Colin Ellard

Psychogeographer, neuroscientist, director of Urban Realities Lab. Author of You Are Here (2009) and Places of the Heart (2015).

[Colin Ellard @WhereAmINow]

New writing on substack.
https://t.co/CR0FLZM4sH

[Colin Ellard @WhereAmINow]

@MrsVonDoom Old?

[Colin Ellard @WhereAmINow]

@MrsVonDoom Achoo

[Colin Ellard @WhereAmINow]

@MrsVonDoom I can't hear it over the din of my dropping stuff all over the kitchen floor

[Colin Ellard @WhereAmINow]

@MrsVonDoom Oops

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Academic articles may pay nothing and take years to publish but at least they're read by virtually no one

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Writing deadlines really make you appreciate the joys of tidying up the house

[Colin Ellard @WhereAmINow]

@MrsVonDoom Enjoying a brutally early coffee at some airport. Missing you and the child.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

The hardest part of academia is deciding whether to spend your day failing to write or failing to read

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

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.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Retiring from academia to live out your wildest fantasies, like reading and writing occasionally

[feminist next door @emrazz]

“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

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

But seriously the suburbs are correlated with increased mental health issues even controlling for external factors. A 10-30% higher risk of depression than cities or rural areas.

[Eco Gecko @EcoGeck]

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.

https://t.co/DUf7TpdSwM

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Car-dependent suburban sprawl is the most publicly expensive, publicly subsidized, and publicly consequential form of human habitation in human history. #SuburbanSprawl #CarDependency

[David Doel @daviddoel]

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.

[Colin Ellard @WhereAmINow]

@mariebuzzart Thanks Marie. That review refers to my earlier book "You Are Here" that does indeed contain some entomology: dazzling tales of wayfinding ants! The word i might object to is mundane!

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Academics will be like "finished is better than perfect" and then not finish

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Academics: “one thing I love about this job is the freedom to make my own hours”

Also academics:

[𝔻𝕒𝕧𝕚𝕕 𝕋𝕒𝕪𝕝𝕠𝕣 @Davidntaylor]

‘Experiencing boredom in streetscapes is actually a matter of public health’

Neuroscientist Prof Colin Ellard at Humanise Symposium