David Martin (still has an underlying condition)
@geogdave.bsky.social
Alien from another platform. Emeritus Prof #Geography, https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5wyh9h/emeritus-professor-david-martin Trustee https://www.geograph.org.uk/ Mostly #Maps, #Photography, #Population, #Census, #Statistics, #BloodCancer, #Faith
Save Geography at the University of Leicester
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
c.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.
Secret Maps at the British Library reconsiders the lines that shape our world
Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.
tcnv.link
November 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.
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#datascience
the foundation behind the #python programming language, has rejected a $1.5 million grant, as it required removing DEI and diversity efforts of the foundation
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
the foundation behind the #python programming language, has rejected a $1.5 million grant, as it required removing DEI and diversity efforts of the foundation
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Python plan to boost software security foiled by Trump admin’s anti-DEI rules
National Science Foundation said grantees must not operate any DEI programs.
arstechnica.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:28 AM
#datascience
the foundation behind the #python programming language, has rejected a $1.5 million grant, as it required removing DEI and diversity efforts of the foundation
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
the foundation behind the #python programming language, has rejected a $1.5 million grant, as it required removing DEI and diversity efforts of the foundation
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Making sure Census 2031 reflects modern society... (if only Office for National Statistics were on @bsky.app!)
blog.ons.gov.uk/2025/10/28/m... @ukdataservice.bsky.social
blog.ons.gov.uk/2025/10/28/m... @ukdataservice.bsky.social
Making sure Census 2031 reflects modern society
Once a decade, the census provides us with the unique opportunity to ask questions of the whole population of England and Wales. The information gathered from this monumental exercise is vital for the
blog.ons.gov.uk
October 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Making sure Census 2031 reflects modern society... (if only Office for National Statistics were on @bsky.app!)
blog.ons.gov.uk/2025/10/28/m... @ukdataservice.bsky.social
blog.ons.gov.uk/2025/10/28/m... @ukdataservice.bsky.social
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'Net migration will fall very sharply in future years... Any political benefit the government may gain from this fall in immigration could be jeopardised by the economic damage that it causes'. Some eye watering estimates here from @jamesbowes01.bsky.social ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...
The coming collapse in immigration to the United Kingdom - UK in a changing Europe
James Bowes analyses the fall in net migration to the UK as a result of government policies and explores some of the political and economic consequences.
ukandeu.ac.uk
October 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
'Net migration will fall very sharply in future years... Any political benefit the government may gain from this fall in immigration could be jeopardised by the economic damage that it causes'. Some eye watering estimates here from @jamesbowes01.bsky.social ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...
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GCSE students from three local schools came onto campus to learn about the flood risks affecting Southampton.
They took part in interactive workshops with
the More Than Maps team, learning about the models and methods used to assess and adapt to flood risks.
southampton.ac.uk/geography/ne...
They took part in interactive workshops with
the More Than Maps team, learning about the models and methods used to assess and adapt to flood risks.
southampton.ac.uk/geography/ne...
October 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
GCSE students from three local schools came onto campus to learn about the flood risks affecting Southampton.
They took part in interactive workshops with
the More Than Maps team, learning about the models and methods used to assess and adapt to flood risks.
southampton.ac.uk/geography/ne...
They took part in interactive workshops with
the More Than Maps team, learning about the models and methods used to assess and adapt to flood risks.
southampton.ac.uk/geography/ne...
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Join us today at 10am for our How to become a computational social scientist workshop.
Please follow the link to watch the livestream: www.youtube.com/live/ot7-TB1...
Please follow the link to watch the livestream: www.youtube.com/live/ot7-TB1...
How to become a computational social scientist
Scientific research and teaching are increasingly influenced by computational tools, methods and paradigms. The social sciences are no different, with many new forms of social data only available or p...
www.youtube.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Join us today at 10am for our How to become a computational social scientist workshop.
Please follow the link to watch the livestream: www.youtube.com/live/ot7-TB1...
Please follow the link to watch the livestream: www.youtube.com/live/ot7-TB1...
