solstice sunset

I don’t love doing media request things (I’m not great at it) but very happy to help w/background on this fun one www.cbc.ca/kidsnews/pos... Our data centre paper can be found here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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I cannot wrap my head around this. All three of these libraries and their librarians were crucial during my time at MIT. These are such important spaces. Deeply upsetting.

I was just followed by a bunch of cats and dogs 🤔

Things suck rn, but a very small old woman in my building takes a short walk up the street to her friend's house every morning for coffee and breakfast (and gossip). She probably used to live in one of the houses close to her friend. And bc of our condo building, she's still here. #AgingInCommunity🤗

😩 #YorkU

I have bikes-on-the-brain (TY @devanmarr.bsky.social for the bike lane appeal coverage) and need the bluesky cyclist hivemind. My condo building is replacing a broken bike rack with an equally useless rack (pictured). Suggestions for a space-constrained outdoor location? can't do posts unfortunately

The (Toronto) kids are alright

Property tax data is notoriously difficult to work with when considering multiple jurisdictions let alone the whole country. Excellent data work here with really insightful findings. 🙌

You've got 18ish days to comment on Bill 60, Ford's latest anti bike lane laws! Read our blog on taking action, the importance of identifying intersections w other communities affected & what your local cycling advocacy groups are doing to fight back! www.thebikinglawyer.ca/post/bill-60...

LA could never be this cute

youtu.be/2iKAfdTSEN4?... #GoJays 💙

However, I do recommend checking out the sky when you wake up #GoJays

another good reminder to not read emails right when you wake up: 5:45am paper rejection emails 🤡

"Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom." www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

A dear friend of mine (not on the socials) is researching Monsanto and found these GEMS in the archives. “They’re lean, hungry-looking bodysweaters. Pure skin stuff.” 💀

Great example of a non-land use form of option value. I value the option to *think about going to a cool kid cocktail place down the street but then ultimately rot on my couch with the dog and cat

Potential natural experiment for crime Econ people 😬 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

@englishrail.bsky.social and I have a piece in the Globe & Mail about how Canada can make housing more affordable and accessible, and disentangle itself from its unreliable and hostile southern neighbor: give its elevator industry the option to use the European/global standard, not just the U.S. one

Garbage, Parking, and the Death of Small Businesses. Eager to hear your thoughts! @jasonthorne.bsky.social @alexbozikovic.bsky.social @johnlorinc.bsky.social @holz-bau.bsky.social

I lived in the states for 10 years. Every Canada Day I would subject my friends to can-con music. “Do you know this song? No?? How do you not know this!?” It was very annoying for them. I finally put it all together in a playlist. It’s 8hrs long 🇨🇦

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

over on @dwell.bsky.social - @sustainabletall.bsky.social writes about spain's incredible social housing & cooperative movements, walking away from sterile, banal double loaded corridors www.dwell.com/article/why-...

Toronto’s urban tree canopy is no joke

Update: vote needed 2/3 majority but received only 57%. Opposing side started a whisper campaign against a vocal supporter claiming he was a secret developer 😞. No ADUs in Arlington for now.

Help pls! There were some nice critiques of this paper a few weeks ago and now I can't find them. Please send along if you remember. This paper was recently weaponized in Arlington MA to prevent the VERY mild proposal of allowing ADUs. www.nber.org/papers/w33576

I can't overstate how important a dedicated bus lane on Dufferin will be given the explosion of residential dev. nearby. People opposing this think traffic is bad now? Link for Dufferin and Bathurst surveys here and here: ca.mar.medallia.com?e=448169&d=l... ca.mar.medallia.com?e=448562&d=l...

obsessed with this +1 to the glass block 😍

Doing some GIS quality control and was confronted by the impending wet reality of Cape Coral FL. I imagine a future museum exhibit "we used to build like this" in the climate disaster wing.

📣 Call for papers 📣 19th North American Meeting of the Urban Economics Association October 3 - 4, 2025 Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada Keynotes by Cecile Gaubert and Keith Head. Please submit your paper by May 30. urbaneconomics.org/meetings/uea...

Distilling key facts about housing affordability and its decline in the US and reviewing the literature on housing supply and the causes of declining affordability, from Nathaniel Baum-Snow and Gilles Duranton https://www.nber.org/papers/w33694

In Bloomberg CityLab, I explained why cities must build cycling *networks* – not just lanes. It’s a lesson that many elected leaders have yet to learn (esp Ontario’s Doug Ford, who is taking a sledgehammer to Toronto's cycling network). 🧵

What's the advice for junior faculty now missing essential conferences that are crucial for networking (finding letter writers etc.)? I am a geriatric junior approaching tenure package submission being given a burner phone from my uni but also a warning not to go. I have 3 conferences in May.

The MIT Urban Economics Lab is hiring!! #EconSky My postdoc supervisor at MIT, Albert Saiz, is looking for a Real Estate Postdoctoral Associate! Apply here: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl... Please help us share this opportunity and encourage job market candidates to apply!!

"The typical egg farm in Canada has about 25,000 laying hens, whereas many farms in the U.S. have well over a million." 👀 www.npr.org/2025/03/18/n...

writing my little papers between deeply depressing news alerts whilst the pets sleep through it all (yes the cat sleeps on a pillow on my lap while I type and no it’s not comfortable or efficient)

Today's distraction brought to you by the new Canadian housing design catalogue. Really thoughtful designs especially this courtyard 6-plex. I hope we are collecting data on the uptake of these designs! www.housingcatalogue.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/designs/bc/c...

We all hate the time change, and this is your semi-annual reminder that permanent standard time is better than permanent daylight time www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...

1/ 🚨 Can the US coerce smaller countries into submission using tariff penalties? Recent events with Mexico & Canada suggest it is trying. But our latest research indicates these attempts will likely fail and isolate the US economy. Here's why:👇

The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within #NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (#NWS), is profoundly alarming. 1/11

I'm deeply saddened to share that Donald Shoup passed away last night. He was the ideal academic—curious, methodical, and concerned with turning ideas into real-world change. TAing his parking course these past few years has one of the greatest honors of my life. Rest in peace, Shoup Dogg.

I know origin of a good is complicated and "made in Canada" doesn't mean 100% made in Canada (I think it means at least 40%?), but this is a good place to start. My partner is American, I lived in the US for over 10 years. This is deeply upsetting. madeinca.ca

Distracting myself from...basically everything...by running my little regressions and making my little plots hoping for some insight.

Twin Peaks: the return was television perfection (for me at least). I was obsessed when it came out. Each episode was like dipping into a mind bending trace. Loved it so much 😭

These sunrises are really doing the work to lessen my existential dread lately