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Jason Sawle

@gis4schools.bsky.social
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Global Schools Manager at Esri. Supporting schools to teach with and about GIS. Working on the new National Geographic MapMaker app www.esri.com/mapmaker. #GIS4Good #Equity #CTE #XR He/Him/His. Views are my own. Ally 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 13/10/2026
For the first time, the British government has acknowledged that Russia interfered in the 2016 Brexit referendum. So who did BBC Newsnight invite on to discuss what happened? Sergei Markov, Putin’s former spokesman. Par for the course, says Nerve co-founder @carolecadwalla.bsky.social 1/
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Private Eye, only £2 for subscribers. Subscribe by lunchtime on Tuesday and get the next issue direct to your door. ➡️ Offers: checkout.private-eye.co.uk/SingleItem?I...
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oh crap. M 8.0 earthquake 14 km SW of Pitaloza Arriba, Panama. 33 km deep. Exact location and magnitude may change as we get more data earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
Map showing the location of the earthquake in southern Panama
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 09/10/2026
Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon and Jon Stewart discuss the tech industry's nihilistic attitudes about AI's impact on society, and how AI CEOs are using their immense wealth to amass political power
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Jason Sawle @gis4schools.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Physical processes are easier to understand when you can see them happen. For #FridayFun I’ve recreated the 1944 eruption of Vesuvius from real data. 🌋 Sound on! Explore on the web or in a VR headset browser: jsawle.github.io/vr/vesuvius-... #EarthScience #Vesuvius #GIS
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Different backgrounds, different expertise, but one shared mission: help make Californians safer from earthquakes. @disastrouscomms.bsky.social @drlucyjones.bsky.social @samanthastanley.bsky.social
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Coconino from 🌶️ New Mexico @coconinoite.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Look at these brilliant women working to make us safer from earthquakes!
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TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · 09/10/2026
#FingerpostFriday
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Jason Sawle @gis4schools.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Inside or outside?
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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 07/10/2026
The world's largest penguin colony has lost its title 🐧 A remote volcanic island near Antarctica has lost over half a million chinstrap penguins since 2011, a decline so steep it could see the species reassessed as 'Endangered'. 🧵1/2
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And another one! We’re also hiring a GIS and Publication Specialist II! Location : Sacramento Pay $7,640.00 - $9,847.00 per Month Final Filing Date: 10/16/2026 calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...
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GIS and Publication Specialist II
Looking to make a difference? Join our strong and mighty workforce. We offer benefits and growth opportunities and impact the lives of millions of Californians.
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🗺️ The California Geological Survey is hiring 2 positions in our GIS and Publications Unit - a GIS and Publications Supervisor and a GIS Specialist! Spread the world!
A picture of a man and woman sitting in a computer. The words on top say we’re hiring.
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Sarah Bell @sarahbell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As a geography grad student, this article was one of the things that shifted my cartography perspective. Maps represent spaces of differing realities. I stumbled across the article. I wish it was a foundational text for all geographers. #cartography
Screenshot of journal article title “Geography of Women’s Fear.”
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American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Geography gave me a good idea of understanding people and places, of understanding the natural [and] built environment. I’m thinking about all of these systems and how they play together with the economy.” Natasha Rivers, sustainability & measurement director, shares this and more: buff.ly/LuFAXFK
Career profile slide titled "AAG Career Profile" showing a smiling woman’s portrait at left and, at right, a quote about geography helping understand people, places, natural and built environments and their economic links; job title reads "Sustainability and Measurement Director at BECU."
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026
We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/
a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans
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Project Drawdown @projectdrawdown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Project Drawdown wants you 🫵 to take climate action! So we are making it fun, easy, and IMPACTFUL with our latest initiative based on the SHIFT framework that helps you take the most effective climate action. Join this FREE program feat. Drawdown experts to learn more. bit.ly/drawdowntraining
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dirt of the looming dawn @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
keith haring, grace jones, fela kuti, and jean-michel basquiat photographed by andy warhol. at mr. chow, nyc (june 1986)
a white man, a jamaican woman, an african man, and a black man walk into a restaurant....
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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
cc @lisasmartmp.bsky.social 🙏🏾
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Jason Sawle @gis4schools.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.nts.live
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NTS | Don't Assume
NTS is a global radio platform broadcasting music from over 50 cities around the globe, live 24/7.
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
An educator in Scotland asked me if I would be willing to create a short video about my path and career that they could play at career day at their school. I figured since I was making it anyway I would share it here as well! 🧪 🪨
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🎧 New PAGE 94 Podcast OUT NOW This week: DELO OR NO DELO The team and Richard Brooks discuss Reform UK's new sugar-daddy, the likelihood of AI wiping out the world (just 10%) and the Men In Black coming to a port near you. Watch: youtu.be/GqNXMniIPMQ
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@GeoBlogs @geoblogs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
education-for-climate.ec.europa.eu/education-fo... #EMO-GI
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Green Mini Curricula & database
"The knowledge needed for the green transition already exists, and a great deal of it is free. The barrier is not cost. It is finding it." A great deal of high-quality educational material on sustaina...
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I’ve gone in search of that group of cosplaying men with a perverse idea of national pride who are holding up traffic. I think I’ve found them
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@GeoBlogs @geoblogs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Cover reveal of latest book I’ve been involved with - created with Alex Standish and the 2022-23 UCL Fawcett Fellows - out in early 2027
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@GeoBlogs @geoblogs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Don’t forget that from the 1st of September all students studying for GCSE, A level or undergraduate levels can sign up for FREE student membership of the RGS www.rgs.org/join-us/stud...
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Student Membership | RGS
Support your studies and explore your interests with RGS-IBG membership for students.
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Jason Sawle @gis4schools.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
TEACHERS: National Geographic MapMaker has been designed for schools that need authoritative maps for teaching and learning. If you're a teacher, please give it a try. If you know a teacher, please share with them. MapMaker and the lesson resources can be found here: www.arcgis.com/apps/instant...
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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Global Wet Bulb Globe Temperature Baseline combines temp, humidity, wind, sun angle, and clouds to provide a 30‑year view of global heat stress, supporting safer outdoor work, heat risk planning, and nighttime cooling trends. Explore the dataset: bit.ly/42fYZcU 🧪
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Wet Bulb Globe Temperature Layer is Available in Living Atlas
Track global heat stress conditions throughout the year to support health, safety, and climate analysis with Wet Bulb Globe Temperature.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 27/08/2026
I am excited to be joining this department and the effort to educate students at UCLA on the technology landscape being built around them, so we might all think and imagine differently together.
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UCLA launches nation's first digital humanities department
Future-ready students, forward-looking research: The new department brings a humanistic approach to AI and other emerging technologies.
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Jason Sawle @gis4schools.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
GEOSPATIAL PROFESSIONALS: A new school year is starting and here is a simple way that you can support the schools, teachers and students in your lives. Share the link to the free National Geographic MapMaker app with a school, teacher or student that you know. Find out more here lnkd.in/p/edRs3eZi
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
NEW: I can't get this story out of my head. And I know I'm not alone. The attempt to cover up the complicity of the UK media's role in Jason Arday's death may be its sickest move yet. broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-jason-...
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The Jason Arday Reckoning
The attempts to cover up the complicity of the UK media’s role in his death may be its sickest move yet
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Dr Debra Kidd @debrakidd.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Why has the British national media not bothered to report this? They've repeated the claim that Jason Ardey running 30 marathons in 35 days was unlikely and not even checked it to stem the cynicism. www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/8350040...
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College lecturer completes marathon challenge
Jason Arday completes 30 marathons in 35 days for Shelter and the Shooting Star Children’s Hospice.
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Jason Sawle @gis4schools.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This would look good on a map 😀
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
From this review- “Think of all the diligent, decent black academics who have been lumbered with the embarrassment of having Arday as a figurehead” - no, think of *why* black academics are held collectively responsible in ways that white academics are not
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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
There’s a *lot* of people talking who shouldn’t be talking. They should be listening. But hey, if there’s engagement and a few extra followers to be had, why let that stop you 🤷🏾‍♂️
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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My uni have just withdrawn Geography, History & Geography and Politics & Geography undergrad courses run from our Penryn campus. Terrible for Cornwall. How did the staff find out? When UCAS clearing opened at 8am 😡
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 09/08/2026
A mapping error from the Treaty of Paris in 1783 led Minnesota to have one of the most beautiful pieces of land in the world at the north end of Lake of the Woods. Every Minnesotan should make the trip.
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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
FWIW, people really, REALLY Aneed to make more #geoscience/#geology shows that *aren’t* just about volcanoes 😅 But making ones that at least start to show how this subject intersects with our lives is maybe better than nothing…
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
56 pages of Private Eye for just £2.99. Our bumper three-week special issue is out in mid-August… but you’ll need to subscribe by Monday to get it delivered. ➡️Subscribers pay just £2 per issue: checkout.private-eye.co.uk/SingleItem?I...
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Oh I do like to be beside the Clacton-on-Seaside.
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Jackie Webb @jackiewebb.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Quite happy with how this 3D printed catchment model turned out using topographic maps! I wanted to make something hands on and interactive for exploring catchments with my students. Still experimenting with different designs and colour schemes...
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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Meet #MissAbyss, 🐙 a Dumbo Octopus on a massive mission to protect our deep ocean floor from mining! Help us send a loud message that some places are just too special to destroy! Background at: www.southernfriedscience.com/please-help-... 🦑 🌊 #deepseamining @taotaotasi.bsky.social
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
On geographies of grounded relations and repair, power structures, and ultimately, geographies of accountability by American Association of Geographers President Sara Smith www.aag.org/geographies-... #AcademicSky #GeogSky #BlackSky
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Geographies of Accountability - AAG
AAG - Geographies of Accountability - All -
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 05/08/2026
“Everyone has a strong incentive to lie about how much AI is delivering for their companies”: Cory @doctorow.pluralistic.net on why the people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: the people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying. “AI” written in large wonky font against a black background
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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Eurasian Bittern the "explosive Floof" it fluffs out its body, neck, and crest feathers ready to strike with lighting speed to scare off raptors or predators
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Joseph Kerski @josephkerski.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
www.youtube.com/live/CSo-tne... … is my "live" video about the upcoming Midland College GIS course.
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Hope to see you in our upcoming 2-day hands-on GIS short course at Midland College
YouTube video by Our Earth
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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
@miriamgoldstein.bsky.social @usoceanprotection.bsky.social @taotaotasi.bsky.social 🐙🦑🌊
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Bethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Spent a couple of hours recently clearing up the nurdles spilled in the river Tyne. If you can spare even a few minutes to help, come down to the beach. Every nurdle swept up is one less in the marine environment!
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Can electoral lightning strike twice? #VoteBinface #Clacton
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