Honored to present this morning at the Associate for the Study of African-American Life and History conf w/ community partners. Talking about the ongoing work telling the story of the Reese Street Neighborhood in Athens, home to several historic Black schools and key figures from the city's history.

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...

Spending the day at #positconf. Really enjoying the final talk @kjhealy.co about the inextricably social process of data visualization and the nature of trust in the work of data science.

New special issue in Geographical Review on pushing community geographies forward. www.tandfonline.com/toc/utgr20/1...

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

In 2019, 70% of Republicans said science has had a mostly positive effect on society. A few years later, fewer than half of Republicans (47%) said so. www.pewresearch.org/science/2023... 🧪🌐

Bunch of white guys telling us their extremely selective read of the Bible should be the foundation of American politics.

On The Climate Brink, I write about the DOE report and our response.

This is a US Senator, y'all.

Kudos to @docaharper.bsky.social and others who collaborated quickly to write this response to the "science" pedaled by the DOE.

Planning to slot this new piece by UGA alum Dani Aiello and others on movement scholarship into my engaged research seminar this semester. acme-journal.org/index.php/ac...

My students, who attend a working-class rust-belt college, openly talk abt how much they hate AI & are afraid of its consequences. I wonder how much of the oft-reported student enthusiasm for the tech is the merely result of the NYT’s Ivy League bias

As we inch toward whatever amped up federal police presence the current administration has planned for our cities, I'm reposting this article that @sarahksshannon and I wrote in 2021 about our time living in North Minneapolis. Amped up policing doesn't equal public safety. streets.mn/2021/09/01/t...

Legit. Trust me. Follow

New article about how to use Critical GIS and Community Geography in the classroom to develop students' reflexivity and enhance holistic learning. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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

Jerry added great material throughout the book, joining work from other contributing authors. Shout out to Dudley Bonsal, @alyolli.bsky.social‬, Eric DeLuca, Rachael Huerta Carpenter, Jennifer Immich, Melinda Kernik, Steven Manson, Laura Matson, Sara Holiday Nelson, and Julie Santella.

Interesting read on how well-intentioned maps can create a political stir, and the vital need to include meaningful participation throughout the process. www.propublica.org/article/oreg...

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

Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.

This past spring the Community Mapping Lab at University of Georgia used OldInsuranceMaps to host a mapathon, where a large group got together and georeferenced Sanborn maps together. Looks like fun! See their work here: oldinsurancemaps.net/map/sanborn0... #crowdsourcing #sanborn #historicalmaps

Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached. They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others. Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further. #UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.

iNaturalist Animals and Plants xkcd.com/3118/

New research from @universityofga.bsky.social researchers showing how early childhood trauma affects health later in life. Effects are particularly acute for Black men and women. news.uga.edu/childhood-tr...

do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists

Sharing this article on queer climate activism in the South, including thoughts by our newly minted Master's degree holder Vanessa Raditz. insideclimatenews.org/news/2007202...

NOAA’s Atlas 15 Volume 2, a nearly finished, life-saving tool to predict how rainfall patterns will shift with climate change, has been suspended. Atlas 15 Volume 2 wasn’t just data - it was hope for a more climate-ready future for the American people. zurl.co/MDbeA

Teaching a graduate student seminar on engaged scholarship in the fall and so scouting out or readings. A lot of new books on the shelf!

The ‘Gold Standard’ That Hides Science gogeomatics.ca/the-gold-sta...

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

Wow--just checked on CDC's social vulnerability index for the first time this year, and this disclaimer. It's...something. "immutable biological reality"?

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

9/10 grocery store workers report price gouging at their stores while 4/5 workers are unable to pay basic living costs: an important new report on Krogers & Albertsons h/t Errol Schweizer economicrt.org/publication/...

I've been reflecting on this Nature article last week about the scale of cancelled grants at NSF. $750 million and over 1,000 individual grantees. Massively disruptive, especially for grad students and post-docs who made plans around this guaranteed funding. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 1/

Honored to be a part of a discussion this evening with Hattie Thomas Whitehead, Mayor Kelly Girtz and others to talk about Linnentown and the new PBS documentary.

Trump's crypto offers a handy option for a) foreign nationals who cannot give campaign donations to Trump, b) and unlike financial donations, directly lines Trump family pockets www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/b...

New Linnentown documentary aired on PBS last night and is now up on YouTube. It's about urban renewal and the forcible displacement of a Black community near the UGA campus to build student housing and a large parking deck. Proud to have been part of it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTNC...

I'm no lawyer but I don't think presidents can withdraw the signatures of their predecessors on major pieces of legislation.

The storms last week that brought tornadoes and monster floods to a swath of central US were not caused directly by climate change — but a warmer planet sets the conditions for storms like these to be both more frequent and more destructive. By @mrmattsimon.bsky.social for gristnews.bsky.social

NEW: Two-thirds of NYC voters support creating municipal grocery stores to bring down prices. "The concept is imminently feasible. In fact, publicly owned grocery stores are quite common and already exist at scale—in the US military."

Always love coming back to ArcGIS.

Had a great time today hosting our department's first ever AP Human Geography Day. Shout out to our faculty and students who helped introduce these high schoolers to what we do here at UGA Geography.

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

DOGE preferentially cancelled grants and contracts to recipients in counties that voted for Harris. No matter where you stand on the political spectrum, this is a wild finding. Source: buff.ly/2vBLXx2

UPDATE: Here's where we're at w/ NIH grant terminations: ❌ 429 NIH grants terminated* ❌ 137 related to HIV/AIDS prevention ❌ 27 on cancer ❌ 16 on Alzheimer's The full Airtable, thanks to wizardry of @noamross.net👇 *This is just what we know. There are certainly more we don't know about yet.

Fewer vaccines, more cancer. www.propublica.org/article/tce-...

From Greenland to Fort Bragg, America is caught in a name game where place names become political tools. I am honored to write with @sethographer.bsky.social @jpbrasher.bsky.social to amplify critical name research @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social theconversation.com/from-greenla...

If you are hosting a session at #AAG2025 that is solely for participants in Detroit please consider making it hybrid. The meetings team is still willing to make that change now. Sessions that are exclusively in person are only accessible to some conference participants and exclusionary for others.