The leaves are starting to fall, and there’s no better time to curl up with a book. 🍂 📚 Looking for recommendations? Check out AAG’s 2025 Fall New Books for Geographers list: buff.ly/dztAWb9 #GeoSky #GISChat #ClimateSky #NewBooks

Grown from a 6 inch long stick/cutting, the plumeria is now two feet high and blooming for the first time.

Each week on my patreon I write about #maps and #mapmaking, offering a look behind the curtain & highlighting the books my maps are in. The posts are mostly free for anyone to read without a subscription. Today, I wrote about some reproductions of historical maps! www.patreon.com/posts/draw-m...

The Koyukuk River near Huslia, Alaska. Final version for today.

Perfect cartoon.

If you're in the Boston area and you want to see some cool maps and learn about why we shouldn't always trust them, join me for my library talk "How Maps Lie" this friday! newtonfreelibrary.libcal.com/event/14866807

The lack of breeze, bright moon, and comfortable temperature makes me nostalgic for nights like this, coming up through the marine terraces and coastal prairie from the Kitchen Brothers' place, into the coastal redwood forest to spend the night tending the trails, signs, and delights of Elf Land

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

Dutch zip codes (postcode) form a unique alphanumerical system in which one only needs the 4 digits and 2 letters combined with a house number to find any unique address in the country. Get the map: www.studiolegenda.com/produ... 🔹

Well good morning Bewicks Wren. I agree you have a cute call.

Budget cuts come for us all. My contract with Amtrak is not being renewed and it's up tomorrow. I'll have more time to work on the Map Center but until it's fully off the ground, I'm a GIS analyst with 12 years of experience in ESRI, open source, education and cartography. #gigeconomy #opentowork

Final slow motion video of the snowy egret catching a fish after the fish thought it escaped. shot in 120FPS 4K. one of the few good recent tech innovations is high speed consumer/affordable pro video, can't wait to get even better ones like this in 3-4 years! 🪶

Samsung has made some spectacular and useful products. However, I believe their company would fold quickly if they were forced to use the autocorrect and word replacement on their Galaxy phones exclusively for corporate communications. #duckingoverit

Disturbed myself when I went to service the multi camera security system and found I had forgot that I had name it Sauron. Not original or unique I am sure, creeped out chuckle.

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere. Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself. Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

I may have found my defining quote. Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!

From the source this time www.tumblr.com/5-and-a-half...

The death of Aeschylus. Eagle dropped a tortoise on his dome.

This painting at the thrift store soooo needs a Kraken or emerging creature from the black lagoon painted into it

After months, I finally remembered to put this print on my store page, so that people know where to look if they want a charmingly distressing world map. somethingaboutmaps.com/Storefront And if you'll be at #NACIS2025 in Louisville, you can see it in person and deface it with dry erase markers.

In THE LIGHT BETWEEN APPLE TREES, Priyanka Kumar takes us on a dazzling and transformative journey to rediscover apples, brilliantly weaving together science and childhood memories with the apple’s storied history. Available wherever books are sold! islandpress.org/apple

And we're back. Today, a new episode of Heavyweight: Etta. omny.fm/shows/heavyw...

I do a comic about ornithological vocabulary for every issue of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's wonderful Living Bird magazine. Here's the latest one, featuring the American Bittern.

Maps can inspire discovery – or fuel division. Prof James Cheshire’s Library of Lost Maps explores both sides. Hear his talk at the @rgsibg.bsky.social Monday Night Lecture, 6 Oct. Book now: tinyurl.com/ucl-llm #UCLGeography #MapsMatter #LibraryOfLostMaps

A wonderful north arrow that is made of drafting instruments.

