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Excited to share that the 1st paper of my dissertation has been published! In this study, we developed and applied the novel JTEV framework in Columbus, OH. Thankful to Jeffrey Bielicki, Jeffrey Jacquet and my PhD advisor @huyentkle.bsky.social

Link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m7I87tZ6a...

Smartphone habits are stronger in spaces chosen out of habit Scientific Reports - Smartphone habits are stronger in spaces chosen out of habit

STOKED that our paper on smartphone and spatial habits is out in Scientific Reports! 🎉

Using mobility 🏃 and app 📱 data (27,446,977 logs; 7,226 trip questionnaires) we found that smartphone habits are stronger in habitually traveled and visited spaces 🏡

Personal thread below!

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Somebody’s watching me… and my anxiety
(They blinked their eyes as I walked past them).

This! 😓

As if reviewing isn’t difficult enough and I owed someone something

Why does Elsevier have to make it so hard for reviewers to request for an extension? I had to beg multiple times via emails and through the editorial manager website to no avail. All emails failed to deliver.

Funny how people without PhDs in the respective fields insist that their pet product is excellent in something they don't even know about.

A Visit to Madam Bedi: A Personal History by Tara Westover I was estranged from my own mother, so a friend tried to lend me his.

Something very beautiful and healing to read today:

“How?” I said. “How did you keep from breaking?”
“I broke,” she said. “That is how I kept from breaking.”

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Checklist for USA federal data backups | Data management Introduction The United States (US) federal government collects, aggregates, and disseminates a large volume of information and data. This content is used by researchers, policymakers, and many others...

MIT has created an excellent checklist for those making data backups on their own: libraries.mit.edu/data-managem... Data is special. Treat it with care!

A PSA for US Census geodata users: while the TIGER/Line shapefiles are inaccessible, all Census geographies are still up via the TigerWeb API

Endpoints are here: tigerweb.geo.census....

Use @JosiahParry's {arcgislayers} package to pull them into #rstats with minimal fuss

Abdirashid's first paper (as the first author)! Proud-advisor moment 🎉

And most research universities won't function/exist. More than half of the grant amounts pays for uni's operations (i.e., overhead). At my (public research) uni, state funding only accounts for <11% of its annual budget. The rest comes from endowment, tuition, and of course overhead from grants.

Why Is the U.S. So Good at Killing Pedestrians? - Freakonomics Why Is the U.S. So Good at Killing Pedestrians? - Freakonomics

"In most cities, ~ 80% of the crashes occur on 15-20% of roadways. We can make changes to that number. We don’t have to change 100% of our roadways, but we can be strategic & target these places and immediately see benefits in no longer killing our neighbours." -Kelcie Ralph

Single Parents Should Get as Much Paid Leave as Couples, Spanish Court Rules The decision follows a constitutional court ruling that barred discrimination against babies born into single-parent families.

Good job Spain! Many studies say marriage is the most influential factor for well-being (not just finance) of children and adults alike, but they omit the fact that most govt's policies are biased toward married couples and biased against unmarried individuals, making the latter struggle even more.

NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.

www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

This site has info on the economic impact of NIH in your state, if you want to write your senators about this.

⬆️This, 100%. It's more about the things we ignore.

From Arthur Brooks / The Atlantic

Ha, I've finally figured out how to make a calendar entry from an email in Outlook online (not desktop). Just drag the mail to the calendar icon, and a new window with the calendar will pop out.

Ha, I've finally figured out how to make a calendar entry from an email in Outlook online (not desktop). Just drag the mail to the calendar icon, and a new window with the calendar will pop out.

Productivity tools/ tips for academics

Got it, I do that too but manually. I created a twitter crowdsourced list of tips here back in 2022, now it's time to update it

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

@academic-chatter.bsky.social Could you please share? Thanks

Productivity tools/ tips for academics

OK nerds of Bluesky, could you tell us your tricks/ hacks to work more effectively? It could be email, scheduling, reading, or ANYTHING. I've started a list with my tricks here, hope to see more!

#AcademicChatter #academicbluesky #academic

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Hm, I rarely have to do so. Do you create an event as an item in your to-do-list? there's an app for it, Microsoft To Do.

Also in Outlook mobile app, the date/time in the email will turn into a blue hyperlink. Click on it to create an entry in your calendar.

There's an easier option if you use Outlook desktop: www.cu.edu/blog/tech-ti...

Phu Yen, Vietnam. Valencia, Spain. Santiago, Chile. Brest or La Rochelle, France. Or somewhere in the Alps. If I need to hop around a lot without much planning, I'd stay somewhere in NL and take the train to other cities.

That’s good to know, thank you!

Quick question on #ebike: does it work at -18oC (0 F)? I’m tempting to bike next week but not sure if I have to pedal x-hard if the battery dies.

👀A week before the LA fires, a massive fire at Kantamanto Market in Ghana “reduced huge swaths of the world's largest second-hand clothing market to ashes, destroying millions of items of used clothing and jeopardizing the livelihoods of more than 30,000 people” (CBC News)

Dr. Tara Goddard, wearing white shirt, standing behind bicycle on bike path lined by grass and green trees.

NEW EPISODE: "How Cars Change Us with Tara Goddard." Why do people behave so badly behind the wheel of a car? Why do reporters use passive language to describe traffic violence? @drtaragoddard.bsky.social joins us to talk about her fascinating research.

thewaroncars.org/2024/12/17/1...