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Josh Inwood
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Geography prof. I play a bad guitar, but can make a pretty sweet lemon meringue pie.
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“Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others—the empires and their native overseers.”
-Eduardo Galeano
In light of illegal actions by the U.S. gov't in Venezuela, we highlight a few teaching resources, starting with the classic "people's history" of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano, "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent." 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/op...
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Book — Non-fiction. By Eduardo Galeano. 1997. 360 pages. Gripping history of the land and people of Latin America.
www.zinnedproject.org
January 6, 2026 at 2:06 PM
That first day back…
January 5, 2026 at 7:41 PM
If you know you know
January 1, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.
December 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Remember: There's always strength in a union. Solidarity.
December 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Christmas is complete
December 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Daughter painted me this stunning winter scene for Christmas
December 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Christmas afternoon…the calm before the storm
December 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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In what could plausibly represent a Christmas miracle* SFU Geography has two (2) new tenure track hires. One is urban/climate, which I will repost below. The other is a Landscape Ecologist. Please share ... #academicsky

*actually just the good decisions of our new Dean
www.sfu.ca/geography/ab...
Assistant Professor of Landscape Ecology
www.sfu.ca
December 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Shoutout to the single parents out there giving their kids the best holiday possible!
December 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Some Michigan Christmas magic
December 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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In very good company here in @proghumgeog.bsky.social with Pavithra Vasudevan and Laura Pulido reflecting on the importance of Laura’s 2000 “Rethinking Environmental Racism” published in Annals of @geographers.bsky.social
Classics in human geography revisited: Laura Pulido’s “Rethinking Environmental Racism: White Privilege and Urban Development in Southern California” (Annals of the Association of American Geographers...
journals.sagepub.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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December 13, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Penn State professors and faculty members filed for one of the largest public sector union elections in state history on Tuesday.

keystonenewsroom.com/2025/12/09/p...
Penn State faculty file for largest public sector union election in state history
Approximately 6,000 Penn State University professors and faculty members are ready to vote in the largest public sector union vote ever in Pennsylvania.
keystonenewsroom.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
HUGE NEWS! Haven’t said a ton about this because often times the best organizing happens outside of public view. Today I joined a group of Penn State faculty and SEIU representatives to present faculty signatures that will trigger a vote to unionize PSU faculty!
December 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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This Giving Tuesday, your gift goes twice as far!

Alumnus Bob Myers is matching donations up to $25,000 to support the GeoGraphics Lab.

Your support helps fund student cartography and real-world mapping projects that benefit the community!

Join the match: raise.psu.edu/GeoGraphicsLab
December 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Campus shut until noon. No better place to write this am…
December 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Turned out!!!
November 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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MGT has seen her networth jump from $700k to $25 million since joining Congress in 2021. And she served juuust long enough to get a lifetime tax payer-funded pension.

She got the joke.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Marjorie Taylor Greene Came So Close to Getting the Joke
What the Georgia representative learned in Washington
www.theatlantic.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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📣 Applications open for GENIUS 2026, a 3-day mentoring workshop at Penn State for rising third- and fourth-year students underrepresented in geography. 🌍

📅 May 27–29.

Apply by Feb. 15, 2026: www.geog.psu.edu/geniusworkshop
November 21, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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If you're enjoying the new Ken Burns PBS documentary, "The American Revolution," check out this fascinating look at the MAPPING done for the series. We're so proud of Esri Chief Cartographer, Charlie Frye, who was their major cartographic consultant & map maker
www.linkedin.com/events/73863...
November 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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It’s useful for people of my generation to be reminded that this wasn’t that long ago. Ruby Bridges isn’t just still alive—she’s only 71, not ancient!
65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.
November 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators
It’s useful for people of my generation to be reminded that this wasn’t that long ago. Ruby Bridges isn’t just still alive—she’s only 71, not ancient!
65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.
November 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM