TOMORROW at 12noon EDT: Free 2-hour Canadian Cartographic Association (CCA) GeoIgnite workshop on shaded-relief mapping with #QGIS, working with #ArcGIS dashboards, and more.

2021 CCA Annual Conference starts today! Still time to register ... and join 225 other map lovers pheedloop.com/CCA2021/site/h…

Last week was virtual convocation TMU Admissions, @RUFacultyofArts, @RyersonGeo. Congrats to all fresh graduates and best wishes for the time ahead! See what we did for @RyeSAGA grads, ryerson.ca/geography/prog…; meet the first recipient of GATO crypto tokens, ryerson.ca/geography/news…

Published volume 2 of the Coronoia series today: "The Coronoia Reloaded: Surfing the Waves of SARS-CoV-2 and Lockdowns in Canada and Around the World", amazon.ca/dp/B099BYQN78. Kindle/eBook to follow.

Ontario academic Claus Rinner🙂 interviewed in Argentina. laprensa.com.ar/505427-Carta-d…

We need a systems-oriented approach to exit the pandemic, writes Dr. Claus Rinner. theideasinstitute.org/2022/03/28/we-…

Join fellow cartographers, and all those passionate about mapping / geography / data visualization online May 25-26th cca-acc.org/conferences/cu…

Impressive show Yonge-Dundas Square Downtown Yonge BIA tonight: #InTheWakeofProgress with beautifully choreographed digital screens and coordinated (if a bit overpowered) soundtrack. Edward Burtynsky 🇺🇦🇨🇦 & David Suzuki FDN present. Runs one more time tomorrow 8-11pm as part of Luminato Festival festival.

youtu.be/ERVxHlALK7E New Episode of #WhatHappenedLastYear is up! Kayla is one of our two vax injured student interviewees. Please share her story. She deserves at least that much. #unvaccinated #vaxinjured Toronto Metropolitan University

Congrats to Faculty of Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University prof. Claus Rinner🙂 on his New Frontiers in Research Fund grant to #research how governments can build trust, better communicate and engage with local communities during emergencies such as the pandemic: bit.ly/3HwkL1W SSHRC TIPS_SPIIE

Web interface for Ioannidis' (2024) Stanford/Elsevier ranking of the world's top 2% scientists based on career-long citations updated to end of 2023, crinner.github.io/top-scientists/

Happy Intl. Open Access Week #OAWeek24! The open-access Geospatial Professional Network Journal's final issue, urisa.org/resource/resmg…, includes Baculi et al. (2017), in which we indirectly confirmed the widely held estimate that 80% of all #data are #geospatial. Citations welcome! #GIS #GIScience

RINNER: Alberta’s COVID-19 pandemic data review further evidence of mismanaged crisis torontosun.com/opinion/column…

First written in Dec 2020, cancelled by a "critical geographies" journal, published Jan 2023, now #2 most cited in the respected Geografiska Annaler B -- "The academic left, human geography, and the rise of authoritarianism during the COVID-19 pandemic", tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Happy #LoveDataWeek! In Toronto Metropolitan University Admissions's GEO641 "GIS and Decision Support" this term we watched National Film Board of Canada's 1968 "Data for Decision", made apples & oranges comparable, used Esri's Suitability Modeler, and had guests speak about geospatial data in waste mgmt and univ planning #careers!

Published today IJERPH: "A Global Index to Quantify Discrimination Resulting from COVID-19 Pandemic Response Policies", doi.org/10.3390/ijerph… (open access)

Learning by teaching: For final lab demo in TMU Geography & Env GIS & Decision Support course, I willed Tableau Public into displaying my data on a (Mollweide-)projected world map following 8-year old instructions by Sarah Battersby, community.tableau.com/s/news/a0A4T00…; maps at public.tableau.com/views/Worldmap…