DISCLAIMER: This new short story will make you hungry!
Come on Margaret, will you stop?
sybilderrible.com/writings.html#
(7 min read – practicing dialogues in this new short story)
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Sybil Derrible
@SybilDerrible
Husband. Father. Author. Associate Professor (). Director of CSUN Lab (csun.uic.edu). Mastodon: @derrible@urbanists.social
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In my CME440 class Cities and Sustainability, Banuprasad Velumani produced an amazing poster on the history of civilization and urbanization.
Find a full-resolution version at csun.uic.edu
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Why isn’t the Ohio train derailment making more headlines? It’s an enormous and predictable catastrophe that will have very long lasting impacts on human health and the environment:
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US’s first solar installation over canals will use iron flow batteries
electrek.co/2023/02/14/uss #WWS #WindWaterSolar
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I reviewed the book "Sustainable infrastructure for cities and societies" by Michael Neuman for the Journal of #UrbanAffairs.
My main takeaway: everyone should read and re-read at least Part 1.
Find my review at doi.org/10.1080/073521
Find the book at
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In Barcelona🇪🇸, citizens who get rid of their car 🚗get three years of free public transport 🚌🚇🚉👇👇
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Monday morning. It's cold outside. Give yourself a break, read my latest #shortstory: "A TGV Sas, Early Afternoon, on a Monday": derrible.people.uic.edu/writings.html#
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We () have TWO new open rank instructional faculty jobs in Environment, Geography and Urbanization. Either has the option to serve as the Coordinator for Undergraduate Studies for our newly transformed foundational and experiential curriculum! EEO/Vet/Disability
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@UChicagoCEGU is delighted to announce two new job listings for instructional faculty positions (open rank) in Environment, Geography and Urbanization. Details can be found at the two Interfolio links below.
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Actually, we're not hiring 1 but 2 new faculty.
Tenure track: uic.csod.com/ux/ats/careers
Teaching track: uic.csod.com/ux/ats/careers
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Looking for a faculty position in #environmentalengineering ? Apply to join a phenomenal department: uic.csod.com/ux/ats/careers
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Predicting Residential #Water Demand with Machine-Based Statistical Learning, by Lee & (2020) in JWRPM
ascelibrary.org/doi/full/10.10
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It’s an honor to present our work on this #MLKDay of all days (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ji…). Thank you to the amazing co-authors: Drs. , , , , , , , , …
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You know you have a mainstream cycling culture when your city builds a giant parking facility for 6.300 bicycles at the train station under water! 🚲🤿
4 years of work. Worth it!
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Afghan women accomplished so much in sports during the last 20 years but now they can't even train properly. This heartbreaking photo series by shows how the Taliban regime have relegated these athletes to the shadows of Afghan society.
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Looking for a faculty position in #environmentalengineering ? Apply to join a phenomenal department: uic.csod.com/ux/ats/careers
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Infrastructure before the 1940s was built for pedestrians 🚶🏽and transit 🚃, not cars 👇👇
Brooklyn Bridge - NYC 🇺🇸
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Need a short break? Here's my latest #shortstory: New Hiking Shoes (8 min read): medium.com/@derrible/new-
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For people on #Medium, I have started to post my short stories there. Please follow me (will follow back):
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For all wine lovers, Üllo filters could a great gift for the holidays (they filter sulfites, histamines, and aerate wine): amazon.com/stores/%C3%9Cl. Full disclosure, the owner of this very small business is a friend of mine and is amazing!
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The #AcademicTwitter verse has spoken. It is time to move to #Mastodon. You can find me at @derrible@urbanists.social
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In the past 3 years, I started writing short stories. I am not good at it, but I find the process liberating. It helps me tie abstract concepts to semi-reality.
Looking for a break from social media for 5 min?
Here's Unworking at an Information Plant: derrible.people.uic.edu/files/writings
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71 scholarships were awarded recently to CME students during our annual scholarship dinner. #UIC #Scholarship #Chicago #Engineering cme.uic.edu/news-stories/s
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You heard that Lake Mead is a bit dry at the moment, right? Here is a view from 1983 (when I was born) and from 2021. Source: buff.ly/3tjOzav
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One day left to the poll.e
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I hear many people are leaving Twitter for #MastodonSocial. To #AcademicTwitter: have you or are you considering joining another social media platform?
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I hear many people are leaving Twitter for #MastodonSocial. To #AcademicTwitter: have you or are you considering joining another social media platform?
- Yes (Mastodon)27.3%
- Yes (another, reply name)4.5%
- No (only Twitter)68.2%
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What do you see in this picture? Here's what I see (scroll down the page): derrible.people.uic.edu
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Check out this guy 👇 He is amazing!
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Feeling honored and humbled to be the recipient of the 2022 Davis Boyce Graduate Scholarship Award! Many thanks to the Department of Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering #UICcme at #UIC and to my PhD advisor @SybilDerrible!
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UIC researchers among top 2% in their fields for career and single-year impact. #UIC #Engineering #Chicago #Illinois #STEM
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#UIC has been recognized for its diversity efforts with the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award from Insight Into Diversity magazine for the seventh year! Read more: today.uic.edu/uics-commitmen
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The UK government's ruthless and reckless policies that "go for growth” require us all to ask the essential questions that Donella Meadows - mother of systems thinking - set out decades ago. So join me in answering these questions... 1/n
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Never thought I'd make the cover of anything. It's only my college's magazine, but I am pretty pumped (needless to say that our photographer is amazing): engineering.uic.edu/rise/
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Reading Romain Gary's The Roots of Heaven, this quote really resonated: "No one has ever managed to resolve the contradiction there is in wanting to defend something human in the company of men."
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UIC ranks among ‘Best of the Best’ for LGBTQ students - today.uic.edu/uic-ranks-amon
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Our paper on the discovery of infrastructure deserts has just been published. This is the study that has generated front-page news & TV coverage in Dallas. It's available for free access with this link until October 7, 2022.
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I guess the fact that I had to look up whether Elon Musk’s current net worth is bigger than the US’ biggest-ever climate investment’s planned expenditures for the next decade is the easiest way to explain why we need so much work on justice-oriented transition / climate policy
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New paper by called "Historical patterns and sustainability implications of worldwide bicycle ownership and use" in nature.com/articles/s4324 #Engineering #Transportation #Chicago #STEM
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