: Notes from a week in the Bay Area Spatial Data Science Summit and AAG in seven days.
: We’re recruiting for two PhD positions at Liverpool with the Imago team and based at the GDSL: …
: The GLaD Podcast recognised with AAG award This happened, the GLaD podcast is now the “award-winning” GLaD podcast: …
: New episode of the one and only #GLaDpodcast. For this one, we dust off our oracles to speculate …
: This was a lot more fascinating than I thought it would. Come for the craze around OpenClaw, stay …
: 🔗 How Markdown took over the world Sobre very good Internet History lesson, full of delicious details that corroborate the idea the web …
: Yesterday, we (the Imago team) gave a workshop on satellite embeddings for a room with about 50 …
: 🔗 Earth Embeddings: Towards AI-centric Representations of our Planet Very very timely paper that captures the current zeitgeist in EO and AI. If nothing else, it serves …
: A bit late to post about (though not to publish!), we have a new episode of the #GLaDpodcast out. If …
: 🎧 From Data Dump to Data Product So many common points and arguments that really resonate here and make me more hopeful for Imago. …
: 🔗 21 Lessons from 14 Years at Google There’s probably a limit to how many “lessons” blog posts one should read but, every once in a …
: 🔗 The year of technoligarchy Molly White is on fire for this new year’s first dispatch… Metadata Author: Molly White URL: …
: 📺 deftones: private music & more with zane lowe [apple music] With their new album, I’ve been listening to some interviews. This one is particularly nice (at over …
: 2025 in reads 12 more months of reading non-fiction, fiction, and the internet
: 🎧 The Vergecast on RAM Good overview of the forces behind the spike in the price of RAM, and some musings on what’s ahead …
: 🔗 Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) Metadata Author: Cory Doctorow Category: rss URL: pluralistic.net/2025/12/0… Highlights …
: 🔗 Why "Science-as-a-Service" Doesn't Work for Earth Science Very important, if sobering, piece on the TerraWatchSpace newsletter on why “handing off to …
: Just in time for a cozy listen this coming break, a new #GLaDpodcast episode! This time, we welcome …
: With all the rush last month, I forgot we released a new #GLaDpodcast episode. We finally gave in to …
: 🎧 The Verge wrap up and forward Two end-of-year linked episodes of the Vergecast are good fun: The Vergecast 2025 year in review …
: 🔗 World Urbanization Prospects 2025 Cities are (still) a pretty cool thing… Metadata Author: Population Division of the United Nations …
: Metadata Author: Pete Warden Category: rss URL: petewarden.com/2025/11/2… Highlights If …
: Dispatch from the Human Planet Forum Everything I said in ten minutes to summarise three days
: 🔗 The climate action that matters is in the global south, argues an architect of the Paris agreement Metadata Author: The Economist Category: article URL: www.economist.com/by-invita… …
: 🎧 The company at the heart of the AI bubble This is a very interesting look into the more physical aspect of AI (data centers) but also to the …
: Entry for #30DayMapChallenge I have an entry today at the GDSL’s #30DayMapChallenge with an attempt at …
: 🔗 The City As Text Neat paper by a great gang. Metadata Author: Jonathan Reades, Yingjie Hu, Emmanouil Tranos, …
: 🔗 AI as Normal Technology Finally made it to read (listen) to this one, after seeing it referred to by seemingly everyone …
: 🔗 Beyond the Machine Metadata Author: Frank Chimero Category: article URL: frankchimero.com/blog/2025… …
: scikit-learn has always been an example in many ways of how to do many things well (apis, open …
: 🎧 How Silicon Valley enshittified the internet Man, Cory Doctorow is on fire on this one. —- Decoder: How Silicon Valley enshittified the internet, …
: 🔗 Why You Should Write Every Day (Even if You’re Not a Writer) Metadata Author: JA Westenberg Category: rss URL: www.joanwestenberg.com/p/why-you… …
: (Satellite imagery) embeddings for the rest of us My five(ish) minute contribution to the Leeds workshop on Geo Foundation Models.
