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Martin Tomko

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Understanding and supporting people in their spatial interactions through computational #spatial #data #science #giscience #melbourne 🛶🚵‍♂️🥾🏊‍♂️🐕 @unimelb, own views. support 🇺🇦 www.tomko.org

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MORPHSS @morphss.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
'The word traceability, in place of reproducibility, [...] refers to the extent to which the decisions made by the researcher are transparently documented, allowing readers to see how conclusions were reached' @maddipow.bsky.social in new paper 'Can open science speak qualitative?' ⬇️
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Can open science speak qualitative? Rearticulating open science vocabulary for qualitative research
‘Open research’ (or ‘open science’) has substantially reshaped conversations surrounding rigor, transparency, and accountability, yet its vocabulary remains largely rooted in quantitative, positivi...
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Jared Knowles @jaredknowles.com · 12/09/2026
Follow the Money: Opening 56 Years of the Fiscal Record of Our Democracy The U.S. Census Bureau has recorded what every state, county, city and township raises and spends since 1967, and it has been effectively out of reach. Today we are re-releasing it as a free API, an interactive explorer... 🔗
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Follow the Money: Opening 56 Years of the Fiscal Record of Our Democracy
The U.S. Census Bureau has recorded what every state, county, city and township raises and spends since 1967, and it has been effectively out of reach. Today we are re-releasing it as a free API, an interactive explorer and a bulk download, aligned across 56 years so a query returns a continuous series. It is a record you can contribute to.
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Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Cultural heritage reports contain rich content but require the integration of disjointed parts of text and visuals by readers. VLMs may help, but currently struggle. Changyu evaluates VLMs for multimodal integration in her 1st PhD paper! 🔥📜🥳 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
An example image from Notre-Dame de Paris (Carlos Delgado, CC-BY-SA), manually annotated by the authors with bounding boxes mapping to  coreferent mentions.
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SBS Australia (unofficial) @sbsaustralia.nzcow.com · 14/09/2026
📢 Agricultural and business leaders say the proposed cuts could worsen worker shortages, drive up costs and damage the economy.
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'COVID-level shock': The professions fearing One Nation migration cuts
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 13/09/2026
This will devastate our research+innovation capacity, bedrock of the 21st century economy. 35% of *all* employed people in the US with STEM PhD degrees are both foreign-born *and* graduated from a US university. —> nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/292... Shutting them out is extremist folly.
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Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... spineless
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Labor ditches new packaging laws to cut plastic waste, sparking unprecedented ‘scale and breadth of outrage’
Federal environment department tells industry representatives the government does not want to ‘exacerbate cost of living pressures’
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/09/2026
TikTok investor Jeff Yass avoided paying $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He then poured that money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers. (Published 2022)
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Meet the Billionaire and Rising GOP Mega-Donor Who’s Gaming the Tax System
Susquehanna founder and TikTok investor Jeff Yass has avoided $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He’s now pouring his money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election de...
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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 02/09/2026
Hikers using ChatGPT to navigate Mount Shasta have gotten lost. In one instance this week, a group of climbers had to be rescued: “It was terrible — terrible — not even close to accurate.”
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Climbers rescued from Mount Shasta after relying on ChatGPT for trip planning
Hikers using ChatGPT to navigate Mount Shasta have gotten lost. In one instance this week, a group of climbers had to be rescued: “It was terrible — terrible — not even close to accurate.”
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Eric Schares @eschares.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm
Line chart showing 5 biggest publishers from 2019-2025
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Last year, I publicly complained multiple times (see e.g. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...) that the open access movement had been captured by publishers, and we are now worse off than before open access. Well people got mad at me for saying it. But I think things are still getting worse.
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Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Already then they missed NZ from the map... :)
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Jo Wood @jwolondon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
A nice example for educators in the technical aspects of #datavis, cartography and computer science (I am one). We need to be teaching tech people to take the ethics of their work seriously and the obligations they have to act responsibly.
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Peter Cossins @petercossins.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Put this together to help bike fans find their favourite teams, riders and writers on Bluesky. Not many out there so far, in fact I've not found a single rider on here, but the community's growing fast. Let me know if there's anyone I should add #CyclingBlueSky #BikeSky go.bsky.app/VRgb2gJ
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Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We need global high res DEM! Fully agree!
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 14/08/2026
bsky.app/profile/aaro...
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
there are two wolves inside you. one is a bear
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Judy Schmidt @geckzilla.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I have been working on NGC 2392 (Lion Nebula) bit by bit over the past couple of weeks. Pretty happy with it! As always, high quality image and perhaps overly verbose information is available at my Flickr gallery: flic.kr/p/2swHfCQ
A heavenly view of one of our friendly neighborhood planetary nebulas, the Lion Nebula. It's circular in appearance with cometary knots streaming outward from the center, making up the "hair" of the lion's mane. The lion's face is a brightly outlined inner shell that kinda looks like a spaghetti nest with a bright star nestled in the center. Numerous background galaxies are sprinkled around the image, along with a handful of stars. The lion has a blueish mane and a pinkish face with a deep, dark cyan center. The background galaxies are subtly colored with yellows, oranges, and reds. The few stars are more or less white.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
🚨New Bright Line Watch report🚨 brightlinewatch.org/a-partial-de... Key findings: -Expert ratings of US democracy up to 60, highest of 2nd term -But 41% say US has unfair, tilted elections & weak checks -Public mostly confident in 2026 election; Ds higher but party gap smaller than past 🧵 below
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VELO @velo-velo-velo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Two college cyclists killed, seven injured after driver strikes team in Tennessee. Driver facing multiple charges of homicide and assault after riders from Milligan University cycling team struck by vehicle on Wednesday: bit.ly/45z2woj
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Some substantial changes announced by ARC for next (supposedly final) rounds of some schemes, esp. Discovery Projects👇 🔹CIs can only be on one DP28 app 🔹CIs on successful DP26 or DP27 apps cannot apply 🔹Rejoinder process “has been removed and replaced with more detailed feedback to applicants” ⁉️
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Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
www.scribus.net
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Making sure you're not a bot!
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/08/2026
"Treat your body the way you’d treat heirloom furniture thrifted from a flea market. Use oils for creaky joints, a mild shampoo for washing, and moisturizer cream to prevent cracks in the leather."
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Your Body Is Now Considered Vintage
“We are pleased to inform you that after several decades of constant (if often subpar) operation, you have finally crossed the threshold from ‘garage sale ju...
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Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
How does it compare/work with terra/sf? If at all. Very interesting.
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Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This ☝️I teach my spatial class exclusively in SQL
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Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
youtu.be/zFpamnNEyBw?... beautiful visualisation. Not mine.credit Jeran Poehls
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Simulating Grass with Real Data - Blender Dataviz Tutorial
YouTube video by But Why Me?
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Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
‘More than just objects’: Australian booksellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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‘More than just objects’: Australian booksellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI
Secondhand booksellers believe they may have been caught up in the AI supply chain that sees old books scanned then destroyed
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open Letter in Support of the Cognition Group, University of Exeter
To Executive members of the University of Exeter, including Vice Chancellor Prof. Lisa Roberts, Senior Vice-President and Provost Prof. Dan Charman, Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean Prof. Sallie...
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Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র @bmitra.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Last week I presented a keynote at #SIGIR2026 titled "Emancipatory Information Retrieval: Towards Critical IR Theories and Practices". Slides: bhaskar-mitra.github.io/files/emanci... I went in nervously excited but several people appreciated talking openly about this topic. A quick thread. 🧵 1/
Photo of the stage at the beginning of the keynote address. The title slide of the keynote is being projected on a large screen in the background. Present on stage: Me (as keynote speaker) and Hannah Bast (SIGIR'26 PC Chair and session chair for the keynote). Also, in the background on stage are large lit-up letters spelling out "SIGIR 2026".

Photo credit: Johanne Trippas
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Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Seems not broadly announced yet, but a website is up: giscience2027.org #Giscience2027 @giscience-conf.bsky.social
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GIScience 2027
The Fourteenth International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2027), at the Tongji University, Shanghai, CHINA
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Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
A key is a reference system, no? 🤷‍♂️
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Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Wonderful tidbit . Yet another link to surveying in stats, yay!
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 19/02/2025
I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork} www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...
