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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New publication! 🚨 We created an urban-rural #typology on the European NUTS 2 regional level using 1-km grid population census and urban agglomeration data to match regional data availability and policy relevance with an available typology. 📜 Article and data: doi.org/10.18335/reg... #research #EU

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Urban, Rural, or In-Between? : An adapted Territorial Typology for NUTS 2 regions | REGION

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Kaarinaks @kaarinaks.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Ja vaara ohi !! #Helsinki #Uusimaa #drooni

Vaara ohi tiedote : Vaara ohi: Uusimaa. Miehittämätön ilma-alus ei enää aiheuta vaaraa ja tilanne on ohi .Sisäministeriön pelastusviranomainen.

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The @digigeolab.bsky.social is present in #Brussels for the final event of @mobi-twin-project.bsky.social. Just moments ago @ollejarv.bsky.social presented the novel regional #mobility data produced in the project.

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Check out our recent #MobiTwin article in Urbaria Summaries, where we explored #European #Erasmus student mobility flows to/from #Finland from 2014 until 2023. Covid-19 disrupted the flow network presenting potential brain gain opportunities for Finnish regions. 📜 www.helsinki.fi/assets/drupa...

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Last week we had a very good workshop in #Mikkeli with regional stakeholders across North and East Finland in the @mobi-twin-project.bsky.social Our stakeholders had some very interesting ideas to solve challenges related to regional mobility and development in the #region. #Alue #EteläSavo #Tiede

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Digitaalinen itsenäisyys @digitaalinenitsenaisyys.fi · 06/02/2026

‼️ Meta sulki aloitteen Threads-tilin ‼️ Onneksi emme ole vain yhden tilin varassa! Linkit kaikkiin löydät digitaalinenitsenaisyys.fi

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Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @sallamaaria.eurosky.social · 05/02/2026

Kriittiset digitaaliset palvelut olisi syytä rakentaa suomalaisten ja eurooppalaisten toimijoiden varaan. Tästä on nyt käynnissä kansalaisaloite, nimeä alle siis! digitaalinenitsenaisyys.fi

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Digitaalinen itsenäisyys

Suomen arki, demokratia ja turvallisuus nojaavat yhä enemmän digitaalisiin järjestelmiin. Vaalit, sosiaaliturva, verotus ja monet muut yhteiskunnan perustoiminnot pyörivät tietojärjestelmien varassa. ...

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Nothing like trying to figure out the basics of #pixi in #python at a ferry terminal.

My laptop with Pixi documentation page, an open terminal and some elevators and ad screens in the background.

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

i miss when every ceo was just blasted on coke instead of llms

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

It is fun to be able to do some more #NLP things, and to tackle some surprisingly complex issues like extracting text blobs from academic articles with complex layouts and multi-column text fields. At least they are complex for a geographer 😅

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

It's so great that almost every university is a cheerleader for AI, so we can also be complicit in wasting water that way.

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☆ColoradoGold☆ @milehighride.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Mikä on Helsingin sometetuin viheralue? Missä lenkkeillään, mistä otetaan lintukuvia? Missä käydään ympäri vuoden ja mitkä ovat kesäkohteita? Mm. näitä sivusimme yhteishankkeessamme massadatoista ja Helsingin viheralueiden käytöstä. Lisää tietoa blogistamme! blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...

Kuvakaappaus hankkeen loppuraportin kannesta, lukee "Viheralueiden käyttö Helsingissä". Kuvassa Töölönlahti kesällä.

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 17/12/2025

Don’t forget the Segway!

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

AntiRender is a fun tool to add a bit more reality into the highly polished and overtly positive architectural renders we see everywhere. antirender.com Here, I tried it with a random architectural render image from Huttunen-Lipasti architects. #architecture #antirender #arkkitehtuuri

The original glossy renderi image showing an inner courtyard between two jugend-style buildings, one orange and the other one light red. The courtyard has some common areas with picnic tables and bushes. Beyond the courtyard there is a grassy area and a beach with a view of a summery archipelago.

