Just back from a fully packed week in the Bay Area, I jotted down a few notes to commit the highlights to memory (and battle the post-academic high blues!): me.darribas.org/2026/03/23/n...

New episode of the one and only #GLaDpodcast. For this one, @rsfrankl.bsky.social , @levijohnwolf.bsky.social and yours truly dust off our oracles to speculate what 2026 (whatever is left of it anyway) has in store for Geography, Life, Geography Life, and Data!

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Screenshot of lecture 1 from our embeddings workshop

Photo of Dani lecturing on autoencoders

Photo of a busy workshop room

🛰️ Embeddings for the rest of us! All part of our Imago mission to make satellite imagery useful, usable, and used in social research and policy!

Team Imago* are at MHCLG today to talk imagery, embeddings & why research/policy folks should care.

* @darribas.bsky.social @pietrostefani.bsky.social ++

Yesterday, we (the Imago team) gave a workshop on satellite embeddings for a room with ca.50 people from the UK Government. It’s so exciting to see these ideas and technology move at the speed of light from state of the art research to Gov. Materials at:

imago-sdruk.github.io/EMBED2Social...

A bit late to post about, new episode w/ @rsfrankl.bsky.social and @levijohnwolf.bsky.social of the #GLaDpodcast. If nothing else, be enticed by the title; if something else, delight in Anthony Robinson’s views on maps, AI, and microwave ovens!

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Episode 29: The oldest profession in geography

📍 What is the oldest profession in geography and why should you care about it in 2026?

The #GLaDpodcast has answers (and 🔥 takes)! No spoilers 🤐 but @darribas.bsky.social, @levijohnwolf.bsky.social & I are joined this time by special guest @arobinson.bsky.social.

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Catch up fodder for next AAG!!!

Just in time before the year’s out, I managed to collate all the reads that made a mark on me this year! If there are others I should read, hit me up with recommendations. Life’s too short to fill it with mediocre reads.

me.darribas.org/2025/12/29/i...

Why "Science-as-a-Service" Doesn't Work for Earth (or social!) Science

me.darribas.org/2025/12/18/w...

Just in time for a cozy listen this coming break, a new #GLaDpodcast ep.! This time @rsfrankl.bsky.social @levijohnwolf.bsky.social & I welcome Serge Rey for all things open, open source, and academia! Come for the code, stay for the stories of lives changed!

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Episode 27: Are you GLaD about GeoAI? A conversation with Kryzsztof Janowicz

🎧 new episode of the #GLaDpodcast is out!

You can run but you can’t hide. @levijohnwolf.bsky.social, @darribas.bsky.social and I went to the source (Krzysztof Janowicz) to hear more about Geo + AI, AI for Geo, and my personal bugbear GeoAI.

#geography #geoAI

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Back from this year's Human Planet Forum, organised by the Group on Earth Observations (GEO). I had to summarise the whole event in 10min., so I decided to write it up also:

me.darribas.org/2025/11/24/d...

The JRC team did a truly stellar job at putting the event together, thank you so much!!!

I have an entry today at the GDSL’s #30DayMapChallenge with an attempt at “Dimensions”. It’s a story of 64 dimensions, mapped in two, with a bit of an extra dimension.

me.darribas.org/2025/11/06/e...

This week I gave a (5'ish min.) talk about democratising satellite embeddings in social research and policy. Here's the write up in case of interest!

me.darribas.org/2025/10/24/s...

#satellite #embeddings #geofoundationmodels

🎧New episode of the #GLaDpodcast 🎧 @rsfrankl.bsky.social, @levijohnwolf.bsky.social and I liked talking to @wenfeixu.bsky.social so much that we invited her back! Come for the fancy data, stay for engaging conversation™️ and… an Exhibitions entry in your CV.

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🎧New #GLaDpodcast 🎧 Everything you ever wanted to know about mobile phone data in social science and never dared to ask, all in an entertaining™️ conversation btw @levijohnwolf.bsky.social, @rsfrankl.bsky.social, yours truly and the one and only @wenfeixu.bsky.social.

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Episode 25: What we talk about when we talk about mobile phone data

Here at your friendly "Geography, Life, and Data" podcast, we do a lot of Geography, a lot of Life, and a lot of Geography Life. This one's for the Data—mobile phone data, that is. ☎️

@darribas.bsky.social @levijohnwolf.bsky.social @wenfeixu.bsky.social #geography

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AI & GLaD in Practice: a field report The GLaD Podcast · Episode

AI is now definitely changing how we live our (geography) lives!

Join @rsfrankl.bsky.social, @darribas.bsky.social, and me for another episode of GLaD, where we discuss whether you should be vibe coding w/ Claude, sending ChatGPT review requests, or running on AI-made routes!

shorturl.at/GLNKd

We gave in to the hype and did one #GLaDpodcast episode on how we use AI, for Geography, Life, Geography Life, and data…

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We are still recruiting for another PhD for the next academic year, working with IBM Research - geods.ac.uk/2025/07/02/p...

New PhD project out, a collab between IBM Research, @sdruk.bsky.social's own Geographic and Imagery Data Services to explore using vision foundation models & high resolution imagery of the Liverpool City Region. If this sounds like you (or a friend!), all info at: geods.ac.uk/2025/07/02/p...

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 coming? hit me up if you’d like to talk all things Imago or just catch up!

🎧 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 job. Grab it wherever you get your podcasts!

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Episode 23: Navigating the Academic Job Market (Part 2) The GLaD Podcast · Episode

Ep. 2 of our "Navigating the Shoals of the Academic Job Market" is live! we dive into putting an application together, what interviews might be like, and share @rsfrankl.bsky.social , @darribas.bsky.social and I share our experiences in these rough and wild waters!
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📢 Announcing the first-ever @geodatascience.bsky.social Summer School!🌍📊

Boost your skills in Data Science, Geography, ML/AI with our dream team: Elisabetta, @carmen-cabrera.bsky.social, @darribas.bsky.social, Gabriele, Mark, Zi, Olga & Ron

🗓️Apply now! Early Bird: June 30.

🔗 lnkd.in/eW976945

I wrote up the essence of my recent talks in China about why social researchers and policy makers should pay more attention to satellites. Tl;dr: it's never been a better time to use something we've never needed more. Longer form (6mins according to Firefox!): me.darribas.org/2025/05/29/t...

Episode 22: Navigating the Academic Job Market (Part 1) The GLaD Podcast · Episode

🎧 #GLaDpodcast listeners asked for an episode on the academic #geography job market.

We're so responsive we recorded not one but TWO episodes on the topic! Join me, @levijohnwolf.bsky.social & @darribas.bsky.social as we talk academic jobs and how get one...part 1

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I wrote up my 10min contribution to last week's OECD Working Party in Territorial Indicators on (geospatial) AI for land use: me.darribas.org/2025/04/27/g...

Headed to #GISRUK2025 (@gisruk.bsky.social). Not presenting, chairing, paneling or anything official, just taking it all in as a consumer this time. Hit me up if you want to talk Imago, satellites, cities… or just say hi! 👋

Re-upping this, still time to put in your suggestions :-)