I'll take it.

Excited to announce my new article (w/undergrad co-authors) updating my old article on the geography of logistics within U.S. metro areas. In the 90s, it was all about de-centralization; now there's re-centralization everywhere as a national system develops. OA: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#OnThisDay Dec 17, 1915: Four entrepreneurs driving miners around the Minnesota Iron Range join forces to form Mesaba Transportation Co, becoming Greyhound Bus Lines in 1930. By 1935 it carried 652 million passengers annually, surpassing the railroads as the nation's largest passenger provider.

Ken Paxton has launched a snitch line to gather reports of supposed violations of Texas' transphobic bathroom policing law. Please do not abuse this snitch line. Please do not fill it with faff and nonsense. Please do not attach huge, unwieldy and irrelevant documentation to any reports.

Whenever I tell the story of my career trajectory, I always emphasize this. I was very lucky at some key moments, and I also worked very hard at some key moments. I would add that the underpaid jobs are also to teach courses that *departments* need in this era of metric-driven budgeting.

Fascinating analysis of algorithmic geographies of restaurants (and how to resist them):

#snowmobilities fascinate me not just in terms of mobility in the snow, but the mobility of snow itself.

CfP special issue on "Decolonising Research in Transport Geography", in JTG. Please help us spread the word! Deadline 30 Sep 2026 More info www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Guest editors: Qiyang Liu, Peking Zihao An, U. Leeds Rafael H. M. Pereira, Ipea Zahara Batool, Leeds Tim Schwanen, Oxford

*stares at West Urbana*

Ready for the last class of the semester in my transportation geography course thanks to @trimet.org!

Is there a piece of scholarship on your syllabus that students really connected with or really worked well for your semester? You should take some time today to email those authors and tell them. I love sending these emails.

As a quilter, I am excited about the only color of the year that really matters.

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This is what happens when you get injured and are no longer able to run, and then use Spotify mostly as a way to fall asleep. I do appreciate the album ranking, though, for us olds who still listen to music that way.

Love me a Chicago Tribune article that cites Nature's Metropolis.

Introduce yourself with five cars you've owned. 1) Honda Civic Hybrid (That's it. That's the list.)

today is the feast of St Catharine of Alexandria, patron of female scholars, so enjoy this painting of her shutting down a senior prof who treated her paper's question time as an opportunity to hold an impromptu paper of his own

do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge

Recently did around 30 requests to ppl who'd published very similar papers to the one I needed reviews for. 3 declines, 25 no response. Please at least decline guys it slows stuff down so much otherwise.

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Excited to announce my new article (w/undergrad co-authors) updating my old article on the geography of logistics within U.S. metro areas. In the 90s, it was all about de-centralization; now there's re-centralization everywhere as a national system develops. OA: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Today we honor the transgender lives taken by anti-trans violence. We hold their memory with love and stand with trans communities in grief, resilience, and strength. May we deepen our solidarity and work for a world where all trans people can live safely and freely. #TDOR #WeRemember #UU

I see some things I need to add to my collection of transit goodies...

While you're coming up with clever names for this maneuver, don't forget Republican Tim Johnson (IL-15), who followed this exact same procedure when he retired in 2012, so the Republican Party could handpick his successor and Democrats wouldn't field a strong candidate for the seat.

Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.

My dad delivered the mail from here. <3

The rhetoric has been about training students for the economy of tomorrow. Yet when employers always, *always*, year after year, say they want their workers trained in the skills that Humanities and Social Sciences teach, somehow that never turns into more investment in those programs.

But at least we can still celebrate the most important thing

Whatever happens in tonight's game, at least I won't have to hear the "oppo taco" MLB ad for another five months. 💀

Seems like the right time to make a PSA: academics, if you're close to finishing up an article, do it soon or take the holidays to polish it. I've learned after a few years as co-editor that there's little use in asking for reviews in Dec. and early Jan., at least not without a due date of late Jan.

Witness Slip Warriors: You are a PROPONENT of SB2111 if you love trains and buses! Get to it. (Previously shared an outdated link, this is current.)

Just in time for Halloween, the zombie airport returns from the dead one more time...

Last chance to submit an abstract to the Transportation Justice sessions at @geographers.bsky.social in San Francisco! Feel free to contact me for more information.

I keep thinking I should write an oped about the danger of the Border Patrol policing deep in the interior, but the problem is I already did... in 2022 www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

My first home. <3

bringing back my most viral tweet for spooky season

Excited to be traveling to UW-Milwaukee to give the Harold Mayer lecture/West Lakes keynote address, on the changing landscapes of logistics. What better way to get there than by train?

🎓 Join us for lunch, learning, and conversation at "Grad School FAQ: A Panel Discussion Demystifying the Grad School Application Process & How to Prepare your Applications"! 🗓️ Friday, October 31st from 12-1:30 PM CDT via 📍 NHB 2049 & Zoom! 💻 Register here: go.illinois.edu/HEROP-OCT31

Looking for support for your research or fieldwork? Apply for AAG’s Research Grants for the chance to receive up to $500 for your work. Apply by November 15: buff.ly/z93KZ7A #GeoSky #GISChat #GrantSupport #Fieldwork

LOL, happy Monday morning.

Announcing Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ), "Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis", Toronto, 1-5 June 2026 antipodeonline.org/institute-fo... -- submit your application by 20 December 2025

Saving this one for the next time I teach Geospatial Technologies and Society.

Trying to square this with the fiscal cliff that so many U.S. cities are facing right now, which in large part is due to WFH. The effects on downtowns are a lot more complicated than the "commercial real estate cabal."

Pls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026 Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026

We're hiring! Our department has a tenure-track opening in support of our GIS programs. wiu.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...