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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Congratulations to the Platial Analysis Lab for publishing a new paper in Health & Place! More details: lnkd.in/e2THrUPs Paper: lnkd.in/eUxwC5QF
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A well-deserved spotlight in The Guardian this week on Prof Bendixen and colleagues' recent publication in Reviews of Geophysics, "River Sand and Gravel Mining: Global Drivers, Impacts, and Pathways for Sustainable Management" 👇 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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Sand overextraction weakening riverbanks as concrete demand soars
Research finds demand has more than doubled since 2000 and 80% of current demand comes from Asia
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Check out a new piece by Prof Sarah Turner and colleagues about “Aspirational urbanism and the symbolic influence of Singapore in Vietnam” – and why Singapore’s model doesn’t necessarily work elsewhere in the region…in Urban Studies and open access! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Congrats to Geography Master's student Kayleigh Christensen for being among the four McGill CDSI 2026 BMO Responsible AI Senior Scholars! 👏👏👏👏 Learn more about Kayleigh's research 👇 www.mcgill.ca/cdsi/article...
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Celebrating the 2026 BMO Responsible AI Senior Scholars
The Computational and Data Systems Institute (CDSI) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 BMO Responsible AI Fellowships. Congratulations to Kayleigh Christensen, Xiaoning (Pepper) Wang, Y
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Happy International Day of the Tropics! 🌴 More info here 👇
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International Day of the Tropics | United Nations
The tropics, as a region, account for 40 per cent of the world’s total surface area and are host to approximately 80 per cent of the world’s biodiversity.
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Scope out this op-ed co-authored by Prof Renée Sieber (Geography) and Emmanuelle Vaast (Desautels) exploring how AI raises profound moral questions for humanity 👇 theconversation.com/artificial-i...
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Artificial intelligence raises profound moral questions — for all of humanity to answer
Ordinary people, not just technical experts, need to set the moral standards for regulation of AI.
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Cheers to Prof. Sarah Turner’s new co-authored article about craft beer 🍻! Open access 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Check out the new paper co-authored by Prof. Grant McKenzie in Digital Geography and Society. Open access! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
A piece co-authored by Prof Sarah Turner and her Hanoi-based research assistant Ms Hanh Ngo “’Can She Handle It?’ Women Delivery Drivers and the Gendered Politics of Hanoi’s Streets” in Urban Planning. Open Access! www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplannin...
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
A PhD in Geography can get you all sorts of gigs! 😉 Geographer / rock star becomes the chief scientist of Québec
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Congratulations to Dr. Knox on receiving the Canadian Geophysical Union's Early Career Scientist Award! This competitive honour recognizes outstanding research contributions by an early career CGU member. We are proud to celebrate this well-deserved recognition. www.mcgill.ca/geography/ch...
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Dr. Knox Receives CGU Early Career Scientist Award
Congratulations to Dr. Knox on receiving the Canadian Geophysical Union's Early Career Scientist Award! This competitive honour recognizes outstanding research contributions by an early career CGU…
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
A shout out to Prof. Raja Sengupta for the recent co-authored paper! doi.org/10.5194/ispr... Open access!
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ISPRS-Annals - Spatial Distribution and Coverage of Urban Green Spaces: Public Parks in Pune
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Congrats to Prof Brian Robinson for being a co-author on this new piece!
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Pathways to productivity: how functional ecosystem service flow determines crop yield in prairie landscape - Landscape Ecology
Context Sustaining agricultural productivity while maintaining ecological integrity requires understanding the spatial dynamics of ecosystem services (ES). In the Canadian prairies—an intensively…
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Congrats to Prof Oliver Coomes for being a co-author on this new piece! doi.org/10.1002/jid.... doi.org/10.1002/jid....
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Congrats to Prof Mette Bendixen for being a co-author on this new piece in Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
💫Shout out to Prof Mallik Mahmud who is among the first cohort of early-career ocean researchers funded by MEOPAR's Early Career Researcher Award! Learn more about Prof Mahmud's research program by visiting his research team's website, the McGill Polar Remote Sensing Group: mcgill.ca/arcticresearch/
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Join us on Monday, April 13th for the final #geospectives of the academic year. Steve Farber (University of Toronto, Scarborough) will present on "Transport Poverty, Suppressed Participation, and Sufficiency in Canada."
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Next week on Thursday March 26, Prof Margaret Kalacska is giving a public lecture at the Canadian Museum of Aviation (one of 3 speakers). The event will be streamed on Zoom.  More details available here: ingenium.ca/aviation/en/...
