Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺
@skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Heisenberg Professor for Nighttime Light Remote Sensing at the Institute of Geography of the Ruhr University Bochum
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@VTDARKSIM The Norwegian sovereign wealth fund voted against the pay package (because they're not crazy?). Would be funny/well deserved if they sold their shares over this.
November 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
@VTDARKSIM The Norwegian sovereign wealth fund voted against the pay package (because they're not crazy?). Would be funny/well deserved if they sold their shares over this.
@sundogplanets Just to clarify one point - streetlights are usually found to be responsible for *less* than half of light emissions or skyglow. Here is a table from a paper we published: https://doi.org/10.26607/ijsl.v25i1.133
I also misremembered that there […]
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November 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
@sundogplanets Just to clarify one point - streetlights are usually found to be responsible for *less* than half of light emissions or skyglow. Here is a table from a paper we published: https://doi.org/10.26607/ijsl.v25i1.133
I also misremembered that there […]
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I also misremembered that there […]
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@ruhr-uni-bochum.de I greatly appreciate how many people have shared the post above!
It' might not be obvious from the job ad, but there is probably more room for creativity with respect to developing your own research questions than is frequently the case these days with project-funded PhDs […]
It' might not be obvious from the job ad, but there is probably more room for creativity with respect to developing your own research questions than is frequently the case these days with project-funded PhDs […]
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October 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
@ruhr-uni-bochum.de I greatly appreciate how many people have shared the post above!
It' might not be obvious from the job ad, but there is probably more room for creativity with respect to developing your own research questions than is frequently the case these days with project-funded PhDs […]
It' might not be obvious from the job ad, but there is probably more room for creativity with respect to developing your own research questions than is frequently the case these days with project-funded PhDs […]
And the press office of @ruhr-uni-bochum.de has also published an interview about my work: https://news.rub.de/wissenschaft/2025-10-14-interview-zu-viel-licht
Zu viel Licht
Wir nutzen viel mehr Licht, als wir bräuchten, meint Christopher Kyba. Damit stören wir uns gegenseitig und andere Lebewesen. Die gute Nachricht: Das lässt sich leicht vermeiden.
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October 14, 2025 at 9:16 AM
And the press office of @ruhr-uni-bochum.de has also published an interview about my work: https://news.rub.de/wissenschaft/2025-10-14-interview-zu-viel-licht