“I am beginning to worry that geographers might be some of the nicest people in the world.” Rahawa Haile, writer with Coyote Media, shares her experience mingling with #AAG2026 attendees and discovering the community within session rooms:
Last week at the @geographers.bsky.social 2026 Annual Meeting, I-GUIDE hosted a hands-on workshop on the I-GUIDE Platform and its role in supporting #geospatial data-intensive #research and #education.
#AAG2026 #SpatialAI #GIS #DataScience #CyberGIS
🎉 We are delighted to announce this year’s Graduate Voices Presentation Award of the Legal Geography Specialty Group at #AAG2026: Samantha Saona Sarabia (Columbia University) We are delighted to announce this year’s Graduate Voices Presentation Award of the Legal Geography Specialty Group at #AAG2026: Samantha Saona Sarabia (Columbia University). A fantastic and well-deserved recognition— Chair @sklosterkamp.bsky.social congratulates her on this well-deserved recognition for an outstanding presentation!
🎉 We are delighted to announce this year’s Graduate Voices Presentation Award at #AAG2026:
Samantha Saona Sarabia (Columbia University)
A fantastic and well-deserved recognition— Chair @sklosterkamp.bsky.social congratulates her on this well-deserved recognition for an outstanding presentation!
Embodiment Lab dinner #AAG2026
I was a panelist for a border studies project at #AAG2026 but also a presenter at and chair for a session on urban heat
Graduate student posing with award certificate & AAG president.
Congratulations to @embodimentlab.bsky.social member Naznin Sultana for her multiple @geographers.bsky.social paper awards!! #AAG2026
Cc: @williamgmoseley.bsky.social
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blue background, book cover top left titled islanded, book cover top right titled the ryukyu islands, book cover bottom left titled a sense of space, book cover bottom right titled wild fictions
Even though #AAG2026 is coming to a close, there's still time to visit our virtual exhibit! Don't forget, our 30% discount and free shipping with code EX58280 is still available. Explore more here: bit.ly/UCPEXAAG
One of the highlights of #AAG2026 has been reading Automatic Noodle by @annaleen.bsky.social while riding BART to and from the conference. The perfect San Francisco story for these times.
📅 Happening today! Check out some of the March 21 sessions below to explore topics shaping the future of spatial AI.
🔗 For more information: i-guide.io/aag-2026-sym...
#AAG2026 #SpatialAI #GIS
And now to #BakerBeach to unwind after excellent though back-to-back #AAG2026 sessions today. All these trips have been done on the city’s rapid and inexpensive public transportation system. Thank you #SanFrancisco
And just like that, #AAG2026 is a wrap! Thank you to all the attendees and @geographers.bsky.social for another amazing conference.
Our AAG website will stay up for a few weeks so you can still save 40% on all books we had on display: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...
See you next year for #AAG2027!
Slide with four points for "Meeting the moment: The case for resilient self-reliance to push back against vulnerability and corporate power": 1) Policies to reduced market volatility and vulnerability for producers and consumers grounded in justice principles and reduce corporate market power 2) Support agroecological transitions to boost domestic food production to reduce reliance on corporate inputs 3) Build infrastructure to support territorial food markets as alternatives to corporate-dominated food distribution and 4) Foster fair and cooperative international food trade and aid relationships grounded in solidarity and ecological principles.
@jennifer-clapp.bsky.social ends with recommendations for addressing both the concentration of corporate power in food systems and the current geopolitical upheaval. #AAG2026
Old John Deere ad that says "POWER" with an old tractor. Above it, Dr. Clapp's annotation "Power available to dominant firmsshapes food system outcomes"
"This is how these firms got so big. They were buying each other out in response to these dynamics." @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social #AAG2026
Among factors that fed into the current conditions, governmental support of firms, through land grant universities and otherwise, with heavy support for hybridization of seeds, for example. Agricultural Industrial Act, weakening of anti-trust laws.... @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social #AAG2026
Old pamphlets and advertising from ag firms, many with family names, that often still exist today in some form
At first glance, this nostalgic array of companies' literature might be charming...but these are the firms that have become titans or been swallowed up by titans over the last century, according to @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social #AAG2026
Chart with four donut graphs showing the large market share held by the top 4 firms in farm equipment, seeds, agrochmicals, and fertilizers
Large corporations' dominance of four agriculture markets. @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social #AAG2026
@jennifer-clapp.bsky.social quotes former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis regarding corporate power:
"Size, we are told is not a crime, but size may, at least, become noxious by reason of the means through which it was attained or the uses to which it is put." #AAG2026
"we're in a really weird geopolitical moment right now, and it's important for us to think about what this means for the research agenda." @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social #AAG2026
"I've been really preoccupied by corporate concentration and power in food systems....it's important to understand the drivers of this. It matters for food, and it matters for the environment." @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social #aag2026
Old aerial and schematic to the left, wooden tools of a Leroy set to the left
The Leroy set that Dr. Clapp had to use by hand. "I'm really glad I learned this by hand. It's harder than it looks" @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social #aag2026
Dr. Clapp begins by sharing that she grew up among generations of surveyers, with a map of the world pasted to the wall at the family table. "I got the seat that faced the map, and grew up with this map of the world." #aag2026
Somehow already our last day at #AAG2026! Last chance to drop our booth to check out our books. Our AAG website will stay up for a few weeks so you can still save 40% on our latest books in Geography and Environmental Studies
Today! #AAG2026
today at #AAG2026 I'll be presenting my work on subsurface geographies at 10:10am!
Then at 12:50, an author meets critics on Alyssa Battistoni’s Free Gifts
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Even though #AAG2026 ends to day, you can still save 40% on our books and journal issues through April 28. Use code AAG26 at checkout on our website or that of our UK partner, MNG. #Geography buff.ly/WsqP5fa
📅 Happening today! Check out some of the March 20 sessions below to explore topics shaping the future of spatial AI.
🔗 For more information: i-guide.io/aag-2026-sym...
#AAG2026 #SpatialAI #GIS
"I don't believe in an Invisible Hand [that will save us]. *These* are the hands that will save us [holding up his own and gesturing to ours]." Jon Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social of @projectdrawdown.bsky.social #AAG2026
For #AAG2026 geographers visiting #SanFrancisco who are done with travelling along corridors indoors I can recommend outdoors with #sealions at North Point, setting sun over the #GoldenGateBridge up #TelegraphHill and ditto from the Pacific side at #SutroBaths and #LandsEnd. Fabulous geography city
