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Location of shared e-scooters in Biel/Bienne (or in its lake) Source: La Torche (satirical online media)

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Velomobile spotted in Neuchâtel 🇨🇭 ➡️ human-powered ➡️ with electric assistance (roof = solar panel) ➡️ aerodynamic ➡️ protection from weather

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OUVEMA Conference series "Making Cities attractive for active mobilities" ➡️ The 15-Minute City by @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social (Feb 27) ➡️ Superblocks by @thomas-verkehrt.bsky.social (March 20) ➡️ 10-Minute Neighbourhoods by Sibylle Wälty (May 22 Online, 12:00 CET. Zoom link www.unil.ch/ouvema/active

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"L'injustice faite au vélo" Premier épisode d'une série consacrée au #velo par Heidi.news www.heidi.news/explorations...

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Geography class can be fun! "Around the world" by André Henri Dargelas (ca. 1860)

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The 15-Minute City Conference by Carlos Moreno @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social, 27 Feb 12:00 (CET) Open to all! Zoom link: unil.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Organized by OUVEMA, Academic Observatory for Cycling and Active Mobilities @unil.bsky.social

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🚘 60 km/h speed limit on motorway in Basel to reduce noise The Federal Court said the increase in journey time (1 minute for 5.5 km) was minimal compared to the noise reduction From 10 pm to 7 am www.tagesanzeiger.ch/bundesverwal...

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Rérat, Patrick, and Emmanuel Ravalet. 2025. “Do Left-Wing Voters Cycle More than Right-Wing Voters?” Findings, February. https://doi.org/10.32866/001c.129401

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La motion pour une Stratégie Nationale Suisse sur ME/CFS et Long Covid a été déposée au Parlement. Acceptez la! Nous connaissons presque tous quelqu'un dans nos cercles qui est atteint de Long COVID ou de ME/CFS.

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❓Do Left-wing Voters #Cycle more than Right-wing Voters? 🚲 🚲 🚲 Read our short paper in Findings ➡️ findingspress.org/article/1294...

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📢 New paper! How can we better understand public spaces and plan them for a wide range of use(r)s? We analyzed public squares in Zurich and found 5 types of "affordances" to address the role of designers and users Open access in European Planning Studies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n

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Panoramic terrace

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Bern train station this evening: 🚄 30 trains departing in 30 minutes 🧳 Ad to spend car-free holidays in South Tyrol

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Look! @patrickrerat.bsky.social is recruiting two postdoctoral researchers to work on cycling and active mobilities in Lausanne www.unil.ch/news/1738224...

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Check the latest OUVEMA newsletter 🚲🚲🚶 ➡️ 2 postdoc positions on cycling ➡️ A new webinar series on how to plan attractive cities for active mobilities ➡️ 3 new research projects (parking, sport, planning) ➡️ New papers on cargo bikes and motonormativity In 🇫🇷 and 🇬🇧: shorturl.at/GLNNI

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📣 2 research positions (postdoc) on cycling in my team at OUVEMA @unil.bsky.social 🚲 ➡️ Practices of e-bikes (2 years) shorturl.at/LAqHw ➡️ Active mobilities practices and planning (4 years) shorturl.at/wxmQO www.unil.ch/ouvema Thanks for sharing!

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"Sortir de la motonormativité" 🚲 🚶‍♀️ 🧑‍🦽 Comment assurer la cohabitation en piéton-nes et cyclistes? ➡️ Comprendre les comportements ➡️ Dépasser la #motonormativité ➡️ (Ré)aménager la voirie Dans le Bulletin de Rue de l'Avenir serval.unil.ch/resource/ser...

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Conférence "Animaux sauvages en ville: quelles cohabitations?" par Joëlle Salomon Cavin @unil.bsky.social 19 février, 18h30, Neuchâtel. Organisée par la Société Neuchâteloise de Géographie (SNG; www.s-n-g.ch) Pour le vernissage du Géo-Regards 16 (libreo.ch/revues/geo-r...)

