iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Brandon Mullen @brandonmullen.com · 15/09/2026

Anecdotally: I-5 being closed pushed some folks to transit, and this is a brilliant example of a) why we need to just demolish the inner eastside part of I-5 and b) why when we do that it will be just fine.

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Marcello Graziano 🇺🇦 @marcellograz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Blue Economy done wrong. Not surprised, in 2019 in MI at a GLC meeting, the then NOAA caretaker only talked about deep sea mining. PS mining stuff we’ll send to China anyway cuz we lack refineries. Ecologically hurtful, economically stupid.

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Alida Cantor @alidacantor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This article's been a long time in the making and I'm so excited to finally be able to share it with the world. And it's open access thanks to the Portland State University library! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.com

Legal Geographies of the Public Trust Doctrine

The Public Trust Doctrine (PTD) is a legal principle that recognizes a duty of the government to hold certain natural resources in trust for public benefit. The doctrine has been extended within th...

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Alida Cantor @alidacantor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The relevance of PTD goes beyond ensuring public access and protecting resources. PTD links human & nonhuman actors across scales and sites, mediates property rights, shapes practices of commoning, coproduces environmental subjectivities, & organizes life and socioenvironmental relationships.

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Alida Cantor @alidacantor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We take a deep dive into the Public Trust Doctrine, an ancient legal principle that shapes how we govern natural resources. We dig into themes around resource management, environmental law and governance, commons, water, wildlife, climate change, and critical geography more broadly.

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Alida Cantor @alidacantor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Delighted to share my new article, "Legal Geographies of the Public Trust Doctrine", out today in Annals of AAG! In which I nerd out about law, commons, water, wildlife, climate change & critical geography. @@geographers.bsky.social @legalgeography.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Legal Geographies of the Public Trust Doctrine

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the moon report 🌘 @seachanger.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

new portland neighborhood greenway x school street diverters just dropped at N Central and N charleston! This is just east of James John school and downtown St. Johns Strong example of how local bike bus organizing compelled an infrastructure intervention pilot

PBOT yellow concrete planters diagonal across an intersection

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 21/08/2026

Maybe we will finally wake up to the fact that “free speech“ and “viewpoint diversity” are actually bad in academia. What you want is peer-reviewed knowledge, not a debate-me-bro culture in which empirically discredited views get resources & funding & platforms just because.

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Alida Cantor @alidacantor.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🚨 New article with @areidross.bsky.social and @thienkim.bsky.social ! On the politics of hydrosocial imaginaries and modernist visions of water management. Nice summary by Alexander here.

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Excited to share my latest piece at Frontiers in Sustainable Agriculture with @thienkim.bsky.social and @alidacantor.bsky.social. We looked at the question of modernisms and recent transformations of the US right wing related to water resources. /1 www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

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Frontiers | “Turn the faucet”: right-wing hydrosocial imaginaries of irrigation water in the Western United States

The second administration of United States President Donald Trump has taken an authoritarian, centralized approach to governance in the United States. Water ...

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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

@cplusc.bsky.social is hiring again! We're looking for someone to join our operations team. This role will be critical to implementing some big changes we're aiming to make that will allow us to be even more effective winning transformative climate+economic policy. climateandcommunity.org/careers/

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Work With Us - Climate and Community Institute

Job opportunities at the Climate and Community Institute

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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Sarah exemplified our belief that rigorous, creative social science research matters. She undertook that research with incredible flair. To keep her legacy alive, we have created the Sarah Knuth Junior Fellowship for Energy Research. climateandcommunity.org/bio/sarah-kn...

climateandcommunity.org

Sarah Knuth (In Memoriam) - Climate and Community Institute

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Alida Cantor @alidacantor.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I'm so sorry to hear this. Sarah was awesome and so brilliant. A really devastating loss of a wonderful person.

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Alida Cantor @alidacantor.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Oh this is devastating. Sarah was a brilliant, kind, funny, generous and extremely sharp colleague. It was always a privilege to spend time with her and think through ideas together. What an awful loss.

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Alida Cantor @alidacantor.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Clearly an opportunity for more cat rides!

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Alida Cantor @alidacantor.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Portland bike culture is the best. The cat ride went by my house and many participants had cat ears taped to their bike helmets. Shamefully, my own cat declined to make a showing.

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Alida Cantor @alidacantor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Hm it's like NSF forgot they terminated my research funding on literally this topic a year ago because it "no longer met agency priorities" 🤔

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I don’t understand all the FIFA rules, but I believe our loss to Belgium today means we are required to adopt their street design standards

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

What a great article not only on faculty workloads, but how little our salaries actually factor in to most university budgets. A few highlights. First, our salaries are falling:

Third, faculty salaries are falling even if we statistically control for faculty rank and institution. By our analysis of National Center for Education Statistics data, tenured and tenure-track salaries are down 10 percent in real terms since 2016 and are lower today than they were in 2002; nontenured faculty salaries are down 4 percent since 2016 and are at 2002 levels today.

To put this plainly: Suppose sharply increased teaching loads enabled institutions to cut one out of every seven full-time faculty. (That’s roughly what we saw last year in severe cuts announced at West Virginia, Western Illinois, and St. Cloud State Universities.) The associated savings in salary and benefits even through such drastic action would amount to less than 2.5 percent of total institutional expenditures for the typical university.

