Raechel Portelli
@raportelli.bsky.social
Geographer- too many interests to take academia seriously (thanks ADHD)? Teach courses in data science, cartography, and GeoAI Literacy. If it's tactile art, I've probably attacked it in a hyperfocus episode ⭐
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Raechel Portelli
@raportelli.bsky.social
· Jan 26
"What would you be like if there was nobody else in the world? Who would you be if the only opinion was yours? Because if you want to be truly happy you must be that person. You must search inside yourself for what is uniquely you. When you find it, polish it, until it becomes your style." Crisp'09
I was at the orchid show this afternoon to set up our club display and found this beautiful cat from Nat's orchids in Naperville.
November 15, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I was at the orchid show this afternoon to set up our club display and found this beautiful cat from Nat's orchids in Naperville.
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ALERT: A Boston University student, Zac Segal — president of the BU College Republicans — bragged about calling ICE to raid a local car wash because “immigrants are taking American jobs.”
Segal wasn’t born in America either — and he’s the one taking a university spot from an American student.
Segal wasn’t born in America either — and he’s the one taking a university spot from an American student.
November 15, 2025 at 12:56 AM
ALERT: A Boston University student, Zac Segal — president of the BU College Republicans — bragged about calling ICE to raid a local car wash because “immigrants are taking American jobs.”
Segal wasn’t born in America either — and he’s the one taking a university spot from an American student.
Segal wasn’t born in America either — and he’s the one taking a university spot from an American student.
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Last week I received my notification that I completed PSLF... A first gen from a rural upbringing and no help from my parents for college (thank god for scholarships). PSLF is all I have wanted since I graduated 11 yrs ago. Success! (1/2)
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Last week I received my notification that I completed PSLF... A first gen from a rural upbringing and no help from my parents for college (thank god for scholarships). PSLF is all I have wanted since I graduated 11 yrs ago. Success! (1/2)
Adding to the reading list.
Reading dark academia, painful & funny. “It is lamentable that scholars who are ardent critics of the neoliberal university still rejoice when their Google Scholar Citation Score increases and would seemingly run over their next of kin if it meant getting published in a ‘top’ journal.” #highered
November 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Adding to the reading list.
We've had some amazing Colloquium speakers from across campus this semester. Geography and GIS Colloquium today:
Dr. Molly Briggs, Art & Design, Material Intelligence: Mapping as Design. #UIUC
Colloquium in Natural History Museum Rm. 2029 at 3pm.
Dr. Molly Briggs, Art & Design, Material Intelligence: Mapping as Design. #UIUC
Colloquium in Natural History Museum Rm. 2029 at 3pm.
November 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
We've had some amazing Colloquium speakers from across campus this semester. Geography and GIS Colloquium today:
Dr. Molly Briggs, Art & Design, Material Intelligence: Mapping as Design. #UIUC
Colloquium in Natural History Museum Rm. 2029 at 3pm.
Dr. Molly Briggs, Art & Design, Material Intelligence: Mapping as Design. #UIUC
Colloquium in Natural History Museum Rm. 2029 at 3pm.
The Ride: a Journey to the Tourney www.listennotes.com/c/bc58de2b21... via @listennotes.com #Podcast
The Ride: a Journey to the Tourney
CBB content including predictions, rankings and more! - Sports podcast from United States
www.listennotes.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The Ride: a Journey to the Tourney www.listennotes.com/c/bc58de2b21... via @listennotes.com #Podcast
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while exploring @geopandas docs I learned it has a "explore()" function that creates an interactive #leafletjs map of the #geodataframe #pandas #gis #geodata #gischat #geopandas
https://geopandas.org/en/stable/docs/user_guide/interactive_mapping.html
https://geopandas.org/en/stable/docs/user_guide/interactive_mapping.html
November 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
while exploring @geopandas docs I learned it has a "explore()" function that creates an interactive #leafletjs map of the #geodataframe #pandas #gis #geodata #gischat #geopandas
https://geopandas.org/en/stable/docs/user_guide/interactive_mapping.html
https://geopandas.org/en/stable/docs/user_guide/interactive_mapping.html
Listened to the Time Suck episode on Patton today. Absolutely insane man. Learned so much and have a new favorite word bilious. Not in terms of bile but in terms of a person. As in he's a bilious ruler.