: 🎧New episode of the #GLaDpodcast 🎧 We liked talking to Wenfei Xu so much that we invited her back! …
: Metadata Author: Aaron Zamost Category: article URL: medium.com/backchann… Highlights So …
: 🔗 Should We Let Public Transit Die? No. Metadata Author: Jarrett Walker Category: article URL: www.bloomberg.com/news/arti… …
: 🔗 GeoFM: how will geo-foundation models reshape spatial data science and GeoAI? This was a much more insightful read than I anticipated. The first part is a fantastic introduction …
: 🎧New episode of the #GLaDpodcast 🎧 Everything you ever wanted to know about mobile phone data in …
: Python: The Documentary This was well worth a watch. I definitely was not there, but lived through …
: 🔗 Mission Critical -- Satellite Data is a Distinct Modality in Machine Learning Some of the arguments made here would ring obvious to traditional spatial analysts, others to …
: 🔗 Why We’re Talking About a Centralized Vector Embeddings Catalog Now The white paper mentioned below is well worth a read. It puts in much more eloquent words many of …
: We gave in to the hype and did one #GLaDpodcast episode on how we use AI, for Geography, Life, …
: 🔗 The rise of end times fascism Metadata Author: Naomi Klein Category: article URL: www.theguardian.com/us-news/n… …
: 🔗 Why we still need small language models - even in the age of frontier AI This is a cool example of how less can be more. The article is also surprisingly informative for a …
: 🔗 Trump, national-capitalism at bay Metadata Author: par piketty Category: article URL: www.lemonde.fr/blog/pike… Highlights …
: 🔗 Against "Brain Damage” The final quote of “[o]ur fear of AI “damaging our brains” is actually a fear of our own laziness” …
: New PhD, a collab between IBM Research, SDR-UK’s own Geographic and Imagery Data Services to …
: 🔗 Last Week in Earth Observation: May 26, 2025 Aravind has a really interesting take on why the hyperscalers are moving into the weather model …
: Getting excited for ESA’s Living Planet Symposium, to happen in Vienna in just over a week! …
: 🎧 Part II of the #GLaDpodcast on Navigating the Academic Job Market is out! Here we go all the way …
: 🔗 How to Do Ambitious Research in the Modern Era
: 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
: Late to the party, but we dropped our last #GLaDpodcast episode a couple of weeks ago (!). First of …
: “New places, new perspectives All the dots on the map are clearly connected”
: 🔗 ChatGPT decreases idea diversity in brainstorming
: 🔗 OSMlanduse a dataset of European Union land use at 10 m resolution derived from OpenStreetMap and Sentinel-2
: 🔗 Learning to speak with honesty—and without AI
: 🔗 OSMnx Reference Paper Published
: 🎧 Justin Vernon talks to Christa Tippett
: 🔗 High-spatiotemporal-resolution mapping of global urban change from 1985 to 2015
: "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
: Headed to GISRUK’25. Not presenting, chairing, paneling or anything official, just taking it all in …
: 🔗 An LLM Codegen Hero's Journey
: 🔗 The End of Programming as We Know It
: 🔗 “Wait, not like that”: Free and open access in the age of generative AI
: 🔗 The rise of ‘Frankenstein’ laptops in New Delhi’s repair markets | The Verge
: 🔗 Angelina Jolie Was Right About Computers
: 🔗 Satellites are getting too good for forest carbon?
: 🔗 Formalising the urban pattern language: A morphological paradigm towards understanding the multi-scalar spatial structure of cities
: 🔗 Turning Numbers into News: the Economist’s Sondre Solstad on Data Journalism and Mapping the Ukraine War
: 🔗 AI’s Future: Not Always Bigger
: Somewhere along the Eerie Canal, Upstate New York.
: New episode of the #GLaD podcast just dropped, Time (mis)management. Everything you always wanting …
: Chicago looking moody before I end this (train) layover…
: “Without sounding too new-aged or metaphysical, I think that Detroit, the actual location of …
: Everything I (loved to) read in 2024
: 🔗 The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
: Imago the SDR-UK Imagery Data Service, is looking for a lead Research Software Engineer to help us …
: 🔗 Malka Older on narrative disorders in the not so distant figure.
: FutureBuild'25 The wisdom nuggets of my intervention at FutureBuild'25
: Early starts sometimes have rewards.
: 🎧 Interview with Steven Markley
: 🗞️ Making Satellite Data Mainstream: Gaps, challenges, and opportunities for remote sensing experts …
: 🔗 Pluralistic: Apple's encryption capitulation (25 Feb 2025)
: Afternoon sun and five minutes of solitude
: (Some of the) fog lifting. Christmas Day’24.
: Books read in 2024 Everything I (loved to) read in 2024
: Report on AI and Land Use On our report with the Geospatial Commission on AI for Land Use
: [Add your witty parenting meme line here]
: Light from the other side of the alley
: Early starts with a noir vibeâ¦
: These have been, so far, the only clouds weâve encountered and, like most things in the Spanish …
: Sometimes work brings you to fancy lunch spots
: âThat’s what we are, we humans âcreatures that can forget. We have a horizon, beyond which …
: Quick jaunt into Paris, hi flying pig?!
