‼️ Read an adapted excerpt from EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism in @nybooks.com ‼️ Extraction is officially published TOMORROW (9/23) 👀 www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

Out today: Reclaiming the Road offers a compelling vision for the future of America's public spaces. 🎧: Author David L. Prytherch talks with @mimisheller.bsky.social and @norton.bsky.social about designing more just public streets. share.transistor.fm/s/0e507210

Wonderful to have Professor @mimisheller.bsky.social, here to present her work on Movement in an Age of Extremes in the Department of Geography, and co-sponsored by @cperguom.bsky.social & MUI. Thanks for an engaging discussion on critical issues on mobilities in the present conjuncture.

🚀 Hello #MobileComm community, we’ve landed on Bluesky! ✨Mobile Media & Communication now posts here. Follow us for journal updates, featured articles, and calls for papers. 📱 Follow along and stay connected with the latest in mobile communication research. 🔗Journal: journals.sagepub.com/home/mmc

New paper: Data mobilities: rethinking the movement and circulation of digital data by @robkitchin.bsky.social, @juliettedavret.bsky.social, Carla Kayanan & Sam Mutter in Mobilities www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

One of our Leeds participant households enjoyed their e-cargo bikes so much, they now have 3, and are promoting the benefits in the national Cycling magazine! Proud researcher moment... 😁🚴‍♀️

It's fun to be at the winter seminar in human geography, an annual highlight that convenes disciplinary kin. This year it is chaired by Per Gunnar Røe and day one starts with a keynote talk by @mimisheller.bsky.social on the theme of mobility justice (the politics of movement in an age of extremes).

The gutting of global health? Programs around the world left in the lurch www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...

@fednews.bsky.social Check out this project to collect and record the stories of illegally fired federal employees www.oah.org/2025/03/04/f...

Wu: If you wanted to make us safe, pass gun reforms. Stop cutting medicaid. Stop cutting cancer research. Stop cutting funds for veterans. That is what will make our city safe.

“A constitutional crisis in the service of cruelty” - freeze on USAID health programs will increase child deaths from #malaria #polio #TB #Ebola and #Malnutrition www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/h...

Despicable cancellation of an important #Caribbean #Canadian artist’s show that would have opened at Art Museum of the Americas in March #AndilGosine hyperallergic.com/992860/art-m...

Wondering if your study section cancelled? I update this sheet daily. As of today, 56/124 study sections that should have met since Jan 2, 2025 have "not met as scheduled." docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Very good reporting here on this awful story: direct language, full context, multiple perspectives. Many other journalists should be taking notes.

A Woonerf in the Netherlands. Through motor traffic is redirected to main roads. Greenery & street furniture (including a small playground) is strategically placed to ensure motor traffic keeps to slow speeds, with paving used & roadway raised at junctions, where collisions are most likely to occur

D.C. pedestrian deaths tied to [DRIVERS'] 'reckless' behavior rising (The problem is with the headline for the jump, NOT with the long, detailed article by John D. Harden, @rachelweiner.bsky.social, and Jasmine Hilton in the Washington Post Metro section print edition.)

Another tragedy in the battle over cycling www.bbc.com/news/article... #cycling #Paris #PaulVarry #mobility #justice

American chaos: standing up for health and medicine - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 🧪

This unique triple-stranded exhibition focuses on the decolonisation of the Caribbean, the long history of the 'Windrush' Scandal & transnational activism (e.g., CLR James, Claudia Jones and Billy Strachan). The exhibition runs until end March. Not to be missed! www.london.ac.uk/about/servic...

LA STUDENT STRIKE DAY 5 - RIGHT NOW: Pasadena High School has just joined the dozens of other schools all over LA that have staged walkouts throughout this week. This is the 6th straight day of anti-ICE, immigrations rights protests in LA.

The big food delivery corporations set terms forcing their drivers to put speed (/profits) before safety & already collect all the data showing where dangerous driving is happening. These common sense regs for liability insurance & aggregate data sharing will keep everyone on our roads safer.

NASA Ordered to Remove Anything About ‘Women in Leadership’ From Its Websites: Report gizmodo.com/nasa-ordered...

In 1980, a bipartisan Congress passed the Science and Engineering Equal Opportunities Act of 1980, which authorized the National Science Foundation “to promote the full use of human resources in science and technology through a comprehensive & continuing program to increase substantially

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

It's an absolute travesty that these websites, which we all paid for, are being dumped in the trash.