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We have been awarded £16.3m from NIHR to do applied health research over the next 5 years. I will be leading the Healthy Communities and Prevention Theme focusing on addressing population health inequalities. The team is amazing and so motivated to make change!
www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2025/10...
www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2025/10...
Over £16 million for health and care research
Over £16 million for health and care research
www.southampton.ac.uk
October 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
We have been awarded £16.3m from NIHR to do applied health research over the next 5 years. I will be leading the Healthy Communities and Prevention Theme focusing on addressing population health inequalities. The team is amazing and so motivated to make change!
www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2025/10...
www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2025/10...
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🚀 We’re pleased to announce the launch of our new UK Data Service Data Catalogue!
This updated data catalogue has been designed with user feedback at its core to make finding and working with data faster and easier.
🔗 ukdataservice.ac.uk/2025/10/08/l...
This updated data catalogue has been designed with user feedback at its core to make finding and working with data faster and easier.
🔗 ukdataservice.ac.uk/2025/10/08/l...
Launch of the new UK Data Service Data Catalogue — UK Data Service
We’re pleased to announce the launch of our new UK Data Service Data Catalogue. This updated data catalogue has been designed with user...
ukdataservice.ac.uk
October 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
🚀 We’re pleased to announce the launch of our new UK Data Service Data Catalogue!
This updated data catalogue has been designed with user feedback at its core to make finding and working with data faster and easier.
🔗 ukdataservice.ac.uk/2025/10/08/l...
This updated data catalogue has been designed with user feedback at its core to make finding and working with data faster and easier.
🔗 ukdataservice.ac.uk/2025/10/08/l...
So I spent much of my working life working on #redistricting computations and #census methods... they weren't exactly mainstream issues: maybe I retired a couple of years too soon!
October 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
So I spent much of my working life working on #redistricting computations and #census methods... they weren't exactly mainstream issues: maybe I retired a couple of years too soon!
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Who benefits from the abolition of stamp duty land tax?
The first answer: people buying very expensive homes. Average saving for someone buying a £10m+ home is £1.7m. Average saving for someone buying a £250k-£500k home is £5k.
The first answer: people buying very expensive homes. Average saving for someone buying a £10m+ home is £1.7m. Average saving for someone buying a £250k-£500k home is £5k.
October 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Who benefits from the abolition of stamp duty land tax?
The first answer: people buying very expensive homes. Average saving for someone buying a £10m+ home is £1.7m. Average saving for someone buying a £250k-£500k home is £5k.
The first answer: people buying very expensive homes. Average saving for someone buying a £10m+ home is £1.7m. Average saving for someone buying a £250k-£500k home is £5k.
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102,000 hairdressers in England with 40,000 salons
27,000 GPs with 6200 Surgeries
31 million people visit GPs every month a similar number have haircuts
You can see the problem @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social judging by Wes’s trim he is going to the hair salon a lot more than his GP unlike many
27,000 GPs with 6200 Surgeries
31 million people visit GPs every month a similar number have haircuts
You can see the problem @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social judging by Wes’s trim he is going to the hair salon a lot more than his GP unlike many
September 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
102,000 hairdressers in England with 40,000 salons
27,000 GPs with 6200 Surgeries
31 million people visit GPs every month a similar number have haircuts
You can see the problem @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social judging by Wes’s trim he is going to the hair salon a lot more than his GP unlike many
27,000 GPs with 6200 Surgeries
31 million people visit GPs every month a similar number have haircuts
You can see the problem @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social judging by Wes’s trim he is going to the hair salon a lot more than his GP unlike many
Last September: stood on the shore of #GreatCumbrae thinking #Arran looked stunning. This September: stood on Arran looking back - it IS stunning! #Scotland
September 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Last September: stood on the shore of #GreatCumbrae thinking #Arran looked stunning. This September: stood on Arran looking back - it IS stunning! #Scotland
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Impassioned plea for more mixed-methods research (quant & qual) from @timharford.ft.com
"The hard data is never as eloquent as a good story. Humboldt would measure the cactus but also sketch it; drag his barometer up a volcano, but spin a yarn about the epic climb."
www.ft.com/content/d419...
"The hard data is never as eloquent as a good story. Humboldt would measure the cactus but also sketch it; drag his barometer up a volcano, but spin a yarn about the epic climb."
www.ft.com/content/d419...
The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration
It’s not hard to see how so many came to worry about the issue. But the data isn’t there
www.ft.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Impassioned plea for more mixed-methods research (quant & qual) from @timharford.ft.com
"The hard data is never as eloquent as a good story. Humboldt would measure the cactus but also sketch it; drag his barometer up a volcano, but spin a yarn about the epic climb."
www.ft.com/content/d419...
"The hard data is never as eloquent as a good story. Humboldt would measure the cactus but also sketch it; drag his barometer up a volcano, but spin a yarn about the epic climb."
www.ft.com/content/d419...
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Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...
British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants
The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 months, are provi...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
September 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...
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The modern kitchen.
Why serving hatches are a necessity
from ‘Look and Learn’ 1963
Why serving hatches are a necessity
from ‘Look and Learn’ 1963
August 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The modern kitchen.
Why serving hatches are a necessity
from ‘Look and Learn’ 1963
Why serving hatches are a necessity
from ‘Look and Learn’ 1963
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This is Britain's most popular media outlet. Not a single aspect of this headline is remotely true, and I don't know anyone in economics or industry who would recognise these statements as having any relationship with reality.
August 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
This is Britain's most popular media outlet. Not a single aspect of this headline is remotely true, and I don't know anyone in economics or industry who would recognise these statements as having any relationship with reality.
Spot on. The insanity is that we are moving to a model that will cost nearly all of us more, may not actually cover our times of greatest need, and diverts yet more of our health spend to private providers and insurers...
“Private healthcare in the U.K. is increasingly framed as a necessity rather than a luxury. The strategy is clear enough: starve the NHS of resources, drive down quality and availability, and patients will get used to looking elsewhere.”
Today’s col. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Today’s col. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Young people want to ‘go private’ – I’m a lifelong supporter of the NHS, but I can see why | Frances Ryan
This shift marks an existential crisis for the NHS: if younger generations don’t use it, they won’t want to pay for it, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
www.theguardian.com
August 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Spot on. The insanity is that we are moving to a model that will cost nearly all of us more, may not actually cover our times of greatest need, and diverts yet more of our health spend to private providers and insurers...
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I'm sorry, how have I NEVER heard of this website before? This is incredible. You can view basically every train's location in the country?
www.map.signalbox.io?location=@54...
www.map.signalbox.io?location=@54...
August 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I'm sorry, how have I NEVER heard of this website before? This is incredible. You can view basically every train's location in the country?
www.map.signalbox.io?location=@54...
www.map.signalbox.io?location=@54...
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From Wikimedia to the wider web: What the High Court's judgment means for the Online Safety Act 2023 www.sharpepritchard.co.uk/latest-news/... legal analysis from Sharpe Pritchard LLP (UK)
#OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #openweb
#OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #openweb
August 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
From Wikimedia to the wider web: What the High Court's judgment means for the Online Safety Act 2023 www.sharpepritchard.co.uk/latest-news/... legal analysis from Sharpe Pritchard LLP (UK)
#OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #openweb
#OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #openweb
Quick report: 3 months of #EV ownership (inc 1100 mile trip):
- Great to #drive
- #Range is fine
- Easy to find #EVChargers via App
- Home charging v. cheap
- Mway services not much cheaper than #ICE
- Charger payment systems still a mess: too many #apps
- Would do it again? *Definitely*
- Great to #drive
- #Range is fine
- Easy to find #EVChargers via App
- Home charging v. cheap
- Mway services not much cheaper than #ICE
- Charger payment systems still a mess: too many #apps
- Would do it again? *Definitely*
August 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Delete your old emails to save water during drought, Environment Agency tells Britons.
