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Rachel Franklin 🦚
@rsfrankl.bsky.social
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Population Geographer | Spatial Demographer.
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
A bad map of New England geography showing the stops Billy’s Joel’s Downeaster Alexa makes.

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Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · 4d
Speaking as a geographer: here, here!

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Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · 7d
😱

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Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · 8d
I call bullshit. Also spent lots of time on LinkedIn between 6-8am and 9-10pm.

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Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · 8d
Unhinged
Too much time spent on LinkedIn this year

Reposted by Rachel S. Franklin

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Dani Arribas-Bel @darribas.bsky.social · 10d
Just in time for a cozy listen this coming break, a new #GLaDpodcast ep.! This time @rsfrankl.bsky.social @levijohnwolf.bsky.social & I welcome Serge Rey for all things open, open source, and academia! Come for the code, stay for the stories of lives changed!

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“Opening the academic source” with Serge Rey | The GLaD Podcast
Today, we’re joined by a close friend of the podcast (someone some of us personally credit with changing my life forever!), Serge Rey, to talk all things open, open source, and academia. Serge is Prof...
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Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · 23d
So true

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Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · 23d
Wish I could say this is evidence of my fantastic yearlong commitment to the bit but in reality it just means I listened to Chelsea Hotel #2 an awful lot of times
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Feeling like I’ve got some explaining to do
My top 5 Spotify songs for 2025

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Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · 23d
Feeling like I’ve got some explaining to do
My top 5 Spotify songs for 2025

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Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · 24d
They fuck you up, your favorite poets
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Philip Larkin started writing ‘Aubade’ in 1974, & finished it in 1977 after his mother’s death. It was published in the TLS on 23rd December, apparently ruining a number of people’s Christmases. Larkin, terrified of death all his life, died on this day 1985.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48422/...
Aubade
Not in remorse —The good not done, the love not given, time Torn off unused—nor wretchedly because An only life can take so long to climb Clear of its wrong beginnings, and may never; But at the total...
www.poetryfoundation.org

Reposted by Rachel S. Franklin, Jennifer Thomson

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 24d
Philip Larkin started writing ‘Aubade’ in 1974, & finished it in 1977 after his mother’s death. It was published in the TLS on 23rd December, apparently ruining a number of people’s Christmases. Larkin, terrified of death all his life, died on this day 1985.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48422/...
Aubade
Not in remorse —The good not done, the love not given, time Torn off unused—nor wretchedly because An only life can take so long to climb Clear of its wrong beginnings, and may never; But at the total...
www.poetryfoundation.org

Reposted by Rachel S. Franklin

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WIRED @wired.com · 28d
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme. www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com

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Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · Nov 26
We do these things not because they are easy but because we thought they would be easy.

What a total hassle that was. Hex map for Day 25 ("hexagons") of the #30DayMapChallenge that shows the geography of all the (geo-referenced) photos I've taken with my phone in Newcastle.
Hex map of all my phone photos in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · Nov 25
You tell the internet about it 22 years later 🤪

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Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · Nov 25
Yes! Apparently there was already a Calvert, Indiana, so they went with the next best option…

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Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · Nov 25
Indeed.

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Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · Nov 25
I worked in many such shops as a teenager 😆

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Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · Nov 25
😍😍

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Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · Nov 25
A fun fact about me is that once at a big international conference when I was a PhD student a senior academic from the Midwest asked where I was from and when I told him, he replied “wow you’ve come really far for someone from Brown County, Indiana”
rsfrankl.bsky.social Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · Nov 25
Ugh. The stage of #30DayMapChallenge when I fear I have to declare Map Bankruptcy.

Day 24 ("places and their names"). I'm from a place—Brown County, Indiana—with a hamlet named Gnaw Bone. And when I was I kid I lived in "Needmore," which wasn't even a hamlet, just a sign on the road.
Map of Brown County, Indiana, and some of my favorite place names

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Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · Nov 25
Ugh. The stage of #30DayMapChallenge when I fear I have to declare Map Bankruptcy.

Day 24 ("places and their names"). I'm from a place—Brown County, Indiana—with a hamlet named Gnaw Bone. And when I was I kid I lived in "Needmore," which wasn't even a hamlet, just a sign on the road.
Map of Brown County, Indiana, and some of my favorite place names

Reposted by Rachel S. Franklin

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · Nov 23
I WAS LOOKING FOR A JOB
AND THEN I FOUND A JOB
AND HEAVEN KNOWS I’M MISERABLE NOW
The pope, at the head of a dense crowd of clergy, leaning into a microphone with his eyes closed as if singing.

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Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · Nov 21
On a mission to spread the CGA word far and wide
Photo of a CGA tote bag

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Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · Nov 19
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.
Map of Cambridge, Massachusetts, buildings

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Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · Nov 19
📍 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
GIS Day poster for Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard

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Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · Nov 18
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."
Map of contours of unshoveled snow in 2025 in Boston according to 311 calls

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Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · Nov 18
How your email finds me
Yard sign of a skeleton saying stay positive

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Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · Nov 18
US doesn’t either. I mean, who’d ever want to leave these countries.

Reposted by Rachel S. Franklin, Simon Lester, JOEL B. FINKELSTEIN

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · Nov 18
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 S. Franklin

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Rafael H. M. Pereira 🚡 Urban Demographics @urbandemog.bsky.social · Nov 17
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 !

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Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · Nov 16
Tired: carelessly logging into work accounts on public WiFi

Wired: logging into work accounts securely with recommended multi-factor authentication when necessary

Inspired: logging into work accounts repeatedly with Duo Mobile just to get that extra hit of dopamine when your phone pings

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Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · Nov 16
Indeed they do.