Julie Cidell
@jlcidell.bsky.social
Geographer, quilter, runner, writer, teacher, researcher, Cubs fan, transportation geek, she/her
My dad delivered the mail from here. <3
WALDORF MD SDC: 110 PAUL MELLON CT, WALDORF MD 20602-9900
November 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
My dad delivered the mail from here. <3
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The rhetoric has been about training students for the economy of tomorrow. Yet when employers always, *always*, year after year, say they want their workers trained in the skills that Humanities and Social Sciences teach, somehow that never turns into more investment in those programs.
From today's Chronicle of Higher Ed briefing. I am *never* an advocate of cutting programs. But I am curious to see if there will be the same type of "students aren't majoring in this, so let's cut the program" discourse around computer science as there always is for the arts and humanities.
November 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The rhetoric has been about training students for the economy of tomorrow. Yet when employers always, *always*, year after year, say they want their workers trained in the skills that Humanities and Social Sciences teach, somehow that never turns into more investment in those programs.
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But at least we can still celebrate the most important thing
vladimir guerrero jr. joins the show during a postseason imgplay
Alt: vladimir guerrero jr. repeating "Daaaaaaa Yankees Lose!"
media.tenor.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:26 AM
But at least we can still celebrate the most important thing
Whatever happens in tonight's game, at least I won't have to hear the "oppo taco" MLB ad for another five months. 💀
November 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Whatever happens in tonight's game, at least I won't have to hear the "oppo taco" MLB ad for another five months. 💀
Seems like the right time to make a PSA: academics, if you're close to finishing up an article, do it soon or take the holidays to polish it. I've learned after a few years as co-editor that there's little use in asking for reviews in Dec. and early Jan., at least not without a due date of late Jan.
Recently generated 10 names of people to ask to review a manuscript. None of them agreed. Zero. Sigh ... #academicsky
October 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Seems like the right time to make a PSA: academics, if you're close to finishing up an article, do it soon or take the holidays to polish it. I've learned after a few years as co-editor that there's little use in asking for reviews in Dec. and early Jan., at least not without a due date of late Jan.
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Witness Slip Warriors: You are a PROPONENT of SB2111 if you love trains and buses! Get to it. (Previously shared an outdated link, this is current.)
Sorry, this is an old link. Please use this one from today if you have any issues navigating to the new place to submit the witness slip.
mbl.ms/mKso5XZhOHV
mbl.ms/mKso5XZhOHV
Official government website of the Illinois General Assembly
Welcome to the Official government website of the Illinois General Assembly
mbl.ms
October 30, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Witness Slip Warriors: You are a PROPONENT of SB2111 if you love trains and buses! Get to it. (Previously shared an outdated link, this is current.)
Just in time for Halloween, the zombie airport returns from the dead one more time...
Commentary: We have the studies, the land, the money and the workforce. We just need Gov. JB Pritzker to release the land and unlock the gates to the global economy, writes Jesse Jackson Jr.
Jesse Jackson Jr.: The south suburbs are one airport runway away from prosperity
A new Chicago south suburban airport would reconnect communities to the global economy that left us behind.
trib.al
October 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Just in time for Halloween, the zombie airport returns from the dead one more time...
Last chance to submit an abstract to the Transportation Justice sessions at @geographers.bsky.social in San Francisco! Feel free to contact me for more information.
October 30, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Last chance to submit an abstract to the Transportation Justice sessions at @geographers.bsky.social in San Francisco! Feel free to contact me for more information.
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I keep thinking I should write an oped about the danger of the Border Patrol policing deep in the interior, but the problem is I already did... in 2022 www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Contributor: The long, deep reach of the U.S. Border Patrol
The Supreme Court has allowed the Border Patrol to barely abide by the Constitution, especially our 4th Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures.
www.latimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I keep thinking I should write an oped about the danger of the Border Patrol policing deep in the interior, but the problem is I already did... in 2022 www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
My first home. <3
October 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
My first home. <3
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bringing back my most viral tweet for spooky season
September 23, 2023 at 1:01 PM
bringing back my most viral tweet for spooky season
The Incredible Story Behind the Largest African American Quilt Collection 📜
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The Incredible Story Behind the Largest African American Quilt Collection | Artnet News
Eli Leon's game-changing African American quilt donation stuns in "Routed West" at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA).
news.artnet.com
October 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Excited to be traveling to UW-Milwaukee to give the Harold Mayer lecture/West Lakes keynote address, on the changing landscapes of logistics. What better way to get there than by train?
