Congratulations to Research Fellow Dr Ekta Aggarwal, who will have the opportunity to meet with and learn from Nobel Prize winners as one of the leading young scientists worldwide invited to attend the 2026 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (Interdisciplinary): www.southampton.ac.uk/geography/ne...

A new study will explore the health and wellbeing benefits of the Isle of Wight's outdoor spaces. Working with Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust, researchers will survey visitors to better understand how people use these spaces & their benefits: www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2026/04...

How do colonial histories shape nature finance today? Michael Lomotey co-authored a report with IIED exploring how racial injustice and structural inequality influence environmental funding. It highlights who is included and who is not in nature-based finance. 🔗 www.iied.org/22688iied

Children on the move are often missing from the data. Our webinar explores how AI, geospatial modelling, &digital data can help close these gaps. From satellite data to mobile signals: what works, what doesn’t, and what’s next? 🎥 Watch here: www.worldpop.org/webinars/

🎥 What happens when population data is missing? This research uses satellite and mobile data to help map populations and support better decisions. Prof. Andrew Tatem has been recognised as a Highly Cited Researcher (2025), highlighting the global influence of his work. #Researchspotlight #SoGES

📊 Webinar: Immunization microplanning with WorldPop + DHIS2 🗓️ Apr 23, 14:00 (CET) See how high-res population data improves planning. Includes CAR case study (HISP Rwanda) + demos from HISP UiO & WorldPop. Register here: dhis2.org/events/immun... #GlobalHealth #Immunization

Human Geography Teaching Fellow job opp at @sotongeogenviron.bsky.social - it’s a friendly school with lovely colleagues

Do viruses “fight” each other and alter epidemics? 🦠⚔️ New research shows recent Influenza A infection may temporarily reduce susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2, and shows that accounting for these interactions can improve epidemic forecasting. Learn more: www.worldpop.org/blog/predict...

🎓 Inaugural Lecture today Professor Andrew Power (School of Geography and Environmental Science) explores how care is shaped by place, from homes to communities, and how it can both support and constrain people’s lives. A really engaging talk! #SoGes #InauguralLecture

Better data, better decisions 🌍📊 WorldPop joined partners in #Barbados to strengthen #Caribbean population data using #AI tools like #PopRF & #DEGURBA - supporting planning, resilience & development. Learn more: www.worldpop.org/blog/strengt...

🧱 LEGO + pop. sci. = hands-on discovery! 🌍 At #SOTSEF, visitors can build colourful maps, count communities, & see how scientists use data to understand where people live and who needs support. In #Southampton on Sat 14/03? Come explore geospatial science! 👉 www.worldpop.org/blog/build-a...

Can renewable energy and biodiversity go hand in hand? 🌿 youtu.be/SmlB3jG948A Emily Cole, a PhD researcher in the School of Geography and Environmental Science, works with local authorities to explore how land-use planning can support both climate goals and nature. #SoGES #PhDresearch #climate

WorldPop visited the European Commission’s JRC meeting #GHSL, #Demography & Urban teams. Improving global data with stronger standards, better comparability & closer collaboration. 👉 www.worldpop.org/blog/from-in... #PopulationData #OpenData @sotongeogenviron.bsky.social @uosmedia.bsky.social

Here's your sign! Why you need to attend the Science and Engineering Day 2026? 📅 Saturday 14 March 2026 ⏰ 10:30 – 16:30 📍Highfield Campus and Boldrewood Innovation Campus 👉 Tickets: www.sotsef.co.uk/SED 🔍 #SOTSEF #WeAreUoS #BSW26 @uosmedia.bsky.social

A new study using data from one billion mobile phones has shown how wealth & age create a hidden divide in how people respond to heatwaves. The @worldpop-uos.bsky.social research explored whether people were able to stay home or forced to travel for work and essentials. Read more: bit.ly/4bRjoen

A huge congratulations to our 2025 graduates - it was brilliant to celebrate with you today. Wishing you all the very best for the future #WeAreUoS

Summer could be 42 days longer by the end of the century according to our @sotongeogenviron.bsky.social scientists and @royalholloway.bsky.social researchers ☀️ European lake mud dating back thousands of years helped them make the prediction. Read more 👉 https://tr.pulse.ly/fdcljgd2ga

Congratulations to Professors Justin Sheffield & Andrew Tatem who have been included in Clarivate's 2025 Highly Cited Researcher List. The list recognises researchers with exceptional reach and influence, ranking in the top 1% of citations for their fields. southampton.ac.uk/geography/ne...

