Strong American Association of Geographers statement on the "shortsightedness of any decisions to limit access to educational material that speaks truthfully to current and historical inequities, particularly those related to race, gender, sexuality, economic status, and disability"

Exciting new mapping developments in ArcGIS from Esri announced by jackdangermond #esrifederal

Just submitted proofs for my upcoming commentary in Dialogues in Human Geography, "Whose geography, whose future?: Queering geography's disciplinary reproduction." Can't wait to share! 🤗 Hopefully it will be out very soon! 🤗

Back in 1978 Chris Priest wrote a short scifi story called The Watched which featured "scintillas," tiny surveillance devices like confetti. Now a team at Princeton/U Wash has developed them. They're called neural nano-optics: engineering.princeton.edu/news/2021/11/2…

Um, now what

Resolved by AI? "In gene wolfe's book of the new sun, who was severians mother?" The ReReading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客

Looking forward to a full day of geographies of digital capitalism panels, convened with the amazing Dr. Luis F. Alvarez León Jeremy Crampton Hilary Oliva Faxon Desiree Fields #AAG #AAG2023 American Association of Geographers

Of course, the only thing more remarkable than Matthew Zook's talk was his jacket! American Association of Geographers

Please join us for the "Geography according to ChatGPT" kick-off event! 11:00 - 2:00 PM EDT May 4 Register here: airmeet.com/e/c4516530-ce6…

Still the best kept secret of OGC that we give back ~$2.5M per year to the Open Geospatial: OGC members via the testbeds and pilots. Excellent opportunity to make a difference and show your leadership. ogc.org/requests/inter…

Amazing: "Some estimates have put the number of parking spots in the US at a mind-boggling 2 billion" This for a country with ~334m people businessinsider.com/america-parkin…

📢DGRG Symposium Programme Announcement We're excited to share our programme for the upcoming #DGRGSymposium23 on Ethics of the Digital To be held on 27th-28th of June at the University of Westminster CAMRI Media Research digitalgeographiesrg.org/dgrg-events/di… RGS-IBG Higher Ed University of Westminster

"If nothing changes in the next 10 days, the HSPS, English, Geography and History Triposes have all declared that their finalists will not be receiving their degrees this summer."

We're very pleased to announce that Anindita Datta (Univ. of Delhi, Anindita Datta) and Han Cheng (Chinese Academy of Sciences/NUS, Han Cheng) will be joining Dialogues in Human Geography as Article Forum Editors! We'd like to thank all of the applicants who applied.

New publication with àlex muñoz viso "Blockchain urbanism: Evolving geographies of libertarian exit and technopolitical failure" now available in Progress in Human Geography. Thinking about the politics of crypto, blockchain, metaverse, seasteading, autonomous cities... journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

The Glamour Inside Us: Christopher Priest: In Memoriam - A Personal Eleg... youtu.be/xcWPFtaBsF4?fe… via YouTube

Prof Susan Schulten gives the IMCoS Malcolm Young lecture on cartographer Richard Edes Harrison. From the 1930s through the 1950s, he produced hundreds of stunning maps and graphics that upended our understanding of geography. Registration is free at Eventbrite.

This was a fun one! Great way to close out my tenure at the journal. I got to ask these clever people who their favorite speculative authors were! tysm 📚👋

Gene Wolfe died on this day, so here are four of his French covers (artist: Yuri Shwedoff, Anthony Wolff, Guillaume Sorel and [couldn't identify]):