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Gala @galashine.bsky.social · 2d

The Patriarchal Curriculum: A Critical Analysis of Gender in Core Planning History & Theory Courses presented by Dr. Bernadette Hanlon #ACSP2025 #KnowltonPlanning @bhanlonurban.bsky.social

Results of research PPP and the presenter in front of the audience

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Gala @galashine.bsky.social · 2d

My Brothers keepers: Post-Pandemic Community Development Strategies to Support Schools and Youth presentation by Dr. Reece #ACSP2025 #KnowltonPlanning #OhioState

presenter in front of the audience with PPP title slide

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Gala @galashine.bsky.social · 2d

AI: Implications for Planning Theory, Education, and Practice: Dr. Tom Sanchez #ACSP2025

AI: Implications for Planning Theory, Education, and Practice presentation and a speaker in front of the screen

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Gala @galashine.bsky.social · Sep 5

I wonder how much of it is due to sensory processing and absence of accommodation for sensory overload and such

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Gala @galashine.bsky.social · Sep 5

historic preservation at the expense of accessibility? @jclarkcrp.bsky.social did you hear about this abc6onyourside.com/news/local/g...

German Village Society sues Columbus to stop curb accessibility project

A lawsuit has been filed by the German Village Society against the city of Columbus, seeking to halt a construction project aimed at installing ADA ramps.

abc6onyourside.com

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Aug 17

"Campbell finds that racial sentiment has the single largest influence on white Americans’ tax attitudes, w/ white taxpayers perceiving their tax dollars as aiding nonwhites—a resentful relationship dating to the post–Civil War era. Black + Brown communities, meanwhile [are often] taxed unfairly."

Ways and Means | Los Angeles Review of Books

Carey Mott reviews Andrea Louise Campbell’s “Taxation and Resentment: Race, Party, and Class in American Tax Attitudes” and Ruth Braunstein’s “My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America.”

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · May 22

In addition, the proposal to terminate "Optional Practical Training," which enables international graduates to stay in the U.S. and transition into employment would worsen shortages of skilled workers in the U.S. & likely reduce int'l enrollment at US colleges/unis bsky.app/profile/mcle...

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · May 21

They're terminating OPT.

Today the nominee to head USCIS stated directly: he will end Optional Practical Training, the single largest channel for high-skill immigrants to work in the US.

6 weeks ago I warned about this & summarized the research on impacts of this drastic action—> @piie.com

Skilled immigration on the chopping block? Effects of eliminating "Optional Practical Training" in the US

The White House has taken numerous steps to sharply reduce the number of immigrant workers, with or without legal status, in the US economy. These policies, so far, typically target immigrants with le...

www.piie.com

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Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · May 22

🚨New article! Mind the gap: gender, geography and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on publication in Regional Studies Association (RSA) journals www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Mind the gap: gender, geography and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on publication in Regional Studies Association (RSA) journals

The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic were deep and lasting, and the effects on research and researchers have been widely documented. This paper contributes to this literature through an investigati...

www.tandfonline.com

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · Feb 18

Today is tough for me. What's happening at NSF is affecting the employees AND the researchers and folks *like me* whose upcoming work depends on them.

NSF runs ALL AMERICAN BASES in Antarctica. This affects both science and our geopolitical standing on an internationally-negotiated continent. 🧪

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camillegamboa.bsky.social @camillegamboa.bsky.social · Feb 18

"Many of the people terminated on Tuesday work as program managers and experts who make decisions about funding by aligning research proposals with the right program and matching those proposals to the most qualified reviewers to assess them and make recommendations."

www.wired.com/story/nation...

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · Feb 18

“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated."

"This is a very real threat to the American flying public.”

EXCLUSIVE ⤵️

FAA Employees Say Trump and Musk's Purge Is a 'Threat' to Air Safety

Donald Trump and Elon Musk fired hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration employees. The administration argues it won’t affect air safety.

www.rollingstone.com

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Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo @lawsonjaramillo.bsky.social · Feb 12

I've been thinking so much about @shannonmattern.bsky.social's chapter on "Bureaucracy" in the book Designing in Dark Times: An Arendtian Lexicon. This highlighted excerpt is ringing so true!

