Tara Goddard
@drtaragoddard.com
Transportation engineering professor. Road safety, planning, behavior, & culture; wildfire planning and response; inclusive disaster evacuation; ethics of tech in transportation; planning in the Petropyrocene. She/her.
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Tara Goddard
@drtaragoddard.com
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NEW EPISODE: "How Cars Change Us with Tara Goddard." Why do people behave so badly behind the wheel of a car? Why do reporters use passive language to describe traffic violence? @drtaragoddard.bsky.social joins us to talk about her fascinating research.
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Re-sharing to pin to my profile. I was very grateful for the opportunity to join Sarah and Doug for a wide-ranging conversation on some of my favorite (if difficult) subjects. It encapsulates a lot of my research agenda and professional worldview that windshield bias affects so much of our world.
I'm officially middle-aged because I got two pairs of socks for Xmas and I'm legit happy about that 😄
tbf, one pair was *very* on brand
tbf, one pair was *very* on brand
December 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I'm officially middle-aged because I got two pairs of socks for Xmas and I'm legit happy about that 😄
tbf, one pair was *very* on brand
tbf, one pair was *very* on brand
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If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
Next teaching prep request: What's your favorite resource on how the streetcars died/were killed off? Is there an equivalent to Ed Begley Jr's Who Killed the Electric Car? Esp something that highlights how, then as now, public transit was expected to survive on its own revenue, unlike road infra.
December 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Next teaching prep request: What's your favorite resource on how the streetcars died/were killed off? Is there an equivalent to Ed Begley Jr's Who Killed the Electric Car? Esp something that highlights how, then as now, public transit was expected to survive on its own revenue, unlike road infra.
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1. This tech might be revolutionary that does not mean I have to teach with it/use it in my research.
2. This tech is making teaching harder and antagonistic for many of us, ignoring that and suggesting we are just reactionary like 15th century monks is really not useful.
2. This tech is making teaching harder and antagonistic for many of us, ignoring that and suggesting we are just reactionary like 15th century monks is really not useful.
December 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
1. This tech might be revolutionary that does not mean I have to teach with it/use it in my research.
2. This tech is making teaching harder and antagonistic for many of us, ignoring that and suggesting we are just reactionary like 15th century monks is really not useful.
2. This tech is making teaching harder and antagonistic for many of us, ignoring that and suggesting we are just reactionary like 15th century monks is really not useful.
Help needed for class prep: What are your favorite readings (journal, book, post) and listens/watches (podcast ep, YouTube vid, etc) on smart cities, especially V2X technologies?
@norton.bsky.social and @parismarx.com I'm already using your books, but if you have a fave episode or post, lmk! 🙏
@norton.bsky.social and @parismarx.com I'm already using your books, but if you have a fave episode or post, lmk! 🙏
December 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Help needed for class prep: What are your favorite readings (journal, book, post) and listens/watches (podcast ep, YouTube vid, etc) on smart cities, especially V2X technologies?
@norton.bsky.social and @parismarx.com I'm already using your books, but if you have a fave episode or post, lmk! 🙏
@norton.bsky.social and @parismarx.com I'm already using your books, but if you have a fave episode or post, lmk! 🙏
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Motonormativity is a term that should be discussed more in the transportation community @ianwalker.bsky.social @drtaragoddard.com Thanks to @streetsforall.org for this youtu.be/dVwsCFCgT_o?...
Ian Walker lunchtime chat on Motornormativity
YouTube video by Streets For All
youtu.be
December 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Motonormativity is a term that should be discussed more in the transportation community @ianwalker.bsky.social @drtaragoddard.com Thanks to @streetsforall.org for this youtu.be/dVwsCFCgT_o?...
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Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
Cancer is the number one line of duty cause of death for firefighters. Not structure collapse, not widow(er)-maker limbs, not even vehicle rollover. Cancer.
Preventing more of those cancers will be even better, but more substantial support and compensation is a big step forward.
Preventing more of those cancers will be even better, but more substantial support and compensation is a big step forward.
It is an incredible and under appreciated labor story how far firefighters - structure and wildland in common cause - have made the long term health question unignorable. Fighting fire causes cancer. This is just the latest win they’ve chalked up. www.boisestatepublicradio.org/politics-gov...
Trump signs bill that would give benefits to firefighters disabled or killed by cancer
The Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act was introduced by Democratic Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar in January, but has received substantial bipartisan support.
www.boisestatepublicradio.org
December 20, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Cancer is the number one line of duty cause of death for firefighters. Not structure collapse, not widow(er)-maker limbs, not even vehicle rollover. Cancer.
Preventing more of those cancers will be even better, but more substantial support and compensation is a big step forward.
Preventing more of those cancers will be even better, but more substantial support and compensation is a big step forward.
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A new World Bank report calls on governments to create dedicated Livable Streets Investment Programs, steadily scaling funding to 10% of road budgets by 2035.
