Jane's Walk NYC is back again this May. The yearly festival offers in-person, guided group walks plus virtual and self-guided explorations. This year, there are over 250 walks across all five boroughs—a record number! www.mas.org/janes-walk-n...

@emmabalkind.bsky.social you immediately came to mind. Maybe of interest?

We do now know the NSF is proceeding with dissolving the Social and Behavioral Sciences Division. Congress might reverse it, but it is now already underway. YOU CAN NO LONGER SUBMIT FUNDING PROPOSALS TO SBE. Program officers are being moved to different parts of the agency. Call your Congress member

1/ I'm currently writing a blog post about what other countries are doing to address “high gas prices.” Australia (Victoria): All trains, trams, and buses free for the entire month of April. Australia (Tasmania): All public buses free until the end of June.

YOU GUYS it is Fish Doorbell season again! visdeurbel.nl/en/

Welcome to Trump's cost-of-mobility crisis. Blue cities & states could rapidly expand areas covered by frequent bus routes & cut average headways in half. States could issue emergency subsidies for purchasing EVs priced under 40k, with a higher subsidy for union-built. Fund by taxing the rich.

Just want to say there has been lots of strong coverage re: what seafarers are going through in the Strait of Hormuz. (It's just a shame that events like these are what it takes to make these often invisible workers visible.) Some examples of good reporting: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

seeing Chavez’s legacy be swiftly and correctly decimated is a powerful reminder that we as a society could, actually, hold people accountable when credible allegations are made that they are child molesters

n.b., ICE never left www.standwithminnesota.com/adoptarent

The “writing is thinking” posting will continue until a single freaking person in Silicon Valley has figured this out

*breathing into a paper bag*

This could ve big: DfT have a new tool showing how well-connected every 100x100m cell in England and Wales is to work, shops, leisure, health etc, broken down by mode connectivity-tool-lite.dft.gov.uk/app

It’s weird that there’s a branch of academics pretending that it’s acceptable to have LLMs write any portion of their manuscripts or other forms of public engagement. It’s not. You’re supposed to be the author. No matter what your new toy can do.

'claude can now research like a phd student!' bullshit, pour a bottle of department reception red and 6 pints into that motherfucker and it ain't gonna go home and finish its chapter for tomorrow morning

Here are all the lighthouses of the Northern Seas, each light is the right color, each turns or pulses at the right frequency, and is scaled with its brightness. You can also see how far they are visible. I had Claude Code build this by giving instructions in English: lighthouse-atlas.netlify.app

We've posted the slides and a printer-friendly version of our subway expansion report, A Better Billion! Slides: transitcosts.com/ABB_Presenta... Printer-friendly PDF: transitcosts.com/A_Better_Bil... NYT write-up: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/n... The OG interactive: transitcosts.com/a-better-bil...

PLEASE HELP US SHARE THIS: “We’ve let the lies be far too successful, and that’s significantly hurt our cities. No more.” It’s our blunt NEW @usa.streetsblog.org op-ed sharing why we’ve created @urbantruth.bsky.social. SPOILER: We need to call out the lies and tell the truth much more persuasively!

The Department for Transport has announced £271 million to help develop green vessel fuel and accelerate innovation across the maritime sector supporting hundreds of skilled jobs and driving decarbonisation. (1/3)

Hot off the press - a letter from the Exec Chair of @ukri.org explaining his plans and in particular the financial position of STFC. It notes curiosity driven research is protected and will make up around half of UKRI spend over the coming period www.ukri.org/news/open-le...

This post is for all of you in every time zone all around the world. I keep hearing that Bluesky is still mostly North American. But I think there’s lots of you around the world that love cities, and want them to be better. We want @urbantruth.bsky.social to be global. I hope you’ll check us out.

I demand to know why I’m being force-fed AI that will allegedly save me time and aggravation BUT I *still* can’t attach a document to an email without closing it first. Can we please deal with some basic stuff that actually matters??! (PS if AI can actually solve that I may be more on board)

Hi @jeffsharlet.bsky.social We’ve created a searchable 50-state directory of 2,200+ *local* news outlets. Subscribing to local supports newsrooms and is a pro-community and pro-democracy action. www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/journalism-d...

If you missed the news about Elsevier and Wiley (and doubtless the rest to follow) remaking themselves as AI companies with plans to profit from selling AI summaries of academic work back to the institutions that produced the original work: bsky.app/profile/benp...

Coauthor update: we're now on Firefox! 🦊 Help make the academic publishing world a little more transparent by using our research lab's plugin. It's automatic: once you sign in, the software takes care of the rest. The app will even calculate your publishing stats for you! coauthor.fly.dev

My theory of the moment: The extraordinary courage of ordinary people in places like Minneapolis is reawakening us to our social and economic ties to immigrants. It's making "love thy neighbor" cool again. That's the ultimate antidote to MAGA hate. Thoughts on this: newrepublic.com/article/2059...

Kudos to the mayors who are leading soft secessions. Soft secession means “…states, cities, and municipalities quietly building the capacity to govern without federal cooperation, so that when the federal government turns hostile, they already have the infrastructure to say no.”

Sharing this again, friends in NYC! It's time to poke around and find your organizing home! We've all got work to do - the great news is that thousands of our neighbors are already doing awesome stuff, and all we have to do is check 'em out and pitch in!

‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery. On a quiz that covered concepts they’d used just a few minutes before, participants in the AI group scored 17% lower than those who coded by hand’ Blog on Anthropic’s site www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

This tunnel cannot catch a break! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/n...

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

It’s not quite as cold as MN right now, but NYC just turned out a massive protest in solidarity in plunging temps, heading up 6th ave.

The question on NYC's congestion pricing has quickly moved from "is it working?" to "why isn't my city doing this?"

Speeches are only speeches unless and until cogent actions follow, but they can point a way for such actions, and inspire others. This was a remarkable address. There is no joy here — an unstable President, with acolytes and handlers, is a real danger, but clarity about this is a necessity.

"Middle powers must act together, because if we're not at the table, we're on the menu." This is a remarkable speech and I really do encourage people to listen to this.

#Innovation doesn’t just thrive in #urban centres. It also emerges on the margins. In Industrial & Corporate Change, @glueckler.bsky.social & @yaneck.bsky.social show how "institutional slack" and distance from the core create pockets where controversial #ideas can take root. doi.org/10.1093/icc/...

While there is so much that is disturbing about this case study in the destruction of academic freedom, one high point is the refusal of the targeted professor to submit

I cannot stress this enough: going and doing something like this is a far better use of your time than arguing online about a primary campaign in a state/district where you don't even live. I'll be doing it again myself soon!

On the merits it's really hard to argue that there's a better city policy than congestion pricing

Loved teaching @thebartlettucl.bsky.social students this term, and have blogged about my seminar series, Planetary Infrastructures, here samgrinsell.hcommons.org/2025/12/10/p... #history #ArchitecturalHistory #infrastructure #geography #anthropology #EnvHums #teaching #environment

States can abide by original recs. New York has that policy in place and Illinois just passed legislation to allow that. See about getting similar plans in place in your state. #MedSky 🩺 www.nprillinois.org/health-harve...

1/Quick thoughts of implications of US National Security Strategy for Europe -- weaponized interdependence meets nationalist international. The US will use its tools (economic, technology, and financial dominance) to press for far right agenda. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

@philiprocco.bsky.social (Marquette University), Jay Rickabaugh (North Carolina State), and @jen-nelles.bsky.social (Oxford Brookes School) discuss state and national partnerships during an atypical federal office in this @washingtonmonthly.com op-ed. Read the piece. ⤵️

Iran's president is reviving plans to move the capital amid a severe water crisis. But Iranian water policy experts say relocating government offices won't solve the core problem: decades of treating finite water resources as unlimited. buff.ly/p7loved

"A city's priorities become as clear as the spaces they choose to maintain in the winter." Creative done with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

We could have this in NYC! Support the SUNNY Act! www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/pre...

Farewell and good luck to Rick Cotton as he moves on from the Port Authority. As my coauthor says, he was a steadying hand and innovator at the authority during his tenure. www.nj.com/news/2025/11...

Congratulations to Allmaps (led by @bertspaan.nl & Jules Schoonman) + @iiif.bsky.social on the announcement of this partnership. It's a fantastic step towards a sustainable, open, digital maps infrastructure and data ecosystem. Learn more at allmaps.org/iiif-partner... & iiif.io/news/2025/11...