Rachel Franklin 🦚
@rsfrankl.bsky.social
Population Geographer | Spatial Demographer.
Partial to words like orthogonal + heterodox.
Also very partial to shoes.
rachelfranklin.org + rachelfranklin.substack.com
Partial to words like orthogonal + heterodox.
Also very partial to shoes.
rachelfranklin.org + rachelfranklin.substack.com
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Rachel Franklin 🦚
@rsfrankl.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Day 10 #30DayMapChallenge (pen and paper) is my feeble back-of-the-envelope attempt to understand the route Billy Joel’s Downeaster Alexa is taking—especially how she can be en route to the Vineyard from Block Island Sound but tonight be Nantucket bound. Makes no sense. #geosky
On a mission to spread the CGA word far and wide
November 21, 2025 at 3:30 AM
On a mission to spread the CGA word far and wide
Back on my #30DayMapChallenge bullshit — catching up with Day 16 ("Cell") with a map of Cambridge, Massachusetts, buildings and parcels because homes are the "energy powerhouses" of local communities and neighborhoods.
November 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Back on my #30DayMapChallenge bullshit — catching up with Day 16 ("Cell") with a map of Cambridge, Massachusetts, buildings and parcels because homes are the "energy powerhouses" of local communities and neighborhoods.
📍 Happy GIS Day to all those who celebrate!
There's still time to join our Center for Geographic Analysis festivities—snacks and swag, posters, a session on spatial resources at Harvard, and a lecture from John Logan on "The Role of Race in Private and Public Redlining in the 1930s."
#GISday
There's still time to join our Center for Geographic Analysis festivities—snacks and swag, posters, a session on spatial resources at Harvard, and a lecture from John Logan on "The Role of Race in Private and Public Redlining in the 1930s."
#GISday
November 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
📍 Happy GIS Day to all those who celebrate!
There's still time to join our Center for Geographic Analysis festivities—snacks and swag, posters, a session on spatial resources at Harvard, and a lecture from John Logan on "The Role of Race in Private and Public Redlining in the 1930s."
#GISday
There's still time to join our Center for Geographic Analysis festivities—snacks and swag, posters, a session on spatial resources at Harvard, and a lecture from John Logan on "The Role of Race in Private and Public Redlining in the 1930s."
#GISday
Day 15 of the #30DayMapChallenge yeah I know I'm late and also that the theme of the day was "fire" not ice.
But, hey, snow and ice can burn too—and so can anger at neighbors who don't shovel their walkways. Here are contours of 311 calls in Boston for "unshoveled snow."
But, hey, snow and ice can burn too—and so can anger at neighbors who don't shovel their walkways. Here are contours of 311 calls in Boston for "unshoveled snow."
November 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Day 15 of the #30DayMapChallenge yeah I know I'm late and also that the theme of the day was "fire" not ice.
But, hey, snow and ice can burn too—and so can anger at neighbors who don't shovel their walkways. Here are contours of 311 calls in Boston for "unshoveled snow."
But, hey, snow and ice can burn too—and so can anger at neighbors who don't shovel their walkways. Here are contours of 311 calls in Boston for "unshoveled snow."
How your email finds me
November 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM
How your email finds me
Reposted by Rachel Franklin 🦚
to have an affair with one longshot presidential candidate twice your age that you’re profiling may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness
November 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
to have an affair with one longshot presidential candidate twice your age that you’re profiling may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness
Reposted by Rachel Franklin 🦚
Glad to share this paper is now published "A family of accessibility measures derived from spatial interaction principles" journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
A delightful colab led by @soukhova.bsky.social !
A delightful colab led by @soukhova.bsky.social !
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Glad to share this paper is now published "A family of accessibility measures derived from spatial interaction principles" journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
A delightful colab led by @soukhova.bsky.social !
A delightful colab led by @soukhova.bsky.social !
Is it really #30DayMapChallenge if there's no geography challenge? Day 14 (OpenStreetMap) comes with a question: given an idiosyncratic city and several key identifying features, how hard is it to guess the city?
