Tab Combs
@drtcombs.bsky.social
Transport-Equity-Resilience PhD.
Road Harm Reducer.
Villagist.
She/hers. Occasional outbursts about dogs, kids, Davidson hoops, & gardening. My opinions are mine.
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Road Harm Reducer.
Villagist.
She/hers. Occasional outbursts about dogs, kids, Davidson hoops, & gardening. My opinions are mine.
Please read pinned post before following.
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Tab Combs
@drtcombs.bsky.social
· Feb 19
You may be a very nice person but if you have no profile description, no posts, no profile pic (doesn't even have to be of you!), and follow a bazillion accounts, please don't follow me.
I know this is supposed to be about deer but last Christmas we were 3 miles into a 500-mile drive when the dashboard lit up like a Christmas tree and the car just...stopped...because a squirrel had chewed through the transmission wiring harness. Again.
I was cycling once and got clotheslined by a fucking turkey, wiped out on a gravel road, I still have scars where my sister had to pick gravel out of my leg with tweezers
My ex step-cousin was riding his bike to school in Utah, and a deer bolted out of a bush and leveled him. Pancaked. Istg
November 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I know this is supposed to be about deer but last Christmas we were 3 miles into a 500-mile drive when the dashboard lit up like a Christmas tree and the car just...stopped...because a squirrel had chewed through the transmission wiring harness. Again.
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There are so many hyperlocal AI slop journalism sites popping up in news deserts and there are few, if any, local media reporters helping people make sense of them.
November 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
There are so many hyperlocal AI slop journalism sites popping up in news deserts and there are few, if any, local media reporters helping people make sense of them.
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ACTION ALERT 🚨 Rep. Sam Graves, Chairman of the T&I Committee drafting the next transportation bill, recently shared an alarming insight: “It's gonna be a traditional highway bill... We’re not gonna be spending money on murals and train stations or bike paths or walking paths.”
November 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
ACTION ALERT 🚨 Rep. Sam Graves, Chairman of the T&I Committee drafting the next transportation bill, recently shared an alarming insight: “It's gonna be a traditional highway bill... We’re not gonna be spending money on murals and train stations or bike paths or walking paths.”
Sunday warm & fuzzy:
The tween's #soccer team is brand new, and struggles to get 11 kids to show up to every game. They've scored zero goals ever.
Yesterday we showed up with 9, expecting to get walloped, as per usual.
Instead, the other team not only played with 9 girls as well...
#YouthSports
The tween's #soccer team is brand new, and struggles to get 11 kids to show up to every game. They've scored zero goals ever.
Yesterday we showed up with 9, expecting to get walloped, as per usual.
Instead, the other team not only played with 9 girls as well...
#YouthSports
November 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Sunday warm & fuzzy:
The tween's #soccer team is brand new, and struggles to get 11 kids to show up to every game. They've scored zero goals ever.
Yesterday we showed up with 9, expecting to get walloped, as per usual.
Instead, the other team not only played with 9 girls as well...
#YouthSports
The tween's #soccer team is brand new, and struggles to get 11 kids to show up to every game. They've scored zero goals ever.
Yesterday we showed up with 9, expecting to get walloped, as per usual.
Instead, the other team not only played with 9 girls as well...
#YouthSports
Both Gen X parents out-sprinted the tween in a footrace today so we are definitely full sigma now
November 9, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Both Gen X parents out-sprinted the tween in a footrace today so we are definitely full sigma now
These commentators just said Davidson has 7 scorers on the floor.
In a basketball game.
In a basketball game.
November 8, 2025 at 12:44 AM
These commentators just said Davidson has 7 scorers on the floor.
In a basketball game.
In a basketball game.
It's been 4 months *to the day* since Tropical Storm #Chantal damaged a key non-car transportation corridor in #ChapelHillNC.
Yesterday, temporary repairs on #BolinCreekTrail were finished and it's open for business!!! WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Yesterday, temporary repairs on #BolinCreekTrail were finished and it's open for business!!! WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO
November 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
It's been 4 months *to the day* since Tropical Storm #Chantal damaged a key non-car transportation corridor in #ChapelHillNC.
Yesterday, temporary repairs on #BolinCreekTrail were finished and it's open for business!!! WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Yesterday, temporary repairs on #BolinCreekTrail were finished and it's open for business!!! WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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"If we do not act, we risk seeing the development of a fully automated loop in which assignments are generated by AI with the support of a LMS, AI-generated content is submitted...on behalf of the student, and AI-driven metrics evaluate the work" www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...
November 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
"If we do not act, we risk seeing the development of a fully automated loop in which assignments are generated by AI with the support of a LMS, AI-generated content is submitted...on behalf of the student, and AI-driven metrics evaluate the work" www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...
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Next request: anyone seen good domain-specific research on AI and workforce development and/or education? Specifically, whether employers actually expect or want "AI literacy", and in what ways? I keep hearing that "employers expect" phrase, but without citation. Is it an AI bubble talking point?
November 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Next request: anyone seen good domain-specific research on AI and workforce development and/or education? Specifically, whether employers actually expect or want "AI literacy", and in what ways? I keep hearing that "employers expect" phrase, but without citation. Is it an AI bubble talking point?
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We’ve had free* buses for quite some time and welcome other cities who might be on that path. It’s really great
*Yes we know our tax dollars and UNC subsidize them. We’re happy with that because free buses.
*Yes we know our tax dollars and UNC subsidize them. We’re happy with that because free buses.
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
We’ve had free* buses for quite some time and welcome other cities who might be on that path. It’s really great
*Yes we know our tax dollars and UNC subsidize them. We’re happy with that because free buses.
*Yes we know our tax dollars and UNC subsidize them. We’re happy with that because free buses.
November 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
they hire us to use our brains, and then they send a crew to use 7 (SEVEN!) gas powered leaf blowers right outside our office
#LeafBlowers
#LeafBlowers
November 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
they hire us to use our brains, and then they send a crew to use 7 (SEVEN!) gas powered leaf blowers right outside our office
#LeafBlowers
#LeafBlowers
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“‘The uncritical adoption of AI can lead to students not developing essential academic skills such as critical thinking and writing. If students are taught to learn through automation, without learning about how & why things work, they won’t be able to solve problems when something actually breaks’”
November 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
“‘The uncritical adoption of AI can lead to students not developing essential academic skills such as critical thinking and writing. If students are taught to learn through automation, without learning about how & why things work, they won’t be able to solve problems when something actually breaks’”
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‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
So, did some kind of baseball thing happen last night?
November 2, 2025 at 11:44 AM
So, did some kind of baseball thing happen last night?
October 31, 2025 at 8:05 PM
#Bikesky: please share your favorite* "bike lane ends" pics!
I'm refreshing some teaching material and would love to use your images (w/ permission & credit, ofc)
*by which I means the ones most intent on killing you
#BikeLane #BikeLaneEnds #CarBrain @bikesky.social
I'm refreshing some teaching material and would love to use your images (w/ permission & credit, ofc)
*by which I means the ones most intent on killing you
#BikeLane #BikeLaneEnds #CarBrain @bikesky.social
October 31, 2025 at 6:32 PM
#Bikesky: please share your favorite* "bike lane ends" pics!
I'm refreshing some teaching material and would love to use your images (w/ permission & credit, ofc)
*by which I means the ones most intent on killing you
#BikeLane #BikeLaneEnds #CarBrain @bikesky.social
I'm refreshing some teaching material and would love to use your images (w/ permission & credit, ofc)
*by which I means the ones most intent on killing you
#BikeLane #BikeLaneEnds #CarBrain @bikesky.social
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Call for Papers: *Special Issue on #AI and the Evolving Dynamics of Transportation and Land Use*
jtlu.org/index.php/jt...
We welcome submissions on: 1) Embedded intelligence in transport and land use systems, or 2) algorithmic AI for modeling and planning urban mobility and land use.
(1/3)
jtlu.org/index.php/jt...
We welcome submissions on: 1) Embedded intelligence in transport and land use systems, or 2) algorithmic AI for modeling and planning urban mobility and land use.
(1/3)
Call for Papers: Special Issue on AI and the Evolving Dynamics of Transportation and Land Use
| Journal of Transport and Land Use
<p>The Journal of Transport and Land Use is the leading international journal that publishes original interdisciplinary papers on the interaction of transport and land use. The Editors welcome origina...
jtlu.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Call for Papers: *Special Issue on #AI and the Evolving Dynamics of Transportation and Land Use*
jtlu.org/index.php/jt...
We welcome submissions on: 1) Embedded intelligence in transport and land use systems, or 2) algorithmic AI for modeling and planning urban mobility and land use.
(1/3)
jtlu.org/index.php/jt...
We welcome submissions on: 1) Embedded intelligence in transport and land use systems, or 2) algorithmic AI for modeling and planning urban mobility and land use.
(1/3)
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New #research in #JTLU: "Planning beyond the metro: Rural travel behavior and the built environment" by Harry Shukei & Dana Rowangould.
#TravelBehavior #RuralTransportation #ModeChoice #OpenAccess
jtlu.org/index.php/jt...
1/3
#TravelBehavior #RuralTransportation #ModeChoice #OpenAccess
jtlu.org/index.php/jt...
1/3
Planning beyond the metro: Rural travel behavior and the built environment
| Journal of Transport and Land Use
<p>The Journal of Transport and Land Use is the leading international journal that publishes original interdisciplinary papers on the interaction of transport and land use. The Editors welcome origina...
jtlu.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:16 PM
New #research in #JTLU: "Planning beyond the metro: Rural travel behavior and the built environment" by Harry Shukei & Dana Rowangould.
#TravelBehavior #RuralTransportation #ModeChoice #OpenAccess
jtlu.org/index.php/jt...
1/3
#TravelBehavior #RuralTransportation #ModeChoice #OpenAccess
jtlu.org/index.php/jt...
1/3
Telling how the replies are mostly "here's how to get AI do search current events" and not "even AI knows the demolition of the white house is an unprecedented and unfathomable affront to the nation"
I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
October 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Telling how the replies are mostly "here's how to get AI do search current events" and not "even AI knows the demolition of the white house is an unprecedented and unfathomable affront to the nation"
tfw your kid comes home from school and says, "we googled you in theatre class today"
a close up of a stuffed monkey wearing a green shirt and a green jacket .
Alt: a close up of a stuffed monkey wearing a green shirt and a green jacket, looking around nervously
media.tenor.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
tfw your kid comes home from school and says, "we googled you in theatre class today"
We got to share some preliminary findings on how families in two adjacent--but quite different--public school districted adapt when school buses stop running last weekend (in between daily trips to hellskitcheninc.com).
#ACSP2025 #mlps #SchoolTravel
#ACSP2025 #mlps #SchoolTravel
Hell's Kitchen Minneapolis
Quirky, employee-owned Downtown Minneapolis restaurant serving award winning breakfast, lunch, dinner, and weekend brunch in an underground space. Open 7 days a week, with Happy Hour Mon-Fri from 3pm ...
hellskitcheninc.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:23 PM
We got to share some preliminary findings on how families in two adjacent--but quite different--public school districted adapt when school buses stop running last weekend (in between daily trips to hellskitcheninc.com).
#ACSP2025 #mlps #SchoolTravel
#ACSP2025 #mlps #SchoolTravel
October 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM