@jscastellanos
Transport+Climate+Technology PhD candidate @UoLeeds studying the intersection of policy and shared mobility. Associate Director, Drive Electric Campaign @ ClimateWorks Foundation Ask me about bikes, beers, and bees.
The first time this has happened to me, but I had three really engaged and constructive reviewers for one of the papers for my #PhD.
My faith in the peer-review system has been (momentarily) restored
#AcademicSky
Adicionalmente, yo hice este feed que busca palabras claves de temas de transporte. No es perfecto, pero es un buen punto para empezar bsky.app/profile/did:...
Aquí hay un starter pack bueno:
go.bsky.app/33kwFxs
If I hear a single American saying "but this is not who we are", I'm going to lose it
"Vichy Twitter", lol!
Instant classic!
Nice! Could you add me?
I also created a feed a few months ago that parses some keywords and combinations, in case it's useful:
bsky.app/profile/did:...
This is insane. What a terrible thing to go through.
WaPo Headline: Dropping aid from planes is expensive and inefficient. Why do it?
We never ask this about bombs.
Please sit down before you read this post.
So.
The CEO of Exxon-Mobil just said this in an interview: "We’ve waited too long to open the aperture on the solution sets in terms of what we need, as a society, to start reducing emissions."
There's more... 🧵
(1/n)
fortune.com/2024/02/27/e...
Right? Protected bikelanes would absolutely solve this problem and they are so inexpensive!
Now do cars!
8000 cases and the researcher calls this "a really significant public health problem,"
You know what's a real health problem?
"Traumatic brain injuries from motor vehicle crashes were estimated to result in 218,936 emergency department visits, 56,864 hospitalizations, and 16,402 deaths annually."
For some reason, raisin seems like a more appropriate image to me than corn cob.
Surprisingly (at least for me) sustainability and climate change are rarely seen as an objective by cities trying to govern these services.
We uncovered a whole host of reasons: from the public interest of redressing past inequities, to circumstantial motivations such as appeasing the incumbents that have seen their businesses endangered by these new technologies.
In this paper we identified the goals that cities are trying to pursue when managing shared mobility services (like shared scooters and ride hailing).
We then analyzed why they are choosing to pursue these goals.
The second paper from my PhD is now online!
Available open access here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Decided to go with WCK as someone suggested.
we actually crunched the numbers. You can read about it here: www.wri.org/research/sta...
Electric mobility will be responsible for the bulk of climate pollutant mitigation. Shifting to non-motorized and transit is absolutely needed, but not enough.
I hate cars as much as the next guy (actually more), but this is factually inaccurate.
You are confusing air pollution with climate pollution.
E-mobility (in all its forms, bikes, cars, buses, trucks) is a necessity to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
yeah, tricky. This is why I was hoping other folks who are better informed than me would have some good suggestions.
Ah, this is great! Going with WCK ! Thank you!
@farhana.bsky.social any specific org you recommend we donate to support Gaza relief?
We've been donating to UNRWA, but wondering if there may be others you know of.
I hadn't used Uber or Lyft in ages and I just had to use them twice this week. They are truly shit now. Incredibly long wait times, ridiculously expensive. Are people still using ridehailing? seems like taxis are a much better option these days.
Yeah! Totally agree with the user-based feed! Learning as I go, so any additional pointers are definitely welcome :)
so, I finally had some time to get back to this. It had been in the back of my mind for a while:
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Used all your suggestions and complemented with hashtags and keywords.
Not perfect (quite broad, so some irrelevant posts), but I'll keep working on it.
one black car with a red x and a yellow car with green check mark. Text It's getting dark out earlier, be sure to add a bright coat of paint to your vehicle. Remember road safety is a shared responsibility.
New work. A little counter PSA to a certain Canadian victim blaming one that's making the rounds. #TwoWayStreet
Solidarity with UAW 👊
Easier using what metric?
The $7500 federal subsidy per EV would go a loooong way in paying for bike lanes everywhere and improved transit. No need to completely redesign cities. Arguably easier to disburse money to cities to do that than to individuals through tax breaks.