Geraint Ellis
@gellis23.bsky.social
Professor of Planning at QUB: Sustainability, planning, energy, health, environmental protection. Editor of Jrl of Env Planning & Policy. Full profile: bit.ly/ZYkPNM
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Trigger warning.
“In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.”
Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.
“In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.”
Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.
September 3, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Trigger warning.
“In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.”
Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.
“In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.”
Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.
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If you're having a rough day, remember that in 1991 Tim Berners-Lee's paper for the World Wide Web was rejected and he was relegated to the poster session.
September 17, 2024 at 1:33 PM
If you're having a rough day, remember that in 1991 Tim Berners-Lee's paper for the World Wide Web was rejected and he was relegated to the poster session.
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PhD opportunity:
Enhancing community resilience and adaptive capacity through ocean literacy: an action research approach to community participation in marine planning
Queen's University Belfast
Application Deadline - 30th April 2025
Enhancing community resilience and adaptive capacity through ocean literacy: an action research approach to community participation in marine planning
Queen's University Belfast
Application Deadline - 30th April 2025
REF: SNBE-2024-HR2 - PLN-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast
www.qub.ac.uk
February 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
PhD opportunity:
Enhancing community resilience and adaptive capacity through ocean literacy: an action research approach to community participation in marine planning
Queen's University Belfast
Application Deadline - 30th April 2025
Enhancing community resilience and adaptive capacity through ocean literacy: an action research approach to community participation in marine planning
Queen's University Belfast
Application Deadline - 30th April 2025
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HOT RESEARCH NEWS!
Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people making rational judgements about driving en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor...
Our new study shows where this bias comes from AND how it makes people think they're odd for supporting changes to the transport system 🧵
Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people making rational judgements about driving en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor...
Our new study shows where this bias comes from AND how it makes people think they're odd for supporting changes to the transport system 🧵
February 17, 2025 at 7:45 AM
HOT RESEARCH NEWS!
Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people making rational judgements about driving en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor...
Our new study shows where this bias comes from AND how it makes people think they're odd for supporting changes to the transport system 🧵
Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people making rational judgements about driving en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor...
Our new study shows where this bias comes from AND how it makes people think they're odd for supporting changes to the transport system 🧵
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Get the message?
By Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz.
By Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz.
February 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Get the message?
By Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz.
By Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz.
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Make this viral
February 14, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Make this viral
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ANNOUNCEMENT: EMERGENCY GENERAL MEETING - 6th February 11am
Members will have seen this morning that the University is launching a Voluntary Severance Scheme (VSS), hot on the heels of announcing a new Indian campus, while budgets for faculties, schools and directorates have all been slashed. (1/4)
Members will have seen this morning that the University is launching a Voluntary Severance Scheme (VSS), hot on the heels of announcing a new Indian campus, while budgets for faculties, schools and directorates have all been slashed. (1/4)
February 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
ANNOUNCEMENT: EMERGENCY GENERAL MEETING - 6th February 11am
Members will have seen this morning that the University is launching a Voluntary Severance Scheme (VSS), hot on the heels of announcing a new Indian campus, while budgets for faculties, schools and directorates have all been slashed. (1/4)
Members will have seen this morning that the University is launching a Voluntary Severance Scheme (VSS), hot on the heels of announcing a new Indian campus, while budgets for faculties, schools and directorates have all been slashed. (1/4)
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This is the elephant in the room that needs to be recognised: due almost entirely to the proliferation of single houses in the countryside, Ireland has >four times< the length of overhead electricity wires than the European average. That’s why it’s taking ESB so long to restore power after Éowyn …
Baby steps, but good to hear the prevalence of one-off housing in Ireland and/or general low density at least mentioned just now on RTÉ as one factor behind why it may take several more days to get everyone's electricity back.
#SpeirGorm #StormEowyn
#SpeirGorm #StormEowyn
January 27, 2025 at 9:57 PM
This is the elephant in the room that needs to be recognised: due almost entirely to the proliferation of single houses in the countryside, Ireland has >four times< the length of overhead electricity wires than the European average. That’s why it’s taking ESB so long to restore power after Éowyn …
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Gobshitery taken to epic new levels by rural independent TD Michael Collins today, calling for removal of ALL trees “within 30 metres of a public road”.
