Join us this Thursday, March 13th for one final GEOS colloquium before Spring Break! 🏖️ We'll be joined by Dr. Rachel Arney, who is serving as a visiting lecturer in our department this semester! Hope to see everyone there at 4pm!

We are spending tax dollars to destroy functional infrastructure. No potholes, no repairs, just destruction. nytimes.com/2025/03/10/us/…

CFP! 2nd Workshop on Generative AI for Mobility Data (GenAI4MoDA) 📅 June 2nd, 2025 | 📍 Irvine, California Co-located with IEEE MDM 2025 mdm2025.github.io 🌐 Website: sites.google.com/imtlucca.it/ge… 📢 Submit by: March 27 (AoE) 📢 Author Notification: April 10 (AoE)

Martin Luther King Jr. High School is now home to DeKalb County School District’s first free grocery store that will provide students and families facing food insecurity with groceries throughout the school year.

Passenger rail between Atlanta and Savannah? Yes please! Give GDOT your feedback on this idea here (scroll down to get to survey): atlsavpassrail-gdot.hub.arcgis.com

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Calling all #UNMappers! 📣 Let’s help #OpenStreetMap community in Myanmar’s (myOSM) mapping initiative to provide essential mapping data (building footprints) to local responders responding to #MyanmarEarthquake2025 🇲🇲 Map now📍👉🏼tasks.hotosm.org/explore?campai… #myOSM #UNMaps

Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You. The NIH is canceling grants that are seen as conflicting w/the Trump administration’s priorities. ProPublica wants to hear from researchers who have been affected. propublica.org/getinvolved/na… #MedTwitter

Today, Georgia Tech is dispersing a third official mascot for the Institue — the Fightin' Pollen. This new identity will blanket campus, Atlanta, and the entire state of Georgia. 🤧 #SneezeEm #TogetherWeSniffle #WeAreAllFightinPollen | c.gatech.edu/4jcY5UQ Meet Paul Lenny —

🚨 Call for Workshop Proposals! 🚨 📍 ACM SIGSPATIAL 2025 🗓️ Nov 3–6, 2025 | Minneapolis, MN 📝 Submission deadline: May 2, 2025 📢 Notification: June 2, 2025 Shape the future of #SpatialComputing & #GeospatialAI! 🌍 Details 👉 sigspatial2025.sigspatial.org/workshop-submi… #SIGSPATIAL

Chadwick Boseman’s statue was unveiled to his family during the official dedication of The Chadwick Boseman Fine Arts Center at the Southwood Academy of the Arts in South Carolina

📣 The 5th Open Science Workshop on Open Publishing kicks off today (April 22) at 10 AM ET! Join us to learn how to use Jupyter Book and MyST Markdown to develop and publish open research content efficiently. The workshop series is free and open to the public. Register here:

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National Science Foundation told on April 30th to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice.” nature.com/articles/d4158… and two screencaps from behind the registration wall.

Use our interactive tool to see which candidates for State College Area School District Board of Directors most closely align with what matters to you. spotlightpa.org/statecollege/2…

Postdoctoral research associate (11.5-month) position in physical geography and environmental science available at the Department of Geography and Environmental Science, Northumbria University bit.ly/43j3UL8 apply by 4 Jun 2025

We are seeing more and more losses for education in the US...AmeriCorps lost 400 MILLION in funding, which will cut 1,000 programs and 32,000 members & volunteers. Read more and find resources + requests for AmeriCorps member stories here: statecommissions.org/index.php?opti…

Cartography++ people: apply for the Philip Lee Phillips Fellowship--an onsite 2-month residency at the Library of Congress to do your research in the history of cartography, GIS, digital humanities or a related field. Apply by Sept 15th. loc.gov/programs/john-…

And check out calls for a special issue on Open Urban Data Science at CEUS (Due in a year---May 31 2026!) sciencedirect.com/special-issue/… via Urban Analytics Lab Filip Biljecki Geoff Boeing

Some vids from U.S. Postal Service youtube.com/@mailwithmrzip