Great to see Margaret Pearce among this year's MacArthur Fellows! www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

This is so representative of where we are at today. (I am adding alt text to 375 slides with so, so many maps is why I'm asking for a technology that's existed for 30+ years to work for accessibility tools, too, but thanks AI for the tip about using my eyes to spell check my own typing. So retro!)

My book, The New American Small Town: Lessons for Sustainable Futures, is out there in the wild! (At my city library, but still)

A recent photo of a starling murmuration as if smoke from a chimney has been called a "fluke" by its Yorkshire based, UK photographer, Anna Tosney #WomensArt

As a former student newspaper reporter, this doesnt sit right. thelandcle.org/stories/idea...

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Public library & mammobus were stops today in #weekwithoutdriving

So proud of my colleague David Padgett for his work with GIS mapping & analysis to support environmental justice, HBCUs, and in training educators in NASA's GLOBE program. amerisurv.com/2025/09/15/t... #BlackSky #GISchat 🌎 🌍 🌏

Every week is #NationalWeekWithoutDriving, but no, not really. Being honest: This week I need a car for: watching Labyrinth on the lawn of the city art museum, going to see my friends' kid's marching band, and bringing cats to the vet. Public transit doesn't do it -- (hybrid) car it is then.

Healing and repair are the work we have in front of us. There will be plenty to do for generations, and we can do it with joy and a sense of purpose.

This was one of the best festivals I've ever been to. Like part family-friendly rave, part MassMOCA but everything is touchable. In a 300,000 square feet, four story, 6 acre old industrial complex.

A huge space in the even-huger old manufacturing building in Cleveland was dedicated to a Map of Care and associated exhibits at the Ingenuity Fest.

Ran across this map of factories in an Ohio small town (no date) that takes such aesthetic joy in pollution. hub.catalogit.app/search/trumb...

This road design will never be safe. *no skipping allowed, kid!*

I've had some luck with fixing Google Maps, but this time rather than removing the park label from this...asphalt mixing plant... they doubled down and just added my screenshot of their aerial view. Still. Not. A. Park. (It was never a park).

How many places can you see a Vrbo ad (without some unique landmark in the background) and immediately know where it is? This is a Eureka Springs appreciation post.

Nobody: … Sweden: What if anti-homeless architecture was like, super cute?

Got to attend my first naturalization ceremony & it’s mostly paperwork but there was also a bit of joy in the air even with … everything. ❤️🇺🇸

After two years of obsessing over every word and photograph, the first physical copies of “Women Changing Cities” landed on our doorstep today. We couldn’t be prouder of these eleven stories of transformational leadership, and sincerely hope they find the global audience and attention they deserve.

While I understand the BBC’s imperative to provide balance in stories, at times it can feel completely ludicrous. Data vs one person’s entirely anecdotal opinion isn’t balance.

Hey Geographers-- my alma mater SUNY Geneseo is hiring and they are some of the most lovely folks I've met in academia. Specialty is "disaster science, water resources, energy, consumerism and waste, or environmental planning." www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

Our college town library knows its clientele.

I was going to share a precinct-level map of Missouri's 2024 election results to illustrate its differences from the new gerrymandered map, but....they still have not released the data. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Not a well known story, but an important part of our (geography, academia) history to remember and reflect on.

Two of my favorite people! Together again! ❤️ Talking about urban streams. Love it.

Cars get metal plates to drive over, pedestrians get forced into the road.

Randomly* looking at Sebring, FL and check out that traffic calming on their traffic circle! This is how you do it, Tallmadge. *certainly unrelated to realizing there's a new season of HGTV's Home Town Takeover.

Shared Responsibility. @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

Infuriating! Utility company says not its job to monitor streetlights, which cities pay for whether they're on or not. Meanwhile, councilman finds 410 of 2632 lights are out in his ward alone. www.ideastream.org/community/20...

I start every course I teach on street design with a lecture on how streets have been used throughout history. Transportation has never been the only important use of streets.

PSA for my GIS friends. I just updated the GIS files for our local League of Women Voter's Voter411. It's one of those things that's easy for us mappy folks, but harder for those not used to working with GIS. So, looking for a way to help keep voters informed? Email your local LWV and offer help!

Birthday party in the backyard yesterday and can't help but remember when it was a parking lot & planned for student housing that was stopped by the city.

My kid made a map of their birthday party, as you do. Also making a party playlist that includes American Pie, Galileo, & 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover. My job here is done.

Also, as a geographer who sometimes works in digital humanities trust me when I say that "find the towns in this book" is not a useful prompt for a computer. I wish it was!

My favorite quote is: “Using data to objectively measure societal events “is the new paradigm”🫠

In response to my rant yesterday, I was asked how we can make better parks and other public places for teenage girls? What do they want? I have answers to this, so now a positive 🧵. Starting in Sweden, where this was co-designed by teenage girls.

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

Children are ***82%*** more likely to be killed when hit by an SUV than by a regular passenger car. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What does a National Park Service Ranger-led tour in a city entail? Geography, of course. The Cuyahoga Valley National Park would not exist without the city (it was created during the Parks for People era) & the city would not exist without the resources from the land that is now the park.

Great to see some cross-county, city-to-city bus service in my home region. Great job, CDTA! More of this, everywhere, please. cbs6albany.com/news/local/c...

A lot related to The New American Small Town here in Garrettsville. Stopped here for the LGBTQ friendly bookstore & coffee from the old mill. Saw they’re redeveloping the block list to fire as a community park & reminder that the Amish help keep the population stable in the area.

I love this mural. I'm on our city's public art committee and am thinking a lot lately about how murals come about and to what extent they are organic vs. regulated in different cities....

The Big Map is up in the Kent Free Library! This is a project highlighting the history of our South End, a neighborhood of immigrants, Black southern migrants, and railroad workers. communitygeography.kent.edu/index.php/20...

Also true for small towns (conflation of/with rural and white)

Also I got to give a talk about my small town book at this brewery along the Cuyahoga River and the train tracks and surrounded by friends and so many community members I've met over the last 13 years and it was a amazing even if right now I am so tired.

Gave a community book talk tonight and I am reminded that people don't realize the university pays us to write books. Like, we don't write them to get rich or even make money. I wrote a book 1. to share info more broadly 2. as part of my job. One of many reasons higher ed matters.

Academia has been described as 'the only profession where people are paid to think slowly'... It is such a tremendous 🎁. It is even moreso [bc] jobs like mine have become vanishingly rare. My peers + I didn’t exactly pull up the ladder behind us... It’s more like we ran across a crumbling bridge"

Coolest legend I’ve ever made. Cork foam core board was a pretty great medium for this project. You can etch it on the laser cutter!

I'm sitting here thinking, "these cats have a better transit system than I do in Boston" 😭

I thought this was a commentary on the commoditization of nature or something but nope. It’s “form meets function” they say. bit.ly/4fACAwy