Julie Cidell
@jlcidell.bsky.social
Geographer, quilter, runner, writer, teacher, researcher, Cubs fan, transportation geek, she/her
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A Winkle in Time, and The Hero and the Crown.
What is "your" Newbery book? The one you read when you were little (or not so little), and took into your soul?
Mine's The Perilous Gard.
Mine's The Perilous Gard.
January 23, 2026 at 1:51 PM
A Winkle in Time, and The Hero and the Crown.
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Hey Folks, please help spread the word. We are hosting GENIUS again and we want your undergrads! This is a great opportunity for all involved www.geog.psu.edu/geniusworkshop
Geography Education Networking Initiative for Underrepresented Scholars | Penn State Department of Geography
The Geography Education Networking Initiative for Underrepresented Scholars (GENIUS) is a three-day workshop designed for rising third- and fourth-year students, including first-generation college stu...
www.geog.psu.edu
January 22, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Hey Folks, please help spread the word. We are hosting GENIUS again and we want your undergrads! This is a great opportunity for all involved www.geog.psu.edu/geniusworkshop
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CfP for @rgsibg.bsky.social annual conference just dropped! Organised by @geogdurham.bsky.social 's Leah Edwards and myself: The Family as Site of Environmental Politics. Please share widely!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
RGS 2026 CfP Family as site of environmental politics
RGS Call for papers - RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2026 – London, England (1st-4th September 2026) Session title: The family as a site of environmental politics Co-organisers: Leah Edwards [Durham U...
docs.google.com
January 21, 2026 at 5:29 PM
CfP for @rgsibg.bsky.social annual conference just dropped! Organised by @geogdurham.bsky.social 's Leah Edwards and myself: The Family as Site of Environmental Politics. Please share widely!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours.
please keep sharing with your networks.
please keep sharing with your networks.
Stand With Minnesota
A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation
www.standwithminnesota.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:24 PM
crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours.
please keep sharing with your networks.
please keep sharing with your networks.
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Good morning from Crossroads transportation equity conference -- I'll try to share some notes. You can also still join remotely! sites.google.com/view/crossro...
Crossroads Convening - Event registration
Interested in attending?
sites.google.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Good morning from Crossroads transportation equity conference -- I'll try to share some notes. You can also still join remotely! sites.google.com/view/crossro...
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a person's lighthearted social media post does not mean they don't feel the horror of the news very deeply, it's very possible just a way for them to cope.
We are not hardwired to live and breathe devastation 24/7.
We are not hardwired to live and breathe devastation 24/7.
Dog headlines while the world is on the precipice of ww3. 2026 is gonna be a hell of a year
January 15, 2026 at 3:08 PM
a person's lighthearted social media post does not mean they don't feel the horror of the news very deeply, it's very possible just a way for them to cope.
We are not hardwired to live and breathe devastation 24/7.
We are not hardwired to live and breathe devastation 24/7.
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RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
![You’ve got super fans pausing and zooming in on individuals frames of your documentary. One allegedly shows one of the Duffers with a ChatGPT tab open on their computer. In your presence, what did they use ChatGPT for?
I mean, are we even sure they had ChatGPT open?
I’m personally not, but the internet seems sure.
Well, there’s a lot of chatter where [social media users] are like, “We don’t really know, but we’re assuming.” But to me it’s like, doesn’t everybody have it open, to just do quick research?
I do.
How can you possibly write a storyline with 19 characters and use ChatGPT, I don’t even understand.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7t2urmt3i33jl6tjgiolio6g/bafkreidw2tmcr2ayq74oqmjm5pn2tdox6hlxnpqevhuqqj6oa7nsslx3oi@jpeg)
January 13, 2026 at 8:45 PM
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
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Looking for nature valentines cards? Last year's comic is now available as cards! They start shipping Jan 12. topatoco.com/collections/...
January 7, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Looking for nature valentines cards? Last year's comic is now available as cards! They start shipping Jan 12. topatoco.com/collections/...
Just placed my order!
1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
www.erininthemorning.com
January 6, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Just placed my order!
Sledging to school in the Netherlands…
Er waren meer kinderen die met de slee naar school kwamen
January 5, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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Semesterly reminder to everyone - Canvas in many cases defaults to showing students the course's grade distribution and student's place on it.
If you *don't* want your students to be aware of where they "rank" at all times, take a second to double check it's turned off.
#TeachLearnSky #EduSky
If you *don't* want your students to be aware of where they "rank" at all times, take a second to double check it's turned off.
#TeachLearnSky #EduSky
September 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Semesterly reminder to everyone - Canvas in many cases defaults to showing students the course's grade distribution and student's place on it.
If you *don't* want your students to be aware of where they "rank" at all times, take a second to double check it's turned off.
#TeachLearnSky #EduSky
If you *don't* want your students to be aware of where they "rank" at all times, take a second to double check it's turned off.
#TeachLearnSky #EduSky
Inspired by @rlsdvm.bsky.social, aiming for 100 articles this year. Dang et al, Rhythmanalysis of Pedestrian Streets in Hanoi. I haven't read a lot of rhythmanalysis, but it's a good example of implementation, esp. in an authoritarian/capitalist context. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (1/100)
January 2, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Inspired by @rlsdvm.bsky.social, aiming for 100 articles this year. Dang et al, Rhythmanalysis of Pedestrian Streets in Hanoi. I haven't read a lot of rhythmanalysis, but it's a good example of implementation, esp. in an authoritarian/capitalist context. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (1/100)
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if you flush your toilet on NYE at exactly 11:59:51, the final remnants of the year will exit the bowl at the stroke of midnight.
January 1, 2026 at 12:53 AM
if you flush your toilet on NYE at exactly 11:59:51, the final remnants of the year will exit the bowl at the stroke of midnight.
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December 30, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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Excited to announce my new article (w/undergrad co-authors) updating my old article on the geography of logistics within U.S. metro areas. In the 90s, it was all about de-centralization; now there's re-centralization everywhere as a national system develops. OA: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The changing and complexifying geography of logistics activity in U.S. metropolitan areas
This paper examines the spatial distribution of logistics activity (trucking & warehousing) across and within fifty of the largest US metropolitan are…
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November 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Excited to announce my new article (w/undergrad co-authors) updating my old article on the geography of logistics within U.S. metro areas. In the 90s, it was all about de-centralization; now there's re-centralization everywhere as a national system develops. OA: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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#OnThisDay Dec 17, 1915: Four entrepreneurs driving miners around the Minnesota Iron Range join forces to form Mesaba Transportation Co, becoming Greyhound Bus Lines in 1930. By 1935 it carried 652 million passengers annually, surpassing the railroads as the nation's largest passenger provider.
December 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
#OnThisDay Dec 17, 1915: Four entrepreneurs driving miners around the Minnesota Iron Range join forces to form Mesaba Transportation Co, becoming Greyhound Bus Lines in 1930. By 1935 it carried 652 million passengers annually, surpassing the railroads as the nation's largest passenger provider.
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Ken Paxton has launched a snitch line to gather reports of supposed violations of Texas' transphobic bathroom policing law. Please do not abuse this snitch line. Please do not fill it with faff and nonsense. Please do not attach huge, unwieldy and irrelevant documentation to any reports.
Texas Women’s Privacy Act Complaint Form (SB 8) | Office of the Attorney General
The Texas Women’s Privacy Act requires a political subdivision or state agency, including public schools, open enrollment charter schools, and state institutions of higher education, to designate each...
www.texasattorneygeneral.gov
December 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Ken Paxton has launched a snitch line to gather reports of supposed violations of Texas' transphobic bathroom policing law. Please do not abuse this snitch line. Please do not fill it with faff and nonsense. Please do not attach huge, unwieldy and irrelevant documentation to any reports.
Whenever I tell the story of my career trajectory, I always emphasize this. I was very lucky at some key moments, and I also worked very hard at some key moments.
I would add that the underpaid jobs are also to teach courses that *departments* need in this era of metric-driven budgeting.
I would add that the underpaid jobs are also to teach courses that *departments* need in this era of metric-driven budgeting.
Anyone currently alive who has a secure (tenured) academic job in the humanities (& some other fields) can tell you they worked damn hard AND they’re unbelievably lucky.
There isn’t an overproduction of PhDs BTW: there’s overreliance on precarious underpaid jobs to teach courses that students NEED.
There isn’t an overproduction of PhDs BTW: there’s overreliance on precarious underpaid jobs to teach courses that students NEED.
December 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Whenever I tell the story of my career trajectory, I always emphasize this. I was very lucky at some key moments, and I also worked very hard at some key moments.
I would add that the underpaid jobs are also to teach courses that *departments* need in this era of metric-driven budgeting.
I would add that the underpaid jobs are also to teach courses that *departments* need in this era of metric-driven budgeting.
Fascinating analysis of algorithmic geographies of restaurants (and how to resist them):
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Fascinating analysis of algorithmic geographies of restaurants (and how to resist them):
#snowmobilities fascinate me not just in terms of mobility in the snow, but the mobility of snow itself.
I will never not be fascinated by snow management in Montreal and many other parts of Quebec.
In addition to plowing the roads, sidewalks, and bike lanes, cities will actually collect snow from streets and truck it out to snow dumps half a dozen times a year.
It makes a massive difference.
In addition to plowing the roads, sidewalks, and bike lanes, cities will actually collect snow from streets and truck it out to snow dumps half a dozen times a year.
It makes a massive difference.
The Snow Sirens of Montreal (Fascinating but Frustrating)
YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity!
www.youtube.com
December 14, 2025 at 3:02 AM
#snowmobilities fascinate me not just in terms of mobility in the snow, but the mobility of snow itself.
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CfP 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
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
December 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
CfP 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
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
*stares at West Urbana*
it's always amazing to me how people whose entire way of life and economic well-being depends on the university in their town are also, somehow, incredibly mad that they have to share that town with that university's students
tbh the entire dynamic of criticizing university housing is one of the most stupid and shortsighted elements of nimbyism writ large. universities are major economic engines! they’re also part of the broader left-wing project for other reasons, like “create social mobility” and “promote education”
December 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
*stares at West Urbana*
Ready for the last class of the semester in my transportation geography course thanks to @trimet.org!
December 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Ready for the last class of the semester in my transportation geography course thanks to @trimet.org!