millennial story time: a few weeks ago I threw away a box something came in, feeling like I had thrown off the curse of my generation. unstoppable. anyway I need to return that thing now. we’ve all been right this whole time

I don't understand why bsky needs to know my age when simply posting here proves that I'm 38 years old

SNAP CUTS affect communities and constituencies differently. Interactive SNAP map with 2024 USDA data: www.datawrapper.de/_/ikdNZ/ -45% of households in Puerto Rico -25+% of households in districts in New York City Detroit, Philly, and California -West Virginia and Kentucky -New Mexico and Oregon...

This is a really well done article documenting the growth of #GIS masters programs in the US: + International grad students in GIS + Gender parity in GIS + Number of GIS masters degrees + % of GIS vs. geography grads link.springer.com/article/10.1... thanks to Yanbing Chen and Jonathan Nelson.

Geographic Information Science and Technology Master’s Education in the United States: Longitudinal Trends, Demographics, and a National Inventory of Active Programs - KN - Journal of Cartography and ...

Geographic information systems (GIS) have become central to applied spatial work, yet the structure and recent trajectory of master’s education in geographic information science and technology (GIS&T)...

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Young people are always told what not to do. But what should you do? Did you know that most public libraries have a Nintendo Switch to use? That parks show free movies at night? That there's a map of pickup basketball games?

MIT (endowment: $27B) shuttering three of its four main libraries is one of those news items that just knocks you off balance, auguring, as it does, profound and permanent changes to the entire institutional apparatus of higher education in this country.

eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

Screening + Panel: From Grief to Action: Justice for Cornelius Taylor, a documentary on the killing of Old Wheat Street resident Cornelius Taylor and Atlanta. Mon, June 1 @ Plaza Theater (1049 Ponce De Leon Ave NE, Atlanta) @plazaatlanta.bsky.social It's FREE but please RSVP! mobilize.us/s/klQTvp

📢 UCGIS Symposium 2026 Full Program Available! 📍 University of Maryland | June 15-18 ✅ Workshops | Plenaries | Panels | Research Talks | Posters | CAGIS Student Paper Competition | Field Trips Register: www.ucgis.org/events/confe... Full Program: ucgissymposium2026.sched.com/overview/

Free webinar! Join us on Thurs. May 7th at 12 ET to hear about the SCIMaP. We'll describe how we measure economic loss due to NSF and NIH funding cuts. Also, the map is live! Check out your state/county/district, download a 'scorecard' factsheet, and share with others! scienceimpacts.org/fy27

Science & Community Impacts Mapping Project (SCIMaP)@scienceimpacts.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Want to learn more about how the SCIMaP team analyzed the data for our recent NIH & NSF FY 2027 White House Budget Proposal Reports? Join us on May 7, 2026, at 12:00 pm for a webinar where you will learn about our analyses and our new interactive maps. Register here: lnkd.in/emjgsTEW

Please join the SCIMaP team @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @asinclair.bsky.social @malar0ne.bsky.social @cl10.bsky.social and @elenaparkerson.bsky.social to learn more about our analyses and data. We will host a webinar on May 7 @ 12:00 pm EDT. Registration link below!

Science & Community Impacts Mapping Project (SCIMaP)@scienceimpacts.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Want to learn more about how the SCIMaP team analyzed the data for our recent NIH & NSF FY 2027 White House Budget Proposal Reports? Join us on May 7, 2026, at 12:00 pm for a webinar where you will learn about our analyses and our new interactive maps. Register here: lnkd.in/emjgsTEW

Today, our #SCIMaP team released an impact analysis of the White House proposed FY 2027 NIH and NSF budgets. Bottom-line: if enacted, cuts to science and medical research would lead to $35B in economic losses and 150,000 lost jobs in communities all across the US. scienceimpacts.org 🧵

The Great Immigrants Great Americans Comic Series features first-person stories of naturalized U.S. citizens including Mo Amer, musician David Byrne, pediatrician Mona Hanna, biochemist Katalin Karikó, and illustrator and chief creative officer Jim Lee. www.carnegie.org/news/article...

