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Jul 8, 2025: 🔗 Against "Brain Damage” The final quote of “[o]ur fear of AI “damaging our brains” is actually a fear of our own laziness” has a lot of power, although it also oversees the …
Jul 2, 2025: New PhD, a collab between IBM Research, SDR-UK’s own Geographic and Imagery Data Services to explore using vision foundation models & high …
Jun 26, 2025: 🔗 Last Week in Earth Observation: May 26, 2025 Aravind has a really interesting take on why the hyperscalers are moving into the weather model space. Metadata Author: Aravind Category: rss URL: …
Jun 13, 2025: 🔗 The Copilot Delusion
Jun 13, 2025: Getting excited for ESA’s Living Planet Symposium, to happen in Vienna in just over a week! I’ll be there Sunday to Thursday, who else is …
Jun 11, 2025: 🎧 Part II of the #GLaDpodcast on Navigating the Academic Job Market is out! Here we go all the way from application stage to (ideally) getting the …
Jun 3, 2025: 🔗 How to Do Ambitious Research in the Modern Era
May 29, 2025: The case for satellite imagery in social science and policymaking: A sketch from my talks in China It’s never been a better time to use something we’ve never needed more
May 29, 2025: Late to the party, but we dropped our last #GLaDpodcast episode a couple of weeks ago (!). First of two (a first for us!) on navigating the academic …
May 24, 2025: “New places, new perspectives All the dots on the map are clearly connected”
May 19, 2025: 🔗 Remarks on AI from NZ
May 18, 2025: 🔗 ChatGPT decreases idea diversity in brainstorming
May 8, 2025: 🔗 OSMlanduse a dataset of European Union land use at 10 m resolution derived from OpenStreetMap and Sentinel-2
May 8, 2025: 🔗 Learning to speak with honesty—and without AI
May 6, 2025: 🔗 OSMnx Reference Paper Published
Apr 29, 2025: 🎧 Justin Vernon talks to Christa Tippett
Apr 28, 2025: 🔗 High-spatiotemporal-resolution mapping of global urban change from 1985 to 2015
Apr 27, 2025: "Geospatial AI for Land Use" (my talk at OECD's WPTI'25) What I told the OECD is worth watching in AI for land use
Apr 22, 2025: Headed to GISRUK’25. Not presenting, chairing, paneling or anything official, just taking it all in as a consumer this time. Hit me up if you want to …
Apr 22, 2025: 🔗 An LLM Codegen Hero's Journey
Apr 17, 2025: 🔗 The End of Programming as We Know It
Apr 16, 2025: 🔗 Generative AI
Apr 10, 2025: 🔗 “Wait, not like that”: Free and open access in the age of generative AI
Apr 9, 2025: 🔗 The rise of ‘Frankenstein’ laptops in New Delhi’s repair markets | The Verge
Apr 8, 2025: Texas prairie at its best.
Apr 6, 2025: 🔗 Angelina Jolie Was Right About Computers
Apr 6, 2025: 🔗 Satellites are getting too good for forest carbon?
Apr 5, 2025: 🔗 Formalising the urban pattern language: A morphological paradigm towards understanding the multi-scalar spatial structure of cities
Apr 5, 2025: 🔗 Turning Numbers into News: the Economist’s Sondre Solstad on Data Journalism and Mapping the Ukraine War
Apr 3, 2025: 🔗 AI’s Future: Not Always Bigger
Mar 30, 2025: Somewhere along the Eerie Canal, Upstate New York.
Mar 30, 2025: New episode of the #GLaD podcast just dropped, Time (mis)management. Everything you always wanting to know (or not) about why we’re always late, and …
Mar 30, 2025: Chicago looking moody before I end this (train) layover…
Mar 28, 2025: “Without sounding too new-aged or metaphysical, I think that Detroit, the actual location of Detroit, is the instigator behind everything.” Jason …
Mar 23, 2025: Everything I (loved to) read in 2024
Mar 22, 2025: 🔗 The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Mar 19, 2025: Imago the SDR-UK Imagery Data Service, is looking for a lead Research Software Engineer to help us design, build and run the tech platform …
Mar 10, 2025: 🔗 Malka Older on narrative disorders in the not so distant figure.
Mar 7, 2025: 🔗 Cellophane Oasis
Mar 6, 2025: FutureBuild'25 The wisdom nuggets of my intervention at FutureBuild'25
Mar 5, 2025: 🔗 The Guardian reviews Nord
Mar 5, 2025: Early starts sometimes have rewards.
