Matt Wilson
@wilsonism.bsky.social
Chair and Professor at Kentucky Geography, Associate at Harvard CGA, Editor at cultural geographies, Director at Mapshop
“List of books wanted by R H Bishop”, ca 1810, Transylvania University. Dr Bishop offered coursework in geography at TU before becoming the first president of Miami U of Ohio in 1824
August 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
“List of books wanted by R H Bishop”, ca 1810, Transylvania University. Dr Bishop offered coursework in geography at TU before becoming the first president of Miami U of Ohio in 1824
Reading geography student final papers in the 1820s from Transylvania University.
August 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Reading geography student final papers in the 1820s from Transylvania University.
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The 2025 NACIS Annual Meeting will be in Louisville, KY, Oct 15-18! We invite you to submit abstract proposals for presentations in the Main Conference or Practical Cartography Day or to organize specialty themed sessions, discussion panels, workshops and field trips. Submissions due May 15, 2025.
April 2, 2025 at 12:38 AM
The 2025 NACIS Annual Meeting will be in Louisville, KY, Oct 15-18! We invite you to submit abstract proposals for presentations in the Main Conference or Practical Cartography Day or to organize specialty themed sessions, discussion panels, workshops and field trips. Submissions due May 15, 2025.
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thank you, @shannonmattern.bsky.social for the visit and for these kind words!
@jswab.bsky.social and I have organized a @geographers.bsky.social session on "Minor Histories of GIS," feat. @wilsonism.bsky.social, @mapasurbanos.bsky.social, me on *Processing Place*, and others
today, 2:30, rm 336!
@jswab.bsky.social and I have organized a @geographers.bsky.social session on "Minor Histories of GIS," feat. @wilsonism.bsky.social, @mapasurbanos.bsky.social, me on *Processing Place*, and others
today, 2:30, rm 336!
So glad I was able to catch this exhibition before it closes on the 23rd! Such a fantastic embodiment of how our information systems and media artifacts are a product of digital + analog tools, printing technologies, social networks, and inter-institutional collaborations!
March 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
thank you, @shannonmattern.bsky.social for the visit and for these kind words!
@jswab.bsky.social and I have organized a @geographers.bsky.social session on "Minor Histories of GIS," feat. @wilsonism.bsky.social, @mapasurbanos.bsky.social, me on *Processing Place*, and others
today, 2:30, rm 336!
@jswab.bsky.social and I have organized a @geographers.bsky.social session on "Minor Histories of GIS," feat. @wilsonism.bsky.social, @mapasurbanos.bsky.social, me on *Processing Place*, and others
today, 2:30, rm 336!
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Geographers attending AAG in Detroit: Please join @wilsonism.bsky.social and I on Monday afternoon in room 259 for our “Media Matter(s) in Geography” sessions! We will be joined by a fantastic set of presenters and panelists—more details in the flyer and link: jacographer.com/aag-cfp-25/
March 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Geographers attending AAG in Detroit: Please join @wilsonism.bsky.social and I on Monday afternoon in room 259 for our “Media Matter(s) in Geography” sessions! We will be joined by a fantastic set of presenters and panelists—more details in the flyer and link: jacographer.com/aag-cfp-25/
Someone noting Doreen Massey’s book, For Space, being published **two decades ago** took my breath away
a cat is sitting in front of a sony television and gasps in cat is written below it
ALT: a cat is sitting in front of a sony television and gasps in cat is written below it
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March 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Someone noting Doreen Massey’s book, For Space, being published **two decades ago** took my breath away
The TIGER/Line Shapefiles, too!? flowingdata.com/2025/02/04/g...
Geographic boundary data and microdata from Census Bureau is offline
As of this evening on February 4, 2025, the TIGER/Line shapefiles, which provide legal boundaries at various geographic levels, are currently unavailable on the Census website. The site is there, b…
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February 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The TIGER/Line Shapefiles, too!? flowingdata.com/2025/02/04/g...
Grateful to join the Familiar Landscapes workshop at @knowltonosu.bsky.social with a little invited essay that thinks with Pumpkin Center, Missouri (and shout-out to the new book by @psimpy.bsky.social)
January 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Grateful to join the Familiar Landscapes workshop at @knowltonosu.bsky.social with a little invited essay that thinks with Pumpkin Center, Missouri (and shout-out to the new book by @psimpy.bsky.social)
When the research for an essay overlaps with organizing a storage area of my parents’ house #familiarlandscapes
December 27, 2024 at 8:45 PM
When the research for an essay overlaps with organizing a storage area of my parents’ house #familiarlandscapes
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We have been so blessed to have Candida in leadership at the AAG throughout the years. 💛 @geographers.bsky.social
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Chief Operating Officer Candida Mannozzi Retires December 31 - AAG
AAG - Chief Operating Officer Candida Mannozzi Retires December 31 - All -
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December 18, 2024 at 8:56 PM
We have been so blessed to have Candida in leadership at the AAG throughout the years. 💛 @geographers.bsky.social
www.aag.org/chief-operat...
www.aag.org/chief-operat...
