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QField for QGIS @qfield.org · 12h

When our remote-first QField team finally meets IRL, what do we do? 🤔

Play city golf through Bern with the app we built ... obviously. 🏌️⛳️

We're distributed, we're dedicated, and apparently we're terrible at golf ... but is was fun!

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Jarrettinho @jarrettinho.bsky.social · 12h

3 environmental activists are being murdered a week simply because they are trying to protect #nature

Environmental defenders are being killed for protecting our future – the law needs to catch up

Nearly 150 land and environmental defenders were killed in 2024, mainly in Latin America.

theconversation.com

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 1d

Asking people to pay for goods would kill the shoplifting industry ...

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, she will. More here - First it was newts, then bats… now it’s snails.

sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/first-i...

First it was newts, then bats… now it’s snails. | Sussex Wildlife Trust

sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk

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Jarrettinho @jarrettinho.bsky.social · 2d

Really sad and a sign of the times that this report rates 90% of rivers and lakes in the #southdownsnationalpark as failing to meet good ecological status
www.southdowns.gov.uk/south-downs-...

South Downs National Park strengthens commitment to water as new report is published - South Downs National Park

The South Downs National Park is making a renewed call to action to improve the health of our rivers, streams and seas as a major new report is published today. The “Water In The Park” report is the f...

www.southdowns.gov.uk

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The Real Lover Girl 😘 @brightbutterfliii.bsky.social · 6d

I’m mad that I never learned how to double dutch this good as a kid 😭

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Jarrettinho @jarrettinho.bsky.social · 7d

With our #publicservices under ever more strain, it's important to highlight why places such as Leeds Central Library are essential parts of our social fabric

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Jarrettinho @jarrettinho.bsky.social · 7d

My first time at the @uk.osgeo.org conference. It inspired me to highlight my research applying #Sentinel1 to #peatland with #qgis was published in the @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social Remote Sensing journal lnkd.in/eaPpipQu
With zero funding resources, it was possible because of #foss4g resources.
#gis

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Jarrettinho @jarrettinho.bsky.social · 9d

Looking forward to my first @uk.osgeo.org #FOSS4GUK conference today in #Leeds. Will be great to meet new #geospatial people 5 undoubtedly learn more about #qgis & other #opensource #gis tools

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Josef Strobl @gistrobl.bsky.social · 12d

🗺️ No surprise, but sure a delight to inspect this wall map in the office of the head of Geography at the Uzbek National University :-)

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Jarrettinho @jarrettinho.bsky.social · 14d

Read an article on the pollution potential of waste sites, which got me thinking about the power of #GIS & #opendata.
By intersecting historic landfill site locations & the network of rivers in England/Wales, nearly 6,000 locations were identified where these sites are within 100m of a water course

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Hans van der Kwast @qwast-gis.com · 15d

Want to start a #QGIS User Group or grow one? Join us this Friday for a #QGISOpenDay session with PSC Chair Marco Bernasocchi & @timlinux.bsky.social! Learn how to launch, run, and connect your group globally 🌍

📅 26 Sept 2025
🕚 11H00 UTC
📺 Livestream and more info: github.com/qgis/QGIS/wi...

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 15d

Inside there are poems to answer all sorts of questions: how many stars in the universe exploded today?; who had the first holiday?; how many times a day do we laugh?; are unicorns real? …

I’m really chuffed with it. A big thanks to Farshore Books for producing such a beautiful object.

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Jarrettinho @jarrettinho.bsky.social · 15d

UK Blueskyers - please sign this petition to allow rivers more space to alleviate urban flooding/drought, improve water quality, increase biodiversity, sequestrate carbon & actually make us feel better

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Petition: Provide funding for a nationwide, nature-rich river corridor network.

Support farmers and landowners to make space for water with more, easily accessible funding schemes. We call on government to commit to providing financial incentives to help farmers create & maintain...

petition.parliament.uk

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Blue Planet Society @blueplanetsociety.bsky.social · 16d

Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters‼️

Defra says blanket ban on ‘destructive’ fishing practice disproportionate.

We argue it's disproportionate to claim MPAs provide actual protection. The myth of MPAs continues.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules

Defra says blanket ban on ‘destructive’ fishing practice disproportionate as MPs urge minister to reconsider

www.theguardian.com

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Le Cartographe 🗺️🍷 @lecartographe.bsky.social · 24d

Tchao l’artiste ❤️

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Risk, Hazard & Climate Lab @riskhazclimlab.bsky.social · 25d

Happy to share our new paper on #remotesensing of #peatlands 👇! Our research can inform understanding on how #Sentinel-1 #SAR data can support the mapping of this unique habitat and provide some insight into its relative condition. Many thanks to @jarrettinho.bsky.social for the great collaboration.

Jarrettinho @jarrettinho.bsky.social · 29d

After 18 months of research with Dr Daniel Hölbling @zgis.bsky.social, our work on #Sentinel1 #sar to delineate #peatland has been published.
www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/17...
We have plenty more ideas to support #naturebasedsolutions. Check out our previous research www.mdpi.com/2335050
Get in touch.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Sep 10

Thank you. blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

There's a lot of pressure for authors not to say this but I'm going to say it. Please do not buy my books from Amazon.
Buy my books from independent bookshops.
Buy my books from bookshop.org.
Buy my books from Blackwell's.
Buy my books from the library.
Do not give Satan money for my books.

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Jarrettinho @jarrettinho.bsky.social · 29d

After 18 months of research with Dr Daniel Hölbling @zgis.bsky.social, our work on #Sentinel1 #sar to delineate #peatland has been published.
www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/17...
We have plenty more ideas to support #naturebasedsolutions. Check out our previous research www.mdpi.com/2335050
Get in touch.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · Sep 10

The talented Louis Ginnett painted this mural for Brighton + Hove Grammar School Sussex in 1937

Entitled *Hollingbury Camp: Full Circle* it depicts the excavation of a Bronze Age burial

The motorcyclist is TE Lawrence, who died in 1935

Did he really visit a dig in Brighton? 🤔

#HillfortsWednesday

A mural depicting the excavation of a human skull and Bronze Age artefacts from a trench on the South Downs overlooking Brighton and the sea, featuring two workmen, a golfing family, three archaeologists (one with sieve, one sketching and one holding a skull) a grammar school boy holding a Bronze Age dagger, a school master with umbrella and a military man on a motorbike

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Lindsay but pumpkin-spiced @lindsaynicolle.bsky.social · Sep 8

I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover

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Jarrettinho @jarrettinho.bsky.social · Sep 4

Using Ken's back projection

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Peter T Fretwell @ptfretwell.bsky.social · Aug 28

Each year as the sun starts to reappear over Antarctica I start the process of going through Sentinel2 imagery to find the locations of the 66 known emperor penguin colonies. Here is this year's first image, of Snow Hill, the most northerly colony. Can you spot the penguins?

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ᴄʏᴄʟᴏᴢ @cyclozparis.bsky.social · Aug 22

A little gold nugget: Paris from a bird's eye view, drawn by E. Bourdelin and engraved by H. Linton, 1860, oriented East-West (La Bastille at the very bottom, don't look for the Eiffel Tower...)
💚💚💚
#geography #map #maps #paris #vintage #illustration #art
More Paris vintage maps here 👉 #cartography

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