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The second day at #ECTQG starts with a keynote from @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social on the current state and future directions of #mobility and #accessibility #research. @digigeolab.bsky.social

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Aleksi Lehikoinen @aksulehikoinen.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

"Lomailijat ihmettelevät laajoja metsähakkuita – puuta kaadetaan nyt lähes ennätystahtia". yle.fi/a/74-20172571 Jutussa mainitaan hakkuiden talouden ja ilmastotoimien välinen ongelma, mutta ei korkeiden hakkuumäärien haittaa luonnon monimuotoisuudelle. Jälkimmäinen unohtuu liian usein.

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Lomailijat ihmettelevät laajoja metsähakkuita – puuta kaadetaan nyt lähes ennätystahtia

Lomailijat ihmettelevät laajoja metsähakkuita eri puolilla Suomea. Rovaniemeläinen maanomistaja kertoo, miksi möi metsää juuri nyt.

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Tuuli Toivonen 🇺🇦🌏🌎🌍🕊️ @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

”Your application was ranked 1st of all the 43 Academy Project Funding 2025 applications reviewed in this panel. Only applications with the final rating of 5 or 6 are ranked." Let me just say that after 25 negative (+1 positive) decisions from the Research Council of 🇫🇮, this feels damn good 🥳💰

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Tuuli Toivonen 🇺🇦🌏🌎🌍🕊️ @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Oslossa pitkän työviikon päätteeksi. Kuuntelen terassilta Ukrainan kansallislaulua. Terassi on sama, jolta myös rauhanNobelin voittajat vilkuttavat kansalle. ”This war hasn’t stopped for a single day” kaikuu aukiolla. Ollapa jossain Nobelistiehdokas, joka tämän ratkaisisi. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

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geohelsinkiuni.bsky.social @geohelsinkiuni.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Struggling with your PhD synopsis? ✍️ Try this - The reverse-order approach! 📚🧠 @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social and @digigeolab.bsky.social have been using the reverse-order approach to structure article-based PhD synopses — and it works! 🔗 Read the full story here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Why you should write your PhD thesis backwards

By considering the central statement of your entire PhD, you can structure your writing around it, says Tuuli Toivonen.

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Rounding the day off was @waeiski.bsky.social who presented his work on regional student mobility and how Covid-19 has affected the regional structure of the flow network at #LBS2025. Photo by Oleksandr Karasov.

Tuomas presents his findings on the structural changes in regional student mobility in Europe.

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Our visiting researcher Davi Gressler presents his work on assessing realized 15-minute trips in US cities and comparing that to trips that were longer but could have been made in 15 minutes using SafeGraph data. #15MinuteCity #Segregation

Davi explaining the 15 minute city concept.

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Next up is @tadusko.bsky.social presenting his work on the rise and fall of Flickr and use of its data in geographical analyses at #LBS2025 conference.

Tatu presents his work on using Flickr for geographical analyses and whether it is actually a good idea after all.

Tatu showing how the popularity of Flickr has diminished but research using Flickr data has increased.

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Second day of #LBS2025 is about to start and so are the @digigeolab.bsky.social presentations.

The scientific entourage of the Digital Geography Lab members and alumni in front of the Dipoli building at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland.

Front row from the left: Henrikki Tenkanen, Davi Gressler, Leyi Xu

Back row from the left: Oleksandr Karasov, Milad Malekzadeh, Robert Klein, Tatu Leppämäki, Matti Hästbacka and yours truly.

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

The 19th Location Based Services conference #LBS2025 is about to start in #Espoo at #AaltoUniversity. I am presenting tomorrow, so today I get to chillax 😎 Very good representation from @digigeolab.bsky.social

The LBS poster in front of the Dipoli building at Espoo.

The Dipoli building the conference is hosted at. In front is a massive metallic pine cone.

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Tuuli Toivonen 🇺🇦🌏🌎🌍🕊️ @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Olen ikäni retkeillyt Keskuspuistossa. Silti aina on ollut sama: vähänkin vieraammalla paikalla meinaa eksyä, eivätkä opasteet ole auttaneet yhtään. Nyt juoksin pitkästä aikaa lenkin koko Keskuspuiston halki. Ja voi että on upeat ”uudet” opasteet! Helppoa menoa! 🤩 Kiitos @hel.fi ❤️🙏 (Kuva STT)

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Tanja Suni @tanjasuni.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

"Jos suuri, vanha puu esiteltäisiin teknologiamessuilla, se olisi nerokas keksintö ja vetonaula: menetelmä, jolla hyvin paljon hiiltä voi varastoida hyvin pienelle alalle." Luonnon ilmainen CCS. #metsät

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Tuuli Toivonen 🇺🇦🌏🌎🌍🕊️ @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Celebration in our #GREENTRAVEL project @digigeolab.bsky.social #VR experiments now concluded!! 🚴🏻‍♀️🌲🌳 🥳 Two months, 151 participants, a lot of learning. Kudos to the incredible team Silviya Korpilo, Om Ravindran, Ashish Shete, Jussi Torkko, Sini Ruohomäki, Juulia Lehtinen and Mansi Garg 💎🤩

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Mobility viewpoint needs to be recognized in urban greening policies! 🚴‍🌳🏙️ New #GREENTRAVEL paper out! A perspective paper by Silviya Korpilo et al., published in Ambio, describes how people’s contact with urban nature often happens when moving through space. Interested? Read the paper here 👇

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Restoring nature, enhancing active mobility: The role of street greenery in the EU’s 2024 restoration law - Ambio

This article argues for the importance of integrating a mobility perspective into urban greenspace planning and practice related to the 2024 EU Nature Restoration Law. Street greenery can play an impo...

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geohelsinkiuni.bsky.social @geohelsinkiuni.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Apply for postdoctoral researcher and doctoral researcher positions at our department! Postdoctoral Researcher in Machine Learning for Nature Conservation: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... Deadline for applications: 15 May 2025. @helsinki.fi @ediminin.bsky.social #HELICSlab

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Postdoctoral Researcher in Data Science for Nature Conservation

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Tuuli Toivonen 🇺🇦🌏🌎🌍🕊️ @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Our new Associate Professor in #geography @geohelsinkiuni.bsky.social, Johanna Eklund 💎, giving her inaugural keynote talk at the Kumpula Faculty Day of @helsinki.fi 🤩 Johanna asks what actually works in #conservation and how this could be tested with #counterfactual approaches 💚

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Gonza Cortés Capano @cortescapano.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

New #OA paper "Climate and biodiversity perceptions amid the European energy crisis: shifting social media narratives" link.springer.com/article/10.1... Great team @annahau.bsky.social @waeiski.bsky.social @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social #sustainability #geography #energy #climate #biodiversity

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Check our new article where we examined how online discussion on #ClimateChange and #Biodiversity changed during the European energy crisis! Relevant for #sustainability #research & #policy A fantastic collaboration with @annahau.bsky.social @cortescapano.bsky.social and @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social!

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Anna Hausmann @annahau.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

✨ NEW ARTICLE OUT 🗞️ We studied how #ClimateChange and #Biodiversity loss were represented and discussed amid the European #EnergyCrisis on X (between 2021-2023) with a great team: @waeiski.bsky.social @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social @cortescapano.bsky.social See full article here: lnkd.in/gaYvw3N5

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Tatu Leppämäki @tadusko.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

🚨 NEW ARTICLE 🚨 How many photos are uploaded to Flickr? Where? By who? Why does any of it matter? We explore the rise and fall of #Flickr in this @digigeolab.bsky.social paper by yours truly, @vuoggis.bsky.social, Johanna Eklund, Anna Hausmann & @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social out now! buff.ly/0hJjPsm

Distribution of the use of Flickr. Three heat maps that show globes roughly centered in Europe and Africa, South-East Asia and the Americas. Use is centered in Europe and North America, and urban areas.

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Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

“Technology might well be the thing that pushes us over the edge. But it could also, if we play our cards right, allow us to exit our era of polycrisis. But that won’t happen on its own. The path towards better technology – tech for the 99% – can only be achieved through a politics of the 99%.“

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We are stuck. Declining. And spiraling. We need a breakthrough | Amana Fontanella-Khan

We live in dark, depressing and – frankly – terrifying times. Will technology push us over the edge or help us exit our many crises?

