Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Gaurav and I are looking forward to your abstracts on the geographies of dignity: 010
Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 05/02/2026I wrote something about HS2 at Euston. It's a rant, pretending to be a theoretical piece about infrastructural reversibility rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.comThe Geographical Journal | RGS Research Journal | Wiley Online LibraryThis commentary discusses the idea of reversibility in relation to large infrastructure projects, using the example of the Euston train station redevelopment in London, UK. I suggest that there shoul.... 030
Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Are you attending the RGS Annual Conference in London in September? Consider submitting an abstract to the session Negotiating Dignity: Rethinking Justice in Geographical Research organised by Gaurav Mittal and myself Details of all CfPs here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Deadline 20 February 110
Reposted by Anna PlyushtevaJames Palmer @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social · 19/01/2026A moment many years in the making – it's time to check proofs of my forthcoming book, Power Plants, due out in June with @manchesterup.bsky.social! Somehow, this has snuck on to the AAG's Winter 2025 books list – which looks great (www.aag.org/new-books-fo...). Preorder by end of Jan for 40% off 🌿🌲🌳 0136
Reposted by Anna PlyushtevaTransport Studies Unit, University of Oxford @tsuoxford.bsky.social · 16/01/2026New TSU Seminar Series for 2026! Dr Abdal Hamid al Masri (Homs University) kicks off with a talk that examines challenges of transport, mobility, and traffic in and around Homs, a central Syrian city in the post-war and reconstruction era. 25th Feb - 12pm online only us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 011
Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Heading to @bertsbooks.bsky.social this afternoon to treat a young reader to a new book of their choice. Spoiler, it's going to be another Grimwood! 030
Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Come work with me on a new DUT-funded project on young carers and urban mobility! 2-year postdoc at @tsuoxford.bsky.social : my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...my.corehr.comJob Details 011
Reposted by Anna PlyushtevaRafael H. M. Pereira 🚡 Urban Demographics @urbandemog.bsky.social · 11/12/2025CfP special issue on "Decolonising Research in Transport Geography", in JTG. Please help us spread the word! Deadline 30 Sep 2026 More info www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Guest editors: Qiyang Liu, Peking Zihao An, U. Leeds Rafael H. M. Pereira, Ipea Zahara Batool, Leeds Tim Schwanen, Oxford 185
Reposted by Anna PlyushtevaMums for Lungs @mumsforlungs.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Please sign @asthmaandlung.org.uk's petition calling for stronger #AirPollution limits in the UK. The UK's legal levels for NO2 are four times higher than the safe level recommended by the World Health Organization. If the EU can come into line with interim @who.int levels, surely the UK can?action.asthmaandlung.org.ukAdopt Ambitious Air Quality Standards into UK Law🫁 Support our call for urgent clean air action Toxic air isn’t just an environmental issue — it’s a health emergency. It contributes to lung cancer, worsens asthma and COPD, and harms children’s… 0911
Reposted by Anna PlyushtevaLuke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 03/11/2025The Orwell Society Prize for Dystopian Fiction 2026 is now open for submissions from people studying at a UK university: orwellsociety.com/charitable-a... If you work in UK HE, please publicize widely! I’ve been a judge since the prize’s inception; it’s such a privilege to read the submissions.orwellsociety.comDystopian Fiction PrizeThe Orwell Society organises an annual short story competition for current students (both BA and MA) at British universities. We look for dystopian narratives of 3,000 words, following the dedicated t... 145
Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Who would you plan urban mobility for? Historically, cities have prioritised white collar commuters As part of a new DUT-backed project, we suggest that starting with young carers and their (im)mobilities can inform inclusive transport planning. We set out the case here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...doi.org 110
Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 17/10/2025www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives... Fantastic article on AI and why it will let you down. Passage below is my favourite. 030
Reposted by Anna PlyushtevaTransport Studies Unit, University of Oxford @tsuoxford.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Join us for our seminar series ‘Mobility and Urbanisation in Palestine.’ Starting Wed 29 Oct, 3pm online Dr Zahraa Zawawi, An-Najah National University in Nablus, will discuss ‘Sustainable Urban Planning for Urban Expansion/ Development in the West Bank, Palestine’ Register: tinyurl.com/3n8kxn6stinyurl.comSustainable Urban Planning for Urban Expansion/ Development in the West Bank, Palestine3pm, 29 October 2025. Online only.Dr Zahraa Zawawi (An Najah National University). 021
Reposted by Anna PlyushtevaSocial History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2025📢 Applications are now open for the Joint BME Small Grants scheme, supporting research, events & activities by BME historians or on BME histories. 💸 Grants up to £1000. ⏰Deadline: 27 Nov 2025. #history #apply #funding #opportunity socialhistory.org.uk/funding/bme-...socialhistory.org.ukJoint BME Small GrantsThe Social History Society administers a Small Grants Fund to support research, events and activities undertaken by BME historians or focused on the histories of BME people The scheme was launched … 01110
Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 18/09/2025So we want more people to have the skills to engage critically with the ambiguous stuff circulating in a post-truth online world? Turns out, those History of Art degrees were not such a bad idea after all. en.ara.cat/culture/the-...en.ara.catThe viral statue attributed to Jaume Plensa and located in Barcelona that doesn't actually existA fake AI-generated image sparks thousands of reactions: How to stop the lie? 020
Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 18/09/2025This has been my favourite episode of the Antisocial Economics podcast so far - but they are all excellent. 020
Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Looking forward to the annual conference of the @rgsibg.bsky.social and rediscovering Birmingham after too many years of only being there long enough to transfer between trains. 000
Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Using DuckDuckGo for web searches is great - not missing the ads, not missing the (frequently inaccurate) AI summaries. 011
Reposted by Anna PlyushtevaClare Rowan @ancient-tokens.bsky.social · 28/07/2025The consultants who worked on Warwick have done a few others it seems (but not "Beyonder"!): mammoth.tv/education/mammoth.tvMammoth Education – Global Brand Consultancy for EducationBrand Thinking for Education Marketing. UK's leading brand consultants for universities, trusted to deliver large-scale transformation programmes that redefine institutional identity and reputation. 2112
Reposted by Anna PlyushtevaIPPR North @ipprnorth.bsky.social · 17/07/2025🚨 Today we publish State of the North 2025 🚨 The North gets just half as much arts and culture funding per person as London. We reveal the impact this & other regional divides have on young people, and what must change 👇 www.ippr.org/articles/the... 12620
Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Ash Sarkar's book 'Minority Rule' is brilliant - incisive, funny, depressing, but also strangely empowering account of the last few years in UK politics www.bloomsbury.com/uk/minority-...bloomsbury.comMinority Rule**A Guardian Book of the Summer 2025**** The instant top 5 Sunday Times bestseller from political commentator Ash Sarkar **'One of the boldest and most exciting… 020
Reposted by Anna PlyushtevaDave Walker @davewalker.bsky.social · 10/07/2025New drawing: Hire bike Notes on this cartoon: open.substack.com/pub/diagramc... 171092331
Reposted by Anna PlyushtevaDr Harrie Larrington-Spencer @tricyclemayor.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Great to see outputs from the NİHR LTNs in London project starting to be published. Huge public health benefits of LTNs. 'Across the LTNs as a whole, the authors said, an estimated 613 injuries were prevented, including 100 deaths or serious injuries' www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...theguardian.comLondon’s low-traffic zones ‘cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’Exclusive: Study also finds no change in number of casualties on roads just outside low-traffic neighbourhoods 02612
Reposted by Anna PlyushtevaSchool of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford @oxfordgeography.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Are we leaving parts of the country behind in the EV transition? Labib Azzouz & Hannah Budnitz @tsuoxford.bsky.social explore the uneven rollout of electric vehicle charging points across the UK. 011
Reposted by Anna PlyushtevaRia Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Devastated to learn that EVERY SINGLE ONE of my former #DisabilityStudies colleagues at Liverpool Hope are at risk of redundancy. Lovely people and a brilliant team that has transformed the lives of so many students. If you know them please do reach out - things are very tough right now.ucu.org.ukUnion vows to fight cuts at Liverpool HopeLiverpool Hope University intends to axe 39 staff before the end of the year, announced the University and College Union (UCU) today 01614
Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Job vacancy: Research Associate in Road Safety Inequalities (24 months; full-time; based @tsuoxford.bsky.social ) Come and work with Xiao Li @xiaoli-transport.bsky.social (PI) and myself on a new project on road safety and children with SEND my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...my.corehr.comJob Details 159
Reposted by Anna PlyushtevaTransport Studies Unit, University of Oxford @tsuoxford.bsky.social · 04/04/2025On Walk to Work Day, @valenmontoya.bsky.social highlights an example of commuting that isn't so straightforward. #walktoworkday @oxfordgeography.bsky.social www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/news/good-on...tsu.ox.ac.uk"The good ones cross over the bridge, and the bad ones go underneath."On Walk to Work Day, Valentina Montoya Robledo highlights the story of women who cross the Colombia-Venezuela border every day to work. 065
Reposted by Anna PlyushtevaInstitute for Government @instituteforgovernment.org.uk · 01/04/2025Interested in making government more effective? Applications for our 2025–26 research internship programme, starting in September 2025, are now open. Closing date: Tuesday 29 April, 11:00 ⏰ Find out more: www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/about-us/car... 11633
Reposted by Anna PlyushtevaCllr Rob Wilson 🔶 @robwilson.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Walk down a footpath on residential street, and it’s always the slabs on nearest the kerb that are more cracked and broken… 1310518
Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 09/03/2025I loved contributing to this book review forum on Romit Chowdhury's wonderful 'City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport' You can read my review alongside those of some outstanding scholars in the latest issue of Urban Geography - www.tandfonline.com/toc/rurb20/4... 050
Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 20/02/2025I was curious: How do people judge if they make financially literate decisions in daily life? I found that financial literacy (a very fuzzy & problematic concept) is something we try to make sense of as part of our relationships with significant others. More here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comWorrying the right amount: Intimate relationships and the emotional work of pursuing financial literacy togetherThis paper explores how expectations of financial literacy are negotiated within intimate relationships. Institutional normative discourses of managing money and finance well urge individuals to cu... 010
Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Did you know that @ccriadoperez.bsky.social is giving this year's @tsuoxford.bsky.social Annual Lecture on 5 March? It's on 'Women, travel, and data bias' and you can attend in person in Oxford, or online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-trav...eventbrite.co.ukWomen, travel and data biasTSU Annual Lecture 2025, Caroline Criado Perez 032
Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 06/02/2025The 'Get Swindon Moving' forum coordinated by @swindoncouncil.bsky.social submitted written evidence to the recent 'Buses Connecting Communities' inquiry. This has been published alongside another 113 responses; have a browse here, it's fascinating I promise: committees.parliament.uk/work/8619/bu...committees.parliament.ukBuses connecting communities - Written evidence - Committees - UK ParliamentWritten evidence submission publications for Buses connecting communities. 000
Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Have you signed up yet? The wonderful Prof Rachel Aldred is giving a webinar as part of the @tsuoxford.bsky.social 2025 seminar series. She will discuss unequal mobilities and active travel, and you can register here: www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/event/unequa... 030
Reposted by Anna PlyushtevaAndrew Williams @williamsapj.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Thanks for sharing The proposed plans include a 20% cut to Geography and Planning academic staff (10-15 FTE) We are all a bit shell-shocked But we will organise and strategise as a School tomorrow 63014
Reposted by Anna PlyushtevaAntoine Paccoud @douccap.bsky.social · 27/01/2025 New job alert! 2-year post-doc on the history of property inequalities (renewable up to 4 years) at LISER, Luxembourg. HIST_PROP, funded by @csllux.bsky.social, will analyse land and property ownership data in Luxembourg (1824-1938). Happy to answer questions! jobs.liser.lu/job/Esch-sur...jobs.liser.luResearch Associate (Post-doc, f/m) in the history of property inequalities - Ref: 25-01Research Associate (Post-doc, f/m) in the history of property inequalities - Ref: 25-01 02017
Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Catch up with this inspiring talk by Daniel Agbiboa (Harvard), part of the @tsuoxford.bsky.social seminar series; A perspective on urban popular transport which is both poetic and political: 010
Reposted by Anna PlyushtevaIain Soutar @isoutar.bsky.social · 26/01/2025To be clear, Sustainable Aviation Fuels are not (yet) “changing carbon emissions from flying”.theguardian.comRachel Reeves indicates support for third runway at HeathrowChancellor says runway would mean fewer planes circling London, and points to moves towards sustainable flying 99328
Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Two pre-doc research assistant posts at the TSU @tsuoxford.bsky.social ! Come and work with us: www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/news/jobs.htmltsu.ox.ac.ukJob Opportunities 000
Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 13/01/2025The entire 2025 programme of the Transport Studies Unit @tsuoxford.bsky.social public seminars is online, and you will not want to miss them: www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/events/ht25_...tsu.ox.ac.ukTSU Seminar Series 2025 010
Reposted by Anna PlyushtevaShiv Yücel @sgyucel.bsky.social · 06/01/2025🌆 ☀️ New pre-print online! “Everyday adaptation to summer heatwaves: A global perspective” with Yuan Liang, Donggen Wang, and @timschwanen.bsky.social. 🧵Thread below: 1/4 Full link to pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/so... 102
Reposted by Anna PlyushtevaDr Harrie Larrington-Spencer @tricyclemayor.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Call for papers for our Special Issue on 'Disability and Cycling' in Active Travel Studies activetravelstudies.org 200 word abstracts for proposed submissions due 31/01/2025 More info in thread & on google docs: shorturl.at/XAzGZ @wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk @active-ata.bsky.social 1/ 47054
Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 06/01/2025I am 6 months too late, but catching up with this excellent episode of the Urban Political Podcast, post-socialist infrastructures and some of the best qualified people to talk about them: Wladimir Sgibnev and Tauri Tuvikene, with a brilliant intro by Leah Bonvin 010
Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 18/12/2024A very interesting development in our region: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukNew Swindon to Taunton rail firm seeks investmentGo-op begins crowdfunding in a bid to become the first 020
Reposted by Anna PlyushtevaJames Palmer @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social · 16/12/20242 fully-funded PhD studentships are available here at Bristol as part of Naomi Millner's European Research Council project PEATSENSE: Diverse Knowledges and Sensing Practices in Peatlands for Inclusive Climate Futures Closing date for applications: 1st April 2025 www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/co... 036
Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 16/12/2024On 23 January, join us @tsuoxford.bsky.social for a webinar with Daniel Agbiboa, Harvard University: 'Transport Aliveness and Social Imagination in an African Megacity' Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transport-... 030
Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Before I start posting here about unaffordable trains, inaccessible buses, and lax speed limits, I think we all need a cat picture. 010