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We're particularly interested in all things #geospatial and ways to develop and improve teaching with and about #GIS #EduSky

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BC @mildthing99.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
🔊🎶Meeting the challenge🎶🔊 A map shared on each day of Nov 2025: 25 brand new maps + 5 'classics'. See my timeline or my @linkedin.com page @mildthing99 at the other place #GoGIS4GA #GIS 🙏🎶Mix of 'Crosswalk' @TEEDinosaurs 🙏 @tjukanov.bsky.social who started #30DayMapChallenge Day 30: Makeover
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BC @mildthing99.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
🔊Walking On The Moon🔊 #Apollo15 26 Jul-7 Aug 1971 'Falcon' LM lift off from Hadley-Appenine 2 Aug 1971 Georeferenced with #MediaLayers in @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGIS Online #3DScene w Moon Elevation Surface DEM incl other Apollo missions: arcg.is/1GmKHG7 #30DayMapChallenge Day 18: Out of this world
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BC @mildthing99.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
🔊Thrown Around🔊 Atlantis/Conic Equidistant/Equirectangular; Orthographic/Patterson/Stereographic/Waterman Butterfly/Winkel Tripel #SST Nov 2025 centred on #NullIsland 🙏 @cambecc.bsky.social 🙏🎵 @jamesblake #30DayMapChallenge #GoGIS4GA Day 19: Projections #GISDay earth.nullschool.net#current/ocea...
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BC @mildthing99.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
🔊🎶*Bohemian Toponymy*🎶🔊 50 yrs ago in 1975 Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' tops UK chart *Is this the real place? Is this just fantasy?* Data🙏@natlibscot.bsky.social OS 1900s > 'Bohemia' maps.nls.uk/projects/os1... > ArcGIS Online #30DayMapChallenge #GoGIS4GA Day 24: (A Day At The) Places + their names
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BC @mildthing99.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
🔊🎶Urban river restoration Lima, Peru with sub-fluvial Lima Expresa road under Rio Rímac #braiding #PEPRR tinyurl.com/yttxekkw 1908 map #MediaLayers🙏via @royalscotgeosoc.bsky.social 🎶🙏 Sofia Kourtesis Map arcg.is/0nOPDj0 @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGIS Online #30DayMapChallenge Day 26: Transport
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BC @mildthing99.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
🔊🎶Hexagons of Grammichele Sicily, Italy: #PlannedSettlement 1693 after #earthquake at Occhiolà 👣5.34km/3.32mi via @_outdooractive_ @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGISOnline w #FireflyIcons by @johnelson.bsky.social ✝️RIP Ornella Vanoni d 21 Nov 2025 arcg.is/e9OLL #30DayMapChallenge Day 25: Hexagons
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BC @mildthing99.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
🔤🌐The Earth spells it out🌐🔤 #YourNameInLandsat uses lookie-likie letters in satellite images from @NASA_Landsat over the last 50 years managed jointly with @USGS #EarthObservation #RemoteSensing landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam... 🙏 @thenasaearth.bsky.social #30DayMapChallenge Day 29: Raster
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BC @mildthing99.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
An excellent way to investigate spatial variations in placenames, incl parts of placenames: 'British Placename Mapper' 🙏 to Robin Wilson @sciremotesense using @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social data incl 'Starts with' 'Ends with' etc #30DayMapChallenge Day 28: Black placenames.rtwilson.com#W3sidGV4dCI6...
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BC @mildthing99.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
🔊Using #GIS to visualise the impact of physical and human processes on coasts🌊 @oaknational.bsky.social lesson stepped explanation demonstrating #GIS integration at KS4 GCSE Geography for coastal erosion on Holderness peninsula UK tinyurl.com/mwpn2229 #30DayMapChallenge Day 23: Process
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BC @mildthing99.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
🔊🎶On the border*🎶🔊 The England-Wales border follows old meanders of the River Vyrnwy e.g. the #ShropshireWay crosses border 6 times in 6 km betw Pentreheylin Hall to Llanymynech 🙏 🎶 @alstewartinfo 🙏 Route plan + #FlyoverVideo @_outdooractive_ #30DayMapChallenge Day 27: Boundaries
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BC @mildthing99.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
🎹🔊 Isn't it iconic?🔊🎹 World piano manufacturers *There are places I'll remember* Iconic 'In My Life' original speed Iconic solo by George Martin Iconic Beatles album 'Rubber Soul' #MusicTeacher #GeographyTeacher #30DayMapChallenge Day 21: Icons Map: arcg.is/1zK5Sj0
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BC @mildthing99.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
🔊🐳'A prison-like aquarium' 🐳🔊 Threats to #BlueWhales in the Gulf of Ancud, Chile #EcosystemFragmentation also happens in the sea 🙏@Seasaver @BedrinanaLuis @ballenaschile Full video 6m: www.youtube.com/live/rMW2-3f... #30DayMapChallenge Day 22: Data challenge: Natural Earth
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BC @mildthing99.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
🔊💧Whatever happened to Capel Celyn?💧🔊 OS 6" 1830s-80s (county layers) v @esriuk.bsky.social Imagery v @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social 1:25000 #GIS 🚰#Dams 🚰 🙏@natlibscotmaps @BritishPathe 🙏🎵Jon Hopkins - 'Cold Out There' #30DayMapChallenge Day 20: Water maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/...
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BC @mildthing99.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
🔊*Tomorrow Never Knows*🔊 By 2125, will remoteness mean that these places can remain much the same as now? Created in @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGIS Online using @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social's #Firefly symbols 🙏#Beatles #30DayMapChallenge Day 12: Map from 2125 Map: arcg.is/TWuOO1
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BC @mildthing99.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
🔊Using #GIS to visualise data in a webmap Stepped explanation > #CreateBuffers analysis tool in @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGIS OnLine > visualise exclusion zones around #Merapi volcano @oaknational.bsky.social #GIS integration KS4 GCSE Geog tinyurl.com/yh56fjw3 #30DayMapChallenge Day 13: 10 minute map
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BC @mildthing99.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
🔊'From Bank to Bet Fred'🔊 @openstreetmap.bsky.social v map of Dundee shops in Murraygate 1991 using #MediaLayers in @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGIS Online #3DScene > urban retail land use change. 🙏 UoD Archives #ThinkForAMinute #Housemartins #NEA arcg.is/1f8zuf0 Day 14: Data challenge: OpenStreetMap
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BC @mildthing99.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
🔊'London Under Fire' 🔊 '12 Postcards Passed By The Censor' Story Map inspired by the excellent blog by @alondoninheritance.bsky.social alondoninheritance.com/thebombedcit... Georef then #GIS mapped in @ArcGISStoryMaps 🎵 @psbhq.bsky.social 'London Can Take it' ❤️Ukraine #30DayMapChallenge Day 15: Fire
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BC @mildthing99.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Wolf territories, Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota #Media Layers in @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGIS Online 🙏Voyageurs Wolf Project #Wolves FB: tinyurl.com/26mpj8eb YT: youtube.com/watch?v=sUkB... #30DayMapChallenge Day 16: Cell 2D Web map: arcg.is/1Oz0aa1 3D Scene: arcg.is/0KaLfX
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BC @mildthing99.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Isle of Wight Slow Ways Topological Map created using AI ChatGPT Walk betw any town, city and national landscape in Britain 10,000 A-to-B walking + wheeling routes, mapped and checked by🙏 @slowwaysuk.bsky.social Dan Raven Ellison beta.slowways.org #30DayMapChallenge Day 17: A new tool
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BC @mildthing99.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
🔊*The shape you're in*🔊 Do you recognise all of these topological countries? Rectangle, Triangle, Crescent, Teardrop, Hexagon, Circle... (the last one is the world's 'most circular country' with a roundness index of 0.934) 🎵🙏 @edsheeranbr.bsky.social #30DayMapChallenge Day 11: Minimal map
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BC @mildthing99.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
🔊🎶Let's go back 🎶🔊 GPS track of a cloudless recent ascent (+ descent!) for a long-awaited return to the magnificent Cader (Cadair) Idris, Eryri Nat Pk, N Wales @natreswales.bsky.social #FlyoverVideo outdooractive_uk + @jungle4eva.bsky.social #30DayMapChallenge Day 4: Data challenge: My Data
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BC @mildthing99.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
🔊How to use #GIS to visualise physical processes at different types of plate margin e.g. convergent plate boundary: a stepped explanation @oaknational.bsky.social lesson demonstrating #GIS integration at KS4 GCSE Geography #TectonicHazards tinyurl.com/3zecmytx #30DayMapChallenge Day 5: Earth
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BC @mildthing99.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
🔊How has phys geog/tectonics influenced biogeographic realms (faunal boundaries)? 3D: #WallaceLine #LydekkerLine #WeberLine @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGISOnline #Scene GEBCO 10x exagg #Evolution #Marsupial v #Mammal @TEEDinosaurs #30DayMapChallenge Day 6: Dimensions arcg.is/GOHq90
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BC @mildthing99.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
🍃🌉On this day 1940🌉🍃 'Galloping Gertie' Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed in 40mph/64kmh winds. Where were the viewpoints? Tacoma-Kitsap pen link gone until 1950. Created in @Esri ArcGIS Online using #MediaLayers Webmap: arcg.is/0j9ibq #30DayMapChallenge Day 7: Accessibility
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BC @mildthing99.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
🔊#JourneySticks are an ancient geographical information system #GIS used for millennia. Glimpses of a brilliant KS1 Y1 lesson 'Making a map of our route' by @oaknational.bsky.social stepping 'old' #GIS and 'new' #GIS + @aphextwin.bsky.social #30DayMapChallenge Day 9: Analog tinyurl.com/35y5wf5r
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BC @mildthing99.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
🔊Do you know the way to Kathmandu? 3D map: 2025 Imagery v 1967 Corona satellite via Nepali Times #MediaLayer @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGISOnline #Scene + GEBCO bathymetry 3.5 x exagg c 200%⬆️ #UrbanSprawl शहरी विस्तार + @johnmaus.bsky.social 'Do Your Best' #30DayMapChallenge Day 8: Urban arcg.is/1iPyW10
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BC @mildthing99.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
🗺️ 113 year old maps reborn 🗺️ 1912 sketch maps by teacher George Nebel for a field trip from Wood Street School #Woolwich to Isle of Thanet, Kent (they travelled by ship!) #MediaLayers @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGIS Online #30DayMapChallenge Day 9: Analog Map🙏 Kent Archives arcg.is/1nr55b1
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BC @mildthing99.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Using #GIS to map the track of a #TropicalStorm: Stepped explanation: how to use georef data to visualise #TyphoonRai (Odette) 2022 in @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGISOnline @oaknational.bsky.social lesson demo for #GIS integration at KS4 GCSE Geography tinyurl.com/352hdcka #30DayMapChallenge Day 10: Air
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BC @mildthing99.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
🔊Using #GIS to visualise global trends in urbanisation A stepped explanation demonstrating how to create a #GIS choropleth webmap using shapefiles @oaknational.bsky.social lesson demonstrating #GIS integration at KS4 GCSE Geography tinyurl.com/3ksbwwmy #30DayMapChallenge Day 3: Polygons
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Bob Lang @boblanggeog.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
30dayMapChallenge Day 1 Points arcg.is/1ab5ua4 School Y7 food investigation. Data collected from 3 year 7 classes using Microsoft, map and symbolised in Esri ArcGIS Online. Students can then investigate where their food comes from. #GISinschools #HowiusedGIStoday #GIS #ArcGISOnline
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BC @mildthing99.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
🔊Using #GIS to visualise + analyse #deforestation Stepped explanation #FishboneDeforestation + #EcosystemFragmentation #RemoteSensing @esriuk.bsky.social #Wayback @oaknational.bsky.social lesson demonstrating #GIS integration at KS4 GCSE Geography tinyurl.com/33wkc6sr #30DayMapChallenge Day 2: Lines
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Bob Lang @boblanggeog.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... new 2025 imd @gasigict.bsky.social
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England's most deprived areas named - with Jaywick topping list
Jaywick, a seaside town in Essex, has been named the most deprived area for a fourth time in a row.
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Bob Lang @boblanggeog.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
post16 Geography superpowers @gasigict.bsky.social
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GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
📣 Next GCSJ Seminar 🗓️ Fri 14 Nov 2025 | 12–1PM | online 🔎Rearticulating archives: still thinking with Doreen Massey — exploring how Doreen Massey’s archive invites new questions about our troubled present. Register to join the critical and creative dialogue: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rearticula...
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BC @mildthing99.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
🔊💡Set the night on fire💡🔊 UK+RoI Lighthouses & Shipping Forecast areas Data AI generated in ChatGPT + cleaning needed! Mapped with ArcGIS Online Animated icons made in ezgif plus John Nelson's Firefly icons arcg.is/1ir9Oq3 #30DayMapChallenge Day 1: Points
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Bob Lang @boblanggeog.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... gt for food studies & globalisation @gasigict.bsky.social
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Why supermarket prices really became sky high in the UK
Butter, chocolate, coffee and milk have all seen prices rocket. Tracing back through the story of one particular supermarket staple begins to explain why
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Bob Lang @boblanggeog.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
A gt post16 geography article to read and discuss @gasigict.bsky.social
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Bob Lang @boblanggeog.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... energy security post16 geography @gasigict.bsky.social
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Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity
Renewables overtook coal as the world's leading source of electricity this year, a think tank analysis shows.
