Julie Cidell
@jlcidell.bsky.social
Geographer, quilter, runner, writer, teacher, researcher, Cubs fan, transportation geek, she/her
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today is the feast of St Catharine of Alexandria, patron of female scholars, so enjoy this painting of her shutting down a senior prof who treated her paper's question time as an opportunity to hold an impromptu paper of his own
November 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
today is the feast of St Catharine of Alexandria, patron of female scholars, so enjoy this painting of her shutting down a senior prof who treated her paper's question time as an opportunity to hold an impromptu paper of his own
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do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge
#Finland will begin to #Russia - proof its rail network, integrate with EU train infrastructure.
The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
November 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge
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Recently did around 30 requests to ppl who'd published very similar papers to the one I needed reviews for. 3 declines, 25 no response. Please at least decline guys it slows stuff down so much otherwise.
I'm still relatively new to this journal associate editor business, but it already sucks… I've had a paper on my desk for more than a month now:
Reviewers invited: 12
Of those…
Declined: 5
No response: 7
Reviewers invited: 12
Of those…
Declined: 5
No response: 7
November 24, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Recently did around 30 requests to ppl who'd published very similar papers to the one I needed reviews for. 3 declines, 25 no response. Please at least decline guys it slows stuff down so much otherwise.
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8TH RC21-IJURR FOUNDATION-IJURR DOCTORAL SCHOOL IN COMPARATIVE URBAN STUDIES. VIENNA (AUSTRIA), 9-22 JULY 2026.
Apply by 2 January 2026 at midnight GMT. See the instructions here:
www.rc21.org/en/8th-rc21-... #urban #sociology
Apply by 2 January 2026 at midnight GMT. See the instructions here:
www.rc21.org/en/8th-rc21-... #urban #sociology
November 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
8TH RC21-IJURR FOUNDATION-IJURR DOCTORAL SCHOOL IN COMPARATIVE URBAN STUDIES. VIENNA (AUSTRIA), 9-22 JULY 2026.
Apply by 2 January 2026 at midnight GMT. See the instructions here:
www.rc21.org/en/8th-rc21-... #urban #sociology
Apply by 2 January 2026 at midnight GMT. See the instructions here:
www.rc21.org/en/8th-rc21-... #urban #sociology
Excited to announce my new article (w/undergrad co-authors) updating my old article on the geography of logistics within U.S. metro areas. In the 90s, it was all about de-centralization; now there's re-centralization everywhere as a national system develops. OA: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The changing and complexifying geography of logistics activity in U.S. metropolitan areas
This paper examines the spatial distribution of logistics activity (trucking & warehousing) across and within fifty of the largest US metropolitan are…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Excited to announce my new article (w/undergrad co-authors) updating my old article on the geography of logistics within U.S. metro areas. In the 90s, it was all about de-centralization; now there's re-centralization everywhere as a national system develops. OA: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Today we honor the transgender lives taken by anti-trans violence. We hold their memory with love and stand with trans communities in grief, resilience, and strength.
May we deepen our solidarity and work for a world where all trans people can live safely and freely.
#TDOR #WeRemember #UU
May we deepen our solidarity and work for a world where all trans people can live safely and freely.
#TDOR #WeRemember #UU
November 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Today we honor the transgender lives taken by anti-trans violence. We hold their memory with love and stand with trans communities in grief, resilience, and strength.
May we deepen our solidarity and work for a world where all trans people can live safely and freely.
#TDOR #WeRemember #UU
May we deepen our solidarity and work for a world where all trans people can live safely and freely.
#TDOR #WeRemember #UU
Check out Montreal snowplowing
🗺️❄️
📞📱 report a slippery sidewalk
or an icy street in Montréal?
Let us know/we’ll take care of it.
montreal.ca/en/topics/sn...
Snow removal/sidewalks & streets
municipal snow removal services:
•plow sidewalks
•progress—snow loading ops
•tips
✅How do we get this?
