Julie Cidell

Yep, West Lakes. And APCG is great! I went there when I taught in California and always loved it.

I have the feeling we're not all the way to the bottom yet. :(

That's true. One of the reasons for moving it around the country is so that travel costs are reduced for different regions in turn, but the registration cost is another matter.

I'm a huge fan of the regional meetings, although they do vary wildly in experience. Might be the future, though.

It's not a small amount, that's true. And I think there's going to be a lot of people from outside the U.S. wanting to do the virtual option this time around, for which I don't blame them one bit.

Hybrid Meetings: What Do They Really Cost? - AAG AAG - Hybrid Meetings: What Do They Really Cost? - All -

The issue for Hawai'i was that the arrangements had been made years ago, and there wasn't a way to exit the contract. For the current hybrid meetings, it costs a lot to make the virtual component work, but it doesn't seem fair to charge those attendees the full amount: www.aag.org/hybrid-meeti...

And ironically, one of the reasons the in-person cost is so high is to subsidize the virtual option.

Yay, congratulations!

These are hilarious, especially Illinois and New York. And the Colorado one looks completely compact!

I’ve been wanting to study/write a book on/supervise a dissertation on #3 for years. Including how traffic engineers have had to create whole new standards for parking lots that are really double-lane drive-throughs, plus the development of the military-scale logistics of the pick-up zone.

*sigh*

And I see people do it in central Illinois with regards to Champaign-Urbana. Part of the group, and not one of "them."

My favorite player when I was a kid. 😢

An English class on The Four Quartets and The Waste Land. (I also took Atmospheric Chemistry for fun that year, but as a geography major, that's one's not unrelated.)

I was in Boston this summer and thinking about how AVs would have a hard time there with the social aspects of driving. You *have to* pull out in front of other cars and assume they'll let you in, and by and large, they do. Wonder if Waymo would need different rules/procedures in different regions.

It’s always projection.

This last line, especially. Also, I don't suppose Watson asked the student what they thought of being graded by an LLM.

"Aging in place" doesn't actually mean helping an empty-nest couple effectively squat in a five-bedroom house for 50 years, it should mean building a variety of housing stock in all neighborhoods so they can downsize without disrupting the decades-long community social networks they've built

Good weather on vacation is always improved by knowing it's miserable back home.

Proposed redistricting map for Texas. The districts swirl hypnotically counterclockwise

Fun fact, this map would be impossible in Australia for two reasons:

1. The Commonwealth Electoral Act requires compact, community-based electoral districts.

2. The Coriolis Effect in the Southern Hemisphere would cause the districts to swirl around the metro center in the other direction.

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A city bus with “Bringing jobs to America” on the side. Arrows point to the various components of the bus, identifying them and the states in which they are made.

Economic geography on an MTD bus 😊

This is a wonderful encapsulation of what I love about these books and this show. (Plus the snark. I really love the snark.)

Illinois grad here. Andreesen's fortune is built on research funded by the NSF at the UIUC super computing lab (NCSA). So on top of the vile racism, he's a hypocrite.

"NSF awarded a large grant to NCSA specifically for Mosaic development, enhancement and support." www.nsf.gov/news/mosaic-....

yaaaaaaaaaay!!!!

*kermit flail.gif*

And I didn’t cringe too badly while watching it!

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I’m the tall woman gesticulating expansively at her tall poster about her team’s no-longer-funded-by-the-EPA research on freight vehicle electrification, air quality, and human health.

I worry that these data will be used to support dangerous stereotypes about faculty in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. Basically, it might seem like faculty in those fields are slacking off after tenure, but there's a much more straightforward explanation. 1/🧵

Latest on Texas Hill Country flood tragedy Chantal makes landfall in South Carolina

I have spent the last 24 hours looking at media reports and social media posts about the Texas Hill County tragedy and being appalled by the level of misinformation I am seeing. I have tried to put together an updated, more reasoned summary I hope you'll read.

open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

This thread is exactly right. The problem is, we're in a world where instant answers (and blame) have to be provided, and anyone who takes the time to come up with a nuanced and accurate understand will have had the moment pass them by. Not sure how to counter this.