Ruth Nelson
@ruthjnelson.bsky.social
Spatial Data Scientist for the City of Amsterdam ||
All things urban 🌆, policy 📝, AI 🦾 and spatial data science 📍
Website: www.ruthjnelson.com
All things urban 🌆, policy 📝, AI 🦾 and spatial data science 📍
Website: www.ruthjnelson.com
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Who says social housing can't be beautiful?
RIBA Stirling Prize 2025: London Social Housing Project Is The Best New Building in Britain for 2025 www.timeout.com/london/news/...
This London social housing project has been crowned the best new building in Britain for 2025
It was designed to combat loneliness among older people
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October 18, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Who says social housing can't be beautiful?
A must watch documentary about activists fighting for social and spatial justice in Cape Town #capetown #cities #unequalcities #space #justice vimeo.com/948233953?fl...
Mother City feature documentary trailer
This is "Mother City feature documentary trailer" by PLEXUS FILMS on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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October 16, 2025 at 8:59 PM
A must watch documentary about activists fighting for social and spatial justice in Cape Town #capetown #cities #unequalcities #space #justice vimeo.com/948233953?fl...
I’m really pleased to share a paper that has recently been published of mine and my wonderful co-authors BinBin Jiang Pearce, Martijn Warnier and @trivikrama.bsky.social : www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Constructing just mobility futures
Scenario planning has become a common approach within transportation research to understand the varying impacts of transportation planning. By examini…
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October 5, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I’m really pleased to share a paper that has recently been published of mine and my wonderful co-authors BinBin Jiang Pearce, Martijn Warnier and @trivikrama.bsky.social : www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Emails from predatory journals used to annoy me, now I take a moment to appreciate their words of praise, before swiftly hitting the delete and junk button #academicchatter #takewhatyoucan #research
September 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Emails from predatory journals used to annoy me, now I take a moment to appreciate their words of praise, before swiftly hitting the delete and junk button #academicchatter #takewhatyoucan #research
I will never understand a reviewer who is condescending, or belittling… the review process is indeed meant to be a form of assessment, but also, academic debate…. What is there to be gained by degrading authors who might have worked months if not years on a piece of work? #academicchatter #academia
August 26, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I will never understand a reviewer who is condescending, or belittling… the review process is indeed meant to be a form of assessment, but also, academic debate…. What is there to be gained by degrading authors who might have worked months if not years on a piece of work? #academicchatter #academia
A preview to my new job loading ! Watch this space to hear more… SAIL Amsterdam happens every 5 years in Amsterdam and is the largest sailing parade in the world. It boasts hundreds of ships, boats and submarines originating from all over the world!! #sail #amsterdam #newjobloading #heelgezellig
August 22, 2025 at 5:05 AM
A preview to my new job loading ! Watch this space to hear more… SAIL Amsterdam happens every 5 years in Amsterdam and is the largest sailing parade in the world. It boasts hundreds of ships, boats and submarines originating from all over the world!! #sail #amsterdam #newjobloading #heelgezellig
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this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility
July 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility
April 29, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Another fantastic GISRUK conference complete ! I have really enjoyed my time in Bristol and want to thank all the wonderful people I connected with and especially the organising committee for an amazing conference [email protected] #inspired #bristol #gisruk2025
April 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Another fantastic GISRUK conference complete ! I have really enjoyed my time in Bristol and want to thank all the wonderful people I connected with and especially the organising committee for an amazing conference [email protected] #inspired #bristol #gisruk2025
Got this today! Some backstory: the first journal I applied to with this article desk rejected it - it's now one of the most viewed articles in @geog-analysis.bsky.social published in 2023! Key to the academic publishing process is grit, this is your sign to just keep going... #academia #publishing
April 16, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Got this today! Some backstory: the first journal I applied to with this article desk rejected it - it's now one of the most viewed articles in @geog-analysis.bsky.social published in 2023! Key to the academic publishing process is grit, this is your sign to just keep going... #academia #publishing
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The Data + Feminism Lab is proud to support this brilliant and beautiful collaborative book! It’s available in Spanish and the title in English translates to “Feminist Security Studies from Latin America and the Caribbean’
February 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The Data + Feminism Lab is proud to support this brilliant and beautiful collaborative book! It’s available in Spanish and the title in English translates to “Feminist Security Studies from Latin America and the Caribbean’
What an awesome initiative! when the development of urban infrastructure involves the local community - the local community takes ownership! great case study #cyclinglanes #cycling #artists
Help bring beauty to our bike lanes! Call for Artists now open for Toronto’s Concrete Barriers Mural Program to create works of art on cycle track barriers across the city. Since 2018 over 1,000 barriers have been hand painted or wrapped in designs by local artists. Details at tinyurl.com/dyhxknru
February 26, 2025 at 10:34 AM
What an awesome initiative! when the development of urban infrastructure involves the local community - the local community takes ownership! great case study #cyclinglanes #cycling #artists
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If you—or someone you know—are eager to explore #SpaceSyntax in practice or research, consider the MSc in Space Syntax: Architecture and Cities at #UCL. Gain practical skills and insights into how spatial design shapes human behavior.
