Professor @TMUGeo (ex @RyersonGeo), among world's top 2% geomatics scientists, NPI of RECOVER19.org, #geography #GIS #maps #MCDA #OSGeo, #publichealth.

Joined January 2012
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New publication - a comment titled “Ethical justification of coercive public health policies must be premised upon their safety and efficacy” in @SpringerEthics Monash Bioethics Review, rdcu.be/fmfB8

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In response to Johnson et al. (2025), I argue that any attempt to justify a public health policy is void if the underlying intervention has not been shown, beyond reasonable doubt, to be effective, necessary, proportionate, and safe.
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Conway's Game of Life in ArcGIS Pro ModelBuilder. I found this surprisingly difficult to build, incl. issue with layer file overwrites, variables/parameters, and the feedback loop. Next on the menu for GEO441 GIScience students @TMUGeo is a wildfire model using cellular automata.
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Just published @IJERPH_MDPI : “Scope and Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Workplace Vaccination Mandates During the COVID-19 Pandemic”, mdpi.com/1660-4601/23/1/37. Yet another incoherent government response policy that lacked justification and was harmful rather than effective.
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Just published @COVIDMDPI : "The Class Gap in Pandemic Attitudes and Experiences", doi.org/10.3390/covid5120195. An exploration and interpretation of crosstab data from the COVID-19 Trends & Impact Survey (CTIS) by education level and time.
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Learning by teaching: For final lab demo in @TMUGeo GIS & Decision Support course, I willed @tableaupublic into displaying my data on a (Mollweide-)projected world map following 8-year old instructions by @mapsOverlord, community.tableau.com/s/news…; maps at public.tableau.com/views/Wor…
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Published today @IJERPH_MDPI: "A Global Index to Quantify Discrimination Resulting from COVID-19 Pandemic Response Policies", doi.org/10.3390/ijerph220404… (open access)
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Happy #LoveDataWeek! In @ChooseTMU's GEO641 "GIS and Decision Support" this term we watched @thenfb's 1968 "Data for Decision", made apples & oranges comparable, used @Esri's Suitability Modeler, and had guests speak about geospatial data in waste mgmt and univ planning #careers!
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First written in Dec 2020, cancelled by a "critical geographies" journal, published Jan 2023, now #2 most cited in the respected Geografiska Annaler B -- "The academic left, human geography, and the rise of authoritarianism during the COVID-19 pandemic", tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1…
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Claus Rinner🙂 retweeted
RINNER: Alberta’s COVID-19 pandemic data review further evidence of mismanaged crisis torontosun.com/opinion/colum…
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Happy Intl. Open Access Week #OAWeek24! The open-access @URISA Journal's final issue, urisa.org/resource/resmgr/do…, includes Baculi et al. (2017), in which we indirectly confirmed the widely held estimate that 80% of all #data are #geospatial. Citations welcome! #GIS #GIScience
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Web interface for Ioannidis' (2024) Stanford/Elsevier ranking of the world's top 2% scientists based on career-long citations updated to end of 2023, crinner.github.io/top-scient…
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Claus Rinner🙂 retweeted
Congrats to @arts_tmu prof. @ClausRinner on his New Frontiers in Research Fund grant to #research how governments can build trust, better communicate and engage with local communities during emergencies such as the pandemic: bit.ly/3HwkL1W @SSHRC_CRSH @TIPS_SPIIE
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Volume 3 and counting: "The #Coronoia Revolutions: Witnessing the Failure of Public Health and the Loss of Common Sense in the Western Matrix", 98-page colour paperback or eBook, amazon.ca/dp/B09MYSHLHW. Plus "The #Coronoia Trinity" bundle, amazon.ca/dp/B09MYXSBD2.
Published volume 2 of the Coronoia series today: "The Coronoia Reloaded: Surfing the Waves of SARS-CoV-2 and Lockdowns in Canada and Around the World", amazon.ca/dp/B099BYQN78. Kindle/eBook to follow.
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"The Coronoia Perfecta: Global Hygiene Theatre and Health Delusion -- Cliff-Hanger or Closure?". Volume 5 of the #Coronoia series, 176 pages filled with 24 blog posts from June 2022 to April 2023. Available in paperback and e-book formats at amazon.ca/dp/B0C2SVRQZS.
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Claus Rinner🙂 retweeted
youtu.be/ERVxHlALK7E New Episode of #WhatHappenedLastYear is up! Kayla is one of our two vax injured student interviewees. Please share her story. She deserves at least that much. #unvaccinated #vaxinjured @TorontoMet
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Impressive show @YDSquare @DowntownYonge tonight: #InTheWakeofProgress with beautifully choreographed digital screens and coordinated (if a bit overpowered) soundtrack. @EdwardBurtynsky & @DavidSuzukiFDN present. Runs one more time tomorrow 8-11pm as part of @Luminato festival.
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Claus Rinner🙂 retweeted
Join fellow cartographers, and all those passionate about mapping / geography / data visualization online May 25-26th cca-acc.org/conferences/curr…
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Claus Rinner🙂 retweeted
We need a systems-oriented approach to exit the pandemic, writes Dr. Claus Rinner. theideasinstitute.org/2022/0…

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