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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21h

Stay strong, stay beautiful, Chicago. c

Tweet from Fred Wellman: “Weird. I was told it’s a war zone.”
Below is a Time Out Chicago post showing a scenic city skyline at sunset with the text: “Chicago has been voted the Best Big City in the U.S. for the ninth consecutive year.”

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Kimberly Quinn 🇨🇦 @kimberlyquinn.bsky.social · 11h

To #Chicago and beyond!

Stephen Boisvert 🇨🇦 🟦⭐⭐⭐⭐🟦 @srboisvert.bsky.social · 11h

Amazing.

ttps://youtu.be/Ep9PQEb5-7U?si=2GX_t-ap2yGZbKRP

ISS Timelapse - Heading to Chicago at Night (27 Aug 2025)

YouTube video by AstronautiCAST

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🍁 John Zelenski @johnzelenski.bsky.social · Aug 12

Nature Relatedness Usefully Links Well-Being, the Environment, and Sustainability.
The title says it all.
Check our our new brief review in Current Directions in Psychological Science (free to access).
@hapassmore.bsky.social
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 16h

Fun fact: despite the enormous land mass, the population-weighted density of Canada — basically the density experienced by the average person — is the same as Denmark and close to the Netherlands.

Canada and Denmark are 3,000 people per km², while the Netherlands is 3,400/km².

Mapping Population Density Across the Globe

Explore the detailed geography of population across the globe with interactive mapping and statistics. Identify global megacity regions and the growth and diversity of urban forms. Data is from the Gl...

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Kimberly Quinn 🇨🇦 @kimberlyquinn.bsky.social · 18h

North Pond Nature Sanctuary. Just another #Chicago hellhole.

Vibrant green stalks and blue sky reflections on pond.

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Kimberly Quinn 🇨🇦 @kimberlyquinn.bsky.social · 18h

Sunrise on the #Chicago lakefront.

Looking across Lake Michigan toward the rising sun, with waves crashing along the revetment.

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Lee Bey @leebey1.bsky.social · 22h

The Chicago Architecture Center's Open House Chicago is next weekend. But the Sun-Times asked me to get a jump on it for this weekend. This year’s OHC has 200+ sites with 30 new places to gawk at. All of them are pretty good, but here are my top five:

Open House Chicago returns next weekend. Here are the top 5 must-see sights.

This year's event includes 30 new places to gawk at, and while all of them are pretty good, there's a few worth checking out.

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Dr H!A! Passmore @hapassmore.bsky.social · 21h

Two new RCT articles out testing nature-based wellbeing interventions against the most popular Positive Psychology Intervention: 3 Good Things. In both studies, nature-based interventions boosted wb without spending more time in nature, & boosted unique aspects of wb.
nmil.ca/pubs/article...

Dr H!A! Passmore : Publications

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22h

I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.

Informational flyer about Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, explaining how to use whistles to alert neighbors of emergencies, with color-coded alerts, steps for use, and encouragement to form a crowd and stay loud for safety.

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UncoverTheNews @uncoverthenews.bsky.social · 1d

🦫 UBI = A Win for Everyone!

In this June 21, 2024 clip, @paulysworld2005.bsky.social sits down with JB from Canadian Politics 101 to break down why Universal Basic Income is good for you, me, and Canada as a whole. 🍁💸

🎥 Full convo 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gwW...

#UBI #cdnpoli #DamFam

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Josh Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 1d

cry havoc! and let slip the frogs of war

Man in inflatable frog costume at Portland protests

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Gil (Guillermo) Penalosa @penalosag.bsky.social · 23h

Over 30% of people do NOT drive, even in wealthiest neighborhoods.

CAR-OPTIONAL LIVING should be a HUMAN RIGHT. Everywhere. Everyone under 16, many over 16 with disabilities, others, do not drive.
SAFE walking, cycling, transit, citywide: a basic right.
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Wilhelm Hofmann @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social · 1d

provide a behavioral perspective which may support policymakers in co-designing effective and fair structural solutions to sustainability problems. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rethinking behaviour change interventions in policymaking

Nature Human Behaviour - Behaviour change interventions that are unsuccessful may often be limited by structural constraints. Accumulating evidence across contexts helps to diagnose these barriers....

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Jamie Reilly 🦜 @reilly-coglab.com · 2d

Our university purchased faculty subscriptions to the Calm app and then doubled many of our course loads. Join your faculty union and be the thorn in their side in your senates or assemblies.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 23h

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:

"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."

"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?

It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

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Kimberly Quinn 🇨🇦 @kimberlyquinn.bsky.social · 1d

Felt the need to revisit this post this morning. Joy.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

#WarRavagedPortland

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Artwork by contemporary artist Angela Smyth #Saturday

Stylised illustration of busy highways over a river full of ships with buildings in the distance

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 1d

Ben Loman by the Sea
Maud Lewis
c. 1962

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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 2d

ReplicationResearch.org is now open for submissions!

Submit replications and reproductions from many different fields, as well as conceptual contributions. With diamond OA, open and citable peer review reports, and reproducibility checks, we push the boundaries of open and fair publishing.

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Kimberly Quinn 🇨🇦 @kimberlyquinn.bsky.social · 1d

Mark Carney Is a Very Demanding Boss - Macleans.ca

His elbows-up enthusiasm won him the election. Now he’s governing like a Bay Street exec.

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Norm Di Pasquale🇨🇦 @normsworld.bsky.social · 1d

Doug Ford is not the mayor of Ontario!
“Simply put, the local issues that directly affect city residents should be decided by them and their local representatives.
Local affairs are not improved by having Mr. Ford blunder into them.” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit... #topoli #onpoli

Globe editorial: Doug Ford is not the mayor of Ontario

The premier’s continual interventions in municipal affairs diverts attention from pressing provincial issues

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · Jun 11

Bagels vs Not Bagels.

Pictures of a NY “bagel style substitute” and a Montreal bagel.

Text:

New York Dough Thing

Not a bagel.
Seriously, it's not a bagel.
It's... fine.

Montreal Bagel

Fantastic bagel.
Seriously, it's delicious.
Don't accept pretenders.

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Bill McCarthy @billmccarthy.bsky.social · 1d

This photo is not from recent anti-deportation protests in Portland, Oregon. The image is more than a decade old and can be geolocated to Toronto, Canada. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

Cheri Charlton's nature mural spreading to the west wall of the Lasalle underpass near North Avenue Beach. The east wall includes not only cranes and butterflies, but skylines, piping plovers and even the recently re-opened Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool.
www.instagram.com/p/DPYGetUDuTF/

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Kimberly Quinn 🇨🇦 @kimberlyquinn.bsky.social · 1d

"A decade ago, Carney made a rousing speech about how politicians’ shortsightedness gets in the way of urgent climate action...And yet, just months into his political career, he’s killed the carbon tax, paused a mandate for electric vehicles and championed the liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry."

Bundle up for politics season in Canada | The Narwhal

Governments across Canada are gearing up for a busy fall politics season — and the rush is on to ‘build, baby, build’

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