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BEGIN St Andrews @begin-standrews.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

🌍✨ June's seminar is with Jiayi Jin + Ayse Ozbil Torun, Architecture + Built Envt at Northumbria Uni "Designing with Urban Ecologies: Spatial Analysis and Participatory More-than-Human Design with Tyne Kittiwakes" Tues 2nd June 2026 @ 2pm UK time (online) Register here: tinyurl.com/33j5n5nk ✨🌍

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BEGIN St Andrews @begin-standrews.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

🌍✨ May brings us a new seminar with Eva Nuhn who is a Research + Teaching Associate in the Geoinformatics Group, Uni of Augsburg "Beyond Visual Landmarks: Auditory and Olfactory Cues for Urban Navigation" Date: Tues 12th May 2026 @ 2pm UK time (online) Register here: tinyurl.com/yvuvhbmn ✨🌍

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BEGIN St Andrews @begin-standrews.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

🌍✨ Our 2nd seminar in March is with Tim Prestby who is an Assistant Prof of Applied GIS at James Madison University "Advancing the Science of Map Trust: A Theoretical and Empirical Approach " Date: Tues 10th March 2026 @ 2pm UK time (online + in person) Register here: tinyurl.com/52pp9h3n ✨🌍

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BEGIN St Andrews @begin-standrews.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

🌍✨ Our next seminar in March is with @martinfleischmann.net (Urban and Regional Laboratory, Prague). "Understanding the structure of space: Urban Morphometrics as a Backbone of Urban Taxonomy" Date: Tues 3rd March 2026 @ 2pm UK time (online + in person) Register here: tinyurl.com/y4rb4bw4 ✨🌍

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BEGIN St Andrews @begin-standrews.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

🌍✨ Our next seminar in February is with @ruthneville20.bsky.social who is Research Fellow at CASA, UCL. "From boom to bust: Two decades of international student mobility" Date: Tues 3rd Feb 2026 @ 2pm UK time (online) Register here: tinyurl.com/3zuw6tcn ✨🌍

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BEGIN St Andrews @begin-standrews.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

🌍✨ Our seminars for 2026 kicks off with @mdiesing.bsky.social who is a marine geologist "Leveraging machine learning to map organic carbon in surficial seabed sediments of the Norwegian continental margin" Date: Tues 13th Jan 2025 @ 2pm UK time (online) Register here: tinyurl.com/3mfwkjp2 ✨🌍

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BEGIN St Andrews @begin-standrews.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

🌍✨ Our final 2025 seminar is with @alel.bsky.social, a Lecturer in Sustainability + Urban Data Science at the University of Edinburgh "Leveraging Geographic Data for Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility" Date: Tues 25th November 2025 @ 2pm UK time (online) Register here: tinyurl.com/2e7dvvy3 ✨🌍

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BEGIN St Andrews @begin-standrews.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

🌍✨ Our next seminar is with @grantdmckenzie.bsky.social "Place, Privacy and Mobility: Navigating the intersection of location science and human dynamics" Date: 4th November 2025 @ 2pm UK time (online only). Register here: tinyurl.com/3bzv63rj ✨🌍

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BEGIN St Andrews @begin-standrews.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

🌍✨ Our second seminar is with @miladmzdh.bsky.social - a Postdoc from @digigeolab.bsky.social "Towards Democratizing VR, AI, and Mobility Data: Insights from GreenTravel, MobiTwin, and OpenGPS" Date: 7th October 2025 @ 2pm UK time (hybrid). Register here: tinyurl.com/3dj46bcp ✨🌍

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BEGIN St Andrews @begin-standrews.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

🌍✨ Our first seminar of AY25-26 kicks off with St Andrews Alumni @sila-gisci.bsky.social "From seconds to lifetimes: challenges in measuring environmental exposure across spatial and temporal scales" Date: 30th September 2025 @ 2pm UK time (hybrid). Register here: tinyurl.com/ybaz2e6d ✨🌍

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Dr Urska Demsar @udemsar.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Last call for some very cool spatial data science PhD projects at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. Application DL Wed 12 Feb.

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Charlotte van der Lijn @vanderlijnc.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Fancy doing a Geography PhD in St Andrews? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Are you interested in combining marine science + GIS looking at seascapes? ⛴️🏖️ Please do apply! DL soon: 12th Feb Please contact me for more info or advice: Charlotte.vanderlijn@st-andrews.ac.uk 🔗👇 masts.ac.uk/vacancies/ch... @mastscot.bsky.social

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Characterising Seascape: Visual and Spatial Methods for sustainability assessment in the oceans - University of ST. Andrews - MASTS

School of Geography and Sustainable Development PhD Edwards Scholarship Topic in Geographic Information Science and Quantitative Data Analysis. Supervisors Dr T A Stojanovic (Environmental Geography) ...

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MASTS @mastscot.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

#PhDOpportunty with the University of St Andrews looking into coastal communities and fisheries. #MASTSFridayEmail

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Dr Urska Demsar @udemsar.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

We have 3 fully funded PhD posts in spatial data science at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social: 1) UAV+spectrometer data for agriculture w/ @fbenitez.bsky.social 2) machine learning & CNNs for ship tracks w/ @taniamendo.bsky.social 3) visualisation for seascapes w/ @vanderlijnc.bsky.social More info 👇

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Charlotte van der Lijn @vanderlijnc.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Would you like to do a PhD in Geography at the University of St Andrews, Scotland? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I am looking for a great applicant to look at characterising 'seascape' by using visual and spatial methods for sustainability assessment in the oceans 🌊 ⛵ 🗺️. Deadline for applications: 12th February 2025.

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BEGIN St Andrews @begin-standrews.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Would you like to to a PhD in geography at the University of St Andrews? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 We have a wide variety of 3 year PhD scholarships open: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/geography-su... Check out the 'Edwards competition proposals' tab. They are open to any nationality 🌎. Deadline to apply: 12th February 2025.

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PhD Scholarship Competitions 2024-2025 - School of Geography and Sustainable Development - University of St Andrews

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BEGIN St Andrews @begin-standrews.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Reminder that for international students there is just over 1 week left to apply to the two PhD projects! 🌎🛰️⛴️

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Dr Urska Demsar @udemsar.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

We have two fully-funded PhD projects in spatial data science at @begin-standrews.bsky.social. Both are funded by the Iapetus Doctoral Training Programme: iapetus2.ac.uk/how-to-apply/ DL for international applicants: 9 Dec 2024. DL for UK applicants: 3 Jan 2025. See thread for project details. 👇

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BEGIN St Andrews @begin-standrews.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Happy #GIS Day from #BEGIN! Tomorrow we are hosting an internal workshop with three alumni and one of our current dissertation students. #GISchat

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BEGIN St Andrews @begin-standrews.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The Bell Edwards Geographic Data Institute (BEGIN) is the spatial data science research group in the School of Geography and Sustainable Development (SGSD) at the University of St Andrews. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🗺️🖥️ We will posting on here from now on! More info about us here 🔗: begin.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

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