Elias Willberg
eliaswillberg.bsky.social
Elias Willberg
@eliaswillberg.bsky.social
Postdoc, Geographer & GIScientist

Research on #Cities, #Sustainability, #Accessibility, #Transport, #ActiveTravel, #UrbanEnvironments, #Nature, #BigData, #SpatialAnalysis

👥 Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social
🏫 University of Helsinki
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Finally here!

Belonging: I'm a #Postdoc at the wonderful @digigeolab.bsky.social ❤️

Following: Research & societal discussions (and football)

Posting: Research & discussions about #Geography, #Cities, #Sustainability, #Accessibility, #Transport, #Nature, #GIScience, & #AI

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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...
doi.org
April 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Järjestelläänkö nyt Titanicin kansituoleja? Miltä tuntuu tutkijoista, jotka näkevät tilanteen työpöydällään joka päivä? Kirjoitin aiheesta.
”Tunnen pettymystä, jos nyt tunteista puhutaan” – välillä ilmastonmuutoksen tutkijat kyllästyvät selittämään samoja asioita
Tutkijat ovat puhuneet ilmastonmuutoksesta ja ekologisesta kriisistä vuosikymmeniä. Silti valtiot kiistelevät yhä siitä, kenen pitäisi tehdä ja kuinka paljon. Miltä sitä tuntuu seurata?
suomenkuvalehti.fi
April 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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🚨🌍 NEW ARTICLE 🌍🚨

We geocoded the #mobility of over 2 million #Erasmus students across #Europe from 2014 to 2022 with @miladmzdh.bsky.social, Oula Inkeröinen & @ollejarv.bsky.social.

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

@mobi-twin-project.bsky.social
@digigeolab.bsky.social
@springernature.com

#GIScience
March 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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How the world changed in March 2020, in graphs.
30 Charts That Show How Everything Changed in March 2020 (Gift Article)
It can be easy to forget, or look away from, the pain and disruption of the pandemic. The numbers will be there to remind us.
www.nytimes.com
March 10, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Your map’s legend can be turned into a histogram, helping your audience understand the distribution in addition to decoding the colours.
November 25, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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We have just opened an exciting PhD position in GeoAI & LLMs and are looking for motivated PhD candidates! The PhD work will be supervised by me and Nico Van de Weghe from the GeoAI Research Center, Ghent University. 

Apply by March 2nd, 2025 from here (+ more details): www.aalto.fi/en/open-posi...
Doctoral Researcher in GeoAI & Large Language Models | Aalto University
www.aalto.fi
February 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
If you live or visit the Helsinki region this spring, come join our #VR experiment, where you get to cycle through a virtual city!

Details below ⬇️
🚲 Cycle Through a Virtual City: Join the GREENTRAVEL VR Study 🌳

📍 Location: University of Helsinki, City Centre Campus
🕒 Duration: About 1.5 hours
📅 When: February to April 2025

➡️ Learn more here: https://buff.ly/4h38xgP

➡️Book your participation time here: https://buff.ly/4g5owd8
January 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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📢 Seminar Announcement! 👉 "Spatial big data research for fair and sustainable societies: Celebrating 15 years of the Digital Geography Lab"

When: 7 Feb
Where: Unioninkatu 33, Helsinki (+ online!)

Program 👉 https://buff.ly/3Cek6ms
Register: 👉 https://buff.ly/4hjVYOc
January 17, 2025 at 8:56 AM
This paper was so much fun to do in a great collaboration!

And even better, the results are pretty interesting for urban planning!

#AI #cities #LLM #planning #geography
🚨 New Paper Alert!

Can AI understand urban attractiveness as humans do?

Our latest study compares ChatGPT's ratings of urban environments in Helsinki to those of human participants. The results are eye-opening for urban planners.
📄Paper: shorturl.at/6FiDe
🎧AI-generated Podcast: shorturl.at/TXBxS
January 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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We have created a starter pack for the people of GeoHelsinkiUni (current and alumni) to keep in touch with our research community on BlueSky - Join the conversation! go.bsky.app/Dd27kBz
January 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Finally here!

Belonging: I'm a #Postdoc at the wonderful @digigeolab.bsky.social ❤️

Following: Research & societal discussions (and football)

Posting: Research & discussions about #Geography, #Cities, #Sustainability, #Accessibility, #Transport, #Nature, #GIScience, & #AI

🌏♻️🌇🚌🚶💻🌱
January 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM