Dave Swedler

A tree-lined suburban path with an information board, promoting a December Zoom chat event on Thursday, December 4 from noon to 1 PM.

Join us Thursday for our Suburban Advocacy connect at 12!
Neil Holdway, former Daily Herald Editor who now runs SuburbanChicagoBicycling.org, will be joining to share a run down of bikeway projects in the suburbs.

Register here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7RgDlEodQ1eYt0ogkDC6gQ#/

A white man in a maize & blue hat with the block M and a vintage Michigan sweatshirt.

College football becoming worse & worse as a metaphor for late-stage capitalism. The broadcasts are obnoxious filled with odious people.

And yet!
And yet.

Here we are yet again for The Game. Go Blue

A tan and white dog sleeps in a gray bed in a sunbeam.

It is fully sunbeam season now. Her absolute favorite.

Careful when you’re formatting your reference section. The article with a typo might belong to one of the reviewers.

But, a citation win is a win?

A screenshot of Google Maps. The location Busy Burger is listed as ‘Not too busy’

Hello, Better Business Bureau? I have a complaint about false advertising.

The Brown Line is now completely broken. A Kimball bound 🟫 is stuck at the Belmont station right before the flyover. Traffic is built up behind it.
It’s bad news bears, kids.
#cta #Chicago

A woman in a red coat and black pants closely cuddles a little tan and white dog who looks a bit scared.

A tan and white dog stands atop a flight of stairs looking straight at the camera.

A tan and white dog in an orange neckerchief stands in a field in front of a pair of human legs.

A tan and white dog in a hotdog costume. She is sitting in anticipation of getting some treats.

10 years ago today (Figure 1) we brought home a scrawny corgi mix. Peanut truly has made this house a home.

There’s a small exhibit about it in the Baltimore Museum of Industry!

I am no longer in academia, but Ken Bain’s book was impactful on this very young academic. I first read it in a class about teaching at the university level, then used it myself when I was an instructor. Sad to hear that he is gone, but it’s good to know that he’s being so recognized for his work.

Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

A woman standing in her kitchen. She is taking a photo of herself and her boyfriend who is just a circulatory system. The text reads: It is November 10th now. Your circulatory system boyfriend stands by your pan in the kitchen. Unattended cooking is the number one cause of home fires. There are more home fires on Thanksgiving than any other day of the year. Always stand by your pan.

Today.

The advances we've made in statistics, experimental study design, and causal inference over the past century are remarkably useful for understanding our world. But there is never been a push to make people use them like we are seeing with generative AI. Perhaps take a moment to consider why.

Do you remember, right before Enron collapsed, that they wanted to start selling weather futures? I always wondered if Tom had any role in that. (I would hope not.)

SAVIR Opens Applications for Student Scholarships - SAVIR SAVIR has opened applications for student scholarships to support individuals presenting abstracts at the 2026 SAVIR Conference in Providence, Rhode […]

🎓 Don’t forget! SAVIR is accepting applications for student scholarships to help support those presenting abstracts at the 2026 SAVIR Conference in Providence.
Apply by December 1 to be considered → thesavir.org/savir-opens-...

I suppose you don’t need to nitpick spelling from wherever you are

Look at those low rates!

A man in a reflective jacket, bike helmet, and glasses stares down at the camera inside an elevator

A teenager crossing Dearborn complemented me on my @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social jacket, saying it was “cool.” A 43-y-o can’t ask for much more than that.

A tan and white dog lays in a sunbeam on gray carpet.

Sun beam doesn’t take a day off in the fall. Neither does Peanut

Doubly illegal. Transit expansion will be paid for only by fining cyclist who blow stop signs.

once again posting The Chart

So many people did so much work to get these bills crafted & passed. A huge coalition of statewide work & support for public transit in Illinois.

As a board member for Active Transportation Alliance, I am thrilled that we can partner with a forward-thinking “green” coalition in the state.

A man sits on a bench in front of a carillon tower.

A grey sky over rolling hills covered in trees of many colors. A peak of a lake is in the background.

A man in the morning sun shows off his Great Lakes sweatshirt proudly while standing next to Lake Michigan.

A large inlet between two peninsulas in northern LP Michigan. The beach is in the foreground and the water is flat as glass.

Trip to Ann Arbor then Traverse City. A needed break.

Calendar showing an event labeled "Narcan and Harm Reduction Training" scheduled for October 24 from 12-1pm, featuring an image of Narcan nasal spray. The event is free and virtual, with a link provided in the description.

CDPH’s Behavioral Health Bureau will be hosting a free online monthly harm reduction training on Friday. Learn how to tell if someone is overdosing, how to administer Narcan, and more.

📅 This Friday, 10/24
🕰️ 12-1 p.m.
🔗 Use the link at the time of the session: https://chi.gov/4en1lvE

Peer review for a journal article using couplas to model crash risk across roadway segments. The abstract says the Frank coupla performs well.

My first thought was, “Frank Coupla? The guy who directed ‘Apocalypse Now’?”

Saw this last night. As the article states, Radvanovsky absolutely belts out the title role standing, sitting, laying down, and crawling. No offense to the other great parts (and music, and effects), but she carries the show with her pipes.

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

Writing a conference abstract today that is all about comparing models. I am going to need some sort of indicator sound when my models finishing running, because I should be cleaning the house during the time when my poor laptop does all this heavy labor.

Visual, manual, and cognitive distractions all in one photo. I’m light headed

[hyperventilating as a person who wrote his dissertation on distracted driving]

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods