Jacob L. Macdonald

Jacob Macdonald

@jacobmacdonald.bsky.social

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NFLDer in the UK. Lecturer in GIS and Spatial Analysis - U. Sheffield. Digital media/ regional graphics editor for ‘Regional Studies, Regional Science’. Urban econ, data, spatial stats & open science 🌎🗺️

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Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · Apr 1

Sunny days out in Spurn! Great talks by Yorkshire Wildlife Trust for field trip Day 2 with our amazing urban studies and planning students @sheffielduni.bsky.social (they didn’t like my April Fools joke that our ferry tomorrow got canceled…)

Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · May 21

Working on spatial data, flood risk management or urbanization in developing countries? Would love to chat!

Really happy with this great collaborative project we have ongoing in Quelimane.

NOVAFRICA @novafrica.bsky.social · May 21

🌟 NOVAFRICA Project Spotlight!
In Quelimane, Mozambique, a community-driven project uses technical support & small grants to boost flood resilience.

Led by #PedroVicente, #StefanLeeffers, #CarolineMiehe & @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social.

🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4mtahU0

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NOVAFRICA @novafrica.bsky.social · May 21

Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · Apr 23

Great to be back at it with #GISRUK2025 - looks like a super nice programme of GIS research and methods!

Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · Apr 4

Urban surfing in Rotterdam! Now that’s “living with water”. Nearing the final stretch of our UG field trip, and couldnt be happier with our great students.

Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · Apr 3

A tale of two flood barriers! From Hull over to Rotterdam, looking at one of the biggest storm surge barriers protecting Europe’s largest port. One of my favourite stops on the great urban planning undergrad field trip

Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · Mar 31

A great start to the annual @sheffielduni.bsky.social urban planning field trip to Hull and Rotterdam. Learning all about the defences in the city and living with water 🌊 - big thanks for welcoming us @hullcitycouncil.bsky.social

Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · Mar 6

Sunny ol’ Sheffield 🌼

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Open Research, University of Sheffield @openresshef.bsky.social · Feb 13

The recording of yesterday's Open Research Conversation on data journals is now available to view: doi.org/10.15131/she...

Thanks so much to @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social , @teclabonci.bsky.social and @vanessahiggins.bsky.social for a fantastic session.

#OpenResearch #OpenData #AcademicSky

Open Research Conversation: Spotlight on Data Journals

Recording of the following session, part of the 'Open Research Conversations' seminar series at the University of Sheffield (organised by the University Library, Scholarly Communications Team), held o...

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Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · Feb 12

Was great to present some of my data work for part of #LoveDataWeek2025 at @sheffielduni.bsky.social

A great session today on publishing in data journals. And lots more great sessions to come!! ❤️📊

www.sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch...

@openresshef.bsky.social
@lovedataweek.bsky.social

Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · Feb 11

Nice to be back in the class today for another semester of research methods, flooding, spatial data science and international field trips. 🌊👨‍🏫

Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · Dec 16

Christmas come early, and one major stress off the to-do list! Looks like I’ll be sticking around some time yet. 🇬🇧

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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · Dec 3

Welcome to Sheffield Urbanism! Here we'll be posting about research, publications, events, online resources & networking opportunities shared by urban researchers at the University of Sheffield (within and beyond @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social), as well as issues of wider urban interest.

Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · Nov 16

🗺️ DAY 16: CHOROPLETH - What does the UK look like when coloured in by #PremierLeague football club colours? That’s today’s #30DayMapChallenge! Obviously the polygon sizes aren’t proportionate to importance - LFC hidden away in their NW corner! ⚽️

Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · Nov 15

🗺️ DAY 15: MY DATA - “Map something personal”… What’s the distribution of Jacob-based places around Great Britain? Using Ordnance Survey place names for today’s #30DayMapChallenge. Lots of Jacob’s ladders about.

Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · Nov 14

🗺️ DAY 14: WORLD - How Worldly is the distribution of the history of world fairs? Not much it seems according to today’s #30DayMapChallenge. If you’re into planning, architecture, the world fair and serial killers couldn’t recommend “Devil in the White City” enough!

Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · Nov 13

🗺️ DAY 13: NEW TOOL - Not exactly new, but relatively. ArcGIS Pro! I’m so used to QGIS and the former ArcMap, that Pro is still pretty new to me. Learning all along the way! #ESRI #ArcGIS #30DayMapChallenge

Redoing some maps from my PhD tree canopy identification.

Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · Nov 13

Would love to be added if possible

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Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · Nov 12

🗺️ DAY 12: SPACE & TIME - Spatio-temporal patterns for a random moose in Northern Alberta today for the #30DayMapChallenge 🫎 Here’s to Moose number YL4 🫡

www.movebank.org/cms/movebank...

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Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · Nov 11

🗺️ DAY 11: ARCTIC - The @ArcticMonkeys have never been to the Arctic for today's #30DayMapChallenge Of course working in #Sheffield I had to go Sheffield-centric for the theme today.

Some rough data work taken from concertarchives.org

Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · Nov 11

🗺️ DAY 9/ 10: AI/ Pen and Paper - The UK as interpreted by ChatGPT, and Pangaea as interpreted by my hand for these two #30DayMapChallenge Been a while since I’ve gotten to do some arts and crafts! AI-UK just gets stranger the more you look

Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · Nov 11

🗺️ DAY 8: HDX Data - Some great datasets on Humanitarian Data Exchange for the #30DayMapChallenge Here’s a map of population density in Mozambique using the WorldPop 2020 synthetic gridded data

Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · Nov 11

🗺️ DAY 7: VINTAGE - Catch up time for the #30DayMapChallenge A pretty basic map playing with some QGIS coastal styles from @awoodruff.bsky.social to capture that vintage hand drawn effect.

Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · Nov 6

Started on the deep dive of Venus, Magellan, radar rasters, and translating earth coordinates into the Venusian CRS… time to start using QGIS for some more SPACE-ial analysis 😉

Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · Nov 6

🗺️ DAY 6: RASTER - I think we could use a little break from earth for todays #30DayMapChallenge. I’ve been deep into planetary sci-fi books lately so today we have a raster of the surface of Venus from NASA’s Magellan mission 🪐🔭🚀

Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · Nov 5

🗺️ DAY 5: JOURNEY - Going personal for todays #30DayMapChallenge on the theme of Journey. Here's a rough mapping out of my academic journey from bachelors to lecturer. 👶👨‍🎓👨‍🏫

Jacob Macdonald @jacobmacdonald.bsky.social · Nov 4

data.cdrc.ac.uk/dataset/reta...

Retail Centre Boundaries and Open Indicators | CDRC Data

data.cdrc.ac.uk

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