We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
🚍🪴Cities becoming less sustainable with more home/hybrid working?
WTP for PT access has fallen, especially in smaller cities & costlier housing markets.
📜 Blog: rebrand.ly/n9frpcg
📰 Paper: rebrand.ly/dcj3xjk
@uofgussp.bsky.social @ubdc.bsky.social @nickbailey37.bsky.social @rafa-vdz.bsky.social
🌊This is exciting! Our latest study has been published in Public Health in Practice! 🌊
❗12 policy recommendations to turn the potential of blue spaces into real improvements in public health ❗
📖Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#BlueSpaces #PublicHealth #UrbanHealth #HealthInequalities
I guess I just have to accept that I am going to spend the whole day panicking that I have made a mistake and I should be at work 😭
🚀 Your future starts here!
MSc Real Estate – fast-track entry to a professional career with a specialism in finance/investment, sustainability or housing
Professionally accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors 💪
Info 👉 www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Myanmar, no earthquake assistance, instead a 44% tariff.
I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.
Even within transport, I sometimes come across a journal paper title that is unbelievably depressing... "Spatial accessibility to gun violence exposure on walkable routes to and from school" #Chicago
[Really interesting paper using innovative data/methods though!]
doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
White text on black: I love walkable neighbourhoods because I don’t wanna go far for stuff. No big conspiracy, I’m just lazy.
“I don't wanna go far for stuff"
My eloquent and powerful rebrand of the 15 minute city.
As a parent I love walkable neighbourhoods cause the kids can get places themselves. No big conspiracy, I’m just tired.
Good grief! I hope that one of your colleagues saw this and told you to leave work early today and go home and rest 😂😂🤣
Around 4.5 million children are living in relative poverty after housing costs. 200,000 more since before the pandemic.
These are record numbers of children living in poverty.
Latest DWP figures on Households Below Average Income has found 🔽 1/3
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🚨 New child poverty figures out today paint a stark picture - 22% of children in Scotland are trapped in poverty
➡️ While lower than the UK’s 31% rate, this still falls short of the 18% interim target. Urgent action is needed
Our response ⤵️
www.ippr.org/media-office...
Taken #OTD in 1990.
Concrete cathedral to car culture...
David Rose captures the brutalist grandeur beneath the Kingston Bridge.
From the book, 'Glasgow: 24-hours in the Life of a City' (March 27/28, 1990).
❤️🚽❤️
I became a transport engineer because I love to streets full of people standing, sitting and simply enjoying this #publicspace with others. #Verdun #Welliington #pedestrians
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Also based within @uofgussp.bsky.social !
New fully funded PhD studentship from @rafa-vdz.bsky.social has just been advertised!
Exciting opportunity to work on 'Big Data' relating to transport accessibility and employment with a fab team including Rafa and @nickbailey37.bsky.social at @ubdc.bsky.social
www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/...
My first week on the Dundee Courier, and the newsdesk phone rang, saying something had happened...
I was sent to find a reporter, I found him weeping in his car, childrens' blood on his brogues.
Dunblane 13.3.1996
“Projects that are solely related to active transportation are now being red-flagged and anything involving multimodal transport are being yellow-flagged. Highway projects, she added, still have a green light.”
I've been expecting this but it doesn't make me any less angry.
Just seen this gem of a quote from Don Hedeker at the University of Chicago:
'Multilevel analysis => another example of Golden Rule of
Statistics: “one person’s error term is another person’s (or many persons’) career”'
😂😂🤣
Afghanistan is no longer in the headlines as it once was, but the fate of Afghan women and girls should haunt the conscience of humanity. ⬇️
My piece ahead of International Women’s Day tomorrow.
t.co/IdX4EuhLfn
Yes!!!!!
That's what I came here to say! 😂😂🤣
Happy #IWD2025 - let’s create a world where all girls feel safe and free to be out and about in their streets and neighbourhoods!
🙌 I need this on a poster for my office!
Happy International Women’s Day to all the incredible women around the world. 💐
Today, we celebrate your strength, resilience, and achievements in every aspect of life. May this day be a reminder of your worth, power, and the progress we continue to strive for together.
Keep shining!
On #InternationalWomensDay I receive my regular reminder that I am privileged to feel joy in being a woman - I wonder if I would feel the same if I was in their position 💔:
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The cover art for a book, “Women Changing Cities: Global Stories of Urban Transformation”, which includes pink typeface over a grey stylized photo of a Paris street from above.
This International Women’s Day, we’re incredibly proud to reveal the cover of our third book, “Women Changing Cities: Global Stories of Urban Transformation”.
Photo essays from 11 cities around the world, including Paris, Bogotá, Barcelona and Montréal. To be released by RIBA Publishing in October.