Join the info event online on 20 February 2025 bit.ly/ssac_info
Join the info event online on 20 February 2025 bit.ly/ssac_info
February 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
If you—or someone you know—are eager to explore #SpaceSyntax in practice or research, consider the MSc in Space Syntax: Architecture and Cities at #UCL. Gain practical skills and insights into how spatial design shapes human behavior.
Join the info event online on 20 February 2025 bit.ly/ssac_info
Join the info event online on 20 February 2025 bit.ly/ssac_info
Are you interested in the intersection between #AI and #urbanism? Are you eager to learn how the field of urban planning, governance and design is evolving with AI?
I am pleased to share the AI in Urban Planning Program: urbanai.academy. 1/3
I am pleased to share the AI in Urban Planning Program: urbanai.academy. 1/3
URBAN AI
#1 Program dedicated to AI in Urban Planning
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February 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Are you interested in the intersection between #AI and #urbanism? Are you eager to learn how the field of urban planning, governance and design is evolving with AI?
I am pleased to share the AI in Urban Planning Program: urbanai.academy. 1/3
I am pleased to share the AI in Urban Planning Program: urbanai.academy. 1/3
The world is in shambles right now.. so I give you a picture of my sweet Kitty, she brings me joy everyday and is getting me through the last months of my PhD #acknowledgements #catsofbluesky #cat
February 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The world is in shambles right now.. so I give you a picture of my sweet Kitty, she brings me joy everyday and is getting me through the last months of my PhD #acknowledgements #catsofbluesky #cat
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Charing Cross Road, pedestrianised today. Glorious. Because whenever you take cars away, cities get better.
February 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Charing Cross Road, pedestrianised today. Glorious. Because whenever you take cars away, cities get better.
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Stanford Economist Raj Chetty: "If one wants to revive the “American Dream” of high rates of absolute mobility, one must have an interest in growth that is shared more broadly across the income distribution." Read more: evonomics.com/the-end-of-u... #inequality
December 28, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Stanford Economist Raj Chetty: "If one wants to revive the “American Dream” of high rates of absolute mobility, one must have an interest in growth that is shared more broadly across the income distribution." Read more: evonomics.com/the-end-of-u... #inequality
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The colonial powers never stopped their colonial extraction.
The Guardian view on development’s paradox: the rich benefit more than the poor | Editorial
Editorial: The global south needs a fairer deal than this one, in which it funds the lifestyle and wealth of the global north
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2025 at 6:41 AM
The colonial powers never stopped their colonial extraction.
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Something that has become very clear to me from working on housing and urban policy more generally is that a lot of people — including a lot of professional advocates — think that there's a way to do policymaking without any tradeoffs, and the existence of tradeoffs means you did something wrong.
increasingly obvious that a lot of people want left-wing policy but without the social democratic tax based policy for broad based funding
January 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Something that has become very clear to me from working on housing and urban policy more generally is that a lot of people — including a lot of professional advocates — think that there's a way to do policymaking without any tradeoffs, and the existence of tradeoffs means you did something wrong.
From my trifle to yours: wishing you a very Merry Christmas 💛
December 24, 2024 at 12:59 PM
From my trifle to yours: wishing you a very Merry Christmas 💛
Wishing all an amazing and blessed Christmas break - here’s a sneak peak of mine! Officially signing off for the year :) #break #holiday #vacationtime
December 20, 2024 at 1:19 PM
Wishing all an amazing and blessed Christmas break - here’s a sneak peak of mine! Officially signing off for the year :) #break #holiday #vacationtime
Bluesky feels like a breath of fresh air, whilst my Twitter feed feels like the earth is burning 🔥 don’t know which one is real, but I sure feel far more optimistic about the world seeing all this wonderful work/ideas from amazing people 🚀
November 19, 2024 at 10:23 PM
Bluesky feels like a breath of fresh air, whilst my Twitter feed feels like the earth is burning 🔥 don’t know which one is real, but I sure feel far more optimistic about the world seeing all this wonderful work/ideas from amazing people 🚀