November 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Listened to the Time Suck episode on Patton today. Absolutely insane man. Learned so much and have a new favorite word bilious. Not in terms of bile but in terms of a person. As in he's a bilious ruler.
Look what came in the mail today. Yay! The Eye of Intelligence came all the way from the UK💛
November 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Look what came in the mail today. Yay! The Eye of Intelligence came all the way from the UK💛
Morning Wins- out stubborned my computer (loving MCPs though)
- great colabs ok peer reviewing
-and I'm wide awake and mentally locked in.
- great colabs ok peer reviewing
-and I'm wide awake and mentally locked in.
November 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Morning Wins- out stubborned my computer (loving MCPs though)
- great colabs ok peer reviewing
-and I'm wide awake and mentally locked in.
- great colabs ok peer reviewing
-and I'm wide awake and mentally locked in.
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Despite new EU transparency laws, researchers are still blocked from vital social media data, while corporations buy the same information freely, argues Brandon Silverman. The result: a two-tier system that shields platforms from scrutiny and weakens democratic oversight.
buff.ly/KEzQ4wE
buff.ly/KEzQ4wE
November 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Despite new EU transparency laws, researchers are still blocked from vital social media data, while corporations buy the same information freely, argues Brandon Silverman. The result: a two-tier system that shields platforms from scrutiny and weakens democratic oversight.
buff.ly/KEzQ4wE
buff.ly/KEzQ4wE
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Exciting news! Student applications for paleoCAMP 2026 are open! Are you a graduate student working on any aspect of past climates or environments? Apply to be part of our 2-week summer school in the eastern Sierra Nevada! More details here: paleoclimate.camp/apply
Application — paleoCAMP
paleoclimate.camp
November 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Exciting news! Student applications for paleoCAMP 2026 are open! Are you a graduate student working on any aspect of past climates or environments? Apply to be part of our 2-week summer school in the eastern Sierra Nevada! More details here: paleoclimate.camp/apply
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Apply now — Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice, “Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis”, deadline 20 December 2025 antipodeonline.org/2025/11/13/a...
Apply now—Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice, “Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis” - Antipode Online
Toronto, Ontario, Canadathe traditional territory of the Huron Wendat, the Seneca and the Mississaugas of the Credit June 1st – 5th, 2026 The contemporary global landscape is increasingly defined by w...
antipodeonline.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Apply now — Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice, “Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis”, deadline 20 December 2025 antipodeonline.org/2025/11/13/a...
GGIS 495: GeoAI Literacy is open for enrollment. Encouraging any student with an interest in spatial and AI (or even If you are repulsed by the idea of AI!) to enroll. It's not a coding course, so don't let the name scare you away. Happy to answer questions via email. 16wk asynchronous.
November 13, 2025 at 4:34 AM
GGIS 495: GeoAI Literacy is open for enrollment. Encouraging any student with an interest in spatial and AI (or even If you are repulsed by the idea of AI!) to enroll. It's not a coding course, so don't let the name scare you away. Happy to answer questions via email. 16wk asynchronous.
They're really out here asking teaching faculty to pull together full TT apps for jobs that pay $20-30k less than their TT counterparts and have no job security. Not the way to land or keep them in academia.
November 13, 2025 at 2:59 AM
They're really out here asking teaching faculty to pull together full TT apps for jobs that pay $20-30k less than their TT counterparts and have no job security. Not the way to land or keep them in academia.
I hate what AI is doing to writing, but I hate even more what the influx of "intellectual influencer videos" have done to videos. Heavily over processed, monotonous, and the whole "I am man, I know it all" vocal vibe is old and tired.
November 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I hate what AI is doing to writing, but I hate even more what the influx of "intellectual influencer videos" have done to videos. Heavily over processed, monotonous, and the whole "I am man, I know it all" vocal vibe is old and tired.
I received my first request from an MFA for my GeoAI Literacy course next spring (first MFA in any of my classes I think). Ummm, new perspectives and experiences? Yes, please.
November 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I received my first request from an MFA for my GeoAI Literacy course next spring (first MFA in any of my classes I think). Ummm, new perspectives and experiences? Yes, please.
