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Martin Tomko

@dinomirmt.bsky.social

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Understanding and supporting people in their spatial interactions through computational #spatial #data #science #giscience #melbourne 🛶🚵‍♂️🥾🏊‍♂️🐕 @unimelb, own views. support 🇺🇦 www.tomko.org

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Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · Jun 16

Interested in transformation invariant shape classification on vector data?
"Learning geometric invariant features for classification of vector polygons with graph message-passing neural network" Check Zexian's PhD work (Dr Huang!) doi.org/10.1007/s107... #giscience #spatial #ml #GeoAI #GisChat

Compared data representations and their adequate ML architectures

PolyMP and PolyMP DSC architectures designed for graph representation learning of vector shapes.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 8h

📌 bsky.app/profile/mark...

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 14h

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.

It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.

Thank you for your consideration.

"Help us leave safely" on FreeFunder

Click here to support "Help us leave safely" by Dara on FreeFunder!

www.freefunder.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 8h

Are we great yet?

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.

Antifa expert at Rutgers University says he is moving to Spain because of death threats

An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.

apnews.com

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 1d

Oh look, vaccines work.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Reposted by Martin Tomko, Devon Greyson, Alessandro Rigolon , and 2 more Martin Tomko, Devon Greyson, Alessandro Rigolon, Richard M. Carpiano, Meredith Farkas

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 1d

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemi... #unimelb #Robson congratulations!

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 was awarded jointly to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi "for the development of metal–organic frameworks"

www.nobelprize.org

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Margaret Harris @drmlharris.bsky.social · 3d

Ahead of tomorrow’s #NobelPrize announcement, I went on a deep dive in search of the most obscure physics Nobel Prizes in history. That means it's time for a thread on...🧵

PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZES YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF – PART 1

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A photo of the Matterhorn rising above an Alpine landscape. The colours are a little washed out, but do not appear artificially tinted

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 3d

Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈

You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...

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Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 4d

We should thank Sean for his years of service and gracious way of leaving. That said, we use S3 like data storage nonstop, on our own, OS powered servers. And locally, CO formats work perfectly too. I do not do Web his anymore, yet still useful.

Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 5d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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Reposted by Martin Tomko, Louise Edwards, Richard Denniss , and 1 more Martin Tomko, Louise Edwards, Richard Denniss, Andrew Watkins

The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 7d

🔴 Santos Limited has racked up a 10th straight year of zero corporate tax payments from $48 billion in sales.

🔴 Ichthys LNG Pty Ltd paid zero corporate tax for the 6th year running, from $43 billion in sales.

Add your name to make the gas industry pay their fair share > theaus.in/fix_gas_expo...

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Penny Tangey @pennytangey.bsky.social · 8d

Newcastle Museum added to the Champs list as they don't have current fossil fuel sponsors.

They have a BHP gallery but it's about the historical role of steelmaking not a naming rights deal.

Glad Newcastle's cultural orgs aren't relying on a dying industry for funding!
www.chumpslist.org/champs

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Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 8d

RIP www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91

Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour

www.theguardian.com

Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 8d

Greta Thunberg arrested by Israeli forces after military boards aid flotilla headed for Gaza – Middle East crisis live www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Greta Thunberg arrested by Israeli forces after military boards aid flotilla headed for Gaza – Middle East crisis live

Israeli foreign ministry posts video of Thunberg’s arrest; vessels carrying about 500 activists intercepted about 75 miles off coast of war-torn territory

www.theguardian.com

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Slow Ways @slowwaysuk.bsky.social · 9d

🚀 We’re transforming Slow Ways and looking for a brilliant front-end / full stack developer (or CTO!) to help shape our website, apps + routes network.

Know someone:

💡 Open to collaborative methods?
🧭 In the UK and ideally the South West?
⭐️ Interested?

👉 beta.slowways.org/Page/job-vac...

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Rod Campbell @rodcampbell.bsky.social · 9d

Here's the ACCC today saying that gas exporters are ripping us off. Again.

"gas being offered & supplied by the exporters to the domestic market has declined over time, while LNG export volumes have increased."

@australiainstitute.org.au @markogge.bsky.social
www.accc.gov.au/system/files...

