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• Post #4346620

  This is getting ugly for France.. #worldcup

• Post #4346619

  RE: https://flipping.rocks/@liesvanrompaey/116969949021008721 They all feel a bit weird, but great to see zero cars on them and many people walking or active in the public, several cycling. Will the EU take this as a vision to implement?

• Post #4346618

  We went on a bike ride with #AOC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1-jM1SuZR0

• Post #4346617

  Why Your City Feels Built For Cars, Not People https://www.forbes.com/sites/lauriewinkless/2026/07/24/why-your-city-feels-built-for-cars-not-people/

• Post #4346616

  It seems #Google #scholar has now really become #slopware. Every week I get weirder and weirder edit suggestions, this time to revert several published papers to their preprint versions.. Is #openalex the future of scientometric data/search? 🫣

• Post #4346615

  Very nice new tool showing #bike routes in #Austria with lots of configurability: https://radatlas.at/ There is a family-friendly option, but there isn't more than a handful of routes suited for families with small children. In other countries you have a real network with thousands of options, see now Denmark: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07029 Of course Austria has *some* mountains, but it's no excuse to have so few routes there. Anyway, nice tool!

• Post #4055738

  Invisible walls: how pedestrians navigate around social interactions https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20876

• Post #4055675

  It's nice to work hard on things in silence, and imagine they could become really useful someday.. https://docs.bikenetkit.org/GrowBikeNet/usage_05_custom_data_imports/ #BikeNetKit

• Post #3945000

  "We believe in love" 🤢 People are so sick of this US hypocrisy.. #worldcup

• Post #3845134

  Slavery is here to stay / is useful Cars are here to stay / are useful #genAI is here to stay / is useful Societal developments with massive human costs and similar justifications? #progress

• Post #3668761

  "For some reason, people who like bikes are also people who like data" - guilty as charged 🙋 #agit2026

• Post #3517955

  Does someone here know why #shields.io is blocking github? I am trying to create an #endpoint #badge on #github like so: https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https://gist.github.com/mszell/fa90e1bc9a90719944b41f6af03ced49/raw/covbadge.json The url https://gist.github.com/mszell/fa90e1bc9a90719944b41f6af03ced49/raw/covbadge.json is correct, but shields.io blocks the domain, and I don't understand why. I'm new to this, maybe I just overlook something stupid?

• Post #3517954

  TFW you invest a whole day of work into something, unsure if it's worth the effort, and then you see the outcome 🤩 #quadrangulation

• Post #3517953

  Learning new #GIS concepts while #grading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobler's_hiking_function https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day%E2%80%93evening%E2%80%93night_noise_level https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9chet_distance

• Post #3517952

  https://datasci.social/ now runs the latest Mastodon v4.6.0 🎉 Also updated the CSS (Bird UI), apologies if it looked a bit funky in the last hours. #mastoadmin

• Post #3517951

  On the Effects of Decentralized Moderation on Network Robustness and Information Diffusion in Mastodon [pdf] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.27149

• Post #2598219

  RE: https://fediscience.org/@elias/116575195845060955 Nice. Might arxiv become a "seal of quality" for published papers? That is, if a published paper hasn't gone through arxiv, it's less reliable? (Might already have been the case, but this makes it explicit)

• Post #2458677

  Download the slides of my #cycling #mobility #GISRUK talks today here: LoopBikeNet: https://michael.szell.net/downloads/talk_szell2026qac.pdf BikeNetKit: https://michael.szell.net/downloads/talk_szell2026bdo.pdf

• Post #2458676

  BikeButler: A Personalized, Context-sensitive Bike Routing Tool using Open Data and VLM-based Analyses of Street View Imagery https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3772318.3791292

• Post #2458674

  [g.subgraph(c).copy() for c in sorted(nx.connected_components(g), key=lambda c: sum([l[-1] for l in g.subgraph(c).copy().edges.data('length')]), reverse=True)] Finally came up with this one line of code.. it gives me #network components ordered by total link length. Is this pythonic? 😅 :networkx:

• Post #2458673

  Your daily dose of #motonormativity : To report a stolen e-bike battery to the Danish police, you have to select the category "Tools / number plate / car parts / fuel / electricity". I wonder how many battery thefts go un/misreported because people don't click through all categories.

• Post #2458672

  Achieving energy independence and affordable transport for all: 10 measures to leverage cycling https://www.ecf.com/en/news/cycling-manifesto-energy-independence-affordable-transport/

• Post #2458671

  Nice! Urban Science Beyond Samples: Up-to-Date Street Network Models and Indicators for Every Urban Area in the World https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00108

• Post #2458670

  RE: https://datasci.social/@nerdsitu/116535048648476763 Very happy this paper is published! Great+deep work led by Clément Sebastiao. We systematically study strategies to grow a transport network step by step - motivated by #bicycle networks which need to be functional as soon as possible. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41109-026-00792-5

• Post #2458669

  Vienna’s public transport is the envy of the world – so why can’t it ditch cars? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/06/vienna-public-transport-tram-network-ditch-cars

• Post #1138715

  ITF: Vision-Led Transport Planning: A guide for policy makers https://www.itf-oecd.org/vision-led-transport-planning-guide-policy-makers

• Post #1085599

  It's that time of the year where I teach our 1st year #DataScience students about data *in the wild*

• Post #1080658

  Answering the dilemma of cycle lane versus shared space planning through an agent-based simulation experiment and accessibility equity analysis https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44327-026-00200-8

• Post #1080657

  Car Dependency in Urban Accessibility https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01019

• Post #1080656

  Women's mobility networks enable more efficient travel https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00943