Jen Nelles

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The biggest hurdle is absolutely the promotion and tenure process (requiring high status pubs). Weirdly this is controlled by a combo of unis themselves and national funding council requirements (like REF) - both of which could be pretty easily changed.

"It’s worth remembering that the universities funded this research, paid the salaries of the academics who produced it and then had to pay millions of pounds to commercial publishers in order to access the end product." Das seltsamste System. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that | Arash Abizadehwww.theguardian.com Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to start our own, says academic Arash Abizadeh

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Mid-career in academia is tough. So I’m really pleased we’ve opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social mid-career fellowships. These free you from commitments for a period of 6-12 months, to devote to the completion of a major piece of research www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/mid-...

Happy Canada Day!!! Especially to those of you who, like me, are far from home today.

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The MTA's board issued a bureaucratic rebuke to Governor Kathy Hochul's congestion pricing pause on Wednesday afternoon by voting in favor of a resolution that called on the transit agency to implement the tolling plan as soon as Governor Hochul stops holding it hostage.

MTA Board to Governor Hochul: We're Ready for Congestion Pricing Whenever You Stop Holding It Hostage - Hell Gatehellgatenyc.com The MTA board issued a rebuke to Governor Kathy Hochul's congestion pricing pause on Wednesday afternoon, as "catastrophic" cuts to mass transit loom.

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"Congestion Pricing’s Promises Never Reached East Harlem And now the Second Avenue Subway won’t either." How the congestion toll fight was so badly lost, exclusive polling found registered Dems in NYC thought it would make their commutes worse(!). And the fallout -- www.curbed.com/article/cong...

Congestion Pricing’s Promises Never Reached East Harlemwww.curbed.com And now the Second Avenue Subway won’t either.

Friends! A bit of a Hail Mary here but I’m looking for a #sneaker expert to help me identify a pair of vintage #Nike trainers from ~1998-2000 *based on a description alone*. Does anyone know anyone who might be up for the challenge? (It’s NOT the ones pictured but might be close)

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NEW: NYC comptroller Brad Lander has assembled a collection of advocates and attorneys to develop a legal strategy to force NY to implement congestion pricing. Press conference tomorrow. (gift link)

Opponents of Hochul’s Move to Halt Congestion Pricing May Go to Courtwww.nytimes.com The New York City comptroller, Brad Lander, and a group of stakeholders have developed a legal strategy to overturn Gov. Kathy Hochul’s shutdown of the Midtown toll program.

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Interesting new report on the American coastal and maritime economy, with lots of focus on the Biden-Harris administration's climate adaptation and mitigation investments. www.noaa.gov/news-release... 🧪🦑🌎

U.S. marine economy continues upward trendwww.noaa.gov $476 billion contribution helps build a ‘greater, more Climate-Ready Nation’

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It may seem random on first glance, but there's actually a fascinating story behind this: hyperallergic.com/591628/why-a...

„Boop! Got your nose!“ - This game has been popular since the old days.

Why Are the Noses Broken on Egyptian Statues?hyperallergic.com This essay is an account of truly learning to see what is and is not present in these objects.

@brooklynspoke.bsky.social (or any other supporters of #congestionpricing - are there any petitions, form letters, etc that we can share with people to increase the volume of response to this? Many people are not as active calling their sens, reps etc but are supportive!

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📢At the #geoinno department at Kiel University we are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to start as soon as possible but no later than 1st September 2024 for a position that runs to the 28th February 2027. This is for the ClimatePol project - climate adaptation in communities, socio-economic

This. Tell me how 😂

How does one find this magical fountain pen feed?

This. 1000%

Google/Microsoft should stop working on AI until they can fix email search

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The hidden REFwww.emeraldgrouppublishing.com

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STEM alone will not save us.

A forceful case for the Humanities www.nytimes.com/2024/04/05/o...

Opinion | Earth to NASA: You Could Use Some Philosophers Up Therewww.nytimes.com STEM can’t solve all our problems.

Welcome to the fam little buddy!

