Across America, strangers will high-five each other, group chats will erupt, dogs will wag at nothing. In DC, bartenders will ring bells. In Paris, a cigarette is lit. In Canada, someone will apologize for cheering. Democracy will exhale, kick off its shoes, and sit down.

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I’m always looking for portals too, Emma. Good luck.

The Pope Will Inaugurate Antoni Gaudí’s Sagrada Família After 144 Years of Construction https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/pope-leo-xiv-inaugurate-antoni-gaudi-sagrada-familia-1234788362/

Trying something new: feeding old print gazetteers through modern OCR + open LLMs + our newly-expanded index to see how much can be turned into searchable, mappable data. Read more at blog.whgazetteer.org?p=434 Play with it: worldhistoricalgazetteer.github.io/gazetteer-of...

First day trip on this 2 month Santa Fe stay: Rio Grande near Pilar and Taos Pueblo. A day off from #EDOPS environmental sig work, fieldwork you might say. Three hours later the skies exploded in massive thunder/hail storm. For an hour.

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

I see why SF writers are pissed. They promised a future where we'd get mugged in Night City for the implants in our skulls, and what we got was just polite laptops that help us brainstorm.

🕵️We're transcribing and geocoding all 7 volumes of "A Gazetteer of the World" (1856), a monumental work edited anonymously by "a Member of the Royal Geographical Society" @rgs.org - can anyone suggest who that might have been, and why they might not have been named? archive.org/details/agaz...

Returned to Santa Fe, settling in for 10 weeks to work on my Environmental Dimensions of Place service (#EDOPS) and do some wandering in clear light.

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Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

Registration is open for a three-part, free, "Getting Started" online workshop series to orient and train new people interested in using and contributing to the #pleiadesgazetteer of ancient places: https://pleiades.stoa.org/events . The series will run from 4-6pm US Eastern time on Tuesday […]

I suggest we give Robert E Lee a posthumous gold participation trophy and let the South secede after all. Subsidize the migrations that follow. Only fair.

✉️ Explore 145,000 medieval merchant letters as a live map: the correspondence network of Francesco di Marco Datini (c.1363–1412), spanning Florence to Barcelona to North Africa. Visualise routes, travel times & seasonality. docuracy.github.io/datini/ #DigitalHumanities #MedievalHistory

Happy m'aidez to all who celebrate.

Digital map markers were lifted from a 1935 Klee painting. Now you know.

The best thing I ever did for my dissertation was walk around the Isle of May and Dunbar and Abercorn early on. While so much has changed, so many other aspects of the landscape become very clear very quickly

Journalists who are still attending the WHCD this year don't seem to get just how much things have changed. It isn't 1998. You're not going to pose for cute photos with the West Wing stars at "nerd prom." You're enabling a regime who's assaulting your own profession & you're torching your career.

New Pompeii Artistic Landscape Project (PALP) website is live. Try "Mythological Figure": palp.art/browse/#myth... . There's work to do. Exploring what the interface can and should be is absolutely part of the ongoing project...

And the great barge sank and the okies fled And the great emancipater took a bullet in the head In the head Took a bullet in the back of the head It was not December and it was not in May Was 14th of April, that is ruination day That's the day The day that is ruination day — Gillian Welch

Goodnight from The Girl In The Well pub, where Henry Fry’s claims that his stuffed weasel is possessed are being met with strong scepticism. Goodnight from Rebecca Wood, dreaming again of a shop that sells nothing but dolls’ eyes and four-faced angel charms. Goodnight from Hookland.

Heading to Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay by ferry from Buenos Aires tomorrow. Just an overnight stay, but NOT due to some manic need to add to country and World Heritage List totals. The weather will be nice and this is #GeographyResearch. It'll be 53 and 161.

12½ years ago, I made a map of all the buildings in the Netherlands. Unexpectedly, people loved it! Ever since, I have been wanting to make an updated version of the map. Newer data, higher resolution, more interactive! I never got around to it, until last week: bertspaan.nl/buildings

Coming up today, 10:00 EDT, 15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST. Register for zoom link: pitt.zoom.us/meeting/regi.... Explainer blog post with some detail: kgeographer.org/research

🤔 Curious..."may have" is fine in prose, but "less_certain" in a data model is not for many. I guess both is the answer, eh? 😉

cc @whgazetteer.org @rmostern.bsky.social

Made a good start on Computing Place, my capstone project looking into culture <> environment relations globally. First step: Environmental Dimensions of Place (EDOP) signatures for any given location. Tools linking them to cultural data will follow. Explainer: kgeographer.org/computing-pl... 1/x

I mean, who SAYS sh*t like this?

QS has once again ranked Pitt among the top 5 universities in the world for studying philosophy. #philsci https://www.topuniversities.com/university-subject-rankings/philosophy

Folks, the #PleiadesGazetteer has been nominated for the annual DH awards in the "dataset or model" category. There are, as always, many fantastic and important projects. If you use or have otherwise benefited from Pleiades, I hope you will consider voting for it: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Once there was a glacier #findelmundo

I've undertaken 2 significant projects using AI in the last year and a half. First lasted a year and stopped when I discovered/realized LLMs were utterly inappropriate for the task. Painful knowledge gained. Second is ongoing, w/no interpretive ask and far more likely to proceed well and succeed.

Landscape Features xkcd.com/3221/

We're very happy to announce that the Argentinian Drama Corpus (ArDraCor) 🇦🇷 was put on the #DraCor production server today: dracor.org/ar Work on ArDraCor will continue, led by @gimenadelr.bsky.social (hdlab.space, CONICET) & Ulrike Henny-Krahmer (RosDH, University of Rostock). #DigitalHumanities

Small update to #Annotorious, my #JavaScript image annotation library: You can now rotate rectangle shapes! #OpenSeadragon #IIIF #ImageAnnotation #TypeScript #React

That's it. I've had it.

Just this year established I’m half-Irish (Belfast & Cork). So Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona duit y’all. Other half is Galician Jewish, all coming together over corned beef I guess

When I visited this fine exhibit at Grand Teton last year I told a ranger it likely wouldn’t survive Trump, and he allowed that ‘maybe not’

Leaving in a few days for a seven week stay in Argentina. First time in South America, the missing continent for me. So I rented The Motorcycle Diaries tonight and the inveterate motorcycle road tripper in me is jealous. Eduardo Galeano is on Kindle for the flight, much to learn.

from @jasonheppler.org "Generative AI is really bad at doing history. But it can enable me to do good history." jasonheppler.org/2026/03/09/v... 💯 Have lots to say, but too busy implementing complex project-specific geo-statistical methodology w/Claude. Key: I drive the bus, b/c I can.

DOGE, ChatGPT, and the NEH...gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

The thrill Trump gets from having people blow up & kill other people, and from watching other people fight at UFC, comes from deep insecurity rooted in his personal cowardice. It makes him feel tough. It makes him feel adequate. Things he has never been but always wanted to be.

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