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My keynote from #LBS2021 conference on how we are studying geomagnetic bird navigation with spatial data science is now available online: youtube.com/watch?v=zsvsVlEu…
Looking forward to the #LBS2021 conference tomorrow, where I am giving a keynote on my @LeverhulmeTrust project on spatial data science to study geomagnetic bird navigation. Thank you to LBS organisers for the invitation! Join this free virtual event: lbsconference.org/
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The Fourteenth International Conference on Geographic Information Science #GIScience2027 will be held in Shanghai, China, on 18-22 October 2027. The conference theme is "GeoAI and Multi-Sensing for a Sustainable Future". Please help spread the words! giscience2027.org
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The use of AI to write scientific papers could be much more prevalent than was previously thought
go.nature.com/4cANxOn
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🧲 Magnetic Monday 🧲
Geomagnetic night vision in birds! 🪿🔭
Check out the exciting research from Beate Zein & @udemsar, who studied the day and nighttime migrating Eurasian curlew to reveal how birds migrate at night when visual cues are scarce...
🔗sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Excited to share our collaborative research published on《Science》@ScienceMagazine : Interacting effects of human presence and landscape modification on birds and mammals. It shows the importance of tracking human mobility for wildlife conservation. science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
"What’s more, after a researcher’s one-year penalty is over, they will not be able to post any manuscripts to arXiv unless the work has already been accepted at a “reputable peer-reviewed venue”."
The physical-sciences repository arXiv is banning researchers from posting their manuscripts on the platform for one year if a submission is found to contain references that have been hallucinated by artificial-intelligence tools.
go.nature.com/4dlcb6D
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Artificial intelligence is poised to take on a more-active role in the laboratory: two new systems, described today in Nature1,2, use teams of AI agents to develop hypotheses, propose experiments and analyse data.
go.nature.com/4tOUwcq
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🧲 Magnetic Monday 🧲
Geomagnetic night vision in birds?! 🐦⬛🤖🔦
Swarm really does cover everything 😍💅
🔗sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
🖼️ Sedat Ağbaş / Pexels
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The River Tay was written by Ptolemy in the 2nd century as Taoua, showing that its core form was already well established 2,000 years ago.
Linguistically, it looks older still. One proposal links it to an early Indo-European root tā- meaning “to melt” or “dissolve,” a word often applied to flowing water.
This well describes the Tay’s broad, steady movement through the heart of Scotland. Also, as the country’s longest river, it would have been named early and remembered continuously. Its genesis most likely lies in the late Bronze Age, perhaps around 1000 BCE or even earlier.
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ESA is closely monitoring a notable space weather event, first detected at 18:09 UTC on 18 January 2026.
Aurora were observed over Europe last night and continued high levels of space weather activity are anticipated over the coming days.
esa.int/Space_Safety/Space_w…
ALT Photo of green and red aurora over a windmill
Aurora in Slovenia, over Triglav 2864m in Julian Alps
@TamithaSkov @JAtanackov @Vincent_Ledvina
skiresort.info/ski-resort/vo…
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(3/3) "The sky literally began to rain shooting stars. Everywhere we turned we saw them. ... By 4.30 there were several hundred per minute. At 4.45 the meteors were so intense we guessed how many were seen ba a sweep of the head in one second. The fantastic rate of about 40 per second was reached 4.54. It was indeed difficult to gauge sch a rate, but this is the consensus of the observers."
"Since the meteors were falling all over the sky, even on the horizon, the foreshortening of the paths near the radiant was especiall noted. Jack Silentic commented that looking directly at the radiant gave the effect of depth of the Earth moving through space. ... The view was so spectacular we just didn't know where to look! ... Different parts of the sky would light up, and we would glance here and there. Everyone was yelling and laughing at the incredible, dazzling sight, and at our luck seeing it."
"The rate was over 100 per minute for an hour, from 4.30 to 5.30. It was over 1000 per minute for 40 minutes, 4:35 to 5:15. The peak of perhaps 2400 per minute was centered at 4:55. ... By 5.40 the shower was back to 30 per minute."
Images: AURA/NOAO/NSF.
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. @ESA_Smile will address three fundamental questions:
1️⃣ What happens where the solar wind meets Earth’s magnetic shield?
2️⃣ What causes magnetic glitches on the dark side of Earth?
3️⃣ How can we predict the most dangerous space weather threats?
3/ #CM25
ALT Illustration of Smile in space, above the Earth. Two beams of light are seen pointing towards the Earth. The fiery Sun with its solar wind is visible on the left, while Earth on the right has its protective magnetospheric bubble depicted in blue.
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. @ESA_Smile will be the first mission to take X-ray images of Earth’s magnetosphere, revealing exactly when, where and how the solar wind interacts with Earth’s magnetic environment.
To complement this, Smile will continuously image the northern & southern lights in ultraviolet light.
2/ #CM25
ALT Simulated X-ray emissions from Earth's magnetic field. A small view of planet Earth is surrounded by a rainbow of colours arranged in what appears to be a smiley face, responsible for the mission’s name. The image shows expected X-ray emissions from the front of Earth’s magnetic field. The edge of the magnetic field is visible as a bright red bow shape. Two red spots indicate the magnetic holes around Earth's north and south poles, where particles are let in and form the auroras.
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📣 Looking for a creative postdoc with strong computational skills!
Be our go-to person for building simple but powerful simulations that test wild ideas on biological rhythms: from daily cycles of mussel groups at deep sea, to firefly flash synchronization! More info👇
ALT Recruitment poster for a postdoc position in the Peleg Lab at CU Boulder. Text highlights a search for a creative researcher to model biological rhythms in systems like mussels and fireflies. Includes job link, deadline (July 18, 2025), QR code, and BioFrontiers Institute logo, with a glowing firefly forest background. https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/?jobId=65635
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Our new paper about possibilities of Open GPS data platform led by @MiladMzdh is out :)
Have you ever found out after your GPS tracking study that someone had already collected similar data? Or struggled to find collaborators?
We’ve been there. That’s why we created OpenGPS.
doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2025.1…
#OPENDATA #OPENGPS