The upshot? If you think higher education has a cost problem, squeezing more teaching out of faculty is not the first place you should look.

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Alida Cantor @alidacantor.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

My 🔥 controversial woke 🔥 take: Let kids - including trans kids - be kids. Let them do activities and sports they enjoy with their friends. Let them run around and thrive and exist.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Academics have all had this conference experience...

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Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Sorry for being such a radical woke leftist but I believe all women should be allowed to play sports and use public restrooms and go outside and stuff like that.

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Alida Cantor @alidacantor.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Using PCEF for AC units saves lives. For Moda renovations? Not so much. Also can we possibly use PCEF funds to get AC installed in our public schools so people aren't trying to learn/teach in buildings that are 90+ degrees??

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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Tax the rich and corporations to pay for public services. Side note: If we’re gonna talk about how much preschool for all costs high earners in taxes, it’s pretty biased & incomplete to not mention what Portlanders save in child care costs. If Portland is unaffordable, P4A is one answer to that.

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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

“While vehicle safety is critical, blaming larger vehicles for pedestrian deaths overlooks systemic issues.” No, you shill—it IS a systemic issue. We need to limit hood height and charge based on vehicle weight (as in Paris).

nytimes.com

The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)

The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.

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Alida Cantor @alidacantor.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

This is what allyship looks like. My older daughter intercepted this coloring book that her little sister (who is trans) received as a birthday gift from a neighbor, and fixed it before my younger daughter even had a chance to react. Happy Pride, the kids are alright.

Coloring book titled "Awesome coloring book for boys" with "boys" crossed out and "kids" written in.

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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgs.org · 05/06/2026

📊New data shows benefits of choosing geography at university. This includes high graduate employment rates, with geography graduates having a higher rate than average. Find out more: www.rgs.org/about-us/our-work/lates…

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Alida Cantor @alidacantor.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I am writing a letter to PPS, the school board, and the PAT union today! If there ends up being more ways to express support I will share. It's infuriating - and bad for our kids.

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Alida Cantor @alidacantor.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Super pissed that Portland Public Schools just laid off 3 amazing teachers in our school - people who are teaching, among other stuff, innovative place based curriculum, climate justice, field studies - meanwhile investing in some bullshit AI partnership. People >>> AI.

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Neil Kelley @kelleypaleolab.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The year is 2026. A series of powerful earthquakes from Charleston to Halifax, and subsequent collapse of the Greenland Ice Sheet, has radically transformed the coastlines of North America. Undeterred by the cataclysm, 48 teams from around the world gather to play "the beautiful game..."

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Alida Cantor @alidacantor.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I'm so sad about the loss of Raul Pacheco-Vega, an extremely good and kind person and a brilliant scholar. I enjoyed connecting with him at conferences. As a junior scholar he made me feel seen and valued. He was so supportive and positive. A gem of a person who I will miss very much.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

This is unbelievable. The AI boom is now piggybacking on green colonialism, eating up any contribution to emissions reduction while causing harm to Indigenous communities. The Yakama Tribe has been fighting this pumped storage project for years, only to learn it would primarily power…a data center.

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Also FYI, the majority of Colorado River water used for “farms” in the below graphic is actually for cattle feed (alfalfa and hay). The minority of the agricultural water use is for food people eat directly, like wheat. science.nasa.gov/missions/lan...

Sankey diagram showing Colorado River available water supplies, water consumption by basin, water consumption by sector (biggest sector is agriculture) and water consumption by crop (majority is alfalfa plus hay, ie cattle feed).

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Alida Cantor @alidacantor.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Thanks for sharing! It was a blast!

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Alida Cantor @alidacantor.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Painting a street mural with 50 kids and a bunch of awesome community members - 11/10 recommend, excellent antidote to all the horrors of the world.

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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Demanding a transparent, public process where Portlanders know what they get for their money is not 'playing politics.' It's good governance and fiscal stewardship. It's deeply unserious to suggest that the only thing that matters is locking up seven votes on council, by locking the public out.

oregonlive.com

Kotek signs bill for Moda Center project, puts pressure on City Council: ‘Not a time to play politics’

The state will contribute up to $365 million toward Moda Center renovations if the city and Multnomah County approve their own pieces of the package.

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Alida Cantor @alidacantor.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Question for fellow enviro/water nerds: Do you consider ocean and marine sciences/spaces/places to be part of "water resources"? Why/ why not?

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Alida Cantor @alidacantor.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Also hope PPS puts out some kind of statement acknowledging that this occurred, that it was unwelcome and uninvited hate speech/ harassment, not just a prank, and spelling out their plans for meetings to be better and safer going forward.

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Alida Cantor @alidacantor.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

It was gross and jarring to have hate speech streaming into my living room. And it makes hard community conversations harder. Not blaming PPS board, but I do hope they do a better job working with IT to set up safer digital environments in the future.

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Alida Cantor @alidacantor.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Last night I attended a virtual meeting about potential school consolidation hosted by Portland Public School board. It started off with some pretty nasty zoom bombing - screen sharing and filling the chat with swastikas.

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Brandon Mullen @brandonmullen.com · 21/04/2026

Portland is much, much, MUCH (much) more than the Moda Center.

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