Intense sand mining is putting the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia at risk of collapse with catastrophic consequences. Scientists have now determined the cause of this decline to be sand mining in the Mekong River in Cambodia and Vietnam. 👉 https://southampton.pulse.ly/bqqpxhrguz

Artificial developments are weakening the natural defenses of our shorelines, leaving people vulnerable to rising sea-level, says our visiting researcher Dr Dhritiraj Sengupta. Writing in @uk.theconversation.com, he says mapping them can help👇 theconversation.com/artificial-d...

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...

What will the world look like in a decade? We might have the answer 🌎📊 Our WorldPop experts are launching new global population data, offering insights into where people live, their demographics, and more. Register to watch the launch👇https://eventbrite.pulse.ly/oowjsp4mty

A major shift in South Pacific climate conditions around 1,000 years ago may have drawn people east to settle on the region's more remote, wetter islands, away from the drier west. New research from our geography researchers and @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social 👉 tr.ee/UJpEVL

🌍📊 WorldPop's cutting-edge research showcased at #JSM2025 #SatelliteData to improve #population estimates - esp. where data is scarce. 📡 >40% less bias. 📍 Smarter models. 🚀 Better decisions for health, aid & planning. #Statistics #DataForGood www.worldpop.org/blog/worldpo...

🌍 Big data, big impact! Join us on 4 Sep for the launch of WorldPop Global 2015–2030 - a new open-access, high-res, age & sex-disaggregated population estimate dataset covering 242 countries 📅 4 Sep | 🕒 3 pm BST 🔗 Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1374590861... #PopulationData #OpenData

🌍 How can data save lives during disasters? WorldPop co-produced high-resolution population data for a new UN study, helping map how vulnerable groups face risks from floods, earthquakes & more. Smarter data = smarter planning. 💡📊 #UNFPA #UNDRR #DataForGood www.worldpop.org/blog/worldpo...

📊 Discover The Power of Population Data! 🌍 Join WorldPop’s free webinar on Sept 4 to learn about our new high-res, open-access population datasets (2015–2030) for 242 countries. Learn from experts + get your questions answered! 🔗 Register now: www.worldpop.org/blog/discove... #PopulationData

🚨 New preprint: 73 high-res, global, multi-temporal geospatial datasets! Covering 2015–2023 at ~100m resolution, these open data power better population modelling for health, policy & more. #GeospatialData #OpenData #PopulationMapping #DataForGood #PublicHealth www.worldpop.org/blog/new-ope...

Our researchers are working with local councils and food aid services to improve food pantries across the South as the demand for them surges. The project will ensure food is distributed to pantries more fairly and with less waste. Read more 👉 https://tr.pulse.ly/b6in27yuaf

🚀 A true honour to welcome Professor Dame Wendy Hall to WorldPop! We had an inspiring & wide-ranging conversation on using AI to fill global demographic data gaps 🌍 - plus insights into UK data sharing initiatives & the power of interdisciplinary collaboration. #AIforGood #Demographics #DataScience

We are ready to go! 🎉 Join researchers and staff from @unisouthampton.bsky.social, and friends of the Public and Community Engagement Hubs at #SouthamptonMela Festival this Saturday 12th July (12-5PM)! #UoSRoadshow #UoSPCEHubs #WeAreUoS @southamptonctu.bsky.social @johnhansardgallery.bsky.social

The 2025/26 Public Engagement Development Fund Call is now open! Staff, PGRs and community partners can apply for funding to develop, explore and deliver projects that strengthen public engagement with our university’s research and its impact. Read more 👉 bit.ly/44tkR57

As part of our Faculty Inaugural Lecture Series - celebrating the careers of some of our newly promoted Professors - Professor Dianna Smith gave an insightful lecture on Food Aid and Fish Fingers: Towards a Fairer Food System. @geodianna.bsky.social Watch here 👇 youtu.be/VPnajLQf5L4

