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Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 2h

Our Institute of #geography at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is advertising two positions:

A (W2) Professorship in Human Geography: https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/0ec7a29e1bcd5924f8fdc25bf2411a7704d5aebe0

And a Studienrätin*rat (m/w/d) für physische Geographie/Landschaftsökologie […]

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Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 15h

Fun fact #1: Before becoming the first Chancellor of West Germany, during a challenging period in German history, Konrad Adenauer invented a vegetarian sausage called the "Kölner Wurst".

Fun fact #2: More than a century later, during a challenging period in German history, the current […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Just got my official letter for the fellowship to New Zealand! And I have a possible lead on a local farm sitter, but nothing is set yet.

So I'm just going to put this out onto the Fediverse again, in case someone who knows how take care of goats in Real Canadian Winter (down to -40C temps) […]

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Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Today's NYT crossword puzzle was a good one. Very cool theme.

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Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 8d

I'm very pleased to officially announce that l have been appointed Heisenberg Professor for Nighttime Light Remote Sensing at the Institute of Geography at the Ruhr University Bochum 🎉

#RemoteSensing #rub #bochum

Three smiling people stand in front of a RUB banner. The man in the middle is holding a certificate. Photo credit: RUB, Kramer.

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Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 8d

I'm soon starting up a Nighttime Lights Remote Sensing webinar. Speakers will come from all over the world, and the talks will take place alternately in the (European) morning or late afternoon/evening, to allow international participation.

The first talk in […]

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Title: A geospatial perspective on electrification strategy in urbanizing Africa Co-presented by: Jessica Kersey (UC Berkeley Energy and Resources Group) Sam Miles (Johns Hopkins University) Vivek Sakhrani (AtlasAl)

Date: Monday, October 6

Time: 00:00 Brisbane (AEST - next day!) 22:00 Beijing (CST) 16:00 Berlin (CEST) 14:00 UTC 10:00 Toronto (EDT) 7:00 Los Angeles (PDT)

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Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 8d

I'm soon starting up a Nighttime Lights Remote Sensing webinar. Speakers will come from all over the world, and the talks will take place alternately in the (European) morning or late afternoon/evening, to allow international participation.

The first talk in […]

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Annatifa @venite.mastodon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 10d

Dear Bluesky people, this is a Mastodon account. If you’re not “bridged” to Mastodon I can’t see your replies or tell you that they’re brilliant! Bridging to Mastodon is a piece of cake and this link explains how to do it. https://fed.brid.gy/docs#bluesky-get-started

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Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 10d

How sure are you that it wasn't 1580.49?

I wonder how many digits there need to be before the journal editor or reviewers point out that your numbers are ridiculous?

1580.5128576392749274?

1580.51285763927492744795003625123?

screenshot with text "exhibited values between 1580.51 and 2090.20, suggesting"

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RFanciola @rfancio.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15d

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) on solar: "everything about solar is going better than anticipated. (...) Everything we thought would be a solar bottleneck turns out to be a feature, not a bug." But there's a risk: enshittification. Because "solar is a technology, not a fuel."
A Doctorow's must […]

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Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 15d

Very happy to see this German language article about #lightpollution in #nationalgeographic: https://nationalgeographic.de/umwelt/2025/09/verschwinden-die-sterne-vom-nachthimmel/

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Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 16d

Unless you take action, #linkedin is going to use your account for generative "AI". You can turn this off in settings.

Screenshot. The text reads:

Data for Generative Al Improvement

Can LinkedIn use your personal data and content you create on LinkedIn to train generative Al models that create content?

Use my data for training content creation Al models off @ When this setting is on, LinkedIn can use your data and content to train content-generating Al models that are used in product features. The data we use for this purpose does not include your private messages. Learn more

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Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 16d

Is it too early to suggest possible Christmas presents for the nature lovers in your life? Here's a new book that just came out: https://theexperimentpublishing.com/catalogs/summer-2025/living-night/

Image of an owl at twilight with the title "Living Night: On the wonders of wildlife after dark".

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 28d

The University of Utrecht is cancelling the #webofscience and offering training sessions on #OpenAlex.
https://www.uu.nl/en/news/access-to-web-of-science-will-end-on-1-january-2026

"Discontinuing Web of Science is a logical step that fits in with the UU vision on #OpenScience. Closed commercial […]

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Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 17d

Is anyone else in NRW suffering from terrible allergies today? I had nothing in the past weeks and then all of a sudden, boom, my face is a puffy waterfall...

Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 23d

Oh this is cool, our paper about the global growth in light emissions was just cited for the 1000th time (according to Google Scholar): https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.1701528

Thanks to everyone who was interested in the paper and read and […]

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Image from the journal Science Advances when the paper was published. The background image is a picture of a city from space.

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Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 24d

Just saw a published conference proceedings where the authors suggested solar panels should be used to recover energy from streetlights 🤦‍♂️

The text is visible online, so this pearl of wisdom will be coming to LLMs soon.

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Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 27d

Photogrammetry and #RemoteSensing job at TU Graz: https://jobs.tugraz.at/en/jobs/5eb41c80-4df1-3acf-4c38-688b183ca4a8?preview=true

#academicjobs

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Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 28d

@felwert I'm kind of doubtful of that explanation, but it would fit the observation.

Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 28d

I'm skeptical of the benefits of LLMs, but how can it be in the age of ChatGPT and its ilk that I'm still getting predatory journal spam that looks like this?

"We are anxious that we are having a few days to release the issue. Hence, I have chosen some well-known people like you to hold up us […]

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Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Sep 8

A really interesting paper just came out in Science a few weeks ago: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv9472

The authors compared satellite measurements of #lightpollution from #viirs_dnb to 2.6 million bird calls recorded at 7,824 locations […]

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Cover image from Science with the title "Light pollution prolongs avian activity"

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Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Sep 7

There was a full moon tonight. At this time of year, in the days after the full moon, the moon rises at nearly the same time every night (the times are closer the further North you are). On top of that, each night the moon rises higher in the sky, compensating for the fact that it's getting […]

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Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Sep 6

@highergeometer If you weren't in Australia I might say "too bad" 😂

But I guess they are thinking of potentially opening it up to other countries, so you could let your national funding agencies know about it.

Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Sep 5

@highergeometer @khleedril I'm not sure if you're in Europe or not, but if you are, then there is a solution for future papers: https://www.ore.eu/

Zero cost to authors or libraries, a sensible sounding peer review process, and the possibility to make corrections later.

Home Page

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Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Sep 3

@brembs I found it: https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/

But I'd suggest you edit the posts above to prominently link to it!

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