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Jennifer Clark
@jclarkcrp.bsky.social

Professor. Regional economic development; industrial restructuring; urban innovation, economic geography.Editor-in-Chief @regionalstudies.bsky.social. Also, dogs, birds, community.

Economics 25%
Political science 21%
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👋 Hello again Regional Studies folks 😁 Regional Studies is here 🦋!
@regionalstudies.bsky.social ➡️
New article: Cross-border regional innovation systems: concepts, approaches and perspectives www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Cross-border regional innovation systems: concepts, approaches and perspectives
We present and review a collection of Regional Studies papers that jointly portray the evolving literature on cross-border regional innovation systems. We clarify the scope of this research agenda ...
www.tandfonline.com

This may have gotten a little out of hand #birds (I promise there are some house finches and juncos in there somewhere).

Destroying 📚 to obscure stealing IP 😡. The ethical black hole these people inhabit 🙄https://futurism.com/future-society/anthropic-destroying-books
Anthropic Knew the Public Would Be Disgusted by How It Was Destroying Physical Books, Secret Documents Reveal
Newly unsealed documents suggest that Anthropic was well aware that destroying books to train its AI would look bad.
futurism.com

👀 “New York Is the Latest State to Consider a Data Center Pause”https://www.wired.com/story/new-york-is-the-latest-state-to-consider-a-data-center-pause/
New York Is the Latest State to Consider a Data Center Pause
Red and blue states alike have introduced legislation in recent weeks that would halt data center development, citing concerns from climate to high energy prices.
www.wired.com
another year of us not running a super bowl ad

“Donald Trump’s policies dent international travel to US in blow to tourism sector”📉😞https://www.ft.com/content/8f6d4196-6f61-4be9-8cb7-1d93253e4e8b
Donald Trump’s policies dent international travel to US in blow to tourism sector
Foreign visitors to the US fell 4.2% in 2025, while international travel worldwide rose 4%
www.ft.com

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🎇Submit your abstract to one of the open sessions submitted to #RSA26 🎆

To gind out more, go to: bit.ly/4aCzjLl

Submitted session: 12th February
General pool: 19th February

➡️ Regions as Arenas in a Changing World
📆 15-18 June 2026
🌍 University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Fabulous lecture tonight @knowltonosu.bsky.social for Prof. Hiba Bou Akar’s lecture in our Baumer series. Great intros from our faculty too!

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The SAVE Act is currently before Congress -- this bill would create another barrier to voting by requiring unnecessary citizenship documentation to register.

Voters don't need one more barrier to making their voices heard. Tell your Senators to oppose the SAVE Act!
Tell your Senators to oppose the SAVE Act | League of Women Voters
Tell your Senators to oppose the SAVE Act.
www.lwv.org

Delighted our recent @regionalstudies.bsky.social paper ‘A critical review of the UK's Modern Industrial Strategy’ is getting so many reads and attention; it’s a call to arms for putting place at the centre of a modern industrial strategy @regstud.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A critical review of the UK's Modern Industrial Strategy: lessons for ‘place-based’ policy
The paper explores the implications for regional development contained within the UK’s recently launched Modern Industrial Strategy White Paper (2025). We critically examine the industrial strategy...
www.tandfonline.com

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Ohio cities navigate realities of less state revenue sharing
Cities no longer receive revenue from estate tax, the tangible personal property tax and have seen significant decreases from the state’s local government fund.
by Alice Momany
www.toledoblade.com/local/politi...
Ohio cities navigate realities of less state revenue sharing
For Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz, June 24, 2020, was Toledo’s “Black Wednesday.” That was the day the Ohio Supreme Court struck down the city’s ...
www.toledoblade.com
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Canada Signs Auto Deal With South Korea, Moving Further From the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/w...
Canada Signs Auto Deal With South Korea, Moving Further From the U.S.
www.nytimes.com

Trump’s Trade Policies Sort Manufacturers Into Winners and Losers www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/b...
Trump’s Trade Policies Sort Manufacturers Into Winners and Losers
www.nytimes.com

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Join us for the Great Backyard Bird Count February 13-16! You can be anywhere in the world, any age & any level of experience. Count birds for at least 15 minutes, then let us know what you see. Your observations help researchers learn more about how to help birds. birdcount.org

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Me: I think that architecture is a social practice situated within intersecting spheres of politics, culture, and economy.

Schumacher: Architecture must have autonomy!

Me: To what end?

Schumacher: To put a mall inside Saarinen's terminal!

[Grimshaw enters the chat]: We'd like to do that too!
www.archpaper.com

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The League of Women Voters of the US condemns the escalating actions by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that put people at risk, deny individuals their constitutional rights, and undermine the democratic values meant to protect us all.
See statement here:
www.lwv.org/newsroom/pre...

None of this is hard. Moral choices of this gravity are not complicated. Consult your family, consult your faith advisers. But understand that if you sought and accepted a position of authority, now is the time to lead. And again, these choices, in this moment, are not hard. No pasaran.
My UCSB colleague Gurusha Juneja wrote a python tool to auto-check your bibtex for hallucinated citations: pypi.org/project/harcx/

It supports papers, books, and
URLs.

Usage:
pip install harcx
harcx references.bib
harcx
Verify .bib file citations against academic databases (Semantic Scholar, DBLP, Open Library)
pypi.org

Snow report: about 1 Coco and maybe 3/4 of a Kasper fell today. Can’t tell the road or sidewalk from Schiller Park across the street but that’s okay. Just bringing the pura vida to central Ohio. 🌴🥶❄️⛄️

And for more information about how to help if you are outside of Minnesota: naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...
How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota
Last edited January 22, 2026 I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That sa…
naomikritzer.com

For friends looking for ways to help in Minnesota through mutual aid, advocacy, and solidarity: www.standwithminnesota.com
Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
www.standwithminnesota.com

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Just transitions don't unfold in the same way everywhere but a diverse geography, depending on place-based factors, power relations, and a region's multiscalar positionality. New paper in @regionalstudies.bsky.social w/ V. Grünenwald and J. Kastrup
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The geography of just transitions: a place-based framework
Countering the climate urgency requires industrial transitions in emission-intensive industries such as automotive, cement, metalworking, pulp and paper, and (petro)chemical manufacturing. While th...
www.tandfonline.com

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Our new series, Backyard Birds Revealed, takes you up close with slowed‑down footage of familiar birds & revealing details you’d miss at normal speed. This episode reveals some wintertime survival tricks of our avian neighbors. hubs.la/Q03YxfCM0

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In this year's midterm election, all US House seats & about half the US Senate seats & state governorships are up for grabs
Early voting for the Ohio primary begins 4/7 & the voter registration deadline is 4/6. To register, check or update your registration, or get info go to VOTE411 or ohiosos.gov

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Our final category for #BirdGrammys is Best Owlbum🦉. Which owl has the best call? Voting ends on Jan. 29 & voters will be informed first about the winners in early Feb! cornell.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...