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Kristina Liv Larsen
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Assistant Curator @ Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries; Lecturer @ UTK SIS. Formerly Google X & Exploratorium. Car free since 2007.
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mapesgeog.bsky.social
The NACIS videos are up! Are you map-curious? Or map-obsessed (like me)? Scroll on through and see what you missed at our annual conference. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Mine is a how-to for making a lighted 3d neighborhood map www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5rd...
Relighting history: Building a 3d-printed interactive map of a hidden neighborhood - Jennifer Mapes
YouTube video by NACIS
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November 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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aoc.bsky.social
😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
kristinaliv.bsky.social
If you needed an excuse to visit a lighthouse
jeffvandermeer.bsky.social Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · Oct 26
SOUTHERN REACH READERS and weirdlings in general, here's a call for lighthouse photo submissions if you want a chance to be in the forthcoming Area X: The Southern Reach Files book. Starts Nov. 1, ends Jan 21. PLEASE read thoroughly. Questions, weirdos?

www.jeffvandermeer.com/lighthouseph...
An epic and mind-blowing expansion of the Area X story by way of a hidden metal box full of secret images and documents purporting to be the last report of the Central agent Karen Hargraves. Spanning the 30 years of Southern Reach expeditions, reaching into the past and the future, this full-color book will satisfy Area X completists while adding to the narrative begun with the first four novels, to Michael Sand at Abrams, in an exclusive submission, by Joseph Veltre at Gersh Agency and attorney Alex Kohner (world).
October 29, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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@attilabatorfy.bsky.social interviews me about falling down the information-graphic history hole open.substack.com/pub/attilaba...
Moving past superficial histories: interview with RJ Andrews
The Curious Cabinet #1.
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October 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
kristinaliv.bsky.social
More of this, please:
M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment
www.nytimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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nhannahjones.bsky.social
My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”
What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed
www.nytimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today:

Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.
September 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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footage.bsky.social
Beautiful profile on Prelinger Library and its founders by @eddiekimx.bsky.social in GazetteerSF: sf.gazetteer.co/face-time-ri...
Face Time: Rick and Megan Prelinger
The archivists and researchers look backward — and forward — in a city where exchange and flow are bedrock
sf.gazetteer.co
September 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Let’s fight back, California. Yes on 50!
September 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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jeffsharlet.bsky.social
I wrote about the lost world of alt-weeklies, papers that loved cities *as* cities, for my splendid local alt-daily, Daybreak. “The first time I saw a stranger’s corpse was one summer night, 1992…” news.daybreak.news/p/enthusiasm...
Enthusiasms: Jeff Sharlet on Alt-Weeklies
And the San Diego Reader and the (mostly) lost era of great urban writing
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August 20, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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rahmstorf.bsky.social
Sehr cool.
www.chronotrains.com/de/explore/2...
August 11, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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conspiracyofcarto.bsky.social
Hey Seattle folks,

I’ll be giving a talk about the Petrofuture maps this Tuesday. Tickets are almost gone!

www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...

#seattle #petrofuture
Petrofuture Long Island 66m sea level rise on a vintage Shell gas station map Petrofuture London 66m sea level rise on a vintage Esso gas station map Petrofuture France 66m sea level rise on a vintage Shell gas station map Petrofuture Washington DC 66m sea level rise on a vintage Shell gas station map
August 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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kennethfield.bsky.social
ALL ABOOOOARD! The Crazy Touring Train of #OzzyOsbourne. My cartographic tribute. Tour stops as bright lights amid the darkness. Most played cities glow brighter. Lines are the paths between tour stops.

Feel free to download your own copy here: carto.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.ht...
August 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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toniasutherland.bsky.social
this kind of digital resurrection is exactly what i raise concerns about/warn against in RESURRECTING THE BLACK BODY — a digital afterlife with no agency, a (re)product(ion) with no moral code or compass, a (mis)representation
August 4, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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wyman10.bsky.social
#MapReferanceQuestion
Looking up "Wakash Nation" via the #DavidRumseyMapCollection search "text on maps" feature. www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet...

