Psychogeographer, neuroscientist, director of Urban Realities Lab. Author of You Are Here (2009) and Places of the Heart (2015). https://nitter.cf/t.co/DMAOJ7lPl8
Waterloo, Canada
Joined February 2009
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Colin Ellard retweeted
Academic articles may pay nothing and take years to publish but at least they're read by virtually no one
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The hardest part of academia is deciding whether to spend your day failing to write or failing to read
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The Toronto Blue Jays’ total attendance over 82 games in 2024 was 2.68M.
Doug Ford wants you to believe twice as many people are going to go to a European day spa on the corpse of Ontario Place that taxpayers are paying billions for.
At least come up with a better lie, man.
Colin Ellard retweeted
Retiring from academia to live out your wildest fantasies, like reading and writing occasionally
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“That’s when they suspended the constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn’t any rioting in the streets. People stayed home, watching their televisions, looking for direction. There wasn’t even an enemy you could put a finger on.”
- Margaret Atwood, Handmaids Tale
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Suburbs have long been idealized as the perfect place to raise children. But a growing body of evidence suggests that suburban upbringings may be incredibly harmful to children's physical, mental, and social development. Today, we explore why that is.
youtu.be/RrsL2n9q6d0
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Car-dependent suburban sprawl is the most publicly expensive, publicly subsidized, and publicly consequential form of human habitation in human history. #SuburbanSprawl #CarDependency
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Pierre Poilievre: "All the socialist policies, in practice, take, redistribute from the working-class to the super wealthy, in practice."
Literally describing capitalism but calling it socialism.
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Academics: “one thing I love about this job is the freedom to make my own hours”
Also academics:
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‘Experiencing boredom in streetscapes is actually a matter of public health’
Neuroscientist Prof Colin Ellard at Humanise Symposium
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"Bohemian Trumpsody" from @marshsongs may just be the best thing I've seen all day.
Not only are the lyrics spot on, but man they can saaaaaaang!