Is it really #30DayMapChallenge if there's no geography challenge? Day 14 (OpenStreetMap) comes with a question: given an idiosyncratic city and several key identifying features, how hard is it to guess the city?

6/To those who call my position political correctness, being woke, an example of cancel culture, I say the following. A profession's decisions on how to allocate opportunities has dimensions that define its professional ethos and culture. There are spillover effects that matter.

Update your syllabus and stay on the frontier - it will increase your students’ wages. Epic work by my colleagues @barbarabiasi.com and @profsongma.bsky.social #linkoftheday www.barbarabiasi.com/uploads/1/0/...

Happy Geography Season to all those who celebrate! 🎉 Join us at the Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) for #GISday next week! Come for the snacks, swag, and maps. Stay for our special GIS Day lecture from John Logan, Brown University Sociology. Details below and here: lnkd.in/edc5e89B

Fast “10 minute map” for Day 13 of the #30DayMapChallenge. All the Franklin Counties in the US. Thought there’d be more tbh because Franklin is such a truly awesome name

#30DayMapChallenge — Day 12 — "Map from 2125" Hear me out. All the people who are already dead will still be dead in 2125. Also probably all the folks who get the reference in the map title. And me. I'll be dead too.

Day 7 of #30DayMapChallenge asked us to think about accessibility. @gsagostini.bsky.social considers two metrics of access simultaneously: distance to a Subway and distance to the subway.

we need a department of kerning

Harvard is hiring a new director for the Joint Center for Housing Studies. academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15490

🎧 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...

What can I say, I have a terminal fear of being boring. (There's actual research content in there, I swear!)

xxxxx this

And now, @rsfrankl.bsky.social takes on old marriage adage to describe the coming together of different approaches to Spatial Economic Analysis

Could be fun, right? #30DayMapChallenge (Day 11 — Minimal Map — the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts)

The neighborhood I want

I hope the answer to this question is yes

There's this story about how CS Lewis was out with a friend and stopped to give a vagrant some money. Lewis's friend chided him, saying "you know he's just to buy liquor with it, right?" Lewis responded, "Well, so was I."

Hi! We’re a coffee shop where you had a work meeting eight months ago. Would you like to get two emails a week for the rest of your life?

Some days you get the map and other days the map gets you. 😔 #30DayMapChallenge — Day 10 — Air.

Paris and urban history and map geekery, h/t @lanrickbennett.bsky.social

No #30DayMapChallenge for Rachel today until she gets all her work done 😞

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

It’s a map of the US made out of Kashi cereal. Turns out Kashi is about as much fun for map-making as it is for eating. Who would have guessed it. Anyway here’s Day 9 (analog) of #30DayMapChallenge

I just stumbled across it after seeing this stunner posted by @rsfrankl.bsky.social Feeling bad I don’t get on to this #30DayMapChallenge days ago. Might need to bank some tomorrow and continue on for the rest of the month🤞🏾📢 bsky.app/profile/rsfr...

Nothing like a nice long flight for catching up on #30DayMapChallenge 🤪. Here's Day 8 — urban — right on time. A map of Paris buildings by age of construction. A real beauty if I do say so myself. 😍

I'm nothing if not committed to the bit. Late to Day 7 — accessibility — of #30DayMapChallenge because job. Shout out to my preferred mode of transportation (after walking) and to my new home T station, which does NOT have the longest escalator in North American even if it totally feels like it.

Honestly a talk title I'm so proud of I might have to put it on repeat.

Great American panics

My favorite maps are the ones that take like 3 applications to finish. Kidding. Here's my Day 6 ("dimensions") of #30DayMapChallenge: a joy or ridgeline plot of kids in the US in 2020. Thanks @ipums.bsky.social (NHGIS), QGIS, R, Adobe Illustrator, and especially @helenmakesmaps.bsky.social

I almost forgot the best thing about November! But it’s not too late to enjoy the #30DayMapChallenge

Good news is Microsoft Outlook actively trying to help me not ruin my workplace further by removing all my !!!! and other lady language stuff

women, are they bitches?

Naming no names but someone and some newspaper can fuck right off

I think the important lesson is that young men are unreliable

The detail on these is gonna get destroyed by the image compression on this app but it was fun to make them, especially putting the subway lines in.

Day 5 of #30DayMapChallenge is "earth." I did places to get out and, you know, touch grass. Parks and open space in my new adopted home, Cambridge, Massachusetts. #30DayMapChallenge2025 #day5

Took me a while but I got there. Day 4 of the #30DayMapChallenge is "my data"—even if Strava makes it super fiddly to extract usable data that is mine, mine, mine. This is all my runs in and around Cambridge, Massachusetts, since moving here in March. Brighter yellow indicates higher frequency.

Took me a while but I got there. Day 4 of the #30DayMapChallenge is "my data"—even if Strava makes it super fiddly to extract usable data that is mine, mine, mine. This is all my runs in and around Cambridge, Massachusetts, since moving here in March. Brighter yellow indicates higher frequency.

Fourth fuel: spite

Thought this was a #30DayMapChallenge entry for polygons at first

Grim up North. But also very opposite-of-grim. Newcastle (decidedly northern & awesome city) has some of the most deprived areas in all England, but also many that are among the least deprived, according to 2025 IMD. Have I mentioned it's an amazing city? Day 3 (polygons) of #30DayMapChallenge

#30DayMapChallenge is like childbirth. In between I completely forget how much effort it was, get excited to do it all over again, and then am like holy shit this takes forever.

Thank god it's the weekend. Day 2 of the #30DayMapChallenge — lines! State-level flows of domestic first-year undergraduate students to Harvard in 2023. Flows are proportion of US total, with largest flows from big states (CA and TX), nearby states (MA and NJ), and big nearby states (NY).

Happy #30DayMapChallenge to all those who celebrate! Day 1 is points and mine is a love letter to all the international undergraduate students who choose the United States for their studies. Thanks for being here! #30DayMapChallenge2025 #points

Paying $586 to register for my annual disciplinary conference is forcing me to do some hard math About $40 per minute of presentation time About 43 cents per allowable abstract word 🤯

What am I doing wrong my conferences are never called “Scathing Hatred of Information Technology and the Passionate Hemorrhaging of Our Neo-liberal Experience” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/s...

Feels a little like when I would tell my kids to clean their disaster zone of a room and so they would organize the stuffed animals on their bed and declare the situation resolved

Irresponsibly posting my location on social media

‘What I'm saying is, these PhDs are not a new sign confirming the decline of civilisation. They are civilisation. This is at the core of what civilisations do.’ Delightful from @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social where she shares her excitement about humanities research www.thetimes.com/article/09da...

Fun fact. Trump destruction of soybean exports (rightfully) gets lots of attention. But you know what we sell even more of to China? Education. 2024 soybean exports to China: $13B. Higher Ed: $14B. Yes, all those internat’l students count as *exports.* Trump is STILL actively destroying that market.