Mar 4, 2025: 🔗 JupyterGIS
Mar 2, 2025: 🎧 Interview with Steven Markley
Mar 2, 2025: 🗞️ Making Satellite Data Mainstream: Gaps, challenges, and opportunities for remote sensing experts [Industry Profiles and Activities] URL By Aravind …
Mar 1, 2025: 🔗 Pluralistic: Apple's encryption capitulation (25 Feb 2025)
Feb 23, 2025: Afternoon sun and five minutes of solitude
Dec 26, 2024: (Some of the) fog lifting. Christmas Day’24.
Dec 11, 2024: Books read in 2024 Everything I (loved to) read in 2024
Nov 14, 2024: Report on AI and Land Use On our report with the Geospatial Commission on AI for Land Use
Apr 7, 2024: [Add your witty parenting meme line here]
Mar 1, 2024: Anglo-European diplomacy
Feb 22, 2024: Grabânâgo
Jan 3, 2024: No more
Dec 19, 2023: Light from the other side of the alley
Sep 7, 2023: Early starts with a noir vibeâ¦
Aug 1, 2023: These have been, so far, the only clouds weâve encountered and, like most things in the Spanish summer, require #nofilter
Jul 4, 2023: Sometimes work brings you to fancy lunch spots
Jun 11, 2023: âThat’s what we are, we humans âcreatures that can forget. We have a horizon, beyond which we can remember very little. Nothing can reside …
Jun 10, 2023: City lights, Korean edition
May 29, 2023: Spring with a bench
May 19, 2023: (Book{worm)hole}
Apr 30, 2023: Quick jaunt into Paris, hi flying pig?!
Apr 5, 2023: Sunsets by the porch
Mar 31, 2023: Denver also had some fancy nightlights that require #nofilter
Mar 24, 2023: Used my layover to shoot some promotional material for my upcoming lunar surveyance company
Mar 19, 2023: Spring façade
Mar 15, 2023: Office furniture
Feb 27, 2023: Welcome to your cryosleep allotment aboard the SpacePod, Mr. Arribas-Bel.
Feb 9, 2023: A certain shade of green
Feb 8, 2023: Big, shiny, new (ish) buildings
Jan 28, 2023: Noir vibe for the walk back home
Jan 11, 2023: Pump it
Dec 30, 2022: (One of) this yearâs new routines
Nov 6, 2022: River of lights in Gotham city
Sep 24, 2022: Life like youâve never known itâ¦
Jul 7, 2022: ð´ó §ó ¢ó ³ó £ó ´ó ¿ from the ð
Jul 2, 2022: Happy (urban) memories
Jun 11, 2022: Worth a punt
May 29, 2022: Crisscrossing the English countryside has been on the calendar a few times this month. Perks of the job.
May 14, 2022: Not sure whatâs more unreal, the weather for todayâs ride or the gummy snake, but Iâll take both! ð ð² âï¸
May 8, 2022: Rainy mornings are for museums
May 1, 2022: Time in Houston is life from the copilotâs seat, zero clouds, and a cool background
Mar 3, 2022: âY es que el espejo del ascensor te escupe lo que eres a las 6 de la mañanaâ
Feb 16, 2022: âConfundimos la luna con farolasâ
Feb 12, 2022: Concrete sky, leaden concrete
Dec 20, 2021: Spanish Fuji
Nov 6, 2021: More leafy walk weather
Oct 30, 2021: Autumn leaves ð ð ð
Oct 5, 2021: Stacked stories
Sep 15, 2021: Early morning bike ride has its benefits
Aug 29, 2021: Summer vibes need #nofilter
Aug 27, 2021: Nature is healing⦠someone else is not
Aug 12, 2021: Home is everything the other home is not
Aug 6, 2021: Borderlines, nature and man made
Mar 20, 2021: Misty as a color palette
Jan 24, 2021: Lights & concrete at dusk
Dec 25, 2020: Flashlight
Dec 5, 2020: Classics require #nofilter with a sky like this
Oct 18, 2020: Walk season is on
Oct 11, 2020: Itâs that time of the year when you realize the âpre-summerâ youâve been living in for the last few months is to be followed by autumn; and …
Aug 12, 2020: I donât know whatâs more science fiction, this eveningâs sky or the fact the main driver behind was a summer storm…
Aug 7, 2020: Park hopping urban hike to visit old giantsâ ghosts
Aug 2, 2020: Looking west from the west
Aug 1, 2020: Summer this year was a Friday morning
Jun 9, 2020: Day X of lockdown: In waves, by @agedungs. A meditation on surf, loss, and (the good) high school days. Beautiful read to match the overcast sky.
