@mapesgeog
Community geographer, cartographer, pedestrian, cyclist. Author of "The New American Small Town: Lessons for sustainable urban futures" (West Virginia University Press, June 2025). https://communitygeography.kent.edu/
Car driving through crosswalk in front of crossing guard while walk signal is on.
Every. Single. Day. (there’s even a cop out today watching for speeders but ignoring blatant red light running)
Artist Connor Riva holds his train lantern which showcases eight trains based on those used along the towpath & Cuyahoga River through time. The multicolored locomotives spiral around a pole that Riva holds in the air in front of a bridge over the tracks and Cuyahoga.
A fuzzy fish selfie: a blue lake sturgeon with glow sticks for whiskers.
Parade of lanterns including a large salamander snakes down toward the bridges with the lights of Cleveland's downtown in the background as dusk falls.
My family holding the five foot long sturgeon which is illuminated in blue with bridges of the flats and the lights of Cleveland's downtown in the background.
Hundreds of people came to the Towpath Trail Lantern Parade along the Cuyahoga River last night-- I built a lake sturgeon out of tissue paper, wisteria branches, and tape. Other folks built theirs at a pre-building party at the Upcycled Parts Store. And there was one guy with the train lantern... 😍
Grant Witness is hiring! We're seeking a full-time data scientist to join our team building data resources to support journalism, litigation, and activism protecting science, public health, and the rule of law. grant-witness.us/apply.html #rstats
This looks like a cool 2-year postdoc in oral history + social justice at Duke's Center for Documentary Studies! Due 3/16 (names of recommenders but not letters needed for this round).
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31652
Endorse. 💯
I put together a list of recent job postings in the mapping and journalism space, please add more as you find them!
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Map illustrating 163 National Park Service sites that submitted materials for review, with proportional symbols illustrating the number of items submitted per site and what type of content (exhibits, publications film etc). The example texts for Canyonlands National Park state: These panels (one each in two park districts) introduce visitors to biological soil crust and its ecological services. The park seeks guidance on whether the text describing negative outcomes associated with loss of soil crusts is within scope of Secretary's Order 3431. The text reads: "Because the organisms grow within 1/8th inch (3mm) of the surface, small impacts have big effects on soil conditions. Even a single footstep crushes this fragile system. Livestock grazing, off-road vehicle travel, and land development can lead to broad-scale damage, the effects of which are being studied today... AND This panel describes the impacts of past activities, such as mining and grazing, on desert plant communities. The park seeks guidance on whether the entire panel is within scope of Secretary's Order 3431 and should be covered or removed. The text reads: AND This panel describes the impacts of haze or dust on air quality and viewsheds within the park, and research being done to monitor it. The park seeks guidance on whether this topic is within scope of Secretary's Order 3431.
Today in "did someone already (counter)map this?" yes, of course they did!
Here is a map/text of the suggested National Park System edits "for review." Not shown: 332 sites that said they have "nothing to report" www.pbump.net/o/heres-wher...
WTF is this. Grammarly will have dead scholars review your draft? And I'd be shocked if William Cronon signed up to be artficialized as commenting on your draft?
My kid complains far more about a 10 min drive than a 15 min walk & I love that.
Dead animal carcass on the sidewalk, likely plowed onto there.
Not sure what this was but it’s still there in the sidewalk in Akron a few weeks later.
Glad you shared so I could dispel this myth. 283,000+ and growing taking the AP Human Geography exam.
Actually even more students took the class that’s just the number who took the exam. More students taking AP geog than AP environmental science. Doesn’t mean we don’t struggle to get geography into US high schools but it’s not dead.
Not true! 283,000 high school students too AP Human Geography last year.
If riding an e-bike is cheating, just wait until folks hear about cars
I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.
Doing things the "right" way, burning out and then realizing there is another option, coming back and winning it all with no fucks given? Yes please tell me that story forever.
Cover of Fieldwork in Human Geography: Richard Phillips and Jennifer Johns (Sage, 2012)
Chapter 3 in Fieldwork for Human Geography (Phillips & Johns 2012) is about developing a fieldwork plan.
The host, Wick Poetry Center does amazing work. Here's a map of poems from Cuyahoga Valley National Park they made. cvnp.travelingstanzas.com/map And these beautiful banners for an earlier Poets for Science project. poetsforscience.org/collection/
Love that our university is hosting this Poets for Science Gathering in November. Join us! Poets who love science, scientists who love poetry, and poet-scientists are all welcome. poetsforscience.org/gathering-20...
Loved the natural scientist who reviewed my reappointment file and complained “no grant activity” last year….
map making = #sciart 💚🗺
View looking north from the top of the Terminal Tower in Cleveland over looking Lake Erie. // Image captured at: 2026-02-18 22:54:12 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: youtube.com/@earthcam // Current Temp in Cleveland: 56.71 F | 13.73 C // Precip: scattered clouds // Wind: SSE at 4.608 mph | 7.41 kph // Humidity: 89%
Current* conditions near Cleveland, OH:
hah, turns out the 195 is meant to be the start of the year it was completed...in the 1950s. www.etsy.com/nz/listing/4...
The times I've encountered this is not often but not zero. Committing here to calling this out politely: "please call back in when you're not driving" seems doable and potentially lifesaving.
Yesterday MyChart messaged me that my test results from a test 6 mo ago showed a life threatening condition (that I don’t have). Now I’m wondering if this was AI. 🧐
My students don’t even think they’re real residents. I share my take that even if they aren’t here in 5 or 10 yrs (+) someone just like them will be and they should vote & participate for that person. Plus… a lot them end up staying!
This is why *all* researchers need reflexivity--not just qualitative ones.
Our training and our backgrounds and our preexisting beliefs shape the research questions we ask, the methods decisions we make (eg, variables, models, or missing data strategies), and the way we interpret findings.
View of Chicago skyline from William E. Dever Crib in Lake Michigan east of North Avenue. // Image captured at: 2026-02-15 22:20:01 UTC (about 17 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: glerl.noaa.gov/metdata/chi/ // Current Temp in Chicago: 52.41 F | 11.34 C // Precip: clear sky // Wind: N at 5.458 mph | 8.78 kph // Humidity: 64%
Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:
USA map labeled history of transportation. Various forms of transport from wagon to maybe a car? Stretched across the map. And a unicycle? Detailed compass. Trees. All in crosstitch. Not created yet, this is a template labeled $4 at the thrift store.
I don’t quite understand #mapsinthewild