The render version without the glossy magic. The buildings are a bit more run down, the trees and bushes are leafless, the picnic tables have been removed for the winter, the ground is wet and the sky is grey.

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The Kremlin called Trump's new National Security Strategy a document that "corresponds in many ways to our vision." France's former ambassador called it a "far-right pamphlet." Both are right The NSS dedicates four paragraphs to Europe's "civilizational erasure." One sentence on ending Russia's war

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Anders Östlund @andersostlund.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Current status: Europe is at war but only Ukraine is doing the fighting. Europe's biggest ally is not only backing down its commitments and leaving us behind, not it's turning against us. The part of Europe that tries to rise to figth is vetoed by corrupt officials in Hungary, Belgium etc.

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I came to try out a new local #Persian cafe in #Helsinki called #Äfra. Good delicacies and superb coffee.

A Zaban confectionery in front, my coffee in the back. All on a wooden table!

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

#30DayMapChallenge Day 20 - Water: An Australian River Alphabet Inspired by Katie Holten's Irish Tree Alphabet 🌳 Unsure of any Australian river names beginning with 'X' and 'Z'. River centrelines: www.hydrosheds.org River catchments: ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/s... (c) Rory Taylor

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

In bike-friendly Copenhagen, the Social Democrats' candidate for mayor tried to win over drivers by calling for more car parking. In elections this week, she was trounced. For the first time in 122 years, a Social Democrat won't lead Copenhagen. The new mayor is a socialist from the Green Left.

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Danish Premier’s Party Loses Century-Long Hold on Copenhagen

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats suffered a major setback in local elections held across the country, losing the capital after more than a century in power.

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

How attractive is your region? Is it an economic power house? A digital pioneer? A green trailblazer? Or something else? Find out yourself with the new dashboard from @mobi-twin-project.bsky.social! public.tableau.com/app/profile/... #30DayMapChallenge #Geography #Research #Europe

The view of the dashboard showing attractiveness of European regions across economic, digital, and green dimensions.

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Lauri Lavanti @lauri.lavanti.fi · 17/11/2025

Joten jos/kun huomaatte puolen vuoden päästä, että tekoälyn lisääminen ei tuonutkaan odotettuja säästöjä tai tuottavuushyötyjä, kannattaa katsoa menopuolta Laitoitteko aikaa, rahaa ja vaivaa käyttöönottoon? Selvitittekö miten juuri tämä teknologia soveltuu tapaukseenne? 4/

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

#30daymapchallenge 17: A new tool Helsinki enjoyed a grand total of 12 minutes of sunshine in November (1.–13.11). No better time to remember that yes, the sun does still exists. This map shows Helsinki's shadiest / sunniest places. New tool? #GRASSGIS solar modelling. By @tadusko.bsky.social

A map of Helsinki's urban core. It shows which areas are in the shade on a clear day in mid-June. Hietaranta beach and Töölönlahti bay are highlighted with photos, since they are have some of the sunniest spots on the map.

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Ups and downs belong to #academia. Two funding applications out of three came back negative. Really frustrating. I also applied for a new research position, and came up with a clever (IMO) research plan in a short time, so I am very happy with that.

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

#30DayMapChallenge Day 10 - Air: Common Swift (Apus Apus) sightings in Finland in 2025 from eBird (+one Taylor Swift (Private Jet))

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

#30DayMapChallenge Day 4 - My Data The 2025 citybike season in Helsinki has come to an end last week. As an avid user of the bike sharing system, Robert Klein has plotted his more than 350 trips of this year's season on a map. #bikesharing #cycling #mobility

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

It is quite nice to have my favorite team connection back after a lengthy renovation, just in time for the winter season when cycling gets a bit more tricky (and unpleasant). The #PublicTransit operator #HSL has people handing out commemorative candies to mark the occasion in #Helsinki.

