Rachel Franklin 🦚

A wine store called “Ill Vino”

I’m still thinking about the wine from this shop in Sélestat, France.

friend's French dad was offered an 8am breakfast meeting and allegedly, famously responded with "or you could just come to mine at 7am so we can shower together first?"

🚨We are delighted to announce our opening plenary for RSA Regional Futures Conference, 13-14 November 🚨

📣Andres Rodriguez-Pose & Rachel Franklin
🪑Luisa Corrado

🔶Spatial Economic Analysis Lecture

We have extended the abstract deadline: ⌛18 August

ℹ️and submit: bit.ly/4lgfLj3

Join us in London 🌟

Bought the entire album just for that song back in the day.

"80 million jobs were added in june, very nice very nice. 300 million jobs added in july, even better. but this month mr president, 2 billion jobs were added," I confidently declare, doing the easiest job in the world so i can own a home in a walkable neighborhood

My personal favorite is New Math: “base 8 is just like base 10…if you’re missing two fingers”

I find this such a weird take.

🤞🏼🤞🏼

Counterpoint: does not actually assure that one will be interesting in any other aspect of dinner conversation

We live in 90% bullshit times sadly.

My secret power is seeing through bullshit so

Maybe, just maybe, proposal writing teaches one to make their research exciting and compelling. Having sat on lots of review panels this seems to be a work in progress for many.

Paper got published so academic fairy tale more like

Or when you want to make your co-author laugh so you insert the word “dialectics” into the title of your paper on homeownership but she doesn’t see it and submits the paper with the joke title and then one of the reviewers says “your title is weird” and the joke’s on you

Remember Your Heritage

Screenshot of Verizon agent asking if there are sudden big trees or bodies of water around my house

Complaining to Verizon that my home wifi and phone service are crap and the agent has some really innovative ideas for me to consider

Dearest mother,
I take my phone in hand to dm you a short text to let you know that I have survived the Battle of MacArthur Park. We rooted out two nests of day campers and broke up three picnics before retreating....

And caretaking opportunities

Trying to imagine where and who I’d be without languages at Indiana:

- dorm: French House
- major: French
- minor: Italian
- other minor: Spanish
- study abroad: Strasbourg
- Master’s funding: FLAS in Catalan
- campus job: language lab
- memories: 1000s

All kids from rural Indiana deserve this

Crazy!!

Become a jamón expert at our Ham School

TIRED: “learn to code!”
WIRED:

Unprecedented compulsion to quote Walt Whitman unlocked

Centre of equal daughters, equal sons,
All, all alike endear’d, grown, ungrown, young or old,
Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich,
Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love

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it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

Stop the madness

Leadership change at Geographical Analysis After eight remarkable years of service, Rachel Franklin—Executive Director of the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard—will be stepping down as editor of Geographical Analysis at the end of June...

Delighted to announce that, effective July 1, Elizabeth Delmelle (University of Pennsylvania) will be the new Editor of Geographical Analysis!! 🥂🎉

geography.osu.edu/news/leaders...

"Awaiting Editor Decision"

There Were Still Old People When Life Expectancy Was 35. A demography myth that won't die

“Historically, no one lived past age 35”

"I’ve heard *so* many versions of this claim, including recently from a menopause doctor (implying menopause is not “natural” because noone lived long enough to go through it). Every time someone states this “fact,” a demographer loses a piece of their soul"

Let me get my hands
On your mammary glands

We are excited to introduce GeoGraphica! Our new article type that puts maps and visual storytelling at the center. Since "The Netherlands in Maps" ended in 2016, we’ve lacked a home for cartographic creativity. GeoGraphica brings it back. Geography, seen as well as read. More coming soon!