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Carole Voulgaris @voulgaris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just came across GTFS-X for the first time today, and it is excellent! An open-source web-based visual GTFS editor. I’d been looking for something like this to use in my teaching for a while. www.gtfsx.com

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GTFS·X — GTFS Editor & Transit Service Planner

The fast, easy GTFS editor and service planner. Build, validate, and publish GTFS & GTFS-Flex feeds in your browser. No account required.

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Carole Voulgaris @voulgaris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I generally get maybe a half dozen email inquiries each year about whether I’m taking new PhD students. This year, I’ve been getting multiple emails like this per day. I’m assuming this is because AI has lowered the time-cost of this kind of outreach.

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Carole Voulgaris @voulgaris.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Advertise your Bluesky account with a Simpsons image.

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Carole Voulgaris @voulgaris.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Tell your friends! Harvard GSD is hiring for an asst/assoc prof focused on urban data. Feel free to reach out to me to chat about my experience here (I love my job) or what kind of candidate would be a good fit (note: I’m not on the search committee). academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/16391

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Assistant or Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Design - Spatial Analysis and Technology

The Department of Urban Planning and Design at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) seeks to appoint a full-time, tenure-track assistant or associate professor whose scholarship and te...

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Carole Voulgaris @voulgaris.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Hit 5000 miles on our e-cargo bike just as I was rolling in to home the other day.

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Carole Voulgaris @voulgaris.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I can’t get GitHub to approve my application for GitHub Education, so I’m just coming on here to shout into the void that I really am a real professor.

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Carole Voulgaris @voulgaris.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I really enjoyed Jake Berman’s (@lostsubways.com) book, which I got to review for JPER (journals.sagepub.com/share/KM5DSU...). More than just a pretty book (and it’s very pretty!) - it’s got lots of great material on politics and governance for transport planning courses.

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Carole Voulgaris @voulgaris.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I’m excited to host Deborah Archer for a (free!) public lecture next Tuesday where she will talk about her recent book on transport justice, along with a panel of planners and architects. If you’re in Boston, come join us! If not, tune in to the livestream! www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/transp...

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“Transportation, Infrastructure, and Race in American Cities”

LIVESTREAM INFO A live stream for this event will be available on this page at the scheduled start time. Closed captioning is available by clicking the

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Carole Voulgaris @voulgaris.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I’m always having to explain to students that in street network models (including OpenStreetMap) it’s not unusual to refer to all links that allow vehicle (and even sometimes those that are restricted to ped/bike) movement as “highways”.

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Carole Voulgaris @voulgaris.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Also sometimes an otherwise fine bike rack becomes snow storage. The picture doesn’t do this justice. This bike rack is a mountain of solid ice.

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Rafael H. M. Pereira 🚡 Urban Demographics @urbandemog.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The Urban Mobility and Climate Change Conference is just around the corner (March 5 and 6). You can either attend the conference in person, or watch it live online. See registration info and full program here www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/cid/...

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Urban Mobility and Climate Change Conference

In developing megacities around the world, the transportation landscape is changing rapidly, with major implications for climate change, climate resilience, economies, and human health.

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BART @bart.gov · 19/02/2026

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota (@minnpop.bsky.social) is hiring a postdoc in Population Health. Happy to chat about the MPC, UMN, and the Twin Cities, which are all awesome in my humble opinion! pop.umn.edu/training/pos...

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Fellows in this Population Health Science Training Program work closely with academic mentors in social and health science fields to build skills in interdisciplinary population health research to prepare them for academic careers focused on addressing pressing public health problems. We seek
exceptional candidates in either social science or health science fields who have earned a PhD to join our diverse and accomplished cohort of trainees, and we particularly welcome candidates from backgrounds underrepresented in research.

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Carole Voulgaris @voulgaris.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Are any grammar nerds commenting on the extra “the” in “The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For the Performing Arts”? Just me? Are they eventually going to take down the second “The”? But then the second line would be off-center.

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Carole Voulgaris @voulgaris.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Gift link to an article about the dramatic increase in pedestrian deaths in the United States and how those deaths cluster in Black, Latino, and Native American communities wapo.st/4polhCJ

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The deadliest roads in America

The number of pedestrians killed by vehicles has increased in the U.S., with road infrastructure and inadequate safety measures among key contributing factors.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

My take on Mamdani's ambitious vision for revamping NYC streets: "The NYC DOT Commissioner position is going to be the most exciting job in American transportation." From the latest @lookbothwayspod.bsky.social (please ignore my crooked glasses): lookbothwayspod.podbean.com/e/episode-9-...

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Carole Voulgaris @voulgaris.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

At least in Cambridge/Somerville, there are plenty of e-cargo bike moms as well. And yes, it’s definitely a situation of come for the sustainability, stay for never having to worry about traffic or parking.

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Carole Voulgaris @voulgaris.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Okay, the thing where literally anything going on at Harvard warrants coverage by NYT is getting out of hand…

New York Times headline about Harvard students not going to class.

