If you take all the parking spaces in DC and add up their area, they would cover over 8 square miles, or the equivalent of 3 Rock Creek Parks.

Read my latest newsletter and check out upcoming May events!: preview.mailerlite.io/preview/2067...

Triple the rate. 3 times more likely to have grants suspended. “Compared to the all NIH-funded investigators in 2024, investigators who received targeted terminations were more likely to self-identify as… Black/African American (n = 86, 11.9% vs 4.0%)”

The Bike Lane Gender Gap: New Research Shows Women Ride More Where Protected Infrastructure Exists. momentummag.com/the-bike-lan...

This. "When academics in more comfortable political climates declare it unethical for the rest of us to remain and to fight, they undercut the solidarity necessary to help move toward the kind of world they want to see." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Curious about a bike bus? Live or attend a school in Ward 5 nearish to Taylor NE? Join us for bike & roll to school day on May 6 @8am at Corner of Taylor & South Dakota Ave NE for a marshaled ride along Taylor with breakaway groups to the various nearby schools. RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

the first rule of compilers is to have fun

Did ya'll hear? Huge news out of Maryland. www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

I'll be in DC at Franklin Park at 5 on May Day and I'm bringing DMV's higher ed sector. See you there!

Are our public spaces for people or for cars? On Council I will push to lower the cost for streateries, ease permitting timelines, and have strong oversight over DDOT to ensure consistent guidelines and quick processing.

We do now know the NSF is proceeding with dissolving the Social and Behavioral Sciences Division. Congress might reverse it, but it is now already underway. YOU CAN NO LONGER SUBMIT FUNDING PROPOSALS TO SBE. Program officers are being moved to different parts of the agency. Call your Congress member

DC adds an average of 5,300 new housing units per year. Kenyan McDuffie's big plan is 12,000 new units by 2030. That's slower than the status quo! If that doesn't tell you what you need to know about McDuffie, IDK what will. hit.housingand.org/jurisdiction...

something strange and horrible and somehow fitting that we should have a very real threat of madman civilizational destruction at the very moment when we also have humans on the dark side of the moon taking pictures that show how small, precious, and beautiful our world and existence is

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

If you’ve never called your congressional reps before, do it right now.

“Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited.” Geneva Convention Additional Protocol I and Department of Defense Law of War Manual, § 5.2.2

I know this is making the rounds, but I think it's right on the money. ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

Turns out huge permitting delays at the hands of NPS—something we’re all familiar with in DC—played a big role in the potomac interceptor failure. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

I'd really like Trump and MAGA to stop fucking with my city's streets. Me, in Bloomberg

For #NSF and #NIH watchers, Grant Witness now has interactive data on numbers of grants and total funding obligations, broken down by institute and directorate, new awards and non-competitive renewals. The stranglehold on new awards is still a disaster. grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

Great thread about the source for Claude Code’s CLI being leaked due to a misconfiguration. Includes analysis of the many ways that the code is a mess. The mess is so extreme that it's essentially its own coding pattern. Much hilarity, starting April Fools' Eve: neuromatch.social/@jonny/11632...

Want safe bike infrastructure on Taylor Street NE? Join us at DDOT's open house this evening!

We encourage undergraduate, master’s, and early-stage PhD students interested in programming languages to apply for PLMW at PLDI 2026. It is a great opportunity to learn from researchers, build connections, and explore future directions in PL. Apply here: pldi26.sigplan.org/home/PLMW-PL...

Every now and then I'm blown away by the lack of transit options here. TIL: 0 transit options from DC (capital of US) to Annapolis (capital of Maryland), 32 miles away.

I'll vote for any council chair candidate that campaigns by bike.

Good thing scooters are limited to 10mph or this could have been worse @popville.bsky.social

DC was the only postwar US city where residents successfully fought back against new freeways & chose to reallocate transportation funds instead to a brand-new metro network. Rather than just a line or two through the city center—like Atlanta, Miami, Baltimore—DC got a real network. It paid off.

Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi. The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

Not so marvelous news. ~95,000 scientists have left the federal government since the Trump regime took over.

Five times in a six year span, planners tried to fix the streetcar. Each time, Bowser or Mendelson axed the fix. ggwash.org/view/99934/b...

Longer-form: ggwash.org/view/102807/...

DC statehood now.

And to be clear, from an urban design perspective, this hardens the boundary between the two sides of the river. There was a chance to do something great, instead, we went for a generational meh.

Incredible. Give this a watch.

love that DC agreed to let the football team build a big stadium immediately, with housing promised at some undefined time in the future. And today we learn that the sites for housing will actually be several huge surface parking lots until that unknown date when the housing is built

NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2

fuck me for being this person, i guess, but public universities are a civic good and shouldn’t be run like businesses. and if you’re going to insist on running them like so, at least do some market research. students like their professors; they don’t want MOOCs taught by ChatGPT.

reminder for DC residents: @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social provides you free access to WaPo www.dclibrary.org/research-and...

Boy, mechanizing anything about reduction semantics with evaluation contexts really makes you confront all the stuff you took for granted.

It would be so easy to do something revolutionary here America’s main street should be car-free share.google/wt6ns9CU2xWk...

Really depressing design for Pennsylvania Avenue East, locking in the 20th century for another fifty years and guaranteeing that it's just another loud road instead of a real public space. www.ncpc.gov/files/downlo...

I'm running the NYC Marathon this fall to raise funds for Planned Parenthood of Greater New York! Every donation counts to keep sexual + reproductive health care accessible for folks both in NY and who travel to PPGNY from out of state: donations.nyrr.org/donations/ne...

"Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city. They are parked 95 per cent of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70 kilogrammes. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is."

Join Takoma community leaders & neighbors at Takoma Station Tavern for food & conversation with @janeese4dc.bsky.social, candidate for DC Mayor. Tues, Mar 24 | 6–8 pm Free food; open to all Hosted by a great neighborhood committee at an awesome local business RSVP: www.mobilize.us/janeesefordc...

For a group of people so keen to bust kids for fare evasion, “I want to be able to break the law and not get caught” is an odd position to take.