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Geraint Ellis
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Professor of Planning at QUB: Sustainability, planning, energy, health, environmental protection. Editor of Jrl of Env Planning & Policy. Full profile: bit.ly/ZYkPNM

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Sep 3
Trigger warning.

“In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.”

Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · Nov 29
Heidi Alexander’s appointment as transport secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history - great stat from @georgeeaton.bsky.social

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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · Feb 21
PhD opportunity:
Enhancing community resilience and adaptive capacity through ocean literacy: an action research approach to community participation in marine planning
Queen's University Belfast

Application Deadline - 30th April 2025
REF: SNBE-2024-HR2 - PLN-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast
www.qub.ac.uk

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · Feb 17
HOT RESEARCH NEWS!

Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people making rational judgements about driving en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor...

Our new study shows where this bias comes from AND how it makes people think they're odd for supporting changes to the transport system 🧵
Cover sheet of a journal article: "Why do cars get a free ride? The social-ecological roots of motonormativity" by Ian Walker and Marco te Brömmelstroet

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Feb 15
Get the message?

By Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz.
Man standing in front of a line of Cybertrucks in a cartoon resembling the scene in Tiananmen Square.

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Vanesa Castan Broto @vanesilla.bsky.social · Feb 14
Make this viral
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Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · Feb 14
Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

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UCU @ QUB @ucuatqub.bsky.social · Feb 3
ANNOUNCEMENT: EMERGENCY GENERAL MEETING - 6th February 11am

Members will have seen this morning that the University is launching a Voluntary Severance Scheme (VSS), hot on the heels of announcing a new Indian campus, while budgets for faculties, schools and directorates have all been slashed. (1/4)

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Jan 28
Update on Yvegeny Prigozhin's legal case against me - UK law firm that acted for Putin’s warlord Prigozhin 'broke no rules'
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/uk-law-fir...
UK law firm that acted for Putin’s warlord Prigozhin 'broke no rules'
Exclusive: Taking cash from a sanctioned Russian mercenary chief to enable him to sue a British journalist is not an abuse of our legal system, solicitors' regulator finds
democracyforsale.substack.com

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Trevor Johnston @beerwithsubtitles.net · Jan 27
Baby steps, but good to hear the prevalence of one-off housing in Ireland and/or general low density at least mentioned just now on RTÉ as one factor behind why it may take several more days to get everyone's electricity back.

#SpeirGorm #StormEowyn

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · Jan 27
Gobshitery taken to epic new levels by rural independent TD Michael Collins today, calling for removal of ALL trees “within 30 metres of a public road”.

Yes, you heard that right. That would be MILLIONS of trees this joker proposes destroying.

www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Calls for Dáil to be recalled in aftermath of Storm Éowyn
As Sinn Fein Leader Mary Lou McDonald has said she has written to the Taoiseach calling for a reconvening of the Dail, Michael Collins of Independent Ireland is on the line urging immediate Government...
www.rte.ie

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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · Jan 24
Cheating on an exam by memorizing everything the professor taught in advance so I can easily answer all the questions

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Jan 21
Donald Trump has declared the U.S. is in a “national-energy emergency.” “The actual emergency, obviously, is with the climate,” @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.
nyer.cm/pmI58Hh

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jan 21
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Jan 19
“It's not easy to be exact, but studies estimate that tires create anywhere from 10-28% of the world's microplastic pollution, according to National Geographic. These particles don't just disappear — they end up in our water, our soil, and our bodies.”
Scientists make disturbing new discovery while studying human urine samples: 'We urgently need to classify [this]'
A recent study found high levels of two potentially deadly chemicals in humans' urine, raising concerns about tire pollution.
www.thecooldown.com

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Jan 17
Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.

Good trade.

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Geraint Ellis @gellis23.bsky.social · Jan 17
‘Everyone thought it would cause gridlock’: the highway that Seoul turned into a stream

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
‘Everyone thought it would cause gridlock’: the highway that Seoul turned into a stream
Cheonggyecheon stream in the South Korean capital has become an attraction – and helps with flood management, fighting air pollution and cooling the city
www.theguardian.com

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Geraint Ellis @gellis23.bsky.social · Jan 15
The Northern Ireland Planning System is failing us all, in a very fundamental way:

'Back to square one' as gold mine inquiry is suspended www.bbc.com/news/article...
Dalradian gold mine: County Tyrone planning inquiry suspended
Regulation breaches by the Department for Infrastructure mean it cannot go ahead as scheduled.
www.bbc.com

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2Tone4Real @2tone4real.bsky.social · Jan 14
Credit to Terrible Maps on Facebook

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · Jan 13
In 2018 we left the EU's Water Regulation body and their massive fines.

Then sewage dumping increased 20x.

Before Brexit we had some of the cleanest water in Europe.

Now it is by far the dirtiest.