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Mimi Sheller
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Mobility Justice. Caribbean Studies. Climate Mobilities. Social Theory. Urban Infrastructuring. Mobile Commons. NOAA-CAP Caribbean Climate Adaptation Network https://ccan-upr.org Dean of The Global School @WPI https://www.wpi.edu/people/faculty/Msheller .. more

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Mimi Sheller @mimisheller.bsky.social · Dec 27
New chapters out for new year! Handbook of Gender and Mobilities, with @paolacastaneda.bsky.social + Aryana Soliz. Mobile commoning in Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics. Conclusion with Andreas Neef in De Gruyter Handbook of Climate Migration and Climate Mobility Justice

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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · Sep 22
‼️ Read an adapted excerpt from EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism in @nybooks.com ‼️

Extraction is officially published TOMORROW (9/23) 👀 www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

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Mimi Sheller @mimisheller.bsky.social · Dec 20
Are you a #Caribbean scholar with a #PhD in social science and #climate change? Don’t forget to apply for this fantastic #postdoc position!

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University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · Jun 17
Out today: Reclaiming the Road offers a compelling vision for the future of America's public spaces.

🎧: Author David L. Prytherch talks with @mimisheller.bsky.social and @norton.bsky.social about designing more just public streets. share.transistor.fm/s/0e507210
Cover of Reclaiming the Road: Mobility Justice beyond Complete Streets by David L. Prytherch. Set against a photo of bike lane, the title text is made to appear as a blue traffic caution sign with white silhouettes of people and objects below. Three headshots up top; cover of Reclaiming the Road: Mobility Justice beyond Complete Streets by David L. Prytherch at left; quote "We spend a lot of our lives on the streets, You can't help wonder why roadways are so auto-dominated and hostile to non-drivers." —David L. Prytherch, Miami University in Ohio.

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · May 8
Wonderful to have Professor @mimisheller.bsky.social, here to present her work on Movement in an Age of Extremes in the Department of Geography, and co-sponsored by @cperguom.bsky.social & MUI. Thanks for an engaging discussion on critical issues on mobilities in the present conjuncture.

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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · Apr 25
🚀 Hello #MobileComm community, we’ve landed on Bluesky!

✨Mobile Media & Communication now posts here.
Follow us for journal updates, featured articles, and calls for papers.

📱 Follow along and stay connected with the latest in mobile communication research.

🔗Journal: journals.sagepub.com/home/mmc
Mobile Media & Communication: Sage Journals
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Apr 10
New paper: Data mobilities: rethinking the movement and circulation of digital data by @robkitchin.bsky.social, @juliettedavret.bsky.social, Carla Kayanan & Sam Mutter in Mobilities www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Data mobilities: rethinking the movement and circulation of digital data
The mobility of data has been variously described as data: flows, streams, journeys, threads, transfers, exchanges, and circulation. In each case, data mobility is conceived as a movement from here...
www.tandfonline.com

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The ELEVATE Research Project @micromobility-its.bsky.social · Apr 7
One of our #researchtrial participants was in @cyclinguk.bsky.social mag! 𝐇𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐕𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐨 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 #𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐄𝐂𝐁

Read our blog here👇 blogs.brighton.ac.uk/elevate/2025...

Read #CyclingUK mag👇
www.cyclinguk.org/cycle-magazi...

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ELEVATE Trial Participant Featured in Cycling UK Magazine | The ELEVATE Project
We're excited to share that one of our Leeds ELEVATE Trial participants, Naakesha Michl, was featured in the latest issue of Cycling UK Magazine! ...
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Mimi Sheller @mimisheller.bsky.social · Mar 14
The gutting of global health? Programs around the world left in the lurch www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...
Federal Cuts Prompt Johns Hopkins to Cut More Than 2,000 Workers
The university, a leader in scientific research, has been hard hit by the Trump administration’s cuts, which will slash at least $800 million from its budget.
www.nytimes.com

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · Mar 12
It's fun to be at the winter seminar in human geography, an annual highlight that convenes disciplinary kin. This year it is chaired by Per Gunnar Røe and day one starts with a keynote talk by @mimisheller.bsky.social on the theme of mobility justice (the politics of movement in an age of extremes).

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Keliente.4915 @call-me-ali.bsky.social · Mar 5
@fednews.bsky.social Check out this project to collect and record the stories of illegally fired federal employees

www.oah.org/2025/03/04/f...
OAH | Federal Employees Oral History ProjectOAH | Federal Employees Oral History Project
www.oah.org

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Mar 5
Wu: If you wanted to make us safe, pass gun reforms. Stop cutting medicaid. Stop cutting cancer research. Stop cutting funds for veterans. That is what will make our city safe.

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Mimi Sheller @mimisheller.bsky.social · Mar 3
“A constitutional crisis in the service of cruelty” - freeze on USAID health programs will increase child deaths from #malaria #polio #TB #Ebola and #Malnutrition www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/h...
U.S.A.I.D. Memos Detail Human Costs of Cuts to Foreign Aid
The world is likely to see millions more malaria infections and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, according to an agency whistle-blower.
www.nytimes.com

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Mimi Sheller @mimisheller.bsky.social · Mar 1
Despicable cancellation of an important #Caribbean #Canadian artist’s show that would have opened at Art Museum of the Americas in March #AndilGosine hyperallergic.com/992860/art-m...
Art Museum of the Americas Cancels Second Show Amid Trump’s DEI Crackdown
Andil Gosine’s exhibition used visual art to explore connections between the environment, sexuality, and sexual justice.
hyperallergic.com

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · Feb 24
Wondering if your study section cancelled? I update this sheet daily. As of today, 56/124 study sections that should have met since Jan 2, 2025 have "not met as scheduled." docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
2025 Study section tracking
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Mimi Sheller @mimisheller.bsky.social · Feb 23
Another tragedy in the battle over cycling www.bbc.com/news/article... #cycling #Paris #PaulVarry #mobility #justice
Paris: Paul Varry dreamed of a cycling revolution. Then an SUV crushed him
Paul Varry's death has triggered a debate in Paris over the dramatic expansion of cycle infrastructure.
www.bbc.com

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Action Committee for Transit @actfortransit.bsky.social · Feb 23
D.C. pedestrian deaths tied to [DRIVERS'] 'reckless' behavior rising

(The problem is with the headline for the jump, NOT with the long, detailed article by John D. Harden, @rachelweiner.bsky.social, and Jasmine Hilton in the Washington Post Metro section print edition.)
Washington Post print edition jump headline that says "DC pedestrian deaths tied to 'reckless' behavior rising".

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · Feb 23
A Woonerf in the Netherlands. Through motor traffic is redirected to main roads. Greenery & street furniture (including a small playground) is strategically placed to ensure motor traffic keeps to slow speeds, with paving used & roadway raised at junctions, where collisions are most likely to occur

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Feb 23
Paul Varry dreamed of a cycling revolution. Then a man intentionally drove his SUV into the separated bike lane in Paris and murdered Paul.
Paris: Paul Varry dreamed of a cycling revolution. Then an SUV crushed him
Paul Varry's death has triggered a debate in Paris over the dramatic expansion of cycle infrastructure.
www.bbc.com

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People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social · Feb 7
LA STUDENT STRIKE DAY 5 -

RIGHT NOW: Pasadena High School has just joined the dozens of other schools all over LA that have staged walkouts throughout this week.

This is the 6th straight day of anti-ICE, immigrations rights protests in LA.

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Javi Ibarrondo @jibarrondo.bsky.social · Feb 7
American chaos: standing up for health and medicine - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 🧪
American chaos: standing up for health and medicine
Withdrawal from WHO and the Paris Agreements. USAID shuttered and aid halted, ceasing health programmes globally. A freeze on US$3 trillion worth of federal grants and loans, jeopardising the function...
www.thelancet.com

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · Feb 5
NASA Ordered to Remove Anything About ‘Women in Leadership’ From Its Websites: Report gizmodo.com/nasa-ordered...
NASA Ordered to Remove Anything About 'Women in Leadership' From Its Websites: Report
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · Feb 4
In 1980, a bipartisan Congress passed the Science and Engineering Equal Opportunities Act of 1980, which authorized the National Science Foundation “to promote the full use of human resources in science and technology through a comprehensive & continuing program to increase substantially

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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · Feb 3
#Boston looks to require registration, insurance for third-party food deliverers in bid to curb roadway, sidewalk mayhem
www.universalhub.com/2025/boston-...
#scooters #UberEats #DoorDash #Grubhub
Wu announces plan focusing on scooters, not giant pickups

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · Feb 4
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · Feb 1
NEW: USAID source says staff are scrambling to save archived copies of US regulations before they're gone & are being actively locked out of systems, including a publicly available database of USAID documents.

WIRED has built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains.
US Government Websites Are Disappearing in Real Time
A growing number of US government websites have gone offline as of Saturday, including several related to USAID and others focused on youth programs, Africa, and more.
www.wired.com

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Mimi Sheller @mimisheller.bsky.social · Jan 30
Yeah got this today: “This is a reminder to confirm receipt of this notice of suspension and certify that all-related activities have ceased under your USAID awards and no further costs will be incurred under your award in relation to DEIA related activities.” Deadline tomorrow to comply.

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Simon Bunchuay-Peth @simonbunchuaypeth.bsky.social · Jan 24
📄This paper reflects the prevalent relational spatial perspective in #migrationStudies, proposing a timeplace perspective that emphasizes how places are shaped by both transient flows and enduring connections or #moorings how @mimisheller.bsky.social and @timcresswell.bsky.social call it.

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Mimi Sheller @mimisheller.bsky.social · Jan 24
And so the deportation regime begins. A slippery slope of expedited removals. Including people here legally. Only @aclu.org stands in the way unless we all stand against tyranny www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...
Trump Officials Move to Quickly Expel Migrants Biden Allowed In Temporarily
A memo appears to allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to target programs that let in more than a million people.
www.nytimes.com

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Mimi Sheller @mimisheller.bsky.social · Jan 22
Interesting exhibit at the Pusey Library on #maps How maps (and cyclists) paved way for roads by Sy Boles news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...?
“maps don’t just document roads: In a way, they led to the development of roads themselves.“ Cycling led the way toward roads.
How maps and cyclists paved way for roads — Harvard Gazette
Historical maps on display at Harvard's Pusey Library offer an off-the-grid look at the evolution of human navigation.
news.harvard.edu

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Mimi Sheller @mimisheller.bsky.social · Jan 20
A new day dawns