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Luis F. Alvarez Leon
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Dartmouth Geog | tech&space | chilango in the wild
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore. It happens a lot 'round here.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Only took 35 years to catch it on the big screen.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie title on the big screen.
August 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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dartmouthartsci.bsky.social
“It is the very ability to locate data on the internet that gives information value and creates markets.” Professor @lfalvarezleon.bsky.social examines how geography shapes digital markets in ‪“The Map in the Machine: Charting the Spatial Architecture of Digital Capitalism.” @ucpress.bsky.social
Mapping the Digital Economy | Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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June 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Did you know that University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social has a metric tonne of books #Free2DownloadAndRead in their Open Access page? All available here:

www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/o...
Open Access
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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June 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Black, magenta and an edge data center on the cover of my book about Nairobi, smartphones, platforms, standards, venture capital and digital China. Out in the boreal fall this year 🪩 with U California Press (and OA)
April 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Long time listener, first time book talker. Thanks to Stentor Danielson for the invitation to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to discuss #TheMapintheMachine. Shout out to @ucpress.bsky.social! Check out our conversation here: pca.st/episode/66d9...
March 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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katiejwells.bsky.social
Join us March 5 in DC to discuss what happens when nurses use AI to bid against each other for shifts.
@veenadubal.bsky.social @daveyseligman.bsky.social @geoplace.bsky.social @fundaustek.bsky.social &
@chenjerai.bsky.social will guide us through the new tech wilderness. Register: lnkd.in/eCsiWVye
February 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Three-year Visiting Assistant Professor in Geography at Mount Holyoke College. They are looking for a human or physical geographer, and candidates with expertise in critical geography, urban studies, and/or planning are encouraged to apply!

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February 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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🚨 Looking for travel funding to AAG in Detroit next month? The Economic Geography Specialty Group still has two Graduate Student Travel Awards worth $500 each available. Just submit an application through the form by March 8th. Please share widely!

cc: @econgeog.bsky.social
Student Travel Award Application
This scholarship is to support students of economic geography and is designed to help meet the costs of travel to the annual meetings of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). Two travel awa...
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February 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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{ggridges}

#RStats #ggplot2
Snowy stairs outside Uppsala University that resembling a ridgeline plot
February 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
Deadline in two days: Guarini Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian American Politics 2025-27 @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social apply.interfolio.com/160584 (quantitative focus) Please apply and share widely!
February 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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This is nuts lol
Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop from the digital-billboards dept. "In-dash advertising is here and Stellantis, the parent company of Jeep, Dodge, Chrysler, and Ram, beat everyone to further enshittification," writes longtime Slashdot reader sinij. "Ads can be seen in this video." From a report: In a move that has left drivers both frustrated and bewildered, Stellantis has introduced full-screen pop-up ads on its infotainment systems. Specifically, Jeep owners have reported being bombarded with advertisements for Mopar's extended warranty
February 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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pmbigger.bsky.social
Please share this with the coolest, sharpest graduate students in your life!
cplusc.bsky.social Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · Jan 28
We are hiring Junior Research Fellows for the summer of 2025! We are looking for outstanding graduate students to join us for the summer to make meaningful contributions to our transformative research and policy work across geographies and economic sectors. Applications due March 3.
Work With Us - Climate & Community Institute
There are currently no open positions at Climate & Community Institute.
climateandcommunity.org
January 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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I submitted a FOIA request for every submission for the Illinois state flag competition. Today, I got the files. You have no idea what they're keeping from us.
December 24, 2024 at 1:20 AM
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
New predoc->postdoc at Dartmouth - please share and apply!

Guarini Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian American Politics 2025-27
apply.interfolio.com/160584
new job ad for Guarini Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian American Politics 2025-27
December 11, 2024 at 9:09 PM
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I am co-organizing some sessions for the Global Conference on Economic Geography (June 2025, Worcester, MA). Please share widely! The first session is: "Technoeconomic Geographies: Imaginaries, Technologies, Epistemologies".
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Call for Papers: Session on Technoeconomic Geographies
Call for Papers: Technoeconomic Geographies: Imaginaries, Technologies, Epistemologies Global Conference on Economic Geography Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts June 4-8, 2025 Session Organi...
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December 9, 2024 at 8:04 PM
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They missed cumbia: everything sucks but we’ll party about it nevertheless
November 23, 2024 at 6:34 AM
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Giving a talk at 9am mt tmrw on the political economy of remote sensing with @lfalvarezleon.bsky.social Ufuoma Ovienmhada and Lisa Parks! Link to join below

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BD&S 2024 Online Colloquium: POLITICS, POWER AND DATA
This year’s Big Data & Society colloquium centers on the theme of "Politics, Power, and Data," exploring the complex intersections where dat...
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November 21, 2024 at 12:07 AM
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edwardongwesojr.com
For the new followers:

I write THE TECH BUBBLE, a newsletter abt the political econ of tech: open.substack.com/pub/thetechb...

I co-host THIS MACHINE KILLS, a Luddite podcast analyzing our tech ecosystem (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...)

I write about tech/labor/finance: www.edwardongweso.com
The Tech Bubble | Edward Ongweso Jr | Substack
Dispatches on technology and its political economy. Click to read The Tech Bubble, by Edward Ongweso Jr, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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November 20, 2024 at 7:02 PM
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Euros of Hollywood TV show
November 20, 2024 at 12:13 PM
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Max Shrek
A still from Nosferatu with Shrek's head photoshopped onto Count Orlok
October 30, 2023 at 8:48 PM
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Send us your abstracts!

AAG 2025 CFP: Technology, Power, and the City: Reconnecting the Dots in Turbulent Times

Full CfP below:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6wjoz...
October 14, 2024 at 11:47 PM
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Excited our paper "The Ground Rent Machine" is out, which tells the story of racial dispossession thru a little known legal mechanism in Baltimore: ground rent. A dream to collaborate with Jason Jurjevich, engage in crit quant, and decline-as-urbanization.

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The Ground Rent Machine: The Story of Race, Housing Inequality, and Dispossession in Baltimore, Maryland
In Baltimore, Maryland, more than 55,000 homes—roughly 30 percent of all residential plots—are subject to ground rent, a legacy of British feudal property law. Under this landlord–tenant system, th...
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June 19, 2024 at 1:51 PM