For those at UVA this Friday, I will be giving a noon Biology seminar on Confronting Covid's Wake: Quantitative Approaches to Confront (Re)emerging Pathogens, spanning models of asymptomatic spread to assessing remerging risks amidst a national measles outbreak. bio.as.virginia.edu/upcoming-sem...

A special-education teacher was killed on Monday when a man fleeing immigration agents in Savannah, Georgia, crashed a car into the teacher’s vehicle, according to the local police. nyti.ms/4rMI64a

"Greater reductions in depression were seen when exercise was offered in group and supervised settings, while exercise of shorter duration and at lower intensity was most associated with reductions in anxiety."

Georgia Tech walked out of class in protest of ICE today at 1:30 PM along with colleges across the #Atlanta area. Hundreds of grads, undergrads, and other GT people came. There were talks from PSL, YDSA, and UCW union members and some individual speakers.

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

So far this month we have sent: $2,250 in direct cash aid to unhoused & recently housed neighbors $500 in apartment fees to help people move into housing $900 in eviction prevention Thank you for supporting & sustaining our work to help our neighbors in DC 🖤🏴🖤

A panel of federal appeals court judges ruled that the Cop City petition will not move forward. The majority opinion overturned a lower court ruling in favor of the plaintiffs. The written opinion states that petitions cannot be used to challenge a city ordinance in the State of Georgia.

New Year’s Eve on Linked In: 2025 was a GREAT year! Look at all I did! New Year’s Eve on Bluesky: 2025 was:

The westside is so cozy. #atl

Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time. Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +

Fantastic article on Georeferencing historical maps using automated processes, including local feature matching and Delaunay consistency from Beatrice Vaienti, Isabella di Lenardo and Frédéric Kaplan doi.org/10.1080/1523... #GISchat #OpenAccess

Join us for a #GISDay 🗺️ celebration on November 12th at @cmu.edu! 📍 The event is a day-long symposium with talks, a roundtable, map gallery, open house, and more. Guests will learn more about Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and its benefits. Register today: cmu.libcal.com/event/14971789

❤️ that the paper references Dollar Street from @gapminder.bsky.social - which brilliantly illustrates what $21.5 per day looks like www.gapminder.org/dollar-street

People in KY seem to like their Dem Governor and he's not throwing everyone under the bus. Why aren't the very serious people flocking to him to ask what his secret is?

I visited Grand Street Senior Housing on the Lower East Side today and tried a little Bomba y Plena…

And we are off!

DC PUNK ROCK FLEA MARKET! We’ll be peddling our wares with 50% of sales going to Remora House! •Block print t-shirts, patches, totes, & prints •Stickers & zines •Hand-embroidered hats & hoops 🗓️ Nov. 22nd 12-5pm 📍St Stephen’s Church 🥫Bring canned food donations for We Are Family!

Joint with co-founder, @asinclair.bsky.social, we are grateful for the talents of @malar0ne.bsky.social, @dcosme.bsky.social, @cl10.bsky.social, @ellenpeters.bsky.social, @angiefagerlin.bsky.social @falklab.bsky.social, Colin Cooke + more contributors working behind the scenes.

SNAP RECPIENTS BY CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: #1 URBAN AREAS (NYC, etc.) #2 RURAL AREAS: WEST VIRGINIA NEW MEXICO SOUTH TEXAS OKLAHOMA OREGON HIGH BLACK/AA POPULATION AREAS IN THE SOUTH Interactive: www.datawrapper.de/_/WiIz4/

Research about the Stop Cop City movement and activists in Atlanta through the lens of maps was shared here at the computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW '25) in Bergen, Norway this week. #cscw2025 Blog Post: medium.com/acm-cscw/the... Slides: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/fycqq...

Want to learn how to visualise and analyze spatial data in the social sciences and build your #GIS skills? Last chance to sign up for my Intro QGIS course starting tomorrow with InStats instats.org/seminar/intr... Or check out my Advanced QGIS course starting next week: instats.org/seminar/adva...

New article! A fantastic new tool Exploropleth: exploratory analysis of data binning methods in choropleth maps, from @arpitnarechania.bsky.social Alex Endert & Clio Andris doi.org/10.1080/1523... #GISchat website exploropleth.github.io video of the tool in action: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNV8...

Hi data people, check out Exploropleth! exploropleth.github.io/exploropleth/. It's free, open source software that shows how binning methods affect maps. There's also a teaching worksheet and a journal article in CaGIS: exploropleth.github.io @arpitnarechania.bsky.social & @alexendert.bsky.social

PhD student and postdoc positions are available in the field of Geoinformatics/GIScience/Spatial Data Science at the University of Vienna with Dr. Krzysztof Janowicz. Apply soon and please share! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi... jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

The round-the clock work of officials inside NIH helped put the agency on track to get all of its grant money out to labs across the country, the majority of its nearly $48 billion budget. It was a feat that earlier this year seemed nearly impossible.

I am part of the world's population where if you send me a flipflop emoji, I will respond with "ouch, wtf!" 🩴

Ahmaud was shot by racists on February 23, 2020 while exercising near his neighborhood near Brunswick, GA. If you're in Atlanta this Saturday, August 23rd, come run/walk or support his memory by hanging out and cheering people on. runsignup.com/Race/GA/Atla...

📣 New preprint from the SCIMaP team! Across three studies, we show that communicating the economic impact of NIH funding cuts—especially with interactive quizzes and maps—decreases approval and motivates action to oppose the cuts, across the political spectrum. 🧵 1/8 osf.io/preprints/ps...

#SCIMaP estimates current & future economic losses in local communities across the US (counties & Congressional Districts). We explain our approach in a new preprint: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... (w @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @asinclair.bsky.social @cl10.bsky.social)

You don't have to be Lebanese but it helps

Not my problem I’m in dekalb

ew.com/2025-emmys-n... This was a pretty incredible tv moment...Nathan Fielder, The Rehearsal (for episode "Pilot's Code").

Features of the 119th Congressional Districts: How many households participate in SNAP? www.datawrapper.de/_/WiIz4/ How many households have a member with a disability? www.datawrapper.de/_/QMLU1/ Which type of representation does each district have? www.datawrapper.de/_/bPQUZ/

Three favorites from the Gebe exhibit at the library in Paris today. 🩶

The White House's proposed FY26 budget would cut NIH funding by >40%. Our new #SCIMaP report projects the budget would lead to economic losses throughout the US with $10M+ lost in almost every House district. scienceimpacts.org/fy26 @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @asinclair.bsky.social @cl10.bsky.social

A runaway pet zebra that had evaded capture for nearly a week in Tennessee was found and returned to its owner, local officials said on Sunday.

This is a hell of a thing to read.

SCIMaP team: @cl10.bsky.social , @dcosme.bsky.social, @ellenpeters.bsky.social, @angiefagerlin.bsky.social and @falklab.bsky.social. PDF version: rdcu.be/eo3Hp Website (including IDC + terminated grant impacts) scienceimpacts.org

Joint w/@asinclair.bsky.social and the #SCIMaP team: brief correspondence in @nathumbehav.nature.com on the impact of NIH indirect cost cuts on the economy and employment, impacts that will only worsen given similar proposals for NSF/DOE + overall science proposal. rdcu.be/eo3Hp

For at least half a century, the National Weather Service has been an around-the-clock operation. That is no longer possible in parts of the country.

Earthquake this morning in the Southeast! If you felt it, share here: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Step 1 @jtsphd.bsky.social Step 2 www.11alive.com/article/news...

www.cnbc.com/2025/04/22/f... i guess im clinging to good news.