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Michael Glass

@mrglassphd.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Sociology & Director of the Urban Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. Researching infrastructure, regionalism, and urban redevelopment.

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Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
A gift from Sabina Deitrick...I look forward to diving in!
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Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Logan Circle, Washington DC on a Sunday morning.
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Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Today's economic development interviews took me to Washington County, PA...locus of the Whiskey Rebellion, Pittsburgh's southern exurbs, and sitting atop the Marcellus Shale gas field.
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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
@mrglassphd.bsky.social and I have reflected on comparable reverberations from bridge failure in Pittsburgh and the temporal dynamics of infrastructure crises and infrastructure-based futuring here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Jen Nelles @jen-nelles.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Check out my reflections on NOIR's session on infrastructural regionalism and inclusion at the @regstud.bsky.social annual meeting this month. cc @mrglassphd.bsky.social @jpaddie.bsky.social www.noir-rsa.com/post/inclusi...
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Inclusive innovation and the dynamics of regional transformation: Reflections on NOIR’s contribution to RSA 2025
Jen Nelles (Oxford Brookes University)NOIR had a strong presence at RSA 2025, organizing a session on “Inclusive innovation and the dynamics of regional transformation” (SS23), organized by NOIR co-di...
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Jen Nelles @jen-nelles.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
So much fun today @regstud.bsky.social 2025 co-chairing a NOIR session on infrastructural regionalism and inclusion with @mrglassphd.bsky.social featuring some excellent presentations on innovation districts, Auckland, and freight rail in Brazil.
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Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
My summer reading list (recreational)
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 29/04/2025
President Alexander Stubb of Finland, who has emerged as a prominent voice of Europe’s smaller nations on Russia’s war against Ukraine, says in an interview he doesn’t want Ukraine to suffer the same fate his country once endured.
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Finnish Leader Warns Russia: ‘You Don’t Play With President Trump’
President Alexander Stubb of Finland, who has become an interlocutor in peace talks, says in an interview he doesn’t want Ukraine to suffer the same fate his country once endured.
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Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Starting at 1pm today, the @pittsociology.bsky.social 'Technically Urban' workshop engages with the linkages between cities and technology
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Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Grateful to the @pittsociology.bsky.social department for hosting my work in progress book symposium today... thanks also to the generous discussants for their engagement.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Actually. How the US benefitted from outsourcing its research interests to experts in universities.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
38 of the 43. "38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic. "The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..." www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
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Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
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Zack Taylor @bigcitypolitics.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Very sad to hear of the passing yesterday of Warren Magnusson. He was a generous scholar, a brilliant political theorist, a captivating speaker, and deep believer in the emancipatory possibilities of the city. @uvic.ca #urbanpoltics
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Ayona Datta @ayonadatta.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
If you are a published author, check your name on the LibGen database which list works illegally used by Meta to train AI. 30 of my books and papers are in this database. The sheer scale of this intellectual theft is beyond imagination. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
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Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
BookBot at the North Carolina State University library. Efficient storage and retrieval, but so much for accidentally discovering a book in the stacks!
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Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Dumb and Dangerous. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o... @nytimes.com
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Opinion | Hillary Clinton: This Is Just Dumb
The Signal group chat is only the latest in a string of self-inflicted wounds by the new administration.
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Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Three great @regstud.bsky.social research network sessions at the Detroit @geographers.bsky.social meeting yesterday, brought to you by the Network on Infrastructural Regionalism (NOIR). Thanks to all who participated.
Professor describes research.
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Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Starting now: the first of the sessions on Infrastructural Regionalism at @geographers.bsky.social - sponsored by the @regstud.bsky.social research network NOIR (Network on Infrastructural Regionalism) #Detroit2025
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Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
There are publishing options at all career stages, and for all flavors of regional research through @regstud.bsky.social Meetthe editors this morning at @geographers.bsky.social
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Stefania Fiorentino @stefaniafiorentino.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I am co-editing this new issue on “Regional Development towards new Regional Futures” for @cjres.bsky.social (details below 👇🏻) if you work on alternative #regionaldevelopment frameworks, the spatial and policy implications of #heterodox economics, #growth and #post-growth debates: this is for you!
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Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
New regional energy landscapes bringing about infrastructural erasure and renewal. triblive.com/local/region...
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Homer City plant's implosion marks 'downfall of coal' as plans for natural gas plant remain on track
Six and a half out of seven structures came toppling down Saturday morning as crews imploded four smokestacks and three cooling towers of the shuttered Homer City power plant in Indiana County. The st...
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Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
And then they came for the planners... How a Columbia Student Fled to Canada After ICE Came Looking for Her www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/n...
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How a Columbia Student Fled to Canada After ICE Came Looking for Her
Ranjani Srinivasan’s student visa was revoked by U.S. immigration authorities. That was just the start of her odyssey.
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Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I am in the midst of some truly enlightening interviews on infrastructure, regional governance, and the scale question. Watch this space...
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Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Clairton, PA. Worker's diner adjacent to the notorious polluting US Steel coke works.
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Jen Nelles @jen-nelles.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
www.thecity.nyc/2025/02/26/h...
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Hochul: We Won’t Be ‘Steamrolled’ by Trump on Congestion Pricing
The governor showed up at a Manhattan MTA board meeting to talk tough and promise that New York will fight a federal clawback of funds with “orderly resistance.”
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Fernando Tormos-Aponte @fernandotormos.com · 22/02/2025
Pitt just paused all PhD admissions www.wesa.fm/health-scien...
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The University of Pittsburgh pauses its Ph.D. admissions process amid research funding uncertainty
A spokesperson for the University told WESA Friday that the school has "temporarily paused additional Ph.D. offers of admission," while Pitt works to understand how proposed federal funding cuts could...
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Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Enough doom scrolling for one day. Onto some anger-fuelled research and writing.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/02/2025
A large swath of the $42.5 billion in broadband subsidies made possible by the infrastructure bill (which Republicans voted against) is also going to be redirected to his expensive, congested, capacity-constrained satellite broadband network
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Here are the 25 institutions that receive the most NIH funding (98% of HHS is NIH). Basically, they're large schools with large hospitals. They receive 50% of all NIH funding. Source: ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/fede... (table 26) (Not going to do a whole thread but thought folks might be interested.)
Table of the 25 universities that receive the most money from the Department of Health and Human Services (basically NIH); Johns Hopkins, Duke, UCSF, Penn and Pitt are at the top.
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Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
My review of Derek Hyra's new book "Slow and Sudden Violence" is now online for the Journal of Urban Affairs. Click through for access to the reprint: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/5DCZG...
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Slow and sudden violence, by Derek Hyra
Published in Journal of Urban Affairs (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Honored to accept this charming Climate Honors Award from Second Nature on behalf of the team (students, staff, faculty) at the University of Pittsburgh working on community development in partnership with the Fayette County Cultural Trust. @pittsociology.bsky.social
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Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I was fortunate to get a tour of the Ruhr Region's preservation and adaptive reuse of their industrial heritage. It's a different model to Pittsburgh's, where some industrial artefacts were preserved, yet only in a fragmentary fashion.
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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
A propos the horrific current events in Southern California journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
What a treat from @urbanpolitical.bsky.social Santa! I had a great conversation about #IntfrastructuralTimes w/ @fennaimara.bsky.social, Himnashu Burte & Hanna Baumann: lots of insights & food for thought. Check out the podcast & the book, too! @mrglassphd.bsky.social @jen-nelles.bsky.social
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Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
The legacies of student loan debt and continuing underfunding of NZ higher education exacerbate a truly tragic crisis in the sector.
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Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Flights from D.C. to Boston on a clear day are an excellent opportunity to consider Megalopolis (Gottman, not Coppola).
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Pat Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Great piece by @nicgaston.bsky.social on just how foolish the NZ government’s defunding of humanities, social sciences, and basic science is: the-conversation.com/funding-rese...
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Funding research for economic return sounds good – but that’s not how science really works
The Marsden Fund was set up to support pure research. Diverting half of it to fund applied research undermines New Zealand’s potential to generate ideas that underpin commercial success.
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Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Call for Abstracts: join us in Porto at #RSA25 for our special session on inclusive infrastructures and the dynamics of regional transformation. Details below... @jpaddie.bsky.social @jen-nelles.bsky.social @pillnj.bsky.social
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Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I reviewed and rejected a manuscript...the other 2 reviews were similarly critical. It turned up again in my review queue without any explanation from the managing editor as to why the original reviewer opinions (and labor) were disregarded. I find that problematic. #peerreview
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Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
See the following call for a special session at #RSA25 - abstracts due by 19 December #infrastructure #regionaldevelopment #NOIR
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Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Glad to see this in print...Peter Ekman's research on the Harvard-MIT Joint Center in Urban Studies assembles great insight on postwar urban planning. #infrastructure #urbanism #temporality www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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Timing the Future Metropolis by Peter Ekman | Paperback | Cornell University Press
Timing the Future Metropolis—an intellectual history of planning, urbanism, design, and social science—explores the network of postwar institutions, formed amid specters of urban "crisis" and "renewal...
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Joel E. Correia @joelecorreia.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Job alert! Montana State is hiring a human-environment geographer! 👉 jobs.montana.edu/postings/43861 #geosky
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Assistant Professor of Geography
The Department of Earth Sciences at Montana State University invites applications for the position of tenure-track Assistant Professor of Human-Environment Geography with expertise in non-U.S. or indi...
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Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Glad to see so many familiar faces joining Blue Sky from 'the other place'. I don't miss it, not one bit.
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Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 16/05/2024
Colombia study tour on inclusive innovation continues with meetings today at Ruta N and EAFIT. How is Medellín's innovation landscape continuing to evolve, and how will the benefits be shared?
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Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
Tiny house settlements for the unhoused stir opposition, questions in Pittsburgh. www.post-gazette.com/news/social-...
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Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
Ancillary Budget Season. What a time to be alive.
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Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
I'm honored to be named as a 2024 Fellow of the Regional Studies Association... see the full list via the following link... @regstud.bsky.social
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Announcing the 2024 Fellows of the Regional Studies Association (FeRSA) - RSA Main
The Regional Studies Association are delighted to announce the appointment of the new RSA Fellows (FeRSA) for 2024. RSA Fellows are individual members who have been continuous members for a minimum of...
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Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 09/02/2024
Looks timely.
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