📅 March 19 @juliesquid.bsky.social will reprise her AGU Greg Leptoukh Lecture: Forking as a Worldview: How Openscapes uses the open source concept of copy-modify to support researchers & shift culture in science. Everyone welcome. Details: openscapes.org/events/2026-... #openscience #kinderscience

In 2019 I created a Story Map explainer of NC's distinctive county grouping requirement for legislative redistricting. Soon that resource will vanish (Esri is retiring that old platform). If you want a refresher on the so-called "Stephenson" process, now's the time! #NCPol 1/3 arcg.is/1DnDO

Some fascinating prognostication in this episode!

An illuminating look below the surface of this topic, revealing what such a change would entail.

After years of using Google Maps as my primary app for driving navigation, today I drove to an unfamiliar place using @organicmaps.bsky.social for the first time and was pleasantly surprised. Particularly nice was that the app was less talkative, not stating the obvious (e.g., merge). 1/3

🎧 new episode of the #GLaDpodcast is out! You can run but you can’t hide. @levijohnwolf.bsky.social, @darribas.bsky.social and I went to the source (Krzysztof Janowicz) to hear more about Geo + AI, AI for Geo, and my personal bugbear GeoAI. #geography #geoAI open.spotify.com/episode/7zZj...

Do you know anyone whose birthday is today (Sept. 16th)? If they like math—or even if they don't—you could point out to them that 9 / 16 / 25 is a sequence of perfect squares. AND! 2025 is also a perfect square (45²). Best time of day to acknowledge? Perhaps 1:04. 🤓

🗳️Job🗳️ The Buncombe County Board of Elections is hiring an absentee voting coordinator It's a great team in a terrific location. Sept 15 deadline. buncombecounty.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Buncom...

TIL the US Census Bureau is releasing its latest TIGER/Line data in GeoPackage format! 🧵 www.census.gov/geographies/... 1/5

Big news! QGIS 4.0 is on the horizon! #QGIS blog.qgis.org/2025/04/17/q...

JOB! Please RT. Swarthmore is hiring for our Social Science Quantitative Lab Associate to support & do teaching quant methods to undergrads. Especially looking for people familiar with sociology and/or political science, and R. Apply by 4/18. apply.interfolio.com/165892 Happy to answer questions.

Good thread to review if you want a refresher before the arguments today.