Our Faculty Inaugural Lecture Series celebrates the careers of some of our newest Professors. Prof. Jo Nield opened the series with a fascinating talk on TLS: Telling Landscape Stories (or playing with laser patterns in deserts). Watch here 👇 youtu.be/1MSreSzCoAY

A joy to be listening to @geodianna.bsky.social's @sotongeogenviron.bsky.social inaugural lecture "Food aid and fish fingers: towards a fairer food system" Not just a fascinating life and academic journey, but telling it like it is: #FoodPoverty is poverty poverty

➡️New research: Spatio-temporal patterns of #health service delivery and access to maternal, child, and outpatient healthcare in #Volta region, #Ghana 📊New approach monitoring service changes using #HealthData & #SpatialAnalysis #DHIMS2 #GhanaHealthService @dhis2.org 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1654...

Join us for the launch of Sacred Connections: Heritage Revival by Indian-origin Communities in the UK—a panel and exhibition exploring legacy and living heritage through sound, photos and sacred objects. 🗓️ 21 June, 1–4 PM | John Hansard Gallery 🔗 bit.ly/4dWlVCV 📸 Amit Guha

Our climate experts report that Planet Earth is getting thirstier, which is making droughts more extreme 🌍💧   They believe the atmosphere is demanding more water out of the soil, rivers, and plants due to climate change.   Find out more 👉 tr.ee/lALd7k

📣Listen to Professor Andy Tatem to hear how WorldPop is changing lives and improving decision making in low- and middle-income countries in #TheWeSociety podcast from ‪@acadsocsciences.bsky.social‬ and #WillHutton 🔗 www.worldpop.org/blog/the-we-... 🌍 #LMIC #SocialScience #Data4Good

🎙️ New podcast alert 🎙️ Don't miss our Prof Andy Tatem on the latest episode of ‪‪@acadsocsciences.bsky.social‬'s popular We Society podcast. He's been talking about the pioneering work of @worldpop-uos.bsky.social‬ 👇👇

Another fantastic Faculty Technicians Away Day hosted by Psychology and @sotongeogenviron.bsky.social thanks Pete Langdon and Agnes Michalik for organising.

Our researchers have uncovered the mystery on how ‘mini sand dunes’ form. The findings could tell us not just how they form on beaches and in deserts, but also on other planets. Read more 👉 tr.ee/drHBy4

Thinking of @drkingothebeach.bsky.social today: teaching Toomey et al. (2013: doi.org/10.1130/G341...) [one of my all-time favourite papers] and Ortiz & Ashton (2019: doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...) as we near the end of this year's @sotongeogenviron.bsky.social Y2 coastal module.

Pint of Science is coming to Southampton (May 19 to 21) 🍻🔬 Where science and beer join forces for a series of wacky and insightful sessions led by our amazing researchers 🤖 Read more 👉 tr.ee/0J2MLN @pintofscience.uk

In April 2021, India had the highest number of new and active cases of Covid in the world. Our @worldpop-uos.bsky.social researchers have scoured data on India during the Covid-19 pandemic to provide insights for future pandemic management. Read more 👉 brnw.ch/21wSmvK

📣Beta test our new global #population #data - 2015 to 2030 ⬇️Now freely available to download ⬇️ www.worldpop.org/blog/beta-te... #HDX #HumanitarianData @sotongeogenviron.bsky.social @sotongeospatial.bsky.social @cpc-cg.bsky.social @uosmedia.bsky.social @geone-ws.bsky.social @aphrc.bsky.social

🚨New research: Subnational variations in the quality of household survey data in sub-Saharan Africa Easy-to-access geospatial estimates of survey data quality highlight the need to invest in better targeting of household surveys in remote areas. Nature Communications 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s414...

📣Wed 30 Apr 13:00 CAT (UTC+2) join Senior Enterprise Fellow @heatherchamberlain.bsky.social speaking on how high resolution mapped #PopulationData support health programme planning With the #Zambia #Climate Change #Sustainability & #Health Network Zoom 🔗 us02web.zoom.us/j/8160107575...

Join us for the launch of Hidden in Stone, a public exhibition exploring 200 million years of life on the South Coast! Opening this weekend at God’s House Tower, Southampton until June 1st. Discover artwork, meet the researchers and artists! More info 👉 bit.ly/43VN9qr