Alida Cantor

Parenting milestone: 9 year old called me "bruh" for the first time today 🫠

Big Pipe Tracker: See how the Big Pipes prevent combined sewer overflows Is it raining? Here you can track how the Big Pipe Project is preventing combined sewer overflows to the Willamette River, and be the first to know if a rare overflow does occur.

Dear Portland: don't go swimming this week ! www.portland.gov/bes/big-pipe...

Helpful!

End of fall term academia blues: University budget cuts on the horizon. Suspected student use of AI for final papers. Conference organizing difficulties. And it won't stop raining. Winter break can't come soon enough!

Some improvements on I-5

Successfully submitted a revise-and-resubmit during a week when both me and my co-author have kids out of school. Feel like I've earned myself a gold star from the academia fairy ✨

Leaves piled up in Portland bike lane

I have written a lot about the perils of poorly maintained (and leaf-filled) bike lanes. That didn’t stop me from wiping out in one just now, falling on my face and scraping up my knee pretty badly. This is a truly hazardous situation, @pbotinfo.bsky.social. When are you going to do something?

Dang, hard disagree. The best papers to write and read are works of art, not merely a list of data and statements.

Don’t let LLMs take this away too, for gods sake.

Portland State University AAUP won their arbitration regarding the layoffs of 10 non-tenure track faculty!✊

An arbitrator ruled the university bypassed shared governance protocols required by the Collective Bargaining Agreement.

All 10 laid-off faculty must be reinstated!

@psuaaup.bsky.social

First first author pub, yay!

+2 from my family, lol.

Excellent new publication on "Collaborative Governance and Hydrosocial Territorialization: Reaching Consensus on Salmon Restoration Goals in the Columbia River Basin" by my PhD student Thien-Kim Bui! #salmon #geosky #waterscience 🐟💧🏞️
@thienkim.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Brilliant, great work Portland State @trecpdx.bsky.social !!! This is such a cool way to let people try e-bikes. #bikesky

Too terrifying 🫣

Fighting for Fair Development Community Benefits Agreements as a Strategy for Making the Energy Transition More Equitable in the United States

Just wanted to share this incredibly nice StoryMap that accompanies our new report on Community Benefits Agreements! The StoryMap explores several case studies of CBAs in energy transitions. @cplusc.bsky.social #geosky #energysky #sustainability #climate

storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a860...

Thanks ❤️ it was a fun day!

E-bikes are a true car replacement. ⚡️🚲

Who bothers insulting a 5 year old's protest sign on the Internet?
Also.... that isn't the point? We talked about current events in our community as a family, and we got out to participate together with others in a visible and fun way. And yes, there were readable signs, and folks got our message.

Joined a micro #NoKings rally in Portland OR with a bunch of kids and parents and grandmas. For those not fluent in kindergarten writing: "Yes ice cream, No ICE."

The war zone in Portland is out of control.

Who should benefit from the energy transition? Communities? Workers? Billionaires?

As federal posture toward a clean energy supply chain shifts rapidly, our new report shows that communities are turning to community benefit agreements (CBAs) to gain control over their futures. 👇

New report on community benefit agreements!!! It was super fun to work with this amazing team and with @cplusc.bsky.social on a timely and important topic.

Opinion | Academia Is Broken. Trump’s University ‘Compact’ Can Help Fix It.

It should be obvious to everyone, but for the hedge fund managers at the back, a compact that restricts academic freedom isn't about merit or access. The goal is control and a return to a segregated system where elite institutions solely serve the interests of the wealthy. 1/

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

Who's doing rigorous analysis on the effects of data centers on economic, health, energy, and climate outcomes? #econsky #energysky #climatesky

Great question, I'm not sure! My work definitely bumps up into data centers and it comes up often, but it's not something I'm currently really working on, due more to bandwidth than lack of interest.

Emergency World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland, with blurred photi of naked bicyclists.

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

Happy New Water Year to all who celebrate 🥳💦🌊🚿🚣‍♂️🚽💧🎣🦦🐟❤️ #waterscience

Reporting from the streets of #WarRavagedPortland where today's terrifying activities included a kindergarten playdate with juice and snacks at a park. Things got ugly when one kid got stung by a bee and another stubbed their toe. Troops please send more juice boxes.

As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway