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I spent the last three days in Copenhagen to examine a thesis. I assumed the capital of bike-friendly Denmark and inspiration for the ‘Copenhaganize index’ (which Copenhagen of course leads, with a score of 90.

In this post I look back on 2024 and forward to 2025. Work-wise, I completed my contract in the Civil Service where I’ve been working for the last 2 years in new government agency Active Travel England

My career path The promotion process and portfolio Key publications Portfolio Reflections on incentives, inspiration and future plans I am delighted to announce that I have been appointed to a Professorship at the University of Leeds.

Last week I attended the Mobile Tartu conference 2024. It was the 9^th^ time that this 2-yearly conference has run, marking 16 years since the first Mobile Tartu in 2008. I’ve been to a lot of conferences in my time, but this one was exceptionally good, containing ingredients for a productive, professional, inclusive and fun event (take note anyone thinking of organising a conference or workshop, including my future self)!

Like last year’s reflections post, I’m going to keep this one short and use it as a chance to reflect on what I’ve been up to over the last 12 months, what I’ve been working on, research I’ve contributed to, and hopes for next year.

I recently got a new laptop. Being a long time Ubuntu user and fan, decided to get set-up with the user-friendly and long-established Ubuntu. This post is about how to get set-up with new software on Ubuntu.

It’s been a whirlwind year. It was my first full year being a dad, I moved house, and got a new job. All this left precious little time for reflection during most of 2022, let alone a write of them.

This post provides tips on setting-up a Mastodon account. It’s mostly focussed on the tech but it deserves a brief intro on the wider context motivating this blog post.

ActDev First solo authored paper New fellowship: placement in the No. 10 Data Science team (10DS) Software development Geocomputation with R Second Edition Becoming a father Just look up ☄ References It’s been another crazy year for many people with lifestyles still disrupted by COVID, huge advances, setbacks and challenges faced collectively by people worldwide.

This is a short post about a couple of events in which myself and colleagues will present on our work on building tools for evidence-based decision making and teaching data science skills for transport planning: