Ran a fun Palestine Open Maps mapathon yesterday with Yara Sa'di-Ibraheem. She's researching communications infrastructure in Palestine during the British colonial era, so we extracted the telecom infrastructure in the historical maps using the Tasking Manager, based on Yara's paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103242

We got a lot of work done! Blue squares are the ones that have been worked on. There's a long way to go, but good progress.

#PalOpenMaps #uToronto #OSM #mapathon #OpenHistoricalMap #hotosm

❄️❄️ Snowy night bike rides are the prettiest bike rides ❄️❄️

I love how the shadows from the street lights move in this clip.

(yes I know I need a winter bike with thicker tires, but life as a PhD student is tough)

#PhDlife #ONStorm #cycling #uToronto

Renowned exoplanet researcher Sara Seager is bringing her quest to find another Earth back home to Canada 🇨🇦, to the University of Toronto

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/sara-seager-uoft-exoplanet-research-9.6971176
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La chercheuse d’exoplanèts renommée Sara Seager ramène sa quête pour trouver une autre Terre au bercail au Canada 🇨🇦, à l’Université de Toronto.

// Article en anglais //

#Canada #Toronto #UofT #UToronto #Space #Espace

Finally published! My first solo academic publication.

It's a reflection on the difficult 2 months of the #Palestine solidarity student encampment at #uToronto, edited by Esmat elHalaby and Maya Wind.

Open access full text here: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-11623540

In the article, I try to place the failures of the student movement to reach a deal with the university admin in the wider context where the visions for #Palestine futures have all but disappeared since the Oslo Accords in the 90s.