Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

Experts are saying it: SUVs damage our roads more than ordinary passenger cars. I’ve asked TfL to look into the effect of supersized SUVs in London as more of these vehicles take up space on London’s roads.

I've been helping to plan a great @cip.uw.edu discussion on Tuesday, 6-7:30 p.m., at the Seattle Central Library. Join my UW colleagues and partners at @kuow.org for this free event. (Register to attend.) ⤵️⤵️⤵️

🚨NEW DISINFO PAPER🚨 TLDR; disinformation circulates as narratives, not false facts. This paper took five years (!!!) and a rotating cast of collaborators and GRAs. Our case studies include the pee tape, and we have an entire appendix justifying that. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A recent study from Prolific found that generally AI respondents don’t infiltrate surveys very much without researcher knowledge. I can’t really evaluate their math, but that does suggest that polls using synthetic data are doing so maliciously and consciously. Link below.

Sound Transit CEO Dow Constantine just announced that 205,000 riders boarded trains on the opening day of the Crosslake Connection, a number that's second only to the Super Bowl Parade.

You really have to appreciate Renee’s dedication to fighting back against the lies, conspiracy theories, and hypocrisies that prop up the right’s “censorship” narrative.

As technologies and platforms rapidly evolve, teachers and librarians in Washington need more opportunities to create stronger peer and community connections. Learn more about @cip.uw.edu efforts to support educators in our state and beyond teach vital media and information literacy topics. ⤵️

While I do have some atypical mnemonic transit navigation skills, that doesn't explain why people regularly come up to me on buses and trains asking for reassurances that they're headed in the correct direction. Maybe I exude vibes that I know where I'm going?

We need to keep making the connections between transportation infrastructure and public health. sph.washington.edu/news-events/...

“.. a looming energy shock for an economy that is a key player in global tech supply chains.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I dressed up for an especially transitful day in Seattle.

🧵 ... On 2 Line heading into Seattle from Redmond, there was an energetic gentleman offering unsolicited station commentary along the way ...

“We’re lucky to have so many dedicated and passionate teachers and librarians who want to find more effective and engaging ways to incorporate these vital skills, not only in their classrooms and libraries but also in their communities,” Jason C. Young told @cip.uw.edu www.cip.uw.edu/2026/03/16/s...

Last week, the Center for an Informed Public brought 100+ teachers and librarians together with our UW researchers to connect and share insights about how to navigate our increasingly challenging information environment.

On Sundays, I am simply a pedestal for birdwatching.

Well, if yesterday's map was ridiculous, I'm running out of superlatives to characterize today's. Countless locations from Pacific Coast to Great Plains are currently experiencing all-time record March warmth, w/ some locations approaching/exceeding April (or even May) records.

It's a busy week for our team at the @cip.uw.edu!

“When insurance, gas, repairs and maintenance are included, the total cost of owning a vehicle has risen more than 40% since January 2020.” This is not sustainable.

Crazy crazy story. Times of Israel reporter ( English language Israeli news site ) gets escalating death threats to change story that’s at center of big polymarket bet. www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-try...

The job of "influencer" has always struck me as the very deepest circle of hell. It's basically a *recipe* for burnout & mental illness. It's just so dystopian that young people see it as one of the few viable remaining careers.

While very few people would read it, I could write a great guidebook for transit-oriented lapswimming in D.C., L.A., Long Beach, Salt Lake City, San Diego, Seattle and Tacoma.

Everything @thetransitbandit.bsky.social lays out here about the strange counterproductive changes that a small rural WA transit agency made to its network is very interesting, but the fact that the service degradation didn't draw any local/regional media attention is extremely unfortunate.

We're getting some lowland snow in Tacoma before sunrise. #WAwx #Tacoma

King County Metro expands all-door boarding systemwide beginning March 28! The fleet has had ORCA card readers at all doors for some time now but all-door boarding was limited to RapidRide lines and along 3rd Avenue in downtown Seattle. kingcounty.gov/en/dept/metr...

In our latest episode of @thewaroncars.bsky.social, we talked to researchers from ASU who found that 1 in 5 Americans is strongly interested in car-free living, and another 40 percent are somewhat interested. Imagine those #s if we had better infrastructure. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Our first collab with @51st.news: It’s about the work of teaching DC’s electorate about RCV, ahead of some important June primaries.

