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Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Nice to be in Birmingham for @gisruk.bsky.social 2026. Presenting some of our ongoing @novafrica.bsky.social work later today on spatial patterns, coastal proximity and willingness to pay for local flood defences.

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Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I love being a PhD viva examiner and getting to be in the room when a new Doctor comes to be!

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Dr. Dominic Royé @drxeo.eu · 19/03/2026

Today I’m excited to finally start a project I’ve been wanting to launch for a long time: Color for #Geoscience. 🎨🌍 ℹ️ to build an open, community‑driven collection of palettes 📄 Contribution: github.com/dominicroye/... 🌐 APP dominicroye.github.io/color-for-ge... #ScientificVisualization #dataviz

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Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

The @sheffielduni.bsky.social urban planning, design, regeneration and water management field trip to Hull-Rotterdam comes to a close! Amazing weather and amazing students - couldn’t be happier. A huge thanks to @hullcitycouncil.bsky.social FRM team & @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social for hosting us!

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Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Work is just so much nicer in better weather!

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Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Working on spatial data, flood risk management or urbanization in developing countries? Would love to chat! Really happy with this great collaborative project we have ongoing in Quelimane.

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Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Great to be back at it with #GISRUK2025 - looks like a super nice programme of GIS research and methods!

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Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Urban surfing in Rotterdam! Now that’s “living with water”. Nearing the final stretch of our UG field trip, and couldnt be happier with our great students.

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Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

A tale of two flood barriers! From Hull over to Rotterdam, looking at one of the biggest storm surge barriers protecting Europe’s largest port. One of my favourite stops on the great urban planning undergrad field trip

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Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Sunny days out in Spurn! Great talks by Yorkshire Wildlife Trust for field trip Day 2 with our amazing urban studies and planning students @sheffielduni.bsky.social (they didn’t like my April Fools joke that our ferry tomorrow got canceled…)

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Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

A great start to the annual @sheffielduni.bsky.social urban planning field trip to Hull and Rotterdam. Learning all about the defences in the city and living with water 🌊 - big thanks for welcoming us @hullcitycouncil.bsky.social

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Open Research, University of Sheffield @openresshef.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

It was fantastic to hear from Jacob, Vanessa Higgins & Tecla Bonci about their experiences with data journals at today's Open Research Conversation. We'll share the link to the recording once it's available.

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Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Was great to present some of my data work for part of #LoveDataWeek2025 at @sheffielduni.bsky.social A great session today on publishing in data journals. And lots more great sessions to come!! ❤️📊 www.sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch... @openresshef.bsky.social @lovedataweek.bsky.social

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Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Nice to be back in the class today for another semester of research methods, flooding, spatial data science and international field trips. 🌊👨‍🏫

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Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Christmas come early, and one major stress off the to-do list! Looks like I’ll be sticking around some time yet. 🇬🇧

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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Welcome to Sheffield Urbanism! Here we'll be posting about research, publications, events, online resources & networking opportunities shared by urban researchers at the University of Sheffield (within and beyond @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social), as well as issues of wider urban interest.

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Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

🗺️ DAY 16: CHOROPLETH - What does the UK look like when coloured in by #PremierLeague football club colours? That’s today’s #30DayMapChallenge! Obviously the polygon sizes aren’t proportionate to importance - LFC hidden away in their NW corner! ⚽️

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Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

🗺️ DAY 15: MY DATA - “Map something personal”… What’s the distribution of Jacob-based places around Great Britain? Using Ordnance Survey place names for today’s #30DayMapChallenge. Lots of Jacob’s ladders about.

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Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

🗺️ DAY 14: WORLD - How Worldly is the distribution of the history of world fairs? Not much it seems according to today’s #30DayMapChallenge. If you’re into planning, architecture, the world fair and serial killers couldn’t recommend “Devil in the White City” enough!

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Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

🗺️ DAY 13: NEW TOOL - Not exactly new, but relatively. ArcGIS Pro! I’m so used to QGIS and the former ArcMap, that Pro is still pretty new to me. Learning all along the way! #ESRI #ArcGIS #30DayMapChallenge Redoing some maps from my PhD tree canopy identification.

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Alexander Lex @alex-lex.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I made a data visualization academics starter pack! go.bsky.app/wzjzNi Let me know who I should add. #datavis

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Open Research, University of Sheffield @openresshef.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

New starter pack - library teams and librarians interested in open research 📚📣 DM us if you'd like to be added #OpenResearch #OpenAccess #OpenData go.bsky.app/T17BEF9

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milos makes maps @milos-makes-maps.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Hey people! If you are into #geospatial anysis and data #visualization, I created a #GIS starter pack to help you connect with accounts with valuable resources in the field. Check it out here and please suggest new names to expand it: go.bsky.app/TJ7qQF6

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Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

🗺️ DAY 12: SPACE & TIME - Spatio-temporal patterns for a random moose in Northern Alberta today for the #30DayMapChallenge 🫎 Here’s to Moose number YL4 🫡 www.movebank.org/cms/movebank...

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Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

🗺️ DAY 11: ARCTIC - The @ArcticMonkeys have never been to the Arctic for today's #30DayMapChallenge Of course working in #Sheffield I had to go Sheffield-centric for the theme today. Some rough data work taken from concertarchives.org

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Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

🗺️ DAY 9/ 10: AI/ Pen and Paper - The UK as interpreted by ChatGPT, and Pangaea as interpreted by my hand for these two #30DayMapChallenge Been a while since I’ve gotten to do some arts and crafts! AI-UK just gets stranger the more you look

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Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

🗺️ DAY 8: HDX Data - Some great datasets on Humanitarian Data Exchange for the #30DayMapChallenge Here’s a map of population density in Mozambique using the WorldPop 2020 synthetic gridded data

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Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

🗺️ DAY 7: VINTAGE - Catch up time for the #30DayMapChallenge A pretty basic map playing with some QGIS coastal styles from @awoodruff.bsky.social to capture that vintage hand drawn effect.

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Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

🗺️ DAY 6: RASTER - I think we could use a little break from earth for todays #30DayMapChallenge. I’ve been deep into planetary sci-fi books lately so today we have a raster of the surface of Venus from NASA’s Magellan mission 🪐🔭🚀

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Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

🗺️ DAY 5: JOURNEY - Going personal for todays #30DayMapChallenge on the theme of Journey. Here's a rough mapping out of my academic journey from bachelors to lecturer. 👶👨‍🎓👨‍🏫

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Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

🗺️ DAY 4: HEXAGONS - I had a lot of fun working on this CDRC retail data product. Lots of retail points and hexagons involved. Here we have the retail centres around Rotherham - but we've got full UK coverage! Explore the data in #OpenAccess linked below #30DayMapChallenge

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Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

🗺️ DAY 3: POLYGONS - A simple random palette on the houses of St. John's to represent just how colourful the city is with our Jellybean Rowhouses! Considered manually trying to recreate the colour palettes from @hfnlca historic paints, but too many! #30DayMapChallenge

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Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

🗺️ DAY 2: LINES - Todays map is looking at the elevation of regional roads across Ireland. Making use of some global elevation data and Gov. Ireland Open Data road networks #30DayMapChallenge

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Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

🗺️ DAY 1: POINTS - Decided to throw my hat in the ring again this year for the #30DayMapChallenge. Told myself I wasn't going to do this, but couldn't stand in front of the GIS design workshops and tell students to make some maps while NOT making maps myself. So here we are!

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