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"Functional, aesthetic, indispensable - is the motorway the masterpiece of the 20th century?" "Why, in the eyes of future generations, shouldn't motorways, as architectural masterpieces, be our cathedrals?" Berchet 1961

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New study provides further evidence that when it comes to travel, what people think is less important than their environment www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... This nicely agrees with the Reverse Causality Hypothesis (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) which says attitudes FOLLOW behaviour

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📣 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...

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Just spotted in the acknowledgments of a paper: "The author wishes to acknowledge the helpful comments on an earlier draft of this article from Professor XXX and from one of the two referees." I guess reviewer 2 has struck again... 😁

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🌐 Intéressé-e par (re)découvrir l'histoire de la #géographie et de la #cartographie? Suivez les pérégrinations de Ptolémée à travers l'espace et le temps dans cette BD qui raconte les grands enjeux de la cartographie au fil des siècles...

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Comment prononce-t-on le mot "vélo" en Suisse romande? Ici le % de personnes (dont moi) qui le prononcent comme dans "moteur" (et non comme dans "marteau")... www.rts.ch/info/regions...

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Geneva velodrome and its magnificent portal (1910) You could rent a bike and take cycling classes ("Leçons de vélocipèdie") as well as seeing races

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Some impressions of a conference on micromobility (URFE project) in Marseille a few weeks ago. It was great to hang around the city and to discuss cycling with colleagues…

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📢 "Cycling Mobilisations in Santiago de Chile and Lima: Demands for Mobility Justice" Collectives call for the recognition of #cycling and their demands include political, environmental & feminist issues Paper with M. Gillot in Géo-Regards (in French). Now open access: shorturl.at/r1HmE

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The time of the year I hear ‘But wait, you’ll carry it by bike!?!’ #Treebybike

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Where do Swiss people move to? 9% of them moved in 2023 but mainly on short distances ➡️37% moved within the same municipality ➡️35% within the same canton ➡️16% another canton (only 2% to another language region) ➡️ 12% abroad www.rts.ch/info/suisse/...

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Comparative mountains and rivers charts, 1829, by Andriveau-Goujon A convention developed in the 19th century. With annotations on vegetation, volcanic activity, etc. Found on www.davidrumsey.com

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How to motivate young people to cycle? 🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️🚴 Join us to learn more on two innovative projects: Défi vélo & Bikepool! 🗓️12 Dec. at 12 Swiss time ✍️ zoom: shorturl.at/pnP5B Organized by #OUVEMA @unil.bsky.social

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A few days after the failure of the national vote to extend motorways, the Swiss Minister for Transport would like to see a tax on cyclists. Coincidence?

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"Rail, route: la Suisse dans l'impasse?" J'ai participé au débat d'Infrarouge en soulignant l'importance de: 🌲Limites environnementales 🚲 Vélo sous ses différentes formes 🔎 Politique de la demande 🏬 Organisation du territoire 👓 Changer de regard sur la congestion www.rts.ch/play/tv/infr...

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Historic vote in Switzerland! 52.7% of voters rejected the Government's plan to extend 6 stretches of motorway Time now for a debate on the kind of mobility we want and on the measures to address mobility needs (beyond building new roads and inducing new traffic)

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Historic vote in Switzerland! 52.7% of voters rejected the Government's plan to extend 6 stretches of motorway Time now for a debate on the kind of mobility we want and on the measures to address mobility needs (beyond building new roads and inducing new traffic)

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Congrats to the finalists for the UCI Cycling for All and Sustainability Awards! And to the other applicants! As a member of the jury, I found it great to see the multiple ways to include environmental and social sustainability in sport cycling! www.uci.org/pressrelease...

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Switzerland remains Europe's rail transport champion In 2023, the Swiss travelled an average of 2,466 km by #rail and took the #train 68 times (I do more than my fair share!) Austria ranks 2nd for the distance and Luxembourg for the frequency Statistics by LITRA: litra.ch/fr/news/cham...

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