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Protected Areas Specialty Group - AAG @pasg-aag.bsky.social · 14h

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William Moseley @williamgmoseley.bsky.social · 1d

I look forward to representing the @geographers.bsky.social at the Great Plains Rock Mountain regional meeting in Omaha, NE at the end of this week (Oct 17-18). This year combined w/ NCGE meeting
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Schedule and Program – National Council for Geographic Education

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Earth Science Week @earthsciweek.bsky.social · 17h

🛰️ 🌍 Today is also #EarthObservationDay! 🌎 🛰️

But while today is the official celebration, as they say at AmericaView, “Every day is Earth Observation Day!”

#EarthScienceWeek #EarthScienceWeek2025 #ESW2025 #EnergyResourcesForOurFuture #Landsat #EarthScience #Science #Imaging

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American Geosciences Institute @agi-updates.bsky.social · 20h

🌍 AGI’s 2024 Annual Report is here! 🚀 See how geoscience is driving innovation, protecting lives, & shaping sustainable growth. 🌋💧🌱
🔗 Read now: www.americangeosciences.org/static/files...

#Geoscience #Innovation #EarthScience #STEM #AGI

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AAG Energy @aag-energy.bsky.social · 1d

We have returned to Bluesky with some huge news-- MARK YOUR CALENDARS for our annual fall (zoom) lectures: on 10/31, 1pm Eastern come listen to Dr. ALLISON BATES, and then on 12/5, at 10AM Eastern, we'll be joined by Dr. ADAM HANIEH! These are not to be missed!

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Erin Buchholtz @erinbuchholtz.bsky.social · 19h

Conference travel award opportunity:

Foreign Scholar Travel Award to attend the International Association for Landscape Ecology - North America chapter (IALE-NA) conference in April 2026.

www.ialena.org/foreign-scholar-award.html & bit.ly/IALENA-FSTA-....

Apply by Nov. 2, 2025! 🧪🌎

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Joshua L. Conver @jlc-phd.bsky.social · 1d

The history of cricket is tied to colonialism, culture, and domestic and international politics. Test cricket is “the most conservative form of the most conservative sport.” Check out Dominic Malcolm’s review of Tim Wigmore’s new book in the AAG Review of Books.
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American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · 22h

Are you ready? #GeoWeek2025 takes place November 17-21! It’s not too early to get involved. Here’s how you can take action:
🌎 Become a GeoAdvocate.
🌟 Be a Promotional Partner.
📆 Help Us Publicize Your Events.
🌱 Get Classroom Resources from AAG.

Learn more: buff.ly/oukmzeD #EduSKy #GeoSky

Graphic promoting the 2025 Geography Awareness Week theme with earth from the atmosphere.

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American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · 22h

Florida’s 1,100 natural springs are under threat, but there's a chance to restore them. Dr. Christopher Meindl, recent winner of the AAG Globe Book Award, shares his findings with @us.theconversation.com on how reviving their health will require several multidimensional solutions.

Florida’s 1,100 natural springs are under threat – a geographer explains how to restore them

Florida’s springs are a window into the state’s groundwater system. Revitalizing them will require multiple solutions tailored to each spring.

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American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · 1d

Neighborhood-level Chinese restaurant index decreases over time were associated with gentrification in New York City. Minn demonstrates the potential for the use of retail-based analysis as a supplement to conventional gentrification metrics based on demographic and real estate data. buff.ly/mv80RT4

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American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · 1d

As we all continue to reflect on Jane Goodall, Doug Specht thinks on the life and powerful legacy of Goodall, the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees. As children, many of us remember Goodall guiding viewers through the greenery of Tanzania. How has she inspired you? buff.ly/9NiItEl

How Jane Goodall inspired my love of geography

Doug Specht reflects upon the life and powerful legacy of Jane Goodall, the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees

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Protected Areas Specialty Group - AAG @pasg-aag.bsky.social · 2d

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Natural World Heritage sites under growing threat, but bright spots remain

Many of these extraordinary places are increasingly at risk due to escalating climate change, invasive species, and and a lack of consistent funding to protect them.

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Sarah Klosterkamp @sklosterkamp.bsky.social · 2d

✨ CfP AAG 2026, San Francisco ✨

Tabea Latocha and I are teaming up feminist fabulative futures and we’d love for you to join us.