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How to use a histogram as a legend in {ggplot2} | Andrew Heiss
Land isn’t unemployed—people are. Here’s how to use R, {ggplot2}, {sf}, and {patchwork} to create a histogram legend in a choropleth map to better see the distribution of values.
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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
EXCELLENT: The Netherlands new OA policy seems to be well thought through obc.copim.pub/when-scaling... Policy explicitly recommends redirection & reallocation of funds from existing ‘big deal’ budgets towards community-driven alternatives, incl university-led diamond OA & Netherlands Uni Presses
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When 'scaling small' becomes national policy
The Netherlands' new open access strategy echoes the principles the Open Book Collective was built on - 'scaling small' and community-led publishing
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Zeerak Talat زیرک طلعت (they/them) @zeerak.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Y'all absolutely the fuck not. In fact, I think this is makes a STRONG case for why conferences like CHI and FAccT should pull out of the ACM. I highly recommend that you tell ACM what you think about your work being co-opted into planet-killing misinformation machines.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This is the weirdest request for input that I've seen in a while. It's almost like the ACM is sitting at the table with the "change my mind" sign. So, let's do it. Short thread with the input I gave them:
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
In collaboration with the Munk School, I am sharing a ten-lecture course I taught at @utoronto.ca this past year. The course is called “Hitler and Stalin Today.” Watch the first lecture here: snyder.substack.com/p/new-lectur...
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The refusal by corrupt politicians to ditch all fossil fuels means the coming years will be much worse ... "We are witnessing something beyond any imagination with 220+ countries/territories (>95% of the total) smashing records with insane margins WORLD RECORD can fall next days ..."
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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
As someone who has been asked many many time to make satellite images of open ocean to show the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” (no, you can’t see tiny bits of plastic distributed over 1,000s of square kilometers), this story really resonates with me.
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Ah, damn, I stuffed up the numbers here. I meant to compare DP27 (435+ days) to DP23 (191) because DP23 didn't have the 2-step process and was quite a "typical" duration for the ARC at that time.
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Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Do you happen to have a write-up of how to get to this? Awesome work!
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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Heinrich Berran’s granddaughter collected all his perspective maps in one place! www.berann.com/panorama/arc...
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Berann's panoramas
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Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Love the simplicity of the narrative and brevity of the paper. Unlike today's stuff.
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Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I was just looking for localised alamanachs of stars for different planets. Would be awesome if the sky was "true". I failed to find a dataset though.
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Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Are the stars shown in background in one of the example posts correct for the planet or generic?
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Jenny Sinclair @jsresearchpro.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Publication update: Research Professional News to discontinue publication at end of 2026. (Archives will be available): www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o...
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Research Professional News to discontinue publication at end of 2026 - Research Professional News
A message for readers about the publication’s closure and continued community access to past reporting
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Qiusheng Wu @giswqs.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
GeoLibre v2.0.0 is here! Try it out - Launch GeoLibre Web: web.geolibre.app - GitHub: github.com/opengeos/Geo... - Documentation: geolibre.app - Release notes: github.com/opengeos/Geo...
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Jenny Sinclair @jsresearchpro.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Resource for NAIDOC week: Wiley's compendium of leading research and special editions by and about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders: www.wiley.com/en-au/resear...
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NAIDOC 2026 | Wiley
Wiley's content page to support the National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance conference.
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Tata Chemia @tatach.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
🇬🇪 Human Rights Watch about Georgia👇🏼 “Georgian authorities are using repressive laws, funding restrictions, and politically motivated criminal investigations to dismantle independent civil society. “ www.hrw.org/news/2026/07...
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Georgia: New Laws Devastate Independent Civic Groups
Georgian authorities’ use of increasingly repressive laws and politically motivated criminal investigations is decimating independent civil society and silencing critical voices, Human Rights Watch sa...
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This👇 5 years ago, @jodiebradby.bsky.social & 15 Laureate Fellows led a bid to the Government with 1000+ signatories to advocate for this to change ▶️ treasury.gov.au/sites/defaul... But @arc-gov-au.bsky.social & the Ministers did nothing.
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TSN @tsnofficial.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The Royal Belgian Football Association have released a statement following FIFA's decision to allow the USA's Folarin Balogun to play on Monday despite picking up a red car in his team's Round of 32 match against Bosnia and Herzegovina. #FIFAWorldCup
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