Great to see Margaret Pearce among this year's MacArthur Fellows! www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

Honored to present this morning at the Associate for the Study of African-American Life and History conf w/ community partners. Talking about the ongoing work telling the story of the Reese Street Neighborhood in Athens, home to several historic Black schools and key figures from the city's history.

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...

Spending the day at #positconf. Really enjoying the final talk @kjhealy.co about the inextricably social process of data visualization and the nature of trust in the work of data science.

New special issue in Geographical Review on pushing community geographies forward. www.tandfonline.com/toc/utgr20/1...

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?

Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

In 2019, 70% of Republicans said science has had a mostly positive effect on society. A few years later, fewer than half of Republicans (47%) said so.
www.pewresearch.org/science/2023... 🧪🌐

Bunch of white guys telling us their extremely selective read of the Bible should be the foundation of American politics.

On The Climate Brink, I write about the DOE report and our response.

This is a US Senator, y'all.

Kudos to @docaharper.bsky.social and others who collaborated quickly to write this response to the "science" pedaled by the DOE.

Planning to slot this new piece by UGA alum Dani Aiello and others on movement scholarship into my engaged research seminar this semester. acme-journal.org/index.php/ac...

My students, who attend a working-class rust-belt college, openly talk abt how much they hate AI & are afraid of its consequences. I wonder how much of the oft-reported student enthusiasm for the tech is the merely result of the NYT’s Ivy League bias

As we inch toward whatever amped up federal police presence the current administration has planned for our cities, I'm reposting this article that @sarahksshannon and I wrote in 2021 about our time living in North Minneapolis. Amped up policing doesn't equal public safety. streets.mn/2021/09/01/t...

Legit. Trust me. Follow

New article about how to use Critical GIS and Community Geography in the classroom to develop students' reflexivity and enhance holistic learning. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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

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.

Interesting read on how well-intentioned maps can create a political stir, and the vital need to include meaningful participation throughout the process. www.propublica.org/article/oreg...

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

Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.

This past spring the Community Mapping Lab at University of Georgia used OldInsuranceMaps to host a mapathon, where a large group got together and georeferenced Sanborn maps together. Looks like fun! See their work here: oldinsurancemaps.net/map/sanborn0... #crowdsourcing #sanborn #historicalmaps

Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached.

They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.

Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.

#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.

iNaturalist Animals and Plants

xkcd.com/3118/