Mimi Sheller
@mimisheller.bsky.social
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
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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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‼️ 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/...
Extraction is officially published TOMORROW (9/23) 👀 www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
September 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
‼️ 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/...
Extraction is officially published TOMORROW (9/23) 👀 www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
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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
🎧: Author David L. Prytherch talks with @mimisheller.bsky.social and @norton.bsky.social about designing more just public streets. share.transistor.fm/s/0e507210
June 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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
🎧: Author David L. Prytherch talks with @mimisheller.bsky.social and @norton.bsky.social about designing more just public streets. share.transistor.fm/s/0e507210
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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.
May 8, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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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🚀 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 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
journals.sagepub.com
April 25, 2025 at 6:57 AM
🚀 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 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
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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
April 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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....
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One of our Leeds participant households enjoyed their e-cargo bikes so much, they now have 3, and are promoting the benefits in the national Cycling magazine! Proud researcher moment... 😁🚴♀️
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...
@drianphilips.bsky.social
Read our blog here👇 blogs.brighton.ac.uk/elevate/2025...
Read #CyclingUK mag👇
www.cyclinguk.org/cycle-magazi...
@drianphilips.bsky.social
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! ...
blogs.brighton.ac.uk
April 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM
One of our Leeds participant households enjoyed their e-cargo bikes so much, they now have 3, and are promoting the benefits in the national Cycling magazine! Proud researcher moment... 😁🚴♀️
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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).
March 12, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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).
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
March 14, 2025 at 8:26 AM
The gutting of global health? Programs around the world left in the lurch www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...
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@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...
www.oah.org/2025/03/04/f...
OAH | Federal Employees Oral History ProjectOAH | Federal Employees Oral History Project
www.oah.org
March 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
@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...
www.oah.org/2025/03/04/f...
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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.
March 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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.
“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
March 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“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...
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
March 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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...
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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
docs.google.com
February 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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...
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Very good reporting here on this awful story: direct language, full context, multiple perspectives.
Many other journalists should be taking notes.
Many other journalists should be taking notes.
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
February 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Very good reporting here on this awful story: direct language, full context, multiple perspectives.
Many other journalists should be taking notes.
Many other journalists should be taking notes.
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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
February 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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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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.)
(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.)
February 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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.)
(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.)
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
February 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Another tragedy in the battle over cycling www.bbc.com/news/article... #cycling #Paris #PaulVarry #mobility #justice
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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
February 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
American chaos: standing up for health and medicine - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 🧪
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This unique triple-stranded exhibition focuses on the decolonisation of the Caribbean, the long history of the 'Windrush' Scandal & transnational activism (e.g., CLR James, Claudia Jones and Billy Strachan). The exhibition runs until end March. Not to be missed!
www.london.ac.uk/about/servic...
www.london.ac.uk/about/servic...
In the Grip of Change: the Caribbean and its British Diaspora
Coming soon - opening on 29 October 2024
www.london.ac.uk
January 10, 2025 at 10:55 AM
This unique triple-stranded exhibition focuses on the decolonisation of the Caribbean, the long history of the 'Windrush' Scandal & transnational activism (e.g., CLR James, Claudia Jones and Billy Strachan). The exhibition runs until end March. Not to be missed!
www.london.ac.uk/about/servic...
www.london.ac.uk/about/servic...
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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.
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.
February 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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.
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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The big food delivery corporations set terms forcing their drivers to put speed (/profits) before safety & already collect all the data showing where dangerous driving is happening.
These common sense regs for liability insurance & aggregate data sharing will keep everyone on our roads safer.
These common sense regs for liability insurance & aggregate data sharing will keep everyone on our roads safer.
February 4, 2025 at 4:35 AM
The big food delivery corporations set terms forcing their drivers to put speed (/profits) before safety & already collect all the data showing where dangerous driving is happening.
These common sense regs for liability insurance & aggregate data sharing will keep everyone on our roads safer.
These common sense regs for liability insurance & aggregate data sharing will keep everyone on our roads safer.
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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
gizmodo.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
NASA Ordered to Remove Anything About ‘Women in Leadership’ From Its Websites: Report gizmodo.com/nasa-ordered...
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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
February 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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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🚨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.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨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.
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It's an absolute travesty that these websites, which we all paid for, are being dumped in the trash.
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.
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
February 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
It's an absolute travesty that these websites, which we all paid for, are being dumped in the trash.