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Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD @mbonsma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Extremely cool postdoctoral fellowship opportunity with one of the all-time greats in the field, Dr. Eric Miller at the University of Toronto. Help take transportation modelling to the future by giving bicycles the attention they deserve in our quantitative models! #BikeTO #BikeSky #PhDSky

Active Travel Analysis & Planning Using an Advanced Activity/Travel Demand Model System: A Postdoctoral Fellow Opportunity

The University of Toronto Transportation Research Institute (UTTRI, https://uttri.utoronto.ca/) is seeking a postdoctoral fellow (PDF) to play a leading role in a two-year Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Alliance-Advantage project. The project involves: developing new models of bicycle route and mode choice; implementing these models in an advanced, operational agent-based microsimulation activity/travel demand forecasting system for the Greater Toronto-Hamilton Area (GTHA); and using this model system to develop effective bicycle policies and infrastructure for improving sustainable and equitable accessibility and mobility within the region. The PDF will work under the supervision of Prof. Eric Miller, cosupervised by Profs. Shoshanna Saxe and Timothy Chan.

The successful candidate must have demonstrated strong experience in discrete choice modelling and, more generally, travel demand modelling. Experience in bicycle modelling and planning is desirable, as is experience with machine learning methods. The candidate must have strong communication and project management skills, and be able to work effectively in a team environment.

The University of Toronto is consistently ranked in the top 20-25 universities in the world. The Toronto metropolitan region is the largest in Canada and has consistently been the fastest growing major North American urban region, providing an excellent “living laboratory” for
studying urban dynamics and policy formation.

Applicants should submit their CV, graduate school transcripts and a one-page (maximum) statement of qualifications and interest in the position by email to Prof. Eric Miller, eric.miller@utoronto.ca. International applications are welcome, but the applicants must have completed their PhD within five years of their appointment date.

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Still RIP CBGB

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Observing The City @observingthecity.ca · 14/10/2026

Construction trucks leaving Bloor and Islington area after being successfully deterred from starting work on removing bike lanes in Toronto by a large protest.

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Melissa BearTrix @melissabeartrix.gives.hugz.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

People are going in about the over and under diagnoses of mental health in young people I have a solution to help at least 80% of them, make the planet a nicer place to live, give the kids hope, and fix the problems This isn't hard Hugz & xXx

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

“Ooooh a sausage sizzle, I’m getting one!” “There’s no price list. How much?” “Uh how much are your sausages?” “Oh, they’re free. This stall is operated by the Free Sausage Foundation” “Ooooh kay, but these stalls usually raise money for the school. Last election they got the netball court […]

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John Mark Ockerbloom @jmarkockerbloom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

"Hello, Canada, and hockey fans in the United States" Hockey Night in Canada returns to the air for its 90th season this winter. The CBC, which no longer has rights to NHL games, will feature the Professional Women’s Hockey League, which now has 12 teams in the US and Canada. (As usual, each […]

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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 02/10/2026

Hey computer touchers, Heads up that Canada has a bunch of new timezone rules this November. Four provinces/territories stay on daylight time, so Canadian “Pacific Time” is going to be different than US, for example. The Manitoba change was only released in tzdb three days ago in tzdb 2026e!

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

A figure stands in a barren landscape; reaches for the lever on a large, eccentric contraption covered in wires, pipes, dials and buttons; looks over towards two figures inside a bunker and says:

"'Trust me, it's safe' would sound a lot more reassuring if you weren't saying it from inside a concrete bunker."

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

RE: aus.social/@Unixbigot/1173125739386… I’ve been using and evaluating alternatives to Raspberry Pi for many years. Hit me up if you want a single board computer reccomendation. I also have a bunch of alternatives in stock leftover from reviews and projects. Finally, if you’re […]

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Mark Shaw 🇨🇦✌️🇪🇺 @markshawtoronto.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Is it too soon to start updating our flags

Flag of Ontario with the British Union Jack replaced with the European Union flag.

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

"I'd like a curse, but I don't know how to choose" "Family, friend, or coworker" "Coworker" "Disfiguring, infuriating or destabilising?" "Uh destabilising?" "Vengeful, righteous or deniable?" "Deniable, please" " How about this one. It causes the victim to experience a faint bit […]

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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 31/08/2026

Canadians: If you’ve embedded a Google map, you should check that you are requesting a Canadian localization to make sure your users still see “Lake Ontario”. Google Maps API doesn’t automatically set locale to your users’ location. developers.google.com/maps/documen...

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

TIL: Québec has a strategy called Stratégie nationale d'achat d'aliments québécois (provincial strategy for the purchase of Québec foods). Abbreviation: SNAAQ. I can't tell if this is the funniest random coincidence ever, or the work of a bilingual public servant with an excellent sense of humour.

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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 24/08/2026

today’s little opsec learning: the entire print history of a p-touch cartridge is stored in the empty cartridge (in negative, on the used-up printing ribbon). 😨

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🎃I'll be Frankenstein with you 🧌🇨🇦 @syncros.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Kensington Market Garden Car in Infrared During July's Pedestrian Sunday. #infrared #IR #fullspectrum

a view of the Garden Car (full of herbs, etc), glowing with life in infrared, with the chlorophyll of the plants reflecting light back at the camera through a 670nm filter over the lens, mixing the tail end of the visible spectrum with infrared. Kensington Market, Toronto, July 2026

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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Important video for TPA haters: did you know that part of the cost of running a street festival is re-imbursing the TPA for lost parking revenue? The City waived this cost for the Church pedestrianization but, in general, that land belongs to cars and you owe them if you use it for anything else.