If you want take a dive into Ioannidis & Bhattacharya's approach to 'Epidemiologic Research' via their flawed Santa Clara serological survey that vastly inflated the scope of prior COVID infections, Asymptomatic is now 40% off at JHU Press w/code: HLFE26. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Asymptomatic

The Silent Spread of COVID-19 and the Future of Pandemics

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Eric Lofgren@germsandnumbers.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Absolutely stunned that the Society for Epidemiologic Research chose John Ioannidis to deliver the conference keynote in the Year of Our Lord 2026.

This is Sadie. She was finally reunited with her human, astronaut Christina Koch, after her mom’s voyage around the moon took her the furthest any human has ever been from their dog. She can't wait to hear all about the universe. 14/10 (IG: astro_christina)

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Federal data sharing helps people connect with the government. Now the CIA World Factbook is gone and it's sad. For 50 years, it helped us learn about countries--Internet usage, miles of rail, religion, imports and exports. This snip is from 1981. Below are a few resources for viewing past data.

To whoever did this at the #NoKings in Boston: Thank you.❤️ It made me tear up. And we must to be reminded of needless damage to humanity that results directly from the careless, bellicose bluster coming from the Pentagon and White House.

Job Alert: Research Associate 2 Position at MIT in the Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) and the Civic Data Design Lab (CDDL) with @datasew.bsky.social. Masters degree required; Rolling applications. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

Research Associate 2

MIT - Research Associate 2 - Cambridge MA 02139

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For those at UVA this Friday, I will be giving a noon Biology seminar on Confronting Covid's Wake: Quantitative Approaches to Confront (Re)emerging Pathogens, spanning models of asymptomatic spread to assessing remerging risks amidst a national measles outbreak. bio.as.virginia.edu/upcoming-sem...

A special-education teacher was killed on Monday when a man fleeing immigration agents in Savannah, Georgia, crashed a car into the teacher’s vehicle, according to the local police. nyti.ms/4rMI64a

Teacher Killed in Crash After Man Fled in Car From ICE, Police Say

The man, who federal officials said had entered the United States illegally, was arrested and charged with first-degree homicide after the crash in Savannah, Ga., according to the county police.

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"Greater reductions in depression were seen when exercise was offered in group and supervised settings, while exercise of shorter duration and at lower intensity was most associated with reductions in anxiety."

Betty C. Jung@bettycjung.bsky.social · 6mo ago

More Evidence Supports Exercise for Depression, Anxiety — Data from randomized trials provided robust evidence for benefit of exercise on symptoms www.medpagetoday.com/psychiatry/a...

Georgia Tech walked out of class in protest of ICE today at 1:30 PM along with colleges across the #Atlanta area. Hundreds of grads, undergrads, and other GT people came. There were talks from PSL, YDSA, and UCW union members and some individual speakers.

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95

ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

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So far this month we have sent: $2,250 in direct cash aid to unhoused & recently housed neighbors $500 in apartment fees to help people move into housing $900 in eviction prevention Thank you for supporting & sustaining our work to help our neighbors in DC 🖤🏴🖤

A panel of federal appeals court judges ruled that the Cop City petition will not move forward. The majority opinion overturned a lower court ruling in favor of the plaintiffs. The written opinion states that petitions cannot be used to challenge a city ordinance in the State of Georgia.

New Year’s Eve on Linked In: 2025 was a GREAT year! Look at all I did! New Year’s Eve on Bluesky: 2025 was:

a man carrying a box in front of a sign that says no parking fire lane

ALT: a man carrying a box in front of a sign that says no parking fire lane

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The westside is so cozy. #atl

Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time. Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +

Fantastic article on Georeferencing historical maps using automated processes, including local feature matching and Delaunay consistency from Beatrice Vaienti, Isabella di Lenardo and Frédéric Kaplan doi.org/10.1080/1523... #GISchat #OpenAccess