October 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Excited to be traveling to UW-Milwaukee to give the Harold Mayer lecture/West Lakes keynote address, on the changing landscapes of logistics. What better way to get there than by train?
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🎓 Join us for lunch, learning, and conversation at "Grad School FAQ: A Panel Discussion Demystifying the Grad School Application Process & How to Prepare your Applications"!
🗓️ Friday, October 31st from 12-1:30 PM CDT via
📍 NHB 2049 & Zoom!
💻 Register here: go.illinois.edu/HEROP-OCT31
🗓️ Friday, October 31st from 12-1:30 PM CDT via
📍 NHB 2049 & Zoom!
💻 Register here: go.illinois.edu/HEROP-OCT31
October 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
🎓 Join us for lunch, learning, and conversation at "Grad School FAQ: A Panel Discussion Demystifying the Grad School Application Process & How to Prepare your Applications"!
🗓️ Friday, October 31st from 12-1:30 PM CDT via
📍 NHB 2049 & Zoom!
💻 Register here: go.illinois.edu/HEROP-OCT31
🗓️ Friday, October 31st from 12-1:30 PM CDT via
📍 NHB 2049 & Zoom!
💻 Register here: go.illinois.edu/HEROP-OCT31
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Looking for support for your research or fieldwork? Apply for AAG’s Research Grants for the chance to receive up to $500 for your work. Apply by November 15: buff.ly/z93KZ7A
#GeoSky #GISChat #GrantSupport #Fieldwork
#GeoSky #GISChat #GrantSupport #Fieldwork
October 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Looking for support for your research or fieldwork? Apply for AAG’s Research Grants for the chance to receive up to $500 for your work. Apply by November 15: buff.ly/z93KZ7A
#GeoSky #GISChat #GrantSupport #Fieldwork
#GeoSky #GISChat #GrantSupport #Fieldwork
LOL, happy Monday morning.
October 20, 2025 at 1:35 PM
LOL, happy Monday morning.
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Announcing Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ), "Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis", Toronto, 1-5 June 2026 antipodeonline.org/institute-fo... -- submit your application by 20 December 2025
October 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Announcing Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ), "Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis", Toronto, 1-5 June 2026 antipodeonline.org/institute-fo... -- submit your application by 20 December 2025
Saving this one for the next time I teach Geospatial Technologies and Society.
Maps are political documents, part infinity. I expect much more of this, where cities don’t want to be known as risky but, then, surprise!, that very risk barrels along anyway. Gift link.
Cities Fight to Get Off FEMA’s Flood Maps. One Montana Town Shows the Risk.
Livingston successfully overturned a flood map, which freed the city from onerous restrictions. Years later, disaster hit.
www.wsj.com
October 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Saving this one for the next time I teach Geospatial Technologies and Society.
Trying to square this with the fiscal cliff that so many U.S. cities are facing right now, which in large part is due to WFH. The effects on downtowns are a lot more complicated than the "commercial real estate cabal."
There is an actual life-changing conflict between WFH being cheaper and more efficient, an entire layer of middle managers who need to have meetings to feel alive, and the commercial real estate cabal that runs all cities. It’s going to get so fucking weird.
remote work is like birth control or UBI atp where there’s overwhelming research consensus they improve quality of life for people they apply to, yet access is impeded or blocked by the ruling class because the thought of marginalized ppl having rich full lives makes steam come out their ears
October 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Trying to square this with the fiscal cliff that so many U.S. cities are facing right now, which in large part is due to WFH. The effects on downtowns are a lot more complicated than the "commercial real estate cabal."
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Pls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026
Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma
Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026
Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma
Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026
Toronto 2026 | Summer Institute in Economic Geography
www.econgeog.net
October 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Pls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026
Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma
Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026
Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma
Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026
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We're hiring! Our department has a tenure-track opening in support of our GIS programs.
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wiu.interviewexchange.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:08 PM
We're hiring! Our department has a tenure-track opening in support of our GIS programs.
wiu.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...
wiu.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...
