The DSL is hiring a new associate director, someone to help lead the lab and coordinate all the GIS work for projects like American Panorama and Mapping Inequality. If you're interested, info's at richmond.csod.com/ux/ats/careers… . And pass along to anyone you think might be interested.

The Massachusetts Historical Society issued a call for proposals for scholars in the digital humanities to workshop work-in-progress as part of their Shapiro Digital History Seminar series. These seminars are really productive. masshist.org/seminars/l-den…

I am leading the workshop 'Something Mappy This Way Comes: An Introduction to Digital Mapping Technologies' through Visual Resources Association starting November 1st. It will be a crash course in available digital mapping technologies including browser tools by Mapbox

vraweb.org/opportunities/…

Working on Mapping Inequality V3 with new maps for smaller towns. Map of Bristol VA makes me want to laugh & cry about links between past & present-today's MLK Blvd jumps out on a narrow area surgically redlined when he was ~10 years old.

Explore “The #HomesteadAct of 1862”. By 1912, homesteaders had transformed more than 125 million acres from public lands to private property. While Native Americans were dispossessed of large portions of the American #West . University of Richmond Julius Wilm #maps

dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/homes…

I so admire the YIMBY movement. This fundraising effort is trying to get the full HOLC archive at the National Archives digitized, in part to grow and expand Mapping Inequality donorbox.org/mapping-inequa…

Can't recommend Nathan K. Hensley's piece enough. Other great work builds upon Mapping Inequality's data. This is different but as important: an honest & often moving biographical meditation about race and memory. lareviewofbooks.org/article/remapp…

Reading Wendell Berry & passage seemed struck me in BLM & COVID 2020: “Cures, to industrial medicine, are marketable products.... To cure in this sense is not to heal. To heal is to make whole, not so ideologically definable or so technologically possible or so handily billable.”

Our twins were born 10 years ago, in my penultimate year of grad school—They were born at 32 weeks & were in the NICU for 7 & 8 weeks—Our bill also topped *1 million* dollars but Medicare paid nearly every cent—it's the only reason they & we can live our lives now #MedicareForAll