and so begins new york’s gotham city arc

Duffy’s transport plan (to cut funding for all but motorized traffic Infrastructures) is also fundamentally unAmerican— foreclosing freedom of choice, endangering families and children, and destroying local businesses by cutting off foot traffic. Message your representatives and stop this bullshit.

Bike advocacy is a shared effort, and we’re thankful to each one of you who keep the movement rolling forward. Get inspired by five meaningful ways you can make a difference for biking in our latest blog! bikeleague.org/giving-back-...

Climate modelling work (e.g. GeoMIP) suggests that SRM geoengineering could work as a temporary/emergency way to cool the climate. This certainly does not justify large-scale implementation at this stage. However, open research on SRM needs to be encouraged, not driven underground.

Explaining Ebikelash @misernyc.bsky.social @nyc.streetsblog.org @streetopia.bsky.social @warrenjwells.bsky.social soundcloud.com/biketalk/254...

12/12/25 is the last day people can order Bike Talk books from Bookshop with Standard Shipping to have them arrive on time to put under the tree. biketalk.org

open.substack.com/pub/thecurre... thanks @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social for another crystal clear indictment of their bullshit

As with many days in 2025, this day began in horror. May the light of the menorah bring a brighter new year 💖 (and the artist who brought you wahoo gefilte fish has created yellowtail snapper latkes 🎣🕎)

‘Train Dreams’ Review: Life, Understood in Reverse www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/m... Watched this gorgeous film last night.

Bike Rights and a queer, feminist, fantastical bicycle Halloween stories anthology just in time for Christmas @microcosm.bsky.social soundcloud.com/biketalk/254...

Revisiting Ganzeer today and reminded of the revolutionary potential of the humble bicycle.

I am endlessly grateful to my amazing colleagues for this extraordinary opportunity. I’ll be taking a sabbatical leave for the first time in my life in the fall of 2026; and I have also been awarded funding so that I might participate in the biannual Petrocultures conference in Dresden 🌈🌈🌈🌈

Thanks to @modamhist.bsky.social for publishing my conversation with @imreszeman.bsky.social, Bob Johnson, Cara Daggett, and Jennifer Wenzel on history and the energy humanities. We hope it is helpful! Check it out here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Another testament to the burden of coercive automobility!

"Leaning into bikes, transit, and safe streets signals a candidates concern for health, quality of life, financial responsibility, climate, and often joy. And, I think it's a winning strategy." Our board president, @lauragmitchell.com, sharing her thoughts on bikes during the election on Bike Talk.

Beautiful and timely memoir as I lick my wounds. ❤️

Spring course in Literature and the Environment!!! Please share with your students! This course satisfies the Category 1 requirement for the English major; and it is also one of the two core requirements for our new undergraduate minor in Environment and Society. Join me!!

Wrapping up Let This Radicalize You with my book group tonight. This book has been a wonderful guide, and I have some of the final lines taped over my desk: "How will you practice and cultivate hope today?" "You are not needed everywhere, but we are all needed somewhere."

ecozona.eu Thrilled to see my new essay on Gabriel Ojeda Sagué's exquisite poem "Losing Miami" featured in the new issue of Ecozon@! I am particularly elated to have been able to cite my dear friends @devingarofalo.bsky.social and @jdelagv.bsky.social who helped to make this crazy swamp my home ❤️

call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/11/... Forthcoming conference on the cultures of waste--check it out!

In 2019, Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll published “Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy” in which dozens of authors and creative artists presented a retort to the shadow Hillbilly Elegy has cast over the region Snag a copy today at WVU's Mountaineer Week Craft Fair

my partner's reading @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social! I will read it afterwards

A new book looks at the destructive 20th-century urban development style — freeways, downtown office towers, suburban housing developments — that keeps Americans so dependent on their cars.

youtu.be/vTgr3qTk-aU I had the privilege to join this UNESCO series—offering a talk on UN Sustainability Goal #7/Energy.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWSM... "Bike lanes, you want a new way to die?" Everyone hates cyclists, because we represent a threat to fossil hegemony. But we won :)

I LOVE YOU JERZY!!!! Pretty homesick right about now 🥰

Very excited about this! lithub.com/guillermo-de...

www.theinvadingsea.com/2025/10/28/i... Thanks to the @theinvadingsea.bsky.social for sharing my thoughts on local cycling infrastructure!

SOUTHERN REACH READERS and weirdlings in general, here's a call for lighthouse photo submissions if you want a chance to be in the forthcoming Area X: The Southern Reach Files book. Starts Nov. 1, ends Jan 21. PLEASE read thoroughly. Questions, weirdos? www.jeffvandermeer.com/lighthouseph...

The wait is FINALLY over! Our new book “Women Changing Cities: Global Stories of Urban Transformation” is NOW AVAILABLE worldwide through RIBA Publishing wherever fine books are sold. From Paris to Bogota, from Manila to Montreal—when women lead, cities thrive: www.modacitylife.com/women-changi...

youtu.be/hN_CVvzExpM Seen during Toronto BJ game 🇨🇦

@jeffreyinsko.bsky.social 🥰

Yes!

Thanks so much to @emilypont.bsky.social for covering what might be the most underrated climate battlefield there is. As I say in the piece, in the Trump era, there is no clearer opportunity for state and local elected officials to make a tangible difference on climate than saving transit.

Really great turnout in Boca—great reminder that they don’t outnumber us; they just spend more time sharing AI-generated trash on social media. One thing though friends: I wish the car horns could be replaced by bicycle bells. We have to stop fueling their politics. 🚴‍♀️🌈

The Workers' Stories Project published 55 stories from Scottish workers during the COVID-19 lockdown. I've co-authored a new journal article on the project and working-class narratives of the pandemic with three other members of the project team Hailey Maxwell, Ruth Gilbert and Suki Sangha.

Hostile architecture, like leaning benches and armrests designed to stop houseless people from occupying public spaces, makes things terrible for everyone.

"On Court Street here in Brooklyn, that new protected lane already looks ordinary. That’s the point. Ordinary is how culture changes lives." Via @bryanrwalsh.bsky.social

Zohran fought tooth and nail to pass the Build Public Renewables Act, and has championed our call for NYPA to build 15 gigawatts of public renewables. A truly sustainable NYC is possible, but only if we keep organizing to win.

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOO (next major politician who's in)

www.weatherzone.com.au/news/october... #ExtremeHeat #RecordHeat #AnthropogenicGlobalWarming