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warthog9 @warthog9.social.afront.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

Ok, let's play the long shot game: Does anyone work at TekSavvy? I have a somewhat recent want to try and ask them, very nicely, if they'll let me put an FCIX micromirror on their network. You know in their Toronto point-of-presence, because that's where most of my own traffic seems to route […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

Came across some code which is subjected to a complexity analysis tool; the tool, called "lizard", has a specific annotation you can add in a comment to request it skip a function, which results in a rather alarming line of code without knowing that context: // #lizard forgives

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

My AI has gone rouge. I tell it “go back to your room and take that makeup off. And be home by ten or you’re grounded.”

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

"At night this reassuring curtain of blue is pulled away and you realize where you really are: at infinity’s doorstep. A plain is what a mountain aims to be: the closest you can come to being in outer space while yet having your feet on this planet." I really hope to get out to Grasslands this […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

A stunningly beautiful quote from Yann Martel, sent to me by a satellite engineer who loves the sky: "If you’ve never been, the south of Saskatchewan is so flat the horizon is perceptibly round. Above you, during the day, lords an immense dome of sky so empty it feels like a fullness, with […]

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Easy: if the establishment would like to stifle the socialist insurgency they can simply pass a New New Deal, employ millions of workers and artists improving infrastructure with a new WPA, and raise the top tax rate to 94%

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🎃I'll be Frankenstein with you 🧌🇨🇦 @syncros.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

For #WorldPhotographyDay I'd like to share my favorite image I've taken this year. #Toronto harbour froze after weeks of negative temps, I decided to do a photo day on the islands in February. A snowstorm started and the cityscape disappeared, but as I ventured out onto the ice, it revealed itself.

a mother and child, who i do not know, were standing on the frozen lake against the cityscape of Toronto during a snowstorm.
I had been waiting for a composition like this to appear, its why I ventured onto the frozen lake. Pic taken Sunday Feb 2 2025.

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🎃I'll be Frankenstein with you 🧌🇨🇦 @syncros.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It will always be Main Sewage Treatment Playground in our heart of hearts.

google maps snapshot showing main sewage treatment playground

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

"Pants-computer" is what they're called now. RE: digipres.club/users/foone/statuses/…

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 22/07/2026

@tante everything is "autonomous" when you put a for loop around it

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

hi, human expert here! this is not funny, humans only do this (walk and talk selfie videos, car seat selfie videos, tiny stunt microphones) when they’re in extreme distress

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Irving Reid @irvingreid.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

In the splash zone for “Waiting for Godot” at Stratford

Theatre stage containing only a bare tree, taken from the second row of seats

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Chris Siebenmann @cks.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

One of the interesting and absolutely sensible things this research group is doing is that they're testing their robotics chemistry stuff by having the robots use common kitchen ingredients to mix and make things. Kitchen ingredients come in various powder and liquid forms, there's lots of ways […]

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Chris Siebenmann @cks.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

In the get people Fedi-hired category, my university department has an opening for a senior (research-side) sysadmin where you'll get to do fun things in a dynamic group that's doing stuff at the crossover of chemistry, robotics, and computing. It's sadly not open to remote people, so Toronto […]

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

AliExpress listings be like: “Choose your size: ◎ one size ◎ unrelated item ◉ extra medium ◎ plaid”

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Sue Smith @sue.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026

👀 "Daily PR contexts per developer are up 67.4%. Work restarts, tasks that return to in-progress after moving to another stage, are up 13.8%. 26% more in-progress tasks show no activity for seven or more days. The developer productivity picture that AI tools present at the individual level is […]

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Sue Smith @sue.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026

If you're pushing it specifically to undermine labour you're hardly also going to be cultivating a robust engineering discipline lolll

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David Penfold :verified: @davep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

John Finnemore on the French horn/cor anglais: "I was idly wondering why the cor anglais has a French name meaning ‘English horn’, and the French horn has an English name meaning… well, ‘French horn’. I looked it up, even though I knew there would just be some reasonable but rather dull […]

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

Every Kuwubernetes cluster promises a beautifully architected and orchestrated design that flexes effortlessly with demand but actually delivers all the elegance of six famished ferrets thrown directly into the spaghetti pot, and all the resilience of a 1975 business office that can't balance […]

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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 29/05/2026

oh by "kafkaesque" I mean that one process produces events and a variety of other processes consume them. what did you think i meant?

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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

Hey, I asked @douglascrockford and he confirmed my impression: This year (last month, actually) is JSON’s 25th birthday. { "greeting": "Happy birthday!"} #json

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Sophie Schmieg @sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026

OH Colleague 1: the performance problems in system X are mostly due to a lot of old shitty code Colleague 2: thankfully we've invented the shitty code machines, so now you can replace it with new shitty code

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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 10/05/2026

Bike shopping today reminded me that the fundamentalist Christian family that owns ABUS locks refuses to allow women in the family to own any part of the company: archive.ph/pNm7A (German, Paywall bypass) drive.google.com/file/d/1bRhe... (Firefox-translated PDF) (Original source follows)

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Irving Reid @irvingreid.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

Apparently 3500km is beyond the service lifetime of Vittoria Corsa N.EXT G2.0 tires…

Rear tire on a road bicycle, showing a spot where the tread has worn away revealing the underlying fabric casing

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barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026

RE: mastodon.hongkongers.net/@cbctor_mi… Oh D&D can be life-changing for neurodivergent kids? Who could have guessed.

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