🚨 Our new article on the drivers of interregional migration intentions during the twin transition is out now in @cogitatiosi.bsky.social! 🥇 Fantastic collaboration with @anpanori.bsky.social, @ellipapastrg.bsky.social, @miladmzdh.bsky.social and @ollejarv.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.17645/si.11543

Check out our recent #MobiTwin article in Urbaria Summaries, where we explored #European #Erasmus student mobility flows to/from #Finland from 2014 until 2023. Covid-19 disrupted the flow network presenting potential brain gain opportunities for Finnish regions. 📜 www.helsinki.fi/assets/drupa...

Last week we had a very good workshop in #Mikkeli with regional stakeholders across North and East Finland in the @mobi-twin-project.bsky.social Our stakeholders had some very interesting ideas to solve challenges related to regional mobility and development in the #region. #Alue #EteläSavo #Tiede

Nature is healing yle.fi/a/74-20208621

‼️ Meta sulki aloitteen Threads-tilin ‼️ Onneksi emme ole vain yhden tilin varassa! Linkit kaikkiin löydät digitaalinenitsenaisyys.fi

Kriittiset digitaaliset palvelut olisi syytä rakentaa suomalaisten ja eurooppalaisten toimijoiden varaan. Tästä on nyt käynnissä kansalaisaloite, nimeä alle siis! digitaalinenitsenaisyys.fi

Nothing like trying to figure out the basics of #pixi in #python at a ferry terminal.

i miss when every ceo was just blasted on coke instead of llms

It is fun to be able to do some more #NLP things, and to tackle some surprisingly complex issues like extracting text blobs from academic articles with complex layouts and multi-column text fields. At least they are complex for a geographer 😅

It's so great that almost every university is a cheerleader for AI, so we can also be complicit in wasting water that way.

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Mikä on Helsingin sometetuin viheralue? Missä lenkkeillään, mistä otetaan lintukuvia? Missä käydään ympäri vuoden ja mitkä ovat kesäkohteita? Mm. näitä sivusimme yhteishankkeessamme massadatoista ja Helsingin viheralueiden käytöstä. Lisää tietoa blogistamme! blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...

In September peak rail fares were scrapped for good. The success is already clear to see.

Don’t forget the Segway!

AntiRender is a fun tool to add a bit more reality into the highly polished and overtly positive architectural renders we see everywhere. antirender.com Here, I tried it with a random architectural render image from Huttunen-Lipasti architects. #architecture #antirender #arkkitehtuuri

More reasons not to go, and to further increase European sovereignty over technology used in Europe. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Kremlin called Trump's new National Security Strategy a document that "corresponds in many ways to our vision." France's former ambassador called it a "far-right pamphlet." Both are right The NSS dedicates four paragraphs to Europe's "civilizational erasure." One sentence on ending Russia's war

Current status: Europe is at war but only Ukraine is doing the fighting. Europe's biggest ally is not only backing down its commitments and leaving us behind, not it's turning against us. The part of Europe that tries to rise to figth is vetoed by corrupt officials in Hungary, Belgium etc.

I came to try out a new local #Persian cafe in #Helsinki called #Äfra. Good delicacies and superb coffee.

#30DayMapChallenge Day 20 - Water: An Australian River Alphabet Inspired by Katie Holten's Irish Tree Alphabet 🌳 Unsure of any Australian river names beginning with 'X' and 'Z'. River centrelines: www.hydrosheds.org River catchments: ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/s... (c) Rory Taylor

In bike-friendly Copenhagen, the Social Democrats' candidate for mayor tried to win over drivers by calling for more car parking. In elections this week, she was trounced. For the first time in 122 years, a Social Democrat won't lead Copenhagen. The new mayor is a socialist from the Green Left.

