@jaywerber
Asst Prof., Chem Eng @ University of Toronto. Research on membranes for water and sustainable production of metals and chemicals. Passionate about housing, cycling infrastructure, and people-focused urban development.
I am shocked -- shocked! -- to learn that housing prices fell the most in metros where inventory of homes increased by a lot. via @harvard-jchs.bsky.social
www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/home-pr...
that said, any city that allows rights on reds is not serious about pedestrian safety
I kind of like them...despite they're being wrong and misleading.
I'm always sad after finishing my last coffee of the day.
Hell yeah. Is this a pre-fab?
Thinking about solar panels and how they are getting trivially cheap, but installation remains a big challenge. I hope that as pre-fab/modular housing becomes more of a thing that designers can incorporate an insane amount of solar panels. They should be on vertical walls and roofs at this point.
I have found that I have mostly still used LinkedIn, rather than bsky, but I want to use bsky more. I'm going to be posting lots of random thoughts here.
I used Toronto's bike share program for the first time a few days back. Train was delayed. It was so easy and yes, makes our transportation networks much more resilient!
Trump administration is terminating $2.7 billion in research funding to Harvard:
Work on breast cancer, impact of nutrition on fertility, antibiotic resistance and hundreds of other topics all dead
“It feels like the academic equivalent of nuclear war"
www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...
RIP American science: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions, layoff staff, and terminate more funded grants.
Since Trump took office, his family has made $2.9 billion in crypto.
Again, this is a level of corruption so cartoonish, so obvious & on the surface, that it seems to have stunned everyone to silence.
The UK's high-risk research agency will fund £56.8 million worth of projects in the controversial area of geoengineering — manipulating Earth’s environment to avert negative effects of climate change
https://go.nature.com/3Sv3fA1
If your main concern is *jobs*, import restrictions on solar panels are crazy. Even if you create a few manufacturing jobs, you lose way more installation jobs, which are far more numerous.
@hannahritchie.bsky.social runs the numbers.
Great article about Bluesky
What I mean is that both countries have forgotten how to build anything except highways. We need to change that and stop preventing anything from happening, and build!
This is the energy Canada and the US need
Hellll yea
I learned today (just YouTube feed) about how there used to be millions of penguins (the Great Auk) in the Arctic, until Europeans and European settlers just killed them all. Super sad way to start the day.
Fun video about the Telo, a new electric minitruck that's the size of a two-door Mini Cooper.
The Telo's standard bed is 5 feet (same as a Ford Ranger). Its back seats can fold down to make a 8-foot bed (same as the F-150 "long bed" option).
We don't need to just build, we need to build the right things. Musk for example would build stupid underground tunnels for Teslas, instead of the right thing which would be cheap and ubiquitous subways.
Anyway, it's clear that the lack of building is causing the demise of the West.
I had high hopes for this article. My biggest politics is that we need to build. More housing. More transit. More renewable energy. Make it all happen!
But BWW seemingly equates what Trump/Musk are doing as the same but without equity. This is wrong. 1/2
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
they have no idea they're playing with fire here
The bike lanes on Bloor Danforth were completely unusable until yesterday. Ten days after the storm.
The Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stone.
Society has changed before at the scale we need it to today: but that change was never catalyzed by presidents, PMs, or CEOs of the richest companies of the time.
The fossil fuel age won’t end until we ordinary people demand it does.
This is even dumber than the bike lane nonsense. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Reason #4822 why it's difficult to work from home:
how can I say no to the toddler waddling up carrying a book?
15% is kind of insane, but there being some sort of rational indirect cost maximum honestly makes sense. The US does all sorts of weird, backdoor things to fund universities. Things would be much better if we just straight-up funded universities. Right now, most policies incentivize bloat.
