Welp. I guess I'm cheering for the American League from here on out. 🐻😢 BANDWAGON 3. Mariners SURE, I GUESS 7. Blue Jays NO 9. Dodgers 10. Brewers

Thanks, @urbanstudiesjournal.com! Here's my new article with Wataru Morioka, part of the special issue on Urban Transport as a Social Construct. Transportation justice needs to consider the afterlives of infrastructure: railyard reuse is another source of environmental injustice in Chicago.

Thanks, @urbanstudiesjournal.com! Here's my new article with Wataru Morioka, part of the special issue on Urban Transport as a Social Construct. Transportation justice needs to consider the afterlives of infrastructure: railyard reuse is another source of environmental injustice in Chicago.

This is fantastic news!

We’re advertising a PhD studentship for folks with good knowledge of Caribbean culture and society, with background in geography, human geography, humanities or interdisciplinary geosciences as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded ‘volcanic histories’ project

Champaign-Urbana when?

*stares in geographer at all of the environmental and sustainability degrees*

Bored with TRB's censorship and cancellations? Submit your work to the Crossroads Convening on Transportation Equity and Justice instead -- proposals due October 25. www.crossroadsconvening.org

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October is why. (Narrated by Anthony Rizzo)

Paris celebrated the opening of its 300th “school street”: landscaped & pedestrianized or semi-pedestrianized blocks situated in front of schools. Most have been completed since 2020.

Verifying this for Champaign-Urbana.

This is fun, so here's mine! #MLB postseason rooting order: PASSIONATE 1. Cubs 2. Red Sox BANDWAGON 3. Mariners 4. Tigers I LIKE THEM 5. Phillies SURE, I GUESS 6. Guardians 7. Blue Jays NOT ROOTING, BUT YOU'RE ALLOWED A WS 8. Reds NO 9. Dodgers 10. Brewers HELL NO 11. Padres 12. Yankees

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day to all who celebrate:

Listen, I pride myself on usually knowing everything about everything, but THIS just now was legitimately news to me. lizplank.substack.com/p/tylenol-is...

Streets.mn is excited to announce that we are seeking writers, storytellers, photographers to research and write articles for a recently-awarded Minnesota Historical Society grant. Each of the 4 projects is paid $1000, to be split between the storyteller and photographer.

Definitely Carelessness with candle.

We don't talk eough about how car dealers are one of the biggest bastions of conservatism in the United States.

There's a great turnout at the Chicago River Swim, the first time people are swimming in the open river in a hundred years! Here are some phone photos before I get home

Best pie: Dutch apple Best ice cream: burnt caramel from Toscanini's Best donut: angel creme Best bar: Nanaimo Best cake: carrot Best other: kouign-amann

This is a great thread!

Coming soon...the Studio Art Quilt Association's annual Benefit Auction! Pick meeeeee...or any of the nearly 400 12'x12' art quilts to benefit an association that stands firm against censorship of art. www.saqa.com/auction starting September 12.

"Every inch forward in that queue trains children to see themselves as cargo, delivered by others, rather than as capable people navigating their world."

This is exactly it. "For some folks, the presence of people who make them uncomfortable is crime."

Leaving New York

One of my favorite state fair creative activities objects this year: a quilted infographic documenting climate change.

One more way in which David Brin's 50-years-out novel Earth, published 35 years ago, has already come to pass:

Calling all part-time and full-time faculty in the South: Speak out on academic freedom, shared governance, and your working conditions! Survey closes 8/29 at 5pm ET. States: AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, TX, VA. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

yessssssssss

You’re probably having that experience of the criticism because…that is the critique. No one is attributing blame to the AI because, uh, we’re not the weirdos on who thinks the machine is sentient.

Geographies of the Internet...

does anyone know of an old US streetcar map with the stops on it? I only find maps w/ routes. I think streetcars stopped every 1-2 blocks but want evidence. new orleans is like that. @nilo.bsky.social

Tonight's edition of Flights I'm Actually Glad I Was On because it meant I got home tonight, which a lot of people traveling through O'Hare today are not:

ONCE AGAIN I must point out that the metrics used to justify this kind of de-universityification are incoherent and insulting to our intelligence. Who cares what the absolute numbers are? Use rates and ratios or else just admit you're closing these programs because you personally dislike them.

The problem, of course, with undermining faith in the integrity of data collection is that stuff like this -- normal stuff like updating forms to be in line with new statistical standards (the new SPD-15 race and ethnicity question format, finalized last year) gets treated like a big conspiracy

I keep seeing this circulating, and I'm disappointed in my colleagues in the natural sciences who think if they can "shed" enough of their humanity they will some how be protected from fascism. Scientists who are bending to jingoism to try and protect funding aren't asking the right questions.

When you're working on two different sets of article revisions, and one requires you to add the DOI for all of your citations, and the other requires you to take all of them out. 🙃

These are hilarious, especially Illinois and New York. And the Colorado one looks completely compact!

I’ve been wanting to study/write a book on/supervise a dissertation on #3 for years. Including how traffic engineers have had to create whole new standards for parking lots that are really double-lane drive-throughs, plus the development of the military-scale logistics of the pick-up zone.

And I see people do it in central Illinois with regards to Champaign-Urbana. Part of the group, and not one of "them."

My favorite player when I was a kid. 😢

An English class on The Four Quartets and The Waste Land. (I also took Atmospheric Chemistry for fun that year, but as a geography major, that's one's not unrelated.)

This last line, especially. Also, I don't suppose Watson asked the student what they thought of being graded by an LLM.

"Aging in place" doesn't actually mean helping an empty-nest couple effectively squat in a five-bedroom house for 50 years, it should mean building a variety of housing stock in all neighborhoods so they can downsize without disrupting the decades-long community social networks they've built

Fun fact, this map would be impossible in Australia for two reasons: 1. The Commonwealth Electoral Act requires compact, community-based electoral districts. 2. The Coriolis Effect in the Southern Hemisphere would cause the districts to swirl around the metro center in the other direction.

Economic geography on an MTD bus 😊

This is a wonderful encapsulation of what I love about these books and this show. (Plus the snark. I really love the snark.)

Illinois grad here. Andreesen's fortune is built on research funded by the NSF at the UIUC super computing lab (NCSA). So on top of the vile racism, he's a hypocrite. "NSF awarded a large grant to NCSA specifically for Mosaic development, enhancement and support." www.nsf.gov/news/mosaic-....