Thomas Sigler

I love love love seeing companies competing for PhDs the way teams compete for athletes! Finally a record-breaking salary justified by brains over brawn… well deserved, @jhyuxm 🙌🏻

On the left is Ronaldo, Real Madrid spent 80M $ to sign him from Man United On the right is Jiahui Yu, Meta paid 100M $ to sign him from OpenAI

Could this be the dawn of a new era for #timezones? @realDonaldTrump & @elonmusk have renewed discussions about abolishing #daylightsaving—yet there’s little consensus on whether to adopt permanent DST, or Standard Time. Here’s one potential solution of 4 entirely new time zones.

pls share: funded by EPA: Economy & Space, up to 8 travel + accommodation stipends available to enable doctoral & postdoctoral researchers to participate in the "ideational geographies" workshop at UBC, June 11-13, 2025. Application details: blogs.ubc.ca/peck/research/…

Whenever I'm stressed at work because my boss is being unreasonable I remember the emails Donald Rumsfeld used to send to his staff

Spotted at @ChangiAirport in Singapore. Congratulations @geographydarek and the team!

Fantastic Keeble lecture by @mitchell_silver, former Chief Planning Officer & Planning Director of Raleigh & former New York City Parks Commissioner. Inspiring words promoting a more ethical and people-centric planning focus.

Daylight saving to begin for five states and territories. ABC TV News interviewed University of Queensland's Doctor Thomas Sigler (@ThomasGeography) about his survey and the topic in general. youtube.com/watch?v=ND5ND6… #DaylightSaving #Qld #Qldpol

Our lab is looking for a Ph.D. student and a postdoctoral scientist to join us at @UWMadison. Check out details here: tinyurl.com/gcrl24 We appreciate your RT!

NEW: we may have passed peak obesity 🎉📈📉🙏 In what might be one of the most significant trends I have ever charted, the US obesity rate fell last year.

@GachonLab @ndlloyd @IMBatUQ @MeltemWeger @BenjaminWeger Let's design a study together that weighs up the pros and cons in a short presentation. It would be a great research project!

⏰ Is it time to set the sun on daylight saving? As most Australian states & territories wind their clocks forward on 6 Oct to observe daylight saving, debate heats up over whether we should have it at all. 🔗 bit.ly/4eEYM7H @GachonLab @MeltemWeger @BenjaminWeger

Bored on your morning commute? 🙉 Listen to me discuss short-term rental regulation on Harvard's Architecture Off-Centre podcast on Spotify 📻 🎙 open.spotify.com/episode/04Hf61…

In Australia we now have more young men than women who are neither in full-time education nor in the labour force. This is not the result of welcome advances in gender relations but rather a symptom of an education system that is not helping boys and young men to achieve their full potential. Australia is worse off as a result as I explain in The New Daily (no pay wall): buff.ly/3Y37TZZ #demographics #education #Australia #workforce #skillsshortage

Do you or your colleagues research Airbnb, or other short-term rental platforms? 🏘🏢🏡 Consider submitting an abstract to our special issue of @RegionalStudies on the research-regulation interface. Abstract deadline is this week. More info in the link below ⤵️

FINAL: the number of runs we scored was not greater than the number of runs they scored

Doing research on Airbnb or other short-term rental platforms? @dwachsmuth and I are co-editing a special issue of @RegionalStudies on the research-regulation interface of short-term rentals. See link below for more details. Abstracts due 1st October. think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues…

Toronto takes the whole concept of the "missing middle" to the next level.

The FINCITY band was back together this afternoon at #igc2024dub, with a strong showing of research from @uni_lu_Geo and @LISERinLUX colleagues @BrianLongobardi @curiosfinance @SaraBencekovic and @markushesse60 👌 (We missed you, @ThomasGeography!)

@simongerman600 Actually, it could even be today to tomorrow to today to tomorrow to after-tomorrow to tomorrow to after-tomorrow if it's midnight over the Pacific! 🤯

I think about this map too often. Travel from Hawaii to Antarctica in a straight line and you will cross the international date line seven times. You will go from today to tomorrow to today to tomorrow to today to tomorrow to today to tomorrow. Source: buff.ly/2USA0Ym

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