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2026 Kenneth M. Molson Lecture
Explore how drones are transforming industries and shaping the future of aviation in Canada. Free with registration.
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Join us on Monday, March 23 for our next #geospectives, featuring our own Prof. Yann le Polain de Waroux. His talk is titled "Competing land-use regimes and social-ecological transformation in the Gran Chaco." www.mcgill.ca/geography/ch...
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Congrats to Prof. Kevin Manaugh on publishing a new paper! Open access 👉
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Congrats to Mélie Monnerat, a PhD candidate in our department, for her first author piece with Prof Sarah Turner: “Entangled Foodways and Livelihood Pathways: Cinnamon, State Interventions, and Everyday Life in Hmong Communities of Northern Vietnam” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Congrats to Mélie Monnerat, a PhD candidate in our department, for her first author piece with Prof Sarah Turner: “Entangled Foodways and Livelihood Pathways: Cinnamon, State Interventions, and Everyday Life in Hmong Communities of Northern Vietnam” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Our next #GeoSpectives speaker is Hélène Madénian from the Centre Urbanisation Culture Société at INRS, who will be visiting on Monday, Mar 16, at 10 AM in Burnside Hall 426. www.mcgill.ca/geography/ch...
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Challenges for urban climate action - Labo Climat Montréal (Hélène Madénian, Institut national de la recherche scientifique)
Cities are multiplying initiatives to become resilient to climate change. However, the impacts of adaptation choices and priorities are not always explicitly discussed. As part of Labo Climat…
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Want to learn more about where the world is headed and what it means for the field of International Development? The Institute for the Study of International Development is hosting its annual lecture on Thursday March 12, featuring a stellar set of speakers! www.mcgill.ca/isid/events/...
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Last week, nine members of the Geography Department (students and faculty) attended the 9th Conference on Spatial Knowledge and Information Canada (SKI2026) in Banff, Alberta. The conference brings together researchers of geographic information science (and systems)... buff.ly/jGNbpty
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Next week's #geospectives talk will be given by Liliana Perez (Université de Montréal). It is titled "How immigrants reshape cities: Simulating urban diversity with geospatial agent-based modeling." Monday, Feb 16 | 10-11am | Burnside Hall 426. www.mcgill.ca/geography/ch...
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Check out this newspaper article on recent PhD student Dr Melody Lynch's research on urban gardening in Malaysia! www.sarawaktribune.com/urban-agricu...
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Premier événement francophone du Département de géographie à McGill!vFirst francophone event of the McGill Geography Department! forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Are you a McGill student of Black heritage interested in research? The Geography Undergraduate Research Award (2026) supports 13 weeks of paid summer research with a Geography professor ($6,000). ⏰ Deadline: February 13, 2026. Learn more & apply through the Department of Geography.
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Check out a new article by Prof Sarah Turner and her colleague Hanh Ngo about childhoods during the subsidy era period in Hanoi, Vietnam. Published in Children, Youth and Environments. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56064 (that’s Hanh on the cover page of the journal as a child).
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Check out this Science report on sea ice conditions in the Canadian Arctic in which Prof Mallik Mahmud was interviewed and one of his recent articles is cited. www.science.org/content/arti...
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The Arctic’s ‘last ice area’ is showing signs of weakness
Mission to Canada’s Queen Elizabeth Islands reveals degradation of a sea ice haven
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Huge congratulations to McGill grad Nicolas Thomas (Geography/Urban Studies) on being elected to Brossard City Council, bringing fresh energy, planning expertise, and community-first leadership to local government. Read more about his journey and achievement here: reporter.mcgill.ca/a-new-genera...
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
McGill Geography graduate students travelled under the mountain today to meet their counterparts at Université de Montréal's Geography Department. #MTLGeography
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Two geographers from our department, Prof. Bernhard Lehner and Prof. Graham MacDonald, were recently named among the 24 most cited McGill researchers for 2025. This recognition reflects the global reach and influence of their scholarship. www.mcgill.ca/research/art...
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
McGill’s B.A. & Sc. program recently celebrated its 20th anniversary and brought people together to highlight two decades of interdisciplinary scholarship. One of our SSS students took part as a guest panelist. Read the news story here: buff.ly/cP8BTLR
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McGill Science @mcgillscience.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Last night, our colleagues in Geography celebrated the department’s 80th anniversary! Over 100 students, faculty members, staff, and alumni gathered for an evening of wine, cheese, and conversation. Read our story about the department's history ➡️ mcgill.ca/x/wFT
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Awesome to see such a big turn out for our 80th celebrations as a Dept! 💚💙💚💙💚💙
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The final #geospectives of 2025 will feature two Geography faculty members: Prof. Sarah Moser and Prof. Graham Macdonald. Both will discuss their ongoing research. December 1 at 10:00am in Burnside Hall 426. www.mcgill.ca/geography/ch...
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Geography Faculty Talks: Professors Sarah Moser & Graham Macdonald
Counting Crops in Space and Time: Large-Scale Analysis of Crop Diversity Graham Macdonald Abstract: The number and distribution of crops grown on the landscape is an important component of agricultural...
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
A reminder that GIS Day is happening today at the GIC (fifth floor of Burnside Hall).
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The Department of Geography is celebrating its 80th Anniversary November 26th in the GIC (5th Floor Burnside Hall) 🌎🌍🌏🎉 We’re celebrating with wine, cheese, and wonderful company, and we’d love for you to join us! RSVP by November 21st: mcgill.ca/x/irR
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Join us for GIS Day at McGill on Wednesday, November 19th! This year's theme is "Geoprivacy & Geosecurity." See the full program attached. @mcgill.ca
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Next week's #Geospectives features Prof. Pascale Biron from Concordia University speaking about integrating hydrogeomorphology into river restoration practices. See you on Monday, November 10th at 10am in Burnside Hall 426. www.mcgill.ca/geography/ch...
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Integrating hydrogeomorphology into river restoration practices: a winning approach (Pascale Biron, Concordia University)
River systems are increasingly affected by agriculture and urbanization of riparian areas, leading to frequent human interventions such as bank stabilization or flood protection measures. There is a…
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Congrats to Prof Ben Forest for his co-authored piece just out in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers on the symbolic politics of the EU flag. It’s full open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Aspirational Iconography: The European Union Flag as an Extraterritorial Political Symbol
How and why did the European Union (EU) flag, once a banal marker of European integration and institutions in its member states, become such a politically charged symbol outside of the EU? We demon...
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Prof. Renee Sieber recently contributed an opinion piece on governmental strategies in AI, to Le Devoir. www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idee...
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Le gouvernement canadien hallucine-t-il sa stratégie en matière d’IA?
Chose certaine, il ne démontre pas de volonté de s’engager dans de véritables discussions démocratiques.
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Rejoignez-nous le samedi 25 octobre, de 10 h à 16 h, pour la Journée portes ouvertes de McGill. Rencontrez des professeurs, des conseillers pédagogiques et des étudiants et obtenez des réponses à toutes vos questions! 👉 www.mcgill.ca/openhouse/re... Nous avons hâte de vous accueillir! ✨🫶🌎🌍🌏
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Join us on Saturday, October 25th from 10am to 4pm for McGill’s Open House! Meet professors, advisors and students, tour our campus in downtown Montreal, and get your questions answered! 👉 Register today: www.mcgill.ca/openhouse/re... We look forward to welcoming you! ✨🫶🌎🌍🌏
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Our #Geospectives talk on Monday (Oct 27) features Tom Kemeny, professor at the Munk School at the University of Toronto. He will present on "The Price of Place: Community Wealth and Cognitive Decline among Older Adults." Details through the link. www.mcgill.ca/geography/ch...
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The Price of Place: Community Wealth and Cognitive Decline among Older Adults (Tom Kemeny, University of Toronto)
Abstract: Using a novel database on the net worth and self-reported cognitive impairment of over 1.8 million geolocated adults aged 50 and over, this paper provides the first large-scale evidence dire...
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Sarah Moser @sarahkmoser.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Happy to have had a chance to host Federico Cugurullo from Trinity College Dublin in the Department of Geography at McGill University for a talk on 'New AI Cities: The Case of Neom' @mcgillgeography.bsky.social #newcities www.mcgill.ca/geography/ch...
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Prof. le Polain was interviewed about his research on the expansion of Mennonite colonies in Latin America for this short article in The Economist: www.economist.com/the-americas...
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A German newspaper for Bolivian blondes
For Mennonites from Bolivia to Belize, Die Mennonitische Post is often the only connection to the outside world
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McGill Department of Geography @mcgillgeography.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Our next #Geospectives seminar will take place on Monday, September 29th at 10:00 a.m. in BH 426. We are pleased to welcome Dr. Scott Davidson (UQAM), who will present his research on peatland phenology and community science.
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