Tim Prestby

an outdoor blllboard There will never be a bell loud enough, a helmet strong enough, or clothing bright enough to make up for poor infrastructure. Picture of child biking in a painted bike lane

Enough.

Awesome to see this billboard up in Vancouver.
Was really incredible to work with the people at @visionzerovancouver.ca to bring this to life.

16.10.2025 11:53 — 👍 835    🔁 245    💬 13    📌 20

Congratulations to @timprestby.bsky.social who accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor in Geospatial Information Science at James Madison University!

14.04.2025 18:08 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Yesterday was a special day. I successfully passed my dissertation defense yesterday and have been given the unofficial title of "Dr. Prestby" until graduation in May. Huge thanks to everyone at Penn State Geography, especially @arobinson.bsky.social for helping me achieve this milestone!!

14.02.2025 15:06 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 5    📌 0

Assistant Teaching Professor of Spatial Data Science APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

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02.02.2025 21:20 — 👍 11    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 1

This is hilarious. I may have to use this image when referring to the article in a low-stakes professional meeting and see if anyone says anything 😂

03.02.2025 13:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'll be defending my dissertation two weeks from now on February 13 at 2:00pm eastern time. There will be a ~20 minute public talk. If you are interested in joining via zoom, shoot me a message and I will share the link!

30.01.2025 17:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Sent off my complete dissertation draft to the committee today. Wow the last 3ish years have flown by. I'll be defending in a month's time on February 13 at 2pm ET. There will be a public hybrid presentation around 30 minutes long. Will share more details soon! (Sorry for cross posting on Twitter)

10.01.2025 20:20 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Gorgeous

18.12.2024 18:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Does anyone know a great source for buying print maritime maps? Ideally from an individual cartographer/supporting a local business? I'd like to get one for a Christmas gift but don't know where to look.

17.12.2024 16:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

This is extremely impressive. Wow.

13.12.2024 14:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Sorry was limited on characters so had to be concise at the expense of some details being omitted

11.12.2024 19:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

@roberteroth.bsky.social brought you as a guest :)

11.12.2024 19:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It is a core cartographic memory of mine. Thankfully Daniel is great about documenting their design process through tutorials and other means, but the live in-person designing is a treat :). I blew my students' minds with holding shift to uniformly scale features in illustrator haha.

11.12.2024 18:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I went in to the class intent on making a map showing whether there were areas in San Francisco that had more 'tech bros' than families. We ended up leaning in to the 2024 trend of brat summer and making a more lighthearted project. Census data were single male households and couples households.

11.12.2024 18:25 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

For my intro to cartography class, @pinakographos.bsky.social did a "Bob Ross Day" where they made a map live. It was invaluable to see how an expert approached the mapmaking process. I am teaching the intro cart class at PSU this year and did the same thing. My students and I had a blast 😄 (1/2)

11.12.2024 18:25 — 👍 19    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0

Glad to see more people talking about trust and maps...

28.11.2024 01:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Officially making the transition to this app 😀

21.11.2024 14:45 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0