No!:( After 60-plus years, Urbana's Candlestick Lane is coming to an end | Local News | news-gazette.com share.google/xD2L4bVWdygF...
After 60-plus years, Urbana's Candlestick Lane is coming to an end
"After decades of collaborative effort, often in frigid conditions, our lane families will independently choose a date and time for lighting. Others may choose to retire the outdoor displays."
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November 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
No!:( After 60-plus years, Urbana's Candlestick Lane is coming to an end | Local News | news-gazette.com share.google/xD2L4bVWdygF...
I love getting pics of the pets. The elderly doggo and cat were seen snuggling this morning. Besties always. Between the four of them the guest bed is always a mess, lol. Spoiled.
November 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I love getting pics of the pets. The elderly doggo and cat were seen snuggling this morning. Besties always. Between the four of them the guest bed is always a mess, lol. Spoiled.
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Submit them to Aurorasaurus!!! They're an NSF funded project out of University of New Mexico that takes crowdsourced aurora observations for research purposes:
www.aurorasaurus.org
www.aurorasaurus.org
Aurorasaurus - Reporting Auroras from the Ground Up
Friends, see my real-time #aurora report on the aurorasaurus.org map! Follow us on www.facebook.com/aurorasaurus.org. Reporting #northernlights and #citizenscience from the ground up since 2012!
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November 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Submit them to Aurorasaurus!!! They're an NSF funded project out of University of New Mexico that takes crowdsourced aurora observations for research purposes:
www.aurorasaurus.org
www.aurorasaurus.org
The kiddo sent along this image of the northern lights from central Idaho his neighborhood. Beautiful.
November 12, 2025 at 3:24 AM
The kiddo sent along this image of the northern lights from central Idaho his neighborhood. Beautiful.
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A roundtable discussion on artistic approaches to cultural mapping by
Marnie Badham, W. F. Garrett-Petts, Shannon Jackson, Justin Langlois, and Shriya Malhotra
culturalmapping.trubox.ca/artistic-app...
Marnie Badham, W. F. Garrett-Petts, Shannon Jackson, Justin Langlois, and Shriya Malhotra
culturalmapping.trubox.ca/artistic-app...
Artistic Approaches to Cultural Mapping - Cultural Mapping Research Group
Activating Imaginaries and Means of Knowing Edited By Nancy Duxbury, W.F. Garrett-Petts, Alys Longley This book looks at artistic approaches to cultural mapping, focusing on imaginative cartography. ...
culturalmapping.trubox.ca
November 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
A roundtable discussion on artistic approaches to cultural mapping by
Marnie Badham, W. F. Garrett-Petts, Shannon Jackson, Justin Langlois, and Shriya Malhotra
culturalmapping.trubox.ca/artistic-app...
Marnie Badham, W. F. Garrett-Petts, Shannon Jackson, Justin Langlois, and Shriya Malhotra
culturalmapping.trubox.ca/artistic-app...
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The race to churn out papers is a systemic problem.
Early career scholars are desperate to get more papers to compete in the academic job market. This can make it hard for faculty mentors hard to reduce their output unless they shrink their lab (which removes opportunities from next generation).
Early career scholars are desperate to get more papers to compete in the academic job market. This can make it hard for faculty mentors hard to reduce their output unless they shrink their lab (which removes opportunities from next generation).
November 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The race to churn out papers is a systemic problem.
Early career scholars are desperate to get more papers to compete in the academic job market. This can make it hard for faculty mentors hard to reduce their output unless they shrink their lab (which removes opportunities from next generation).
Early career scholars are desperate to get more papers to compete in the academic job market. This can make it hard for faculty mentors hard to reduce their output unless they shrink their lab (which removes opportunities from next generation).
For anyone in the Ann Arbor area this weekend, the last show for the fall season is happening at the U of M Matthei Gardens. Our club will have a display currated by fellow members and myself. Ann Arbor Orchid Society Show | Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum share.google/MMmeihBHPQbe...
Ann Arbor Orchid Society Show | Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum
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November 11, 2025 at 11:38 PM
For anyone in the Ann Arbor area this weekend, the last show for the fall season is happening at the U of M Matthei Gardens. Our club will have a display currated by fellow members and myself. Ann Arbor Orchid Society Show | Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum share.google/MMmeihBHPQbe...