very happy to share about my work on geospatial data and at #basrisasr this morning! Slides are here for the curious: https://jeremykidwell.info/talk/201809-basr/
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If you use the command line (and you should) you’ll really love this epic survey of new and improved versions of classic CLI tools by @rem https://remysharp.com/2018/08/23/cli-improved. Especially love all the key mappings – muscle memory is hard to overcome!”
I’m really concerned lately to see a range of (mostly white, male, older) academics – some of them theologians – who find themselves out of the limelight and convert from scholar to demagogue. They are richly rewarded.
Signs of courageous dissent at Amazon. Consider boycotting this week: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/07/17/bezos-becomes-richest-man-modern-history-amazon-workers-mark-primeday-strikes #primeday
So excited to announce that @PTRBirmingham is hiring a lecturer / sr lecturer in Practical Theology (that’s asst/assoc prof for you in the USA): details here: https://t.co/mwOgDVLpyt (dm me if curious)
Really fascinating (and troubling) piece in @chronicle about education deserts: https://www.chronicle.com/article/who-lives-in-education-deserts Well researched with fantastic #dataviz – highlights the importance of geography to education!
So pleased our special issue of @EnvHumanities is out. Read our introduction ‘Unexpected Encounters with Deep Time’ here: https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/10/1/213/134711/IntroductionUnexpected-Encounters-with-Deep-Time with @mhbastian @David_Farrier and Franklin Ginn
Holy cow #ipfs went nuts. Was just a cool idea for a decentralised protocol last time I checked. Now this: https://github.com/ipfs/awesome-ipfs
Whole family is grieving destruction to @GuineaGardens and our allotment after flash floods in Brum. Also reckoning with the realities of soil contamination after floods in #UrbanGardening. It is good for privileged folk like us nonetheless to experience #ClimateChange impacts.
My 6yo: ‘papa, when you get to the late Cretaceous, you have to run really fast because you don’t want to die’ #extinctionstories