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One of my ten lessons from twenty years working on regional policy ukcivilservant.wordpress.com/2022/12/06/h...

How To Improve Regional Policy In England: Ten Lessons from 20 Yearsukcivilservant.wordpress.com This is a guest blog by regional policy expert David Higham:- Henry Williams, a former Bishop of Carlisle, once said: “furious activity is no substitute for understanding”. The 20 years that I spent ...

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Microsoft, Google, and Meta reveal their energy and water demands globally rival those of small countries.

What does boom in resource-hungry data centres mean for our future energy plans?news.sky.com The growing power and water needs of the data industry are attracting increased scrutiny as demand for low carbon energy increases across society.

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First results from OSIRIS-REx asteroid-return mission show that Bennu might be a hunk of planet that was wet, possibly tectonically active, full of organic material, and bathed in light from a star or stars that were destroyed before our solar system existed and may have seeded all of us 🧪🔭

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Is Already Rewriting Solar System Historywww.scientificamerican.com Scientists have scarcely begun studying pristine material from asteroid Bennu brought back to Earth by the OSIRIS-REx mission, but have already found several surprises

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god these are such good looking trains @dov.bsky.social @seunte.bsky.social

The NEW Glasgow Subway Trainsyoutu.be The new Stadler built trains on the Glasgow Subway are now in passenger service! I went to visit SPT's Broomloan Depot for a closer look in the depot, and r...

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🚨New study🚨 in Nature Communications finds EV battery supply chain disruption vulnerabilities depend on battery chemistry rdcu.be/dAEbm with Anthony Cheng, Valerie Karplus, EricaFuchs 🧵 1/9 🔌🚗|🔌💡|🔌📈

Fund local government English councils ‘forced to the pawnshop’ in fire sale of assets on.ft.com/49NfONV

English councils ‘forced to the pawnshop’ in fire sale of assetson.ft.com As local authority funding crisis deepens, town halls prepare to sell off land and buildings worth millions of pounds

I just spent the day finalizing revisions to an edited collection book project that has been 7 years in the making on Canadian Urban Governance in Comparative Perspective (forthcoming in Fall 2024 from the University of Toronto Press).

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Free GIS Workshop Alert 🚨 #GeoSky #AcademicSky I'm excited to be leading one of the upcoming #maptimeDavis workshops, "Practicing Critical GIS in the Era of Big Data and AI!" Read all about it and sign up at the link below👇 #EJ #GIS #BigData

#maptimeDavis: Practicing Critical GIS in the Era of Big Data and AIdatalab.ucdavis.edu UC Davis DataLab

👀 👀 👀 check out the very first NOIR collection on infrastructural time ⏰ As we get closer to launch we’ll preview what’s inside to get you excited to get your copy! But if you’re keen, preorder today!!!

Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds - co-edited with @mrglassphd.bsky.social @jen-nelles.bsky.social - is out April 23 and available to order from @brisunipress.bsky.social now! Check it out here: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/infrastructu...

Infrastructural Timesbristoluniversitypress.co.uk Infrastructural Times - Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds; This agenda-setting volume disrupts conventional notions of time through a robust examination of the relations between tempor...

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The gainers and losers from the United Kingdom's university‐related migration: A subregional analysis of Graduate Outcomes Survey dataonlinelibrary.wiley.com Against the background of the rise in higher-education participation rates, this paper examines the spatial redistribution of undergraduates across the United Kingdom resulting from moves to and from....

Check out the new DSIT #cluster mapping tool. I’m psyched to see this project finally out and publicly accessible! Explore all of your favorite clusters (established and emerging) mapped with a wide range of data - free to use. www.innovationclusters.dsit.gov.uk

The Innovation Clusters Map from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology - DSITwww.innovationclusters.dsit.gov.uk The Innovation Clusters Map presents the most comprehensive picture to date of firm-level innovation activity across the UK. It allows users to explore the geography, distribution and strengths of clusters. Used in combination with local intelligence and engagement, it will help investors, policymakers and others to better understand, engage with and invest in the UK’s […]