How attractive is your region? Is it an economic power house? A digital pioneer? A green trailblazer? Or something else? Find out yourself with the new dashboard from @mobi-twin-project.bsky.social! public.tableau.com/app/profile/... #30DayMapChallenge #Geography #Research #Europe

Joten jos/kun huomaatte puolen vuoden päästä, että tekoälyn lisääminen ei tuonutkaan odotettuja säästöjä tai tuottavuushyötyjä, kannattaa katsoa menopuolta Laitoitteko aikaa, rahaa ja vaivaa käyttöönottoon? Selvitittekö miten juuri tämä teknologia soveltuu tapaukseenne? 4/

#30daymapchallenge 17: A new tool Helsinki enjoyed a grand total of 12 minutes of sunshine in November (1.–13.11). No better time to remember that yes, the sun does still exists. This map shows Helsinki's shadiest / sunniest places. New tool? #GRASSGIS solar modelling. By @tadusko.bsky.social

Ups and downs belong to #academia. Two funding applications out of three came back negative. Really frustrating. I also applied for a new research position, and came up with a clever (IMO) research plan in a short time, so I am very happy with that.

#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

It is quite nice to have my favorite team connection back after a lengthy renovation, just in time for the winter season when cycling gets a bit more tricky (and unpleasant). The #PublicTransit operator #HSL has people handing out commemorative candies to mark the occasion in #Helsinki.

#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

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...

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Tinpot dictatorship coming to North America

Urban planners should not be afraid of AI! 🏙️🤖 AI won’t replace planners, but it is reshaping how we imagine, design & govern our cities. The barrier isn’t tech, it’s mindset. Read my new piece in Cities: tinyurl.com/3jtx2xrd #UrbanPlanning #AI #FutureOfCities

How can we accurately map where people live and work when they frequently cross national borders? Traditional surveys miss complexity, mobile network operators data are hard to get across borders, and individual social-media traces are sparse—yet social media is inherently transnational.

I also presented yesterday some preliminary work on exploring structural changes in the #Erasmus student mobility network in #Europe. Student mobility has rebounded, and the structure has changed, with larger regional cities becoming more relevant, and Brexit removing the UK's relevance in Erasmus.

To round off #ECTQG it is @miladmzdh.bsky.social presenting his work on understanding the importance of regional connectivity using multiple mobility flows. @digigeolab.bsky.social @mobi-twin-project.bsky.social

In the final session of #ECTQG we have @karasov.bsky.social presenting his work on measuring the quality of time spent in nature. Very interesting stuff!

Next up we have @ollejarv.bsky.social presenting his work in using mobility data to assess #CrossBorder integration across #Europe at #ECTQG. New approaches are needed to better understand the cross-border regions from the perspectives of people and social interactions. @digigeolab.bsky.social

Good to see Modupe Osunkoya presenting her work on dynamic #urban #vitality in #Tallinn at the #ECTQG conference. It is a nice collaboration with her and Jenni Partanen from #TalTech university and @digigeolab.bsky.social

The second day at #ECTQG starts with a keynote from @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social on the current state and future directions of #mobility and #accessibility #research. @digigeolab.bsky.social

This person is a charlatan. Why is there so much uncritical coverage of this obvious nonsense? Where is the actual journalism?

"lisäarvopohjainen realismi"😘 . Muutenkin erinomainen juttu. www.apu.fi/artikkelit/i...

Ei auttanut henkilön vaihtaminen. Yhdenvertaisuusvaltuutettu edelleen valehtelee! #politiikka

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

It's the humidity that gets you! Here is the Humidity Belt of the US for your viewing pleasure.

Below is my new post about our Three Stages of Religious Decline paper (www.nature.com/articles/s41...). We argue that a similar process of decline affects countries on every populated continent, including countries in which Christianity, Islam, Buddhism or Hinduism is the largest religion. A🧵

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!

Continuing with #CrossBorder research at #ERSA2025 is Elias Günther presenting his work on data issues in crossborder studies conducted in #CrossGov, an #ESPON project.