Snow/tumbling face first science. from Daniel LaBelle - fb.com/daniellabellecomedy/

Hey Wisconsin (et al.) Friends: Gale crater, Mars is warmer than your backyard today 😬 (SE) WI: -17°C/ ~1°F Gale crater, Mars: -4°C/ ~25°F 🧪 #WIwx #NASA

Happy world SOIL day all! Soil is life! Soil is beautiful!

Happy World Soil Day “...despite our artistic pretensions, sophistication, and many accomplishments – we owe our existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.” — Paul Harvey #worldsoilday

#30DayMapChallenge Day 25: Hexagons Hexagons have a unique visual quality that (for many) they just 'feel' better then regular grids/cells. This map looks at # of bridges in the shape and visually compare hexagons vs rectangles. Explore at: damian.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant...

On December 4, 2007, in the Usenet group “Friends of the Friendless,” someone wrote: “Happy Friendsgiving Y’all!” And that is the first recorded use of ‘Friendsgiving’ in print.

How reliable is the US weather temperature forecast? Didn't know that about Florida.

🔊🎶Hexagons of Grammichele Sicily, Italy: #PlannedSettlement 1693 after #earthquake at Occhiolà 👣5.34km/3.32mi via @_outdooractive_ @esriuk.bsky.social ArcGISOnline w #FireflyIcons by @johnelson.bsky.social ✝️RIP Ornella Vanoni d 21 Nov 2025 arcg.is/e9OLL #30DayMapChallenge Day 25: Hexagons

See you in Whamhalla. #Whamageddon2025

#30DayMapChallenge Day 21: Icons The late Ozzy Osbourne - a true icon. My mappy tribute shows his touring history with Black Sabbath and as a solo artist. A personal vignette identifies an infamous show in my home city, plus Easter Eggs! Download: links.esri.com/mappyhour

Day 15 of the #30DayMapChallenge yeah I know I'm late and also that the theme of the day was "fire" not ice. But, hey, snow and ice can burn too—and so can anger at neighbors who don't shovel their walkways. Here are contours of 311 calls in Boston for "unshoveled snow."

One of the unexpectedly cool things about rafting though the Grand Canyon was the velvet ants

A female wolf has been doing something unusual on the Central Coast of British Columbia. She's learned to pull crab traps up from the water, yanking on a rope to bring it to the surface. But is it tool use? Very fun story from @phiejacobs.bsky.social for @science.org

Next Monday at 6PM I'll be at the Ventress Memorial Library in Marshfield talking about how maps lie! Join us, it'll be fun!

#30DayMapChallenge Day 13 – a 10-minute Map #Yellowstone Caldera

“Can I refill your eggnog for you? Get you something to eat? Drive you out to the middle of nowhere and leave you for dead?”

Happy Exploding Whale Day to all those who celebrate! #ExplodingWhale www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CL...

Let’s support our map-loving makers this holiday season! I’m putting together a “Mappy Holiday Gift Guide” -- people who have online map related shops (prints, apparel, stickers, books, etc)! DM me or drop your links (or tag your fave creators!) in the 🧵 so I can include them.

#30DayMapChallenge Day 12 – Map from 2125 With the rising ocean levels and after the fast-food wars of the early 2100s, coastal communities reorganized around being island nations.

#30DayMapChallenge Day 11 – Minimal Map. Places I lived all visualized at 1:8M scale (Projected Coordinate system: US National Atlas Equal Area (WKID 2163))

#30DayMapChallenge Day 10 #AirTraffic Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) 1956 10 maps showing #SAS air traffic routes. Great #PubNotes Just scroll down past the AI summaries (which should be treated as provisional and verified against primary sources) tinyurl.com/2ppcfbuu #DavidRumseyMapCollection

This visualization of Japan’s M6.8 yesterday is phenomenal. Offshore S-net detected it and issued earthquake alert before any land station detection. Numbered circles show JMA intensity (not same as MMI). Offshore is where we need to be in Cascadia as well.

#30DayMapChallenge Accessibility Edinburgh is a wonderful city. And it is generally accessible, however as with any city, some parts are more accessible than others. This map uses data from ArcGIS Online to show the accessibility score by postal codes. Source data: lnkd.in/gyktNmzv

I would read this subterranean horror novel

#30dayMapChallenge Revisiting my thesis data after 30+ years. The intersection of Percision ag, terrain and soil modeling. Happy to see the field is still (mostly) a field.

Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.

For my Academic frieds and followers...

Pretty sure I have the scariest engineering costume of the day.

Geography is revolutionary ! See my book containing 100 discoveries, people, and approaches to understanding our world: www.amazon.com/Interpreting...

Backstage at #IMGIS

"New Far Side comics" was definitely not on my bingo card for this week. They're not bad! www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

Vince Guaraldi’s "The Great Pumpkin Waltz" is now #1 on the iTunes US song chart. A 1966 jazz classic shows Linus was right — the Great Pumpkin always delivers.

36 years ago today, the #LomaPrieta earthquake rocked Santa Cruz County and the SF Bay Area. There’s a twisted redwood grove near the epicenter at the Forest of Nisene Mark. #SanAndreasFault

Cartography Guidelines for Global Conservation Chris Bruce www.linkedin.com/in/chris-bru... Alicea Halsted www.linkedin.com/in/aliceahal... Map design at TNC is informed by the organization's style guide which harmonizes work between hundreds of cartographers and designers. #nacis2025

Happy Geologic Map Day! The @cageosurvey.bsky.social produces geologic maps at various scales & derivative maps showing important aspects of geologic hazards or resources. #EarthScienceWeek

Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI. Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

People who appreciate the intoxicating euphoria of reading from a real dictionary expertly hand-crafted by diligent human lexicographers. Also. people who love the Oxford Comma more than some family members.

“There is no such thing as a natural disaster, just natural hazards that impact vulnerable communities and infrastructure,” Bohon said. “We can't stop natural hazards, but we can [decrease our vulnerability] reducing the possibility of a disaster." www.desertsun.com/story/news/n...

New poster! Hachure illustrations of the highest Cascade Range volcanoes. This one took a lot of experimentation to get the layout right. If you or someone you know loves this area, check it out. www.etsy.com/listing/4373...

The Matai'an landslide dam in Taiwan has breached today in response to extreme rainfall from super typhoon Ragasa. There is a superlative storyboard (in Mandarin) that contains details, including images and video:- storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5864...

Since it’s the #equinox, time to re-post the best #dataviz I’ve ever done: 365 pictures of the Earth from space, taken at exactly 6:00 a.m. Details on the NASA Earth Observatory: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/52248...

Today is #HobbitDay because both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were born on September 22nd. Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves. Anyway come and boromir #Tolkien books.

Keeping it toasty coast to coast: How the US keeps the cold at bay www.maps.com/home-heating...

Oh, look at that source. If it’s from the engineers, it must be true!

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