Rachel S. Franklin

Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · 3d

Jonathan Richman was a distinctly analog era experience.

Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · 3d

Quantitative geographer street cred

The numbers 2026 spelled out in street segments

Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · 5d

Geographer here. Maps only behave this way when their view of the world has been reduced to mere points and lines.

Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social · 5d

This appeared on the screen at my gym and it makes no sense to me.

Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social · 5d

This appeared on the screen at my gym and it makes no sense to me.

Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · 5d

Just in time delivery of my “year in review”: let’s do some numbers

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Let's Do the Numbers

2025 in review (sort of)

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

Dead Lobsters Society

broken promithes promithes @afrosaxon7.bsky.social · 7d

Good Lobster Hunting

Adam Rothman aced his cognitive test @adamrothman.bsky.social · 7d

Gone Lobster Gone

broken promithes promithes @afrosaxon7.bsky.social · 7d

Good Lobster Hunting

Adam Rothman aced his cognitive test @adamrothman.bsky.social · 7d

Gone Lobster Gone

Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 7d

I can't wait for the movie starring and directed by Ben Affleck

Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · 8d

Geography is where it’s at.

x and y and don’t forget z.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/s...

Twins’ Peaks: The Gilbertson Brothers Want to Rewrite Your Country’s Map

www.nytimes.com

Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · 14d

Speaking as a geographer: here, here!

Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · 18d

😱

Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · 19d

I call bullshit. Also spent lots of time on LinkedIn between 6-8am and 9-10pm.

Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · 19d

Unhinged

Too much time spent on LinkedIn this year

Dani Arribas-Bel @darribas.bsky.social · 21d

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 · Dec 3

So true

Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · Dec 3

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

Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · Dec 3

Feeling like I’ve got some explaining to do

Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · Dec 3

Feeling like I’ve got some explaining to do

Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · Dec 2

They fuck you up, your favorite poets

James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · Dec 2

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

James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · Dec 2

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

WIRED @wired.com · Nov 28

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

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

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

You tell the internet about it 22 years later 🤪

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

Yes! Apparently there was already a Calvert, Indiana, so they went with the next best option…

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

Indeed.

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

I worked in many such shops as a teenager 😆

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

😍😍

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”

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

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.

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.

Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · Nov 21

On a mission to spread the CGA word far and wide

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.

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