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Matt Duckham

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Academic: Professor at RMIT University, GIScience, spatial algorithms, AI, and databases, ontologies gkl.rmit.melbourne Author: GIS 3e gisacp.duckham.org Me: gender equity, wheelchair user, food, new music

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 14/05/2026
Prominent Australian academic denies links to powerful Iranian politician
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Prominent Australian academic denies links to powerful Iranian politician
Prof Abbas Rajabifard of the University of Melbourne says he was listed as a co-author of research with Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s chief negotiator in recent peace talks, without his knowledge * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A University of Melbourne academic has denied collaborating on research with the speaker of Iran’s parliament – who has been leading Tehran’s peace negotiations with the US – saying he was named as an author on a journal article without his knowledge. On Monday Guardian Australia revealed that Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s top negotiator, had built extensive ties to Australia over the past decade, including links to a University of Melbourne engineering research centre. Continue reading...
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The ARC have said (on LinkedIn) they will release outcomes for Discovery Projects Expressions of Interest (2027) tomorrow👇
Screenshot of LinkedIn post from ARC saying that DP27 EOI outcomes will be released on RMS on the 26th Feb 2026.
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Just going to leave this here for you, ARC
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Anita Graser 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @underdarkgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2025
The #AGIT2026 call for papers is out: Short paper submission deadline: March 1, 2026 agit.at/en/submissions #GISChat #GIScience #CFP #AGIT #Salzburg
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
ARC says Discovery Projects outcomes will be tomorrow (Tuesday). Linkage Projects (2025, round 1) on Wed. Over past ~year, it's often been at about 11am (Canberra). My bot will pick up the change to RMS & post immediately. ARC should email outcomes to lead CIs, but might take an 1hr or so for DPs
Screenshot of tweet from the ARC saying they will announce DP26 outcomes on Tuesday 28th Oct, and LP25r1 outcomes on Wednesday 29th.
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Once again, ARC hits the 🎯 with their comms strategy: 8pm on Sunday night. When the eyeballs of researchers are glued to … twitter? They've not posted this anywhere else. I can't think of a better way to _not_ "engage stakeholders". Almost uncanny.
Screenshot of tweet from the ARC about a survey they want "stakeholders" to complete. Black text on white background above a rather outsized picture of dark blue smudges on a light-blue background. One smudge says "Survey" … you know, to catch your eye?
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 06/08/2025
We can do it everybody www.avibagla.com/blueskydicti...
The Bluesky Dictionary
Can Bluesky say every word in the English language?

Tracking since 08/05/2025 12:21
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Dictionary Coverage
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
The ARC has “announced” an update on the proposed changes to its grant schemes. Key changes, in response to “nearly 350” submissions” (!) on their proposal, are 👇 More here: www.arc.gov.au/news-publica...
Black text on white background. Screenshot from ARC webpage updating us on changes, in response to community feedback, to their proposed modification to their grants system. This screenshot shows the main changes, listed on that webpage.
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AURIN @aurin-dri.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
AURIN has launched the RMIT Urban Dynamics (RUDY) Node. Led by @duckham.org RUDY brings spatial analytics & urban data science to the AURIN Network. First projects are Urban Digital Twins Integration & AI-Driven Semantic 3D Mapping. #AURIN #AURINnode #RMIT #RUDY #UrbanData #DigitalTwins
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Anita Graser 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @underdarkgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2025
New #phdPosition in our department: Trustworthy AI jobs.ait.ac.at/Job/253854
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PhD Thesis "Scalable Process Patterns and Decision Frameworks for Trustworthy AI Engineering"
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Anita Graser 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @underdarkgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2025
#GISjob at Uni Twente: utwentecareers.nl/en/vacancies/2140… #XAI #GeoAI #GISChat
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PhD Candidate in Explainable AI for Earth Observation - Looking for a job that matters?
With the growing integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in geospatial decision-making processes, ensuring transparency, accountability, and trust in model outputs has become imperative, especially in critical domains such as disaster risk management,…
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 24/05/2025
Business dudes have been suckered by “yo, this computer *thinks*” since the 1950s.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Pinker has been a loud-and-proud voice for anti-intellectualism and a promoter of chin-stroking race-science platforms such as Quillette for a decade. This isn't lack of awareness. It's an attempt to protect his extremely lucrative brand from association with the causes that helped build it.
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Johanna Rickne @johannarickne.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Which occupations carry the highest risk of sexual harassment—and who is doing the harassing? Our new study finds two distinct patterns depending on whether harassment comes from inside or outside the workplace. CEPR WP: cepr.org/publications... Ungated: drive.google.com/file/d/1jPOV... 🧵 1/
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Mira Joyce @mira.lifestyle · 23/05/2025
The new Smerz album is absolutely fantastic 10/10 open.spotify.com/album/6C14Wj...
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Big city life
Smerz · Album · 2025 · 13 songs
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Stereolabgroop @stereolabgroop.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
OK. The wait is over - 'Instant Holograms on Metal Film', the new 13-track album by Stereolab, is out now via Duophonic and Warp. Immense thanks to all the folk at Warp, and anyone who buys a disk, streams a track or heads to a show. It's all in your hands now...
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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
If you are in the market for an exciting new data science job, I am recruiting for two Senior Data Scientists at the Geographic Data Service 👇👇👇👇👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/geogra...
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#hiring #datascience #geospatial #llm #ukri #smartdata #researchjobs… | Geographic Data Service
🚀 We’re hiring TWO Senior Data Scientists! 🚀 Help us unlock the power of smart data to tackle regional inequalities and improve lives across the UK. About the roles 📍 Based at the University of Liver...
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Matt Duckham @duckham.org · 05/05/2025
I had a huge amount of fun helping my amazing colleague @lisagiven.bsky.social with this @theconversation.com article, which reflects on the environmental footprint of elections, following Australia’s general election this weekend! theconversation.com/a-rubbish-el...
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A rubbish election: voting in Australia produces mountains of waste - but there’s a better way
From corflutes and how-to-vote cards to 250,000 pencils, 240,000 volunteer vests, 80,000 ballot boxes, here’s what happens to election materials after polling day.
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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Exciting PhD opportunity alert!!!! 👇👇👇🌶️🌶️https://geods.ac.uk/2025/04/22/fully-funded-phd-opportunity-advancing-urban-analytics-through-ai-driven-geodemographic-classification/ 🌶️🌶️ #AI #GIS #DataScientist #GeoAI
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 22/04/2025
What we’ve launched today is the first step for how we’re going to evolve verification. The initial set of trusted verifiers includes news orgs who’ve agreed to take on the task of verification for their journalists. In the future, this set will expand, as well as how apps can choose to use them.
Verification pop-up for badge issued by Wired
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
While the gospels say that Judas led the Romans to Jesus, a new theory is gaining traction with some Biblical scholars. There is evidence, some say, that Judas merely shared Christ's location on an insecure group chat that accidentally included several Roman officials and journalists.
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Grant McKenzie @grantdmckenzie.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I put together a (quick) web map showing change in US land border crossings from Canada over the past few months. Mainly a procrastination project, but also quite interesting to compare border crossings and provinces. ptal-io.github.io/border/
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US Northern Land Border Traveler Crossings
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Jami @justjami.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
#GISChat
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Matt Duckham @duckham.org · 10/04/2025
Abstract submissions still open for #GIScience2025 !
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
BREAKING Trump administration bans imports of men from the Isle of Man
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GIScience 2027 Conference @giscience-conf.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
🚨 Reminder! 🚨 The deadline for submitting abstracts and demos to GIScience 2025 🌏 is April 13! Details & submission: giscience2025.org#abstracts #GIScience2025 #CFP
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Bezos has done some amazing things with this editorial page.
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Neo4j @neo4j.com · 31/03/2025
Ready to see how GraphRAG can transform your AI systems? Check out this article and explore: ✔️ GraphRAG: How it's revolutionizing traditional RAG systems ✔️Why top companies are embracing agentic architecture ✔️NeoConverse — A cutting-edge experiment in GraphRAG and agentic LLM design +
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A Practical Experimentation of GraphRAG and Agentic Architecture With NeoConverse - Graph Database & Analytics
Combine GraphRAG’s ability to tap into graph-based knowledge with NeoConverse to unlock powerful, adaptable AI workflows.
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Happy Transgender Day of Visibility dear friends! We see you, we appreciate you and we can't imagine the world without you! ❤️
heart in blue, pink and white next to letters that say: International transgender day of visibility march 31
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Tyler Borchers @tylerborchers.com · 23/03/2025
"Human-created content is getting almost entirely drowned out by AI-generated content because of the sheer amount of it."
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AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality
Generative AI spammers are brute forcing the internet, and it is working.
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Grant McKenzie @grantdmckenzie.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
This is truly an amazing funding opportunity. Travel funding for US-based students to attend @giscience-conf.bsky.social in New Zealand! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Women+ in Geospatial @geospatialwomen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Hello #geospatial community! We're working on getting this account up and running as soon as possible! Stay tuned. 💜
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Isn’t it about time for all Journals to add a link for Bluesky @bsky.app instead of Toxic X? Please Wake Up & Act! E.g @peerj.bsky.social 🙏
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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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Bluesky now lets users upload videos that are up to 3 minutes long | TechCrunch
Bluesky is rolling out the ability for users to upload videos that are up to 3 minutes long, the decentralized social network announced.
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Anita Graser 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @underdarkgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2025
Analyzing GTFS Realtime Data for Public Transport Insights In today’s post, we (that is, Gaspard Merten from Universite Libre de Bruxelles and yours truly) are going to dive deep into how to analyze public transport data, using both schedule and real time information. Previously, I already […]
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Matt Duckham @duckham.org · 10/03/2025
Spectacular @fontainesdc.bsky.social in Melbourne last night!
Fontaines DC on stage bathed in peach coloured light silhouetting three audience members on others’ shoulders. Fontaines DC on stage bathed in orange lightFontaines DC in stage bathed in red and blue lightFontaines DC on stage bathed in blue light, with dry ice rising around them
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Is this a Nazi salute? From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Qiusheng Wu @giswqs.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
A sneak peek of a new feature in the #GeoAI Python package! 🎉 Now you can detect cars from georeferenced aerial imagery using deep learning—all with just a few lines of code. Stay tuned for an in-depth video tutorial coming soon!
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Harald Tryti Rieber @haraldtr.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The closest we will get to world peas this week
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Matthias Stahl @higsch.com · 25/02/2025
This image represents just a fraction of the work our team at @spiegel.de has published in the past 36 hours—an incredible effort made possible by teamwork at its best. A huge thank you to the data and visualization team and to all the hardworking colleagues in the newsroom.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
If you think the headline is good, you should read the copy.
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Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
WASHINGTON—With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American pe...
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Henrikki Tenkanen @htenkanen.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The deadline for applying to our PhD position in GeoAI & LLMs approaches soon! Apply by next Sunday 2nd March to our exciting PhD position! 🌐 💡 See more details below.
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
This week the ARC should release Expressions of Interest outcomes for Discovery Projects. Should be Wed–Fri. They’re not public, so my bot cannot track them. The ARC should email applicants, and maybe tweet(?), to say outcomes are available in RMS.
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Stansaid Airport @stansaidairport.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
With hindsight, asking the world's tallest man to open our new heliport wasn't the best idea.
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Matt Duckham @duckham.org · 19/02/2025
Utterly compelling 23 minute documentary: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/o...
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Opinion | What a School Performance Shows Us About Japanese Education (Gift Article)
A look into the Japanese educational system’s delicate balancing of teamwork, discipline and personal growth.
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GIScience 2027 Conference @giscience-conf.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
⚡ Due to many requests to keep the GIScience 2025 🌏 paper submission site open over the weekend, we are EXTENDING the paper deadline to Sunday, Feb. 16 23:59 AoE. giscience2025.org
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
ME: did you save it? ONEDRIVE: hypothetically, yes
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Michael Gould @mgould.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Calling all university Planning (and related) Departments. I encourage you to join us at the GeoDesign Summit (free event) including two (2!) Special Interest Group meetings on May 1 just for you. Let's discuss the future. www.esri.com/en-us/about/...
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Agenda at a Glance | 2025 Geodesign Summit
Review the Agenda at a Glance for the Geodesign Summit, to be held April 29–May 1, 2025. Get an overview of the sessions available during the event.
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