Seattle area friends: Peaceful protest corner of 8th & Madison every other Thursday. Attended as proxies for my Dad last Thursday (he’s less mobile). Anchor organizers are the retirement communities on First Hill. Let’s show them some love and solidarity and help keep these elders safe!

Happy Sunday Mount Rainier 🏔️. Looking good!!!🌞

🏙️ Thinking about a career in city and regional planning? 🤔 Want to learn more? Check out our 1st info session for graduate students tomorrow! Details ⬇️ knowlton.osu.edu/events/2025/...

Student voters, an increasingly critical demographic, face hidden threats to their right to vote in "use it or lose it" laws. www.lwv.org/blog/use-it-...

It is complete nonsense to assert that external funding is a measure of research quality. Funding is an input to the research enterprise; it is not a measure of the quality of the output. 🙄 Why is this hard? 🫠

NEW: Anthropic has reached a preliminary settlement in a class action lawsuit brought by a group of prominent authors, marking a major turn in of the most significant ongoing AI copyright lawsuits in history.

From superheroes to sewer heroes. From dream team to stream team. We're about to turn the page on a whole new era. LAKE ERIE LEAGUE ISSUE #1 DROPS AT #CLEANWATERFEST SEPTEMBER 20.

The League announces No Harm to Our Communities: Mapping Guidance for Elected Leaders, guidance on drawing mid-cycle maps that protect historically disenfranchised communities. Full statement: www.lwv.org/newsroom/pre...

Let's give a shout out to the men & women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay. Mandemosle un saludo a los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas. Thank you Ignacio Gomez for letting us use this art

New #OpenAccess paper: 'Regional counter-institutionalisation: contestation and propositions for alternative regionalities' by Kristin Smette Gulbrandsen www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Excited to share my paper "(Other) temporary populations and the rise of platform-mediated medium-term rentals" in @regionalstudies.bsky.social! It examines how temporary populations drive Lisbon’s medium-term rental market through platforms & state policies. doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2025.2523977

#EU integration leads to economic #growth, but not evenly. As Petrakos, Sotiriou & Alexiou argue in @regionalstudies.bsky.social, trade in goods hollows out peripheral regions, while services uplift them. The two single market economies: one thrives, the other stalls. doi.org/10.1080/0034...

our water cycle ride is BACK at this year's #CleanWaterFest 9/20. two special Clean Water Fest bike tours guide you along a 5.5-mile route through our Southerly plant and surrounding nature trails to see our work like never before. space is limited! Register: www.neorsd.org/event-get-in...

New #OpenAccess Paper: 'Green to stay? Mechanisms explaining green industrial resilience during an external shock' by Stig-Erik Jakobsen, Nora Geirsdotter Bækkelund, Svein Gunnar Sjøtun & Heidi Wiig www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

2/3 Quite interesting results. a 6 minute grasp of the paper tasos-kitsos.medium.com/kibs-and-non...

New Linkedin Post: 'Shuffling the Deck? Rethinking Workspaces and Regional Development in a Polycrisis Economy' by Mariachiara Barzotto, Carlo Corradini, and Sandrine Labory: www.linkedin.com/pulse/shuffl...

🚨Abstract Deadline Day for 2025 Regional Futures Conference 🚨 ⌛18 August Join the RSA community in 🌎London, UK 🗓️13-14 November. For more information and to submit your abstract: 🔗 bit.ly/4lgfLj3 😀🔁

My apartment building from when I was in grad school. Still standing and looking exactly the same. View from the (very same) coffee/ice cream shop across the street, Sebastian Joe’s. I loved this apartment! 😍

So deer, bunnies, woodchucks, foxes, coyotes, turtles, all manner of chipmunks and squirrels but now wild turkeys? I feel like someone is sending us a message...🦃🐰🦊🦌🐢

If you are looking for a way to engage in supporting and expanding our democracy the League of Women Voters @lwvus.bsky.social is a great place to start! 🙋🏻‍♀️🗳️. A fantastic network in every state! Our Ohio league is @lwvohio.bsky.social bold! How about yours?

Okay. Now I just feel like we are having a problem with linear time.

🫠

This. ⬇️ Plus living in cities with all these attributes and neighbors who know you and and community that supports you. 🌃

This has been the first major trial of Trump’s second term. Over eight days of witness testimony, it uncovered a wealth of new detail about the ideological-deportation policy and its effects on college and university campuses across the country. #AAUPvRubio

Just spending the afternoon donating to public radio and getting my sign ready for the #GoodTrouble rally. 🤗 John Lewis was my US Representative for 14 years. It is a privilege to remember his legacy today.🗳️ (p.s. I’ll try to get a photo of my sign later too!).

How it started; how it’s going. 😴

Nice to see the NYT check in on this topic a decade later (w/o citing the academic research on the topic). It’s a big tent though! Everyone is welcome to the party. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/b...

This is how you do public outreach about critical #infrastructure and #publicservices 👏👏👏 #planning #ohio

Happy 4th of July to all the researchers, teachers, students, and scholars out there! Press on! zenodo.org/records/1569...

➡️ This isn’t tax policy; it’s kleptocracy. The full list of petty and cruel provisions in this tax bill are truly transparent. 🧵https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/30/upshot/senate-republican-megabill.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

And available 'Social infrastructure and ‘left-behind places’ is available in #OpenAccesss here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It was an absolute delight earlier this week to award Lance Newey with this years Urban and Regional Horizons Best Paper Award for his @regionalstudies.bsky.social paper | Absorptive Capacity, Complexity & Regional Renewal: A Developmental Psychology Perspective doi.org/10.1080/0034... Video below

6th World Planning Schools Congress 2026 website has launched: wpsc2026.org PERIPHERAL VISIONS: RETHINKING PLANNING, will take place 29 June - 3 July '26 in Helsinki and Espoo Finland, with PhD Workshop 26-29 June in Tampere. #WPSC26

Today is Juneteenth, a day to celebrate & commemorate the emancipation of the last enslaved people in the United States. This day also reminds us of the injustice in our nation's history & the work we are all blessed & obliged to do to build a strong and equitable democracy that serves all Americans

Watch the online ceremony here www.regionalstudies.org/news/2025-ur...

Congratulations to @lucynatarajan.bsky.social et al on winning the @regionalstudies.bsky.social Best Paper Award for their paper - 'Social Infrastructure and 'Left Behind Places''. Watch the recording at www.regionalstudies.org/news/2025-regional-studies-best-paper/

🚨Ohio friends ➡️ Last week to sign the petition to stop the implementation of SB1! Volunteers around Ohio are collecting signatures to put very unpopular SB1 to the voters in a November citizen ballot referendum.🗳️🇺🇸 Don’t miss your chance to #StopSB1Oh! Check out the schedule here: ohsb1petition.com

Congratulations!!! @regionalstudies.bsky.social 👏

🆕 paper by Paolo Veneri & others in @regionalstudies.bsky.social on remote work spatial effects. Analyzing housing markets in 16 OECD countries, they found compelling evidence on how flexible work is reshaping where people live & enlarging metropolitan boundaries Read more👇 tinyurl.com/2s3689vk

Congratulations to Lance Newey for receiving the 2025 Urban and Regional Horizons Best Paper Award for his paper: Absorptive Capacity, Complexity and Regional Renewal: A Developmental Psychology Perspective. doi.org/10.1080/0034... @regionalstudies.bsky.social @drjwharrison.bsky.social

We've just updated the @wired.com guide to protecting your privacy while attending protests with the latest best practices. @agreenberg.bsky.social and @lhn.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

This makes me incredibly sad. I am also proud to hear that the Fulbright board resigned. Integrity matters. Sometimes you just have to say: “not in my name.”

🚨Resource #standup: The Global Nonviolent Action Database catalogs methods of nonviolent protest as well as documenting case studies.➡️ Knowledge and hope brought together to make strategy. #Sisepuede. nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/browse-methods

Proud doctoral adviser post!!!! My advisees Dr. Meng Yu (PhD 2025) and @nayoungko.bsky.social both attending the7th Global Conference on Economic Geography this week and presenting their research! 👏 @knowltonosu.bsky.social

On June 9, 1987 Yonsei student Lee Han-Yeol was struck in the skull by a tear gas grenade. His funeral a month later was attended by 1.6 m people. This is a🧵 about the June Democracy Movement, mass mobilization, and the use of “non lethals” on peaceful protesters.

This is bad news.😔 Friday late afternoon in June bad news. 👎

👏👏 I served as an AmeriCorpsVISTA. #AmeriCorps is a model national service program. Community-based organizations across the US rely on AmeriCorps volunteers to do the work. Thank you to those state Attorneys General fighting for it and thank you to all those who serve. When we fight, we win. 🥰

So everything is terrible but you can count on Coco Bean remaining unfailing focused on what’s for breakfast 🥞