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James Boxall 🇨🇦🍁 @jamesgis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Tactile maps are amazing + 3-D relief maps & globes- there's a 3ft diameter relief globe in the lab. Geography and Map Division is amazing. Lucky enough to get to see the entire collection! This geographer/map curator nearly had a stroke seeing its size in the basement of the Madison Bldg. Thanks!!

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Mikel 🇺🇦 @mikelking.com · 02/07/2026

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent. ~ Issac Asimov #ThoughtfulThursday

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Kenneth Field @kennethfield.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Apropos of nothing I asked AI to create a map of 100 Aker Wood as if that community had suffered a significant outbreak of cholera. The result is bordering on brilliant, and clearly establishes the cause of the outbreak as Pooh in the water source near Piglet's house.

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Anuradha Mukherji @anuradhamukherji.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The loss of these datasets will impact every American! The Deleted Data Series (www.theguardian.com/us-news/seri...) from @theguardian.com shines a much needed light on this. Most people have no idea public assets paid for by our tax dollars are being quietly dismantled. #federaldata #researchdata

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The Trump administration is deleting government data. From infant deaths to hunger, here are five ways it’s hurting Americans

This information was used to understand the problems Americans face. The consequences of its erasure, experts warn, could affect generations to come

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GRASS @grassgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2026

GRASS 8.5.0 released: two years of community work. 🐍 New grass․tools subpackage: GRASS tools as Python functions with NumPy I/O and proper exceptions 📊 JSON output across dozens of tools (r․info, r․univar, …) 📖 Docs rewritten in Markdown: tool pages show CLI, grass․tools, and grass․script tabs ⚡ […]

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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I still love the theory a Year 6 child proposed to me that David Attenborough is actually God and he got fed up with people not noticing the amazing things he'd created, so he made documentaries to show off.

David Attenborough and one of his creations.

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Dr. Mindy Townsend 🌻💫 @vogonpoetry.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Does anyone have a good article for beginning undergrads about how science is funded in the US? I'd like to introduce this to my ASTR 100 students next semester. 🔭 🧪

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Kenneth Field @kennethfield.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Day 126 of #365DaysOfMaps. May 6th is World Carnivorous Plant Day. So it's a silly one from me today though you might look at it as a visual metaphor for a lot going on right now. Carnivorous World (126/365) mapdesign.icaci.org/2026/05/worl...

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. Today is Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day. keelaw heeyah-leeguh oohdoohleeduh nooh-duhnaw

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The words are someone you know needs help and pronounced keelaw heeyah-leeguh oohdoohleeduh nooh-duhnaw

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Los Angeles County Fire Department @lacofd.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

On #InternationalFirefightersDay, we extend our gratitude to our #LACoFD FFs along w/FFs throughout the world who answer the call to provide exemplary & caring life-safety services to residents. We recognize the many sacrifices made by FFs & their families to care for our communities.

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 24/12/2025

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

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JustinColeGIS.bsky.social @justincolegis.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Question, why does it seem that hospital waiting room TVs have #HGTV on? I find that to be one of the most stressful channels on TV. Almost as nerve-racking as #thepitt because just thinking how much medical bills and then seeing the renovation or fix costs too.

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JustinColeGIS.bsky.social @justincolegis.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I want to give huge thanks to the #GISSIG community for all their support for me during my cancer battle. Yesterday I was happy to partially attend the annual conference just to see everyone. Today I wore my conference shirt to radiation.

Picture of me wearing my #gissig shirt after radiation treatment

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Kenneth Field @kennethfield.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Day 75 of #365DaysOfMaps. March 16th is Artichoke Day. This map has layers! Artichoke Growth Regions 75/365 mapdesign.icaci.org/2026/03/happ...

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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

🔥New in Geo🔥 'Using participatory mapping to strengthen indigenous resilience for wildfire risk: Lessons from Capoto/Jarina, Brazil' by Michel Valette et al. This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Mapping human-fire interactions' doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

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Using Participatory Mapping to Strengthen Indigenous Resilience for Wildfire Risk: Lessons From Capoto/Jarina, Brazil

This study explores how participatory mapping can support wildfire resilience strategies in Indigenous communities of the Brazilian Amazon. Drawing on participatory mapping exercises in three village...

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Geocode Earth @geocodeearth.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Most people assume a postcode belongs to a street. In practice, postcodes belong to deliverable addresses, not infrastructure. They appear together in an address line, but they operate at different layers. We explain why that distinction matters: geocode.earth/blog/2026/ex...

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The exactitude of postcodes

A question we get all the time is: why doesn’t this street record include a postcode? Postcodes are one of those things people assume are straightforward but are actually pretty weird when you look at...

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QGIS @qgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/03/2026

QGIS 4.0 Norrköping is released! The wait is over! We are pleased to announce the new major release of QGIS 4.0. Installers for Windows, Linux, and Mac are already out. What's new? On the surface, existing users should expect to engage with a QGIS experience familiar to what they have come to […]

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HydrologyNL @hydrology.nl · 07/03/2026

A fresh update:

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The One True Kat @theonetruekat.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I don’t have anything to say that can help right now. But this toad believes in you. Stay strong. #herps

A western toad, rescued from a pit trap,.

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Michael Gaigg @michaelgaigg.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Free poster download #ArcGIS #ExperienceBuilder: www.esri.com/content/dam/... #esri #esridev

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JustinColeGIS.bsky.social @justincolegis.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

This semester I have taken a #Games and #GIS class where we used the #ArcGIS SDKs for #Unreal and #Unity. It was a rough class with me having no experience in either. My final project is fire rescue simulation using a building scene layer found on #AGOL.

