Ever wanted to research mobility patterns but no idea where to start looking for data? Qingqing Chen, Matthew Zook and I are releasing a dataset originally based on geotagged social media posts by 2 mln users across the US, containing 1.2 bln data points sent between 2012-2019.

📢 We are recruiting! Come and join us to work on the FIO-FOOD project - Food insecurity in people living with obesity: improving sustainable and healthier food choices in the retail food environment. Apply here👇jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

📢SAVE THE DATE: Weds 21st August 2-3pm, 1.01, 13 Berkeley Sq. Hybrid seminar by Johannes Singer from Hohenheim Gambling Research Center: "Stigmatisation of gambling and gambling disorder in social media. A mixed-methods Guided Topic Modelling approach for YouTube comments" bristol.ac.uk/science/resear…

Check this out. Very useful data if you are looking for web histories for small N, in-depth studies. Obvious ethical and privacy caveats.

Some writing I did last year for our exploratory JGI project 👇 🙏 Jean Golding Institute 🔌 to our current project for Smart Data Research UK lnkd.in/etf442U6

2 year Research Fellowship* in EconGeog. Powering Up Coastal Economies: Path Creation in Low Carbon and Renewable Energies. Work with Stuart Dawley and Danny Mackinnon. Led by You mistyped @unisouthampton with Newcastle University Geography and @ExeterUni. Apply here: jobs.soton.ac.uk/2749224WR-R

Job alert: Digital Archivist (Fixed Term, 3 years) The Cambridge University Libraries Cambridge University Cambridge University Library - post is to aid the completion of the Digital Preservation Programme and transition its services to 'business-as-usual'. #Archives #Job jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/47852/

#JobAlert to join a great team👇

Early communication geographies in #ERSA2024 Mount Basil Signal Station. Almost as fast as 📶

Spread the word! Fantastic job opportunity at LSE Geography & Environment: Assistant Professor of #Innovation Policy starting in 2025. Join a truly world-leading department—"the place to be," as Tony Giddens used to put it. Deadline for applications: 17 November. jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/49…

📢Just 3 weeks to go until our second International Interdisciplinary Colloquium. Register now for an in-person or online place: bristol.ac.uk/science/resear…

The GIS Research UK (GISRUK) 2025 Call for Abstracts is live! This year's theme is Process in Geographic Information Science, re-thinking the link between the patterns we see and what we represent on our computer screens. See you in Bristol April 23-25! gisruk.org/gisruk-2025

It was an excellent event! Well done Bristol Hub for Gambling Harms Research for bringing together researchers, policy makers and people who have experienced gambling harms!

🔔New paper alert!🔔 *People make places urban* in Nature Cities w/ ljw #cities #urbanism #urbanization We address that deceptively simple question: What makes a place urban? (TL;DR - the answer is in the title!). A short thread on key arguments (1/10)

📢📢 Igor Tupy, Simone Grabner and I are organising a Special Session on #economic #resilience in Regional Studies Association's annual conference in #Porto. Do join us (SS8)! #RSA25. More on the topic soon! 👇

📢📢The call for #abstracts for our online, free #ECR Colloquium (23-24 January 2025) is now open! 🗓️Abstract submission deadline December 9 rsai-bis.org/early-career-c… Help us spread the news! Daragh O'Leary Grant Allan Özge Öner Emmanouil Tranos Tasos Kitsos (@tasoskitsos.bsky.social) Matt Lyons

📢📢Anastasia Panori 🍀 and I are guest editing a special issue in Region, ERSA's free, open-access journal. #Digital disruptions of #space: Challenges and Opportunities for #Cities and #Regions 🗓️Send us your abstracts by March 15, 2025 RSAI-BIS 👀👇 openjournals.wu.ac.at/ojs/index.php/…

📢Tasos Kitsos (@tasoskitsos.bsky.social) and I are guest editing a special issue in Region, ERSA's free, open-access journal. ➡️#Digital disruptions of #space: Challenges and Opportunities for #Cities and #Regions 🗓️Send us your abstracts by March 15, 2025 www-mlgd.wu.ac.at/region/special…

🔔Cool Job Alert!!🔔 3-Year postdoc to work w/ my brilliant colleague Laurence Hawker on his exciting new FuturePop project in partnership w/ WorldPopProject #DataScience #demography #Geography jobs.ac.uk/job/DKN532/sen…

Today marks the publication of my book, which builds upon a collective scholarly endeavour to understand the enduring impact of neoliberal restructuring. I am grateful to those who have provided support through discussions, feedback, and encouragement. #Austerity #Welfare