Caution! - Stoat at work. Live from a North Dorset lane.... The Stoat escaped into the hedgerow - rabbit repositioned at the side of the road. Shame the van came - it's a very quiet lane... #Stoats

Good-humoured, peaceful marchers, calling for love & tolerance - must be the woke lefties www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

Half a million strong. Together. The biggest march against the far-right in British history.

The number of North Atlantic right whale calves born this season is the highest in 17 years. www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/end...

The England Land Use Framework published a couple of days ago is pretty good thinking but the test will be in change on the ground. A blog: markavery.info/2026/03/21/l... ... and a 🧵 below and a hat tip to @guyshrubsole.bsky.social

Well well well, what do we have here? Is that... real 3D data in my 3D ggplot? 🤫 #RStats #rayshader #rayverse

I was able to get out today for some #vgi collection on the Natural England #chalkstream dataset using the CrowdWater app. I recommend using it when you're walking near watercourses. Also used #qfield to record in #qgis. Great to be on the #southdowns - although the streams were a bit murky

A new study has found beaver damming to provide 10x more carbon storage for water courses than those without beavers. Methane emissions were also found to be minimal. Further evidence of the benefits of #naturalfloodmanagement #naturebasedsolutions theconversation.com/beavers-can-...

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 🎂Mar 16, 1813 John Snow born in Yorkshire, England 🇬🇧 1854: His dot map of deaths in Soho leads (eventually) to discovery of the water-borne source of a cholera epidemic. I celebrate his birthday with a couple of my favorite Snow Map re-creations

England’s chalk streams are among the rarest habitats on Earth & a crucial part of our natural heritage. In Basingstoke we are lucky to have beautiful rivers like the River Loddon. I believe securing UNESCO World Heritage status for chalk streams would build on the protections Government has made.

Day 75 of #365DaysOfMaps. March 16th is Artichoke Day. This map has layers! Artichoke Growth Regions 75/365 mapdesign.icaci.org/2026/03/happ...

#cafc at Oxford yesterday

Great to see and hear so many birds on Devil's Dyke today. What wasn't great was the amount of dogs not on leads where skylarks are nesting #nature #southdowns

Misty walk along the river Adur this morning. Saw an egret, oystercatchers, snipe, blackheaded gulls, skylarks on some beautiful #saltmarsh #nature #sussex

Very good article on how good #Sentinel1 #changedetection is in #mapping floodwaters. For a flood in Afghanistan, this methodology was able to detect 5 times the area shown by some products in the Global Flood Monitoring System. #remotesensing #GIS #geospatial

This spring sees the release of a documentary about the fight to defend and extend access to nature in England and Wales. OUR LAND, directed by Orban Wallace and shot by Gallivant Film, follows the Right to Roam campaign as we trespass estates and challenge removal of rights on Dartmoor and beyond.

Excellent video tutorial on creating animated traces in #qgis over on #reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/QGIS/comments/1rde0fm/comment/o7c29l7/ #gischat #movementdataanalysis #MovementData #mobility

Haven't been to a #cafc away game since the days of Bowyer. Disciplined performance yesterday at Southampton spurred on by great support #coya

FACT OF THE DAY. 21 February 1946. Aneurin Bevan announced the Labour Government’s proposals for a National Health Service. The service began on 5 July 1948. Its introduction represented one of the greatest social reforms in British History which helped every citizen.

Bouncy low tide dip this morning

Difference (contrast-stretched) between an original JPEG and a re-compressed WEBP. If possible, start from a PNG or other lossless compression format before creating a lossy version of an image. Source: science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...

Relative elevation models are both compelling visualizations of fluvial systems but also frankly useful for geologic mapping of terraces or quantifying zones of potential flood inundation. Several years ago Open Topography coded up an method for using python to make REMs (see below) 🧵

A Relative Elevation Model is a really useful method for visualising the context of a river and its immediate surroundings. Here it can be seen the importance of the Great Stour on Kent as a whole. All through the power of #QGIS #river #cartography

After yesterday's deluge we've now had 408mm of rain this year. That amount wasn't reached last year until the 19th July. 🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🐳

Good news from Orford Ness 📣 This year, more than 430 grey seals pups have been born, an 88% increase on last year and the highest number since the colony arrived in 5 years ago. It's the surest sign yet that the colony has established and is growing on the Suffolk coast. 📷️ Hanne Siebers

“Geographical training and knowledge, in short, is more important than ever. We say this loudly and clearly, lest our universities forget.”

"I care far more about reversing insect collapse than expanding tech and AI infrastructure. 🐝🐝🐝"

This is a real timelapse video of the Moon transiting in front of the Earth. It was captured by the Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft in November 2022 while flying at it's furthest point from the Earth. The video covers about 3.75 hours of real time. 🔭🧪

Started my annual Goshawk fix near Crawley, Lucky to see a pair dancing and several close-ish flybys @sussexwildlife.bsky.social #goshawk #raptors #birds

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exploring the #eurostat population #map by sex, you can find a district in Greece with 100% of men population. Welcome to Mount Athos ! See: link.europa.eu/nJFhD8 #maps #cartography #demography #statistics #census #gis #gischat

Solmonath (mud month) is what Anglo-Saxons called February. Right now in the UK its easy to forget the importance of rewetting landscapes in dealing with climate change. If you're involved in nature-based solution projects big/small I can help using #gis tools to monitor & analyse project outcomes.

It's ecological breakdown that should put us on a war-footing: official www.resilience.org/stories/2026...

Happy Birthday OSGeo! Celebrating 20 years of Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial 2026-02-04 Thank you to everyone who has been part of this endeavour over the last 20 years. We invite you to celebrate with us, to share memories & to look ahead to […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Submission deadline approaching for "Coding Earth – open-source solutions in Physical Geography" We look forward to submissions on open-source methods and tools in geography. ⏳ Deadline: 1 Mar 2026 🔗 https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ppg #opensource #rstats #python #julia

All 60 videos from #qgis for Hydrological Applications – 2nd Edition are now in the #fediverse on #qwasttube! 🎉 Watch the full series here: https://videos.qwast-gis.com/c/qgishydro Follow my video posts here: @[email protected] Follow the #qgishydro channel here: @qgishydro

Apples was a disaster for us as well (Charlton)

In case you missed it, Utrecht, Netherlands has begun building the largest Dutch “car-free” neighbourhood. 12K people 6K homes 1.8K social rental homes 1.5 mid-range rental & affordable owner-occupied homes 21.5K bike parking spaces 250 shared cars 2 parcel hubs Parking structures on the edge.

Today in 1986, Voyager 2 made humanity's first and only encounter with Uranus, revealing its clouds, rings, and fascinating zoo of moons.

Thank you to the volunteers who have responded so quickly to the latest pollution event at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve.  We collected 40 bags of insulating foam pieces from the shipping containers + we also removed 20kg of onions & other produce. 📸 Matt Rich, Dave King, Arthur Sloman and Aimi Rifat

Good point. Overland flows need more consideration in flood effects

I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

Great article this

What happens to Christmas trees after January? In Lancaster, they’re being reused as natural sea defences, slowing erosion and trapping sediment.Low-tech. Low-carbon. Clever. goinggreenpodcast.blogspot.com/2026/01/what... #SustainableInfrastructure #NatureBasedSolutions #CircularEconomy

Our Moor Resilience 2030 work is underpinned by evidence-led upland #peatland conservation works. Our Science and Monitoring team have set aspiring objectives to advance our peatland restoration knowledge base. Read about our #science objectives on Substack: substack.com/home/post/p-... #peat

How about that view? The Adur Valley from the Bostal, as spotted by Ranger Sarah Quantrill

Morning Sun - Edward Hopper, 1952. Source : Musée d'Art de Columbus

I've been experimenting with my own colour ramp to shade a DTM in #qgis to represent lowland terrain with a hillshade blending through. I'm using #Qgis2threejs which is better than 3D view imo Think the colour use is ok, but still not happy with how the hillshade comes through #gischat

Technically the threshold for "bomb cyclogenesis" of an Atlantic storm is a 21mb drop over a 24 hour period, at our latitude of 50°N. The pressure here has dropped 24 mb in 11 hours, from 730am. And it's still going down. #StormGoretti

I'm looking for some valued insight into #orfeotoolbox in #qgis I generally use the semi-automatic classification plugin for optical imagery and pre-process #sar using ESA snap. Is otb any better than what I'm using? #gischat #remotesensing