I enjoyed the reminder by @brilliantmaps how exciting the age of railways actually must’ve been. From 1837-1875 the network in France just exploded. Imagine seeing the world open up to you so rapidly after being relatively stuck in your region for so long. Source: buff.ly/RgyNhfd
Electricity generation from renewables Our World in Data Measured in terawatt-hours. Renewable sources include solar, wind, hydropower, bioenergy, geothermal, wave, and tidal.
Von wegen: "China exportiert nur Solar- und Windkraftanlagen und nutzt sie nicht selber"
The program (Verhandlungen) of the upcoming
DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section (SKM)
8 - 13 March 2026 Dresden University of Technology is out:
www.dpg-verhandlungen.de/year/2026/co... #dpg2026
A great post from @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social exploring the link between #openscience and research integrity. The authors highlight a recent PLOS Open Science Indicators (OSI) dataset as a tool used to help assess this relationship.
See the OSI dataset: plos.io/3ZFdjYL
Read the findings ⬇️
We're pleased to once again partner with @einsteinberlin.bsky.social for this year's #EinsteinFoundationAward, honoring researchers and institutions working to advance #research quality and integrity across all scientific disciplines.
➡️ plos.io/4sV68Lz
useful but I prefer not to
Wie nehmen 🔵 Einheimische & 🔴 Touristen Deutschland wahr? 🗺️ Die Karte zeigt, wie sich digitale Aufmerksamkeit im physischen Raum manifestiert.
Mehr dazu 👉🏻 www.ioer.de/presse/aktue...
🔍 Code & Data im #ioerDATA: doi.org/10.71830/VDM...
#Raumforschung
deserves a closer look ...
view from my office a few days ago ...
Maybe interesting in the context:
doi.org/doi.org/10.1...
doi.org/10.5194/nhes...
doi.org/10.1002/wrcr...
Before looking at this graphic, see if you can guess the top 5 or top 10 cities with the most skyscrapers. The graphic defines skyscrapers as buildings above 150 meters (492 feet or 69 Shaquille O'Neals for our friends from the US).
🎄 Still looking for a gift for your favourite social scientist?
How about a #preprint with 717 urban areas, 30 countries, and 16,164 models of #Immigrant #Segregation across Europe? Just published with @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social & David Kretschmer 🎅
🎁 Wrapped up here: arxiv.org/abs/2512.17037
The difference 1895 year can make…
Sharepic for the event. Green background. On the right, a photo of speaker Prof. Saswat Bandyopadhyay. On the left, the title of the event: Digital Data as a Tool for Managing Rapidly Transforming Economic Geographies. At the bottom, in a grey bar, the location and time: Monday, 12 January 2026 | 3:30 p.m. CET | Online via Zoom.
📢 On 12 Jan (3:30 p.m., online) our #IOER_Fellow Prof. Saswat Bandyopadhyay from India will talk about development and use of robust digital data ecosystems for managing land, infrastructure, and environmental systems at metropolitan and regional scale. 👉 www.ioer.de/en/events/io...
#IOERForum
Map shows the different names European languages assign to the Bishop chess piece. Clear winner here is Georgia who calls the piece a turtle. Source: buff.ly/2WvenQo
Joint #CallForProposals from the DFG and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in all Fields of Research, including Social Sciences and the Humanities. The fourth iteration of this cooperation aims to bring together researchers from Germany and Mexico.
Details:
sohub.io/vf98
Thomas Kuhn: From Physics to Philosophy of Science
'Thomas Kuhn: From Physics to Philosophy of Science'—⚛️ This new biography of Thomas S. Kuhn pays attention to the continuous development of his ideas. It provides a comprehensive overview of Kuhn's life and work. bit.ly/4iBuZiM #PhilSci #BookSky #AcademicSky
Frank O. Gehry, Titan of Architecture, Is Dead at 96.
- Gift article. Nicolai Ouroussoff @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...
📣 Call for papers 📣
15th European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association
May 8 - 9, 2026
CREI, Barcelona
Keynotes by Edward Glaeser and Monika Piazzesi.
Please submit your paper by January 9.
urbaneconomics.org/meetings/emu...
CCS 2026 Call for Satellites is now up on the conference website!
ccs2026.github.io#call-for-sat...
Playing with "AI"-Tools ... (chatgpt)
Portraitaufnahme von Neelakshi Joshi. Rechts im Bild Logos der Veranstaltung, UNU Flores, der Technischen Sammlungen Dresden und der Stftung Frauenkirche Dresden. Im Vordergrund drei Schriftzüge: Dresden, 14 November, Neelakshii Joshi, Urbane Klimagerechtigkeit.
Schaut Freitag (14.11.) vorbei bei #Science4Peace in der Frauenkirche Dresden! Für uns ist Neelakshi Joshi @njoshi.bsky.social am Start. Wir drücken die Daumen! #LivableFuture #JustTransition
👉 www.science-slam.com/termine/dres...
Horacio Samaniego at @ioer.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUmc...
This chart shows US job openings and the value of the S&P 500. The vertical line shows the release date of ChatGPT. Jobs no longer move in line with the stock market. Fewer workers needed to create growth. Source: buff.ly/YhMttNr
plot of scraped data from Edwards et al 2021. On a logarithmic y scale, regression slopes are very similar. Red points are superspreaders (nominally > 156), black are 'normal' (nominally < 156)
Scraped data from the plot ... gist.github.com/bbolker/d6a6... Scraping is imperfect because the plot is a fairly crappy JPG (hard to distinguish overlapping points). Dashed line is 156 particles per liter, nominal normal/superspreader cutoff (points fall on either side due to scraping error)
Sampha Sesay and his poster
#ilus2025 ILUS - International Land Use Symposium 2025
Spatial dynamics in an urban society in Dresden.
Please consider submitting an abstract to DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section (SKM); 8 - 13 March 2026; Dresden: dresden26.dpg-tagungen.de Physics of Socio-Economic Systems Division: www.dpg-physik.de/vereinigunge...