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FireEscape Demo

Video showing my IGME 689 Final Project on a Fire Rescue game

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

NEW: Devastating imagery from Jamaica, before & after Category 5 Hurricane Melissa. Black River — near total destruction.

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JustinColeGIS.bsky.social @justincolegis.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I am curious if you or or a fire department you work with still uses paper box books? #GIS #Greysky #FireDepartment #PublicSafety 1️⃣ Yes 2️⃣ No: We usa a mapping application 3️⃣ Sort Of: The Box Book is a PDF but not printed 4️⃣ What is a box book? 📊 Show results

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JustinColeGIS.bsky.social @justincolegis.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Today is Phelan-McDermid Syndrome awarness day. It is a rare genetic disorder, which present a lot of different daily challenges especially around communication. My daughter was diagnosed about 3 years ago and knowing has answered some questions but left many others. pmsf.org

Phelan-McDermid Syndrome Awareness day post. Click the link to find out more abotu the syndrome

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JustinColeGIS.bsky.social @justincolegis.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Since starting back to school after teaching a long while, I am realizing just how much good teaching pedagogy means to me. I have focused a lot over the years improving my pedagogy. It is so frustrating to have professors that struggle with the basics. I can see just how much that impacts learning.

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Andrew Rumbach @andrewrumbach.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Disasters have cumulative impacts that are often greater than the sum of the individual events. In the Gulf States, EVERY county has had at least 3 federally declared disasters since Hurricane Katrina, and some have had upwards of 20.

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JustinColeGIS.bsky.social @justincolegis.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

The recording of yesterday’s eulogy and Viking funeral for #ArcMap at the summer #gissig #MappyHour youtube.com/shorts/l... gis-sig.org/2025/07/...

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JustinColeGIS.bsky.social @justincolegis.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I wanted to wish everyone a happy #esriuc. I wish I could be there with you all. #GIS

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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

One of the reasons FEMA's Katrina response was so disorganized was that they'd recently been reorganized when the federal government created DHS after 9/11. Experts are saying a similar brain drain is happening now

In 2003, FEMA was absorbed into the Department of Homeland Security, which was created in the aftermath of 9/11. This change was part of a large-scale reorganization of the federal government to focus on terrorism. FEMA was still reeling from that reorganization when Katrina made landfall, said Sarah DeYoung, a professor at the University of Delaware’s disaster research center.

“Many disaster scientists and experts agree that putting FEMA under the Department of Homeland Security, under their umbrella, rather than its own cabinet, with direct access to the president in terms of expertise and communication, is one of the reasons why Hurricane Katrina ended up being managed so poorly,” DeYoung said.

Montano said that the reorganization in 2003 led to a brain drain of talented, expert staff from FEMA, which she sees echoed in the current climate at the agency. Reports suggest that FEMA has lost about a quarter of its full-time staff, including senior leadership like the head of FEMA’s storm response center, who submitted his resignation June 11.

“The loss of that expertise within FEMA is something that you can’t rebuild quickly, and if you don’t have it in a response, things can go sideways very fast,” she said.

Back in 2003, before Katrina, FEMA’s director Michael Brown wrote that the post-9/11 reorganization would lead to “an ineffective and uncoordinated response” during disasters. Brown resigned, disgraced, two weeks after Katrina’s landfall.

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JustinColeGIS.bsky.social @justincolegis.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Last night I posted something personal and somewhat vulnerable. I thank everyone who replied. It made me feel much better connected and just not alone in what I was feeling. In reflection, I do not know if impostor syndrome was the right term, but your replies did give some guidance. Thank you!

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JustinColeGIS.bsky.social @justincolegis.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I have a serious question to those who have gone back to school after being a working professional for many years. How did you get over the imposter syndrome or feelings like you did not belong? I have finished my first year of my PhD and while most things are going well. 1/2

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Anyone curious about the ground resolving distance of Maxar (maybe Airbus) ultra-high-resolution satellites? Use this calibration target near Batou, China to find out! Screen capture from Google Maps: maps.app.goo.gl/sP7ohqAEHkDU... More info about calibration targets: clui.org/newsletter/w...

Google Maps screen capture of a photo calibration target located at 40.852˚N, 109.629˚E. On the left are four squares about 50 meters across — two white, one gray, and one black. In the upper right are Tri-bar targets that are white stripes that are five times as high as they are wide, with gaps between them equal to their width. The smallest bars with visible gaps between them are 2 meters long — which means the effective ground resolving distance of the satellite that collected the image is about 40 cm.

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Caleb @kale-ebb.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

#gischat

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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 06/02/2025

this haptic display absolutely rocks. basketball is for everyone.

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Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

In the meantime, NHGIS (www.nhgis.org) has much of the data you'll need, and will remain functional. NHGIS has the latest ACS data and Census data back to 1790 along with Census boundary files. You can support NHGIS here: makingagift.umn.edu/...

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JustinColeGIS.bsky.social @justincolegis.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I was just throwing together a flood inundation example and tried something new. I did a hillshade on the inundation layer and had a crazy idea to set the exaggeration to -3. It produced a cool visualization. #GIS #Flooding #EmergencyManagement

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Jeffery Harvey, DEL, CEM @findjeffness.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

A standout sentence: "resilience is best understood as the sum of numerous individual decisions and strategies. It is neither inherent nor immutable, and there is no universal strategy that reliably works across all types of crises" 1/2 #GreySky | #EMBsky phys.org/news/2025-01...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/12/2024

What is it with the Icelandians thinking potatoes are bad. Mash them! Boil them! Put them in a stew!

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