Jerry Shannon
@jerry-shannon.bsky.social
Geographer working at University of Georgia. Community geography, critical GIS, health, food systems, housing. Website: jerry.shannons.us
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November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Excited to head to Albuquerque to present at and attend the Race, Ethnicity, and Place conference. My talk will focus on ongoing work with Historic Athens and @accgov.bsky.social to map displacement from the R-51 urban renewal project in Athens.
November 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Excited to head to Albuquerque to present at and attend the Race, Ethnicity, and Place conference. My talk will focus on ongoing work with Historic Athens and @accgov.bsky.social to map displacement from the R-51 urban renewal project in Athens.
As SNAP benefits are set to expire tomorrow, this is a great read from my colleague and friend, Grace Bagwell Adams, about hunger and food security and whether we are willing to go back to a society with chronic malnutrition. bittersoutherner.com/feed-the-peo...
Feed the People: No One Should Go Hungry — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
Dr. Grace Bagwell Adams is a public health expert, professor, and mother. She submitted this essay to The Bitter Southerner as a righteous call to anger — a professional and personal take on one of th...
bittersoutherner.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:04 AM
As SNAP benefits are set to expire tomorrow, this is a great read from my colleague and friend, Grace Bagwell Adams, about hunger and food security and whether we are willing to go back to a society with chronic malnutrition. bittersoutherner.com/feed-the-peo...
Did some number crunching on the economic impact a pause in SNAP benefits would have on the food economy in Georgia. It's not good! Almost a billion gone in the core of Atlanta, and >$4 billion for the state. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
SNAP yearly retailer redemptions.xlsx
docs.google.com
October 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Did some number crunching on the economic impact a pause in SNAP benefits would have on the food economy in Georgia. It's not good! Almost a billion gone in the core of Atlanta, and >$4 billion for the state. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Behind their paywall but interesting read on how the proposed campus compact from the Trump admin is pushing toward a meritocratic view of grading. www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
Why Does the Trump Compact Talk About Grading?
The desire for objective grades connects to broader ideas about merit.
www.chronicle.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Behind their paywall but interesting read on how the proposed campus compact from the Trump admin is pushing toward a meritocratic view of grading. www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
Great first day at #nacis25 and Practical Cartography Day. So many new ideas for future projects and always inspired by the work on display at the map gallery and competition.
October 16, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Great first day at #nacis25 and Practical Cartography Day. So many new ideas for future projects and always inspired by the work on display at the map gallery and competition.
Great to see Margaret Pearce among this year's MacArthur Fellows! www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...
Margaret Wickens Pearce
Foregrounding Indigenous understandings of land and place in maps that visualize Native Peoples’ knowledge, history, and stories.
www.macfound.org
October 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Great to see Margaret Pearce among this year's MacArthur Fellows! www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...
Honored to present this morning at the Associate for the Study of African-American Life and History conf w/ community partners. Talking about the ongoing work telling the story of the Reese Street Neighborhood in Athens, home to several historic Black schools and key figures from the city's history.
September 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Honored to present this morning at the Associate for the Study of African-American Life and History conf w/ community partners. Talking about the ongoing work telling the story of the Reese Street Neighborhood in Athens, home to several historic Black schools and key figures from the city's history.
Strategic underfunding is par for the course in Georgia and across the south. Offer benefits so we say we do, but make it extraordinarily difficult to actually receive them. In this case, we are spending more federal money on red tape than health care.
www.propublica.org/article/geor...
www.propublica.org/article/geor...
Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says
Republican lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent at lea...
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September 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Strategic underfunding is par for the course in Georgia and across the south. Offer benefits so we say we do, but make it extraordinarily difficult to actually receive them. In this case, we are spending more federal money on red tape than health care.
www.propublica.org/article/geor...
www.propublica.org/article/geor...
Spending the day at #positconf. Really enjoying the final talk @kjhealy.co about the inextricably social process of data visualization and the nature of trust in the work of data science.
September 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Spending the day at #positconf. Really enjoying the final talk @kjhealy.co about the inextricably social process of data visualization and the nature of trust in the work of data science.
New special issue in Geographical Review on pushing community geographies forward. www.tandfonline.com/toc/utgr20/1...
Geographical Review
Creating Memories in Community. Volume 115, Issue 4 of Geographical Review
www.tandfonline.com
September 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
New special issue in Geographical Review on pushing community geographies forward. www.tandfonline.com/toc/utgr20/1...
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Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
September 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
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In 2019, 70% of Republicans said science has had a mostly positive effect on society. A few years later, fewer than half of Republicans (47%) said so.
www.pewresearch.org/science/2023... 🧪🌐
www.pewresearch.org/science/2023... 🧪🌐
September 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
In 2019, 70% of Republicans said science has had a mostly positive effect on society. A few years later, fewer than half of Republicans (47%) said so.
www.pewresearch.org/science/2023... 🧪🌐
www.pewresearch.org/science/2023... 🧪🌐
Bunch of white guys telling us their extremely selective read of the Bible should be the foundation of American politics.
NatCon’s “The Bible and American Renewal” breakout session is underway.
Josh Hammer is speaking now, but all three of the other panelists — Timon Cline, Chase Davis, and William Wolfe — are all either tied to or directly employed by the same organization: the American Reformer.
Josh Hammer is speaking now, but all three of the other panelists — Timon Cline, Chase Davis, and William Wolfe — are all either tied to or directly employed by the same organization: the American Reformer.