More information on the "Guide to Searching and Annotating Text on Maps" can be found here:
machines-reading-maps.github.io/rumsey/
#mapKurator
A map pattern display of the maps returned as part of a search for "Wakash Nation" on the David Rumsey Map collection. Only maps that have been geo-referenced can be searched by the text they contain.
June 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Seems to me that if there’s a senile guy doing nothing in particular the usual way and a senile guy setting everything on fire, the fire guy is the one who should be the focus of media inquiry
May 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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freegovinfo.bsky.social
JJ and I did a thing. "Preserving Government Information: Past, Present, and Future" by James A. Jacobs and James R. Jacobs. Info/Download/PoD: freegovinfo.info/pgi
#digitalpreservation #govinfo #FDLP
Preserving Government Information - Free Government Information (FGI)
Preserving Government Information Past, Present, and Future by James A. Jacobs and James R. Jacobs The book examines how preservation practices of the past affect the preservation of digitally publish...
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May 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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iamhectordiaz.com
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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wyman10.bsky.social
Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display)
Marie Tharp the pioneering oceanographer who mapped the ocean floor.
For more info/links: #cartobibliography tinyurl.com/34hn54c3
#MarieTharp #bathymetry #oceanography #platetectonics #overedge #MapDayMay25 William C. Wonders Map Collection #WCWMC
Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Marie Tharp the pioneering oceanographer who mapped the ocean floor. “Not too many people can say this about their lives: The whole world was spread out before me (or at least, the 70 percent of it covered by oceans).I had a blank canvas to fill with extraordinary possibilities, a fascinating jigsaw puzzle to piece together: mapping the world’s vast hidden seafloor. It was a once-in-a-lifetime—a once-in-the-history-of-the-world—opportunity for anyone, but especially for a woman in the 1940s. The nature of the times, the state of the science, and events large and small, logical and illogical, combined to make it all happen.” (Marie Tharp via the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Marie Tharp the pioneering oceanographer who mapped the ocean floor. Three photos of Marie Tharp 1. A very young Marie in her father's surveying truck, early 1920s. (Image courtesy of Robert Brunke) 2. Marie during her university years, mid-1940s. (Image courtesy of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory) 3. posed Marie pretending to work on the physiographic diagram of the North Atlantic Ocean in Lamont Hall. Sounding records are visible to the left of the diagram, one of the globe prototypes that she and Bruce Heezen constructed sits in the middle, and an enlarged version of her six North Atlantic profiles is propped in the corner. Late 1950s. (Image courtesy of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory) From: Felt, H. (2012). Soundings : the story of the remarkable woman who mapped the ocean floor (1st ed.). Henry Holt and Co. Illustration from: Burleigh, R. (2016). Solving the puzzle under the sea : Marie Tharp maps the ocean floor (R. Colón (ed.)). Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. Caption: I'm Marie Tharp, and my love of maps began way back in the 1930s, when I was a girl. My father's job was to make maps that helped farmers understand different kinds of soil and what they could be used for. I liked to watch as Dad drew his maps. Sometimes I held his pads and pencils as he worked, Dad traveled from state to state to make his maps-from Michigan, to Iowa, to Alabama, and beyond-and the whole family moved along with him. I had attended seventeen schools by the time I graduated high school. Try topping that! One of my top 5 overedges of all time - showing Tasmania and New Zealand above and below the water. Great example of physiographic mapping or “diagram” or “landform map” which shows perspective (Raisz., 1956). It is intermediate in style between the old-fashioned hachured topographic map (e.g., see Imhof, 1950) and the modern geomorphologic map. Raisz, E. J., 1956, Landform maps, Petermanns Geogr. Mitt., 100(2), 171–172. Imhof, E., 1950, Gelände und Karte, Erlenbach-Zürich, E. Rentsch Verl., 255pp. From: Tharp, Marie and Heezen, Bruce C. (1971). Physiographic diagram of the western Pacific Ocean. Geological Society of America.
May 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
kristinaliv.bsky.social
Thank you— I’ve been trying and failing to articulate exactly this. Many Gen-Xers have retconned themselves into having been cool independent thinkers when in the 80s and 90s they were deeply committed to enforcing conformity.
rebhill.bsky.social Rebecca Hill @rebhill.bsky.social · May 5
People shocked by the conservatism of Gen-X may have forgotten that punk rockers were not the voice of our generation but a cultural movement against the Reaganite majority
May 6, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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katharinehayhoe.com
Good news for today! The @agu.org and @amspolicy.bsky.social are teaming up to support climate science in the US and fill the vacuum left by the cancellation of the support team and dismissal of the authors of the Sixth National Climate Assessment.

More from @drshepherd2013.bsky.social here:
2 Major Science Organizations Unite For Vital Climate Collection
With the 6th National Climate Assessment in limbo, two respected science organizations, AMS and AGU, are stepping up their actions.
www.forbes.com
May 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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freegovinfo.bsky.social
Trump’s war on information meets a dedicated adversary: University librarians www.sfchronicle.com/us-world/art...
Trump’s war on information meets a dedicated adversary: University librarians
Volunteer data preservationists are racing to save decades — and petabytes — of scientific research from the Trump administration’s information purge
www.sfchronicle.com
May 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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hakeemjefferson.bsky.social
A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.

I hope you’ll read and share the piece.

stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.
Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.
stanforddaily.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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annabower.bsky.social
THERE IS SO MUCH HAPPENING HELP
elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a wall of fire
Alt: elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a wall of fire
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April 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM