The Climate Justice Instructional Toolkit (CJIT)

The Climate Justice Instructional Toolkit (CJIT) (by MIT) offers a wide-range of climate justice adaptable teaching modules, a starter guide for teaching climate justice, resources for students, and climate justice data sets that can serve as supportive tools to enhance professor and instructor teaching content and approaches.

StreetWhip

Explore the world by combing Street View & AI in StreetWhip - basically the inverse of all these geo-guessing games.

IRB

Yep, the IRB process is both necessary & tedious.

• Excellent video here: Do you need an IRB??
• IRB Decision Tree (U. Wisconsin La Crosse)

Choosing the 'right' AI tool!

Nice article in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01069-0

All kinds of cool-sounding names: SciSpace, Claude, NotebookLM, etc. & I'm still not sure what these tools could do for me in-practice. But one thing is clear: as expected, there are 'free' versions with limited capabilities and various tiers of 'pro' versions that come at a cost. And here we go again: the rich can get themselves access to the good stuff & further entrench their privilged positions, whereas the poor get the 'decaf' versions.

This is a problem for Higher Education, both between colleges/universities and within them. Now it is not just about who has the coolest gyms & dining facilities, but who offers you access to the best AIs so that you can compete with others. Likewise, poor state-funded schools will not be able to offer any premium AI access to their students.

2020 & 2024 Election Results

Amazing data for all 435 congressional districts going back to 2008!

• https://www.the-downballot.com/p/the-downballots-calculations-of-presidential
• As a spreadsheet.

Drumlins in Boston Harbor

I did not know this: The Drumlin Islands of Boston Harbor

Backcountry Skiing

Here are two excellent interactive web maps: one showing the backcountry ski options around Mount Mansfield, the other in the White Mountains:

• Mount Mansfield Backcountry
• White Mountains Backcountry

I have never heard of that app (Backtrack Maps) - let's hope it stays around!