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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 7h

There is a lot of "oh dear" to go around in the results of this very thorough Pew study on the issues with synthetic samples, but this strikes me as particularly "oh dear" www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

AI polling results can lean on racial or partisan stereotypes

In many cases, our AI poll took beliefs or attitudes that are reasonably common among a particular subgroup and portrayed them as nearly ubiquitous. For example, our AI poll would indicate that:

97% of Hispanic adults are at least somewhat likely to follow the World Cup (while the actual share is 43%).

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 5h

A tree that's had long experience of the wind. From this morning's dog walk #wales

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Mark On A Bike @mtonabike.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Well these are eye catching from Better Streets for Liverpool

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A #WarOnWalking. A war on biking. A war on public transit. A war on any transportation choice other than driving. A war on better cities. But a war on cars? Hardly. Cars still get most of the space, rights, budget, prioritization, etc. And any effort to add more choice is immediately attacked.

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I see a lot of people complaining about the undoubtedly stressful conditions at present on London's roads. But I see few people complaining about motor vehicles. Yet in the last 24 hours three vulnerable road users have died after being hit by people driving motor vehicles.

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This morning's dog walk and this evening's dog walk #swansea

A rock on a beach, bathed in golden morning light

A distant field of black sheep, disproving the claim there is always just one black sheep

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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One of the last projects I set in motion before I left @wearepossible.bsky.social has finally borne fruit: the School Run Cruncher! TL;DR? YES, it does indeed look like school run traffic to private schools is disproportionately responsible for morning rush hour congestion. You’re welcome!

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Private schools, public pollution: the need to better understand school run congestion — Possible

The school run is one of the most visible sources of traffic in our towns and cities, with 25% of weekday morning car trips in London being trips to school. For many of us , it’s clear that roads that...

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Pretty nice out there for tonight's dog walk too

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Swansea University was founded over a century ago to solve society's problems. So on Day 1 of the Psychology degree programme we've got our students devising policy interventions within a Theory of Change framework I wonder how many other UK undergrads discover the Magenta Book in Week 1?

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Moody skies on the dog walk tonight

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The WAR ON WALKING has taken many forms around the world. It’s often as simple as how we signal who space is and isn’t for. Once our eyes are opened to all the ways we’ve prioritized cars over people, we can’t unsee it. Frustrating photo contributed by @stadsplanering.bsky.social. #WarOnWalking

Background photo from North Macedonia, where “sidewalks are mostly used to park cars” as explained by photo contributor Carl-Henrik Barnekow. Text says “Don’t buy the lie that there’s a war on cars. They’ve been waging a war on walking for a century.” Via the Urban Truth Collective. #WarOnCars #UrbanTruth

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Chris Cox @coxyjindas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Premiere time. Just over an hour. Furore in Brisbane as residents who setup a community soccer pitch face $3500 in fines - while people can park boats on the street for free. A look at one example of Motonormativity in the news here in Brisbane.

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What a suburban soccer pitch tells us about car brain

YouTube video by Chris Cox

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Living Streets @livingstreets.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Our pavements are not for sale. Four in five Brits think delivery robots could cause issues for blind people and those with mobility issues. Tell the Government: pavements are for people, not vehicles. 👉 pavementoverload.com

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Seven years ago today we finished our utterly bonkers coast to coast to coast to coast to coast ride, all because we couldn't decide which coast-to-coast route to ride. So many tales from this one trip, perhaps especially pre-dawn breakfast with the Whitby trawlermen still in their oilskins

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Living Streets @livingstreets.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's great to hear that pavement parking could soon become illegal in Coventry: www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/cove… Read more about our campaign to end pavement parking across the UK: www.livingstreets.org.uk/pavementpa…

A woman pushing a pushchair with a baby and young child walks into the road because the pavement is blocked by a parked car.

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The "War on Walking" is a great reframing of baked-in car dependency, and I'm sure I'll be using some of these images in future public talks

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026

On why 'road violence' is the right way of describing automobility. In the style of what you get after merging the comunist manifesto and a haiku poem.

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Holding people who use the same mode of transport as someone who has committed an antisocial act responsible for that individual's behaviour is a clear logical fallacy. That we don't apply this standard to car drivers, but regularly do to people who ride cycles makes this textbook #motonormativity.

A photo of an inconsiderately parked hire bike with the comment:

"I’m all in favour of hire bikes in principle but idiot cyclists who park like this give the rest a bad reputation. It only needs a molecule of common sense …"

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Why do people think they're clever saying things like this, as though a ready supply of 2001 cars will exist forever?

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Francis Sealey @globalnet21.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Cutting traffic cuts vandalism, burglary and violence, research shows Researchers analysed data from tens of thousands of households across England, Scotland and Wales to examine how changes in traffic levels relate to how safe people feel in their communities. www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...

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Cutting traffic cuts vandalism, burglary and violence, research shows

Lowering traffic on urban streets can cut vandalism, burglary and violence, according to a significant new study by Leeds researchers.

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Briefly interrupting my holiday to cheer Swansea Psychology climbing 2 places in the Guardian league table, as the overall university jumps 7 places. Yay us! Now back to my holiday...

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

@brenttoderian.bsky.social To get the ball rolling, I spotted this in Japan...

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026

Ditto, criminology / crime prevention scholars. In the UK - while in the midst of a huge prison crisis - motoring offences represent 60% of sentences, and there are roughly as many cases on causing death due to illegal driving as there are murders. Yet not many seem to care about these.

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I don't usually compare government attention to job losses in higher education to job losses in other industries, but this time I will because this has me utterly raging. JLR are in a mess due to their own market strategy and the cyber attack they weren't prepared for www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Business secretary to meet Jaguar Land Rover boss as thousands of job cuts expected

The company is struggling with the impact of tariffs as well as the fallout from a major cyber attack last year.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Full-sized SUVs are pedestrian killers. New research finds that they're more than twice as likely to kill or seriously injure a pedestrian than other cars. (Notably, vehicle height—not weight—was the biggest risk factor.) doi.org/10.1016/j.js...

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Okay, so unfortunately I've just discovered this on threads about fascistic gimps, but Bluesky has rolled out a cool automatic thread-counting feature

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Good to see Reform so attuned to the concerns of real people in Essex and Lincolnshire

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So today I learned our university has a zoological museum hidden away down a corridor

Horrifying skeletons of miscellous creatures

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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This would never have happened under Count Binface.

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

p = .0498?! FFS - sometimes the real world just makes it look like you're trying to goad your reviewers

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Astounding that somebody could write "Are We Engineering Physical Activity Out Of Daily Life?" and not be talking about decades of making cars the easiest way to get around cities

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I wonder if everyone up in arms about floating bus stops makes a similar effort on blocked tactile paving

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

We've unexpectedly received a kilogramme of "hardcore cheese" from some Italian cyclists from Warmshowers whom we hosted last month. So I'm about to find out whether cheese coma is a real thing

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Wyatt Gordon @yitgordon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“The problem with cars in cities is that they don't fit. They are too big. They are taking more space than there is. That's the fundamental problem. And a whiz-bang technological solution that does not solve that problem is not a solution.” @humantransit.bsky.social 🚍🚲🚊 @thewaroncars.bsky.social

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Human Transit with Jarrett Walker

Podcast Episode · The War on Cars · 4 August · 57min

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

New paper from Hulya Gilbert in Sydney: My neighbourhood would be a better community if the street was not a main road’: a multilevel perspective into children’s everyday mobilities www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Couple of great quotes from Rob's letter: We have built a culture around driving that prioritises personal liberty over collective safety. Rather than acknowledging private transportation as a privilege we must earn through responsible behaviour, we have framed the car as an inalienable right.

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I get Frost's argument, but we: - build barriers and fences to stop people walking and cycling - have much stronger rules about use of ANPR than we have on facial recognition - are very lenient on road based crime - cars are the only private property to be left on the street

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Which view is not least unrepresentative of the disagreement NOT failed to be unenjoyed by the most least disunengaged voters who did NOT fail to turn out in the general election?"

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Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

✍️ Want to understand the bonkers nature of the modern economy? Take a ride with me on the 30,000 mile journey the cod in a fish finger takes between being caught off the coast of Scotland and consumed in a British home 🤯 Promise I'm not making this up👇 edconway.substack.com/p/the-30000-...

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The 30,000-mile fish finger

There’s a good chance the cod on your child’s plate has been around the world and back. Not that you’d learn any of that from the label...

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Corey Boyle @coreyboyle.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A cycling city isn’t really about bikes. It’s a fairer city, built around people instead of cars. Part one of three for the Edinburgh Inquirer, starting with the issues facing a car dependent capital. @spokes.org.uk @wwctrustscot.bsky.social @livingstreetsedi.bsky.social @cyclingscotland.bsky.social

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Even ‘the world’s worst cycle lane’ works

Corey Boyle on turning Edinburgh into a cycling city

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

There are two questions these people need to answer: 1. How does a vehicle approaching from behind that is about to hit you sound different from a vehicle approaching from behind that is about to miss you? 2. If it did sound different, what action could a rider take in one second or thereabouts?

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Road safety is a social justice issue. “The number of children killed or injured crossing roads is almost five times higher in England’s most deprived areas than its wealthiest” … and the gap is widening.

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Child pedestrian casualties are almost five times higher in England’s worst-off areas

Official figures expose widening gap in road deaths and injuries between poor and wealthy postcodes

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Parking across modal filters is peak motonormativity. "Cars can't get through here so clearly nobody needs to get through here"

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