September 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Bunch of white guys telling us their extremely selective read of the Bible should be the foundation of American politics.
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On The Climate Brink, I write about the DOE report and our response.
The merchants of doubt are back
But this time, it's the U.S. government pushing doubt
www.theclimatebrink.com
September 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
On The Climate Brink, I write about the DOE report and our response.
This is a US Senator, y'all.
man. if Eric Schmitt's speech to NatCon isn't a sign of the times, i don't know what is
!["America is not a 'universal nation.' ... [American] principles are not abstractions. They are living, breathing things — rooted in a people and embodied in a way of life."
Senator Eric Schmitt got a standing ovation at Nat Con DC for saying America as a nation is the property of a distinct ethnic people.
Americans are a mix of “the most adventurous, the most courageous, the most curious and innovative” of the English, Scotch-Irish, and continental Europeans, who came as settlers and have spent hundreds of years building, fighting, and dying for "a homeland for themselves and their descendants."
"We’re a nation of settlers, explorers, and pioneers — born on the ocean waters that carried the first ships to our shores and forged in the crucible of a wild frontier. Our people tamed a continent, built a civilization from the wilderness, and wrote our nation’s name in history.
"Our ancestors were driven here by destiny, possessed by urgent and fiery conviction, by burning belief, devoted to their cause and their God."
"The Continental Army soldiers dying of frostbite at Valley Forge, Pilgrims struggling to survive in the hard winter soil of Plymouth, pioneers striking out from Missouri for the wild and dangerous frontier, [and] outnumbered Kentucky settlers, repelling wave after wave of Indian war band attacks from behind their stockade walls, would be astonished to hear that they were only fighting for a 'proposition.'
"They believed they were forging a nation — a homeland for themselves and their descendants."
"America, in all its glory, is their gift to us, handed down across the generations.
"It belongs to us. It’s our birthright, our heritage, our destiny.
"If America is everything and everyone, then it is nothing and no one at all."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreif3x7re3lubuj7kzurj3ayotcnq2l46kwb2p5hp2zid2dagzth5nu@jpeg)
September 3, 2025 at 1:53 AM
This is a US Senator, y'all.
Kudos to @docaharper.bsky.social and others who collaborated quickly to write this response to the "science" pedaled by the DOE.
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
Dozens of scientists find errors in a new Energy Department climate report
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
n.pr
September 3, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Kudos to @docaharper.bsky.social and others who collaborated quickly to write this response to the "science" pedaled by the DOE.
Planning to slot this new piece by UGA alum Dani Aiello and others on movement scholarship into my engaged research seminar this semester. acme-journal.org/index.php/ac...
September 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Planning to slot this new piece by UGA alum Dani Aiello and others on movement scholarship into my engaged research seminar this semester. acme-journal.org/index.php/ac...
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My students, who attend a working-class rust-belt college, openly talk abt how much they hate AI & are afraid of its consequences. I wonder how much of the oft-reported student enthusiasm for the tech is the merely result of the NYT’s Ivy League bias
August 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
My students, who attend a working-class rust-belt college, openly talk abt how much they hate AI & are afraid of its consequences. I wonder how much of the oft-reported student enthusiasm for the tech is the merely result of the NYT’s Ivy League bias
As we inch toward whatever amped up federal police presence the current administration has planned for our cities, I'm reposting this article that @sarahksshannon and I wrote in 2021 about our time living in North Minneapolis. Amped up policing doesn't equal public safety. streets.mn/2021/09/01/t...
The Sound of the Police
Excerpt from Sparked: George Floyd, Racism and the Progressive Illusion edited by Walter R. Jacobs, Wendy Thompson Taiwo and Amy August. Reproduced with permission from the Minnesota Hist…
streets.mn
August 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
As we inch toward whatever amped up federal police presence the current administration has planned for our cities, I'm reposting this article that @sarahksshannon and I wrote in 2021 about our time living in North Minneapolis. Amped up policing doesn't equal public safety. streets.mn/2021/09/01/t...
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New article about how to use Critical GIS and Community Geography in the classroom to develop students' reflexivity and enhance holistic learning. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
August 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
New article about how to use Critical GIS and Community Geography in the classroom to develop students' reflexivity and enhance holistic learning. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Y'all, my seminar for first year students is on this list. 🧇🗺️
August 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Y'all, my seminar for first year students is on this list. 🧇🗺️
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Jerry added great material throughout the book, joining work from other contributing authors. Shout out to Dudley Bonsal, @alyolli.bsky.social, Eric DeLuca, Rachael Huerta Carpenter, Jennifer Immich, Melinda Kernik, Steven Manson, Laura Matson, Sara Holiday Nelson, and Julie Santella.
Happy to share the release of the 2nd edition of Mapping, Society, and Technology. Props to @smmanson.bsky.social for wranging multiple of us to update it. It's a free text suitable for many introductory GIS courses, hosted at UMN Libraries. open.lib.umn.edu/mapping/ #gischat
Mapping, Society, and Technology – Simple Book Publishing
Exploring relationships among maps, society, and technology
open.lib.umn.edu
August 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Jerry added great material throughout the book, joining work from other contributing authors. Shout out to Dudley Bonsal, @alyolli.bsky.social, Eric DeLuca, Rachael Huerta Carpenter, Jennifer Immich, Melinda Kernik, Steven Manson, Laura Matson, Sara Holiday Nelson, and Julie Santella.