drjosephpierce's profile picture. Urban Geographer. Place, housing, mobilities, justice. Senior Lecturer, University of Aberdeen. Find me on Mastodon (@joepierce@mastodon.scot). he/him

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Urban Geographer. Place, housing, mobilities, justice. Senior Lecturer, University of Aberdeen. Find me on Mastodon (@[email protected]). he/him

Great article in the guardian on traffic evaporation from low-traffic neighbourhood installation. mastodon.scot/@joepierce/109…


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Embracing cities as radically plural – as sites of multiplicity – points us toward thinking about the problems they solve in people’s lives, rather than toward some fabled “one-true-theory” of the logic of the city. Find out more in Deborah Martin & Joe Pierce’s new book OUT NOW


I guess I should link to this arti on the day that E**n decided that his social network shouldn't allow folks to link to social network activity elsewhere. My use of this platform has been dropping but I'm still sorry to see it. Find me on M*st*d*n, but a link would be deleted...


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If this explosion doesn't wake up our leadership to the fact that having an open air coal terminal right next to a Rec Center we are about to rebuild is unacceptable...then we need to evaluate what we mean by our commitments to health and environmental justice.

After a century of industrial explosions and toxic emissions at Curtis Bay, residents say a 1-time fine for @CSX after the latest doesn't cut it bit.ly/3XV2XUF They want coal to go – and for @MayorBMScott administration to help make their community safe and sustainable.

BaltimoreBrew's tweet image. After a century of industrial explosions and toxic emissions at Curtis Bay, residents say a 1-time fine for @CSX after the latest doesn't cut it bit.ly/3XV2XUF They want coal to go – and for @MayorBMScott administration to help make their community safe and sustainable.


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JOB: Asst Prof of BLACK ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES at DePaul University "Expertise in the impacts of ecological crises and environmental racism on areas such as health, housing, food access, transportation, pollution, community safety, or climate change..." academics.depaul.edu/faculty-jobs/P…


My view of essays-as-assessment has shifted recently, based largely on this phenomenon. It's tragic: writing is a mode of structured thinking, and students need to think critically. Our new modes of assessment will serve students worse than actually *writing their essays* would.

AI essay-writing software: "It'll take 2 years for the students to figure out the tech,3 more years for the professors to recognize that students are using the tech, & then 5 years for university administrators to decide what to do about it" @StephenMarche theatlantic.com/technology/arc…



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