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I guess since this is my new "home," I should do an #introduction post: My name is Eladio Bobadilla. I'm an assistant professor of history at the University of Kentucky, where I teach about social movements, immigration and ethnicity, and the working class. I'm married to @timaree and am a dad to an amazing little boy, who will, in just a few weeks, welcome a baby brother into the family! #histodons

I'll be giving the STRIDE UTC webinar tomorrow, about research on how shopping trips are combined with other activities, and what the transport implications of this trip chaining are. Webinar on Dec 7 @ 12 PM ET >> register at tinyurl.com/sa9smf8a

Every news outlet should stand up a Mastondon instance for their reporters & staff.

It’ll be great to see GivennameFamilyname@mastodon.famousnewspaper.com or whatever domain they want to use.

Built in verification. Every reporter for the Washington Post on a washpo domain. Every reporter for the New York Times on an NYTimes domain. Etc, etc.

Plus the “local” feed for each instance becomes a feed of all the posts from that institution mixed together — providing extra discovery.

RT @TransitCenter@twitter.com

TransitCenter’s 4th Annual Frequency Awards continues our tradition of recognizing the agency staff, advocates, and electeds who worked tirelessly to improve transit. Our winners this year transformed 2022's formidable challenges into opportunity:

transitcenter.org/and-the-2022

🐦🔗: twitter.com/TransitCenter/stat

Woohoo! I got an emergency appointment to renew my German visa so I can travel to . Actually, going to TRB is not a problem, but they might not let me back in the county afterwards…

Hey folks, my newsletter now has a name: Paved with Good Intentions.

Join me for monthly ventures into the past, present, and future of transportation.

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#transportation #cities #bike #cars

There might be some server settings or add-ons that matter here too. For example, when I view @tgent_fens, it appears to implement something called remote follow, which makes it easier to follow profiles on their server.

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To the best I can tell, if someone else on my server already follows a profile, I can view that profile from my home server. If no one on my server follows a profile, then my server knows nothing about that profile, and the only option is to view it on its original server. This seems reasonable from the perspective of running a server, but as a user it means the experience is better from a bigger server.

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Clicking the follow button brings up this screen. Here you have to copy and paste the URL to search from your home server, and then follow. This is do-able, but kind of a pain.

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If you click through to view the profile on its home server, it looks different. I think this is what happens when @jroper right clicks. The good news is that you can see more followers. However…

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If I view a profile (@lisas) from my own server, following is easy-peasy. Note the web address below. However, it does not display follows from other servers, making it harder to browse for other people to follow.

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I’ve been confused as to why follow seems easy for some people/cases, and clunky for others. After some experimenting, here’s what I’ve been able to figure out…

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Come hear our TRB Webinar Today (from TRB's bird site post):

Public transit ridership has been declining since before COVID-19. Get analysis of trends, contributing factors, and provide actionable steps to combat ridership decline in post-pandemic travel from @brendonhemily, @transitmom & me

ow.ly/hcql50LYXMI

On my way home a woman was having a glamour photo shoot in the U-Bahn platform. I think that’s kind of awesome.

@gregerhardt I used this debirdify.pruvisto.org/ to find the folks i follow and it downloaded as a csv file. Go to preferences and import/export to get those you follow with a mastodon account will be followed by you. Importing who follows you is not an option.

So far, the clunkiness of following a user on a different server is the most annoying thing about Mastodon. Does anyone have an easier way?

RT @ReddingEcon@twitter.com

Terrific @nberpubs@twitter.com conference on The Economics of Public Transportation organized by Ed Glaeser and Jim Poterba. Open call for papers. @UrbanEconomics@twitter.com twitter.com/nberpubs/status/15

🐦🔗: twitter.com/ReddingEcon/status

New in-depth study of e-cargo bikes highlights their ability to replace cars:

"There is a high potential for substitution of private car trips [from] e-cargo bikes, varying from 1 to 4 trips/week avoided."

t.co/bMqQo6v46J

#bikes #ebikes #climate #climatecrisis

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