The second day at #ECTQG starts with a keynote from @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social on the current state and future directions of #mobility and #accessibility #research. @digigeolab.bsky.social

"Lomailijat ihmettelevät laajoja metsähakkuita – puuta kaadetaan nyt lähes ennätystahtia". yle.fi/a/74-20172571 Jutussa mainitaan hakkuiden talouden ja ilmastotoimien välinen ongelma, mutta ei korkeiden hakkuumäärien haittaa luonnon monimuotoisuudelle. Jälkimmäinen unohtuu liian usein.

Lomailijat ihmettelevät laajoja metsähakkuita – puuta kaadetaan nyt lähes ennätystahtia

Lomailijat ihmettelevät laajoja metsähakkuita eri puolilla Suomea. Rovaniemeläinen maanomistaja kertoo, miksi möi metsää juuri nyt.

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Ukrainalle ilmapuolustusjärjestelmiä nyt. Venäjälle veret seisauttavia pakotteita nyt.

YK: Venäjän iskuissa kuoli kesäkuussa enemmän ukrainalaisia siviilejä kuin kertaakaan hyökkäyssodan aikana

YK:n mukaan Venäjän iskuissa kuoli kesäkuussa ainakin 232 siviiliä ja haavoittui 1343 siviiliä.

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”Your application was ranked 1st of all the 43 Academy Project Funding 2025 applications reviewed in this panel. Only applications with the final rating of 5 or 6 are ranked." Let me just say that after 25 negative (+1 positive) decisions from the Research Council of 🇫🇮, this feels damn good 🥳💰

Oslossa pitkän työviikon päätteeksi. Kuuntelen terassilta Ukrainan kansallislaulua. Terassi on sama, jolta myös rauhanNobelin voittajat vilkuttavat kansalle. ”This war hasn’t stopped for a single day” kaikuu aukiolla. Ollapa jossain Nobelistiehdokas, joka tämän ratkaisisi. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

Struggling with your PhD synopsis? ✍️ Try this - The reverse-order approach! 📚🧠 @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social and @digigeolab.bsky.social have been using the reverse-order approach to structure article-based PhD synopses — and it works! 🔗 Read the full story here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why you should write your PhD thesis backwards

By considering the central statement of your entire PhD, you can structure your writing around it, says Tuuli Toivonen.

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Rounding the day off was @waeiski.bsky.social who presented his work on regional student mobility and how Covid-19 has affected the regional structure of the flow network at #LBS2025. Photo by Oleksandr Karasov.

Our visiting researcher Davi Gressler presents his work on assessing realized 15-minute trips in US cities and comparing that to trips that were longer but could have been made in 15 minutes using SafeGraph data. #15MinuteCity #Segregation

Next up is @tadusko.bsky.social presenting his work on the rise and fall of Flickr and use of its data in geographical analyses at #LBS2025 conference.

Second day of #LBS2025 is about to start and so are the @digigeolab.bsky.social presentations.

The 19th Location Based Services conference #LBS2025 is about to start in #Espoo at #AaltoUniversity. I am presenting tomorrow, so today I get to chillax 😎 Very good representation from @digigeolab.bsky.social

Olen ikäni retkeillyt Keskuspuistossa. Silti aina on ollut sama: vähänkin vieraammalla paikalla meinaa eksyä, eivätkä opasteet ole auttaneet yhtään. Nyt juoksin pitkästä aikaa lenkin koko Keskuspuiston halki. Ja voi että on upeat ”uudet” opasteet! Helppoa menoa! 🤩 Kiitos @hel.fi ❤️🙏 (Kuva STT)

"Jos suuri, vanha puu esiteltäisiin teknologiamessuilla, se olisi nerokas keksintö ja vetonaula: menetelmä, jolla hyvin paljon hiiltä voi varastoida hyvin pienelle alalle." Luonnon ilmainen CCS. #metsät

Oras Tynkkynen@orastynkkynen.vihreat.fi · last yr.

”– Yhtä lailla metsäteollisuus voisi käyttää lapsityövoimaa. - - Mutta niin ei tehdä, koska lapsityövoimaa ei saa käyttää. Minkä takia on oikein käyttää ekosysteemejä kestämättömästi, aiheuttaa lajien uhanalaistumista, aiheuttaa hiilinielujen romahtamista, Kauppinen kysyy.”

Celebration in our #GREENTRAVEL project @digigeolab.bsky.social #VR experiments now concluded!! 🚴🏻‍♀️🌲🌳 🥳 Two months, 151 participants, a lot of learning. Kudos to the incredible team Silviya Korpilo, Om Ravindran, Ashish Shete, Jussi Torkko, Sini Ruohomäki, Juulia Lehtinen and Mansi Garg 💎🤩

Mobility viewpoint needs to be recognized in urban greening policies! 🚴‍🌳🏙️ New #GREENTRAVEL paper out! A perspective paper by Silviya Korpilo et al., published in Ambio, describes how people’s contact with urban nature often happens when moving through space. Interested? Read the paper here 👇

Restoring nature, enhancing active mobility: The role of street greenery in the EU’s 2024 restoration law - Ambio

This article argues for the importance of integrating a mobility perspective into urban greenspace planning and practice related to the 2024 EU Nature Restoration Law. Street greenery can play an impo...

