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Juan Meneses @dissentum.bsky.social · 1h

If you have money to invite scholars to give talks on campus, you don't *have to* get the star people. Invite early career people! I have done it many times and it's a great way to boost people's careers. You can also invite non-star people who are also doing great work!

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The classroom I teach in is often used for studying after hours, and I love the messages that students leave for each other.

Orange marker on a whiteboard reads, “Good luck on everything!” There’s a cute drawing of a cat holding a pumpkin with “Happy Fall!” under it.

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I was in a meeting today with other STEM department heads who were sharing how their faculty's NSF funding is finally starting to come through, if less than before. It was really hard not to reply with, "At least your directorates still exist."

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alex block ⚽️ @alexblock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I see it’s time for yet another round of DST discourse; so I will again state the correct opinion: neither permanent daylight time nor permanent standard time are good solutions in northern latitude countries like the US, and therefore best solution is to change clocks twice a year.

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This. Our brains have measurably lost some of their capabilities because of GPS.

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

📣📣 BTW, there's a comment period (ending Oct 13) regarding proposed changes to the 2030 decennial Census, which would prohibit the inclusion of questions on race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation on the 2030 Census short-form questionnaire & any questionnaire used for purposes of enumeration

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Decennial Census of the Population of Americans; Proposed Residence Criteria and Proposed Regulations for Demographic Questions

The Census Bureau is proposing to add two new parts to the Code of Federal Regulations governing the decennial census of population and housing. First, the Census Bureau is proposing to add a part out...

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The NYC Department of Transportation is hiring a research analyst for its Office of Inclusive Planning. If you're in NYC, like (mixed methods!) research, and want to help expand the world for people who experience barriers to getting around, check this out.

cityjobs.nyc.gov

Research Analyst

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I really needed to read this today. You should read it, too.

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My contribution to the Studio Art Quilt Association benefit auction is still available! Check out Palm Tree at Night (12" x 12") here: events.handbid.com/auctions/202...

A small, square quilt with a blue-and-black background and a lime-and-pink palm tree as the main element.

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Re-upping for the current year: PASSIONATE 1. Cubs 2. Red Sox BANDWAGON 3. White Sox I LIKE THEM 4. Phillies SURE, I GUESS 5. Guardians NOT ROOTING, BUT YOU’RE ALLOWED A WS 6. Rays NO 7. Dodgers 8. Brewers 9. Astros 10. Braves 11. Padres HELL NO 12. Yankees

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CUrbanism Club @curbanism.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Week Without Driving is October 1 - October 8! To celebrate come meet us for ice cream! Try to bus, bike, roll or walk to meet us and practice going without a car. #WeekWithoutDriving - Wednesday, October 7 @ 6pm - Jarling's, 309 W Kirby, Champaign

White background with orange text and photo of ice cream cone sign for Jarling's. Text reads ice cream social on Wednesday October 7 at 6pm.

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Glad you're doing okay today!

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day to all who celebrate! (And we should all celebrate.)

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Audrey Wennink @awennink.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Please fill out this @illinoisdot.bsky.social survey about what you need from an IL intercity bus program www.surveymonkey.com/r/2B25XBD

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IDOT Intercity Bus Survey

Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Re This case: Most media are focusing on their own states, but this was a multi-state trip. The person took the whole route of the Southwest Chief, so Illinois through the midwest, then across S. Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona before LA. Then up the coast, and back across on California Zephyr.

yahoo.com

Person with measles rode Amtrak trains and buses across CA, health officials say

The California Department of Public Health said the unvaccinated passenger stopped at six California stations, including downtown Sacramento.

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Only the largest internal migration in U.S. history. Read The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson, which emphasizes the connections that remain between NY and FL, IL and MS, and CA and LA.

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This remains one of my all-time favorite maps.

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I would *love* to do a study like this...

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I understand the impulse to snark about STEM, but it's an English professor coming to that conclusion. Perhaps mathematicians themselves would have said this all along?

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

When you encounter such a horrific AI slop map in a recently-published article that you're not sure you can trust anything in that journal again.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Not my department, but they do great work and often collaborate with geographers! Asst/Assoc/Full Professor in Land Use, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?...

higheredjobs.com

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

✨A fun little reminder for everyone✨: Future You is not magically less busy. Future You is actually just as busy as Current You + also hates Past You for all the extra stuff you signed them up for.

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Tess is Surviving the Horrors @mothmother.com · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My most similar city is Minneapolis, but then they didn't ask how many syllables there are in the world "boat"... mydialect.us/quiz-standar...

Result of a dialect test showing Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan as corresponding most closely to my answers. The northeast and southeast are least similar.

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

You can hear them in the background during radio broadcasts of Cubs games, which I don't recall from previous years.

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

*waving as you pull up to Champaign*

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This started as a pilot program in Campustown some years ago, and it's made a huge difference with all of the new student housing going up. Great to see this expanded citywide!

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Evolution of a neighborhood as told by one building: 645 S Clark Street Acme Sprinkler Service Co. ...becomes... South Loop Strength & Conditioning ✶✶ Home of South Loop CrossFit ✶✶

Two Google Street View screenshots of a small commercial brick building at 645 S Clark Street in Chicago. The top image is from 2009, and the bottom is from 2022.

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This, this, and this. Every time I open Adobe and it says AI summaries have been approved by the administrator, I know that students take this to mean that the default is to use AI. That means it's the default university policy, without any faculty discussion.

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is not a real image of Northwest Indiana.

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is not a real image of Northwest Indiana.

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Seth Miller @wandrme.paxex.aero · 20/08/2026

Do you travel by air and also use a wheelchair? Or not travel by air because it is too challenging with a wheelchair? Do you know someone who does? Would you/they be willing to chat about an airline accessibility thing I'm working on chasing? #paxex

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

First day of class (Mapping, Place, and Power, shoutout to @mapesgeog.bsky.social) and it went well despite the smart classroom spontaneously dropping the connection to the projectors mid-lecture. 🙃 Great opening discussion around which of these maps is most objective vs. most biased:

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This has got to be the only post office in the U.S. under an interstate highway, right?

A one-story, grey building labeled as the United States Post Office Makiki Station, Honolulu, HI. It is underneath an elevated concrete highway, with the post office literally built around one of the pillars holding up the highway.

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every usps @everylot-usps.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

DINOSAUR: 114 STEGOSAURUS FWY, DINOSAUR CO 81610-9997

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It feels like industry is waiting for universities to come up with ideas about how they can use Ai and all I can think is: it is not my job to make your business more profitable.

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This is the best thing I have seen on the Internet today.

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We’re so excited to host West Lakes this year!

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I can confirm this is a great read. And thanks for the podcast rec!

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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

University leadership: We stand ready to support our faculty as they confront the disruptions & uncertainty caused by AI. Faculty: Great! We'll need smaller class sizes, especially for incoming students and— University leadership: Lol, no. We meant like subscriptions to Claude.

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The rare double approach to O'Hare from the northeast today, keeping the lakefront open for the Air and Water Show.

Screenshot of O'Hare from flighttracking website showing two westbound runways being used for departures and two southwest-bound runways for arrivals.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If there’s a tool that lets me “write” 10 articles a year instead of 1 without any change in my life, let me say: I have zero interest in that Since it’d obviously ramp up “productivity” talk, further perverting an area of life where volume is not an end in itself, I’d avoid it on that ground alone

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

That is so adorable. Thank you for sharing it!

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Would love to see more major airports do something like this. I also love that the press release notes the positive benefit of "getting to ride on the airfield next to planes," for your inner avgeek. 😄

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