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 9d

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 10d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

interestingengineering.com

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FOSS4G 2025 Auckland @foss4g.org · 10d

Breakfast hosted by @geospatialwomen.bsky.social

🎤 Feye Andal!

@openstreetmap.bsky.social -Philippines
est. YouthMappers chapter
fmr Region Ambassador

WebGIS, UP Resilience Inst-NOAH Cntr & #GIS consult, @adb.org

Geospatial World's 50 Rising Stars

Spnsr = Digital Earth Pacific Community-SPC

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 10d

exactly like the Chinese surveillance state

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12d

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune

Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.

fortune.com

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Reposted by Richard McElreath, Samuel L. Perry, Martin Tomko , and 5 more Richard McElreath, Samuel L. Perry, Martin Tomko, Bruce Bradbury, Jill A. Jacobson, Patrick Stokes, Maksym Polyakov, Richard Moorhead

Tamkinat Rauf @tsrauf.bsky.social · 10d

Life satisfaction mostly declines with age. Previous findings (esp. the famous U-shaped age-SWB trajectory) were artifacts of misspecified models. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

KILMEADE: The president says climate change is a hoax, it's a con job. Where do you fall on this?

EPA ADMINISTRATION LEE ZELDIN: The president is absolutely right

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Jan Kabatek 🇺🇦 @jankabatek.com · 16d

The list of social media platforms that Australia is considering to ban (under the new restrictions for Aussie teenagers) includes—yes, you read that right—GitHub.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Not just 'big fish': eSafety reveals new platforms may be forced to ban teens

WhatsApp, Roblox, Reddit and Discord are among an expanded list of platforms which may be covered by the teen social media ban, the ABC can reveal.

www.abc.net.au

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 16d

Have traveled to 10 or more countries outside their own
Sweden 57%
Netherlands 48%
UK 43%
Germany 36%
Australia 32%
France 26%
Italy 25%
Canada 22%
Spain 20%
Greece 19%
S Korea 15%
Israel 14%
US 11%
Hungary 8%
Japan 8%
Poland 4%
www.pewresearch.org/global/2023/...

Chart shows the international travel experience of people in countries surveyed by Pew's Global Atittudes Survey in 2023. Sweden was the surveyed country in which the greatest share of respondents had visited at least 10 countries.

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Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 17d

:) #geos

Anita Graser 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @underdarkgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 17d

#geos 🤔😅

https://youtu.be/TCobr35ddJI?si=CFONo8k_chTdp16l

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Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 17d

Sadly, so many seek paper (degree), not learning. 🤯

Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 17d

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Fiona Stanley ‘ashamed’ after hospital bearing her name cancelled event featuring Palestinian Australian doctors

Exclusive: Distinguished professor says she considered asking hospital to remove her name after event on doctors’ experiences in Gaza was abruptly called off

www.theguardian.com

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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 17d

Six internationally recognised marine scientists who are researching South Australia's toxic algal bloom are set to lose their jobs at Flinders University, the ABC understands.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Flinders University jobs under threat as news of proposed restructure spreads

Six internationally recognised marine scientists who are researching South Australia's toxic algal bloom are set to lose their jobs at Flinders University, the ABC understands.

www.abc.net.au

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Anita Graser 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @underdarkgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 17d

#geos 🤔😅

https://youtu.be/TCobr35ddJI?si=CFONo8k_chTdp16l

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 17d

🇵🇱 "We know that you disregard international law and cannot live in peace with your neighbors. Your extreme nationalism is a thirst for domination that will not end until you accept that the era of empires is over and yours will not return," — Sikorski told the Russian representative at UN meeting.

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MuckRock @muckrock.com · 17d

New internal communications obtained through FOIA uncovers the confusion in the U.S. Geological Survey and the State Department regarding the name of the Gulf of Mexico.

Behind the Apparent Media Blackout Around Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’ Name Change

New internal emails obtained by NOTUS detail confusion at the U.S. Geological Survey and the State Department.

www.notus.org

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 18d

College of Experts membership for 2026:

The ARC have informed nominees for the 2026 College of the outcomes of their applications, via their RMS profiles.

www.arc.gov.au/news-publica...

www.arc.gov.au

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