Why? Because livable streets deliver some of the highest returns in transport investment—up to €16 per €1 spent: investinlivablestreets.info
Why? Because livable streets deliver some of the highest returns in transport investment—up to €16 per €1 spent: investinlivablestreets.info
December 19, 2025 at 9:15 AM
A new World Bank report calls on governments to create dedicated Livable Streets Investment Programs, steadily scaling funding to 10% of road budgets by 2035.
Why? Because livable streets deliver some of the highest returns in transport investment—up to €16 per €1 spent: investinlivablestreets.info
Why? Because livable streets deliver some of the highest returns in transport investment—up to €16 per €1 spent: investinlivablestreets.info
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Good demonstration of why today's windstorm along Colorado's Front Range is more dangerous than Wednesday's. Wed wind left vegetation critically dry. Any 🔥 that ignites will burn hotter and faster than if trees held more moisture.
You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?"
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
December 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Good demonstration of why today's windstorm along Colorado's Front Range is more dangerous than Wednesday's. Wed wind left vegetation critically dry. Any 🔥 that ignites will burn hotter and faster than if trees held more moisture.
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The current complete list of PDS Fire Weather Warnings issued by NWS Forecast Offices
PDS FWW 30 and 31 are the first PDS Fire Weather Warnings ever issued for the State of Colorado
PDS FWW 30 and 31 are the first PDS Fire Weather Warnings ever issued for the State of Colorado
December 19, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The current complete list of PDS Fire Weather Warnings issued by NWS Forecast Offices
PDS FWW 30 and 31 are the first PDS Fire Weather Warnings ever issued for the State of Colorado
PDS FWW 30 and 31 are the first PDS Fire Weather Warnings ever issued for the State of Colorado
I had a weird interaction with someone at the beach yesterday, where I had taken a foster puppy for an outing. There was an area blocked off in the parking lot and at least 50 young people gathered along the fence. I asked a man with a broom what event it was, I thought maybe a skate event. 🤷🏻♀️
December 19, 2025 at 4:40 AM
I had a weird interaction with someone at the beach yesterday, where I had taken a foster puppy for an outing. There was an area blocked off in the parking lot and at least 50 young people gathered along the fence. I asked a man with a broom what event it was, I thought maybe a skate event. 🤷🏻♀️
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My response to anything over the next two weeks
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
My response to anything over the next two weeks
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What an astonishingly dishonest piece of propaganda for the fossil fuel industry, including its citing of Obama's extremely outdated energy policies and its misrepresentation of Norwegian public opinion.
“The mind-set shift needed here is to acknowledge that while climate change is real and harmful, the utility of fossil fuels is not something the oil and gas industry tricked the public into,” Matthew Yglesias writes.
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Do. Why Don’t Democrats?
Liberals should reconcile with America’s oil and gas industry.
nyti.ms
December 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
What an astonishingly dishonest piece of propaganda for the fossil fuel industry, including its citing of Obama's extremely outdated energy policies and its misrepresentation of Norwegian public opinion.
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"Faced with this mounting record of secrecy and entitlement, and with stories about data centers’ local impacts finally being reported more widely, communities are escalating their responses." - @ruddock.bsky.social via @techpolicypress.bsky.social
Amid the AI investment boom, cities and counties across the US are pulling the emergency brake on data centers, writes Jenna Ruddock. From Maryland to Missouri, at least fourteen states are home to towns or counties that have implemented moratoriums: a complete pause on data center development.
The Real Race for an AI Moratorium: Stopping Data Centers | TechPolicy.Press
Cities and counties across the US are pulling the emergency brake on data center development, writes Jenna Ruddock.
buff.ly
December 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"Faced with this mounting record of secrecy and entitlement, and with stories about data centers’ local impacts finally being reported more widely, communities are escalating their responses." - @ruddock.bsky.social via @techpolicypress.bsky.social
I wonder what Matty Y says about the opioid crisis. 🤔
(I don't actually wonder. His writing makes my eyes bleed. But goodness that pull quote.)
(I don't actually wonder. His writing makes my eyes bleed. But goodness that pull quote.)
“The mind-set shift needed here is to acknowledge that while climate change is real and harmful, the utility of fossil fuels is not something the oil and gas industry tricked the public into,” Matthew Yglesias writes.
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Do. Why Don’t Democrats?
Liberals should reconcile with America’s oil and gas industry.
nyti.ms
December 19, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I wonder what Matty Y says about the opioid crisis. 🤔
(I don't actually wonder. His writing makes my eyes bleed. But goodness that pull quote.)
(I don't actually wonder. His writing makes my eyes bleed. But goodness that pull quote.)
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Encouraging results from San Francisco's speed camera pilot.
Speeding reduced 72% at the 15 camera locations. Tickets issued dropping week over week (tldr enforcement works)
www.sfmta.com/blog/our-spe...
Speeding reduced 72% at the 15 camera locations. Tickets issued dropping week over week (tldr enforcement works)
www.sfmta.com/blog/our-spe...
December 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Encouraging results from San Francisco's speed camera pilot.
Speeding reduced 72% at the 15 camera locations. Tickets issued dropping week over week (tldr enforcement works)
www.sfmta.com/blog/our-spe...
Speeding reduced 72% at the 15 camera locations. Tickets issued dropping week over week (tldr enforcement works)
www.sfmta.com/blog/our-spe...
For a year after chemo, I had bad lymphedema in my right arm. Since I couldn't pre-select a seat on SW, I would pre-board to make sure I could get a starboard window seat, so I could do my arm exercises on the flight. You never know why people are pre-boarding. Suck it up. Flying is a privilege.
I don't use the wheelchairs, but I absolutely do need priority boarding. my mobility is great, and I'm ok when I'm moving -- the faster the better -- but queuing too long makes me feel like death because POTS.
please hassle me to my face because you *will* get schooled.
please hassle me to my face because you *will* get schooled.
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines. on.wsj.com/3N6apva
December 19, 2025 at 3:36 AM
For a year after chemo, I had bad lymphedema in my right arm. Since I couldn't pre-select a seat on SW, I would pre-board to make sure I could get a starboard window seat, so I could do my arm exercises on the flight. You never know why people are pre-boarding. Suck it up. Flying is a privilege.
I haven't heard anything about the professor of the class at Brown. They said the murderer killed the MIT professor, who was a classmate back in Portugal. I wondered if the professor at Brown had him as a student. All around so awful. Hurting for my colleagues at both places, and their communities.
Brown president Christina Paxson:
—suspect studied in Brown PhD program in physics beginning in 2000
—took leave of absence in 2001; ultimately left in 2003
—only enrolled in physics classes
—suspect studied in Brown PhD program in physics beginning in 2000
—took leave of absence in 2001; ultimately left in 2003
—only enrolled in physics classes
December 19, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I haven't heard anything about the professor of the class at Brown. They said the murderer killed the MIT professor, who was a classmate back in Portugal. I wondered if the professor at Brown had him as a student. All around so awful. Hurting for my colleagues at both places, and their communities.
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I get really annoyed when people argue that recreation/bike tourism is not a legitimate reason for infrastructure. How many roads do we have in this country that are just for access to beaches, ski resorts, or theme parks?
If drivers aren't given not just access, but redundant and convenient access to every sq inch of the country they flip out
Meanwhile for pedestrians and cyclists it's like "do they really need to cross this body of water? do they really need the freedom to go there? they might do it for recreation!
Meanwhile for pedestrians and cyclists it's like "do they really need to cross this body of water? do they really need the freedom to go there? they might do it for recreation!
December 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I get really annoyed when people argue that recreation/bike tourism is not a legitimate reason for infrastructure. How many roads do we have in this country that are just for access to beaches, ski resorts, or theme parks?
I know this is like 1,274 on the things to be shocked/outraged by, but the former presidents mockery wall is something straight out of a Sacha Baron Cohen movie.
December 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I know this is like 1,274 on the things to be shocked/outraged by, but the former presidents mockery wall is something straight out of a Sacha Baron Cohen movie.
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This is something our New York members, including our founder Amy Cohen, have worked so so hard on. pix11.com/news/local-n...
NYC’s speed limit will drop to 20 mph in 250 areas by end of 2025
NEW YORK (PIX11) – The DOT will finish implementing speed limit reductions, from 25 mph to 20 mph, in 250 zones throughout New York City by the end of 2025. The DOT began lowering speed limits in 2…
pix11.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This is something our New York members, including our founder Amy Cohen, have worked so so hard on. pix11.com/news/local-n...
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NCAR is the keystone in US atmosphere/weather/climate research. Physics doesn't care about politics, and floods, droughts, wildfires will continue to intensify. This is like sacking all of your doctors just as a pandemic gets started.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
NCAR is the keystone in US atmosphere/weather/climate research. Physics doesn't care about politics, and floods, droughts, wildfires will continue to intensify. This is like sacking all of your doctors just as a pandemic gets started.
A person was killed here today by a driver, and the reporting manages to tick every box of what not to do (except maybe the usual dark clothes bit).
www.ksby.com/san-luis-obi...
www.ksby.com/san-luis-obi...
UPDATE: Pedestrian dies after being hit by car in San Luis Obispo
Traffic along a portion of Santa Rosa Street in San Luis Obispo was being diverted Wednesday morning due to a collision involving a vehicle and pedestrian.
www.ksby.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:24 AM
A person was killed here today by a driver, and the reporting manages to tick every box of what not to do (except maybe the usual dark clothes bit).
www.ksby.com/san-luis-obi...
www.ksby.com/san-luis-obi...