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Bob Lang @boblanggeog.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... super power post16 geography @gasigict.bsky.social
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China tightens export rules for crucial rare earths
The announcement comes ahead of a meeting between China's President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump later this month.
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Rob Chambers @rob-geog.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
It was great to see a Geography specific session at #ResearchEd25 with @mildthing99.bsky.social discussing how GIS can become 'part of the furniture'. Here are a few of my reflections / key takeaways from the session. linkedin.com/pulse/resear... #geography #GIS #geographyteacher #ESRI #arcgis
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ResearchEd - 2025 - Reflections Part 3 - Brendan Conway - How can GIS become 'part of the furniture'?
I was delighted to see a Geography-specific session at this year’s ResearchEd, with the brilliant Brendan Conway speaking about GIS. Ironically, whilst GIS is very much “part of the furniture” in mode...
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BC @mildthing99.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Geographers in the house! 'How can #GIS become ‘part of the furniture’? A pleasure to share ideas with colleagues at @researchED1 #rEDNatConf written with @ahamill.bsky.social in 'What is Geography Teaching Now?' ed by @geogmum.bsky.social + @jennnnnn.bsky.social + lessons from #GIS #OakNational
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Bob Lang @boblanggeog.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
www.economist.com/middle-east-... water & energy security post16 geography @gasigict.bsky.social
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A high-risk mega-dam in Ethiopia
It could power the region or plunge it into conflict
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BC @mildthing99.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Looking fwd to sharing ideas at National researchED #rEDNatConf from 'How can #GIS become ‘part of the furniture’? written with @ahamill.bsky.social in 'What is Geography Teaching Now?' ed by @geogmum.bsky.social + @jennnnnn.bsky.social incl #GIS lessons I've written for @oaknational.bsky.social
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Bob Lang @boblanggeog.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
New Simon Reeve bbc2 Scandinavia www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... is great for post16 geography looking at topics such as superpowers, security, sovereign wealth funds, energy @gasigict.bsky.social @geoblogs.bsky.social @jbwgeog.bsky.social
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BBC Two - Scandinavia with Simon Reeve, Series 1, Episode 1
Simon travels from Arctic islands of Svalbard to the icy wilderness of Lapland.
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minet-infants.bsky.social @minet-infants.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This week our Year 2 pupils took part in the first ever Hillingdon Bee. They were joined by 8 other school where their Geography knowledge and skills were put to the test! Well done to Minet who won the competition - it was very close! @gasigict.bsky.social
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Bethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I'm really pleased to highlight our Hidden Landscapes of Greenland Storymap Series, which was awarded a 2025 Silver Publisher's Award by the Geographical Association! You can find out more details here, inc. storymaps, a video, teacher resources and more: www.antarcticglaciers.org/glaciers-and...
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Hidden Landscapes of Greenland StoryMap Collection - AntarcticGlaciers.org
Introducing the Hidden Landscapes of Greenland StoryMap Collection Here is a collection of four Greenland StoryMaps covering the landscape beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet, launched as a collection in ...
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Raul Jimenez Ortega @rauljimenez.info · 27/08/2025
I just published a new article that took me many “brain cycles” this summer: 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗴𝗲𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮? 🌍 I explain why geolocated data requires a different mindset (for devs) + key concepts - EN: www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/... or dev.to/hhkaos/whats... - ES: medium.com/@hhkaos/qu%C...
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Bethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
This was a collaboration between Guy Paxman & Edmund Lea @geogdurham.bsky.social and myself! There's plenty here for #GeographyTeachers to support their GIS and cold environments teaching. @rgs-ibgschools.bsky.social @gasigict.bsky.social
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grahamgeog.bsky.social @grahamgeog.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
2/2 Special thanks must go to my amazing colleagues in the @gasigict.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social @ptieducation.bsky.social for their encouragement and support, as well as the opportunity to participate in and lead so many geographical projects throughout my career
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Bob Lang @boblanggeog.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
A gt rsmesource for geography teachers @gasigict.bsky.social @geoblogs.bsky.social @jbwgeog.bsky.social
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