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Geographer of human environmental systems and data.

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BEGIN St Andrews @begin-standrews.bsky.social · 1d

🌍✨
Our next seminar is with @grantdmckenzie.bsky.social

"Place, Privacy and Mobility: Navigating the intersection of location science and human dynamics"

Date: 4th November 2025 @ 2pm UK time (online only).

Register here: tinyurl.com/3bzv63rj
✨🌍

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Bill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social · 1d

My blog, Twin City Sidewalks, turned twenty years old today. Wow. That's a long time! tcsidewalks.blogspot.com/2025/10/20th...

20th Anniversary of This Blog

Believe it or not... I started this blog 20 years ago today . It's still the best career move I've made, as writing publicly about cities an...

tcsidewalks.blogspot.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8d

“The pilot will explore how AI can enhance teaching, research and university operations, while also gathering feedback to guide the responsible and effective use of AI across campus.”

William & Mary launches ChatGPT Edu pilot

By integrating artificial intelligence tools, the university is positioning itself at the forefront of higher education innovation.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 8d

Here is NIA.

NIA made on 51% as many new R01 awards in FY25 compared with FY24.

7/n

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Jerry Shannon @jerry-shannon.bsky.social · 13d

Strategic underfunding is par for the course in Georgia and across the south. Offer benefits so we say we do, but make it extraordinarily difficult to actually receive them. In this case, we are spending more federal money on red tape than health care.
www.propublica.org/article/geor...

Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says

Republican lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent at lea...

www.propublica.org

Reposted by Martin Tomko, Steven M. Manson, Rachel S. Franklin

Dani Arribas-Bel @darribas.bsky.social · 22d

🎧New #GLaDpodcast 🎧 Everything you ever wanted to know about mobile phone data in social science and never dared to ask, all in an entertaining™️ conversation btw @levijohnwolf.bsky.social, @rsfrankl.bsky.social, yours truly and the one and only @wenfeixu.bsky.social.

www.podbean.com/ew/pb-ufnqe-...

Episode 25: What we talk about when we talk about mobile phone data

Here's an episode all about data—mobile phone data, to be exact. What are we talking about when we talk about using “mobile phone data” in our research? How are these data generated? Who produces them...

www.podbean.com

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Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 25d

The Grand Rounds trails are one of the best parts of the Minneapolis parks system. There is also room for significant improvement, and that’ll cost real money and political energy. So you gotta start somewhere. I would nominate the Lake Harriet and Minnehaha Creek (Lynnhurst to Portland) as priority

Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 26d

Look at how much space we set aside for drivers (parkway on the left).

Many of the bike/ped paths we used today were SO crowded with people running/walking and riding bikes.

It’s time to rethink how we use our parkways. We did it in 2020. We can & should do it again!

100+ people of all ages bike on a bike path next to an empty parkway

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Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · 27d

Here at your friendly "Geography, Life, and Data" podcast, we do a lot of Geography, a lot of Life, and a lot of Geography Life. This one's for the Data—mobile phone data, that is. ☎️

@darribas.bsky.social @levijohnwolf.bsky.social @wenfeixu.bsky.social #geography

open.spotify.com/episode/7Hmx...

Episode 25: What we talk about when we talk about mobile phone data

open.spotify.com

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 27d

Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

onion person @junlper.beer · 27d

the entire media ecosystem is just not built or ready for events like this and far right billionaires like larry ellison buying news orgs will only make this worse

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Sep 1

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.

For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.

Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA

Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

usa.streetsblog.org

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Joel Wood 🇨🇦 @joelwwood.bsky.social · Aug 29

Our awesome EdTech team at TRU has produced a really good guide for instructors on GenAI in university education:

"This guide provides practical strategies and best practices for integrating or avoiding generative artificial intelligence tools in your teaching practice."

aieducation.trubox.ca

Gen AI in Education

aieducation.trubox.ca

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Matt Thompson @matt-thompson.bsky.social · Aug 26

Fantastic keynote session from Dr Michelle LaRue, University of Canterbury discussing #remotesensing imagery for monitoring the Antarctic emperor #penguin population.

#giscience2025

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Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · Aug 26

The study is the first to look at the health hazards arising from pollution generated across all stages of the oil and gas lifecycle, from exploration and extraction; storage and transmission; oil refining and gas processing, to end-use activities, including storage, transportation and consumption.

Air Pollution From Oil and Gas Kills 91,000 Yearly in US: Study

Asian, Black, Hispanic, and Native American communities experience the worst burden from air pollution from oil and gas in the US.

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Dr Urska Demsar @udemsar.bsky.social · Aug 26

And one more: www.cosit2026.uk

The 17th Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2026)

www.cosit2026.uk

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Dr Urska Demsar @udemsar.bsky.social · Aug 26

Read the whole thread, looks like a fully AI generated paper. @nadiah.bsky.social perhaps you should report this to the journal or to retractionwatch.com ?

Dr Nadiah Kristensen @nadiah.bsky.social · Aug 25

Check out the graphical abstract for a paper recently published in Ecological Modelling.

I have papers published in Ecological Modelling. Never again, I guess.

A diagram titled "Ecological Network Optimisation" with attractive landscapes and networks and very clear AI-generation artifacts.

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Grant McKenzie @grantdmckenzie.bsky.social · Aug 25

The Spatial Data Science Symposium #SDSS2025 is back. Check out the Call for Sessions and Call for Papers: sdss2025.spatial-data-science.net

Spatial Data Science Symposium 2025

December 4-5 | Distributed & Online. The symposium aims to bring together researchers from both academia and industry to discuss experiences, insights, methodologies, and applications, taking spatial...

sdss2025.spatial-data-science.net

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Jerry Shannon @jerry-shannon.bsky.social · Aug 24

Y'all, my seminar for first year students is on this list. 🧇🗺️

Reposted by Valerie M. Delmotte, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Ben Bond‐Lamberty , and 2 more Valerie M. Delmotte, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Gavin A. Schmidt, Steven M. Manson

Cecilia Keating @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org · Aug 22

🚨 We’ve just updated @carbonbrief.org's factcheck of Trump’s ‘critical’ climate report. 🚨

Huge thanks to all the dozens of climate scientists who have helped us pull together this rebuttal — including the authors of our brand new additions.

interactive.carbonbrief.org/doe-factchec...

Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims

interactive.carbonbrief.org

ProPublica @propublica.org · Aug 22

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout.

On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.

This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.

Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

Photo of DOGE staffer Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old white man in a blue pullover, carrying a black backpack.

Photo of 53-year-old Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi. He is sitting, wearing white pants and shirt with a brown vest.

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Twin Cities Toilet Paper Reviews @twincitiestoiletpaperreviews.com · Aug 21

Ya girl got a ribbon on her first crop art entry 😭😭😭😭

Crop art

Crop art legend

Steven Manson @smmanson.bsky.social · Aug 18

@rsfrankl.bsky.social, @darribas.bsky.social‬, and @levijohnwolf.bsky.social always do such a lovely job with the #GLaDpodcast. They bring smarts, warmth, and humor to interesting topics. Bonus tip, if you are on the job market, check out episodes 23 and 22!

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Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · Aug 14

Join us tomorrow (8/15) at 12pm EDT for the last webinar in CURA's summer webinar series on Public Data for the Public Good. We'll hear from Joy Bonaguro who will share the many lessons she as learned as the Chief Data Officer for California and a civic tech consultant
cura.osu.edu/events/lesso...

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Levi John Wolf @levijohnwolf.bsky.social · Aug 13

AI is now definitely changing how we live our (geography) lives!

Join @rsfrankl.bsky.social, @darribas.bsky.social, and me for another episode of GLaD, where we discuss whether you should be vibe coding w/ Claude, sending ChatGPT review requests, or running on AI-made routes!

shorturl.at/GLNKd

AI & GLaD in Practice: a field report

The GLaD Podcast · Episode

Steven Manson @smmanson.bsky.social · Aug 7

Jerry added great material throughout the book, joining work from other contributing authors. Shout out to Dudley Bonsal, @alyolli.bsky.social‬, Eric DeLuca, Rachael Huerta Carpenter, Jennifer Immich, Melinda Kernik, Steven Manson, Laura Matson, Sara Holiday Nelson, and Julie Santella.

