🎧New #GLaDpodcast 🎧 Everything you ever wanted to know about mobile phone data in social science and never dared to ask, all in an entertaining™️ conversation btw @levijohnwolf.bsky.social, @rsfrankl.bsky.social, yours truly and the one and only @wenfeixu.bsky.social. www.podbean.com/ew/pb-ufnqe-...

The Grand Rounds trails are one of the best parts of the Minneapolis parks system. There is also room for significant improvement, and that’ll cost real money and political energy. So you gotta start somewhere. I would nominate the Lake Harriet and Minnehaha Creek (Lynnhurst to Portland) as priority

Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

Here at your friendly "Geography, Life, and Data" podcast, we do a lot of Geography, a lot of Life, and a lot of Geography Life. This one's for the Data—mobile phone data, that is. ☎️ @darribas.bsky.social @levijohnwolf.bsky.social @wenfeixu.bsky.social #geography open.spotify.com/episode/7Hmx...

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

Our awesome EdTech team at TRU has produced a really good guide for instructors on GenAI in university education: "This guide provides practical strategies and best practices for integrating or avoiding generative artificial intelligence tools in your teaching practice." aieducation.trubox.ca

Fantastic keynote session from Dr Michelle LaRue, University of Canterbury discussing #remotesensing imagery for monitoring the Antarctic emperor #penguin population. #giscience2025

The study is the first to look at the health hazards arising from pollution generated across all stages of the oil and gas lifecycle, from exploration and extraction; storage and transmission; oil refining and gas processing, to end-use activities, including storage, transportation and consumption.

Read the whole thread, looks like a fully AI generated paper. @nadiah.bsky.social perhaps you should report this to the journal or to retractionwatch.com ?

🚨 We’ve just updated @carbonbrief.org's factcheck of Trump’s ‘critical’ climate report. 🚨 Huge thanks to all the dozens of climate scientists who have helped us pull together this rebuttal — including the authors of our brand new additions. interactive.carbonbrief.org/doe-factchec...

And one more: www.cosit2026.uk

The Spatial Data Science Symposium #SDSS2025 is back. Check out the Call for Sessions and Call for Papers: sdss2025.spatial-data-science.net

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

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

Ya girl got a ribbon on her first crop art entry 😭😭😭😭

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

AI is now definitely changing how we live our (geography) lives! Join @rsfrankl.bsky.social, @darribas.bsky.social, and me for another episode of GLaD, where we discuss whether you should be vibe coding w/ Claude, sending ChatGPT review requests, or running on AI-made routes! shorturl.at/GLNKd

Join us tomorrow (8/15) at 12pm EDT for the last webinar in CURA's summer webinar series on Public Data for the Public Good. We'll hear from Joy Bonaguro who will share the many lessons she as learned as the Chief Data Officer for California and a civic tech consultant cura.osu.edu/events/lesso...

The newest executive order makes major changes to federal grantmaking, including additional review by presidential appointees and prioritizing applications with lower indirect cost rates. To the extent that federal funding remains, this is a big deal.

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.

🚨We are delighted to announce our opening plenary for RSA Regional Futures Conference, 13-14 November 🚨 📣Andres Rodriguez-Pose & Rachel Franklin 🪑Luisa Corrado 🔶Spatial Economic Analysis Lecture We have extended the abstract deadline: ⌛18 August ℹ️and submit: bit.ly/4lgfLj3 Join us in London 🌟

The newest NHIS data are now available through IPUMS!

The Zed editor @zeddotdev is a masterclass in space usage for an IDE When I’m developing apps & software I need a clean, uncluttered UI and Zed is the best I’ve found It’s why I’ve struggled to use VSCode and its derivatives (Cursor, Positron) for dev work; too much going on

Check out this blog post describing our hands-on IAPHS workshop from fall 2024 featuring the NHIS LMF data harmonized by IPUMS. @ipums.bsky.social

I wrote up the essence of my recent talks in China about why social researchers and policy makers should pay more attention to satellites. Tl;dr: it's never been a better time to use something we've never needed more. Longer form (6mins according to Firefox!): me.darribas.org/2025/05/29/t...

The latest post on the IPUMS DHS Spatial Analysis & Health Research Hub introduces NASA’s VIIRS instrument, which is set to succeed MODIS as a tool for remotely sensed environmental data. Take a look to learn how to incorporate VIIRS data into your research! tech.popdata.org/dhs-research...

