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Six funded PhDs, Centre for Sciences of Place and Memory, Univ Stirling (Scotland). Join our team in philosophy, cognitive sciences, social sciences, & arts to study spatial thinking, disorientation, cities, truth & the past. Deadline 22 April, guidelines placememory.net/apply-now-fo...

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This is what the redundancy wave in British Higher Education currently looks like on the map: ‘British University Redundancy Map’ maps.app.goo.gl/yUteDm2MCXUi...

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Individual academic output feels so futile these days—writing silly little articles, giving silly little talks. But the attacks on academia show the continued importance of critical intellectual work as a collective endeavor. Anyone finding ways to work through this tension? I’m struggling with it.

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'UK research council leaders are bracing for cuts to quality-related (QR) research funding of up to £100 million a year ahead of next week’s Spring Statement – a move likely to lead to a fresh round of redundancies at UK universities.' 1/3

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@levijohnwolf.bsky.social and the rest of the Bristol team have been hard at work putting together a wonderful line up for this year's GISRUK conference 🤩 Register to attend in Bristol in April!

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‘What really makes a #house a home is a matter of atmosphere’. A humdinger of an event @britishacademy.bsky.social with The Museum of the Home and some brilliant speakers (March 24-25th) www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti....

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"As 1.5°C is passed, there is the risk modellers will just make more elaborate overshoot pathways and continue the roadshow of impossibly steep emission declines while, in reality, emissions continue to rise and climate impacts worsen."

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Huge win! Government announces plans to open up the Land Registry. If delivered, will finally reveal more about who owns land in England and Wales. Read my blog post for more details & how you can write to the Minister to make sure this now happens: whoownsengland.org/2025/03/06/h... 🧵1/

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The Greater London Authority have published a new London Building Stock Model, showing estimated energy efficiency (and many housing characteristics) for every home and residential building in the city. All data is downloadable and there's a cool interactive map data.london.gov.uk/dataset/lond...

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See it, say it, sorted

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Who fancies coming to do a PhD with me in the newly established www.geods.ac.uk - the topic is "AI and Geodemographics".... UK Students only unfortunately - but a great opportunity to join our exciting team - www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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"The 15-Hour City believes everything has its place. Houses go in one location, businesses in another, and in between is a dark sea of soul-crushing concrete and asphalt."

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CLOSING THIS FRIDAY! Five 3.5 year #FundedPhD opportunities working with INFUZE at University of Leeds Topics include: #SharedMobility #AgentBasedModelling #Decarbonisation #TransportPolicy #BehaviourChange Details here: in-fuze.org.uk/research-at-...

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Here go. Universities have become markets: profit before education, money before care. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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"Make friends, meet your neighbours, set up support networks, help those who are struggling. Since the dawn of humankind, those with robust social networks have been more resilient than those without." This is at the heart of our recent edited volume available free here: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

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Very last push on this! It will be closed at close of play today. Please take this opportunity to sign if you haven't already!

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1/ The rocketing Council Tax burden at the bottom of the income distribution quietly recreating the worst problems of the Poll Tax www.resolutionfoundation.org/comment/risi...

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There’s still time to sign. As @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social eloquently put it, sitting in a fancier deckchair won’t help to steer us away from the existential threat of the iceberg. I’m also not keen on the idea of throwing colleagues overboard in pursuit of a swankier place to park my posterior.

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Morning! On the 19th Feb at 12 (UK time), I will be giving a webinar at Energy Systems Catapult. Come join if you'd like to hear lessons for innovators, funders and policy makers working on digital twins in the energy sector. Registration: events.es.catapult.org.uk/event/veds-d...

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Around 400,000 people work in universities across the UK, and more then 200,000 of them are academics. The closures and job losses we’re seeing in the sector just now are a major industrial crises affecting the key workplaces and economic drivers of hundreds of towns and cities.

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Workshop CFP: 'The use of research creation and arts-based methods in studying housing, planning and the built environment' (9–10 September 2025, Maynooth University, Ireland). Includes 13 bursaries for travel/accommodation to attend. Further details at: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=650

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Working in UK social science & health research or policy and interested in exploring the opportunities 🛰️ satellite 🛰️ imagery presents for new and valuable ways of understanding places? @sdruk.bsky.social's Imago data service has just the event for you!! 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/satellite-...

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Have an idea for a review paper on a topic in #GIS and quantitative geography for Geography Compass? ✉️ Please get in touch! 💡 Recently commissioned articles included themes of big data, causality, tranquility, night time light and urbanisation ➡️ compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/results/47c8...

