Just in time for a cozy listen this coming break, a new #GLaDpodcast ep.! This time @rsfrankl.bsky.social @levijohnwolf.bsky.social & I welcome Serge Rey for all things open, open source, and academia! Come for the code, stay for the stories of lives changed!
gladpodcast.podbean.com/e/opening-th...
Join us at the Human Ecology division in Lund! Position as senior lecturer out. Last application date August 31st . I am happy to answer if you have any questions. #envhum #envhist #envpol @cssn.org and more!
Job for social movements scholars, it would be great with someone interested in environmental/climate protests!
Ep. 2 of our "Navigating the Shoals of the Academic Job Market" is live! we dive into putting an application together, what interviews might be like, and share @rsfrankl.bsky.social , @darribas.bsky.social and I share our experiences in these rough and wild waters!
open.spotify.com/episode/2PNm...
🚨 New working paper 🚨
In large cities, wages are higher. But so are inequalities. In fact, low-wage workers earn lower real earnings there.
Why? What drives spatial wage disparities? Why some workers work at lower real wages in large cities?
Job announcement for Postdoctoral Researcher in Economic History
Job announcement for Postdoctoral Researcher in Economic History
📢We are hiring 📢
We look to fill a Postdoc position in Economic History!
5-year position funded by ERC project „Entrenched: Elite Capture and Social Mobility“
jobportal.uni-koeln.de/bewerben/1964
Deadline: Jan 17, 2025
Please spread widely!
@econtribute.bsky.social
#EconSky
New & #OpenAccess "Mind the gap: gender, geography and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on publication in Regional Studies Association (RSA) journals" @gainbipark.bsky.social @rsfrankl.bsky.social, @sallyhardy.bsky.social, Simona Iammarino & Jessie P. H. Poon www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
in just 10 days Cindi Katz will be in town (Lund town that is) to give the inaugural Hägerstrand lecture at KEG. Open to the public and free. Don't miss, and please circulate:
www.keg.lu.se/evenemang/ci...
Our visiting fellow call is open again, have a look if you want to stay with us for a while!
Excited to share my latest publication in @geog-analysis.bsky.social! It explores the evolution of inequality measurements at local and regional levels, revealing two distinct yet related developments taking place at different scales.
doi.org/10.1111/gean...
#geosky
Hiring again! Lecturer in Sociology. We're looking for someone strongly anchored in sociology through high-profile contributions, and with the ability to appeal to students and colleagues of various methodological orientations.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
This is bad.
The US is going from having one of the better public data infrastructures to one of the worst in <3 months.
Education, climate, and health data have already taken a massive hit, and with them research in these fields.
Now Musk/Trump/GOP are coming after economic and population data.
📢 Our call for the PhD in Regional Science & Economic Geography is out
🧑🎓👩🎓12 fully-funded PhD positions
🎓 4-year program
💰€16,243 annual scholarship
🏠 🍽️ accommodation at GSSI facilities (or substitute grant) + board
⏰ Deadline: May 23, 2025
🔗 Apply: www.gssi.it/phd/
ℹ️https://tinyurl.com/yhaahejz
The word inequality crossed out in red
When INEQUALITY is on the list of verboten words, we need to work harder to make the value of our work known.
Please follow @asa-ipm.bsky.social, the new account of the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility section of
@asanews.bsky.social, which will help share the latest work on social inequality
We’re social scientists. We can’t solve everything, but we make sure you *really* get what’s wrong with it.
We have three PDRA roles out currently (until March 7th!) looking for candidates at @sdruk.bsky.social Imago. If you're all about making satellite imagery more useful, usable, and used for social scientists, public health folks & policy makers, this is your job!
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Hade jag varit riktigt rik så hade jag sett till att alla medlemsföretag och alla som arbetar på medlemsföretagen fått en broschyr som berättar vad de betalar för att Svenskt Näringsliv gör, själva och via bulvaner.
www.mi.se/forhandling-...
‼️Do you work with spatial population data🌍📈 and /or spatial methods🌍🧮 ?
‼️Consider submitting your abstract to my & @ruthneville20.bsky.social 's QMRG-sponsored session in collaboration with PopGeoRG at the RGS-IBG 2025 conference!
@rgsibg.bsky.social @qmrg-rgs-ibg.bsky.social
🚨 New Research: The American Dream is Dying in Big Cities
Cities used to be ladders of opportunity for their residents. Not anymore. Our new paper shows smaller cities & towns now outperform major metros for kids born into poverty.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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“We are shocked and saddened by the news of Professor Michael Burawoy’s passing. His untimely death is a great loss to sociology & to movements for justice around the world.”
@michaelabenson.bsky.social on a collegiate, courageous giant of the discipline.
thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
🎙️ New #GLaDpodcast episode! @darribas.bsky.social, @levijohnwolf.bsky.social and I are joined by the amazing @geoffboeing.com (@priceschool.usc.edu) to talk streets, disasters, urban form & open source software. It's a pretty good one, if I do say so myself. #geosky
open.spotify.com/episode/4H6K...
Det som sker nu i USA är helt galet. Allt vad akademisk frihet och kritisk forskning heter slängs överbord.
Childbirth leads men and women’s commuting patterns to diverge, with mothers staying closer to home where access to high-quality jobs is scarce. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I'm not an R person, but I totally agree with this point: we're doing students a disservice by teaching them stata.
Even worse if you're teaching at a public university: using public money to create consumers for a private company.
#OpenAccess: "In this paper, we shed light on the variegated nature of ‘left behind’ regions through a cluster analysis of NUTS-3 regions in the EU15."
Important new #OpenAccess paper on #LeftBehind #Regions by Velthuis et al. (authors below) - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
OSMnx 2.0.0 has been released! 🎉 This has been a massive effort over the past year to streamline the package's API, re-think its internal organization, and optimize its code. Today OSMnx is faster, more memory efficient, and fully type-annotated for a better user experience. 🧵
Here’s geography
Hey people! If you are into #geospatial anysis and data #visualization, I created a #GIS starter pack to help you connect with accounts with valuable resources in the field.
Check it out here and please suggest new names to expand it:
go.bsky.app/TJ7qQF6