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Søren Have @sorenhave.dk · 03/10/2025

Tenure-track professorship in human mobility, at Denmark’s Technical University (DTU). Highly recommended place for research, teaching and the benefits of working and living in (slightly north of) Copenhagen. #dktrp #dkjob efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Associate Professor or DTU Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Human Mobility - DTU Management

Are your interests within understanding and modelling of human mobility, smart mobility services, and assessment of new business models for better and more sustainable mobility solutions.

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Carole Voulgaris @voulgaris.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Have any of you been to Elko, Nevada? Is it nice there?

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Carole Voulgaris @voulgaris.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

The federal shutdown has already affected me! Census Tract TIGER 2024 shapefiles are not available for New Jersey. Other states are fine. Other years are fine too. I can get 2022 tracts for New Jersey no problem, and they should be the same as 2024. But still.

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Carole Voulgaris @voulgaris.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Sunday was a rough day for us members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I’m so heartbroken for the families - and the ward family - in Grand Blanc, Michigan. President Nelson was a voice for peace and he will be missed.

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Carole Voulgaris @voulgaris.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

LinkedIn is trying to tell me 895 people in the United Stated were hired as assistant to professors in the past week. I’m skeptical.

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Obama on Charlie Kirk:

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Carole Voulgaris @voulgaris.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

When I read this in The Emperor of All Maladies: “The risk of not having a mammogram until after age 50 is about the same as riding a bicycle for 15 hours without a helmet.” I wanted to yell: “In what city?” There is not much danger inherent to cycling. It’s the environment that’s dangerous.

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Carole Voulgaris @voulgaris.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I love that this thread was immediately followed in my feed by a WSJ article about how to make car travel less unpleasant.

Screenshot of Tab’s thread, followed by WSJ headline “Do you suffer from motion sickness in a car? Help may be on the way.”

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Carole Voulgaris @voulgaris.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Absolutely. There’s been a huge shift among those who walk to school where they are more likely to be accompanied by a (usually female) parent. Note that walking a kid to school is even more time consuming than driving them. A safe street is one that a child can navigate independently.

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Robert Haider @roberthaider.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Supportive anecdata: since I got my new e-bike three months ago, I've put nearly 900 miles on it and roughly 25 miles on our car.

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Dave Walker @davewalker.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

New drawing: Hire bike Notes on this cartoon: open.substack.com/pub/diagramc...

Cartoon showing street scene with lots of cars, some of which are on or blocking pavements. One bike is also parked on a pavement. A couple are saying ‘Look - someone’s left a hire bike on the pavement’.

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Carole Voulgaris @voulgaris.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

This is great. At its best, a university is not only a place to be exposed to new ideas and perspectives but also an environment that is conducive to changing your mind (i.e. learning and growing). This is true for all scholars, from undergraduate students to tenured professors.

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Carole Voulgaris @voulgaris.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Question for my fellow middle-aged women: Did your feet grow by like a whole shoe size when you were in your 40s? Is this a thing that happens?

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Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

The Human Ecology division (part of the department of Human Geography) at Lund University is hiring a Senior Lecturer. This is a tenured position in a workplace with a strong tradition of critical research. Please forward to anyone who might be interested! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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Senior Lecturer in Human Ecology

Specific subject description The Human Ecology Division applies an inter-disciplinary definition of its research field. Research and education at the division deals with human-environmental relations

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Carole Voulgaris @voulgaris.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

A police officer pulled me over on my bike for turning left through a pedestrian scramble phase, and that’s all it takes for me to go from being a vaguely centrist law-and-order type to just full defund-the-police.

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Carole Voulgaris @voulgaris.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Love this. My husband and I chose our wedding venues because they were on the same light rail line, so the whole wedding party could take the train from the ceremony to the reception.

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Carole Voulgaris @voulgaris.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

The review I wish I could write: “I am satisfied with the authors’ revisions and have no additional comments for them, but I would like to suggest to Reviewer 2 that he needs to calm the heck down.”

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NPR @npr.org · 15/06/2025

Caroline Davis was about to make a mistake that could have severely damaged her car. Then a stranger stepped in, with an offer of help that brought her to tears.

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'That's something that he would do': A stranger's generosity reminded her of her dad

Caroline Davis was about to make a mistake that could have severely damaged her car. Then a stranger stepped in, with an offer of help that brought her to tears.

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Carole Voulgaris @voulgaris.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Oh my gosh, I let my seven year old walk to the neighborhood grocery store all the time. That’s not illegal. What is illegal is driving into a child with a car.

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Carole Voulgaris @voulgaris.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Former (or formerly aspiring) TRB committee members: What are you thinking from here? A. I’m done with TRB. B. I might submit papers or attend TRBAM, but won’t give my time to a committee. C. The best chance to make a difference is from the inside, so I’m filling out the member interest form.

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Carole Voulgaris @voulgaris.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Can’t wait to sit down to read this paper in more detail.

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