New #GLaDpodcast episode: #embeddings for the rest of us! Join @rsfrankl.bsky.social, @levijohnwolf.bsky.social and yours truly for a (hopefully) “lay enough” conversation about one of the most interesting ideas in geo-data that the last few years have produced. www.podbean.com/eas/pb-8ebk6...

My new @ipums analysis of the “Pig in the Python” argues that the demand for young workers will grow dramatically over the coming decades, likely leading to rising wages, stronger unions, and lower inequality. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Talking about babies (and _everything_ around them) was trickier on tape than on paper, but I think it was worth the effort, audience be the judge!

Rachel Franklin 🦚@rsfrankl.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🎧 Our new #GLaDpodcast episode—Baby Talk—is all about, yeah, babies. Plus the academic life course, careers and the messy business of advice and decisionmaking. What's not to love?! With @darribas.bsky.social @levijohnwolf.bsky.social & @pietrostefani.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/5TDJ...

A really important topic for academics - having children - and one that still doesn't get much airtime.

Rachel Franklin 🦚@rsfrankl.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🎧 Our new #GLaDpodcast episode—Baby Talk—is all about, yeah, babies. Plus the academic life course, careers and the messy business of advice and decisionmaking. What's not to love?! With @darribas.bsky.social @levijohnwolf.bsky.social & @pietrostefani.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/5TDJ...

🎧 Our new #GLaDpodcast episode—Baby Talk—is all about, yeah, babies. Plus the academic life course, careers and the messy business of advice and decisionmaking. What's not to love?! With @darribas.bsky.social @levijohnwolf.bsky.social & @pietrostefani.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/5TDJ...

Episode 32: Baby Talk

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#CallForPapers for the 2026 CGA Conference, celebrating the CGA's 20th anniversary with the theme "Celebrating Geographic Analysis: Past, Present, and Future.” See the details: gis.harvard.edu/call-papers-... #CGA20 #Harvard #GIS #SpatialAnalysis @cga-harvard.bsky.social

Call for Papers: 2026 CGA Conference

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Wonder if that’s straight line or network distance

Kai Ryssdal@kairyssdal.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I mean, of course he did www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

📍 The call for papers is out for the @cga-harvard.bsky.social 20th Anniversary Annual Conference and we'd love to see you here! Harvard's pretty nice in autumn and we expect a fabulous lineup of keynotes, panels, talks, and workshops...plus lots of time to catch up and network! #CGA20

Cleaning data may not be sexy... or exciting... or enjoyable... or lucrative... or respected... or rewarded... or recognized... but at least it's... sorry, what were we talking about?

In case of “fire”

“KID, WE NEED YOUR GAS”

Looking to build up your #Rprogramming skills? Learn how to use R for #spatialanalysis in this week's workshop from the @cga-harvard.bsky.social. #GIS #geostatistics #programming #Harvard gis.harvard.edu/event/gettin...

Getting Started with Spatial Analysis in R | The Institute for Quantitative Social Science

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This is fish erasure

Antisocial behavior

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

Coming up on Feb 24: @crhistianjoel.bsky.social presents "From classrooms to regions: the scale of inequality and educational aspirations" in the next brown bag presentation from @cga-harvard.bsky.social. #gis gis.harvard.edu/event/classr...

From classrooms to regions: the scale of inequality and educational aspirations | Center for Geographic Analysis

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Congratulations to @levijohnwolf.bsky.social and our very own @darribas.bsky.social and @rsfrankl.bsky.social for winning a Media Achievement Honor from the @geographers.bsky.social! @liverpooluni.bsky.social 👉 www.linkedin.com/posts/sdr-im...

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Congratulations to Levi John Wolf and our very own Dani Arribas-Bel and Rachel Franklin for winning a Media Achievement Honor from the American Association of Geographers! Dani, Rachel and Levi creat...

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Post a tree you photographed

Faux Brummell@shodanalexm.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Post a tree you photographed

New episode of the one and only #GLaDpodcast. For this one, @rsfrankl.bsky.social , @levijohnwolf.bsky.social and yours truly dust off our oracles to speculate what 2026 (whatever is left of it anyway) has in store for Geography, Life, Geography Life, and Data! www.podbean.com/eas/pb-8urep...

Two star-crossed sheep on a wuthering Yorkshire moor, fated never to consummate their love Bleated Rivalry

Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham@paulgp.com · 6mo ago

Two development randomistas develop a secret love affair in the field Treated Rivalry

Our paper “Inferring fine-grained migration patterns across the United States” is now out in @natcomms.nature.com! We released a new, highly granular migration dataset. 1/9

Thursday at 3:30 pm: @harvardcmes.bsky.social fellow Evangeline McGlynn discusses the use of open source intelligence in wars and other violent conflicts, presenting "Open Data/Opaque Analysis: Examining #OSINT Use in Conflict," hosted by @cga-harvard.bsky.social. gis.harvard.edu/event/open-d...

you have wonder if the problem was “world,” “facts,” or “books”

Good morning to everyone but the City of Cambridge for producing a map that appears to show no fewer than three different kinds of "being in Cambridge." (this matters for those who might, just hypothetically speaking, be trying to run every street in the city)

At approximately 4am this morning, deeply concerned I might starve on my flights from Newcastle to Boston, I stuffed an entire unsliced panettone into my backpack.

🛰️ Embeddings for the rest of us! All part of our Imago mission to make satellite imagery useful, usable, and used in social research and policy! Team Imago* are at MHCLG today to talk imagery, embeddings & why research/policy folks should care. * @darribas.bsky.social @pietrostefani.bsky.social ++

Very swish visual from @centreforcities.bsky.social showing the income distributions of different neighbourhoods within our big towns and cities

My hot take is that sometimes reviewer 2 is right and authors maybe fail to situate their paper within the wider context of their other published work. And maybe sometimes authors do this out of hopes reviewers won’t notice that the current paper doesn’t do anything new.

Gonzomancer@samthielman.com · 7mo ago

I just thought everyone should see this

This is fine

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Vance on the economy: "You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"

A bit late to post about, new episode w/ @rsfrankl.bsky.social and @levijohnwolf.bsky.social of the #GLaDpodcast. If nothing else, be enticed by the title; if something else, delight in Anthony Robinson’s views on maps, AI, and microwave ovens! gladpodcast.podbean.com/e/episode-29...