Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 02/02/2026A gift from Sabina Deitrick...I look forward to diving in! 040
Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Logan Circle, Washington DC on a Sunday morning. 010
Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Today'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. 020
Reposted by Michael GlassJean-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...journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 001
Reposted by Michael GlassJen Nelles @jen-nelles.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Check 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...noir-rsa.comInclusive innovation and the dynamics of regional transformation: Reflections on NOIR’s contribution to RSA 2025Jen 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... 074
Reposted by Michael GlassJen Nelles @jen-nelles.bsky.social · 07/05/2025So 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. 193
Reposted by Michael GlassThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 29/04/2025President 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.nytimes.comFinnish 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. 1429061
Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Starting at 1pm today, the @pittsociology.bsky.social 'Technically Urban' workshop engages with the linkages between cities and technology 060
Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Grateful to the @pittsociology.bsky.social department for hosting my work in progress book symposium today... thanks also to the generous discussants for their engagement. 030
Reposted by Michael GlassKarin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Actually. How the US benefitted from outsourcing its research interests to experts in universities. 241414297
Reposted by Michael GlassRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/04/202538 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...washingtonpost.comWomen, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boardsScientists, 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. 891177027671
Reposted by Michael GlassZack Taylor @bigcitypolitics.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Very 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 072
Reposted by Michael GlassAyona Datta @ayonadatta.bsky.social · 03/04/2025If 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...theatlantic.comThe Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books ProblemMeta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here. 043
Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Thanks Josh! +1 for me, and @curdsnewcastle.bsky.social and @jpaddie.bsky.social 010
Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 31/03/2025BookBot at the North Carolina State University library. Efficient storage and retrieval, but so much for accidentally discovering a book in the stacks! 110
Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Dumb and Dangerous. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o... @nytimes.comnytimes.comOpinion | Hillary Clinton: This Is Just DumbThe Signal group chat is only the latest in a string of self-inflicted wounds by the new administration. 000
Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Three 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. 052
Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Starting 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 071
Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 27/03/2025There 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 062
Reposted by Michael GlassStefania Fiorentino @stefaniafiorentino.bsky.social · 26/03/2025I 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! 042
Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 23/03/2025New regional energy landscapes bringing about infrastructural erasure and renewal. triblive.com/local/region...triblive.comHomer City plant's implosion marks 'downfall of coal' as plans for natural gas plant remain on trackSix 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... 000
Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 15/03/2025And 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...nytimes.comHow a Columbia Student Fled to Canada After ICE Came Looking for HerRanjani Srinivasan’s student visa was revoked by U.S. immigration authorities. That was just the start of her odyssey. 010
Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 12/03/2025I am in the midst of some truly enlightening interviews on infrastructure, regional governance, and the scale question. Watch this space... 000
Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 12/03/2025$31 million for astroturf. This plan indicates the weakness of the Pittsburgh real estate market; Point State Park's 36 acres of mature green space is just half a mile away. 000
Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 10/03/2025That seems like...a lot. Is it a standard rate for that line? 110
Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Clairton, PA. Worker's diner adjacent to the notorious polluting US Steel coke works. 020
Reposted by Michael GlassJen Nelles @jen-nelles.bsky.social · 27/02/2025www.thecity.nyc/2025/02/26/h...thecity.nycHochul: We Won’t Be ‘Steamrolled’ by Trump on Congestion PricingThe 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.” 001
Reposted by Michael GlassFernando Tormos-Aponte @fernandotormos.com · 22/02/2025Pitt just paused all PhD admissions www.wesa.fm/health-scien...wesa.fmThe University of Pittsburgh pauses its Ph.D. admissions process amid research funding uncertaintyA 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... 22513
Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Jeremy, thanks so much for this and your advice over the years! 030
Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Enough doom scrolling for one day. Onto some anger-fuelled research and writing. 010
Reposted by Michael GlassKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/02/2025A 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 312046
Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Love to see rays of good news in this 'dumbest possible timeline.' Congrats! 000
Reposted by Michael GlassBeth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Here 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.) 931649743
Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 08/02/2025My 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...tandfonline.comSlow and sudden violence, by Derek HyraPublished in Journal of Urban Affairs (Ahead of Print, 2025) 021
Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Honored 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 040
Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 02/02/2025I 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. 000
Reposted by Michael GlassRoger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · 08/01/2025A propos the horrific current events in Southern California journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 033
Reposted by Michael GlassJean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · 23/12/2024What 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 065
Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 20/12/2024And fyi, that NZ$75 million (US$42 million) per year is *the* pool for scientific research in the country. It's not like there's a huge pool of domestic philanthropic funding to support the 90% of projects that don't get govt. funding. 000
Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Tena koutou to my fellow Kiwi scholars, wherever you landed! 000
Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Assessing causal relationships between NZ government higher education policy and national economic performance? Could have been a good Marsden Fund project for a plucky social scientist to pursue. 100
Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Recent reporting noted the historically high levels of emigration, and the large size of the New Zealand diaspora. www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/mo...nzherald.co.nzMore Kiwis take out Australian passports in record 'brain drain'New Zealand is currently experiencing record levels of outward migration. 110
Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 20/12/2024The legacies of student loan debt and continuing underfunding of NZ higher education exacerbate a truly tragic crisis in the sector. 320
Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Flights from D.C. to Boston on a clear day are an excellent opportunity to consider Megalopolis (Gottman, not Coppola). 010