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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 1d

A one-story white building with yellow trim and a brown roof. A red sign in front with white lettering says "United States Post Office, Tarley, TX".

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks, @urbanstudiesjournal.com! Here's my new article with Wataru Morioka, part of the special issue on Urban Transport as a Social Construct. Transportation justice needs to consider the afterlives of infrastructure: railyard reuse is another source of environmental injustice in Chicago.

Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 5d

✍️ Morioka & @jlcidell.bsky.social

🔍 Do the afterlives of rail #infrastructure further existing environmental injustices or do they create new inequalities via environmental #gentrification?

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 2d

It’s not quite the answer to the question about how to say no, but it does help.

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve only just started sticking to it this year, and it’s really made a difference.

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks, @urbanstudiesjournal.com! Here's my new article with Wataru Morioka, part of the special issue on Urban Transport as a Social Construct. Transportation justice needs to consider the afterlives of infrastructure: railyard reuse is another source of environmental injustice in Chicago.

Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 5d

✍️ Morioka & @jlcidell.bsky.social

🔍 Do the afterlives of rail #infrastructure further existing environmental injustices or do they create new inequalities via environmental #gentrification?

📖 buff.ly/Lkjfl6Y

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 3d

Schedule your writing time, whether an hour a day or 3 hours on Wed. afternoon or whatever works for you, and *keep it*. You're not available for meetings during those hours. No "if necessary" on the Doodle poll, no "it's only one committee meeting a month," nothing but writing during that time.

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 3d

This is fantastic news!

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 3d

Tonika Lewis Johnson’s artwork includes the acclaimed Folded Map Project. She’s one of 22 new MacArthur Fellows, announced on Wednesday.

MacArthur 2025 ‘genius grant’ winners include a Chicago photographer

Tonika Lewis Johnson’s artwork includes the acclaimed Folded Map Project. She’s one of 22 new MacArthur Fellows, announced on Wednesday.

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 3d

Destroyed by wildfire in 2020: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malden,...

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Jenni Barclay @volcanojenni.bsky.social · 4d

We’re advertising a PhD studentship for folks with good knowledge of Caribbean culture and society, with background in geography, human geography, humanities or interdisciplinary geosciences as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded ‘volcanic histories’ project

Summary of what the PhD student will do. QR code in bottom LHS. Project part of our Leverhulme Trust funded project volcanic histories and the student will examine the cultural markers and response to to volcanic activity across the Eastern Caribbean. Understand local ways of knowing and remembering volcanic activity. Integrate scientific. And community knowledge for DRR - joining an interdisciplinary team from several universities.

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 6d

My understanding is that women are less likely to be able to take hours to train every weekend because of unequal household duties and/or feeling they can't take that much time for themselves.

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 6d

Champaign-Urbana when?

Steven @stevevance.net · 6d

American Airlines now has an airside bus connection between O’Hare and South Bend and O’Hare and Rockford !

Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 7d

A one-story, brick building with a false second story. The U.S. Post Office sign at the top for Richland Springs, TX, is in a Western font.

Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 7d

*stares in geographer at all of the environmental and sustainability degrees*

Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 7d

THIS IS AN ENGLISH OR COMMUNICATIONS DEGREE! JUST DO THOSE INSTEAD JESUS IN HEAVEN

"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 7d

Syracuse University, which costs $100,000 per year, has opened a school to give degrees in podcasting and social media influencing 🫥

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 7d

Hiding behind the Dunkin', because Massachusetts.

A U.S. Postal Service building visible in the background with a Dunkin' Donuts in the foreground.

Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 8d

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 8d

Hadn't seen this "Cartography of Generative AI" before. From Estampa, a collective of programmers, filmmakers and researchers working in the fields of audiovisual media and digital environments: cartography-of-generative-ai.net

“Cartography of Generative AI (2024)” shows a sprawling, diagrammatic ecosystem of how generative AI is produced and maintained. The background is light pink with turquoise and yellow highlights. The left side has a turquoise vertical sidebar with labeled sections such as AI imaginaries, Critical expertise, Data sciences, Silicon Valley, and AI harms.

The main diagram maps the flow of generative AI development from top to bottom:

Top left: A globe icon with arrows represents global energy consumption, linked to servers and calculation power (chips, GPUs, and companies like TSMC).

Top center: Rows of red server racks show data centers, connected to big data platforms and pipelines of training data (shown as orange blocks).

Top right: Yellow stacks and schematic diagrams depict the supply chain of raw materials (e.g., cobalt, lithium) and scenes of mining.

Upper right corner: A vignette labeled digital colonialism shows resource extraction sites and cables crossing oceans.

Middle section:

Blue isometric office-like spaces labeled AI start-ups and Silicon Valley venture capital, with tiny illustrated workers at desks, computers, and whiteboards.

Orange and yellow arrows and blocks represent the movement of datasets, training, and alignment processes.

A section labeled human labour shows rows of workers annotating data.

Lower section:

Gridded platforms in orange and yellow depict data extraction from the internet—social media, images, sound, text—and web scraping from sources like Wikipedia, Reddit, Flickr, YouTube.

Groups of small figures interact with large wireframe cube models labeled generative AI engines.

Other vignettes show AI products (like chatbots), digital gig work, and consumer use.

Far right:

Layers of stacked chips show advanced chip production and global supply chains.

A blue network node diagram illustrates the infrastructure economy behind AI technologies.

Boxes at the bottom describe research and governance structures.

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 9d

A distant shot of a cream-and-tan post office building at the end of a block, with vacant land in between.

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Alex Karner @alexkarner.bsky.social · 9d

Bored with TRB's censorship and cancellations?

Submit your work to the Crossroads Convening on Transportation Equity and Justice instead -- proposals due October 25.

www.crossroadsconvening.org

A banner showing details about the Crossroads Convening on Transportation Equity and Justice to be held January 16th at the MLK Library in Washington, DC. The image at the top shows multiple intersecting zebra crosswalks with pedestrians.

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every usps @everylot-usps.bsky.social · 11d

RIVERTON: 284 LINCOLN ST, RIVERTON NE 68972-5175

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Chicago Cubs @cubsbot.bsky.social · 12d

October is why.

(Narrated by Anthony Rizzo)

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 12d

Paris celebrated the opening of its 300th “school street”: landscaped & pedestrianized or semi-pedestrianized blocks situated in front of schools. Most have been completed since 2020.

Paris passe le cap des 300 rues piétonnes près des écoles pour être « plus accueillante aux enfants »

La municipalité, qui a organisé samedi une fête dédiée, tire un bilan positif de ces espaces piétonnisés aux abords des établissements scola

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 12d

Verifying this for Champaign-Urbana.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12d

really need to emphasize the small cities part. i have mentioned this before, but you'll see people on facebook talk about charlottesville like its ridley scott's mogadishu

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 13d

the amount of raw, unadulterated fear that many Americans have of even small cities is never going to stop being darkly hilarious to me

Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 12d

This is fun, so here's mine! #MLB postseason rooting order:

PASSIONATE
1. Cubs
2. Red Sox
BANDWAGON
3. Mariners
4. Tigers
I LIKE THEM
5. Phillies
SURE, I GUESS
6. Guardians
7. Blue Jays
NOT ROOTING, BUT YOU'RE ALLOWED A WS
8. Reds
NO
9. Dodgers
10. Brewers
HELL NO
11. Padres
12. Yankees

Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 12d

This is fun, so here’s mine! #MLB postseason rooting order:

PASSIONATE
1. Mariners
BANDWAGON
2. Guardians
3. Tigers
4. Blue Jays
I LIKE THEM
5. Phillies
SURE, I GUESS
6. Padres
NOT ROOTING, BUT YOU’RE ALLOWED A WS
7. Reds
8. Brewers
NO
9. Red Sox
10. Yankees
HELL NO
11. Dodgers
12. Cubs

Duchess of Doom @kilagreene.bsky.social · 12d

This is fun, so here’s mine! #MLB postseason rooting order:

PASSIONATE
1. Brewers
BANDWAGON
2. Padres
3. Blue Jays
I LIKE THEM
4. Tigers
SURE, I GUESS
5. Guardians
6. Reds
NOT ROOTING, BUT YOU’RE ALLOWED A WS
7. Mariners
8. Cubs
NO
9. Phillies
10. Red Sox
HELL NO
11. Dodgers
12. Yankees

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 13d

Here's some arterials from Boston:
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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 15d

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day to all who celebrate:

Per Axbom @axbom.com · 15d

My original post: Three lessons from a man who averted nuclear war by not trusting a computer

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Three lessons from a man who averted nuclear war by not trusting a computer

On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov made the correct decision to not trust a computer. The early warning system at command center Serpukhov-15, loudly alerting of a nuclear attack from the United ...

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 16d

Listen, I pride myself on usually knowing everything about everything, but THIS just now was legitimately news to me.

lizplank.substack.com/p/tylenol-is...

feministabulous and notsospecialfilm

Tylenol Isn't
Causing Autism
You Idiots
But crusty old men on the other hand...

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"A room full of powerful men, gray-haired and decades past their prime fertility, pointing fingers at pregnant women popping tylenol for a headache. The irony would be laughable if it weren't so sinister."
Liz Plank
Tylenol Isn't Causing Autism You Idiots
LIZPLANK.SUBSTACK.COM

lizplank.substack.com
Every decade a man ages before conception, the autism risk climbs. It's measurable. It's documented. It's more significant than maternal age. Older dads are also disproportionately responsible for miscarriages. A study of over 130,000 men found that fathers over 40 were 6x as likely to have children born autistic. It is believed that random mutations in a man's sperm pile up over the years, which can pass genetic mutations to a child and increase their chances of developing a psychological or
neurocognitive disorder. But when was the last time you saw a headline screaming "OLDER DADS LINKED TO AUTISM"? When was the last time anyone suggested men freeze their sperm at 25, just in case?
Never. Because that would require scrutinizing men's bodies and choices like we do with women. It would mean admitting that men have a biological clock. Not as a punchline, not as a jab about aging, but as a real biological fact. Every year, sperm cells accumulate new mutations, just as eggs do. The difference is that we talk about women's clocks endlessly, while pretending men's don't exist.

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