Starling wings! 😍
Taken this weekend at the Huntspill seawall in Somerset. 😊🐦
#birds 🪶

All my links;
linktr.ee/carlbovis

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Our next seminar is with @grantdmckenzie.bsky.social

"Place, Privacy and Mobility: Navigating the intersection of location science and human dynamics"

Date: 4th November 2025 @ 2pm UK time (online only).

Register here: tinyurl.com/3bzv63rj
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when you try and get your PhD advisor to review your manuscript 😂

"Don't lose hope"

Jane Goodall, an inspiration to the end. If you watch one thing today, let it be this.

If you'd asked me which celebrity would posthumously unveil a list of people she wanted fired into the sun, I would not have guessed Jane Goodall

🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads!

Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so this jar would have been a precious possession.

From Merit’s beauty case, found inside Theban tomb (TT8) of Merit and her husband Kha in 1906. 📷 Museo Egizio

#Archaeology

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

My voyage to explore how Marshallese sailors find their way at sea without technology

⚓️ The ‘person of the sea’ 🌊 the ‘Ri Meto’, navigation 🧭 without instruments.

#StormAmy ’s magnificent swirl as seen from @eumetsat.int’s Meteosat-12 satellite 🛰️

The Geese Dawn Chorus… volume up!

Just a few of the hundreds this morning … the geese are on the move South from Iceland 🇮🇸 over the Scottish Highlands 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

View from my house door this morning and caught the last few

#Migration @rspb.bsky.social @rspbscotland.bsky.social #geese

Some things never change!

4,000 year-old ancient Egyptian writing board with a student’s many spelling mistakes corrected in red ink by the teacher! 😂

📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

#Archaeology

Once more I urge everyone to read news from across the European continent and beyond the Anglosphere.

They've lost the 9yos

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Our second seminar is with @miladmzdh.bsky.social - a Postdoc from @digigeolab.bsky.social

"Towards Democratizing VR, AI, and Mobility Data: Insights from GreenTravel, MobiTwin, and OpenGPS"

Date: 7th October 2025 @ 2pm UK time (hybrid).

Register here: tinyurl.com/3dj46bcp
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Our first seminar of AY25-26 kicks off with St Andrews Alumni @sila-gisci.bsky.social

"From seconds to lifetimes: challenges in measuring environmental exposure across spatial and temporal scales"

Date: 30th September 2025 @ 2pm UK time (hybrid).

Register here: tinyurl.com/ybaz2e6d

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Look, the ball is wound in the same way we do today, 6000 years later. Mindboggling.

The condition of fabrics from pile dwelling and wetland settlements is amazing. This charred ball of thread was found at the site of Marin-Epagnier/Préfargier. It was made of hemp or lime fibres, and dates about 3900 to 3300 BC. The thread measures a total of about 10 m in length.

📷 Laténium

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“you died without making something that no one else could make” 🔥🔥🔥

You enrich the world with *your* unique lived experience, memories, viewpoints.

You bring nothing new to the world by prompting an algorithm to regurgitate a meaningless amalgam of experiences other people have previously shared.

People who use AI think that they’re skipping to the success when they’re skipping to the failure. You begin and end your life as someone who has not written the novel, you did not teach yourself to express what was inside of you, you died without making something that no one else could make.

It's interesting that anyone would be surprised by this. They are large language models, not large fact models. They are very good at language; it's unsurprising that they aren't terribly good at facts.

The call for participation is out for the 9th Spatial Knowledge and Information Conference #SKI2026 Canada. The conference will take place February 19-22, 2026 in Banff, Alberta. Ski all morning, conference all evening.
skiconference.ca

New research from the School of Psychology and Neuroscience has revealed the brain’s built-in distance tracker, and its link to early Alzheimer's diagnosis.
DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2025.08.011

Read more... 👇

ow.ly/HL5S50WZh2l

#EverToExcel

Mount St. Helens as seen by Sentinel-2 on Sept. 16, 2025.

45 years old volcanic ash was kicked up by wind.

h/t @wisc-satellite.bsky.social @wed-explorer.bsky.social @sangasso.bsky.social 😊👍