Yeah got this today: “This is a reminder to confirm receipt of this notice of suspension and certify that all-related activities have ceased under your USAID awards and no further costs will be incurred under your award in relation to DEIA related activities.” Deadline tomorrow to comply.

📄This paper reflects the prevalent relational spatial perspective in #migrationStudies, proposing a timeplace perspective that emphasizes how places are shaped by both transient flows and enduring connections or #moorings how @mimisheller.bsky.social and @timcresswell.bsky.social call it.

And so the deportation regime begins. A slippery slope of expedited removals. Including people here legally. Only @aclu.org stands in the way unless we all stand against tyranny www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...

📣 Call for abstracts, 7th Swiss #Mobility Conference Sept 2025, Lausanne - Socio-ecological transitions - Public policy - Norms, values and practices - Rhythms and timescales of mobility - Infrastructure - Theoretical debates - Methodological innovations 📆 March 9th, www.unil.ch/igd/mobility...

Interesting exhibit at the Pusey Library on #maps How maps (and cyclists) paved way for roads by Sy Boles news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...? “maps don’t just document roads: In a way, they led to the development of roads themselves.“ Cycling led the way toward roads.

A new day dawns

Bordeaux is the latest city to increase parking costs for huge cars, following Montreal, Cologne, and Paris. Parking fees will be 30% higher for ICE vehicles >1,600 kg (3,527 lb) and EV/hybrids >1,900 kg (4,189 lb).

My #Tourism #Geographies podcast on Tourism at the End of the World. Thanks @JamieGillen for a great conversation! shows.acast.com/63264f1da8cf...?

We, at @tsuoxford.bsky.social, are excited to host Dr Daniel Agbiboa from @harvard.edu for our first seminar of the Public Seminar Series 2025 on 23rd January. The session will be chaired by @valenmontoya.bsky.social. Please join in! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transport-...

Two, 4 year, full-time Research Fellow posts at University of Leeds: Research Fellow in Mobility Data Science: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Research Fellow in Agent-based Modelling: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Please share! #ResearchFellow #DataScience #AgentBasedModelling

My next follower will be number 1000! Who wants to claim the spot?

“Americans did not choose car dependency. We didn’t vote for it, and it was not the winner in a free market competition. The real answer is complex, but a single turning point reveals an essential part of the story.” www.planetizen.com/features/132...

What he said (by climate scientist Peter Kalmus) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o...

Jimmy Carter and Rivendell #bikeped #bikewalk

Applications under review now for this #Caribbean #Climate #Adaptation #postdoc #research @WPI #USVI. Apply soon!

ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change. Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk: www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...

The Dominican Republic’s expulsion of thousands of Haitians shows the brutality of mass deportations

Rare and exciting opportunity to submit a paper for consideration to an Active Travel Studies Journal special issue on 'Disability and Cycling'. Submissions are warmly welcomed in academic and non-traditional formats. Deadline: 31/01/2025

Green Economic Populism - good policy ideas from @aldasky.bsky.social and @triofrancos.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/o...

Applications under review now for this #Caribbean #Climate #Adaptation #postdoc #research @WPI #USVI. Apply soon!

New chapters out for new year! Handbook of Gender and Mobilities, with @paolacastaneda.bsky.social + Aryana Soliz. Mobile commoning in Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics. Conclusion with Andreas Neef in De Gruyter Handbook of Climate Migration and Climate Mobility Justice

In 🇧🇷 Brazil, "#CompleteStreets" isn't just a design concept; it's a life-saving transformation. Learn how improved infrastructure like #bike lanes and broader #sidewalks are fostering safer, more inclusive urban spaces. 🌳🚸 https://bit.ly/3Dnxq86

New chapters out for new year! Handbook of Gender and Mobilities, with @paolacastaneda.bsky.social + Aryana Soliz. Mobile commoning in Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics. Conclusion with Andreas Neef in De Gruyter Handbook of Climate Migration and Climate Mobility Justice

Here's a video of my recent book talk at the @BUonCities Urban Salon, with comments from @mimisheller.bsky.social and Marcus Walton. Urban Power: Democracy & Inequality in São Paulo & Johannesburg youtu.be/piZl48sD_R0?... via @YouTube

Do you research topics at the nexus of education, mobility & migration, and has something important to say about 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿? 🌈 ✨ Zachary Howlett, Kris Lee Hyesoo & myself are organising workshop on 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 at NUS Asia Research Institute, 24-25 April 2025. Check our CfP 👉🏼