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Looks great Gavin!

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

SHAME. This is an example of the feds on an out of control rampage. Arresting the mayor of Newark for demanding to inspect a site in Newark is absurd. #ReleaseBaraka pix11.com/news/local-n...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

I am outraged by the unjust arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka earlier this afternoon outside of Delaney Hall in Newark. I am calling for his immediate release by federal law enforcement.

submitted 11 days ago • 1131 comments

Between his attacks on NIH, NSF, and higher ed generally, Trump has very nearly placed a moratorium on public scientific research in this country, yet legacy media seems determined to frame it exclusively as a snit over Harvard.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

The great @andreapitzer.bsky.social is in @nymag.com, calling CECOT what it is: a bona fide concentration camp

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

BCNM student Lee Crandall is recognized for their groundbreaking work in the field of geography at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers! bcnm.berkeley.edu/news-researc...

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

submitted 25 days ago • 614 comments

@aresluna.org I present to you… a Horton Gorton (spotted in Vancouver, the land of Tim Horton’s, unrelatedly)

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Read @moiraweigel.bsky.social on why the Trump tariffs are likely to strengthen Chinese economic power by accelerating its globalizing push, especially in Asia www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/o...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

This is such a bad article about sprawl in the Times. For instance, this statement is insanely misleading -- there is absolutely no radius out from Los Angeles where it's denser than NYC. The LA 'metro area' is more dense just because of how we define metro areas… www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/m...

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

Pleased to announce that my article with Steve Holloway, "Underestimating Racism? Decoupling Race and Redlining," in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers has received the IPUMS Spatial Research Award. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 40 days ago • 4 comments

Piscataway, NJ has a message for the current administration on this gloomy spring day ✊

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Excited to share new work with Lemir Teron at Howard on highway removal/reconfiguration politics in NY. We examine the variegated role of state government in both hindering and facilitating such projects, increasingly crucial to understand as USDOT abandons the more progressive elements of IIJA/IRA.

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Among the many idiotic things about DOGE is trying to reduce the federal budget by eliminating things like NEH or IMLS. That’s like me trying to free up my hard drive by deleting 5kb text files instead of the dozens of 4K movies I torrented or the 16gb language models I stupidly downloaded.

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Very fun tool Mercator Extreme that lets you change where the North Pole (and greatest distortion) is on a Mercator-style map projection: mrgris.com/projects/mer... (via @kottke.org)

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Congratulations to Andrea Marston, whose book "Subterranean Matters" won the @lasabluesky.bsky.social Environment Section Best Book Award & honorable mention for the Outstanding Publication Award given by the Cultural & Political Ecology Specialty Group of @geographers.bsky.social buff.ly/y5ZrNie

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Dr. Evangeline McGlynn from Harvard University and Bloustein School Professor Will Payne recently published "Counter-GIS Experiments in Distance Interpolation with the Relational Reprojection Platform" in Cartographic Perspectives. #GIS #cartography #RRP cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/jo...

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Clancy Wilmott, Emma Fraser, and Bloustein School Professor Dr. Will Payne investigated the ‘untwinnable’ elements of the #city by re-approaching the city #digital #twin from multiple genealogies in their latest work: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

You're cordially invited to the Unruly Natures Party at #AAG2025 🍃🐯

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

More #AAG2025 session goodness! For the @geographers.bsky.social annual conference in Detroit next week, @darribas.bsky.social, Elizabeth Delmelle, Isabelle Nilsson and I have assembled four sessions chock full of the latest in spatial data, methods, and applications. Details 🔽 #geography

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

submitted 70 days ago • 179 comments

Rep. Nadler speaks.

submitted 71 days ago • 144 comments

Stand up for Science! In Trenton.

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Marvin has put together a beautiful and rigorous font archaeology of something omnipresent in the built environment but almost entirely unnamed and unnoticed: Gorton!

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

submitted 74 days ago • 87 comments

So apparently the AP Human Geography site is culling some of its "daily videos" for class use. A teacher tells me the videos on redlining and white flight are gone. In the screenshot below, you can see the Daily Videos start with no. 2 (no. 1 on this page was redlining, and it's gone now).

submitted 75 days ago • 54 comments

TODAY If you can't attend one you can amplify their actions. Stand Up for Science’ Rallies Will Protest Trump Attacks on Research www.scientificamerican.com/article/stan...

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Almost exactly a year ago I testified in court to fix NJ’s broken ballot and make our politics more fair. The simple premise was to have every candidate treated exactly the same on the ballot. The bill signed today falls short of what voters deserve. 1/2

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SESAME STREET WORKERS ARE UNIONIZING!!! ✊ This morning, workers at the nonprofit behind Sesame Street delivered their letter asking for voluntary recognition to management! Read all about it: www.opeiulocal153.org/news/employe...

submitted 77 days ago • 29 comments

Good morning NJ! I’m about to moderate a governor candidate forum at 10am to raise attention to critical issues facing families in our state. You can join us by watching live here: Facebook.com/NJCitizensAction

submitted 79 days ago • 3 comments

This is the first time in US history that a state has repealed statutory protections for a specific group.

submitted 81 days ago • 70 comments

NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes

submitted 81 days ago • 193 comments

New paper from me and Marilu Melo Zurita about the urban geopolitics of telecommunications infrastructure in Sydney. As @shannonmattern.bsky.social says, there's "multiple ways to wire the wired city": we tell the story of how this went down (literally!) in Sydney. doi.org/10.1080/0004...

submitted 82 days ago • 3 comments

SCOOP: #DOGE has installed two people at the Department of Housing and given them unprecedented access to the agency's highly sensitive data on millions of American and tens of billions of dollars in payments. Both work in real estate. w @telliotter.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/doge-h...

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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

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