Such an excellent intertwining of "good" design, government, politics, and more.

Screenshot of the online version of the book mentioned. In highlight is the text, "Sublimating bureaucracy in the faceless machine only further obfuscates governance and diminishes accountability. Yet the solution is not banishing bureaucracy. As Peter Aucoin proposes, bureaucracy is actually essential to good government, because good government requires “organizational designs that promote democratic direction, control and accountability.”[2] Bureaucracy, designed well, can serve these ends."

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · Feb 13

We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · Feb 12

As Trump is again bringing up the “tens of millions” of Russians who died in WWII, it is worth underlining that he likely means Soviet not Russian casualties. In reality, Ukraine lost far more people than Russia proportionally, while only a small part of Russia was ever occupied

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Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · Feb 13

🚨 Ohio reports its first probable human case of influenza A(H5).

An adult male farm worker, exposed to deceased poultry—but no details on clinical status or virus sequencing.

With bird flu spreading, this is a terrible time to defund public health and halt research.
odh.ohio.gov/media-center...

Ohio Reports First Human Case of Bird Flu

The overall risk to Ohioans is low, but those in close contact with sick or dead poultry or wild birds should take precautions

odh.ohio.gov

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · Feb 13

In light of today's TTS layoffs and general federal unease, I want to mention that my team at New America, the New Practice Lab, just opened five roles across several disciplines - policy, learning + evaluation, design, product, and data engineering.

Quick thread about what we do, and how we work:

We're Hiring

Join the New Practice Lab in delivering for families.

www.newamerica.org

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · Feb 12

George Washington Carver was born into slavery and went on to become a renowned artist and scientist.

Leigh-Ann Jackson visited the show about him at CAAM and contributes a terrific dispatch to the @kcrw.com Art Insider on why he matters in post-fire LA. 🌱
email.kcrw.com/george-washi...

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Gala @galashine.bsky.social · Jun 13

this female solder plays violin from when she was 4 years old, lost her eye in war. brilliant performer

Ukrainian solders musicians on the stage

woman plays violin, one man on Ukrainian musical instrument bandura and one on piano

Gala @galashine.bsky.social · Jun 13

Yesterday in Columbus OH www.dispatch.com/story/entert...

Ukrainian soldiers to return to musical roots for Columbus concert Wednesday

Before battling Russia, five Ukrainian soldiers were professional musicians in their homeland. Their concert on Wednesday is a thanks to the U.S.

www.dispatch.com

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Gala @galashine.bsky.social · Jun 4

it was very hard but worth it: the beauty of nature

photo of glacier mountains and sub alpine vegetation near the Elk Lake WA

Gala @galashine.bsky.social · Jun 4

to celebrate my BD I did this in Olympic National Park WA 😊🥾🏔️💦

Hiking app: active calories 1,659
distance 22.72 km. elevation 573. Hoh River Trail WA

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Gala @galashine.bsky.social · May 19

linktr.ee/antarcticcen...

antarcticcenterua | Facebook, TikTok | Linktree

Linktree. Make your link do more.

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Gala @galashine.bsky.social · May 19

yesterday I’ve won in silent auction a postcard from Vernadsky Arctic Station of Ukraine with Ukrainian scientists signatures & ship stamps🇺🇦all for the victory🙌🏻

back of the card with signatures and stamps

postcard with Vernadsky Arctic Station of Ukraine on the Arctic pole. It has a station, whale, penguins, sea lion and ice

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Gala @galashine.bsky.social · Mar 3

spring is here?

photo of a little dog smelling yellow flowers

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Feb 11

The mythmaking that Putin did with Carlson is what I called "the politics of eternity" in my book "Road to Unfreedom," where I explain its connection to war. Putin has been talking that way for over a decade; it’s all chronicled there.

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