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The ultimate definition for #dataviz: "It is an art form. Being quantitative doesn't preclude it from being one. It can be a science, an art, and a craft all at once. And creating art is about more than just precision. It's about evoking emotion, telling stories, and sparking curiosity" Love it 💛

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@kwajo.bsky.social I am a PhD student looking to interview Eastfields, High Path, & Ravensbury residents (past and present) who have experienced damp and mould. Would you consider sharing this poster? Thank you!

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Have an idea for a review paper on a topic in #GIS and quantitative geography for Geography Compass? ✉️ Please get in touch! 💡 Recently commissioned articles included themes of big data, causality, tranquility, night time light and urbanisation ➡️ compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/results/47c8...

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Oxford University has extended paid paternity leave from 2 to 12 weeks. It says “this new scheme reflects a progressive approach to supporting new parents, ensuring that employees can fully embrace this life-changing moment with fewer financial or professional concerns”. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-02...

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Did anyone ask Farage how much this would increase energy bills? Because from the taxes to the higher cost of burying cables to the loss of energy storage to the increased gas imports to the hiked cost of capital this would send bills up substantially.

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Higher education news feeds are currently dominated by near-daily announcements of large job cuts across the UK. But what effect is all this having on the atmosphere within the departments affected – and, indeed, across the sector in general? Four scholars give their takes #AcademicSky

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📣 CfP ALGORITHMIC REFUSAL: CREATIVITY AND CODEABILITY IN DIGITAL URBAN GOVERNANCE @rgsibg.bsky.social conference in Birmingham. Organisers: @ayonadatta.bsky.social @fennaimara.bsky.social and Mariana Reyes DEADLINE for abstracts: 21st February 2025. 👇 www.regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/...

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Liking the echoes of Calvert in @cleancitiescampaign.org's new carspreading campaign, very much illustrating the ways bigger cars are squeezing us off our streets, and none more so than children -

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🚨 New competitively funded PhD opportunity! 🚨 Applications are open for a 3 year funded PhD on indoor air quality, behaviour change and health. 🔬 Find out more here: www.stir.ac.uk/research/res... #airquality #airpollution #behaviourchange

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There isn’t enough ‘sustainable’ aviation fuel to make a dent in our emissions – and there won’t be for years theconversation.com/there-isnt-e...

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Interesting approach to transition away from gas in NY. "The commission has two years to come up with a roadmap for an “orderly, affordable, and equitable right-sizing of the utility gas system” to support the state’s climate law."

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"This paper is a call for urban regions to go beyond rhetoric of inclusion and ensure the materiality that disabled people encounter within our everyday lives facilitates the mobilities of actively travelling disabled citizens"

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👋 @gijsw4.bsky.social and I are pleased to be welcoming submissions to our proposed @rgsibg.bsky.social session sponsored by @qmrg-rgs-ibg.bsky.social in collab w/ PopGeogRG! 🌏💫 We are excited to receive your work utilising innovative spatial methods or spatial data! Check out the details below 👇

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🎙️ New #GLaDpodcast episode! @darribas.bsky.social, @levijohnwolf.bsky.social and I are joined by the amazing @geoffboeing.com (@priceschool.usc.edu) to talk streets, disasters, urban form & open source software. It's a pretty good one, if I do say so myself. #geosky open.spotify.com/episode/4H6K...

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📣 New CFP! On May 8 and 9, we’re hosting an online workshop on the intersection of generative AI technologies and work. Learn more about what we’re looking for and apply by February 7. datasociety.net/announcement...

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What a distressing week for all at Cardiff Uni. Like all my colleagues in Social Sciences & many others I'm in the selection pool. Gutted for those in Schools scheduled to close. I hope the VC will think again - the proposed plan is neither the only nor the best way forward.

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🚨 New Research! Can heat pumps be cheaper than gas boilers? Our study shows how. 🔹 Cost parity at SCOP 3.3 in UK 🔹 Shifting ⚡levies to taxation lowers costs 🔹 Moving levies to gas even more 🔹 Time-of-use tariffs unlock savings Full paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵 THREAD ⬇️

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Further to my "where are the statues of women" post the other day, I have good news. Most cities in the UK are rubbish, but the amazing exception is Liverpool, which has a great tradition of public statuary and has nine, count them, nine statues of named women. 🧵 bsky.app/profile/susa...

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We've got 80 awesome geo women+ on this list now. I know there are more who should be on here! Please tag them or comment if you'd like to be added. go.bsky.app/Ay1iTTe #gischat

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"One lesson climate change teaches us again and again is that bad things can happen ahead of schedule. Model predictions for climate impacts have tended to be optimistically biased."

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Tomorrow is the final day to submit your GISRUK abstracts for April's conference in Bristol! 🎈 #GIS @levijohnwolf.bsky.social

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