This is desperate.
How about building new reservoirs; renewing old pipes; not contaminating rivers with sewage; building a national grid, ending privatisation.
This is desperate.
How about building new reservoirs; renewing old pipes; not contaminating rivers with sewage; building a national grid, ending privatisation.
Delete your old emails to save water, says Environment Agency
Emails and photos stored on the cloud are supported by large water and energy-demanding data centres
www.independent.co.uk
August 15, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Delete your old emails to save water during drought, Environment Agency tells Britons.
This is desperate.
How about building new reservoirs; renewing old pipes; not contaminating rivers with sewage; building a national grid, ending privatisation.
This is desperate.
How about building new reservoirs; renewing old pipes; not contaminating rivers with sewage; building a national grid, ending privatisation.
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The evidence for more 20mph zones ⤵️
✔️ Cut deaths and serious injuries by 1/3
✔️ Protect children
✔️ Reduce crashes
✔️ Lower noise
✔️ Boost walking & cycling
✔️ Cut deaths and serious injuries by 1/3
✔️ Protect children
✔️ Reduce crashes
✔️ Lower noise
✔️ Boost walking & cycling
Dear Britain, it’s now clear: 20mph zones save lives and don’t slow traffic. Implement them | Sadiq Khan
There is too much bluff and bluster on this subject. Ordinary people just want safe streets for themselves and those they love, and we can achieve that, says London mayor Sadiq Khan
www.theguardian.com
August 13, 2025 at 6:31 AM
The evidence for more 20mph zones ⤵️
✔️ Cut deaths and serious injuries by 1/3
✔️ Protect children
✔️ Reduce crashes
✔️ Lower noise
✔️ Boost walking & cycling
✔️ Cut deaths and serious injuries by 1/3
✔️ Protect children
✔️ Reduce crashes
✔️ Lower noise
✔️ Boost walking & cycling
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@sheencr.bsky.social and I wrote about how Kennedy is systematically undermining vaccines in a coordinated and very effective way in the US for @uk.theconversation.com
full article here:
theconversation.com/how-rfk-jr-i...
full article here:
theconversation.com/how-rfk-jr-i...
How RFK Jr is systematically undermining vaccines around the world
Vaccines saved 154 million lives. But as fear of disease fades, so does protection – raising the chilling prospect of a return to the pre-vaccine era.
theconversation.com
August 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
@sheencr.bsky.social and I wrote about how Kennedy is systematically undermining vaccines in a coordinated and very effective way in the US for @uk.theconversation.com
full article here:
theconversation.com/how-rfk-jr-i...
full article here:
theconversation.com/how-rfk-jr-i...
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📊 Discover The Power of Population Data! 🌍
Join WorldPop’s free webinar on Sept 4 to learn about our new high-res, open-access population datasets (2015–2030) for 242 countries.
Learn from experts + get your questions answered!
🔗 Register now: www.worldpop.org/blog/discove...
#PopulationData
Join WorldPop’s free webinar on Sept 4 to learn about our new high-res, open-access population datasets (2015–2030) for 242 countries.
Learn from experts + get your questions answered!
🔗 Register now: www.worldpop.org/blog/discove...
#PopulationData
Discover the Power of Population Data: Join Our Upcoming Webinar
WorldPop are thrilled to announce the launch of a ground-breaking open-access collection of high-resolution global demographic datasets, available from 4 September 2025.
www.worldpop.org
August 6, 2025 at 9:39 AM
📊 Discover The Power of Population Data! 🌍
Join WorldPop’s free webinar on Sept 4 to learn about our new high-res, open-access population datasets (2015–2030) for 242 countries.
Learn from experts + get your questions answered!
🔗 Register now: www.worldpop.org/blog/discove...
#PopulationData
Join WorldPop’s free webinar on Sept 4 to learn about our new high-res, open-access population datasets (2015–2030) for 242 countries.
Learn from experts + get your questions answered!
🔗 Register now: www.worldpop.org/blog/discove...
#PopulationData