Alex Nurse
@alexnurse.bsky.social
Reader in Urban Planning at the University of Liverpool. Researching: Cycling, Urban Governance, Cities and City-Regions.
Likes are usually bookmarks (or it might mean I like it!)
DMs not open. I'll reply to an email if you need me.
Likes are usually bookmarks (or it might mean I like it!)
DMs not open. I'll reply to an email if you need me.
15th November and we're done. I threw maybe 10 or so out, but I ate precisely zero green tomatoes.
November 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
15th November and we're done. I threw maybe 10 or so out, but I ate precisely zero green tomatoes.
You can actually see the stress spike just before submission as I realised I'd forgotten to cost something...
...and then the HR crash afterwards back to the lowest HR ive seen all week...
...and then the HR crash afterwards back to the lowest HR ive seen all week...
November 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
You can actually see the stress spike just before submission as I realised I'd forgotten to cost something...
...and then the HR crash afterwards back to the lowest HR ive seen all week...
...and then the HR crash afterwards back to the lowest HR ive seen all week...
Good morning.
Am I excited about my impending research leave you ask?
Am I excited about my impending research leave you ask?
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Good morning.
Am I excited about my impending research leave you ask?
Am I excited about my impending research leave you ask?
Last night I thought I was fairly on top of my workload (especially for the busiest time of the year) and my stress levels were actually fairly good...
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Last night I thought I was fairly on top of my workload (especially for the busiest time of the year) and my stress levels were actually fairly good...
Someone on reddit summed up the current state of affairs in the UK pretty well if you ask me (which you didn't, but you are here)
November 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Someone on reddit summed up the current state of affairs in the UK pretty well if you ask me (which you didn't, but you are here)
Here's one of the signatories to Liverpool's climate emergency.
As a hint to whats going on here, he's not cebrating that the cycle lane is being put IN...
As a hint to whats going on here, he's not cebrating that the cycle lane is being put IN...
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Here's one of the signatories to Liverpool's climate emergency.
As a hint to whats going on here, he's not cebrating that the cycle lane is being put IN...
As a hint to whats going on here, he's not cebrating that the cycle lane is being put IN...
I've had such a crap commute this morning, that I've written to my MP and Councillor.
I'm just a bloke trying to get to work, and I want to go home to my kids at the end of the day.
Our road culture is fundamentally broken.
cc @liamthorp.bsky.social
I'm just a bloke trying to get to work, and I want to go home to my kids at the end of the day.
Our road culture is fundamentally broken.
cc @liamthorp.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I've had such a crap commute this morning, that I've written to my MP and Councillor.
I'm just a bloke trying to get to work, and I want to go home to my kids at the end of the day.
Our road culture is fundamentally broken.
cc @liamthorp.bsky.social
I'm just a bloke trying to get to work, and I want to go home to my kids at the end of the day.
Our road culture is fundamentally broken.
cc @liamthorp.bsky.social
Phase 1 (35 out of a total of 150 2,000 word reports) are done.
So its time for a little treat.
So its time for a little treat.
November 6, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Phase 1 (35 out of a total of 150 2,000 word reports) are done.
So its time for a little treat.
So its time for a little treat.
After however many years I've realised that the reason these ticket machines are so slow and unresponsive is because im too tall, and despite looking normal from my perspective I'm jabbing the buttons too high...
November 5, 2025 at 8:09 AM
After however many years I've realised that the reason these ticket machines are so slow and unresponsive is because im too tall, and despite looking normal from my perspective I'm jabbing the buttons too high...
My first chance to really play with the new IMD 2025 (I made a quick map of Liverpool last night).
The bottom 10 most-deprived areas is eye-opening. 7 of the bottom 10 are in Blackpool...
The bottom 10 most-deprived areas is eye-opening. 7 of the bottom 10 are in Blackpool...
November 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
My first chance to really play with the new IMD 2025 (I made a quick map of Liverpool last night).
The bottom 10 most-deprived areas is eye-opening. 7 of the bottom 10 are in Blackpool...
The bottom 10 most-deprived areas is eye-opening. 7 of the bottom 10 are in Blackpool...
You'll have to excuse me, I'm a...
November 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
You'll have to excuse me, I'm a...
I might feel like death warmed up. I might have 4 hours of lectures in the next 5 hours. But the river with a stonking tailwind is always nice.
I'll take that commute over a drive or even the bus any day of the week.
