and Maria Salonen. Interesting points on #VisitorMonitoring, data availability, reliability and #resilience of #BigData sources.

Coming up in our 15-Year Anniversary Seminar is a fascinating panel discussion on #multidisciplinary, collaborative and open #Research advancing fair and #sustainable societies. w/ @thiip.bsky.social, @vuoggis.bsky.social, Johanna Eklund, and Liisa Kajala. #Sustainability #Science Link in reply!

Anna Hausmann asking important questions at @digigeolab.bsky.social 15-Year Anniversary Seminar about how #technology is shaping our experiences of #nature. Nature is more accessible to us than ever before, but our experiences of it are increasingly mediated by smart devices.

PhD researcher @matabatchi.bsky.social presents his work on the role of #nature in #tourism focusing on the #Canarias, and how to examine that with traditional and #BigData from #SocialMedia and novel methods such as #ComputerVision and #AI. 33% of tourist content is posted from natural areas.

Next up @tadusko.bsky.social presents how #BigData and novel methods can be used to extract relevant information on #NatureRecreation and nature-based #tourism.