Check this cuteness that arrived in the mail from the Sayre second graders I visited #geography
December 18, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Check this cuteness that arrived in the mail from the Sayre second graders I visited #geography
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Happy to share that my paper "On the individuation of complex computational models: Gilbert Simondon and the technicity of AI" is now available on AI & Society. Thanks to @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social for putting together this special issue!
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December 16, 2024 at 10:05 AM
Happy to share that my paper "On the individuation of complex computational models: Gilbert Simondon and the technicity of AI" is now available on AI & Society. Thanks to @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social for putting together this special issue!
🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s001...
🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s001...
Always fun to host the GEO702 seminar students for brunch! Hard to believe another Fall semester is nearly over. Best wishes to all finishing the term!
December 14, 2024 at 7:27 PM
Always fun to host the GEO702 seminar students for brunch! Hard to believe another Fall semester is nearly over. Best wishes to all finishing the term!
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@NOAA: November 2024 was the world's second-warmest November on record. It is almost certain that 2024 will be Earth's warmest year in NOAA's 175-year global record. Get the latest global #November2024 #climate report: bit.ly/3ZwbeQz #StateOfClimate
December 12, 2024 at 9:18 PM
@NOAA: November 2024 was the world's second-warmest November on record. It is almost certain that 2024 will be Earth's warmest year in NOAA's 175-year global record. Get the latest global #November2024 #climate report: bit.ly/3ZwbeQz #StateOfClimate
While doing course planning, typed “Internment in Geography” instead of “Internship”. 🪦
Well done, chair brain.
Well done, chair brain.
December 12, 2024 at 5:17 PM
While doing course planning, typed “Internment in Geography” instead of “Internship”. 🪦
Well done, chair brain.
Well done, chair brain.
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"Winterer’s 📕 tells the story of the gradual discovery, spanning the early 19th c., that the Earth was millions, and even billions, of years older than the Bible would suggest.... Once the idea of deep time fully sunk in..., it transformed the way 🇺🇸s perceived their country and their continent."
How Geology Shaped American Culture
The discovery of ‘deep time’ in 19th-century America.
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December 2, 2024 at 8:24 PM
"Winterer’s 📕 tells the story of the gradual discovery, spanning the early 19th c., that the Earth was millions, and even billions, of years older than the Bible would suggest.... Once the idea of deep time fully sunk in..., it transformed the way 🇺🇸s perceived their country and their continent."
A newspaper clipping from 1967 inside some files related to the Harvard LCGSA #digitaltwins
November 20, 2024 at 2:25 PM
A newspaper clipping from 1967 inside some files related to the Harvard LCGSA #digitaltwins
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The Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia (UVA) invites applications for postdoctoral fellows who will be part of the Digital Technology for Democracy Lab- we will be hiring up to six postdoc fellows!
jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...
jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Digital Technology for Democracy in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Research at University of Virginia
Apply for Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Digital Technology for Democracy job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Research at University of Virginia
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November 13, 2024 at 7:18 PM
The Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia (UVA) invites applications for postdoctoral fellows who will be part of the Digital Technology for Democracy Lab- we will be hiring up to six postdoc fellows!
jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...
jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...
Thinking with my Grandpa Dean’s high school geography textbook (by RH Whitbeck, U of Wisc), which included annotation perhaps by him in the early 1940s: “Danger proceed at own risk.”
November 14, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Thinking with my Grandpa Dean’s high school geography textbook (by RH Whitbeck, U of Wisc), which included annotation perhaps by him in the early 1940s: “Danger proceed at own risk.”
Working on a chapter on memorization, thinking with this sketch by Edward Ullman in 1934 of Chicago (in his early 20s), while he was a geography student at the University of Chicago. (And thanks to @jswab.bsky.social for finding Ullman’s sketchbook!)
November 12, 2024 at 1:21 PM
Working on a chapter on memorization, thinking with this sketch by Edward Ullman in 1934 of Chicago (in his early 20s), while he was a geography student at the University of Chicago. (And thanks to @jswab.bsky.social for finding Ullman’s sketchbook!)
Doing some reading this morning on efforts to move elementary geography education away from fact memorization in the interwar period. Excerpt from Marguerite Uttley in The Journal of Geography in 1940, chair of the Testing Committee, National Council of Geography Teachers.
November 11, 2024 at 3:37 PM
Doing some reading this morning on efforts to move elementary geography education away from fact memorization in the interwar period. Excerpt from Marguerite Uttley in The Journal of Geography in 1940, chair of the Testing Committee, National Council of Geography Teachers.
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GEOGRAPHERS for JUSTICE in PALESTINE -- a pre-AAG workshop, Sunday, March 23, 2025, Detroit, MI -- sign up / save the date / share widely docs.google.com/document/d/e...
SAVE THE DATE- GEOGRAPHERS for JUSTICE in PALESTINE
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November 11, 2024 at 2:10 PM
GEOGRAPHERS for JUSTICE in PALESTINE -- a pre-AAG workshop, Sunday, March 23, 2025, Detroit, MI -- sign up / save the date / share widely docs.google.com/document/d/e...