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Samara Ebinger @samara-ebinger.bsky.social · 4d

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What's up with offshore wind in New England? Here's a map

The Trump administration is bringing big changes to the U.S. offshore wind industry. Use this map to help keep track of where projects in New England stand.

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WCVB NewsCenter 5, Boston @wcvb5.bsky.social · 6d

MIT Lincoln Laboratory develops ocean mapping technology in Boston Harbor | Click on the image to read the full story

MIT Lincoln Laboratory develops ocean mapping technology in Boston Harbor

MIT Lincoln Laboratory is advancing technology to map the ocean floor using automated vessels, aiming to enhance search and rescue operations.

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mikefan.bsky.social @mikefan.bsky.social · 7d

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12d

Yellena James, Bosnian born US painter, illustrator and designer who explores the intricate forms of imaginary ecosystems #womensart

Colurful artwork with semi abstract organic forms

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Samara Ebinger @samara-ebinger.bsky.social · 14d

I signed up for a fall dahlia CSA from a local farm and it’s the best purchase decision I’ve made all year.

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OpenStreetMap US @osmus.bsky.social · 15d

ICYMI you can check out Jason Boone's Mappy Hour presentation: youtu.be/8aSCWqzBeOc?...

#OpenStreetMap #MappyHour #maps #mapanimation

OSM US Mappy Hour with Jason Boone

This is a recording from an OSM US Mappy Hour on Wednesday, September 17th with special guest Jason Boone. In this Mappy Hour, Boone walks you through his process of creating map animations using…

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 15d

Alison Wishart from @AWMemorial explores the remarkable photographic record left by WW1 soldiers fighting at Gallipoli. Made possible by the birth of Kodak's portable camera, the photos give a rare and intimate portrait of the soldier's day-to-day life: publicdomainreview.org/essay/g...

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MassDCR @massdcr.bsky.social · 16d

DCR’s interactive Fall Foliage Map is back for another season of up-to-date leaf-peeping information! Check out this map updated weekly by our forestry team to see when the leaves at DCR parks across the state will reach their peak foliage color this fall. For details.

bit.ly/DCRFoliage

A graphic displaying a yellow and orange colored map of the state of Massachusetts with a colorful fall foliage background and reading “Foliage Map Update! For the week of September 22nd”

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Massachusetts Historical Society @mhs1791.bsky.social · 21d

In a new bonus episode of The Object of History podcast, we learn more about the history of Mount Auburn Cemetery by speaking with Meg Winslow, Senior Curator of Historical Collections & Archives.

Listen on your favorite streaming platform or on our website: www.masshist.org/podcast/seas...

Image of the Mount Auburn cemetery in black and white.

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 24d

The BHL online collection just hit 200,000 titles! A title could be a single rare book or an entire 200-year journal run, so 200,000 titles is huge (63+ million pages!). Check out BHL's MAMMOTH collection here: www.biodiversitylibrary.org 📖 🧪 🦣 #OpenAccess #OpenScience #ILoveBHL

A large orange-red shaggy mammoth with big white rusks, walking through the snow. There are trees and a rhino in the background.

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Samara Ebinger @samara-ebinger.bsky.social · 24d

Just discovered that this is the page that appears on the Mass legislature website for broken links. Nice.

A webpage that includes the text, Oh My Cod! An error has occurred. Click here to return to the homepage.

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Samara Ebinger @samara-ebinger.bsky.social · 24d

I just re-watched Best in Show recently. It’s so good.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 25d

'Solar System' quilt by Ellen Harding Baker of Cedar County, Iowa, US in 1876, she used her textile work as a teaching aid for her lectures on astronomy in the small towns of her state.
Find out more in the 1st @womensart1 book,
'Unravelling Women's Art'....

Textile artwork featuring a central stylised sun surrounded by small circular representations of orbiting planets, against a dark background

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milos makes maps @milos-makes-maps.bsky.social · 24d

How far can you go in 30 minutes—from your doorstep? ⏱️
I just dropped a from-scratch tutorial to build travel-time maps in R (OSM → network → isochrones → crisp basemap).
Ship your city now.
🎥 Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-O0...

30-Minute Travel Maps: The Secret to Fast Exploration

YouTube video by Milos Makes Maps

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 27d

BHL's future is uncertain, but hopeful. Securing its future requires new partners & sustained investment. For more information, follow along here & on the #BHLblog: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/tag/transition. Help us safeguard the world’s collective biodiversity knowledge. #ILoveBHL 🧪 📖 🌱 🌏

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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 27d

Come and fly along the San Andreas fault with me! 🧪

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OpenStreetMap US @osmus.bsky.social · 27d

Register for #MappyHour with special guest Jason Boone, who will guide you through his process of creating map animations using #OpenStreetMap data with Adobe After Effects and Geolayers, plus time for Q&A.

Join us at noon ET on Wednesday, September 17th. Register: bit.ly/MappyHour-ma...

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Steve Brace @stevebracegeog.bsky.social · Sep 9

A long line of cartological mishaps...

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When maps go wrong: from the Great North Run to a phantom Aldi

Erroneously putting map of Sunderland on medals for Tyneside event is latest in long line of cartological mishaps

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · Sep 8

Nice gift "Plate Tectonics Flip Book" from the author Ch. Scotese to our tectonist J. Lazauskienė 😀

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Bluesky @bsky.app · Sep 8

v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚

Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!

Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

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Samara Ebinger @samara-ebinger.bsky.social · Sep 8

Science journalist Betsy Mason will be giving the keynote about Marie Tharp’s pioneering work mapping the ocean floor. See full program at ruderman.sites.stanford.edu/schedule

Schedule

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Samara Ebinger @samara-ebinger.bsky.social · Sep 8

The David Rumsey Map Center is holding their biennial cartography conference 10/8 - 10/10. It’s free and there’s an online option. The theme is “Above and Below” and will feature talks on “cartography of anything but the earth’s surface.”Register at www.eventbrite.com/e/barry-lawr...

Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography

The Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography will feature talks about cartography of above and below the earth's surface.

www.eventbrite.com

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Sep 6

Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault

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Samara Ebinger @samara-ebinger.bsky.social · Sep 6

Sometimes it’s hard to believe this is real life.

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · Sep 6

Fascism.

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