🐙 Octopus Garden VIII 🌊 Blue Ringed Octopus 🐙 Hand sculpted from clay 🎨 #ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #BlueSkyArtShow #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #BlueSkyNightMarket #OnlyBeautifulThings #Invertebrates 🦑🐡

The Alliance of Freelance Cartographers has a new website! Thanks to @alyolli.bsky.social for getting it off the ground. It hosts past editions of the survey, as well as other resources. www.freelancemaps.org/home

I made a schlep to Northwest Mass for a library talk because libraries are awesome, I like attention and because it's basically a paid ad for my store. Today I got 3 requests for talks from MA libraries. Guess it was good. recorder.com/2025/09/23/m...

Fat bear week is here. Big Brown Bears gettin' bigger explore.org/fat-bear-week

New in The GJ: 'Multispecies home (un)making: Dogs and lifestyle migrants in Lijiang Ancient Town, China' by Duo Yin & Quan Gao This paper explores how dogs co-construct and contest the making of home alongside lifestyle migrants in China. doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky

I heard recently that there was a place on the Woonasquatucket River to see American eels and holy moly did this spot deliver! youtu.be/lxnopqW2344

@crawlieswithcri.bsky.social Seen this story yet?

Brass and terrazzo map on floor of C concourse Portland Airport PDX, by Larry Kirkland. Couldn't get a better shot with all the happy dining travelers, but here's a taste. #mapsinthewild culturenow.org/site/6a61863...

Clever hook for this show's start @paulpearson.bsky.social Never heard the "Tapeworm of Love" before: www.mixcloud.com/paulpearsons...

One more 🆕 geography quiz about the Alps 🏔️. You have to locate a selection of famous European mountains (🇫🇷🇨🇭🇩🇪🇮🇹🇸🇮) on a map. Quiz: geographyquiz.app/quiz/europe-... #quiz #geography #alps

Topographic map of Greenland 🇬🇱

Sir!! You can’t do that!! Aaaah!!

brightness, luster, radiance, splendor, and glory www.chartography.net/p/clarity-un...

It's me coming up from the eelgrass in Tomales Bay! You can see the peninsula to Tomales Point in the distance. One of the most deep fernweh I have is this area in the 1700s. I so would have wished to paddle by Steller Sea Cows, I would have been a sea trow.

The trolls of Orkney and Shetland include sea-trows, maritime monsters whose bodies are cloaked in seaweed 🌊🧌 🎨 by Theodor Kittelsen #FolkloreThursday #folklore #trolls #trollthursday #trollseason #orkney #shetland #trows

The autumn online cohorts of Binoculars to Binomials start next week. Over 100 people have now taken this course. Designers from the NYTimes, Spiegel, Bloomberg and the Washington Post, ornithologists, physicists, composers, actors, typographers, UX researchers, librarians and retirees. 📊🪶🌿🎨

For Day 16 #sciArtSeptember prompt rift: my portrait of #geologist & oceanographic #cartographer Marie Tharp (1920-2006), whose pioneering, thorough & complete ocean floor maps with Bruce Heezen, made using realms of echo sounder data, revealed the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.⁠ 🐡⚒️🧪👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci ⁠ After studying

New in Conservation Letters: a guide to understanding power relations in conservation science. "A cross-cutting matrix enables users to trace how their own position shapes what they see, do, and make possible in conservation contexts" doi.org/10.1111/conl...

A lovely ocean tides map using the Spilhaus projection for some Wednesday mappy goodness #MapoftheWeek mapoftheweek.substack.com/p/a-world-of...

If anyone out there with GIS coding experience is interested in helping build and/or improve QGIS plugins, please let me know! #gischat

With Glitch changes back in July, did @jerthorp.bsky.social cool game TUMBLEWORD find a new home?

after describing this thing, the boss said, "I hope one day we can ride capibaras into the sunset" yes ma'am, say when

Burning and melting

I’m at a panel discussion where the rule is: when you ask a ?, you have to join the panel — that is, move your 🪑 up to the conference table at the front of the room. The hosts ultimately want EVERYone in the room sharing their expertise ON the panel. I ❤️ it when ppl mess with event hierarchies 😊

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