Computers, Cities & Data Prof. in Geographic Data Science at the University of Liverpool 📄 https://darribas.org 📖 https://geographicdata.science 🛰️ https://imago.ac.ukhttps://bsky.app/profile/darribas.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/darribas.bsky.social/post/3mnwtrvwekc2d"Most of the data cities need will be alien." That was my pitch at the launch of the Planetary Urban Sciences Lab (+Lab) in Bristol, where we identified unsolved urban challenges. I wrote a bit more about it at: https://me.darribas.org/2026/06/10/alien-data-in-urban-science.html10 Jun 2026 13:44 +0000at://did:plc:2envlahlnq2g4mpkew2sof3r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnwtrvwekc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/darribas.bsky.social/post/3mmtd7orqxk2lNew #GLaDpodcast episode: #embeddings for the rest of us! Join @rsfrankl.bsky.social, @levijohnwolf.bsky.social and yours truly for a (hopefully) “lay enough” conversation about one of the most interesting ideas in geo-data that the last few years have produced. https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-8ebk6-1ad3db927 May 2026 10:44 +0000at://did:plc:2envlahlnq2g4mpkew2sof3r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmtd7orqxk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/darribas.bsky.social/post/3mldjo2jnws25Happy release day (+1) to those who celebrate! Third week in a row shipping imagery-based data products. One is a fluke, two is a pattern, three is real team effort. Imago releases CLiVE Air Temperature and Precipitation: https://imago.ac.uk/news/imago-releases-clive-climate-dataset-v10-uk-neighbourhood-level-air-temperature-and-precipitation-indicators​08 May 2026 10:31 +0000at://did:plc:2envlahlnq2g4mpkew2sof3r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mldjo2jnws25https://bsky.app/profile/darribas.bsky.social/post/3mlaxyzp2722gTalking about babies (and _everything_ around them) was trickier on tape than on paper, but I think it was worth the effort, audience be the judge! [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 May 2026 10:10 +0000at://did:plc:2envlahlnq2g4mpkew2sof3r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlaxyzp2722ghttps://bsky.app/profile/darribas.bsky.social/post/3ml3x36bof22uLast week we released Google embeddings for UK's small areas. While preparing workshop materials, I ran into this nice little example of what they’re capable of. Read on to find out why Battersea Power Station is such an interesting example! https://me.darribas.org/2026/05/05/what-battersea-power-station-taught.html05 May 2026 10:10 +0000at://did:plc:2envlahlnq2g4mpkew2sof3r/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml3x36bof22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/darribas.bsky.social/post/3mkro254ihs2yHappy release day to those who celebrate!!! Today, you can access our derived product of Google embeddings for small areas in the UK. Embeddings are changing how we work with satellite data. We hope this product will make even easier to get started to look at places. https://imago.ac.uk/news/imago-releases-google-satellite-embeddings-at-the-small-area-level-across-uk01 May 2026 08:02 +0000at://did:plc:2envlahlnq2g4mpkew2sof3r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkro254ihs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/darribas.bsky.social/post/3mkajjsl42c2iHappy data release day to those who celebrate!!! We’ve been working really hard (how hard can it be to count clouds? a lot, it turns out…) to bring you all your cloudy needs neatly packaged. If you play with SPF, we’d love to hear from you! https://imago.ac.uk/news/imago-releases-sun-probability-framework-spf-10-a-dataset-linking-cloudiness-to-people-and-places24 Apr 2026 12:26 +0000at://did:plc:2envlahlnq2g4mpkew2sof3r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkajjsl42c2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/darribas.bsky.social/post/3mhq4ruwks22uJust 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!): https://me.darribas.org/2026/03/23/notes-from-a-week-in.html23 Mar 2026 13:05 +0000at://did:plc:2envlahlnq2g4mpkew2sof3r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhq4ruwks22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/darribas.bsky.social/post/3meqxbezzds2kNew 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! https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-8urep-1a4568413 Feb 2026 16:43 +0000at://did:plc:2envlahlnq2g4mpkew2sof3r/app.bsky.feed.post/3meqxbezzds2khttps://bsky.app/profile/darribas.bsky.social/post/3mdi6my2ep22vYesterday, 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: https://imago-sdruk.github.io/EMBED2Social-Workshop-2026/28 Jan 2026 11:36 +0000at://did:plc:2envlahlnq2g4mpkew2sof3r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdi6my2ep22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/darribas.bsky.social/post/3mcx7cmiw6s2uA 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! https://gladpodcast.podbean.com/e/episode-29-the/21 Jan 2026 17:33 +0000at://did:plc:2envlahlnq2g4mpkew2sof3r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcx7cmiw6s2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/darribas.bsky.social/post/3mb4win2xis2xJust 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. https://me.darribas.org/2025/12/29/in-reads.html29 Dec 2025 13:20 +0000at://did:plc:2envlahlnq2g4mpkew2sof3r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mb4win2xis2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/darribas.bsky.social/post/3mabk5hw6ms2uWhy "Science-as-a-Service" Doesn't Work for Earth (or social!) Science https://me.darribas.org/2025/12/18/why-scienceasaservice-doesnt-work-for.html18 Dec 2025 15:58 +0000at://did:plc:2envlahlnq2g4mpkew2sof3r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mabk5hw6ms2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/darribas.bsky.social/post/3ma3xoxfjec2eJust 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! https://gladpodcast.podbean.com/e/opening-the-academic-source-with-serge-rey/16 Dec 2025 10:44 +0000at://did:plc:2envlahlnq2g4mpkew2sof3r/app.bsky.feed.post/3ma3xoxfjec2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/darribas.bsky.social/post/3m6eqez24cc27Back 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: https://me.darribas.org/2025/11/24/dispatch-from-the-human-planet.html The JRC team did a truly stellar job at putting the event together, thank you so much!!!24 Nov 2025 11:37 +0000at://did:plc:2envlahlnq2g4mpkew2sof3r/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6eqez24cc27https://bsky.app/profile/darribas.bsky.social/post/3m4xt5q2s322wI 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. https://me.darribas.org/2025/11/06/entry-for-daymapchallenge.html06 Nov 2025 14:57 +0000at://did:plc:2envlahlnq2g4mpkew2sof3r/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4xt5q2s322whttps://bsky.app/profile/darribas.bsky.social/post/3m3x5atwpj22rThis 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! https://me.darribas.org/2025/10/24/satellite-imagery-embeddings-for-the.html #satellite #embeddings #geofoundationmodels24 Oct 2025 14:59 +0000at://did:plc:2envlahlnq2g4mpkew2sof3r/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3x5atwpj22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/darribas.bsky.social/post/3m3clgohjnk2w🎧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. https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-cfz7e-1995b5b https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-cfz7e-1995b5b16 Oct 2025 10:47 +0000at://did:plc:2envlahlnq2g4mpkew2sof3r/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3clgohjnk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/darribas.bsky.social/post/3lyzoml7q622a🎧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. https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-ufnqe-1962d1d17 Sep 2025 11:00 +0000at://did:plc:2envlahlnq2g4mpkew2sof3r/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyzoml7q622ahttps://bsky.app/profile/darribas.bsky.social/post/3lwc3q4rwrc2jWe gave in to the hype and did one #GLaDpodcast episode on how we use AI, for Geography, Life, Geography Life, and data… https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-hva24-193194d13 Aug 2025 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:2envlahlnq2g4mpkew2sof3r/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwc3q4rwrc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/darribas.bsky.social/post/3lsxshce2c22sNew 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: https://geods.ac.uk/2025/07/02/phd-funding-multi-scale-urban-remote-sensing-with-ai/02 Jul 2025 08:32 +0000at://did:plc:2envlahlnq2g4mpkew2sof3r/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsxshce2c22shttps://bsky.app/profile/darribas.bsky.social/post/3lricsrt4sc2aGetting 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!13 Jun 2025 11:17 +0000at://did:plc:2envlahlnq2g4mpkew2sof3r/app.bsky.feed.post/3lricsrt4sc2a