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Apply for postdoctoral researcher and doctoral researcher positions at our department! Postdoctoral Researcher in Machine Learning for Nature Conservation: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... Deadline for applications: 15 May 2025. @helsinki.fi @ediminin.bsky.social #HELICSlab

Postdoctoral Researcher in Data Science for Nature Conservation

Postdoctoral Researcher in Data Science for Nature Conservation

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Our new Associate Professor in #geography @geohelsinkiuni.bsky.social, Johanna Eklund 💎, giving her inaugural keynote talk at the Kumpula Faculty Day of @helsinki.fi 🤩 Johanna asks what actually works in #conservation and how this could be tested with #counterfactual approaches 💚

New #OA paper "Climate and biodiversity perceptions amid the European energy crisis: shifting social media narratives" link.springer.com/article/10.1... Great team @annahau.bsky.social @waeiski.bsky.social @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social #sustainability #geography #energy #climate #biodiversity

Anna Hausmann@annahau.bsky.social · last yr.

✨ NEW ARTICLE OUT 🗞️ We studied how #ClimateChange and #Biodiversity loss were represented and discussed amid the European #EnergyCrisis on X (between 2021-2023) with a great team: @waeiski.bsky.social @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social @cortescapano.bsky.social See full article here: lnkd.in/gaYvw3N5

Check our new article where we examined how online discussion on #ClimateChange and #Biodiversity changed during the European energy crisis! Relevant for #sustainability #research & #policy A fantastic collaboration with @annahau.bsky.social @cortescapano.bsky.social and @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social!

Anna Hausmann@annahau.bsky.social · last yr.

✨ NEW ARTICLE OUT 🗞️ We studied how #ClimateChange and #Biodiversity loss were represented and discussed amid the European #EnergyCrisis on X (between 2021-2023) with a great team: @waeiski.bsky.social @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social @cortescapano.bsky.social See full article here: lnkd.in/gaYvw3N5

✨ NEW ARTICLE OUT 🗞️ We studied how #ClimateChange and #Biodiversity loss were represented and discussed amid the European #EnergyCrisis on X (between 2021-2023) with a great team: @waeiski.bsky.social @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social @cortescapano.bsky.social See full article here: lnkd.in/gaYvw3N5

🚨 NEW ARTICLE 🚨 How many photos are uploaded to Flickr? Where? By who? Why does any of it matter? We explore the rise and fall of #Flickr in this @digigeolab.bsky.social paper by yours truly, @vuoggis.bsky.social, Johanna Eklund, Anna Hausmann & @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social out now! buff.ly/0hJjPsm

“Technology might well be the thing that pushes us over the edge. But it could also, if we play our cards right, allow us to exit our era of polycrisis. But that won’t happen on its own. The path towards better technology – tech for the 99% – can only be achieved through a politics of the 99%.“

We are stuck. Declining. And spiraling. We need a breakthrough | Amana Fontanella-Khan

We live in dark, depressing and – frankly – terrifying times. Will technology push us over the edge or help us exit our many crises?

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Three years ago I never thought of supporting any armed forces financially. Now payment made, again. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 bank.gov.ua/en/about/sup...

Starting to recover from the most memorable Friday: a full day seminar and an evening party to celebrate the first 15 years of our lab @digigeolab.bsky.social 😍🤩❤️💃🏽🕺🏿 It was a blast to have some 40 members and alumni to reunite, discuss & celebrate together, many over long distances 🇬🇧🇳🇴🇩🇪🇦🇹🇪🇪🇫🇮 Yay!😍🥳🪩

Onnea 15 vuotias Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social! 🥳 @helsinki.fi @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social

@digigeolab.bsky.social panel discussion has started with @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social @vuoggis.bsky.social, @thiip.bsky.social, Johanna Eklund, Liisa Kajala and Maria Salonen. Interesting points on #VisitorMonitoring, data availability, reliability and #resilience of #BigData sources.

Anna Hausmann asking important questions at @digigeolab.bsky.social 15-Year Anniversary Seminar about how #technology is shaping our experiences of #nature. Nature is more accessible to us than ever before, but our experiences of it are increasingly mediated by smart devices.

PhD researcher @matabatchi.bsky.social presents his work on the role of #nature in #tourism focusing on the #Canarias, and how to examine that with traditional and #BigData from #SocialMedia and novel methods such as #ComputerVision and #AI. 33% of tourist content is posted from natural areas.

Next up @tadusko.bsky.social presents how #BigData and novel methods can be used to extract relevant information on #NatureRecreation and nature-based #tourism.