Steven Manson
@smmanson.bsky.social
Geographer of human environmental systems and data.
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Does your US State have a higher or lower Human Development Index than Germany? Source: buff.ly/NU3L634
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Does your US State have a higher or lower Human Development Index than Germany? Source: buff.ly/NU3L634
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For prospective Masters students interested in cities and computing, mapping and visualisation, digital connectivity and data analysis, here’s your chance to learn more about our stellar programmes at UCL CASA in London
Ready for a change in direction, want to step up your #gis and #giscience 'game', or interested in #AI, #datascience, #IoT and the #urban? Sign up to hear more about our four Masters programmes at a virtual postgraduate open data on 30 October from 1-2pm: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/eve...
The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis Virtual Postgraduate Open Day
Join our virtual open day to discover how you can pivot your career into AI, data science and urban technology, using spatial data to shape the future of cities.
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
For prospective Masters students interested in cities and computing, mapping and visualisation, digital connectivity and data analysis, here’s your chance to learn more about our stellar programmes at UCL CASA in London
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One way sighted people can determine what to put in alt text: Imagine you sent the post or article to a friend, and the image didn't load. What would someone need to know to get the equivalent experience and context? This will help you identify the important details.
October 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
One way sighted people can determine what to put in alt text: Imagine you sent the post or article to a friend, and the image didn't load. What would someone need to know to get the equivalent experience and context? This will help you identify the important details.
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My blog, Twin City Sidewalks, turned twenty years old today. Wow. That's a long time! tcsidewalks.blogspot.com/2025/10/20th...
20th Anniversary of This Blog
Believe it or not... I started this blog 20 years ago today . It's still the best career move I've made, as writing publicly about cities an...
tcsidewalks.blogspot.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
My blog, Twin City Sidewalks, turned twenty years old today. Wow. That's a long time! tcsidewalks.blogspot.com/2025/10/20th...
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Our next seminar is with @grantdmckenzie.bsky.social
"Place, Privacy and Mobility: Navigating the intersection of location science and human dynamics"
Date: 4th November 2025 @ 2pm UK time (online only).
Register here: tinyurl.com/3bzv63rj
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Our next seminar is with @grantdmckenzie.bsky.social
"Place, Privacy and Mobility: Navigating the intersection of location science and human dynamics"
Date: 4th November 2025 @ 2pm UK time (online only).
Register here: tinyurl.com/3bzv63rj
✨🌍
October 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Our next seminar is with @grantdmckenzie.bsky.social
"Place, Privacy and Mobility: Navigating the intersection of location science and human dynamics"
Date: 4th November 2025 @ 2pm UK time (online only).
Register here: tinyurl.com/3bzv63rj
✨🌍
Our next seminar is with @grantdmckenzie.bsky.social
"Place, Privacy and Mobility: Navigating the intersection of location science and human dynamics"
Date: 4th November 2025 @ 2pm UK time (online only).
Register here: tinyurl.com/3bzv63rj
✨🌍
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What academic worth their salt trusts the word of ANY Big Tech company? Their histories demonstrate they will lie, cheat and steal and that they do not care about anything about making trillions; why trust them? Why entrust our students to them? Why train your chatbot replacements?
“The pilot will explore how AI can enhance teaching, research and university operations, while also gathering feedback to guide the responsible and effective use of AI across campus.”
William & Mary launches ChatGPT Edu pilot
By integrating artificial intelligence tools, the university is positioning itself at the forefront of higher education innovation.
news.wm.edu
October 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
What academic worth their salt trusts the word of ANY Big Tech company? Their histories demonstrate they will lie, cheat and steal and that they do not care about anything about making trillions; why trust them? Why entrust our students to them? Why train your chatbot replacements?
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The National Institute of Aging made half as many new R01 awards (primary mechanism for funding) in FY25 than in FY24. This is devastating for younger scholars who study aging. Many newly hired faculty/researchers now face an uphill battle to keep their careers.
Here is NIA.
NIA made on 51% as many new R01 awards in FY25 compared with FY24.
7/n
NIA made on 51% as many new R01 awards in FY25 compared with FY24.
7/n
October 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
The National Institute of Aging made half as many new R01 awards (primary mechanism for funding) in FY25 than in FY24. This is devastating for younger scholars who study aging. Many newly hired faculty/researchers now face an uphill battle to keep their careers.
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Strategic underfunding is par for the course in Georgia and across the south. Offer benefits so we say we do, but make it extraordinarily difficult to actually receive them. In this case, we are spending more federal money on red tape than health care.
www.propublica.org/article/geor...
www.propublica.org/article/geor...
Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says
Republican lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent at lea...
www.propublica.org
September 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Strategic underfunding is par for the course in Georgia and across the south. Offer benefits so we say we do, but make it extraordinarily difficult to actually receive them. In this case, we are spending more federal money on red tape than health care.
www.propublica.org/article/geor...
www.propublica.org/article/geor...