Jerry Shannon @jerry-shannon.bsky.social · Aug 7

Happy to share the release of the 2nd edition of Mapping, Society, and Technology. Props to @smmanson.bsky.social for wranging multiple of us to update it. It's a free text suitable for many introductory GIS courses, hosted at UMN Libraries. open.lib.umn.edu/mapping/ #gischat

Mapping, Society, and Technology – Simple Book Publishing

Exploring relationships among maps, society, and technology

open.lib.umn.edu

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · Aug 7

The newest executive order makes major changes to federal grantmaking, including additional review by presidential appointees and prioritizing applications with lower indirect cost rates. To the extent that federal funding remains, this is a big deal.

(i) Discretionary awards must, where applicable, demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities.

(ii) Discretionary awards shall not be used to fund, promote, encourage, subsidize, or facilitate:

(A) racial preferences or other forms of racial discrimination by the grant recipient, including activities where race or intentional proxies for race will be used as a selection criterion for employment or program participation;

(B) denial by the grant recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic;

(C) illegal immigration; or

(D) any other initiatives that compromise public safety or promote anti-American values.

(iii) All else being equal, preference for discretionary awards should be given to institutions with lower indirect cost rates.

(iv) Discretionary grants should be given to a broad range of recipients rather than to a select group of repeat players. Research grants should be awarded to a mix of recipients likely to produce immediately demonstrable results and recipients with the potential for potentially longer-term, breakthrough results, in a manner consistent with the funding opportunity announcement.

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Jerry Shannon @jerry-shannon.bsky.social · Aug 7

Happy to share the release of the 2nd edition of Mapping, Society, and Technology. Props to @smmanson.bsky.social for wranging multiple of us to update it. It's a free text suitable for many introductory GIS courses, hosted at UMN Libraries. open.lib.umn.edu/mapping/ #gischat

Mapping, Society, and Technology – Simple Book Publishing

Exploring relationships among maps, society, and technology

open.lib.umn.edu

Reposted by Steven M. Manson, Rachel S. Franklin

Regional Studies Association @regstud.bsky.social · Aug 5

🚨We are delighted to announce our opening plenary for RSA Regional Futures Conference, 13-14 November 🚨

📣Andres Rodriguez-Pose & Rachel Franklin
🪑Luisa Corrado

🔶Spatial Economic Analysis Lecture

We have extended the abstract deadline: ⌛18 August

ℹ️and submit: bit.ly/4lgfLj3

Join us in London 🌟

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IPUMS @ipums.bsky.social · Aug 1

The 2024 NHIS data are now available through IPUMS NHIS, with updates to nearly 700 existing variables from core and rotating sections, along with new variables on loneliness, long COVID, and GLP medication intake. nhis.ipums.org/nhis/

IPUMS NHIS is a project dedicated to collecting and distributing census data from around the world. Its goals are to Collect and preserve data and documentation, Harmonize data, Disseminate the data a...

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Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · Jul 27

The Zed editor @zeddotdev is a masterclass in space usage for an IDE

When I’m developing apps & software I need a clean, uncluttered UI and Zed is the best I’ve found

It’s why I’ve struggled to use VSCode and its derivatives (Cursor, Positron) for dev work; too much going on

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Jessica Bishop-Royse, PhD @jbishoproyse.bsky.social · May 28

At the IAPHS Annual Meeting last fall, Andrew Fenelon and Julia Drew gave a presentation on how to extract NHIS-LMF data from IPUMS. I summarized the session and wrote a blog about it. You can find it here:

Extracting the National Health Interview Survey Linked Mortality File (NHIS-LMF) – IAPHS – Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science

At the 2024 Fall meeting of IAPHS in Minneapolis, Andrew Fenelon and Julia Drew presented a pre-conference workshop entitled “Studying Mortality using Harmonized National Health Interview Survey…