This. ⬆️ Land doesn’t vote, people do. Also, coming from a geographer, people need to learn to apply critical thought when reading maps.
November 5, 2026 at 9:32 PM
This. ⬆️ Land doesn’t vote, people do. Also, coming from a geographer, people need to learn to apply critical thought when reading maps.
Staff Geographer: Lorraine, Alsace
November 6, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Staff Geographer: Lorraine, Alsace
Any hill that locals want to call a mountain is a mountain unless the hill is in Britain. There are no British mountains.
I am a geographer. That is the official answer.
This is true even for Hamilton Mountain in Ontario.
Like all good things, the main purpose is to annoy the British.
I am a geographer. That is the official answer.
This is true even for Hamilton Mountain in Ontario.
Like all good things, the main purpose is to annoy the British.
OK maybe there's an official answer but I want to know what ppl think- when does a hill become a mountain, like what is the cutoff point for promotion?
November 7, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Any hill that locals want to call a mountain is a mountain unless the hill is in Britain. There are no British mountains.
I am a geographer. That is the official answer.
This is true even for Hamilton Mountain in Ontario.
Like all good things, the main purpose is to annoy the British.
I am a geographer. That is the official answer.
This is true even for Hamilton Mountain in Ontario.
Like all good things, the main purpose is to annoy the British.
Thanak a geographer.
November 6, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Thanak a geographer.
In "Who Returned to Paradise?", geographer Nicole Lambrou discusses the exclusionary geographies of wildfire resilience, showing who can and cannot afford to rebuild their lives after disaster. 🌎
www.briefecology.com/the-fires-th...
www.briefecology.com/the-fires-th...
Who Returned to Paradise? — Brief Ecology
by Nicole Lambrou
www.briefecology.com
November 7, 2026 at 2:07 PM
In "Who Returned to Paradise?", geographer Nicole Lambrou discusses the exclusionary geographies of wildfire resilience, showing who can and cannot afford to rebuild their lives after disaster. 🌎
www.briefecology.com/the-fires-th...
www.briefecology.com/the-fires-th...
Since this is a slow news day, this article on an epic bike ride by the legendary John O’Loughlin is well worth your while.
www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2...
www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2...
Geographer charts America by bike
At 78, CU Boulder geographer John O’Loughlin set out to bicycle from New Orleans to the Canadian border.
www.colorado.edu
November 3, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Since this is a slow news day, this article on an epic bike ride by the legendary John O’Loughlin is well worth your while.
www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2...
www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2...
New episode of Ask the Geographer! 🎙️
James Sawyer shares perspectives from his career in conservation, sustainability and disaster management. We'll discuss the strengths geographers bring to these roles, and the importance of geographical thinking to global issues.
🎧👉https://ow.ly/t7TU5104XgX
James Sawyer shares perspectives from his career in conservation, sustainability and disaster management. We'll discuss the strengths geographers bring to these roles, and the importance of geographical thinking to global issues.
🎧👉https://ow.ly/t7TU5104XgX
November 9, 2026 at 3:01 PM
New episode of Ask the Geographer! 🎙️
James Sawyer shares perspectives from his career in conservation, sustainability and disaster management. We'll discuss the strengths geographers bring to these roles, and the importance of geographical thinking to global issues.
🎧👉https://ow.ly/t7TU5104XgX
James Sawyer shares perspectives from his career in conservation, sustainability and disaster management. We'll discuss the strengths geographers bring to these roles, and the importance of geographical thinking to global issues.
🎧👉https://ow.ly/t7TU5104XgX
Al-Idrisi (Dreses): The Geographer Who Mapped the World for a King
Al-Idrisi (Dreses): The Geographer Who Mapped the World for a King
Al-Idrisi (c. 1100–1165/66) was a Muslim geographer from Ceuta who drew the Tabula Rogeriana in Sicily. Learn about his life, his Book of Roger and why his maps mattered for centuries.
imranjalna.com
November 9, 2026 at 5:21 AM
Al-Idrisi (Dreses): The Geographer Who Mapped the World for a King
Accurate and replete with Native place names, "Map of the Hydrographical Basin of the Upper Mississippi" (1843) by French scientist/geographer Joseph Nicollet set the standard for maps of the U.S. interior. An immigrant, Nicollet came with no money but proved an invaluable federal government worker.
November 9, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Accurate and replete with Native place names, "Map of the Hydrographical Basin of the Upper Mississippi" (1843) by French scientist/geographer Joseph Nicollet set the standard for maps of the U.S. interior. An immigrant, Nicollet came with no money but proved an invaluable federal government worker.
John O'Loughlin in the Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine: Geographer charts America by bike
Read about Johno's Second Mad Journey:
www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2...
Read about Johno's Second Mad Journey:
www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2...
Geographer charts America by bike
At 78, CU Boulder geographer John O’Loughlin set out to bicycle from New Orleans to the Canadian border.
www.colorado.edu
November 2, 2026 at 2:49 PM
John O'Loughlin in the Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine: Geographer charts America by bike
Read about Johno's Second Mad Journey:
www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2...
Read about Johno's Second Mad Journey:
www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2...
“A remote sensing scientist, a social geographer, an informatics researcher, a sports researcher, a psychologist, a linguist and an economist meet … what sounds like the start of a joke, was the start of a great interdisciplinary research project.” That’s how Hannes Taubenböck opened his acceptance…
Würzburger Förderpreis awarded to our URBAN:Pulse project
“A remote sensing scientist, a social geographer, an informatics researcher, a sports researcher, a psychologist, a linguist and an economist meet … what sounds like the start of a joke, was the start of a great interdisciplinary research project.” That’s how Hannes Taubenböck opened his acceptance speech for our interdisciplinary project team that was awarded […]
remote-sensing.org
November 6, 2026 at 1:51 PM
“A remote sensing scientist, a social geographer, an informatics researcher, a sports researcher, a psychologist, a linguist and an economist meet … what sounds like the start of a joke, was the start of a great interdisciplinary research project.” That’s how Hannes Taubenböck opened his acceptance…
Often, I'm the only geographer in the room, so my biggest challenge is translating methods to a lay audience that doesn't know spatial statistics / analytic methods. Teaching, however, is an entirely different matter, because I want the students to have a deeper, *applied* understanding.
November 2, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Often, I'm the only geographer in the room, so my biggest challenge is translating methods to a lay audience that doesn't know spatial statistics / analytic methods. Teaching, however, is an entirely different matter, because I want the students to have a deeper, *applied* understanding.
“The anonymous Carta Riccardiana portolan chart (ca. 1300-1325) georeferenced to a map in the projection used by Marinus of Tyre, the first-century geographer whose work may be close to the mysterious source for the medieval portolan charts”
A medieval map mystery may finally be solved
Portolan charts were too accurate to be medieval — so who made them? A Croatian professor finds evidence for sources in antiquity.
bigthink.com
November 8, 2026 at 5:01 PM
“The anonymous Carta Riccardiana portolan chart (ca. 1300-1325) georeferenced to a map in the projection used by Marinus of Tyre, the first-century geographer whose work may be close to the mysterious source for the medieval portolan charts”
Thank you for these photo links. The geographer inside me is now obsessively triangulating where in NJ the photographer was standing.
November 7, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Thank you for these photo links. The geographer inside me is now obsessively triangulating where in NJ the photographer was standing.
"The conversation around anti‑racism needs to be reinvigorated."
Author Jonathan Darling speaks to @socialistworker.bsky.social ahead of the release of his new book, 'Taking back control', in early 2027.
Read it here: socialistworker.co.uk/anti-racism/... #booksky
Author Jonathan Darling speaks to @socialistworker.bsky.social ahead of the release of his new book, 'Taking back control', in early 2027.
Read it here: socialistworker.co.uk/anti-racism/... #booksky
How right wing populists turned cruelty into political spectacle
Jonathan Darling is an urban and political geographer, and author of the upcoming book Taking Back Control—How Populists Captured The Asylum Debate. Frankie Murden asked him about right wing populism—...
socialistworker.co.uk
November 5, 2026 at 9:56 AM
"The conversation around anti‑racism needs to be reinvigorated."
Author Jonathan Darling speaks to @socialistworker.bsky.social ahead of the release of his new book, 'Taking back control', in early 2027.
Read it here: socialistworker.co.uk/anti-racism/... #booksky
Author Jonathan Darling speaks to @socialistworker.bsky.social ahead of the release of his new book, 'Taking back control', in early 2027.
Read it here: socialistworker.co.uk/anti-racism/... #booksky
Hello Bluesky! I'm Didi Kyoung-ae Han, a human geographer at Saitama University. I study urban commons, precarity, care, housing and finance in East Asian cities, through long-term ethnography in Tokyo and Seoul. I post in English, 한국어 and 日本語. Recent work ↓ 🧵
November 5, 2026 at 3:34 AM
Hello Bluesky! I'm Didi Kyoung-ae Han, a human geographer at Saitama University. I study urban commons, precarity, care, housing and finance in East Asian cities, through long-term ethnography in Tokyo and Seoul. I post in English, 한국어 and 日本語. Recent work ↓ 🧵
In "Who Returned to Paradise?", geographer Nicole Lambrou examines how wildfire recovery deepens socioeconomic inequality, highlighting the exclusionary geographies that dictate who can financially afford to rebuild after disaster.
Source: Brief Ecology (Issue 33).
Source: Brief Ecology (Issue 33).
November 9, 2026 at 4:02 AM
In "Who Returned to Paradise?", geographer Nicole Lambrou examines how wildfire recovery deepens socioeconomic inequality, highlighting the exclusionary geographies that dictate who can financially afford to rebuild after disaster.