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

#30DayMapChallenge Day 1 - Points Creating a #centroid is not as trivial as you might think! If you are dealing with regional population data, the locational difference between a regular geometric centroid and a population-weighted centroid can be vast! Map by @waeiski.bsky.social #GIS #QGIS

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Our collaboration with Metsähallitus is moving ahead even more efficiently and with greater impact as we have signed MoU with Metsähallitus Parks & Wildlife Finland to deepen our research cooperation and streamline the two-way sharing of data and knowledge. blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog...

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Do you ever use your mobile phone when spending time outdoors? The answer is probably yes. In that case, you leave digital footprints about your visit. 🦶 How are these data useful for the sustainable management of nature areas? 👉 Watch our video for that and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U5G...

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Mobile Big Data For Understanding People in Nature

What are digital footprints and how can they be useful for managers of nature recreation areas? In this video, researchers from the Digital Geography Lab, University of Helsinki, explain how digital…

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Tinpot dictatorship coming to North America

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miladmzdh.bsky.social @miladmzdh.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Urban planners should not be afraid of AI! 🏙️🤖 AI won’t replace planners, but it is reshaping how we imagine, design & govern our cities. The barrier isn’t tech, it’s mindset. Read my new piece in Cities: tinyurl.com/3jtx2xrd #UrbanPlanning #AI #FutureOfCities

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Oleksandr Karasov @karasov.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

How can we accurately map where people live and work when they frequently cross national borders? Traditional surveys miss complexity, mobile network operators data are hard to get across borders, and individual social-media traces are sparse—yet social media is inherently transnational.

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I also presented yesterday some preliminary work on exploring structural changes in the #Erasmus student mobility network in #Europe. Student mobility has rebounded, and the structure has changed, with larger regional cities becoming more relevant, and Brexit removing the UK's relevance in Erasmus.

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

To round off #ECTQG it is @miladmzdh.bsky.social presenting his work on understanding the importance of regional connectivity using multiple mobility flows. @digigeolab.bsky.social @mobi-twin-project.bsky.social

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

In the final session of #ECTQG we have @karasov.bsky.social presenting his work on measuring the quality of time spent in nature. Very interesting stuff!

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Next up we have @ollejarv.bsky.social presenting his work in using mobility data to assess #CrossBorder integration across #Europe at #ECTQG. New approaches are needed to better understand the cross-border regions from the perspectives of people and social interactions. @digigeolab.bsky.social

Olle presenting in a room full of people.

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Good to see Modupe Osunkoya presenting her work on dynamic #urban #vitality in #Tallinn at the #ECTQG conference. It is a nice collaboration with her and Jenni Partanen from #TalTech university and @digigeolab.bsky.social

Modupe presenting her work for a room full of people.

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

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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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

This person is a charlatan. Why is there so much uncritical coverage of this obvious nonsense? Where is the actual journalism?

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Hei #sinitaivas tarvitsemme osanottajia tulevaan työpajaamme! Jos aluekehitys, aluepolitiikka ja muuttoliikkeet kiinnostavat etenkin kun kyseessä on #Suomi ja tarkemmin itäiset ja pohjoiset osat, niin mukaan vaan! #Finland #Finnish #Region #Europe #EU

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Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Hei sinä Itä- tai Pohjois-Suomalainen! Kiinnostaako sinua kotiseutusi aluekehitys ja tulevaisuus? Tule mukaan työpajaamme! 🗓️ Syyskuun 12. päivä 2025 ⏰ Kello 11:00 – 12:30 Osallistumistiedot blogissamme: blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geog... #Savo #Lappi #Kainuu #Alue #Tulevaisuus #Mikkeli

English: A map of Europe and its NUTS 2 regions with Eastern and Northern Finland highlighted. At the bottom there are the logos of Mobi-Twin research project and the European Union.

Suomeksi: Kartta Euroopasta NUTS 2 -alueineen ja Itä- ja Pohjois-Suomen alue on korostettuna. Alareunassa on Mobi-Twin -tutkimushankkeen ja Euroopan Unionin logot.

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

It's the humidity that gets you! Here is the Humidity Belt of the US for your viewing pleasure.

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