Our proposed session explores how storytelling, speculation, and fabulation can help us imagine housing otherwise — beyond ownership, extraction, and displacement. 🏡🌿💭

Call for Papers – AAG 2026, San Francisco
Feminist Fabulative Futures: Imagining Housing Otherwise

In the midst of intersecting housing, debt, as well as climate and democracy crises, imagination
becomes a political act. Feminist scholars and artists have long turned to the speculative and the
fabulative to envision worlds that could be otherwise – worlds where care, interdependence, and
collective dwelling replace dispossession, extraction, and foreclosure (McElroy 2023; Thieme 2021;
Netzwerk Feministische Wohnforschung 2025). This session invites contributions that take seriously
the feminist call to imagine differently in the face of deepening urban precarity.

Rather than treating the housing crisis as a failure of politics and finance alone, we approach it as a
failure of imagining housing and its politics radically otherwise. Following feminist and decolonial
traditions of world-making (e.g. Haraway 2013), we ask: What narratives, aesthetics, and speculative
practices can help us re-story housing beyond ownership and enclosure? How can fabulation-as
method, theory, or art-expand what we understand as home, property, or repair? And how might
feminist engagements with fiction, film, sound, and design open pathways toward inhabiting more just
and caring futures?

We seek creative, conceptual, and empirical contributions that explore how feminist fabulative
thinking reshapes our understanding of housing and urban life – both in theory and in practice.

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Professor Dr Igor Calzada MBA @icalzada.bsky.social · 3d

#CallForAbstract
Anticipatory #AI #Governance in Public Administrations Worldwide: Digital Inclusion, Territorial Innovation, and Datafied Democracies

#AAG2026 @geographers.bsky.social #SanFrancisco #California

Submit 200-word abstract to [email protected] before 25 Oct!

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William Moseley @williamgmoseley.bsky.social · 2d

Great to be at the Association of Pacific Geographers meeting in Santa Clarita, CA this weekend. Thanks to the organizers! @geographers.bsky.social

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American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · 1d

Students, looking for travel support to attend #AAG2026? We're pleased to announce that we will be awarding student travel grants of $500 plus the cost of in-person registration to help subsidize travel expenses for students presenting in San Francisco.

Apply by November 15: buff.ly/a8D3pkx

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American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · 4d

Although the existence of the digital economic structure divide has been confirmed in various nations and regions, existing research has only examined it at a single geographic scale, leaving out consideration of multiscale dynamics. Read how Yue et al. address how to fill this gap. buff.ly/tOdldMV

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Cultural Geography Specialty Group @culturalgeogsg.bsky.social · 4d

Email CGSG Awards Director ([email protected]) with questions!

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American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · 4d

How has the landscape of fashion changed over time? According to Forbes, geography is no longer the only organizing principle: in an increasing number of cases, it is being eclipsed by generational dynamics and the speed of technology-driven trends.

The New Clock Of Fashion: Why Timing Now Rivals Geography

Geography is no longer the only organizing principle: in some cases it is being eclipsed by generational dynamics and the speed of technology-driven trends.

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Ellie Andrews @ellie-andrews.bsky.social · 5d

Headed to #AAG2026 and have something to say about discretion in natural resource management and environmental governance? Check out this CFP (Adrianne Kroepsch, Jill Harrison, and me): docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · 5d

Identifying accurate correlations between land surface temperature (LST) and its contributing factors is crucial for mitigating LST and its impacts.

Li’s study, informed by comprehensive literature reviews, identifies key factors affecting LST. Read More -> buff.ly/hS5oBIB

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American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · 5d

Happy first anniversary to the newly named Geospatial Professional Network (formerly URISA)! @gpn-org.bsky.social unites merging and experienced GIS professionals through education, networking, and career development. Find out more thegpn.org

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American Geosciences Institute @agi-updates.bsky.social · 5d

⚡️🌎 Power up your energy IQ! Join AGI’s “Energy Resources for Our Future” #WebinarSeries during #EarthScienceWeek (Oct 12–18, 2025)! 💡🔬

Register 👉 forms.office.com/pages/respon...

#STEM #EnergyFuture

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NPR @npr.org · 6d

A cartographer, a composer, a neurobiologist, and a novelist are among the recipients of this year's "Genius Grants." Each Fellow will receive a no-strings attached award of $800,000. n.pr/4h19OGf

Thinkers, dreamers, doers: Here's who made the 2025 MacArthur Fellow list

A cartographer, a composer, a neurobiologist, and a novelist are among the recipients of this year's "Genius Grants." Each Fellow will receive a no-strings attached award of $800,000.

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American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · 5d

Ready to share your unique insights and expertise? Our #AAG2026 call for field visits and workshops is now open! Whether it's related to our host city of San Francisco, or any issue or skill, this is a perfect platform to connect and engage with other meeting participants. buff.ly/JvE53uv

Graphic promoting the 2026 call for field visits and workshops.