I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.

Let's be clear about what the "SAVE Act" is all about, another phase of the "rigged election" strategy. Trump is exploiting the voter fraud myth he created to pass laws and enact policies that will make it harder to vote, suppress votes, cause confusion, & sow distrust democracy. Rinse. Repeat.

Staggering jump in average diesel prices over the last 168 hours: Texas ⬆️98c/gal New Mexico ⬆️91c/gal North Carolina ⬆️89c/gal Arizona ⬆️89c/gal Tennessee ⬆️87c/gal Mississippi ⬆️87c/gal Georgia ⬆️85c/gal West Virginia ⬆️82c/gal Florida ⬆️80c/gal Louisiana ⬆️80c/gal

This space is calling out for a coffee shop.

Interestingly, in recent months for my work at UW, I've been perusing West Seattle Blog comment threads.

Dorothy Butler Gilliam, the first Black woman reporter hired at The Washington Post, donated $10,000 to recently laid-off guild members at the newspaper.

tomorrow is with one of the biggest election days of the year. there's so much to go over it's hard to know where to start. so, let me help: here are the *10* elections i'm watching the most closely, *at the state and local level* (=no federal elections included!) 🧵:

OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.

The Northwest is growing into wildfire areas. In fact, high-hazard regions are where the population is growing *fastest.* As of 2023, almost 1.6m people in the NW lived in wildfire hazard areas, an 8% increase since 2018.

​New research from @cathywu.bsky.social et al. confirms something I've long suspected: Navigation apps could save their users a lot of time — and tilt travel decisions toward transit and biking — if they showed users how long it takes to find parking.

With these 2-car 2 Line Link trains in Seattle, I'm having weird flashbacks to chasing short G trains on subway platforms in Brooklyn before they departed the station.

Join us April 7 at the Seattle Central Library for "The Risks and Realities of AI Chatbots," a special discussion with journalists @kashhill.bsky.social (N.Y. Times) and @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social (Reuters), moderated by @mnickelsburg.bsky.social (KUOW). Event info: www.cip.uw.edu/2026/02/16/r...

People walk more in places that make it easier to walk.

NEW OP-ED // Pierce County Must Run a Transit Ballot Measure in 2026 Op-Ed by Kirk Hovenkotter of @transpochoices.bsky.social and Laura Svancarek of Tacoma On The Go. via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2026/02/16/o...

I cannot stress this enough: writing is thinking.

Amtrak's Newest Train on film Their "Airo" trainset in Cascades livery looks fantastic on Fuji 200

As a Tacoma-UW Seattle commuter (via King St Station), I appreciate the regional significance of the combined 1 + 2 Line train frequency through Downtown Seattle. It'll reduce my wait times at ID/C + UW, which will cut ~5 min in each direction for some trips. That adds up over many commutes!

Entire Relationship Hinges on Getaway Weekend on Orcas Island: tinyurl.com/ydfaes49

Sorry, but this @nytimes.com op-ed on free fares in New York City, by @galvinalmanza.bsky.social, is deeply ignorant of the issues. It proposes that pretty social justice vibes and some careless citations will change facts of math. Thread: 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/o...

My favorite part of #Caturday is a ritual of hiding post-lunch dental treats around the house that my cat hunts down one by one. Then the cat demands I create a comfy pedestal on the couch for sentinel duty to protect our domicile from pigeons outside the window. Then we both nap.

"Slopulism," a type of viral content that @cip.uw.edu co-founder @katestarbird.bsky.social has called "participatory propaganda," has been a dynamic that's been "building for years," Starbird recently told @nytimes.com in an interview. [1/2] www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

In a @thr.com interview, @cip.uw.edu graduate research assistant @sydneydemets.bsky.social says that “[p]odcasts are incredibly persuasive” because “they induce the parasocial phenomenon” and “trigger a lot of feelings of intimacy and trust.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

"I don’t pay to go to church, to get a spiritual message, you know? And if you’re true, and your mission is to relay facts that are fundamentally important for people’s well-being, do I need to pay you for that?"