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mbonsma

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Data Sciences Institute postdoc (bikes + data), biophysics PhD, Bike Ottawa board member, mom. I post about bikes and safe streets, local politics, and sometimes science. She/her.

#DataScience #BikeTooter #OttBike #BikeTO #ActiveTravel #Transportation #UrbanPlanning #CargoBike #eBike #biking #maps #science #Python #cats #fedi22

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mbonsma, to random
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Listening to a cop in an otherwise great public meeting talking about "sharing the road" and "I can't tell you how many people are walking out into the street with their head buried in their phone"

Dude heard the same Vision Zero presentation as the rest of us. We're doomed.

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"That countdown doesn't mean you have ten seconds to cross the street, it means the light is going to change in ten seconds, so don't cross." -Toronto traffic control cop

mbonsma,
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Listen. Beat cops are to traffic safety as doctors and nurses are to epidemiology, namely: THEY DON'T NECESSARILY UNDERSTAND OR CARE ABOUT SYSTEMIC FACTORS and we should not take their advice on matters of public health

mbonsma, to random
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"Look out, mama! I think we need to go on the road."

mbonsma,
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Maybe you think this is no big deal, I mean the kid can clearly fit around, right? But as we went by I saw a woman with a walker using the road because the sidewalk was impassable for her.

mbonsma, to Biotechnology
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time!

I'm Madeleine! I have a PhD in from . I studied how bacteria with immune systems interact with viruses (blog post: https://uoftbiophysics.github.io/blog/2022/why-null-models/).

Now I study active transportation! In my postdoc I am researching how to measure the impact of infrastructure and plan better networks. I love and , live in Ottawa (hi !), volunteer with @bikeottawa, and made a train costume for our with my husband last weekend.

mbonsma, to cycling
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From poking around the active transportation research world in the last few weeks I've learned about some very neat resources that I want to share with you.

✨Cool websites, maps, and crowdsourced data platforms for advocates, researchers, and practitioners!✨

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mbonsma,
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Some of these are things I wish past me had known about or used more, and others are hot-off-the-presses new projects. Please share any cool resources you know about in the replies!

mbonsma,
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  1. Have you ever had a near-miss or collision on a bike and thought "who do I even tell about this?" Add it to http://bikemaps.org and contribute to a crowdsourced dataset that is actively used in research! @BikeMapsTeam
mbonsma,
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  1. The same team has also recently developed http://walkrollmap.org for crowdsourcing barriers to walking and rolling. This is a great way to support research that improves our communities and take action on those small everyday barriers you come across. @walkrollmap
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  1. Want to see what your city could look like with a cycling network optimized for different desirable properties like connectedness or coverage? Checkout http://growbike.net, a synthetic bike network generator from researchers in Copenhagen and Rochester.
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