SNAP CUTS affect communities and constituencies differently. Interactive SNAP map with 2024 USDA data: www.datawrapper.de/_/ikdNZ/ -45% of households in Puerto Rico -25+% of households in districts in New York City Detroit, Philly, and California -West Virginia and Kentucky -New Mexico and Oregon...

This is a really well done article documenting the growth of #GIS masters programs in the US: + International grad students in GIS + Gender parity in GIS + Number of GIS masters degrees + % of GIS vs. geography grads link.springer.com/article/10.1... thanks to Yanbing Chen and Jonathan Nelson.

Young people are always told what not to do. But what should you do? Did you know that most public libraries have a Nintendo Switch to use? That parks show free movies at night? That there's a map of pickup basketball games?

MIT (endowment: $27B) shuttering three of its four main libraries is one of those news items that just knocks you off balance, auguring, as it does, profound and permanent changes to the entire institutional apparatus of higher education in this country.

Screening + Panel: From Grief to Action: Justice for Cornelius Taylor, a documentary on the killing of Old Wheat Street resident Cornelius Taylor and Atlanta. Mon, June 1 @ Plaza Theater (1049 Ponce De Leon Ave NE, Atlanta) @plazaatlanta.bsky.social It's FREE but please RSVP! mobilize.us/s/klQTvp

📢 UCGIS Symposium 2026 Full Program Available! 📍 University of Maryland | June 15-18 ✅ Workshops | Plenaries | Panels | Research Talks | Posters | CAGIS Student Paper Competition | Field Trips Register: www.ucgis.org/events/confe... Full Program: ucgissymposium2026.sched.com/overview/

Free webinar! Join us on Thurs. May 7th at 12 ET to hear about the SCIMaP. We'll describe how we measure economic loss due to NSF and NIH funding cuts. Also, the map is live! Check out your state/county/district, download a 'scorecard' factsheet, and share with others! scienceimpacts.org/fy27

Please join the SCIMaP team @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @asinclair.bsky.social @malar0ne.bsky.social @cl10.bsky.social and @elenaparkerson.bsky.social to learn more about our analyses and data. We will host a webinar on May 7 @ 12:00 pm EDT. Registration link below!

Today, our #SCIMaP team released an impact analysis of the White House proposed FY 2027 NIH and NSF budgets. Bottom-line: if enacted, cuts to science and medical research would lead to $35B in economic losses and 150,000 lost jobs in communities all across the US. scienceimpacts.org 🧵

The Great Immigrants Great Americans Comic Series features first-person stories of naturalized U.S. citizens including Mo Amer, musician David Byrne, pediatrician Mona Hanna, biochemist Katalin Karikó, and illustrator and chief creative officer Jim Lee. www.carnegie.org/news/article...

If you want take a dive into Ioannidis & Bhattacharya's approach to 'Epidemiologic Research' via their flawed Santa Clara serological survey that vastly inflated the scope of prior COVID infections, Asymptomatic is now 40% off at JHU Press w/code: HLFE26. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

This is Sadie. She was finally reunited with her human, astronaut Christina Koch, after her mom’s voyage around the moon took her the furthest any human has ever been from their dog. She can't wait to hear all about the universe. 14/10 (IG: astro_christina)

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Federal data sharing helps people connect with the government. Now the CIA World Factbook is gone and it's sad. For 50 years, it helped us learn about countries--Internet usage, miles of rail, religion, imports and exports. This snip is from 1981. Below are a few resources for viewing past data.

To whoever did this at the #NoKings in Boston: Thank you.❤️ It made me tear up. And we must to be reminded of needless damage to humanity that results directly from the careless, bellicose bluster coming from the Pentagon and White House.

Job Alert: Research Associate 2 Position at MIT in the Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) and the Civic Data Design Lab (CDDL) with @datasew.bsky.social. Masters degree required; Rolling applications. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

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

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)

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