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vanesilla.bsky.social
Working to deliver responses to climate change embedded in places and communities. Based at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield. Migrant. #climateurbanism
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Waitress: Would you like to hear the specials? Customer: Sure. Waitress: 🎶Stop your messing around. Ah ah ah. Better think of your future. Ah ah ah. Time to straighten right out....🎶

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My Valentine? Bloody.

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Let's forget the barrage of ugly news and celebrate instead the impeccable sartorial style of James Baldwin. The revolution will be well dressed or not at all!

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Looking forward to reading this

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I am so proud we were able to translate our book 'Teaching, Learning and Researching Spatial Planning' into Spanish! issuu.com/robertorocco... You can download it for free from doi.org/10.59490/mg....

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Time to be thunderous people

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đź‘‘ Jane Fonda with a mic drop "Empathy is not weak or "woke." And, by the way, "woke" just means you give a damn about other people."

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Reading this stunning book in Morocco amid such linked histories, thinking through inhabiting a Muslim-Jewish “world of our ancestors that imperialism wants us to believe is impossible to inhabit, + to make it part of my -our- continuous present” www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

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Come work with us!

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A philosophy for the current moment, only gifs

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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

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Communities have a lot of answers for the climate crisis, but they cannot do everything alone. Read the interviews with several urbanists (including me!) in the Financial Times. www.ft.com/content/2e1c...

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AOC: This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail & call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

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Episode 1 of #UrbanRadar is now live on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & many other platforms! open.spotify.com/episode/2Qas... In Episode 1, Tom & Beth bring their urban lens to a range of current issues before welcoming @vanesilla.bsky.social & David Dodman for a discussion of cities & climate change.

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[finally standing up to a bully] hey asshole... [but remembering that first and foremost I am a poet] I will engulf you like a fog

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@savannahcox.bsky.social does it again, challenging common ideas of infrastructure and resilience with her work.

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Communities have a lot of answers for the climate crisis, but they cannot do everything alone. Read the interviews with several urbanists (including me!) in the Financial Times. www.ft.com/content/2e1c...

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Yes, community energy enables the implementation of low carbon energy projects. Yes, community energy facilitates energy access in inclusive ways. But what fewer people realise is that community energy is a tool for community resilience. Read it here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

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Knowledge is power…

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This is what oligarchy looks like.

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Reads like Confucian philosophy about the source of power of the ruler

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I'm tired of poor people and minorities always trying to ruin my life. Fortunately, hedge funds and multinational corporations are here to stand up for me.

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Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off

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Make this viral

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You can ignore climate change. The political system can ignore climate change. But the insurance industry cannot ignore climate change.

submitted 18 days ago • 103 comments

The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.

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The number of people surprised by the long list of words NSF is targeting makes me think many of you all have not seen this: www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

submitted 25 days ago • 60 comments

This is so vile. Deserves the disdain and rejection of scientists everywhere. Science is nothing if not diverse.

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🚨 New Report 🚨 'Centripetal Cities: A critique of supply-side urban development' Given the Government's aim to 'unleash growth' we've drawn on over 3 years of research to think about the implications of this agenda for towns + cities Available here www.sheffield.ac.uk/media/87471/...

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New report - an incisive and disturbing read: essential to understand the relationships between growth-led development, housing and local communities From @invisiblemapper.bsky.social, @richmgoulding.bsky.social and @adamleaver.bsky.social in @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social & School of Management

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Charing Cross Road, pedestrianised today. Glorious. Because whenever you take cars away, cities get better.

submitted 26 days ago • 161 comments

My heart is today with the all the young protesters in East Europe today fed up with governments that do not even pretend to have a public interest

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The destruction of open access data is an attack on all of us who work to build an open science accessible to everyone

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Urban Research Horizons: In the second workshop of our kickoff week yesterday, we shared personal and collective urban research agendas, as part of a collaborative process to build a shared vision for #SheffieldUrbanism!

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I cannot believe the week is finnishing already, but happy that the Summer Programme of Sheffield Urbanism is coming up in June 2025

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Always a pleasure talking with David Dodman, from Rotterdam's Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies, about informality, climate change and urbam futures

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Hybrid events still have their place! Listening to World City Report co-authors @vanesilla.bsky.social & David Dodman on how to shape international policy agendas - and on the hopefulness of climate action at ground level in the face of such huge challenges.

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Today we host our rising stars in the Sheffield Urbanism PhD conference, including the brilliant Pragya Roy, examines the spatial aspects of the maternity health journeys of Dalit women in Calcutta

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What a privilege to welcome Dr David Dodman from IHS to celebrate Sheffield Urbanism with us

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Let's just call things by their name. And don't buy or invest in Tesla. They are only an outdated version of the future.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

You guys need to see this and take it in… Wise words from someone who is a target. And he’s been listening.

submitted 36 days ago • 952 comments

One day after the White House environmental justice website went dark, please join me in welcoming the father of environmental justice to Bluesky. Yes, sociologist @drrobertbullard.bsky.social literally defined the concept in his 1990 book, Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and Environmental Quality.

submitted 36 days ago • 249 comments

Sure is a bad time to be a person who cares about things.

submitted 37 days ago • 186 comments

This just put a block in my stomach. Not only migrants support your econony. We also carry the burden of work keeping our families safe. This may feel far but the same discourse of hate is prevalent in Europe too.

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