New episode of the #GLaD podcast just dropped, Time (mis)management. Everything you always wanting to know (or not) about why we (@rsfrankl.bsky.social, @levijohnwolf.bsky.social and yours truly) are always late, and maybe that’s OK… gladpodcast.podbean.com/e/episode-21...

Happening today at 4:10pm for all those in Detroit for #AAG2025. ⬇️⬇️ See you there!

Proud to be part of the IPUMS team, creating the largest and most intensively used database covering the human population. Over 80,000 active users from 138 countries and a user community exceeding 300,000. 😍https://www.ipums.org/by-the-numbers

MSP Peeps, get yourself to the airport early!!!

Huzzah! New NHGIS data. 🎉 American Community Survey (ACS) 2023 1-Year Summary File and the 2019-2023 5-Year Summary File! Hundreds of new tables across geographies. We also extended time series tables to include 2019-2023 ACS 5-year data and added new 2023 GIS boundary files. More at www.nhgis.org

Great opportunity to join the National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) team as a data analyst working on U.S. census data and geographic information systems. Find this and other jobs at the Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation! isrdi.umn.edu/employment

Ooof. Millions of ostensibly archived articles are not really archived... anywhere. Not to mention all the underlying data. 😬 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In 2006 I plotted the number of Nature journals vs time and it sure looked like a Moore’s law: “the number of nature journals doubles every five years”. It’s slowed down to every 7.5 years, but we are still on track to get every scientist their own personal journal 🧪 #scipub

The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on? direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... A 🧵 1/n #AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Ep 45: Billionaires, Influencers, and Ed Tech, in which DAIR researcher Adrienne Williams joins me & @alexhanna.bsky.social for look into what the shiny “AI” ed tech actually looks like in the classrooms subjected to it. Thx to @whatulysses.bsky.social for production!

I’m seeing lots of wallpaper discourse, so I’ll re-share this:

In the past day I’ve heard two people who really should know better say they asked ChatGPT for factual info. ChatGPT is not a search engine. It is predictive text based on other people’s stolen writing; its whole job is to make stuff up. Please do not ask it for facts. Tell a friend.

“People of the global south came to these talks needing a lifeboat out of the climate crisis. But all they got was a plank of wood to cling to.” Nations of the developing world feel betrayed by the low level of financing agreed at COP29. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New post on our data and society and GIS blog — spatialreserves.wordpress.com/2024/11/25/g...

Who doesn’t love a little population talk first thing in the morning? It’s me, included on NPR’s Morning Edition today! my favorite topic 🤝🏼 my favorite radio station www.npr.org/2024/01/01/1...

"...the essential truth of A.I. is clear: The largest corporations on earth ripped off generations of artists without permission or compensation to produce programs meant to rip us off even more." newrepublic.com/article/1771...

CFP, workshop: The Data Politics of Housing and Planning. Includes travel bursaries. Sept 2nd-3rd, Maynooth University. Closing date for applications 2nd Feb. Details at: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=247 #data #housing #planning #datastories

🎙️ Only 2 more sleeps to the event of the season: the #GLaDpodcast Holiday Special! ☃️✨🎅 This year @levijohnwolf.bsky.social, Dani Arribas-Bel & I are joined by VERY special guests Elizabeth Delmelle, Özge Öner & Jon Reades (@jreades.bsky.social) for ...🥁🥁... A Vibe Check on Cities 🧨☄️🔥 (#geosky)

New, from me: three tales about the weirdo hypocrites behind the book bans. Case 1: a woman said that the image of a kiss in a kids book triggered a porn addiction and called for the publisher to be banned. Did not mention she works for a rival publisher. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-weirdo...

Of Florida's 12 state universities, six are run by non-academics. Across the country, academics are being replaced by CEO-types, former elected officials, or retired football coaches. The thing being promoted here is already happening.

@rsfrankl.bsky.social giving a great talk on disruption in geographic information science 🥳🥳🥳

Did the AI suggest Larry Summers

🥳 It's that time of year! Call for Nominations for the 2024 Spatial Analysis & Modelling + Geographical Analysis plenary lecture at the @geographers.bsky.social 2024 annual meeting. #AAG2024 #geosky Due Nov 30th to Daoqin Tong + Me. 😀 Past speakers can be found here: sam-aag.org/plenary.html