The complexities of doing research in places with safety issues or travel restrictions is examined through Adebangbe's work on the oil-spill-impacted Niger Delta, contributing to broader discussions on ethical research practices and safety considerations in academic research buff.ly/q03qC0t #geosky

What can you do in the battle for social science funding? With the White House’s proposed 2027 budget going through Congress, deep cuts to science spending are proposed, including a complete gutting of the Directorate of SBE. Help AAG alert Congress, with resources from COSSA: buff.ly/HIeeJht

What does Generative AI look like in geography classrooms? Day, Gonzalez, Kim, McDaniel, Redican, and Zhu test use cases across campuses. Read more here: buff.ly/M89n9y2 #Teaching #GenAI #HigherEd #Geosky 🤖🧑🏫📋

AAG Honors and Awards are now open for nominations! Visit the AAG awards portal to find out about the many awards now open for nominations, including nominations for Honors and Fellows. buff.ly/UXfzjMz

Ontario, Canada lacks a unifying framework for building agricultural resilience, according to Collins. In response, Collins mobilizes an analytical framework based on resilience indicators to qualitatively assess farm sustainability in Southeast Canada. buff.ly/zeUmii3 #agriculture #geosky

Will you be joining us in NYC? #AAG2027 awaits! This year's meeting will bring together #geographers, #GIS technicians, and scholars from around the world for five days of learning, connecting, and exploring the latest #research in the discipline. Abstracts are due October 15: buff.ly/UHG9CEn

How is retail geography changing over time? Aversa, Hernandez, and Fares synthesize research on location, competition, and space. Read more here: buff.ly/XrXtt8M #Retail #SpatialAnalytics #MarketGeography #Geosky 🛍️🗺️🏬

Research is inherently relational: a process of building and maintaining relationships between researchers, the people with whom they study, the places they are connected to, and all that is entangled within. Douglass-Jaimes, Keeve, and Ybarra explore. buff.ly/bU3bSnC #Research #Inclusion #Geosky

We are excited to welcome Dr. Emily Grubert as keynote speaker for our #EnergyGeographyConference! Dr. Grubert will present her research on perspectives of power plant-adjacent residents facing plant phase-out, & how "mid-transition" planning may incorporate these perspectives @gruberte.bsky.social

Where did mpox spread in 2022 and why? Han, Qiang, Ma, Li, Salim, Bhandari, Alsharif, and Jin analyze the outbreak’s county-level patterns. Read more here: buff.ly/xkACHsI #PublicHealth #SpatialAnalysis #Mpox #geosky 🧬📍📊

Orosco's research combines artistic portraiture and ethnographic methods to center caregivers as knowledge creators deserving of respect, attention, and artistic portrayal. buff.ly/llc9137 #Testimonio #Geography #Geosky ✍🏽🌹🎓

NASA has shared a new resource to help established and early career scientists turn their research into effective, real-world solutions in earth sciences. buff.ly/cpy7t7f #careers #geography #geosky

NASA Earth Science Applications Guidebook | NASA Earthdata

The NASA Earth Science Applications Guidebook offers practical advice and tips on how to develop and manage projects that apply NASA Earth data to real-world challenges.

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How can geographers, who have long engaged with notions of justice, do so in the classroom? Douglass-Jaimes reflects on community, teaching geography and GIS, and care. buff.ly/XGsC3a8 #Mentorship #Equity #Education #Geography #Geosky 🧭🤝🌱

Professor Clancy Wilmott of @ucbgeography.bsky.social discussed her work in participatory mapping with the Sogorea Te' Land Trust in the San Francisco Bay Area. buff.ly/9dfO2N4 #geosky #collaborative #mapping

Make Maps with People, Not Just for Them

When mapping with communities, cartographers and geographic information scientists can rethink their processes to better fit a new purpose.

