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Knowing there’s suitable toilet provision when travelling is vital—and can determine whether someone can use public transport for their journey. That’s why I’m planning to make the biggest ever investment to increase toilet provision across TfL services and boost accessibility.

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I do not understand why what is going on in Afghanistan is not bigger news. Women now banned from “hearing other women’s voices” independent.co.uk/asia/south-asi…

For some reason, I have been thinking about this moment a lot today. It's from John McCain in 2008 at a town hall. The woman begins to espouse conspiracy theories about Barack Obama's nationality. He immediately shuts it down. "No ma'am. He's a decent family man."

Applications are now open for this PhD scholarship scheme for Black UK domiciled students. If you are interested in applying with a topic relating to transport, feel free to get in touch 😊

Reading is progress. Collecting data is progress. Downloading papers is progress. Emailing is progress. Note-taking is progress. Writing is progress. Teaching is progress. Deleting is progress. Referencing is progress. Rewriting is progress.

A small but great example of this is how there’s was this huge freak out out the bee population declining but then next to no one heard about the new population recovery. 1/4

The Simpsons on PhD students - almost twenty years old & more cutting than ever

Today, at Amir Kabir University in Iran Tehran, the morality police harassed her for wearing an improper hijab. In response, she took off her clothes in protest. It’s an act of incredible courage and, at the same time, heartbreaking. I’m deeply concerned for her well-being. These

1144 days since the Taliban banned teenage girls from school. 684 days since they banned women from university. Afghanistan is the ONLY country on earth where girls are forbidden from learning. How much longer will we allow this cruelty? #LetAfghanGirlsLearn

The Surgeons' Hall Riot happened #OTD in 1870. The Edinburgh 7 arrived at Surgeons' Hall to sit their anatomy exam & were met by a crowd of male students & several hundred onlookers who opposed of women studying medicine. Not to be deterred the women went on to sit their exam.

Today’s reason for being late to my lecture: I can’t cross the road opposite uni because there are about two dozen dockless bikes obstructing the dropped kerb. Camden Council what is your process for keeping pavements clear of bikes? And would you agree it isn’t working?

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Something a middle-schooler emailed us about: “A ‘combination lock’ should *technically* be called a ‘permutation lock,’ because the order of the numbers matters in permutations, but in combinations the order doesn’t matter.” 10/10, no notes.

I know very little about US politics, but this quote does suggest that it's not going to be a bumper few years for public transport and active travel in the US... edition.cnn.com/2024/11/18/pol…

Whenever an American academic is reading a reference from a British person, it should be prefaced with this tweet! 😂