Subina Shrestha

Postdoc call‼️

I am opening a call for a postdoctoral position within my ERC project CONSENT.

Come to Madrid to be part of my research team and more broadly of the @ipp-csic.bsky.social community.

Application deadline: December 10th.

Call details: tinyurl.com/yfu83p9m

Everyone I’m gonna go swim in the lake full of cow shit and eat fish full of mercury!

Are we here yet?

Care in car centered design?

Tackle wood burning and road traffic to improve Europe’s air quality, study finds Researchers measure toxicity of air samples across continent to advise on ‘efficient’ policies to reduce harm

www.theguardian.com/environment/... #Airpollution An international study, published in the journal Nature, has found cutting pollution from road traffic and wood burning may be the most effective way to reduce the harm from air pollution across Europe.

"Many scholars, including us, have highlighted the threat posed by techno-solutionism in education: Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves."

1/n

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Amazon to Lay Off Tens of Thousands of Corporate Workers The cuts amount to roughly 10% of the online giant’s white-collar workforce.

Amazon plans to lay off as many as 30,000 starting as early as Tuesday…

Well, the White House ballroom ain't gonna pay for itself.

Minister Flack says that the Ontario government will not be moving forward on changes to Ontario's tenancy lease framework regarding month-to-month leases. More to look at in the bill but thank you to everyone who called, emailed and spoke up.

Desperately needed recognition as local bike shops are on the front lines of the e-mobility revolution. No support from governments at all levels, strained logistics, and not enough experienced staff to fill open positions. #bikeshoplife

Amazon Cloud Outage Reveals Democratic Deficit in Relying on Big Tech | TechPolicy.Press The AWS outage demonstrates the need for a fundamental shift in how we think about digital infrastructure, write Corinne Cath and Don Le.

Today's AWS outage, which affected a range of websites and applications—from Signal to Fortnite to key UK government services—reveals the dangers of relying on a handful of Big Tech firms, write Article 19's Corinne Cath and Don Le. These are not glitches; they are democratic failures, they say.

US and Canada weigh revival of ‘zombie’ Keystone XL pipeline in trade talks Controversial project to ship heavy crude to Texas coast was killed by Biden administration on environmental grounds

This shit makes me furious & despondent.

Scientific evidence, mass suffering, and the prospect of economic, political and social breakdown are insufficient to spur action.

We talk abt geongineering while investing further in fossil fuels.

We have collectively become untethered from reality.

Things that are cash grabs: Ford selling 99 year lease of public park (Ontario Place) to private company; successive governments taking taxpayer money earmarked for health and education and giving it to private companies. Things that are not cash grabs: fines for breaking the law.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Pedestranised street in North America... Say what?!!!!!

Allocating space disproportionately in favor of cars also means taking space from other modes of transport. UTSC students told us about the inequities in transport planning in and around Scarborough and how this affects their everyday lives.

“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society, and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.”

Highly recommend this webinar next week presented by @bcpolicy.bsky.social 👇

It is frustrating on so so so many levels.

Screenshot of https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/18/news/alberta-fossil-fuels-emission-targets

“Canada’s fossil fuel industry has singlehandedly scotched any chance of the country hitting its legally-binding 2030 emissions reduction targets, due to increasing oil production.”

(Sorry world)

Turning houses into homes: Community land trusts offer a fix to Canada’s housing crisis Canada treats land as a tradeable asset, forgetting it’s the foundation for homes, communities and stability. If the country is serious about solving the housing crisis, it must change that.

"The housing crisis is urgent, and so is the opportunity. We can keep funding market Band-aids that expire in a generation, or we can take land off the speculative market, put it in community hands and make houses into homes. For good."

theconversation.com/turning-hous...

School Streets Programs Surging In Some Cities But Others Have More Homework To Do Programs to provide protected streets where motor vehicles are banned during school hours are taking off in London and Paris

School streets elsewhere: momentummag.com/school-stree...

The research found that the emissions from any one of the 14 biggest companies were by themselves enough to cause more than 50 heatwaves that would otherwise have been virtually impossible.

Here we see the nuance, and the danger, of the language of pragmatism. It allows politicians to hold two positions at once. They can acknowledge the need for rapid change, while promoting a “pragmatic” position against it.

“Social housing is solidarity you can touch.”

Nearly every large organization - Columbia, Starbucks, REI, Trader Joes, Amazon, etc - has embraced an illegal anti-union playbook. While we should increase the legal penalties for such behavior, Eamon's right that we also need a shift in social norms to safeguard organizing rights.

This, bikebus and playstreets!

Analysis: England’s most ethnically diverse areas are 15 times more likely to face extreme heat - Carbon Brief Neighbourhoods in England that are home to the most minority-ethnic people are 15 times more likely to face extreme heat than the least diverse areas

www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-eng...

Been reading this. Cool work, indeed!

We Must Rebrand Housing as a Benefit, Not a Burden I’m often asked by area business owners and residents, “What can we do to support solutions to our housing issues in our own communities?” The answer sometimes surprises people in its simplicity.Beyon...

Important piece from @berkie1.bsky.social on using postive language when we talk about housing (or any type of) growth in our communities. Adding housing brings so many benefits to a community; we need to start our convesations around new neighbors with this in mind.

Cycling advocates ready to defend victory against anti-bike lane law Cycling advocates gear up to defend their victory against the Ford government’s arbitrary anti-bike lane law.

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