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🎧New #GLaDpodcast 🎧 Everything you ever wanted to know about mobile phone data in social science and never dared to ask, all in an entertaining™️ conversation btw @levijohnwolf.bsky.social, @rsfrankl.bsky.social, yours truly and the one and only @wenfeixu.bsky.social.
www.podbean.com/ew/pb-ufnqe-...
www.podbean.com/ew/pb-ufnqe-...
Episode 25: What we talk about when we talk about mobile phone data
Here's an episode all about data—mobile phone data, to be exact. What are we talking about when we talk about using “mobile phone data” in our research? How are these data generated? Who produces them...
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September 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🎧New #GLaDpodcast 🎧 Everything you ever wanted to know about mobile phone data in social science and never dared to ask, all in an entertaining™️ conversation btw @levijohnwolf.bsky.social, @rsfrankl.bsky.social, yours truly and the one and only @wenfeixu.bsky.social.
www.podbean.com/ew/pb-ufnqe-...
www.podbean.com/ew/pb-ufnqe-...
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The Grand Rounds trails are one of the best parts of the Minneapolis parks system. There is also room for significant improvement, and that’ll cost real money and political energy. So you gotta start somewhere. I would nominate the Lake Harriet and Minnehaha Creek (Lynnhurst to Portland) as priority
Look at how much space we set aside for drivers (parkway on the left).
Many of the bike/ped paths we used today were SO crowded with people running/walking and riding bikes.
It’s time to rethink how we use our parkways. We did it in 2020. We can & should do it again!
Many of the bike/ped paths we used today were SO crowded with people running/walking and riding bikes.
It’s time to rethink how we use our parkways. We did it in 2020. We can & should do it again!
September 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The Grand Rounds trails are one of the best parts of the Minneapolis parks system. There is also room for significant improvement, and that’ll cost real money and political energy. So you gotta start somewhere. I would nominate the Lake Harriet and Minnehaha Creek (Lynnhurst to Portland) as priority
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Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work
the entire media ecosystem is just not built or ready for events like this and far right billionaires like larry ellison buying news orgs will only make this worse
September 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work
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Here at your friendly "Geography, Life, and Data" podcast, we do a lot of Geography, a lot of Life, and a lot of Geography Life. This one's for the Data—mobile phone data, that is. ☎️
@darribas.bsky.social @levijohnwolf.bsky.social @wenfeixu.bsky.social #geography
open.spotify.com/episode/7Hmx...
@darribas.bsky.social @levijohnwolf.bsky.social @wenfeixu.bsky.social #geography
open.spotify.com/episode/7Hmx...
Episode 25: What we talk about when we talk about mobile phone data
open.spotify.com
September 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Here at your friendly "Geography, Life, and Data" podcast, we do a lot of Geography, a lot of Life, and a lot of Geography Life. This one's for the Data—mobile phone data, that is. ☎️
@darribas.bsky.social @levijohnwolf.bsky.social @wenfeixu.bsky.social #geography
open.spotify.com/episode/7Hmx...
@darribas.bsky.social @levijohnwolf.bsky.social @wenfeixu.bsky.social #geography
open.spotify.com/episode/7Hmx...
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Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
usa.streetsblog.org
September 1, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
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Our awesome EdTech team at TRU has produced a really good guide for instructors on GenAI in university education:
"This guide provides practical strategies and best practices for integrating or avoiding generative artificial intelligence tools in your teaching practice."
aieducation.trubox.ca
"This guide provides practical strategies and best practices for integrating or avoiding generative artificial intelligence tools in your teaching practice."
aieducation.trubox.ca
Gen AI in Education
aieducation.trubox.ca
August 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Our awesome EdTech team at TRU has produced a really good guide for instructors on GenAI in university education:
"This guide provides practical strategies and best practices for integrating or avoiding generative artificial intelligence tools in your teaching practice."
aieducation.trubox.ca
"This guide provides practical strategies and best practices for integrating or avoiding generative artificial intelligence tools in your teaching practice."
aieducation.trubox.ca
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Fantastic keynote session from Dr Michelle LaRue, University of Canterbury discussing #remotesensing imagery for monitoring the Antarctic emperor #penguin population.
#giscience2025
#giscience2025
August 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Fantastic keynote session from Dr Michelle LaRue, University of Canterbury discussing #remotesensing imagery for monitoring the Antarctic emperor #penguin population.
#giscience2025
#giscience2025
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The study is the first to look at the health hazards arising from pollution generated across all stages of the oil and gas lifecycle, from exploration and extraction; storage and transmission; oil refining and gas processing, to end-use activities, including storage, transportation and consumption.
Air Pollution From Oil and Gas Kills 91,000 Yearly in US: Study
Asian, Black, Hispanic, and Native American communities experience the worst burden from air pollution from oil and gas in the US.
earth.org
August 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The study is the first to look at the health hazards arising from pollution generated across all stages of the oil and gas lifecycle, from exploration and extraction; storage and transmission; oil refining and gas processing, to end-use activities, including storage, transportation and consumption.
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Read the whole thread, looks like a fully AI generated paper. @nadiah.bsky.social perhaps you should report this to the journal or to retractionwatch.com ?
Check out the graphical abstract for a paper recently published in Ecological Modelling.
I have papers published in Ecological Modelling. Never again, I guess.
I have papers published in Ecological Modelling. Never again, I guess.
August 26, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Read the whole thread, looks like a fully AI generated paper. @nadiah.bsky.social perhaps you should report this to the journal or to retractionwatch.com ?
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🚨 We’ve just updated @carbonbrief.org's factcheck of Trump’s ‘critical’ climate report. 🚨
Huge thanks to all the dozens of climate scientists who have helped us pull together this rebuttal — including the authors of our brand new additions.
interactive.carbonbrief.org/doe-factchec...
Huge thanks to all the dozens of climate scientists who have helped us pull together this rebuttal — including the authors of our brand new additions.
interactive.carbonbrief.org/doe-factchec...
Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims
interactive.carbonbrief.org
August 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
🚨 We’ve just updated @carbonbrief.org's factcheck of Trump’s ‘critical’ climate report. 🚨
Huge thanks to all the dozens of climate scientists who have helped us pull together this rebuttal — including the authors of our brand new additions.
interactive.carbonbrief.org/doe-factchec...
Huge thanks to all the dozens of climate scientists who have helped us pull together this rebuttal — including the authors of our brand new additions.
interactive.carbonbrief.org/doe-factchec...
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And one more: www.cosit2026.uk
The 17th Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2026)
www.cosit2026.uk
August 26, 2025 at 9:52 AM
And one more: www.cosit2026.uk
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The Spatial Data Science Symposium #SDSS2025 is back. Check out the Call for Sessions and Call for Papers: sdss2025.spatial-data-science.net
Spatial Data Science Symposium 2025
December 4-5 | Distributed & Online. The symposium aims to bring together researchers from both academia and industry to discuss experiences, insights, methodologies, and applications, taking spatial...
sdss2025.spatial-data-science.net
August 25, 2025 at 4:47 AM
The Spatial Data Science Symposium #SDSS2025 is back. Check out the Call for Sessions and Call for Papers: sdss2025.spatial-data-science.net
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Y'all, my seminar for first year students is on this list. 🧇🗺️
August 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Y'all, my seminar for first year students is on this list. 🧇🗺️
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On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout.
On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.
This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.
Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.
This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.
Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
August 22, 2025 at 11:41 AM
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout.
On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.
This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.
Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.
This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.
Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
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Ya girl got a ribbon on her first crop art entry 😭😭😭😭
August 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Ya girl got a ribbon on her first crop art entry 😭😭😭😭
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Happy to share the release of the 2nd edition of Mapping, Society, and Technology. Props to @smmanson.bsky.social for wranging multiple of us to update it. It's a free text suitable for many introductory GIS courses, hosted at UMN Libraries. open.lib.umn.edu/mapping/ #gischat
Mapping, Society, and Technology – Simple Book Publishing
Exploring relationships among maps, society, and technology
open.lib.umn.edu
August 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Happy to share the release of the 2nd edition of Mapping, Society, and Technology. Props to @smmanson.bsky.social for wranging multiple of us to update it. It's a free text suitable for many introductory GIS courses, hosted at UMN Libraries. open.lib.umn.edu/mapping/ #gischat
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AI is now definitely changing how we live our (geography) lives!
Join @rsfrankl.bsky.social, @darribas.bsky.social, and me for another episode of GLaD, where we discuss whether you should be vibe coding w/ Claude, sending ChatGPT review requests, or running on AI-made routes!
shorturl.at/GLNKd
Join @rsfrankl.bsky.social, @darribas.bsky.social, and me for another episode of GLaD, where we discuss whether you should be vibe coding w/ Claude, sending ChatGPT review requests, or running on AI-made routes!
shorturl.at/GLNKd
AI & GLaD in Practice: a field report
The GLaD Podcast · Episode
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August 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
AI is now definitely changing how we live our (geography) lives!
Join @rsfrankl.bsky.social, @darribas.bsky.social, and me for another episode of GLaD, where we discuss whether you should be vibe coding w/ Claude, sending ChatGPT review requests, or running on AI-made routes!
shorturl.at/GLNKd
Join @rsfrankl.bsky.social, @darribas.bsky.social, and me for another episode of GLaD, where we discuss whether you should be vibe coding w/ Claude, sending ChatGPT review requests, or running on AI-made routes!
shorturl.at/GLNKd