The call for participation is out for the 9th Spatial Knowledge and Information Conference #SKI2026 Canada. The conference will take place February 19-22, 2026 in Banff, Alberta. Ski all morning, conference all evening. skiconference.ca

Deadline extension for #SDSS2025 session proposals! We received a number of requests for an extension so have decided to push the deadline back to Friday, September 19th. Get those session proposals in. sdss2025.spatial-data-science.net

A quick reminder that the #SDSS2025 deadline for Thematic Session proposals is coming up quickly. We'd love to see a proposal from you on a topic of your choice. The symposium is free, online, and typically has large numbers of engaged attendees. sdss2025.spatial-data-science.net

The 2nd Data-Driven Mobility Analytics workshop will take place in Montreal on October 27, 2025. We will be discussing current mobility analytics tools, open mobility datasets, and everything in between. Join us by submitting a statement of interest: ptal-io.github.io/ddma2025-mon...

Looking forward to giving this (virtual) talk at the University of St Andrews for the #BEGIN Seminar Series. November 4th. 14:00 UTC. Register and join us here: tinyurl.com/begin-mckenzie

Stragglers on the last day of #GIScience 2025.

Kicking off the Spatiotemporal Causal Inference workshop at #GIScience2025 with an introduction by @dinomirmt.bsky.social.

The Spatial Data Science Symposium #SDSS2025 is back. Check out the Call for Sessions and Call for Papers: sdss2025.spatial-data-science.net

Congrats to lab member @daniel-romm.bsky.social, whose study on Montreal’s bike lanes is gaining national and international media coverage. platial.science/media-spotli...

July data for Canada to US land #border crossing are now online. ptal-io.github.io/border/

Great to see this vision paper come to light (to be presented at #ACMSIGSpatial in November): "Whose Truth? Pluralistic Geo-Alignment for (Agentic) AI." arxiv.org/abs/2508.05432

Nice to see the videos from the 5th Spatial Data Science Symposium #SDSS2024 now online. Announcement coming shortly for SDSS 2025. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

US/Canada land #border crossing for the month of May have been released. The map has been updated. ptal-io.github.io/border/

"The Cars are Going to be Alright" - New publication. platial.science/new-pub-the-...

April land border crossings data from Canada to the US have been released. The trend continues: ptal-io.github.io/border/

Great start to the 19th Conference on Location Based Services - in Espoo, Finland this year. #LBS2025

This was a lot of fun. Thanks #NABSA for inviting me to share our work during the first "Shared Micromobility Research Roundup." platial.science/nabsas-share... www.youtube.com/watch?v=VufL...

Some of the brilliant traffic signals we have in #Montreal.

I put together a (quick) web map showing change in US land border crossings from Canada over the past few months. Mainly a procrastination project, but also quite interesting to compare border crossings and provinces. ptal-io.github.io/border/

We are recruiting a fully funded Master's student interested in equity in shared e-micromobility (Fall 2025 start). Click through the link for details. @kmanaugh.bsky.social platial.science/msc2025/

There is still time to submit a position statement and join our Data-Driven Mobility Analytics workshop taking place just two days before #lbs2025. The deadline has been extended. ptal-io.github.io/ddma2025#wor...

Really looking forward to #GIScience2025. Looks like a good mix of papers. Still time to submit an abstract.

Nice piece in the Tribune about our analysis of gender and running in Montreal (and Washington, D.C.) www.thetribune.ca/sci-tech/wha...

Honoured to share this year's Emerging Scholar Award from the Spatial Analysis and Modeling AAG Specialty Group with Lei Zou (Texas A&M). #AAG2025

Nice to see our special issue on "Environmentally and socially sustainable mobility" finally published in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. Thirteen solid papers from some great research teams. Check them out: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Interested in sustainable cities, data, and creative solutions for urban mobility? Join the Sustainable Urban Mobility Challenge at the #DDMA2025 workshop May 5 (Espoo, FI) for a chance to showcase your skills, win prizes, and contribute to discussions in the field! ptal-io.github.io/ddma2025#cha...

This is truly an amazing funding opportunity. Travel funding for US-based students to attend @giscience-conf.bsky.social in New Zealand! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Planning on attending #LBS2025 in Espoo, Finland? Come early and join us for the "Data Drive Mobility Analytics Workshop 2025" on Monday, May 5. Co-organized by @htenkanen.bsky.social (Aalto Uni), Marina Toger (Uppsala Uni), and yours truly. #mobility #gischat ptal-io.github.io/ddma2025/#wo...

Looking forward to seeing you at Spatiotemporal Causal Analysis (#STCausal2025), stcausal2025.spatial-causal.org with @grantdmckenzie.bsky.social and Cecile de Bezenac!

New research from our team highlights gender differences in urban running: platial.science/new-research...

Kicking off the 2nd workshop on Geoprivacy for Personalized Health at @liser.lu with a welcome from @geoai.bsky.social

Getting stoked for #GIScience2025 in Christchurch. @giscience-conf.bsky.social just announced student travel scholarships as well: giscience2025.org#scholarships.

The #GIScience2025 conference deadline extended to Feb 14. See you there. giscience2025.org#proceedings

Excited to kick-start our new collaborative, CDSI-funded project "Lights Out: Examining Power Outages and Vulnerability Across Quebec." @mcgillgeography.bsky.social platial.science/lights-out-e...

Monday's playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/6As...

More Americans, Risking Ruin, Drop Their Home Insurance www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Report: Self-entitled Generation Z wants to live past the age of 40

The call for participation in our 2nd Workshop on "Geoprivacy for Personalized Health" is online. It will be in Luxembourg this year, Feb 26 - Mar 1. Limited travel funding is available. Details at the link below. @geoai.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/ekgeog/...

#GIScience Conference on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/gisc...

Some participant quotes from our interviews of #Lime Access riders in Grand Rapids - presented by @kmanaugh.bsky.social and part of our #MobilizingJustice grant #TRBAM2025 #TRBAM @daniel-romm.bsky.social @calvinthigpen.com

Happy Winter Solstice.

In a Position Paper prepared for Ontario’s #Metrolinx, lab member, @daniel-romm.bsky.social provides an overview of the potential for current shared #micromobility systems. platial.science/the-potentia...

Who else is participating in #PostGIS Day 2024? www.crunchydata.com/community/ev...

In late October, I had the privilege of attending the specialist meeting on "Sociotechnical Foundations of GeoAI and Spatial Data Science" held at the beautiful Springer Schlössl in Vienna, Austria... platial.science/reflections-...

We are organizing a session at next year's American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting (AAG 2025) on Urban Mobility Analytics. If you are attending, consider submitting an abstract to our session: platial.science/geoai-and-ur...

Prepping the backyard for this year's rink.

Are you a #geographer or somehow involved with #geospatial stuff? Come to Location Based Services #LBS2025 conference in Espoo, Finland. Abstract and showcase DL are in early February 2025, so plenty of time to brew a great idea! #GIS #GIScience #Geoinformatics #Location #Geography #BigData

My current location, from Privyto. privyto.me/u/grantdmcke...

Very happy to see this paper "Geoprivacy knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors in contemporary china," led by Hongyu Zhang, come to light. #geoprivacy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....