Alida Cantor

Good story on lithium, water, and communities in the American West.

𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝗕𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗕𝘂𝘀! Sunnyside Bike Bus invites everyone Friday Oct 16 Routes converge @ SE 33 & Yamhill) by 8:25AM to bike together around the school. Why? New school boundaries mean kids must travel MILES to school. The share of kids living w/in 1 mile of Sunnyside drops from 96.8% to 65.5%

"Last week, New Jersey fined DataOne $1.1 million for running 45 unpermitted generators. This was the largest enforcement action the state has ever taken against a data center. It’s also a rounding error for a big data firm. Rest unassured, the generators are still running"

Portland Public School district is proposing devastating school closures. Sunnyside Environmental School is a phenomenal public K-8. The proposal would take away the middle school and enviro focus. If you care about enviro education and place based learning, please consider signing save.sesptsa.org

Hydrology Paper of the Day @alidacantor.bsky.social on understanding the Public Trust Doctrine from the perspective of human and physical geography: the role of water and wildlife management; climate policies and scale; geopolitics of property; and the need for spatial understandings of place.

Anecdotally: I-5 being closed pushed some folks to transit, and this is a brilliant example of a) why we need to just demolish the inner eastside part of I-5 and b) why when we do that it will be just fine.

new portland neighborhood greenway x school street diverters just dropped at N Central and N charleston! This is just east of James John school and downtown St. Johns Strong example of how local bike bus organizing compelled an infrastructure intervention pilot

"If you commute on an e-bike 20km a day, five days a week, your charging cost would be about $20 – annually."

Maybe we will finally wake up to the fact that “free speech“ and “viewpoint diversity” are actually bad in academia. What you want is peer-reviewed knowledge, not a debate-me-bro culture in which empirically discredited views get resources & funding & platforms just because.

🚨 New article with @areidross.bsky.social and @thienkim.bsky.social ! On the politics of hydrosocial imaginaries and modernist visions of water management. Nice summary by Alexander here.

Excited to share my latest piece at Frontiers in Sustainable Agriculture with @thienkim.bsky.social and @alidacantor.bsky.social. We looked at the question of modernisms and recent transformations of the US right wing related to water resources. /1 www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Happy to share a new report on Community Right-to-Know & the pressing need for transparency & accountability in lithium-ion battery recycling, by GAIA in collab with our research team! www.no-burn.org/resources/cr...

Sarah exemplified our belief that rigorous, creative social science research matters. She undertook that research with incredible flair. To keep her legacy alive, we have created the Sarah Knuth Junior Fellowship for Energy Research. climateandcommunity.org/bio/sarah-kn...

Oh this is devastating. Sarah was a brilliant, kind, funny, generous and extremely sharp colleague. It was always a privilege to spend time with her and think through ideas together. What an awful loss.

Portland bike culture is the best. The cat ride went by my house and many participants had cat ears taped to their bike helmets. Shamefully, my own cat declined to make a showing.

Hm it's like NSF forgot they terminated my research funding on literally this topic a year ago because it "no longer met agency priorities" 🤔

I don’t understand all the FIFA rules, but I believe our loss to Belgium today means we are required to adopt their street design standards

What a great article not only on faculty workloads, but how little our salaries actually factor in to most university budgets. A few highlights. First, our salaries are falling:

NEW: @opb.org and ProPublica found that water from one of Oregon’s most iconic rivers, the Deschutes, is largely given away to wealthy landowners who are turning the high desert green with lush pastures and landscaping.

My 🔥 controversial woke 🔥 take: Let kids - including trans kids - be kids. Let them do activities and sports they enjoy with their friends. Let them run around and thrive and exist.

Academics have all had this conference experience...

Using PCEF for AC units saves lives. For Moda renovations? Not so much. Also can we possibly use PCEF funds to get AC installed in our public schools so people aren't trying to learn/teach in buildings that are 90+ degrees??

“While vehicle safety is critical, blaming larger vehicles for pedestrian deaths overlooks systemic issues.” No, you shill—it IS a systemic issue. We need to limit hood height and charge based on vehicle weight (as in Paris).

This is what allyship looks like. My older daughter intercepted this coloring book that her little sister (who is trans) received as a birthday gift from a neighbor, and fixed it before my younger daughter even had a chance to react. Happy Pride, the kids are alright.

📊New data shows benefits of choosing geography at university. This includes high graduate employment rates, with geography graduates having a higher rate than average. Find out more: https://www.rgs.org/about-us/our-work/latest-news/new-data-shows-the-benefits-of-choosing-geography-at-university

The year is 2026. A series of powerful earthquakes from Charleston to Halifax, and subsequent collapse of the Greenland Ice Sheet, has radically transformed the coastlines of North America. Undeterred by the cataclysm, 48 teams from around the world gather to play "the beautiful game..."

I'm so sad about the loss of Raul Pacheco-Vega, an extremely good and kind person and a brilliant scholar. I enjoyed connecting with him at conferences. As a junior scholar he made me feel seen and valued. He was so supportive and positive. A gem of a person who I will miss very much.

Painting a street mural with 50 kids and a bunch of awesome community members - 11/10 recommend, excellent antidote to all the horrors of the world.

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Demanding a transparent, public process where Portlanders know what they get for their money is not 'playing politics.' It's good governance and fiscal stewardship. It's deeply unserious to suggest that the only thing that matters is locking up seven votes on council, by locking the public out.

Question for fellow enviro/water nerds: Do you consider ocean and marine sciences/spaces/places to be part of "water resources"? Why/ why not?

I’m shocked. www.texastribune.org/2026/04/21/t...