Chris Fowler

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📣 Calling all geographers! I'm editing a special issue of the @geographers.bsky.social Annals on "21st Century Geographic Theory" and the call for abstracts is out! Please consider contributing and sharing! All geographers, all kinds of theory welcome! 🌎

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I would love a glimpse at your syllabus. Currently working on a world building course as a geography freshman seminar and looking for creative ways to use more role playing.

I have had this exact same head scratching moment.

I know EXACTLY what you mean. That moment when it feels like things are normal again… and the next morning when you get smacked down for hubris.

It is the seeming randomness about what takes you down and what keeps you from digging out that makes this so hard. Be kind to yourself when things go wrong and don’t give up hope that things can be better

I should probably add that I hate running. The distance is not a brag, but what I find my body needs to keep my nervous system in check so I can function.

I am still vulnerable (I go down hard when I get sick and it lasts longer), but I am now (slowly) running 30 miles/week. For context, I was unable to walk more than about 50 feet at a time for 15 months when I started.

I did find that low heart rate exercise slowly increasing has allowed me to get my body back to ‘normal’ function. Though I always hesitate to advertise this because I know the same regime hurt other people who tried it

This detailed level of management looks amazing. I found my way towards a similar path practicing HRV management with Heartmath I think it was called. But I had nowhere near this level of information to act on.

An older map of the US showing the main highways in 1958

OPINION: "(In the 1960s), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee produced conventional-looking county-level maps of income and education inequalities, which were issued to activists in the field," Inwood and Alderman write.

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Are state lawmakers warming to a crackdown on Wall Street homeownership? “There are over 300 metro Atlanta areas where big companies own over 50% of the single-family rental market.”

State lawmakers’ eyebrows jumped at a House committee hearing Tuesday, as Georgia State University geographer Taylor Shelton shot off a barrage of statistics about institutional investors’ staggeringly high level of home ownership across Georgia.
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Ditto

I recently had to give a class on the long history of failure of political institutions in Yemen and your thread was incredibly helpful to provide balance and trails to follow as I prepped. Exactly the constructive I needed.

Welcome new people. I post on redistricting(for school districts and legislative districts), uncertainty in spatial data, and spatial patterns of inequality. I also teach Apocalyptic Geography @Penn State and am always looking for failed institutions to talk about with students.

The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.

Hi everyone.

The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.

We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.

We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.

I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.

Headed to the North American Regional Science meetings in New Orleans tomorrow. Looking forward to a great session on Friday organized by Alan Murray. I will be talking about voter registration files as a source of individual-level geolocated data. Look me up if you are going.

Penn State Geography (www.geog.psu.edu) invites those interested in applying to our grad programs to an upcoming info session! Register at tinyurl.com/psugeoginfo
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My students are discussing those two readings in my ‘Apocalyptic Geographies’ course this week. They are an amazing pairing for thinking about Utopia and Dystopia. I love reading the discussion threads from this one.

Absolutely.

The new CZ's are designed to be consistent with prior years. I have included quality statistics that are important because different parts of the country fit our idea of commuting zone better than others. The paper also includes some suggested edits to reduce non-contiguous commuting zones

New Commuting Zone delineation for the U.S. based on 2020 data Scientific Data - New Commuting Zone delineation for the U.S. based on 2020 data

There are revised Commuting Zones for 2020. These geographic units are often used as proxies for labor markets in the U.S. but function best, in my view, as representations of how rural areas are connected to economic cores. Open Access paper at rdcu.be/dTbR6 #geosky #econsky

E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Endowed Lecture slated for March 15 | Penn State University Harvey J. Miller, professor of geography at Ohio State University, will give the talk "Mapping Columbus' Ghost Neighborhoods: Using AI and GIS to Create 3D Models of Neighborhoods Damaged by Urban Hig...

Tomorrow - if you happen to be in or passing by State College PA. (Perhaps you are driving between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh?)

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We're soliciting paper submissions for a special issue in Spatial Demography (Springer Nature) on #climate and #health! The CFP is open link.springer.com/collections/...
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Episode 10: A Day in the Life of... James Cheshire Listen to this episode from The GLaD Podcast on Spotify. Today, we’re trialing a new episode format: “a day in the life of…”, where we’ll be interviewing GLaD folks to get the scoop and the ...

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Today years old….

I was specifically looking for a reading to link incarceration and legibility for my population geography class and I think I have found it. Looking forward to diving in

Similar things in one of our labs here at Penn State. Trying to figure out how much longer we hold on to cabinets full of 50's era topo maps not used for teaching in this century. The sheet on the wall tells us the last TA to sign out the maps was Jennifer Fluri, now Department Head at UC Boulder