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Tara Goddard, PhD

@drtaragoddard.com

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Transportation engineering professor. Road safety, planning, behavior, & culture; wildfire planning and response; inclusive disaster evacuation; ethics of tech in transportation; planning in the Petropyrocene. She/her.

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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · Jul 14

Re-sharing to pin to my profile. I was very grateful for the opportunity to join Sarah and Doug for a wide-ranging conversation on some of my favorite (if difficult) subjects. It encapsulates a lot of my research agenda and professional worldview that windshield bias affects so much of our world.

The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · Dec 17

NEW EPISODE: "How Cars Change Us with Tara Goddard." Why do people behave so badly behind the wheel of a car? Why do reporters use passive language to describe traffic violence? @drtaragoddard.bsky.social joins us to talk about her fascinating research.

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Dr. Tara Goddard, wearing white shirt, standing behind bicycle on bike path lined by grass and green trees.

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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 6m

Anyone else disassociating because of the news about the CDC, or just me?

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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 11m

While I'll always miss the Mel and Sue days, GBBO continues to be one of my go-to comfort shows. (Except custard week. IYKYK)

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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 1h

Very boomer energy coming from ol' Richard there

Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 1h

oh damn I love this

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 6h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 8h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · 9h

At a transportation research conference that is still probably about 90% dudes. We miss so much in planning and engineering our communities when everyone in the room has similar experiences of how people interact with you in public space.

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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 2h

I had forgotten all about that attempt at a milkshake retcon

Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 3h

same ❤️

Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 3h

somebody is afraid of getting Mangionied.

Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 3h

It brings me joy to think about some small manufacturer of inflatable animals being *extremely* confused when their sales suddenly jump 500% in a weekend.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 3h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 3h

you are confusing it with What Does The Frog Say?

Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 8h

tbf those ice cream headaches can cause bloodthirsty antifascist behavior.

Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 8h

absolute snowflake 😏

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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 13h

a woman in a black top is smiling and says thank you

Alt: Moira Rose in Schitt's Creek, wearing a long sleeved black top is smiling and says thank you

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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 23h

I'd like to have something more constructive to add but all I can think of is "dafuq??"

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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 1d

More (and colorful, ya girl loves a tanager) evidence about the benefits of #GoodFire

The Institute for Bird Populations @instbirdpop.bsky.social · 1d

🪶🌎🧪 New research on birds and wildfire by IBP and our partners at NPS and UCLA. You can read about it here: birdpop.org/pages/bl...
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