Rachel Franklin 🦚

Spelling bee is plaice-less

Screenshot of spelling bee failure to accept plaice as a word

This is fish erasure

Photo of a chair saving a parking spot in Cambridge, Mass

Antisocial but comfortable if you’re tired and need a rest

A sidewalk that hasn’t been cleared of snow but with aspirational snow melting chemicals sprinkled on top

Antisocial behavior but funny

Photo of a wall of snow blocking a nicely cleared sidewalk

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.

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

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
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The GLaD Podcast | The GLaD Podcast | Imago – SDR UK Imagery Data Service 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...

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

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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!

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

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

I’ve been using parking permit signs as my unofficial delimiter so far.

😆😆

They should have called it New Cambridge. Would have saved a lot of confusion.

Piece of a map of Cambridge, Massachusetts, which shows a city boundary, buildings in the city, and streets in the city. None of which line up.

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)

The ladies can all have a little syphilis for a treat!

Feeling peckish now and realizing I might not have thought this through.

Photo of an entire panettone stuffed into my backpack

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.

In the delightful position that Team Imago is so big it's impossible to list everyone here today in one post 😆: @batoolmm.bsky.social, Vitaly Kryukov, Ron Mahabir, Fang Chen, Behzad Shokouhi, @martinapardy.bsky.social

Screenshot of lecture 1 from our embeddings workshop

Photo of Dani lecturing on autoencoders

Photo of a busy workshop room

🛰️ 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.

This is fine

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!

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Or, what if you're American working in the UK? Pretty sure that doesn't make your ancestors North American. Dumbest question ever.

Elsevier author "diversity" questionnaire that wants to know where my ancestors first originated, which is a pretty dumb thing to ask

I'm just a girl, standing in front a journal submission system, once again being asked "where my ancestors first originated"

Call for Abstracts 21st Century Geographic Theory Annals of the American Association of Geographers 2028 Special Issue This special issue aims to take stock of where we are today in terms of geographic theory: what it is; how, by whom, and for whom it’s produced and used; and how its form varies (or doesn’t) over time, space, and disciplinary sub-field.

Expansive in its definition of “theory” This issue asks what, if anything, is radically different and paradigm changing about 21st century geography research, academia, etc. that would engender the need for new theories, how they’re developed, how they’re tested, and how they’re applied. A goal of this special issue is to start conversations—not simply re-till well-trodden ground; contributions from those earlier in their careers are very definitely welcomed! This special issue is expansive in its definition of “theory,” including more traditional understandings of theory as well as (but not limited to): Theories of learning and knowing geography Theories of common geographic understanding Generative theories of geographic space Theories of representing and/or mapping geographic space Theory and geographic foundation models for prediction Unified geographic theory Bottom-up and top-down theories of geography Submissions are especially solicited that are in conversation with the entire breadth of the discipline. Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted by March 31, 2026. The Editor will consider all abstracts by June 1, 2026, and invite a selection to submit full papers for peer review.

📣 Call for Abstracts! This special issue of the Annals of the AAG aims to take stock of where we are today in terms of geographic theory.

Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted by March 31, 2026. View the full set of submission guidelines: buff.ly/NTKmVCp