Great talks are rare. This one by @13pt.com is great even just from the slides and the transcript. Lots of advice I'll be putting to use for my upcoming lecture this fall.

Die #AK hat 2025 zum dritten Mal den Essaypreis Stadt vs. Land ausgeschrieben. Preisverleihung 🎉 ▶️ 13. April 2026, ab 18.00 Uhr ▶️ 1040, Theresianumgasse 16-18, Clubraum Utopia Alle Infos 🔽

New @rsablog.bsky.social ‘Beyond Agglomeration.’ Time to go beyond agglomeration as an organising principle in industrial strategy & take place seriously. @regionalstudies.bsky.social @rsaibis.bsky.social @regstud.bsky.social www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

@florianaigner.at: Darf ich eine Physik-Frage stellen? Als Kind lernt man ja, Wasser und Strom verträgt sich nicht (Föhn in der Badewanne!!!). Jetzt hab ich bei den Temperaturen wieder mal gesehen, wie eine Lok die Oberleitung quasi aufgetaut hat: lautes Knistern und kleine blaue Blitze.

Thanks for sharing, Andrés!

Many thanks to @regstud.bsky.social and @rsablog.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to share my thoughts on designing better maps in academia. And to @cchlebna.bsky.social for encouragement and feedback.

I’ve been reflecting on public transport in rural-peripheral regions over the past weeks. I’ve put my thoughts together in a longer post, you can read it here: www.linkedin.com/posts/jakob-...

Quality chart title

Technische Störung: Klimaanlage, Schiebetüren und Reservierungsanzeige kaputt. Aber der Waggon ist schon mit dabei. Ich sitze darin.

The @economist.com‘s consumer survey definitely stands out compared to others I’ve taken in the past.

Embarking on a little train adventure over the next few days! First up: the ÖBB Nightjet 468 to Paris. A two-hour delay gave me an unexpected chance to take in the charm of Vienna Meidling station.

„Wer in großen Städten (…) 30 bis 40 Minuten öffentlich in die Arbeit pendelt, geht leer aus, am Land gibt es bereits für (…) kurze Distanzen Zuschüsse. Das große Pendlerpauschale – das nur dann zusteht, wenn öffentliche Verkehrsmittel unzumutbar sind – gibt es bereits ab (…) zwei Kilometern.“

This is a really good piece on the haves and have-nots of public higher education, using Western Illinois University as a case study. I'm worried about the future of rural higher education and rural America.

Meistens reden wir vom Ausbau der Kinderbetreuung. In Ostdeutschland sind viele Einrichtungen aber nicht mehr voll. Gründe: 1) Geburtenrückgang und 2) Sparbudgets - Kinderbetreuungspersonal ist oft der größte Posten im Gemeindebudget:

Schon gesehen, @lhaffert.bsky.social? Schöne Visualisierung für die Grünen als Innenstadtpartei auch in Wien. Und die Schwesterpartei von CDU/CSU, die ÖVP, ist auch in Österreich keine Großstadtpartei (mehr).

Trying this one again: Favourites? Anyone?

Again aiming for the wisdom of the crowd: I am looking for scientific papers/publications with excellent #visualizations of their findings (charts, maps, ...). Not #dataviz-papers, but instead papers from other disciplines, applying the principles of #dataviz. Do you have any favourites?

Found it: It was the transcript with slides from a presentation by Jonathan Corum at the University of Copenhagen’s Faculty of Health Sciences (@13pt.com). Limiting my Google results to pre2020 did the trick: style.org/ku/

I'm looking for a talk on YouTube (?) from quite some time back. It was a presentation by a NYT staffer, showing how they make bad graphics from scientific papers better, i.e. digestable for the NYT audience. Any ideas? Maybe @mhernandez.bsky.social?

Lovely visual explainers of how charts can lie!

I also thought about using memes in my lecture, but wasn't sure if my students would find them as outdated as Simpson references. @jamoeberl.bsky.social encourages me to test some of the geography memes I already prepared:

A lot can happen in 20 years

Es wird generell spannend, was Koralmbahn und Semmeringtunnel verkehrstechnisch für den Süden Österreichs alles verschieben werden... Mehr zur Vorgeschichte des Technik Campus Lienz auch in unserem Paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I recently came across a publication with a map that showed European regions (NUTS2 or NUTS3) based on their challenges/potentials for sustainability transitions. It seems I didn't bookmark it, though. Any of you any ideas?

To all #PhD students and early career researchers working on topics related to economic geography: Please take a look at our call and apply now for the next #YEGN Workshop on #agency and regional #transformation in Greifswald (Germany), 25-28 August 2025. 👇 yegn.wordpress.com/yegn-worksho...

I’m excited to share that I recently contributed a chapter titled “The Geographies of Innovation” to the Encyclopedia of Human Geography: dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-.... Let me know what you think - and thanks again for your early feedback, @cchlebna.bsky.social!

Daseinsvorsorge am Land. In Frankreich scheinbar recht ähnliche Probleme wie im deutschsprachigen Raum:

This week's lecture on demographics of rural regions in Austria is data viz heavy, featuring tons of charts and maps. Looking forward to it!

If you see this, post a picture taken in the mountains. Somewhare above Hardanger Fjord, Norway.

Back to class - but this time as lecturer. 16 years after I took this introductory lecture on rural geographies, I returned to the very same lecture hall. If you know any interesting case studies, trivia, or papers on rural geographies, let me know!

Assistant Professor in Innovation Policy This is a crucial role for us at LSE. Please share widely jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

Playing around with DALL·E 3 to design the cover slide of my lecture digitisation in rural regions. What do you think? Do you have a favourite?

Very good and concise article on the y-axis in #Dataviz: stephanieevergreen.com/y-axis/?__s=...

If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery.

Am 11.04.2024 darf ich auf Einladung der JÖGG ein bisschen über meine Stationen nach dem Studium sprechen. Freu mich drauf!

Got a nice surprise as early Christmas gift yesterday!

Unsere Begleitpublikationen "Innovation am Land" und "Schritt für Schritt zum Innovationsnetzwerk" gibt es jetzt auch als Hardcopy. Infos zur Fördermaßnahme "Ländliche Innovationssysteme" und PDF-Download hier: www.ffg.at/ausschreibun...

Ein alter Trick: Man beschneidet die Y-Achse möglichst knapp an den Datensätzen. So erscheinen auch sehr kleine Änderungen gleich viel dramatischer. 1/3

Took the cog railway up Schneeberg today. Very beautiful, very cold.

This is the best front page I've seen for long... and it doesn't conceal the content inside!

A guide to BlueSky for Scientists * Common questions * Links to resources * An explanation of feeds * A directory of science feeds Please share with scientists on BlueSky! Written by me and @markrubin.bsky.social 🧪 #stats #PsychSciSky #neuroscience

Lykkeland (State of Happiness) really is a great TV show for Economic Geographers. How did Norway create a new path with its oil industry? Which forms of agency were important to transform Stavanger from a peripheral town to the country's oil capital?

Interessanter Blogartikel von Ramon Bauer und Markus Speringer: Wie genau waren Bevölkerungsprognosen für Wien seit den 1950ern bis heute? Spoiler: Sie lagen fast immer daneben.

I might give a lecture on the geography of rural areas next fall. So I asked ChatGPT what topics I should cover. Looks not too bad, but pretty standard. And a bit boring. So I would like to get some real people views: What should young geographers learn about rural areas today? #geoinno #geosky

Setting up my profile here on Bluesky. Glad to see so many familiar faces from the other side here already. My Twitter profile is still around for the time being, but won't see many updates: twitter.com/JkbEder