So we want more people to have the skills to engage critically with the ambiguous stuff circulating in a post-truth online world? Turns out, those History of Art degrees were not such a bad idea after all. en.ara.cat/culture/the-...

This has been my favourite episode of the Antisocial Economics podcast so far - but they are all excellent.

Looking forward to the annual conference of the @rgsibg.bsky.social and rediscovering Birmingham after too many years of only being there long enough to transfer between trains.

Using DuckDuckGo for web searches is great - not missing the ads, not missing the (frequently inaccurate) AI summaries.

The consultants who worked on Warwick have done a few others it seems (but not "Beyonder"!): mammoth.tv/education/

🚨 Today we publish State of the North 2025 🚨 The North gets just half as much arts and culture funding per person as London. We reveal the impact this & other regional divides have on young people, and what must change 👇 www.ippr.org/articles/the...

Ash Sarkar's book 'Minority Rule' is brilliant - incisive, funny, depressing, but also strangely empowering account of the last few years in UK politics www.bloomsbury.com/uk/minority-...

New drawing: Hire bike Notes on this cartoon: open.substack.com/pub/diagramc...

Great to see outputs from the NİHR LTNs in London project starting to be published. Huge public health benefits of LTNs. 'Across the LTNs as a whole, the authors said, an estimated 613 injuries were prevented, including 100 deaths or serious injuries' www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Are we leaving parts of the country behind in the EV transition? Labib Azzouz & Hannah Budnitz @tsuoxford.bsky.social explore the uneven rollout of electric vehicle charging points across the UK.

Where I am with AI

Devastated to learn that EVERY SINGLE ONE of my former #DisabilityStudies colleagues at Liverpool Hope are at risk of redundancy. Lovely people and a brilliant team that has transformed the lives of so many students. If you know them please do reach out - things are very tough right now.

Job vacancy: Research Associate in Road Safety Inequalities (24 months; full-time; based @tsuoxford.bsky.social ) Come and work with Xiao Li @xiaoli-transport.bsky.social (PI) and myself on a new project on road safety and children with SEND my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

On Walk to Work Day, @valenmontoya.bsky.social highlights an example of commuting that isn't so straightforward. #walktoworkday @oxfordgeography.bsky.social www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/news/good-on...

Interested in making government more effective? Applications for our 2025–26 research internship programme, starting in September 2025, are now open. Closing date: Tuesday 29 April, 11:00 ⏰ Find out more: www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/about-us/car...

Walk down a footpath on residential street, and it’s always the slabs on nearest the kerb that are more cracked and broken…

I loved contributing to this book review forum on Romit Chowdhury's wonderful 'City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport' You can read my review alongside those of some outstanding scholars in the latest issue of Urban Geography - www.tandfonline.com/toc/rurb20/4...

Agreed; wonderful paper!

I was curious: How do people judge if they make financially literate decisions in daily life? I found that financial literacy (a very fuzzy & problematic concept) is something we try to make sense of as part of our relationships with significant others. More here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Did you know that @ccriadoperez.bsky.social is giving this year's @tsuoxford.bsky.social Annual Lecture on 5 March? It's on 'Women, travel, and data bias' and you can attend in person in Oxford, or online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-trav...

The 'Get Swindon Moving' forum coordinated by @swindoncouncil.bsky.social submitted written evidence to the recent 'Buses Connecting Communities' inquiry. This has been published alongside another 113 responses; have a browse here, it's fascinating I promise: committees.parliament.uk/work/8619/bu...

Have you signed up yet? The wonderful Prof Rachel Aldred is giving a webinar as part of the @tsuoxford.bsky.social 2025 seminar series. She will discuss unequal mobilities and active travel, and you can register here: www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/event/unequa...

Thanks for sharing The proposed plans include a 20% cut to Geography and Planning academic staff (10-15 FTE) We are all a bit shell-shocked But we will organise and strategise as a School tomorrow

New job alert! 2-year post-doc on the history of property inequalities (renewable up to 4 years) at LISER, Luxembourg. HIST_PROP, funded by @csllux.bsky.social, will analyse land and property ownership data in Luxembourg (1824-1938). Happy to answer questions! jobs.liser.lu/job/Esch-sur...

Catch up with this inspiring talk by Daniel Agbiboa (Harvard), part of the @tsuoxford.bsky.social seminar series; A perspective on urban popular transport which is both poetic and political:

To be clear, Sustainable Aviation Fuels are not (yet) “changing carbon emissions from flying”.

Two pre-doc research assistant posts at the TSU @tsuoxford.bsky.social ! Come and work with us: www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/news/jobs.html

The entire 2025 programme of the Transport Studies Unit @tsuoxford.bsky.social public seminars is online, and you will not want to miss them: www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/events/ht25_...

🌆 ☀️ New pre-print online! “Everyday adaptation to summer heatwaves: A global perspective” with Yuan Liang, Donggen Wang, and @timschwanen.bsky.social. 🧵Thread below: 1/4 Full link to pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/so...

Call for papers for our Special Issue on 'Disability and Cycling' in Active Travel Studies activetravelstudies.org 200 word abstracts for proposed submissions due 31/01/2025 More info in thread & on google docs: shorturl.at/XAzGZ @wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk @active-ata.bsky.social 1/

I am 6 months too late, but catching up with this excellent episode of the Urban Political Podcast, post-socialist infrastructures and some of the best qualified people to talk about them: Wladimir Sgibnev and Tauri Tuvikene, with a brilliant intro by Leah Bonvin

A very interesting development in our region: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

2 fully-funded PhD studentships are available here at Bristol as part of Naomi Millner's European Research Council project PEATSENSE: Diverse Knowledges and Sensing Practices in Peatlands for Inclusive Climate Futures Closing date for applications: 1st April 2025 www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/co...

On 23 January, join us @tsuoxford.bsky.social for a webinar with Daniel Agbiboa, Harvard University: 'Transport Aliveness and Social Imagination in an African Megacity' Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transport-...

Before I start posting here about unaffordable trains, inaccessible buses, and lax speed limits, I think we all need a cat picture.

The IJURR Foundation 2025 Writing up grant applications are now open, for PhD students from low- and middle-income countries who are writing up their final thesis. Detailed information on eligibility & applications is available here: www.ijurr.org/ijurr-founda...