Welp. I guess I'm cheering for the American League from here on out. 🐻😢
BANDWAGON
3. Mariners
SURE, I GUESS
7. Blue Jays
NO
9. Dodgers
10. Brewers
BANDWAGON
3. Mariners
SURE, I GUESS
7. Blue Jays
NO
9. Dodgers
10. Brewers
This is fun, so here's mine! #MLB postseason rooting order:
PASSIONATE
1. Cubs
2. Red Sox
BANDWAGON
3. Mariners
4. Tigers
I LIKE THEM
5. Phillies
SURE, I GUESS
6. Guardians
7. Blue Jays
NOT ROOTING, BUT YOU'RE ALLOWED A WS
8. Reds
NO
9. Dodgers
10. Brewers
HELL NO
11. Padres
12. Yankees
PASSIONATE
1. Cubs
2. Red Sox
BANDWAGON
3. Mariners
4. Tigers
I LIKE THEM
5. Phillies
SURE, I GUESS
6. Guardians
7. Blue Jays
NOT ROOTING, BUT YOU'RE ALLOWED A WS
8. Reds
NO
9. Dodgers
10. Brewers
HELL NO
11. Padres
12. Yankees
This is fun, so here’s mine! #MLB postseason rooting order:
PASSIONATE
1. Mariners
BANDWAGON
2. Guardians
3. Tigers
4. Blue Jays
I LIKE THEM
5. Phillies
SURE, I GUESS
6. Padres
NOT ROOTING, BUT YOU’RE ALLOWED A WS
7. Reds
8. Brewers
NO
9. Red Sox
10. Yankees
HELL NO
11. Dodgers
12. Cubs
PASSIONATE
1. Mariners
BANDWAGON
2. Guardians
3. Tigers
4. Blue Jays
I LIKE THEM
5. Phillies
SURE, I GUESS
6. Padres
NOT ROOTING, BUT YOU’RE ALLOWED A WS
7. Reds
8. Brewers
NO
9. Red Sox
10. Yankees
HELL NO
11. Dodgers
12. Cubs
October 12, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Welp. I guess I'm cheering for the American League from here on out. 🐻😢
BANDWAGON
3. Mariners
SURE, I GUESS
7. Blue Jays
NO
9. Dodgers
10. Brewers
BANDWAGON
3. Mariners
SURE, I GUESS
7. Blue Jays
NO
9. Dodgers
10. Brewers
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Thanks, @urbanstudiesjournal.com! Here's my new article with Wataru Morioka, part of the special issue on Urban Transport as a Social Construct. Transportation justice needs to consider the afterlives of infrastructure: railyard reuse is another source of environmental injustice in Chicago.
✍️ Morioka & @jlcidell.bsky.social
🔍 Do the afterlives of rail #infrastructure further existing environmental injustices or do they create new inequalities via environmental #gentrification?
📖 buff.ly/Lkjfl6Y
🔍 Do the afterlives of rail #infrastructure further existing environmental injustices or do they create new inequalities via environmental #gentrification?
📖 buff.ly/Lkjfl6Y
October 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Thanks, @urbanstudiesjournal.com! Here's my new article with Wataru Morioka, part of the special issue on Urban Transport as a Social Construct. Transportation justice needs to consider the afterlives of infrastructure: railyard reuse is another source of environmental injustice in Chicago.
Thanks, @urbanstudiesjournal.com! Here's my new article with Wataru Morioka, part of the special issue on Urban Transport as a Social Construct. Transportation justice needs to consider the afterlives of infrastructure: railyard reuse is another source of environmental injustice in Chicago.
✍️ Morioka & @jlcidell.bsky.social
🔍 Do the afterlives of rail #infrastructure further existing environmental injustices or do they create new inequalities via environmental #gentrification?
📖 buff.ly/Lkjfl6Y
🔍 Do the afterlives of rail #infrastructure further existing environmental injustices or do they create new inequalities via environmental #gentrification?
📖 buff.ly/Lkjfl6Y
October 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Thanks, @urbanstudiesjournal.com! Here's my new article with Wataru Morioka, part of the special issue on Urban Transport as a Social Construct. Transportation justice needs to consider the afterlives of infrastructure: railyard reuse is another source of environmental injustice in Chicago.
This is fantastic news!
Tonika Lewis Johnson’s artwork includes the acclaimed Folded Map Project. She’s one of 22 new MacArthur Fellows, announced on Wednesday.
MacArthur 2025 ‘genius grant’ winners include a Chicago photographer
Tonika Lewis Johnson’s artwork includes the acclaimed Folded Map Project. She’s one of 22 new MacArthur Fellows, announced on Wednesday.
trib.al
October 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
This is fantastic news!