May 31, 2020: Lockdown Sundays
Apr 11, 2020: Peak hour in corona days
Apr 4, 2020: (Un)locked… down
Mar 15, 2020: Removed from its element
Feb 21, 2020: Cocktail night companions
Feb 15, 2020: If you looked left, youâd see Explosions in the Sky in fine form, but I spent half the gig marveling at the venue…
Feb 8, 2020: A bit of gold squeezed out of the clouds
Feb 5, 2020: Cheltenham without spa
Dec 28, 2019: Arrival-esque urban spaceship, docked.
Dec 5, 2019: Windows from the window
Nov 25, 2019: Who wants a space prison when you can have this hotel instead…
Nov 10, 2019: An autumnây scene for a (Sunday afternoon) autumn plan: sketches by Taki Katei. This one, apparently, symbolizes the ruler receiving advice from …
Nov 7, 2019: Fun times last Sunday, glitter (b-)boy today
Sep 28, 2019: Study in greens
Sep 8, 2019: 70s sunday early afternoon light
Sep 5, 2019: Perks of conference traveling in Europe the (only so slightly ever) more sustainable way
Sep 1, 2019: Made it last minute to catch the “Astronomy Photographer of the Year” exhibit as it stops by Liverpool. Nothing like astrophotography to …
Aug 29, 2019: Corner restaurant
Jul 20, 2019: Saturday morning trip to 70s/80s NYC thanks to Mr. Haring’s visit to Liverpool
Jul 7, 2019: Technological obsolescence times two
Jun 7, 2019: The north of the south
May 18, 2019: Paseos
May 12, 2019: C.O.O.L.ombia
May 2, 2019: What you see there is MedellÃn by night from a 15th floor; what you don’t see, but was also there with even greater presence, was the spring …
Apr 28, 2019: Ghost structures
Apr 13, 2019: Baja speed of life
Apr 6, 2019: ððððððð
Apr 1, 2019: Staples. Pao de queijo (cheese bread) is baked and, when done right, is crispy in the outside and always creamy in the inside. The suco de laranja …
Mar 30, 2019: Study of green, red and white
Mar 27, 2019: After work ð´ð
Mar 23, 2019: Green, Niemeyer and Blue
Mar 21, 2019: Made-up city (plan)
Mar 19, 2019: First flight delayed, which means second flight missed and re-routed for the next day. But it also means I got to see Lisboa morning sun at its best.
Feb 12, 2019: #perspective Home with no filter
Feb 6, 2019: Concrete (and) Jungle
Jan 30, 2019: 7am under the white blanket
Jan 27, 2019: Bare
Jan 24, 2019: This, and the £6 for a coffee and pastry, are good reminders I’m back in London
Jan 20, 2019: Waiting for the pterodactylus to glide over…
Jan 17, 2019: Hotel room corner
Jan 14, 2019: Color gradient
Jan 14, 2019: Office view for the week
Jan 1, 2019: N(oir)YE
Dec 31, 2018: Holiday spirits, the Texan way
Dec 24, 2018: Houston winter showoff
Nov 22, 2018: Midsty but happy memories from last weekend
Nov 7, 2018: City (red) lights
Nov 5, 2018: Toronto neighborhood looking good in the fall
Oct 6, 2018: Replicants catching up by the window while Four Tet spins some tunes in the background
Sep 30, 2018: Past and present futures
Sep 30, 2018: Aurora and bit of Ellen, with #nofilter, at the Toxteth reservoir
Sep 11, 2018: Old and new
Sep 8, 2018: 10 Juin, 1900
Sep 4, 2018: By instinct
Sep 1, 2018: Summer house
Aug 28, 2018: Celebrities for the EU
Aug 22, 2018: Mappy send-off
Aug 20, 2018: The scent of New England before jumping back to the Old one
Aug 20, 2018: Airplanes in black & white
Aug 15, 2018: Seven P. M.
