A gift from Sabina Deitrick...I look forward to diving in!

Logan Circle, Washington DC on a Sunday morning.

Today's economic development interviews took me to Washington County, PA...locus of the Whiskey Rebellion, Pittsburgh's southern exurbs, and sitting atop the Marcellus Shale gas field.

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@mrglassphd.bsky.social and I have reflected on comparable reverberations from bridge failure in Pittsburgh and the temporal dynamics of infrastructure crises and infrastructure-based futuring here:
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Inclusive innovation and the dynamics of regional transformation: Reflections on NOIR’s contribution to RSA 2025 Jen Nelles (Oxford Brookes University)NOIR had a strong presence at RSA 2025, organizing a session on “Inclusive innovation and the dynamics of regional transformation” (SS23), organized by NOIR co-di...

Check out my reflections on NOIR's session on infrastructural regionalism and inclusion at the @regstud.bsky.social annual meeting this month.

cc @mrglassphd.bsky.social @jpaddie.bsky.social

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So much fun today @regstud.bsky.social 2025 co-chairing a NOIR session on infrastructural regionalism and inclusion with @mrglassphd.bsky.social featuring some excellent presentations on innovation districts, Auckland, and freight rail in Brazil.

My summer reading list (recreational)

Finnish Leader Warns Russia: ‘You Don’t Play With President Trump’ President Alexander Stubb of Finland, who has become an interlocutor in peace talks, says in an interview he doesn’t want Ukraine to suffer the same fate his country once endured.

President Alexander Stubb of Finland, who has emerged as a prominent voice of Europe’s smaller nations on Russia’s war against Ukraine, says in an interview he doesn’t want Ukraine to suffer the same fate his country once endured.

Starting at 1pm today, the @pittsociology.bsky.social 'Technically Urban' workshop engages with the linkages between cities and technology

Grateful to the @pittsociology.bsky.social department for hosting my work in progress book symposium today... thanks also to the generous discussants for their engagement.

Actually. How the US benefitted from outsourcing its research interests to experts in universities.

Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.

38 of the 43.

"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.

"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."

www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

Very sad to hear of the passing yesterday of Warren Magnusson. He was a generous scholar, a brilliant political theorist, a captivating speaker, and deep believer in the emancipatory possibilities of the city. @uvic.ca #urbanpoltics

The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.

If you are a published author, check your name on the LibGen database which list works illegally used by Meta to train AI.

30 of my books and papers are in this database.

The sheer scale of this intellectual theft is beyond imagination.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Thanks Josh! +1 for me, and @curdsnewcastle.bsky.social and @jpaddie.bsky.social

BookBot at the North Carolina State University library. Efficient storage and retrieval, but so much for accidentally discovering a book in the stacks!

Opinion | Hillary Clinton: This Is Just Dumb The Signal group chat is only the latest in a string of self-inflicted wounds by the new administration.

Dumb and Dangerous.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o... @nytimes.com

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Three great @regstud.bsky.social research network sessions at the Detroit @geographers.bsky.social meeting yesterday, brought to you by the Network on Infrastructural Regionalism (NOIR). Thanks to all who participated.

Starting now: the first of the sessions on Infrastructural Regionalism at @geographers.bsky.social - sponsored by the @regstud.bsky.social research network NOIR (Network on Infrastructural Regionalism) #Detroit2025

There are publishing options at all career stages, and for all flavors of regional research through @regstud.bsky.social

Meetthe editors this morning at @geographers.bsky.social

I am co-editing this new issue on “Regional Development towards new Regional Futures” for @cjres.bsky.social (details below 👇🏻) if you work on alternative #regionaldevelopment frameworks, the spatial and policy implications of #heterodox economics, #growth and #post-growth debates: this is for you!

Homer City plant's implosion marks 'downfall of coal' as plans for natural gas plant remain on track Six and a half out of seven structures came toppling down Saturday morning as crews imploded four smokestacks and three cooling towers of the shuttered Homer City power plant in Indiana County. The st...

New regional energy landscapes bringing about infrastructural erasure and renewal.

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How a Columbia Student Fled to Canada After ICE Came Looking for Her Ranjani Srinivasan’s student visa was revoked by U.S. immigration authorities. That was just the start of her odyssey.

And then they came for the planners...

How a Columbia Student Fled to Canada After ICE Came Looking for Her www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/n...

I am in the midst of some truly enlightening interviews on infrastructure, regional governance, and the scale question. Watch this space...

How does it end?

$31 million for astroturf. This plan indicates the weakness of the Pittsburgh real estate market; Point State Park's 36 acres of mature green space is just half a mile away.

That seems like...a lot. Is it a standard rate for that line?

Clairton, PA. Worker's diner adjacent to the notorious polluting US Steel coke works.

Hochul: We Won’t Be ‘Steamrolled’ by Trump on Congestion Pricing The governor showed up at a Manhattan MTA board meeting to talk tough and promise that New York will fight a federal clawback of funds with “orderly resistance.”

www.thecity.nyc/2025/02/26/h...