🗺️❄️
📞📱 report a slippery sidewalk
or an icy street in Montréal?
Let us know/we’ll take care of it.
montreal.ca/en/topics/sn...
Snow removal/sidewalks & streets
municipal snow removal services:
•plow sidewalks
•progress—snow loading ops
•tips
✅How do we get this?
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I see some things I need to add to my collection of transit goodies...
MTD joins the group of big cities with their own merch lines, like LA, NYC, and Chicago, with colorful tees, totes, mugs, and more.
Hop on MTD’s new merchandise line - SPlog
It’s not something I expected, either. But it’s true–MTD has released a custom merchandise line! It’s an online-only store, and everything is made to order in hopes to reduce overproduction. The first...
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November 19, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I see some things I need to add to my collection of transit goodies...
While you're coming up with clever names for this maneuver, don't forget Republican Tim Johnson (IL-15), who followed this exact same procedure when he retired in 2012, so the Republican Party could handpick his successor and Democrats wouldn't field a strong candidate for the seat.
From the Editorial Board: For Illinois and Chicago, this sudden and unexpected national spotlight on the details of our sordid politics is actually welcome — that is, if you’re interested in good government and fair elections.
Editorial: Jesús ‘Chuy’ García’s House reprimand reminds us that the Chicago Way does not play well out of town
With his repudiation on the U.S. House floor, Jesus “Chuy” Garcia inadvertently performed a service for the cause of cleaning up politics in Chicago and Illinois.
trib.al
November 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
While you're coming up with clever names for this maneuver, don't forget Republican Tim Johnson (IL-15), who followed this exact same procedure when he retired in 2012, so the Republican Party could handpick his successor and Democrats wouldn't field a strong candidate for the seat.
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Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
My dad delivered the mail from here. <3
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November 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
My dad delivered the mail from here. <3
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The rhetoric has been about training students for the economy of tomorrow. Yet when employers always, *always*, year after year, say they want their workers trained in the skills that Humanities and Social Sciences teach, somehow that never turns into more investment in those programs.
From today's Chronicle of Higher Ed briefing. I am *never* an advocate of cutting programs. But I am curious to see if there will be the same type of "students aren't majoring in this, so let's cut the program" discourse around computer science as there always is for the arts and humanities.
November 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The rhetoric has been about training students for the economy of tomorrow. Yet when employers always, *always*, year after year, say they want their workers trained in the skills that Humanities and Social Sciences teach, somehow that never turns into more investment in those programs.
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But at least we can still celebrate the most important thing
vladimir guerrero jr. joins the show during a postseason imgplay
Alt: vladimir guerrero jr. repeating "Daaaaaaa Yankees Lose!"
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November 2, 2025 at 4:26 AM
But at least we can still celebrate the most important thing
Whatever happens in tonight's game, at least I won't have to hear the "oppo taco" MLB ad for another five months. 💀
November 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Whatever happens in tonight's game, at least I won't have to hear the "oppo taco" MLB ad for another five months. 💀
Seems like the right time to make a PSA: academics, if you're close to finishing up an article, do it soon or take the holidays to polish it. I've learned after a few years as co-editor that there's little use in asking for reviews in Dec. and early Jan., at least not without a due date of late Jan.
Recently generated 10 names of people to ask to review a manuscript. None of them agreed. Zero. Sigh ... #academicsky
October 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Seems like the right time to make a PSA: academics, if you're close to finishing up an article, do it soon or take the holidays to polish it. I've learned after a few years as co-editor that there's little use in asking for reviews in Dec. and early Jan., at least not without a due date of late Jan.
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Witness Slip Warriors: You are a PROPONENT of SB2111 if you love trains and buses! Get to it. (Previously shared an outdated link, this is current.)
Sorry, this is an old link. Please use this one from today if you have any issues navigating to the new place to submit the witness slip.
mbl.ms/mKso5XZhOHV
mbl.ms/mKso5XZhOHV
Official government website of the Illinois General Assembly
Welcome to the Official government website of the Illinois General Assembly
mbl.ms
October 30, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Witness Slip Warriors: You are a PROPONENT of SB2111 if you love trains and buses! Get to it. (Previously shared an outdated link, this is current.)
Just in time for Halloween, the zombie airport returns from the dead one more time...
Commentary: We have the studies, the land, the money and the workforce. We just need Gov. JB Pritzker to release the land and unlock the gates to the global economy, writes Jesse Jackson Jr.
Jesse Jackson Jr.: The south suburbs are one airport runway away from prosperity
A new Chicago south suburban airport would reconnect communities to the global economy that left us behind.
trib.al
October 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Just in time for Halloween, the zombie airport returns from the dead one more time...
Last chance to submit an abstract to the Transportation Justice sessions at @geographers.bsky.social in San Francisco! Feel free to contact me for more information.
October 30, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Last chance to submit an abstract to the Transportation Justice sessions at @geographers.bsky.social in San Francisco! Feel free to contact me for more information.
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I keep thinking I should write an oped about the danger of the Border Patrol policing deep in the interior, but the problem is I already did... in 2022 www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Contributor: The long, deep reach of the U.S. Border Patrol
The Supreme Court has allowed the Border Patrol to barely abide by the Constitution, especially our 4th Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures.
www.latimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I keep thinking I should write an oped about the danger of the Border Patrol policing deep in the interior, but the problem is I already did... in 2022 www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
My first home. <3
October 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
My first home. <3
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bringing back my most viral tweet for spooky season
September 23, 2023 at 1:01 PM
bringing back my most viral tweet for spooky season
The Incredible Story Behind the Largest African American Quilt Collection 📜
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The Incredible Story Behind the Largest African American Quilt Collection | Artnet News
Eli Leon's game-changing African American quilt donation stuns in "Routed West" at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA).
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October 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Excited to be traveling to UW-Milwaukee to give the Harold Mayer lecture/West Lakes keynote address, on the changing landscapes of logistics. What better way to get there than by train?
October 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Excited to be traveling to UW-Milwaukee to give the Harold Mayer lecture/West Lakes keynote address, on the changing landscapes of logistics. What better way to get there than by train?
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🎓 Join us for lunch, learning, and conversation at "Grad School FAQ: A Panel Discussion Demystifying the Grad School Application Process & How to Prepare your Applications"!
🗓️ Friday, October 31st from 12-1:30 PM CDT via
📍 NHB 2049 & Zoom!
💻 Register here: go.illinois.edu/HEROP-OCT31
🗓️ Friday, October 31st from 12-1:30 PM CDT via
📍 NHB 2049 & Zoom!
💻 Register here: go.illinois.edu/HEROP-OCT31
October 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
🎓 Join us for lunch, learning, and conversation at "Grad School FAQ: A Panel Discussion Demystifying the Grad School Application Process & How to Prepare your Applications"!
🗓️ Friday, October 31st from 12-1:30 PM CDT via
📍 NHB 2049 & Zoom!
💻 Register here: go.illinois.edu/HEROP-OCT31
🗓️ Friday, October 31st from 12-1:30 PM CDT via
📍 NHB 2049 & Zoom!
💻 Register here: go.illinois.edu/HEROP-OCT31
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Looking for support for your research or fieldwork? Apply for AAG’s Research Grants for the chance to receive up to $500 for your work. Apply by November 15: buff.ly/z93KZ7A
#GeoSky #GISChat #GrantSupport #Fieldwork
#GeoSky #GISChat #GrantSupport #Fieldwork
October 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Looking for support for your research or fieldwork? Apply for AAG’s Research Grants for the chance to receive up to $500 for your work. Apply by November 15: buff.ly/z93KZ7A
#GeoSky #GISChat #GrantSupport #Fieldwork
#GeoSky #GISChat #GrantSupport #Fieldwork