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Tuuli Toivonen 🇺🇦🌏🌎🌍🕊️ @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Three years ago I never thought of supporting any armed forces financially. Now payment made, again. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 bank.gov.ua/en/about/sup...

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Tuuli Toivonen 🇺🇦🌏🌎🌍🕊️ @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Starting to recover from the most memorable Friday: a full day seminar and an evening party to celebrate the first 15 years of our lab @digigeolab.bsky.social 😍🤩❤️💃🏽🕺🏿 It was a blast to have some 40 members and alumni to reunite, discuss & celebrate together, many over long distances 🇬🇧🇳🇴🇩🇪🇦🇹🇪🇪🇫🇮 Yay!😍🥳🪩

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geohelsinkiuni.bsky.social @geohelsinkiuni.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Onnea 15 vuotias Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social! 🥳 @helsinki.fi @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

@digigeolab.bsky.social panel discussion has started with @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social @vuoggis.bsky.social, @thiip.bsky.social, Johanna Eklund, Liisa Kajala and Maria Salonen. Interesting points on #VisitorMonitoring, data availability, reliability and #resilience of #BigData sources.

Panel discussing research, big data, data availability and the future. Tuuli Toivonen is behind the pulpit, the panelists are from left to right Johanna Eklund, Vuokko Heikinheimo, Tuomo Hiippala, Liisa Kajala and Maria Salonen.

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Anna Hausmann asking important questions at @digigeolab.bsky.social 15-Year Anniversary Seminar about how #technology is shaping our experiences of #nature. Nature is more accessible to us than ever before, but our experiences of it are increasingly mediated by smart devices.

Anna Hausmann presenting her work on the role of technology in nature experiences.

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

PhD researcher @matabatchi.bsky.social presents his work on the role of #nature in #tourism focusing on the #Canarias, and how to examine that with traditional and #BigData from #SocialMedia and novel methods such as #ComputerVision and #AI. 33% of tourist content is posted from natural areas.

Matti explaining key questions in his work.

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Next up @tadusko.bsky.social presents how #BigData and novel methods can be used to extract relevant information on #NatureRecreation and nature-based #tourism.

Tatu speaking about content analysis of big data content.

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Our post-doc researcher Aina Brias Guinart talks about how nature-based tourism and outdoor recreation are changing, and how there is a need for more knowledge. She focuses on protected areas in #CanaryIslands #Canarias and #Finland. The number of visitors, their ages, and activities are changing.

Aina talking about what is changing in protected area visitation.

Aina talking about how nature-based tourism is changing.

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The @digigeolab.bsky.social 15-Year Anniversary Seminar continues with the fourth session focusing on #Nature #Recreation introduced by @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social!

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

And the @digigeolab.bsky.social seminar continues! @ollejarv.bsky.social presents his #Borderspace project focusing on #CrossBorder regions and #transnational people, focusing on how transnational lives take place and how crossborder regions emerge from mobility and interactions.

Olle presents findings on Estonians who work in Finland, but live in Estonia.

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Next up is @miladmzdh.bsky.social from @digigeolab.bsky.social presenting the #MobiTwin project and how regional #mobility studies have to move beyond migration when studying regional attractiveness, and also consider #CrossBorder #commuting, #StudentMobility, #Multilocality and #DigitalNomadism.

Milad starting his presentation on regional attractiveness.

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Now @ollejarv.bsky.social is presenting his and Riku Reunamäki's work on #RemoteWork and #MultiLocality Essentially remote work is poorly defined in literature, and could be defined more clearly as work from home, work from somewhere and work from anywhere.

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Our 15-Year Anniversary Seminar goes on a lunch break. We're back in one hour.

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

@ilppo.bsky.social, senior advisor from the City of Helsinki, is presents future research needs of Helsinki and cities in general at @digigeolab.bsky.social seminar. There is a lot that needs to be studied and understood better in cities such as #Segregation #UrbanGrowth #Transit #PolicyImpact

Ilppo Soininvaara presents a slide on what knowledge and data the city is missing.

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

@agepoom.bsky.social is presenting her lab's work on using mobile phone data to examine urban areas from several perspectives at the @digigeolab.bsky.social 15-Year Anniversary Seminar! #MobilePhoneData #BigData

Age presenting her work on using smartphone data to understand urban areas.

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

@htenkanen.bsky.social our @digigeolab.bsky.social alumni, currently at @aalto.fi is presenting his research on #LowCarbon #Mobility. Take-aways: #decarbonisation and changing #human behavior is extra challenging. Still, most everyday car trips are 5 km or shorter, and change is possible.

Henrikki Tenkanen presenting his research in the fancy banquet hall.

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Silviya Korpilo and Robert Klein @r-klein.bsky.social from @digigeolab.bsky.social present their research on how exposure to #GreenSpace during everyday travel affects wellbeing using #VirtualReality and #RemoteSensing imagery.

Silviya presenting her work on active sensing of greenery's effect on human wellbeing.

Robert Klein presenting his work on using remote sensing imagery to assess greenery exposure across 86 European cities!

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

@eliaswillberg.bsky.social presenting the work done on #accessibility in the @digigeolab.bsky.social . Accessibility has several dimensions, and measuring it is not simple. One has to consider multimodality, multitemporality, sensitivity to individual preferences, and impact on the environment.

Elias presenting in a fancy banquet room.

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Our 15-Year Anniversary seminar has started! Tune in to hear about our #research on #accessibility #mobility #segregation and #nature. The stream: video.helsinki.fi/unitube/live... Program: blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...

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Kaisa Kosonen @kaisakosonen.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

"Maailma ei pelasteta Suomen hakkuiden lopettamisella". Että sellainen aloitus sitten. 😳🤯 👉 Kukaan ei ole vaatinut hakkuiden lopettamista. 👉 Kukaan ei ole vaatinut Suomea yksin pelastamaan maailmaa, vaan ihan vaan hoitamaan oman osansa. Noudattamaan omaa lakiaan. www.hs.fi/politiikka/a...

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Ilmasto | Uusi ympäristöministeri: Maailmaa ei pelasteta Suomen hakkuiden lopettamisella

Kokoomuksen Sari Multala aloitti uutena ympäristöministerinä perjantaina.

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Aleksi Lehikoinen @aksulehikoinen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

New PhD from @hkilabornithology.bsky.social: @annaha.bsky.social will defend her thesis "Understanding Human-Bird Interactions : Aesthetic Values, Wildlife Trade and Bird-feeding Practices" 24 Jan @helsinkiuni.bsky.social. Thesis summary 👇 helda.helsinki.fi/items/7ca243... @nathist.bsky.social

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Kerttu Kotakorpi @kerttukotakorpi.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Vuosi 2024 oli mittaushistorian lämpimin. Ensimmäistä kertaa lämpeneminen ylitti 1,5 astetta. Vuoteen mahtui mm. historian kuumin, yksittäinen päivä. Hiilidioksidia ja metaania oli ilmakehässä enemmän kuin koskaan mittaushistoriassa. yle.fi/a/74-20135259

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Maailman keskilämpötilan nousu ylitti 1,5 astetta ensi kertaa mittaushistoriassa, ja se näkyi tulvina ja hirmumyrskyinä

Vuoden 2024 lämpöennätystä selittää osaltaan luonnollinen sääilmiö El Niño. Ihmisen toiminta eli ilmastopäästöt olivat silti suurin syy lämpenemiseen.

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Tuuli Toivonen 🇺🇦🌏🌎🌍🕊️ @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Big Data paradise? Celebrating Little Christmas with @digigeolab.bsky.social ❤️ Paradise art by Tove Jansson, creative ginger bisquit competition, delicious vegan food, hot glögi and personal recaps of the year by everyone. Thanks all, what a team to work with ❤️

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Tuuli Toivonen 🇺🇦🌏🌎🌍🕊️ @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Late to the party but super happy to be here 🤩 💚 Following: Research & societal discussions Posting: Research findings, conference & teaching news and behind-the-scenes stuff of our amazing @digigeolab.bsky.social ❤️ #GIScience #mobility #accessibility #sustainability #urban #nature #bigdata #AI

Some members and alumni of our Digital Geography Lab laughing in a party ❤️

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