Source: Brief Ecology (Issue 33).
Source: Brief Ecology (Issue 33).
On November 12, a rally will take place at the BAYER HQ in Leverkusen. Speakers on the impacts of soy cultivation for humans, animals & the environment include geographer Dr. Ronaldo Barros Sodré, Indigenous representative Inai’Ury Carneiro Pompeu Lisboa, and legal expert Luiz Jorge Silva Moreno.
Am 12. 11. findet am BAYER-Stammsitz Leverkusen eine Kundgebung statt. Zu den Folgen des Soja-Anbaus für Mensch, Tier und Umwelt sprechen u. a. der Geograf Dr. Ronaldo Barros Sodré, die Indigenen-Vertreterin Inai’Ury Carneiro Pompeu Lisboa und der Jurist Luiz Jorge Silva Moreno.
November 5, 2026 at 3:45 PM
On November 12, a rally will take place at the BAYER HQ in Leverkusen. Speakers on the impacts of soy cultivation for humans, animals & the environment include geographer Dr. Ronaldo Barros Sodré, Indigenous representative Inai’Ury Carneiro Pompeu Lisboa, and legal expert Luiz Jorge Silva Moreno.
Visiting professor Mykola Homanyuk at FTSK Germersheim
9 to 19 November 2026
Dr Mykola Homanyuk (sociologist, geographer and theatermaker, Kherson State University, Ukraine) is a visiting professor at FTSK this November.
All events at malva-center.org
9 to 19 November 2026
Dr Mykola Homanyuk (sociologist, geographer and theatermaker, Kherson State University, Ukraine) is a visiting professor at FTSK this November.
All events at malva-center.org
November 9, 2026 at 6:03 AM
Visiting professor Mykola Homanyuk at FTSK Germersheim
9 to 19 November 2026
Dr Mykola Homanyuk (sociologist, geographer and theatermaker, Kherson State University, Ukraine) is a visiting professor at FTSK this November.
All events at malva-center.org
9 to 19 November 2026
Dr Mykola Homanyuk (sociologist, geographer and theatermaker, Kherson State University, Ukraine) is a visiting professor at FTSK this November.
All events at malva-center.org
oh sweet baby jesus @weatherfox64.bsky.social
Can I Name Every US National Weather Service Forecast Region?
YouTube video by Chicago Geographer
www.youtube.com
November 1, 2026 at 7:44 PM
oh sweet baby jesus @weatherfox64.bsky.social
Know if you stand up and use your voice to discourage the vote, you stand with the fascists, against the antifascists.
Know it is a personal decision, no less deadly a decision than murder.
Anarchy does not stand with you or absolve you.
Know it is a personal decision, no less deadly a decision than murder.
Anarchy does not stand with you or absolve you.
On Voting, Revisited
Introduction Élisée Reclus was a French geographer, revolutionary writer, and anarchist, who died in 1905. Reclus’ 1885 letter, “Voter, c’est abdiquer” (“To Vote Is to Abdicate”), later appear...
write.as
November 3, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Know if you stand up and use your voice to discourage the vote, you stand with the fascists, against the antifascists.
Know it is a personal decision, no less deadly a decision than murder.
Anarchy does not stand with you or absolve you.
Know it is a personal decision, no less deadly a decision than murder.
Anarchy does not stand with you or absolve you.
The Kingdom of Benin was a kingdom in what is nowadays southern Nigeria. It grew out of the previous Edo Kingdom of Igodomigodo around the 11th century, and it reached its golden age in the 15th and 16th centuries. Its capital, Edo (nowadays Benin City) was a hub for commerce and art.
November 4, 2026 at 4:40 PM
The Kingdom of Benin was a kingdom in what is nowadays southern Nigeria. It grew out of the previous Edo Kingdom of Igodomigodo around the 11th century, and it reached its golden age in the 15th and 16th centuries. Its capital, Edo (nowadays Benin City) was a hub for commerce and art.
Fantastic to hear economic geographer Professor Sarah Marie Hall on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour yesterday morning! 🎙️
Sarah discusses austerity and altered life-courses, the subject of her upcoming book in the RGS-IBG book series.
🎧 Listen here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0033p7s
Sarah discusses austerity and altered life-courses, the subject of her upcoming book in the RGS-IBG book series.
🎧 Listen here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0033p7s
Woman's Hour - Laura Kuenssberg, Living standards, Motherless mothers - BBC Sounds
BBC Presenter Laura Kuenssberg on her new book, Pay Attention.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 3, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Fantastic to hear economic geographer Professor Sarah Marie Hall on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour yesterday morning! 🎙️
Sarah discusses austerity and altered life-courses, the subject of her upcoming book in the RGS-IBG book series.
🎧 Listen here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0033p7s
Sarah discusses austerity and altered life-courses, the subject of her upcoming book in the RGS-IBG book series.
🎧 Listen here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0033p7s