Yes, you heard that right. That would be MILLIONS of trees this joker proposes destroying.
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Yes, you heard that right. That would be MILLIONS of trees this joker proposes destroying.
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Calls for Dáil to be recalled in aftermath of Storm Éowyn
As Sinn Fein Leader Mary Lou McDonald has said she has written to the Taoiseach calling for a reconvening of the Dail, Michael Collins of Independent Ireland is on the line urging immediate Government...
www.rte.ie
January 27, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Gobshitery taken to epic new levels by rural independent TD Michael Collins today, calling for removal of ALL trees “within 30 metres of a public road”.
Yes, you heard that right. That would be MILLIONS of trees this joker proposes destroying.
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Yes, you heard that right. That would be MILLIONS of trees this joker proposes destroying.
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
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SLAPP law suits are alive and kicking
Update on Yvegeny Prigozhin's legal case against me - UK law firm that acted for Putin’s warlord Prigozhin 'broke no rules'
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/uk-law-fir...
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/uk-law-fir...
UK law firm that acted for Putin’s warlord Prigozhin 'broke no rules'
Exclusive: Taking cash from a sanctioned Russian mercenary chief to enable him to sue a British journalist is not an abuse of our legal system, solicitors' regulator finds
democracyforsale.substack.com
January 28, 2025 at 8:50 AM
SLAPP law suits are alive and kicking
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Cheating on an exam by memorizing everything the professor taught in advance so I can easily answer all the questions
January 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Cheating on an exam by memorizing everything the professor taught in advance so I can easily answer all the questions
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Donald Trump has declared the U.S. is in a “national-energy emergency.” “The actual emergency, obviously, is with the climate,” @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.
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January 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Donald Trump has declared the U.S. is in a “national-energy emergency.” “The actual emergency, obviously, is with the climate,” @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.
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This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance.
Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.
Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 22, 2025 at 1:24 AM
This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance.
Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.
Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.
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“It's not easy to be exact, but studies estimate that tires create anywhere from 10-28% of the world's microplastic pollution, according to National Geographic. These particles don't just disappear — they end up in our water, our soil, and our bodies.”
Scientists make disturbing new discovery while studying human urine samples: 'We urgently need to classify [this]'
A recent study found high levels of two potentially deadly chemicals in humans' urine, raising concerns about tire pollution.
www.thecooldown.com
January 19, 2025 at 7:31 AM
“It's not easy to be exact, but studies estimate that tires create anywhere from 10-28% of the world's microplastic pollution, according to National Geographic. These particles don't just disappear — they end up in our water, our soil, and our bodies.”
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Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.
Good trade.
Good trade.
January 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.
Good trade.
Good trade.
‘Everyone thought it would cause gridlock’: the highway that Seoul turned into a stream
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
‘Everyone thought it would cause gridlock’: the highway that Seoul turned into a stream
Cheonggyecheon stream in the South Korean capital has become an attraction – and helps with flood management, fighting air pollution and cooling the city
www.theguardian.com
January 17, 2025 at 6:47 AM
‘Everyone thought it would cause gridlock’: the highway that Seoul turned into a stream
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Credit to Terrible Maps on Facebook
January 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Credit to Terrible Maps on Facebook
The Northern Ireland Planning System is failing us all, in a very fundamental way:
'Back to square one' as gold mine inquiry is suspended www.bbc.com/news/article...
'Back to square one' as gold mine inquiry is suspended www.bbc.com/news/article...
Dalradian gold mine: County Tyrone planning inquiry suspended
Regulation breaches by the Department for Infrastructure mean it cannot go ahead as scheduled.
www.bbc.com
January 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The Northern Ireland Planning System is failing us all, in a very fundamental way:
'Back to square one' as gold mine inquiry is suspended www.bbc.com/news/article...
'Back to square one' as gold mine inquiry is suspended www.bbc.com/news/article...
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In 2018 we left the EU's Water Regulation body and their massive fines.
Then sewage dumping increased 20x.
Before Brexit we had some of the cleanest water in Europe.
Now it is by far the dirtiest.
Then sewage dumping increased 20x.
Before Brexit we had some of the cleanest water in Europe.
Now it is by far the dirtiest.
January 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
In 2018 we left the EU's Water Regulation body and their massive fines.
Then sewage dumping increased 20x.
Before Brexit we had some of the cleanest water in Europe.
Now it is by far the dirtiest.
Then sewage dumping increased 20x.
Before Brexit we had some of the cleanest water in Europe.
Now it is by far the dirtiest.
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Before and after picture of Los Angeles.
Oh sorry it's actually Gaza.
Oh sorry it's actually Gaza.
January 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Before and after picture of Los Angeles.
Oh sorry it's actually Gaza.
Oh sorry it's actually Gaza.
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“91% of the revenue generated by these businesses came out of the wallets of customers who walked, cycled or used public transport to reach them. Customers that drive to the shops accounted for just 9 per cent of sales.”
Shoppers’ Mobility Habits: Retailers Overestimate Car Use
www.rifs-potsdam.de
December 22, 2024 at 12:23 AM
“91% of the revenue generated by these businesses came out of the wallets of customers who walked, cycled or used public transport to reach them. Customers that drive to the shops accounted for just 9 per cent of sales.”
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Paris urban biking DOUBLED in just one year.
“Cycling in Paris has transcended mere trendiness; it’s become a fundamental aspect of the city’s identity. Despite challenges like inclement weather, cyclists continue to flock to the streets, setting new records and reshaping the urban landscape.”
“Cycling in Paris has transcended mere trendiness; it’s become a fundamental aspect of the city’s identity. Despite challenges like inclement weather, cyclists continue to flock to the streets, setting new records and reshaping the urban landscape.”
Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to massive investment and it's not stopping
The report delves into the nuances of Parisian cycling culture, exploring the vibrant community of riders who navigate the city's streets
momentummag.com
January 7, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Paris urban biking DOUBLED in just one year.
“Cycling in Paris has transcended mere trendiness; it’s become a fundamental aspect of the city’s identity. Despite challenges like inclement weather, cyclists continue to flock to the streets, setting new records and reshaping the urban landscape.”
“Cycling in Paris has transcended mere trendiness; it’s become a fundamental aspect of the city’s identity. Despite challenges like inclement weather, cyclists continue to flock to the streets, setting new records and reshaping the urban landscape.”
The Earth's Corr: 2024 was a landmark year for the environment in Northern Ireland www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/norther...
The Earth's Corr: 2024 was a landmark year for the environment in NI
There's a lot to be proud of as I type my final Earth's Corr column for Belfast Live
www.belfastlive.co.uk
December 31, 2024 at 10:37 PM
The Earth's Corr: 2024 was a landmark year for the environment in Northern Ireland www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/norther...
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Biking to work reduces the odds of dying from cancer by 51%! You’d think transit planners would find the hell out of bike lanes given how much money that saves to public and the government. Even “fiscal conservatives” can’t debunk the obvious societal good and savings from that.
Fund bike lanes!
Fund bike lanes!
“The long-term health benefits didn’t stop there: commuter cycling was also linked to a 24% reduced risk of cardiovascular hospitalizations, a 51% lower risk of dying from cancer, and improved mental health, as measured by fewer prescriptions for anxiety and depression.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social
If you bike to work, you live longer, new study confirms
If you’re looking for an affordable and accessible way to live longer, skip the pricey wellness retreats and quirky biohacks—just bike to work.
momentummag.com
December 21, 2024 at 9:54 PM
Biking to work reduces the odds of dying from cancer by 51%! You’d think transit planners would find the hell out of bike lanes given how much money that saves to public and the government. Even “fiscal conservatives” can’t debunk the obvious societal good and savings from that.
Fund bike lanes!
Fund bike lanes!