A preprint ☀️ forming the foundation of my PhD dissertation. It traces how accessibility, the “potential” to spatially interact, relates to spatial interaction modelling. It also outlines how constants from this oh-so-related field can be folded into accessibility to yield interpretable units!

LMFAO 😭😭 Its official—Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie has lost her riding. Imagine losing a Mississauga riding when you've been Mayor the last 10 years, plus all the other Mississauga ridings seem to be going conservative as well. #onpoli Flop era low key serving...

this dead horse isn’t going to beat itself

BOOOOO, this memory plays on loop. Especially today... youtu.be/nt2399gt69c?...

Friends, one of the biggest issues during this election has been Housing. Disabled Ontarians are among those most impacted by Ontario's failure to build accessible housing, ensure full rent control, and we are under direct attack through policing of unhoused disabled folks.

Imagine if Olivia Chow or a Liberal/NDP premier said this. There would be so much outrage, accusations of communist dictatorships, etc etc. But we operate in a landscape where it's just "harmless" goofy bumbling Doug Ford.

One of my neighbours put this up on their lawn. Civic virtue signalling! (extremely complimentary)

AND MORE: 250k waiting for surgeries --11k of whom died on waitlists, endless land developer scandals, fantasy highway tunnels, chronic underfunding of higher ed, unadjusted social assistance programs + expanding poverty ... and so it goes... #Ontario, today #vote like our lives depend on it

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

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New database alert! "A national data set of historical US sundown towns for quantitative analysis", based on work by @rigbydavid.bsky.social and many Landscapes Labs collaborators is now available! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In Canada, we don't have formalized regional land-use and transportation planning structures. It is more ad-hoc, unlike the MOP structure in the US. Came across a recent working paper that details some transferable lessons from their system to Canada. A School of Cities (UofT) paper. Interesting!

"Whether President Trump likes it or not, he is a climate president, leading during a time when our planet is warming at record speed from burning fossil fuels and extreme weather events are causing deaths, destruction, & bankrupting our communities." - @abbiedillen.bsky.social on Paris Agreement

An electric-powered mass transit vehicle, part of an electric streetcar network that carries 70 million riders a year, wrapped in an ad for gasoline. How demeaning.

Charles Person, the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders who traveled from Washington to Birmingham, Alabama, in 1961 in an effort to integrate interstate bus terminals across the South — and who were nearly beaten to death for doing so — died on Wednesday. He was 82. nyti.ms/40qH6I6

Im/mobilities, land and climate change are inescapably linked. Disasters impact those with the least, disproportionality. We need to stop burning fossil fuels and must build (back, anew and retrofit) sustainably.

Interesting new report by @transenv transportenvironment.org/articles/avi... BTW this ⬇️ (travel activity growth offsetting technological progress) is the main dynamic of transport, and notably aviation to date But if you go to an industry conference they'll assure you this time is different.

🤔 Fossil-fuel driven climate change is making insuring certain 'property markets' unprofitable. Insurers known this. But de-risking and reg. caps can extend coverage to riskier properties at a cost to everyone's premiums (insurers operate globally and profit-seek)... Is this status-quo worth saving?

In case you missed it, Mayor Olivia Chow is doing an AMA (Ask me anything) on Reddit and will answer questions Friday Jan 10 2-3pm! www.reddit.com/r/toronto/s/...

Measures with a purpose📜! In a new paper with Nick Mooney and Prof. Léa Ravensbergen, we use the cumulative opportunity and competitive accessibility measures in a gender-sensitive examination of multimodal access to Mobility of Care destinations in Hamilton.

My latest video take: the Premier is threatening to dismantle and criminalize encampments, but ultimately this is all abut masking his failure to build housing. Watch: www.instagram.com/p/DDNyHcXi7O2/

Car harm: A global review of automobility's harm to people and the environment doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...

Another one: density without actual community engagement is unjust.

Hi Bluesky TRBers, continuing our annual tradition with the #TRBAM reception spreadsheet for 2025! As always, please add receptions and share with friends and colleagues. Looking forward to seeing everyone at the TRB Annual Meeting next month! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Folks @ttcalerts.bsky.social in Toronto is setting precedents for accessible paratransit that we need to stop now. The "Family of Services" model is coming to a city near you, unless we act together. In support of the campaign from @ttcriders.bsky.social, see our letter: www.djno.ca/post/letter-...

📢Join the call on Hamilton to: do better; account for the needs of all of those living outside responsively; present a plan based on an idea of a Hamilton that cares about all who live here. The link to read and sign the open letter is in our bio and below! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Transportation Justice and Equity Starter Pack. go.bsky.app/AUVTxJ8

We now have a sizable group of #transport/ #mobility researchers on Bluesky. You can find them below. Let me know if you'd like to be added. 1. Transport/ Mobility Researchers: bsky.app/starter-pack... (I can add you here) 2. Transport Research: bsky.app/starter-pack... (by @transportist.net) 1/2

Was looking into factors influencing transportation safety the other day; "The presence of alcohol outlets in a tract increased the risk of an alcohol-related ped/cyclist crash by 47%” doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... Maybe the removal of protected bike lanes and alcohol expansion isn't a good mix...

Much of the failing private infrastructures of the global south are down to IMF and other global governing institutions forcing them into opening up their public goods to private rent-seeking landlords. It is not just local corruption but global economic coercion.

Call for abstracts for 2025 AAG Conference (@geographers.bsky.social) are in full swing! If you do work in Transportation Justice, we are organizing both in-person and virtual sessions. Submit your abstract by 31 October . Details: tinyurl.com/TJ-call @aag-tgsg.bsky.social

Excellent opportunity to be the new me! #geography

Last call ⏰⏰ Researching transport justice? Attending #AAG2024? Submit your abstract by Thursday (NOV 16) details: tinyurl.com/TJ-call-for-...

Are we, transport people, active here too 🐭??