: Denver also had some fancy nightlights that require #nofilter
: Used my layover to shoot some promotional material for my upcoming lunar surveyance company
: Welcome to your cryosleep allotment aboard the SpacePod, Mr. Arribas-Bel.
: Big, shiny, new (ish) buildings
: Noir vibe for the walk back home
: (One of) this yearâs new routines
: River of lights in Gotham city
: Life like youâve never known itâ¦
: ð´ó §ó ¢ó ³ó £ó ´ó ¿ from the ð
: Crisscrossing the English countryside has been on the calendar a few times this month. Perks of the …
: Not sure whatâs more unreal, the weather for todayâs ride or the gummy snake, but Iâll take …
: Rainy mornings are for museums
: Time in Houston is life from the copilotâs seat, zero clouds, and a cool background
: âY es que el espejo del ascensor te escupe lo que eres a las 6 de la mañanaâ
: âConfundimos la luna con farolasâ
: Concrete sky, leaden concrete
: Autumn leaves ð ð ð
: Early morning bike ride has its benefits
: Nature is healing⦠someone else is not
: Home is everything the other home is not
: Borderlines, nature and man made
: Classics require #nofilter with a sky like this
: Itâs that time of the year when you realize the âpre-summerâ youâve been living in for the …
: I donât know whatâs more science fiction, this eveningâs sky or the fact the main driver …
: Park hopping urban hike to visit old giantsâ ghosts
: Summer this year was a Friday morning
: Day X of lockdown: In waves, by @agedungs. A meditation on surf, loss, and (the good) high school …
: If you looked left, youâd see Explosions in the Sky in fine form, but I spent half the gig …
: A bit of gold squeezed out of the clouds
: Arrival-esque urban spaceship, docked.
: Who wants a space prison when you can have this hotel instead…
: An autumnây scene for a (Sunday afternoon) autumn plan: sketches by Taki Katei. This one, …
: Fun times last Sunday, glitter (b-)boy today
: 70s sunday early afternoon light
: Perks of conference traveling in Europe the (only so slightly ever) more sustainable way
: Made it last minute to catch the “Astronomy Photographer of the Year” exhibit as it …
: Saturday morning trip to 70s/80s NYC thanks to Mr. Haring’s visit to Liverpool
: Technological obsolescence times two
: What you see there is MedellÃn by night from a 15th floor; what you don’t see, but was also …
: ððððððð
: Staples. Pao de queijo (cheese bread) is baked and, when done right, is crispy in the outside and …
: Study of green, red and white
: First flight delayed, which means second flight missed and re-routed for the next day. But it also …
: #perspective Home with no filter
: This, and the £6 for a coffee and pastry, are good reminders I’m back in London
: Waiting for the pterodactylus to glide over…
: Holiday spirits, the Texan way
: Midsty but happy memories from last weekend
: Toronto neighborhood looking good in the fall
: Replicants catching up by the window while Four Tet spins some tunes in the background
: Aurora and bit of Ellen, with #nofilter, at the Toxteth reservoir
: The scent of New England before jumping back to the Old one
: #layered [It does not do justice, but will serve as digital memory]
: Latergram from happy memories
: Light before night #LightNight
: U. K. Le Guin, “The dispossessed”
: Seeing 2017 go in proper urban fanboy style
: There is something very peaceful about a landscape covered by snow
: Future memories being manufactured
: Sometimes life “bends” so you can get through
: As much as it doesn’t look like it, @jos_ariza snapped this casually as we were walking back …
: “Estoy en la ciudad que vuelan las palomas, Barcelona, Barcelona…”
: Cold summers can also be nice
: Quick intrusion in London today and, yes, the green circle at the back is a matcha cookie
: Thundercat. Weird, in a really good way.
: Drawing by Deanna Petherbridge
: “El suelo es quebradizo pero sigo siendo el mismo prenda…”
: The industrial side of the river was never so pretty
: Squeezing the summer one pedal at a time
: Ending the summer beginning the day
: Wilderpeople hunting wilderplaces…
: Hammocks, beer and NOLA jazz… Hipster the Houston way
: Road, blue sky and two wheels
: Office backdrop #beceene #mapnerd
: ðµ When you’re going to San Francisco, ðµ don’t forget… ðµ to visit the …
: Oh Spanish sky, you can be so prettily cloudless…
: Yay for the MetOffice 0% chance of rain prediction for today’s ride #hail
: Some Sunday mornings should be prescribed by the doctor…
: Ginger’n’Lemon kind of night
: Reading list from Portland trip
: All that reputation of Portland as the epicenter of hipsterdom… Well, it’s just true
: Didn’t make it in time for the old pattern, but here’s my footfie with PDX’s …