November 16, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Is it really #30DayMapChallenge if there's no geography challenge? Day 14 (OpenStreetMap) comes with a question: given an idiosyncratic city and several key identifying features, how hard is it to guess the city?
Reposted by Rachel Franklin 🦚
6/To those who call my position political correctness, being woke, an example of cancel culture, I say the following. A profession's decisions on how to allocate opportunities has dimensions that define its professional ethos and culture. There are spillover effects that matter.
November 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
6/To those who call my position political correctness, being woke, an example of cancel culture, I say the following. A profession's decisions on how to allocate opportunities has dimensions that define its professional ethos and culture. There are spillover effects that matter.
Reposted by Rachel Franklin 🦚
Update your syllabus and stay on the frontier - it will increase your students’ wages. Epic work by my colleagues @barbarabiasi.com and @profsongma.bsky.social #linkoftheday
www.barbarabiasi.com/uploads/1/0/...
www.barbarabiasi.com/uploads/1/0/...
November 15, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Update your syllabus and stay on the frontier - it will increase your students’ wages. Epic work by my colleagues @barbarabiasi.com and @profsongma.bsky.social #linkoftheday
www.barbarabiasi.com/uploads/1/0/...
www.barbarabiasi.com/uploads/1/0/...
Happy Geography Season to all those who celebrate! 🎉 Join us at the Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) for #GISday next week!
Come for the snacks, swag, and maps.
Stay for our special GIS Day lecture from John Logan, Brown University Sociology.
Details below and here: lnkd.in/edc5e89B
Come for the snacks, swag, and maps.
Stay for our special GIS Day lecture from John Logan, Brown University Sociology.
Details below and here: lnkd.in/edc5e89B
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Happy Geography Season to all those who celebrate! 🎉 Join us at the Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) for #GISday next week!
Come for the snacks, swag, and maps.
Stay for our special GIS Day lecture from John Logan, Brown University Sociology.
Details below and here: lnkd.in/edc5e89B
Come for the snacks, swag, and maps.
Stay for our special GIS Day lecture from John Logan, Brown University Sociology.
Details below and here: lnkd.in/edc5e89B
Fast “10 minute map” for Day 13 of the #30DayMapChallenge. All the Franklin Counties in the US. Thought there’d be more tbh because Franklin is such a truly awesome name
November 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Fast “10 minute map” for Day 13 of the #30DayMapChallenge. All the Franklin Counties in the US. Thought there’d be more tbh because Franklin is such a truly awesome name
#30DayMapChallenge — Day 12 — "Map from 2125"
Hear me out. All the people who are already dead will still be dead in 2125. Also probably all the folks who get the reference in the map title. And me. I'll be dead too.
Hear me out. All the people who are already dead will still be dead in 2125. Also probably all the folks who get the reference in the map title. And me. I'll be dead too.
November 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
#30DayMapChallenge — Day 12 — "Map from 2125"
Hear me out. All the people who are already dead will still be dead in 2125. Also probably all the folks who get the reference in the map title. And me. I'll be dead too.
Hear me out. All the people who are already dead will still be dead in 2125. Also probably all the folks who get the reference in the map title. And me. I'll be dead too.
Reposted by Rachel Franklin 🦚
Day 7 of #30DayMapChallenge asked us to think about accessibility. @gsagostini.bsky.social considers two metrics of access simultaneously: distance to a Subway and distance to the subway.
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Day 7 of #30DayMapChallenge asked us to think about accessibility. @gsagostini.bsky.social considers two metrics of access simultaneously: distance to a Subway and distance to the subway.
Reposted by Rachel Franklin 🦚
we need a department of kerning
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
we need a department of kerning
Reposted by Rachel Franklin 🦚
Harvard is hiring a new director for the Joint Center for Housing Studies. academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15490
Nicolas P. and Joan B. Retsinas Director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies and Associate Professor in Practice, Professor in Practice, or Senior Lecturer
The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) seeks to appoint a distinguished scholar and/or practitioner with a deep understanding of housing markets, practice, and policy to serve as the inaugural Ni...
academicpositions.harvard.edu
November 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Harvard is hiring a new director for the Joint Center for Housing Studies. academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15490
🎧 new episode of the #GLaDpodcast is out!
You can run but you can’t hide. @levijohnwolf.bsky.social, @darribas.bsky.social and I went to the source (Krzysztof Janowicz) to hear more about Geo + AI, AI for Geo, and my personal bugbear GeoAI.
#geography #geoAI
open.spotify.com/episode/7zZj...
You can run but you can’t hide. @levijohnwolf.bsky.social, @darribas.bsky.social and I went to the source (Krzysztof Janowicz) to hear more about Geo + AI, AI for Geo, and my personal bugbear GeoAI.
#geography #geoAI
open.spotify.com/episode/7zZj...
Episode 27: Are you GLaD about GeoAI? A conversation with Kryzsztof Janowicz
open.spotify.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
🎧 new episode of the #GLaDpodcast is out!
You can run but you can’t hide. @levijohnwolf.bsky.social, @darribas.bsky.social and I went to the source (Krzysztof Janowicz) to hear more about Geo + AI, AI for Geo, and my personal bugbear GeoAI.
#geography #geoAI
open.spotify.com/episode/7zZj...
You can run but you can’t hide. @levijohnwolf.bsky.social, @darribas.bsky.social and I went to the source (Krzysztof Janowicz) to hear more about Geo + AI, AI for Geo, and my personal bugbear GeoAI.
#geography #geoAI
open.spotify.com/episode/7zZj...
What can I say, I have a terminal fear of being boring.
(There's actual research content in there, I swear!)
(There's actual research content in there, I swear!)
November 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
What can I say, I have a terminal fear of being boring.
(There's actual research content in there, I swear!)
(There's actual research content in there, I swear!)
xxxxx this
And if people do put x's they're most likely to use two! Vital piece of information there.
November 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
xxxxx this
Reposted by Rachel Franklin 🦚
And now, @rsfrankl.bsky.social takes on old marriage adage to describe the coming together of different approaches to Spatial Economic Analysis
November 13, 2025 at 9:49 AM
And now, @rsfrankl.bsky.social takes on old marriage adage to describe the coming together of different approaches to Spatial Economic Analysis
Could be fun, right?
#30DayMapChallenge (Day 11 — Minimal Map — the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts)
#30DayMapChallenge (Day 11 — Minimal Map — the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts)
November 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Could be fun, right?
#30DayMapChallenge (Day 11 — Minimal Map — the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts)
#30DayMapChallenge (Day 11 — Minimal Map — the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts)
The neighborhood I want
November 12, 2025 at 12:11 AM
The neighborhood I want
I hope the answer to this question is yes
The race to churn out papers is a systemic problem.
Early career scholars are desperate to get more papers to compete in the academic job market. This can make it hard for faculty mentors hard to reduce their output unless they shrink their lab (which removes opportunities from next generation).
Early career scholars are desperate to get more papers to compete in the academic job market. This can make it hard for faculty mentors hard to reduce their output unless they shrink their lab (which removes opportunities from next generation).
November 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I hope the answer to this question is yes
Reposted by Rachel Franklin 🦚
There's this story about how CS Lewis was out with a friend and stopped to give a vagrant some money. Lewis's friend chided him, saying "you know he's just to buy liquor with it, right?"
Lewis responded, "Well, so was I."
Lewis responded, "Well, so was I."
The right's obsession with SNAP recipients buying popsicles is a modern version of a centuries-old tradition of scolding the poor for what they eat. It mimics verbatim Victorian complaints about the poor indulging in tea and sugar, mistaking consumption as a cause of poverty instead of a symptom.
POP(SICLE) PSYCHOLOGY | Gin and Tacos
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November 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
There's this story about how CS Lewis was out with a friend and stopped to give a vagrant some money. Lewis's friend chided him, saying "you know he's just to buy liquor with it, right?"
Lewis responded, "Well, so was I."
Lewis responded, "Well, so was I."
Reposted by Rachel Franklin 🦚
Hi! We’re a coffee shop where you had a work meeting eight months ago. Would you like to get two emails a week for the rest of your life?
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Hi! We’re a coffee shop where you had a work meeting eight months ago. Would you like to get two emails a week for the rest of your life?