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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 2d

My current council representative doing this bullshit on the same day I get campaign lit from one of the dumbasses running for my new district that touts more surveillance cameras as a top campaign plank 🙄

Atlanta Community Press Collective @atlpresscollective.com · 2d

Councilmember Alex Wan introduces two pieces of legislation to install new Flock license plate readers.

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 11d

It's really cool that this happened on my campus - indeed in the building where I spend 99% of my time at work - nearly a month ago and the university has never shared a single bit of information about it

3 new GA measles cases all traced back to single patient who went to GSU, restaurant, soccer event

“It’s about 90% contagious for someone who has not been vaccinated,” a physician at WellStar Urgent Care said.

www.wsbtv.com

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 12d

If I have to check a box confirming that I didn't use ChatGPT in order to submit my review, I expect the authors to have not used ChatGPT to produce the actual paper. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 12d

Just got all the way through reading an article for peer review only to be encountered by the disclosure that the author used generative AI to edit their paper. Second time this has happened to me this year. Second time I've given an automatic reject decision. This shit has to stop.

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 15d

To be honest, this makes me reevaluate whether I'm going to be reading ACC in the future or be willing to provide quotes. Which is unfortunate given that @thatseankeenan.bsky.social is the only person covering some of the stories that matter most to me. But outsourcing to AI is a red line

Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 15d

I have no doubt that doing this project required intensive work. But turning to the plagiarism machine to cut corners isn't the answer and doesn't inspire faith, which is a disservice to the work that actual human beings did do on this important topic.

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 17d

Yo @atlantaciviccircle.org, this is pretty gross, especially on a story about such an important topic. Can we just not?

Screenshot of a disclosure from an Atlanta Civic Circle story about extended stay hotels, which reads "Reporting tools included, DALL-E for illustrations, DataWrapper for graphs, and ChatGPT for research and readability. Have questions or comments about this series or have ideas for another ACC Explores? Send us an email, info@atlantaciviccircle.org."

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 18d

Apteka for vegan Polish food.

Never heard people in a city have such consensus about their #1 restaurant recommendation. Was absolutely worth the wait.

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 24d

"Policies that rely on profit-seeking developers will always be compromised by the incentive to extract value rather than provide it. Real-estate greed cannot be regulated out of existence so long as private landlords and developers remain central to the system."

Loosening the Markets | Chelsea Kirk

The guiding logic of contemporary housing policy is disarmingly simple: if we just build more, prices will fall. Expanding supply—by deregulating and streamlining approvals, eliminating rent control, ...

www.phenomenalworld.org

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Ruthy Gourevitch @ruthygourevitch.bsky.social · Sep 8

‼️ Join my team ‼️ @cplusc.bsky.social is hiring a Housing Policy Manager to help advance progressive housing and climate solutions alongside some of the best tenant unions, labor unions, policymakers, and researchers in the field.

Apply here by Oct 5! climateandcommunity.org/careers/

Work With Us - Climate and Community Institute

Job opportunities at the Climate and Community Institute

climateandcommunity.org

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'd put up $50?

I may not be top tier, but I've got integrity!

Bonus: Taylor is an androgynous name, so works regardless of the baby's sex!

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · Sep 3

Today is somehow the 10th anniversary of my dissertation defense, aka the time one of my committee members made a point of telling me that they were "highly offended" I hadn't cited my advisor

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · Aug 27

*insert Alonzo Mourning gif*

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · Aug 24

👏👏👏

Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · Aug 13

I see that the YIMBY/Abundance crowd still loves to rely primarily on non-peer-reviewed working papers from economists in order to support their nonsense rather than looking at the mountain of actually peer-reviewed work showing that corporate landlords are, in fact, as bad as many assume them to be

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · Aug 9

Shoutout to the back parking lot at Manuel's Tavern for its multiple cameos in Weapons

Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · Aug 6

I'm really excited to publish this excerpt from Gus Wood's new book in @atlstudies.bsky.social, which provides a whole new lens on Atlanta history.

Like how had I never heard about a citywide, multi-sited strike by Church's Chicken workers over discrimination, pay and community benefits before?!

Atlanta Studies @atlstudies.bsky.social · Aug 6

In this excerpt from his new book, Augustus Wood examines one chapter in the long-neglected history of Atlanta's Black working class, telling the story of strikes against unjust labor practices and housing conditions by working class Black women in the 1970s

atlantastudies.org/2025/08/06/t...

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Atlanta Studies @atlstudies.bsky.social · Aug 6

In this excerpt from his new book, Augustus Wood examines one chapter in the long-neglected history of Atlanta's Black working class, telling the story of strikes against unjust labor practices and housing conditions by working class Black women in the 1970s

atlantastudies.org/2025/08/06/t...

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · Jul 28

My dad sent me the latest Paul Krugman newsletter about Atlanta and for some reason his citation for the idea that you "aren't allowed to build multifamily housing" in Atlanta is an editorial from a high school student newspaper 🤦‍♂️

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · Jul 22

Very cool that my employer is finally switching from Webex to Zoom about five years after it would have made a meaningfully positive difference in our lives #betterlatethannever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · Jul 12

The wife is out of town and not able to watch Love Island at the same time, so she just received 17 consecutive texts with my play-by-play of tonight's episode before finally responding

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Atlanta Studies @atlstudies.bsky.social · Jul 2

We’re delighted to share our latest article, an excerpt from Hannah Palmer’s latest book “The Pool is Closed”. As she writes in the introduction, this piece “feels like the emotional heart of my book and it isn’t even about pools.”

Check it out 👇👇
atlantastudies.org/2025/07/02/f...

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · Jun 17

Today, Renee Tapp argues that recent attempts to solve the affordable housing crisis rely on a flawed understanding of housing economics and landlord business practices.

To address the high price of housing, we must recognize it for what it is: an antitrust issue.

Prices and Supply, and How Landlords Control Them

Attempts to solve the affordable housing crisis rely on a flawed understanding of housing economics and landlord business practices. In reality, landlords are colluding to manipulate the market.

lpeproject.org

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · Jun 15

don't forget to throw in Austin's busty lady drinking a milkshake (I'm assuming)

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Atlanta Community Press Collective @atlpresscollective.com · Jun 12

Through an open records request, the Atlanta Community Press Collective obtained a list of City of Atlanta-owned surveillance cameras and automated license plate readers.

Geographer Taylor Shelton mapped the locations of those cameras, showing which neighborhoods are most heavily surveilled.

Atlanta surveillance camera network mapping with Taylor Shelton

Using APD data obtained via open records request, Taylor Shelton maps Atlanta's camera network and explores the city's surveillance strategy.

atlpresscollective.com

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