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"Silent geographies are worlds where silence is woven into the fabric of affective knowledge." Carrasco explores how Indigenous peoples in diaspora refuse damage-centered narratives, using nondiscursive forms of storytelling for healing & reconciliation buff.ly/PGezQdm #IndigenousGeographies #geosky

Derickson builds on a decade-long, ongoing collaboration with the Gullah/Geechee Sustainability Think Tank to consider whether and how we can build abstractions in a scholarly way that resource Gullah/Geechee self-determination. buff.ly/CvRqGwM #Participatory #Justice #Futures #Geosky

AAG's season for 2027 awards has begun. Find out more about fall deadlines for the AAG Honors and Awards. buff.ly/n72ric3 #geography #geosky

📄New article from me! 📄 'Walrus Skins and Weet-o-Weet: Uncomfortable Encounters in the Yupik Yaranga' in Annals of the @geographers.bsky.social Probably my most 'theory-driven' one so far - a cautious step into the world of non-rep and the geogs of dis/comfort. As ever, feedback welcome!

Walrus Skins and Weet-o-Weet: Uncomfortable Encounters in the Yupik Yaranga

This article analyzes a series of Arctic colonial encounters that took place between British naval officers and members of the Indigenous Yupik community in the mid-nineteenth century. Using a crit...

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Excited that The AAG Review of Books by @geographers.bsky.social just published our book forum Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/283E6.... Reviewers Priscilla Ferreira, @nik-heynen.bsky.social, Eric Sarmiento, and Luke Bergmann.

Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation

Published in The AAG Review of Books (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Integrating decolonial methodologies into research to challenge Western Cartesian production of geographic knowledge across native and Indigenous geographies, Alcantar frames the in-between as space of making and meaning. Read more here: buff.ly/uEWoovP #Indigenous #Identity #Nepantla #Geosky 🌵🧭🧶

Qiao investigates whether ride-hailing services empower women by enhancing their mobility, or simply reflect adaptive preferences shaped by existing structural inequalities. buff.ly/BFVjTNH #Women #Gender #Entrepreneurship #Geosky

Keep cool this summer and show off your love for geography with hats, short-sleeve shirts, and more: #geosky #geography buff.ly/BqKHZjG

Ferdoush probes the understudied phenomenon of the exception versus the example, examining two cases from Bangladesh and Finland to demonstrate how both the exception and the example can coexist within the same system. buff.ly/KON6OM6 #geography #theory #geosky

A spatially informed approach to solving hub location problems, by Oh, Kim, and Chun buff.ly/k1gDU6w #SpatialData #Methods #GIScience #geosky📍👥📈

Are summer heat waves really so different now? Geographers Kit Marie Hackley and Alistair Hamill apply geographic tools to the debate. buff.ly/Nfh5pGR

Looking to get involved with AAG? We encourage you to become a volunteer on one of AAG’s many committees. If you are interested, we’d love to hear from you! 🌟 You can express your interest here: buff.ly/dByeMyV

Data centers have arrived in America, but where are they settling? As AI fuels a data center boom, new crowdsourced data shows how #rural communities near existing grid infrastructure are becoming hotspots — and growing local #resistance. buff.ly/lp4sqMv

New mapping shows how rural communities near high-voltage li...

As AI fuels a data center boom, new mapping shows how rural communities near high-voltage lines are becoming hotspots for massive projects — and growing local r...

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A LEGO set designed by Dr Michał Duda, assistant professor at the University of Lodz, will appear on shop shelves around the world in 2026. Hear about his doctoral dissertation and perception of places – and building bricks – in the "Science Inspires" podcast series. buff.ly/yn2Ufnf

Dr Michał Duda – A Geographer with an Unusual Passion in the Latest "Science Inspires" Podcast

A LEGO set designed by Dr Michał Duda, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Urban Geography, Tourism Studies and Geoinformation at the Faculty of Geographical Sciences, University of Lodz, will…

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Classrooms across the world are grappling with developments in AI. To develop more experiential approaches, links are formed through interdisciplinary integration between geography and English literature by recording weather, exploring #historical #maps, and going on nature walks. buff.ly/bDjZwyP

Thinking Beyond AI in College: How English Major Students Can Explore Literature through Geography - Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning

Discover practical ways to teach English literature beyond AI using geography, creative writing, and experiential learning to build deeper student engagement.

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The GIS Certification Institute (GISCI) Board of Directors has welcomed Jennifer L. Whytlaw, Ph.D., GISP, associate professor of Applied GIS at Old Dominion University, as the newest representative of AAG. She joins Darcy Boellstorff, who recently renewed her term. buff.ly/xd7NbqE #GeoSky #GISChat

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