Josh Inwood

How has the job of reporting changed in the age of social media? When any asshat with a social media presence can report any rumor but reporters are bound by ethical standards do we need to rethink those ethics? Is there more pressure now to bury stories to maintain access? #bluewall

Penn State faculty file for largest public sector union election in state history Approximately 6,000 Penn State University professors and faculty members are ready to vote in the largest public sector union vote ever in Pennsylvania.

Penn State professors and faculty members filed for one of the largest public sector union elections in state history on Tuesday.

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All faculty including adjuncts!

HUGE NEWS! Haven’t said a ton about this because often times the best organizing happens outside of public view. Today I joined a group of Penn State faculty and SEIU representatives to present faculty signatures that will trigger a vote to unionize PSU faculty!

This Giving Tuesday, your gift goes twice as far!

Alumnus Bob Myers is matching donations up to $25,000 to support the GeoGraphics Lab.

Your support helps fund student cartography and real-world mapping projects that benefit the community!

Join the match: raise.psu.edu/GeoGraphicsLab

Campus shut until noon. No better place to write this am…

What’s great about sports is, there is rarely ambiguity. At the end of the day you have a record and in three years we will all know if Fitz is working out. Until then let’s upgrade Spartan stadium, figure out how to restore federal funding cuts to the research mission, and get Izzo a 2nd natty.

Turned out!!!

Marjorie Taylor Greene Came So Close to Getting the Joke What the Georgia representative learned in Washington

MGT has seen her networth jump from $700k to $25 million since joining Congress in 2021. And she served juuust long enough to get a lifetime tax payer-funded pension.

She got the joke.

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📣 Applications open for GENIUS 2026, a 3-day mentoring workshop at Penn State for rising third- and fourth-year students underrepresented in geography. 🌍

📅 May 27–29.

Apply by Feb. 15, 2026: www.geog.psu.edu/geniusworkshop

Screenshot of the Nov. 18th LinkedIn Live event hosted by Joel Hurst of Esri (pictured upper left) discussing with Esri cartographer Charlie Frye (upper right) and Florentine Films researcher Grace Bartosh (lower left) and co-producer Mike Welt (lower right)about how new maps were developed for the Ken Burns' PBS documentary, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.

If you're enjoying the new Ken Burns PBS documentary, "The American Revolution," check out this fascinating look at the MAPPING done for the series. We're so proud of Esri Chief Cartographer, Charlie Frye, who was their major cartographic consultant & map maker
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When I Was John Fetterman I was one of the senator’s most dedicated consultants—until I saw a side of him that made me sick.

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undoubtedly Brad Holmes has done a great job but this team clearly needed help and he made no moves at the deadline. Also, is Teslaa ever gonna see the field? Lions traded 2025 third round and 2 2026 third round picks for this guy when we needed interior help and he has a total of four catches

It’s useful for people of my generation to be reminded that this wasn’t that long ago. Ruby Bridges isn’t just still alive—she’s only 71, not ancient!

Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators

One reason I appreciate working at PSU Geography is thank you week where we write little notes thanking each other for the small things we do for each other to make a community. I hope you get to work with kind people too.

Just thinking again how Democrats asked people to accept short-term suffering in order to give space to prevent long-term, worse suffering and then said, "Thanks for suffering in the short-term. You'll get to suffer long-term too so that our Thanksgiving plans don't get disrupted."

Best weekend of Spartan sports in a loooong time. Baked: Let's cancel the rest of football season. Legit: MSU football goes winless the rest of the season.

Excited to read this piece

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

Inside the billionaire network shaping MAGA’s post-Trump future Chris Buskirk put tech elites in power in Trump’s Washington. His efforts are grounded in a controversial theory — an ‘aristocracy’ is needed to move the country forward.

A secretive organization named the Rockbridge Network has become one of the most influential forces in GOP politics — and it wants to make sure MAGA outlives President Trump.

Are we really gonna ride or die with this current lions team and go into the rest of season without making any moves just like the tigers? This team is a few pieces away from making a run and our window is for a Super Bowl is slowly closing. Come on Brad Holmes do something...

Between the Spartans and Lions this weekend sucked for sports. If only I lived closer to a groovy doughnut location... first time all season I felt bad for Jonathan Smith. The team played hard, they kept fighting and they deserved to win that game.

This is pretty wild. The head of Heritage basically said Nazi ideology is just another flavor of conservatism to be hashed out. Of Nick Fuentes he said:

"Cancelling him is not the answer... When we disagree with a person's thoughts and opinions, we challenge those ideas in debate."

Remapping the Legacy of Enslavement: Street Names, Stealth Stickers, and the Living Black Atlas | Article | Media and Communication Derek H. Alderman, Joshua Inwood

Great new piece with my main writing partner @derekgeographer.bsky.social www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

This photo of rookie Yesavage casually walking off the mound as future Hall of Famer and helmet-less Ohtani is still in motion striking out is everything. #WantItAll

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Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

Government Accountability Office: Ca 70% of adult workers participating in Medicaid (health care to low-income Americans) & the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP -- food stamps) WORK FULL TIME.
Maybe #Walmart should pay a living wage. #MikeDavis #SNAP
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