I'll take that commute over a drive or even the bus any day of the week.
November 4, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I might feel like death warmed up. I might have 4 hours of lectures in the next 5 hours. But the river with a stonking tailwind is always nice.
I'll take that commute over a drive or even the bus any day of the week.
I'll take that commute over a drive or even the bus any day of the week.
I wrote two sets of quarter pages in this and I realise making students do a 2hr exam is a physical task as much as a mental one...
*I do legit think exams are an important pedagogical tool and I will die on that hill.
*I do legit think exams are an important pedagogical tool and I will die on that hill.
November 3, 2025 at 7:43 AM
I wrote two sets of quarter pages in this and I realise making students do a 2hr exam is a physical task as much as a mental one...
*I do legit think exams are an important pedagogical tool and I will die on that hill.
*I do legit think exams are an important pedagogical tool and I will die on that hill.
In Wolverhampton to watch form Maiden vocalist play the X factor in its entirety.
It's a deep deep cut. But what a lovely fellow he is.
It's a deep deep cut. But what a lovely fellow he is.
November 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
In Wolverhampton to watch form Maiden vocalist play the X factor in its entirety.
It's a deep deep cut. But what a lovely fellow he is.
It's a deep deep cut. But what a lovely fellow he is.
One of the lazy tropes used by men of an older generation to emasculate men of my generation was "he couldn't even put up a set of shelves".
Well I can, and I have. So nerr.
Well I can, and I have. So nerr.
November 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
One of the lazy tropes used by men of an older generation to emasculate men of my generation was "he couldn't even put up a set of shelves".
Well I can, and I have. So nerr.
Well I can, and I have. So nerr.
Nobody ever believes me, but keep the faith on those green tomatoes...
October 31, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Nobody ever believes me, but keep the faith on those green tomatoes...
One run and we nearly got cleaned out
October 31, 2025 at 6:19 PM
One run and we nearly got cleaned out
I'm at an @engageliverpool.com event this evening, and what a venue: the renovated Royal Daffodil, with the docks lit up as part of the river of light.
October 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I'm at an @engageliverpool.com event this evening, and what a venue: the renovated Royal Daffodil, with the docks lit up as part of the river of light.
Big news!
I might get a real version made so the lads on the club run know what's what...
I might get a real version made so the lads on the club run know what's what...
October 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Big news!
I might get a real version made so the lads on the club run know what's what...
I might get a real version made so the lads on the club run know what's what...
I've been updating my lecture slides for this cycle, and I was about to post how it's wild to me that the last Index of Multiple Deprivation is still 2019. It's not like *anything at all* has happened in the last 6 years to warrant an update.
Before I did, I thought I'd better go and check...
Before I did, I thought I'd better go and check...
October 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I've been updating my lecture slides for this cycle, and I was about to post how it's wild to me that the last Index of Multiple Deprivation is still 2019. It's not like *anything at all* has happened in the last 6 years to warrant an update.
Before I did, I thought I'd better go and check...
Before I did, I thought I'd better go and check...
What started as something constructive and positive to do for my mental health during the first lockdown has sprawled into 2000 days of duolingo (which ironically has not alwaysbbeen mission achieved).
Am I any better at speaking Polish now?
Nie.
Am I any better at speaking Polish now?
Nie.
October 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
What started as something constructive and positive to do for my mental health during the first lockdown has sprawled into 2000 days of duolingo (which ironically has not alwaysbbeen mission achieved).
Am I any better at speaking Polish now?
Nie.
Am I any better at speaking Polish now?
Nie.
Don't threaten me with a good time.
October 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Don't threaten me with a good time.
The pleasure but sometimes absolute tedium of social media. We've been watching a lot of Stath Let's Flats recently and this little line stuck with me.
You don't have to tell people you dont like their posts. You're free to keep moving on...
bsky.app/profile/liam...
You don't have to tell people you dont like their posts. You're free to keep moving on...
bsky.app/profile/liam...
October 18, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The pleasure but sometimes absolute tedium of social media. We've been watching a lot of Stath Let's Flats recently and this little line stuck with me.
You don't have to tell people you dont like their posts. You're free to keep moving on...
bsky.app/profile/liam...
You don't have to tell people you dont like their posts. You're free to keep moving on...
bsky.app/profile/liam...
On today's ride i have mostly been thinking about...
October 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
On today's ride i have mostly been thinking about...