Mimi Sheller

Cover of Reclaiming the Road: Mobility Justice beyond Complete Streets by David L. Prytherch. Set against a photo of bike lane, the title text is made to appear as a blue traffic caution sign with white silhouettes of people and objects below.

Three headshots up top; cover of Reclaiming the Road: Mobility Justice beyond Complete Streets by David L. Prytherch at left; quote "We spend a lot of our lives on the streets, You can't help wonder why roadways are so auto-dominated and hostile to non-drivers." —David L. Prytherch, Miami University in Ohio.

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

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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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...

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....

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... 😁🚴‍♀️

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).

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.

The gutting of global health? Programs around the world left in the lurch www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...

@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...

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.

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.

“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...

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.

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...

2025 Study section tracking

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...

Very good reporting here on this awful story: direct language, full context, multiple perspectives.

Many other journalists should be taking notes.

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

Washington Post print edition jump headline that says "DC pedestrian deaths tied to 'reckless' behavior rising".

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.)

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.

Another tragedy in the battle over cycling www.bbc.com/news/article... #cycling #Paris #PaulVarry #mobility #justice

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...

American chaos: standing up for health and medicine - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 🧪

In the Grip of Change: the Caribbean and its British Diaspora Coming soon - opening on 29 October 2024

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...

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.

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.

NASA Ordered to Remove Anything About 'Women in Leadership' From Its Websites: Report

NASA Ordered to Remove Anything About ‘Women in Leadership’ From Its Websites: Report gizmodo.com/nasa-ordered...

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

list of banned keywords

🚨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.

It's an absolute travesty that these websites, which we all paid for, are being dumped in the trash.

Yeah got this today: “This is a reminder to confirm receipt of this notice of suspension and certify that all-related activities have ceased under your USAID awards and no further costs will be incurred under your award in relation to DEIA related activities.” Deadline tomorrow to comply.

📄This paper reflects the prevalent relational spatial perspective in #migrationStudies, proposing a timeplace perspective that emphasizes how places are shaped by both transient flows and enduring connections or #moorings how @mimisheller.bsky.social and @timcresswell.bsky.social call it.

Trump Officials Move to Quickly Expel Migrants Biden Allowed In Temporarily A memo appears to allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to target programs that let in more than a million people.

And so the deportation regime begins. A slippery slope of expedited removals. Including people here legally. Only @aclu.org stands in the way unless we all stand against tyranny www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...

📣 Call for abstracts, 7th Swiss #Mobility Conference
Sept 2025, Lausanne

- Socio-ecological transitions
- Public policy
- Norms, values and practices
- Rhythms and timescales of mobility
- Infrastructure
- Theoretical debates
- Methodological innovations

📆 March 9th, www.unil.ch/igd/mobility...

How maps and cyclists paved way for roads — Harvard Gazette Historical maps on display at Harvard's Pusey Library offer an off-the-grid look at the evolution of human navigation.

Interesting exhibit at the Pusey Library on #maps How maps (and cyclists) paved way for roads by Sy Boles news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...?
“maps don’t just document roads: In a way, they led to the development of roads themselves.“ Cycling led the way toward roads.

A new day dawns