Logan Circle, Washington DC on a Sunday morning.

Today's economic development interviews took me to Washington County, PA...locus of the Whiskey Rebellion, Pittsburgh's southern exurbs, and sitting atop the Marcellus Shale gas field.

@mrglassphd.bsky.social and I have reflected on comparable reverberations from bridge failure in Pittsburgh and the temporal dynamics of infrastructure crises and infrastructure-based futuring here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Check out my reflections on NOIR's session on infrastructural regionalism and inclusion at the @regstud.bsky.social annual meeting this month. cc @mrglassphd.bsky.social @jpaddie.bsky.social www.noir-rsa.com/post/inclusi...

So much fun today @regstud.bsky.social 2025 co-chairing a NOIR session on infrastructural regionalism and inclusion with @mrglassphd.bsky.social featuring some excellent presentations on innovation districts, Auckland, and freight rail in Brazil.

My summer reading list (recreational)

President Alexander Stubb of Finland, who has emerged as a prominent voice of Europe’s smaller nations on Russia’s war against Ukraine, says in an interview he doesn’t want Ukraine to suffer the same fate his country once endured.

Starting at 1pm today, the @pittsociology.bsky.social 'Technically Urban' workshop engages with the linkages between cities and technology

Grateful to the @pittsociology.bsky.social department for hosting my work in progress book symposium today... thanks also to the generous discussants for their engagement.

Actually. How the US benefitted from outsourcing its research interests to experts in universities.

38 of the 43. "38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic. "The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..." www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

Very sad to hear of the passing yesterday of Warren Magnusson. He was a generous scholar, a brilliant political theorist, a captivating speaker, and deep believer in the emancipatory possibilities of the city. @uvic.ca #urbanpoltics

If you are a published author, check your name on the LibGen database which list works illegally used by Meta to train AI. 30 of my books and papers are in this database. The sheer scale of this intellectual theft is beyond imagination. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

BookBot at the North Carolina State University library. Efficient storage and retrieval, but so much for accidentally discovering a book in the stacks!

Dumb and Dangerous. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o... @nytimes.com

Three great @regstud.bsky.social research network sessions at the Detroit @geographers.bsky.social meeting yesterday, brought to you by the Network on Infrastructural Regionalism (NOIR). Thanks to all who participated.

Starting now: the first of the sessions on Infrastructural Regionalism at @geographers.bsky.social - sponsored by the @regstud.bsky.social research network NOIR (Network on Infrastructural Regionalism) #Detroit2025

Thanks to all the editors and delegates who contributed to a rich discussion about publishing regional research at #AAG25 @jclarkcrp.bsky.social @prt1969.bsky.social @mrglassphd.bsky.social @financeandspace.bsky.social @rsa-tpg.bsky.social @bdrudder.bsky.social

There are publishing options at all career stages, and for all flavors of regional research through @regstud.bsky.social Meetthe editors this morning at @geographers.bsky.social

I am co-editing this new issue on “Regional Development towards new Regional Futures” for @cjres.bsky.social (details below 👇🏻) if you work on alternative #regionaldevelopment frameworks, the spatial and policy implications of #heterodox economics, #growth and #post-growth debates: this is for you!

New regional energy landscapes bringing about infrastructural erasure and renewal. triblive.com/local/region...

And then they came for the planners... How a Columbia Student Fled to Canada After ICE Came Looking for Her www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/n...

I am in the midst of some truly enlightening interviews on infrastructure, regional governance, and the scale question. Watch this space...

Clairton, PA. Worker's diner adjacent to the notorious polluting US Steel coke works.

Pitt just paused all PhD admissions www.wesa.fm/health-scien...

Enough doom scrolling for one day. Onto some anger-fuelled research and writing.

A large swath of the $42.5 billion in broadband subsidies made possible by the infrastructure bill (which Republicans voted against) is also going to be redirected to his expensive, congested, capacity-constrained satellite broadband network

Good to see a session on 'Publishing Regional Studies Research' in the #AAAG2025 programme. Looking forward to it! @mrglassphd.bsky.social @gretegans.bsky.social @lavanyag.bsky.social @jclarkcrp.bsky.social @regstud.bsky.social aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/soli...

Here are the 25 institutions that receive the most NIH funding (98% of HHS is NIH). Basically, they're large schools with large hospitals. They receive 50% of all NIH funding. Source: ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/fede... (table 26) (Not going to do a whole thread but thought folks might be interested.)

My review of Derek Hyra's new book "Slow and Sudden Violence" is now online for the Journal of Urban Affairs. Click through for access to the reprint: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/5DCZG...

Honored to accept this charming Climate Honors Award from Second Nature on behalf of the team (students, staff, faculty) at the University of Pittsburgh working on community development in partnership with the Fayette County Cultural Trust. @pittsociology.bsky.social

I was fortunate to get a tour of the Ruhr Region's preservation and adaptive reuse of their industrial heritage. It's a different model to Pittsburgh's, where some industrial artefacts were preserved, yet only in a fragmentary fashion.

A propos the horrific current events in Southern California journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

What a treat from @urbanpolitical.bsky.social Santa! I had a great conversation about #IntfrastructuralTimes w/ @fennaimara.bsky.social, Himnashu Burte & Hanna Baumann: lots of insights & food for thought. Check out the podcast & the book, too! @mrglassphd.bsky.social @jen-nelles.bsky.social

The legacies of student loan debt and continuing underfunding of NZ higher education exacerbate a truly tragic crisis in the sector.

Flights from D.C. to Boston on a clear day are an excellent opportunity to consider Megalopolis (Gottman, not Coppola).

Great piece by @nicgaston.bsky.social on just how foolish the NZ government’s defunding of humanities, social sciences, and basic science is: the-conversation.com/funding-rese...

Call for Abstracts: join us in Porto at #RSA25 for our special session on inclusive infrastructures and the dynamics of regional transformation. Details below... @jpaddie.bsky.social @jen-nelles.bsky.social @pillnj.bsky.social

I reviewed and rejected a manuscript...the other 2 reviews were similarly critical. It turned up again in my review queue without any explanation from the managing editor as to why the original reviewer opinions (and labor) were disregarded. I find that problematic. #peerreview

See the following call for a special session at #RSA25 - abstracts due by 19 December #infrastructure #regionaldevelopment #NOIR

Glad to see this in print...Peter Ekman's research on the Harvard-MIT Joint Center in Urban Studies assembles great insight on postwar urban planning. #infrastructure #urbanism #temporality www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Job alert! Montana State is hiring a human-environment geographer! 👉 jobs.montana.edu/postings/43861 #geosky

Glad to see so many familiar faces joining Blue Sky from 'the other place'. I don't miss it, not one bit.

Colombia study tour on inclusive innovation continues with meetings today at Ruta N and EAFIT. How is Medellín's innovation landscape continuing to evolve, and how will the benefits be shared?

Tiny house settlements for the unhoused stir opposition, questions in Pittsburgh. www.post-gazette.com/news/social-...

Ancillary Budget Season. What a time to be alive.

I'm honored to be named as a 2024 Fellow of the Regional Studies Association... see the full list via the following link... @regstud.bsky.social

Looks timely.

8 Zoom/Teams meetings, all while working at home and testing new recipes? It's a real 2021 throwback day!