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Dani Arribas-Bel @darribas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New #GLaDpodcast episode just dropped: how to give (bad) talks! @rsfrankl.bsky.social, @levijohnwolf.bsky.social and I dont presume to know how to give good talks but, when it comes to bad ones, we have a stock of experience to share! www.podbean.com/ew/pb-6gdus-...

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How to give (bad) talks

Today, we’re talking about talks. Specifically, about *bad* talks. Speaking in public is such a core part of the academic life. We get jobs through it, we share ideas with our community, and we someti...

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The voices of people—especially Black women—in marginalized communities are often systematically erased by white men. Attention-seeking AI guru Connor Leahy is now outlining an intellectual history of SV that is virtually identical to the one outlined by me and Gebru. 1/3

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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

We’ve spent twenty years treating housing unaffordability, the loneliness epidemic, generational resentment, and the collapse of civic trust as separate problems. They share one upstream cause. New essay and comic: open.substack.com/pub/morgango...

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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

America has not forgotten how to build. We still know how to move dirt, run power, pour concrete, and coordinate impossible logistics. We just reserve that urgency for certain kinds of projects.

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Why Is It Easier to Build an AI Data Center Than Affordable Housing?

How the same system that fast-tracks data centers grinds the housing your town needs to a halt.

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Tessa Hill @tessahill.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I teach about this in my upper div oceanography class every year. My students design observing systems around the world based upon this as a model. I guess I’ll just teach about other countries’ systems now that the US is intentionally taking a back seat on scientific innovation and discovery. 😭

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

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Minnesota Population Center @minnpop.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Spotted at #PAA2026! Those are some snazzy looking posters and even more amazing researchers! Look for the MPC logo as you wander around and you'll be sure to find something great. 🤩

Emma Goldstein next to her poster "When Adult Children Live at Home"

Poster "Geographic Inequalities in Social Isolation and Care Facility Accessibility among Older Adults" ‘

Grace Cooper next to her poster "Accessibility modeling for everyone"

Quin Mudry Nelson next to their poster "Analyzing (In)Visibility of Native Americans in 2024 Local TV News

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Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

🎧 Our new #GLaDpodcast episode—Baby Talk—is all about, yeah, babies. Plus the academic life course, careers and the messy business of advice and decisionmaking. What's not to love?! With @darribas.bsky.social @levijohnwolf.bsky.social & @pietrostefani.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/5TDJ...

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Episode 32: Baby Talk

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Dani Arribas-Bel @darribas.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Last week we released Google embeddings for UK's small areas. While preparing workshop materials, I ran into this nice little example of what they’re capable of. Read on to find out why Battersea Power Station is such an interesting example! me.darribas.org/2026/05/05/w...

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Dani Arribas-Bel @darribas.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Just back from a fully packed week in the Bay Area, I jotted down a few notes to commit the highlights to memory (and battle the post-academic high blues!): me.darribas.org/2026/03/23/n...

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Notes from a week in the Bay Area

Spatial Data Science Summit and AAG in seven days.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

At 12 ET today me and Jason are doing AMA on the main technology subreddit about the tech ICE is using, the nationwide network of AI Flock cameras around the U.S., and the state of surveillance in general. Get your questions in before then: www.reddit.com/r/technology...

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From the technology community on Reddit: Hi! We're 404 Media's Jason Koebler and Joseph Cox. AMA (us) about the tech ICE is using, Flock and the state of surveillance in the US on Feb. 4, 12 pm ET

Explore this post and more from the technology community

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Stephen Rodrick @stephenrodrick.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.

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Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Good morning to everyone but the City of Cambridge for producing a map that appears to show no fewer than three different kinds of "being in Cambridge." (this matters for those who might, just hypothetically speaking, be trying to run every street in the city)

Piece of a map of Cambridge, Massachusetts, which shows a city boundary, buildings in the city, and streets in the city. None of which line up.

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Steven Manson @smmanson.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Remembering Alex Pretti and honoring his legacy. A powerful statement from the Dept of Geography, Environment, and Society at U of Minnesota. A graduate of GES, Alex embodied character, integrity, kindness, and commitment to human wellbeing. cla.umn.edu/geography/ne...

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Remembering Alex Pretti and Honoring His Legacy

In memory of Alex Pretti, BSE graduate, Class of 2011, whose life and work reflected a deep commitment to human dignity, care, and justice.

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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Freelancers continue to provide some of the best, most innovative coverage of communities' fight against the Trump administration's deportation forces. Today, for @prismreports.org, freelancer Ankur Singh wrote about the role workers played organizing Minneapolis' citywide shutdown.

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Minnesota workers take a stand

50,000 people participated in Minneapolis’ citywide shutdown, co-organized by a broad coalition of labor unions and faith leaders

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Sara Koopman @spaceforpeace.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Geographers, in case you missed this detail, Alex Pretti graduated from the Minnesota Geography department in 2011.

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Mischief Toy Store @mischieftoy.com · 17/01/2026

DHS employees entered our store this afternoon and served us a Notice of Inspection, demanding copies of I9 forms for each employee. In 27 years as shopkeepers, we have never been subjected to this type of investigation.

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 13/01/2026

The great @usefulnoise.bsky.social made a request that we all write something about what life in Minnesota is like for folks who live elsewhere or might be outside our normal neighbothis-Bluesky footprint. So I went to cursed Facebook and wrote this. Maybe it will help you share your own thoughts.

From my post to Facebook: “A friend said those of us who live in Minneapolis should write about what's going on here for folks who live elsewhere. You need to know that whether you're a Republican, Independent or Democrat, the Constitution is being violated by our federal government. This is not about catching criminals, or even deporting people. It is about punishing an entire state, including
citizens, for not supporting the president. Everyone in my part of Minneapolis is affected. On our streets, ICE is stopping people of color and demanding their papers. In America. US citizens do not have to prove citizenship to ICE. Yet people are being intimidated, some cases beaten up and detained, for requiring ICE to follow the law. ICE needs a judicial warrant to enter homes. Yet there are documented cases of them
ignoring the law - violating a bedrock constitutional principle. Americans of color are staying home, afraid to go to work, school, to grocery shop, or fill their cars with gas. This isn't just "illegals" or immigrants with valid work permits, it is citizens who have had their cars rammed by ICE for merely looking Hispanic. Businesses are closing. Schools are 50 percent full. When they are open, fascists are calling in bomb threats because the
president decided to make us a meme. After a daycare teacher with a valid work permit (through 2030) was snatched from her workplace, parents (and grandparents) have had to organize to watch their SCHOOLS, to make sure conditional rights are observed. This is being repeated throughout Minnesota. Imagine trying to do your job or live you life while also taking volunteer shifts to make sure the federal
government doesn't act extrajudicially.
Because of ICE's documented abuses, neighbors have organized to monitor federal actions. This observation is legal, as long as it doesn't interfere with a valid action. Yet since ICE killed Renee Good, they are increasingly stopping this observation, breaking car windows and …

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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota (@minnpop.bsky.social) is hiring a postdoc in Population Health. Happy to chat about the MPC, UMN, and the Twin Cities, which are all awesome in my humble opinion! pop.umn.edu/training/pos...

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JOIN OUR INNOVATIVE PROGRAM!

Fellows in this Population Health Science Training Program work closely with academic mentors in social and health science fields to build skills in interdisciplinary population health research to prepare them for academic careers focused on addressing pressing public health problems. We seek
exceptional candidates in either social science or health science fields who have earned a PhD to join our diverse and accomplished cohort of trainees, and we particularly welcome candidates from backgrounds underrepresented in research.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

After the killing of Ms Good, Greg Bovino of the CPB led a raid on a Minneapolis HS. An official there said: They don’t care. They’re just animals,” I’ve never seen people behave like this.” All MPLS schools now closed for the week. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

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Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt

Minneapolis schools closed for the week citing safety concerns after an encounter involving armed Border Patrol agents near Roosevelt High School.

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Steven Manson @smmanson.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The 2025 IPUMS Research Awards are currently open for nominations. 🏅 They honor outstanding research that uses IPUMS data to advance understanding of demographic processes. Cash prizes are awarded in several categories! www.ipums.org/impact/ipums...

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IPUMS Research Awards | IPUMS

We are pleased to announce the opening of the annual IPUMS Research Awards competition. These awards honor outstanding research using IPUMS data to advance or deepen our understanding of social and de...

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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Participants at the 50th meeting of the Social Science History Association take a moment to remember the great Andrew Beveridge. Steve Ruggles, Margo Anderson and Vernon Burton led the appreciation! www.gc.cuny.edu/news/memoria...

Steve Ruggles, Vernon Burton and others listen as Margo Anderson leads the tribute to Andy Beveridge at the 50th anniversary meeting of the Social Science History Association.

Emma Diduch and Matthew Sobek listen as Steve Ruggles leads the remembrance and tribute to Andy Beveridge at the 50th anniversary meeting of the Social Science History Association.

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Steven Manson @smmanson.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Extend the fun of GIS day with the University of Minnesota 2025 Spatial Forum, TODAY, Thursday, Nov 20, 1:00pm @ Wilson Library. A series of free events and talks capped by Dr. Janet Franklin delivering the 19th annual Borchert Lecture. events.tc.umn.edu/event/22535-...

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University of Minnesota 2025 Spatial Forum & Borchert Lecture

The University of Minnesota Spatial Forum is a yearly event highlighting spatial research, teaching, and outreach at the University of Minnesota. T...

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Does your US State have a higher or lower Human Development Index than Germany? Source: buff.ly/NU3L634

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Mark Tewdwr-Jones @marktewdwr-jones.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

For prospective Masters students interested in cities and computing, mapping and visualisation, digital connectivity and data analysis, here’s your chance to learn more about our stellar programmes at UCL CASA in London

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

One way sighted people can determine what to put in alt text: Imagine you sent the post or article to a friend, and the image didn't load. What would someone need to know to get the equivalent experience and context? This will help you identify the important details.

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BEGIN St Andrews @begin-standrews.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

🌍✨ Our next seminar is with @grantdmckenzie.bsky.social "Place, Privacy and Mobility: Navigating the intersection of location science and human dynamics" Date: 4th November 2025 @ 2pm UK time (online only). Register here: tinyurl.com/3bzv63rj ✨🌍

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

What academic worth their salt trusts the word of ANY Big Tech company? Their histories demonstrate they will lie, cheat and steal and that they do not care about anything about making trillions; why trust them? Why entrust our students to them? Why train your chatbot replacements?

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

The National Institute of Aging made half as many new R01 awards (primary mechanism for funding) in FY25 than in FY24. This is devastating for younger scholars who study aging. Many newly hired faculty/researchers now face an uphill battle to keep their careers.

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Jerry Shannon @jerry-shannon.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Strategic underfunding is par for the course in Georgia and across the south. Offer benefits so we say we do, but make it extraordinarily difficult to actually receive them. In this case, we are spending more federal money on red tape than health care. www.propublica.org/article/geor...

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Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says

Republican lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent at lea...

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Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

The Grand Rounds trails are one of the best parts of the Minneapolis parks system. There is also room for significant improvement, and that’ll cost real money and political energy. So you gotta start somewhere. I would nominate the Lake Harriet and Minnehaha Creek (Lynnhurst to Portland) as priority

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

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Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Here at your friendly "Geography, Life, and Data" podcast, we do a lot of Geography, a lot of Life, and a lot of Geography Life. This one's for the Data—mobile phone data, that is. ☎️ @darribas.bsky.social @levijohnwolf.bsky.social @wenfeixu.bsky.social #geography open.spotify.com/episode/7Hmx...

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Episode 25: What we talk about when we talk about mobile phone data

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

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Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA

Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

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Joel Wood 🇨🇦 @joelwwood.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Our awesome EdTech team at TRU has produced a really good guide for instructors on GenAI in university education: "This guide provides practical strategies and best practices for integrating or avoiding generative artificial intelligence tools in your teaching practice." aieducation.trubox.ca

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Gen AI in Education

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Matt Thompson @matt-thompson.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Fantastic keynote session from Dr Michelle LaRue, University of Canterbury discussing #remotesensing imagery for monitoring the Antarctic emperor #penguin population. #giscience2025

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Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

The study is the first to look at the health hazards arising from pollution generated across all stages of the oil and gas lifecycle, from exploration and extraction; storage and transmission; oil refining and gas processing, to end-use activities, including storage, transportation and consumption.

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Air Pollution From Oil and Gas Kills 91,000 Yearly in US: Study

Asian, Black, Hispanic, and Native American communities experience the worst burden from air pollution from oil and gas in the US.

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Dr Urska Demsar @udemsar.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Read the whole thread, looks like a fully AI generated paper. @nadiah.bsky.social perhaps you should report this to the journal or to retractionwatch.com ?

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Cecilia Keating @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org · 22/08/2025

🚨 We’ve just updated @carbonbrief.org's factcheck of Trump’s ‘critical’ climate report. 🚨 Huge thanks to all the dozens of climate scientists who have helped us pull together this rebuttal — including the authors of our brand new additions. interactive.carbonbrief.org/doe-factchec...

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Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims

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Jerry Shannon @jerry-shannon.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Y'all, my seminar for first year students is on this list. 🧇🗺️

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/08/2025

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

Photo of DOGE staffer Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old white man in a blue pullover, carrying a black backpack.

Photo of 53-year-old Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi. He is sitting, wearing white pants and shirt with a brown vest.

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Twin Cities Toilet Paper Reviews @twincitiestoiletpaperreviews.com · 21/08/2025

Ya girl got a ribbon on her first crop art entry 😭😭😭😭

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Jerry Shannon @jerry-shannon.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Happy to share the release of the 2nd edition of Mapping, Society, and Technology. Props to @smmanson.bsky.social for wranging multiple of us to update it. It's a free text suitable for many introductory GIS courses, hosted at UMN Libraries. open.lib.umn.edu/mapping/ #gischat

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Mapping, Society, and Technology – Simple Book Publishing

Exploring relationships among maps, society, and technology

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Levi John Wolf @levijohnwolf.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

AI is now definitely changing how we live our (geography) lives! Join @rsfrankl.bsky.social, @darribas.bsky.social, and me for another episode of GLaD, where we discuss whether you should be vibe coding w/ Claude, sending ChatGPT review requests, or running on AI-made routes! shorturl.at/GLNKd

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AI & GLaD in Practice: a field report

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