Aug 15, 2018: #layered [It does not do justice, but will serve as digital memory]
Aug 12, 2018: Rich light
Aug 5, 2018: Wildlife observed
Jul 15, 2018: Bus station at night
Jun 29, 2018: ðºð»ð¼ Days
Jun 22, 2018: Summer pleasures
Jun 6, 2018: Back garden type evening
May 27, 2018: Sunday morning pastimes
May 25, 2018: Latergram from happy memories
May 19, 2018: Light before night #LightNight
May 10, 2018: Golden times
May 9, 2018: London bound with no filter
Apr 7, 2018: #TX
Mar 17, 2018: Cambios
Mar 5, 2018: Siete
Mar 5, 2018: U. K. Le Guin, “The dispossessed”
Feb 25, 2018: Mixed use
Feb 10, 2018: (Re)visiting
Dec 31, 2017: Seeing 2017 go in proper urban fanboy style
Dec 27, 2017: There is something very peaceful about a landscape covered by snow
Dec 27, 2017: Future memories being manufactured
Dec 18, 2017: (Urban) campaign marketing
Dec 2, 2017: #NIMBY
Nov 30, 2017: #citylights
Oct 14, 2017: Sometimes life “bends” so you can get through
Sep 24, 2017: Los domingos al sol
Sep 24, 2017: As much as it doesn’t look like it, @jos_ariza snapped this casually as we were walking back to the crowd yesterday
Sep 22, 2017: “Estoy en la ciudad que vuelan las palomas, Barcelona, Barcelona…”
Sep 19, 2017: Monday concert night
Sep 17, 2017: #covered
Sep 12, 2017: Perks of an early rise
Sep 10, 2017: #skyLine
Sep 2, 2017: #ReclaimTheCity
Sep 1, 2017: #European
Aug 27, 2017: (Pre) Birthday girl
Aug 5, 2017: Cold summers can also be nice
Jul 31, 2017: Family memories
Jul 31, 2017: Pliegue de luz
May 19, 2017: Quick intrusion in London today and, yes, the green circle at the back is a matcha cookie
May 1, 2017: Early morning stroll
Apr 30, 2017: Spring without filters
Apr 12, 2017: Under the rail
Mar 25, 2017: Sakura
Mar 25, 2017: Thundercat. Weird, in a really good way.
Feb 14, 2017: Tomorrow is now
Feb 5, 2017: Six views of Mt. Fuji
Jan 26, 2017: All of the ð¸
Jan 25, 2017: Far East, far advanced…
Jan 22, 2017: Home for the week
Jan 1, 2017: Winter can still be cold
Dec 31, 2016: #Home
Dec 19, 2016: #timefreeze
Dec 19, 2016: #flatcurve
Dec 18, 2016: Drawing by Deanna Petherbridge
Nov 25, 2016: #beginning
Nov 1, 2016: Autumn roof
Oct 22, 2016: “El suelo es quebradizo pero sigo siendo el mismo prenda…”
Oct 19, 2016: The industrial side of the river was never so pretty
Oct 16, 2016: #mustbeautumn
Oct 15, 2016: #blackandwhite
Oct 2, 2016: Squeezing the summer one pedal at a time
Sep 25, 2016: Long and Waling road…
Sep 14, 2016: Sunny London scene
Sep 11, 2016: Ending the summer beginning the day
Sep 4, 2016: Wilderpeople hunting wilderplaces…
Aug 22, 2016: #ExplosionsintheSky
Aug 17, 2016: Houston summer colors
Aug 15, 2016: Melting Arctic
Jul 28, 2016: Hammocks, beer and NOLA jazz… Hipster the Houston way
Jul 1, 2016: #likefatherlikeson
Jun 29, 2016: (Long) beard no more
May 29, 2016: Road, blue sky and two wheels
May 14, 2016: #LightNight
Apr 27, 2016: #thrilled
Apr 19, 2016: Office backdrop #beceene #mapnerd
Mar 29, 2016: ðµ When you’re going to San Francisco, ðµ don’t forget… ðµ to visit the yoga room. #mustbecalifornia
Mar 27, 2016: #Quaint
Mar 23, 2016: #Texture
Mar 21, 2016: #ingredients
Mar 17, 2016: Boxed
Mar 12, 2016: Oh Spanish sky, you can be so prettily cloudless…
Jan 30, 2016: Yay for the MetOffice 0% chance of rain prediction for today’s ride #hail
Jan 25, 2016: Into the sea
Jan 16, 2016: Hotel life
Jan 16, 2016: #HillCountry
Dec 30, 2015: #Perennial
Dec 25, 2015: Home is where #Jamón is…
Dec 21, 2015: #HolaValencia
Dec 6, 2015: Some Sunday mornings should be prescribed by the doctor…
Dec 3, 2015: Ginger’n’Lemon kind of night
Nov 30, 2015: Weekend out’n’bout!
Nov 18, 2015: Reading list from Portland trip
Nov 11, 2015: All that reputation of Portland as the epicenter of hipsterdom… Well, it’s just true
Nov 11, 2015: Didn’t make it in time for the old pattern, but here’s my footfie with PDX’s carpet
Sep 27, 2015: Hello North Wales!