Jon Reades
@jreades.bsky.social
Prof of Geographic Data Science & HoD @ CASA, UCL. Python, Housing, Neighbourhoods, Industrial location, and Text. Sometime DB, MTB & 🍄 nerd. Co-auth: “Why Face-to-Face still matters” (http://bit.ly/3cW5gSr)
@alexsingleton.bsky.social Not loving link rot. Do you happen have the 2001 #OAC classifications handy? I’ve found the boundaries but no one seems to have the data including GeoDS.
November 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
@alexsingleton.bsky.social Not loving link rot. Do you happen have the 2001 #OAC classifications handy? I’ve found the boundaries but no one seems to have the data including GeoDS.
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Worth noting:
• Upward revision applies to entire 2021-2024 series — the *trend* in emigration is *roughly* flat
• As infuriating as big revisions are, they mean data is getting better
• BUT wild that we ever used a survey to gauge movements into and out of the country instead of counting people!
• Upward revision applies to entire 2021-2024 series — the *trend* in emigration is *roughly* flat
• As infuriating as big revisions are, they mean data is getting better
• BUT wild that we ever used a survey to gauge movements into and out of the country instead of counting people!
November 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Worth noting:
• Upward revision applies to entire 2021-2024 series — the *trend* in emigration is *roughly* flat
• As infuriating as big revisions are, they mean data is getting better
• BUT wild that we ever used a survey to gauge movements into and out of the country instead of counting people!
• Upward revision applies to entire 2021-2024 series — the *trend* in emigration is *roughly* flat
• As infuriating as big revisions are, they mean data is getting better
• BUT wild that we ever used a survey to gauge movements into and out of the country instead of counting people!
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
I’m darkly amused that the rationale of “we can’t spook the bond markets” has, in fact, just spooked the bond markets. + lot of regressive tinkering that undermines decent ideas on climate while intensely annoying lots of people over one thing far more than ‘all in it together’ income tax rises.
November 14, 2025 at 11:41 AM
I’m darkly amused that the rationale of “we can’t spook the bond markets” has, in fact, just spooked the bond markets. + lot of regressive tinkering that undermines decent ideas on climate while intensely annoying lots of people over one thing far more than ‘all in it together’ income tax rises.
Or, hear me out, you could look at how energy is priced: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Hundreds of thousands to lose heat pump subsidies in Reeves’s budget plan
Exclusive: Supporters say grants largely going to middle-class households, but experts warn move will slow transition from gas boilers
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Or, hear me out, you could look at how energy is priced: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Get ready to apply for The Bartlett Promise Sub-Saharan Africa Master’s Scholarship 🎓
Secure your master's place in order to apply!
🔗 More info: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/study/scholarships-and-funding/bartlett-promise-scholarship/bartlett-promise-sub-saharan-africa-masters-scholarship
Secure your master's place in order to apply!
🔗 More info: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/study/scholarships-and-funding/bartlett-promise-scholarship/bartlett-promise-sub-saharan-africa-masters-scholarship
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Get ready to apply for The Bartlett Promise Sub-Saharan Africa Master’s Scholarship 🎓
Secure your master's place in order to apply!
🔗 More info: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/study/scholarships-and-funding/bartlett-promise-scholarship/bartlett-promise-sub-saharan-africa-masters-scholarship
Secure your master's place in order to apply!
🔗 More info: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/study/scholarships-and-funding/bartlett-promise-scholarship/bartlett-promise-sub-saharan-africa-masters-scholarship
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The Economic and Social Research Council core budget for 24/25 was £134m, not £8 billion.
November 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The Economic and Social Research Council core budget for 24/25 was £134m, not £8 billion.
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This Friday (7pm) hear about our very own Ollie Ballinger’s work on #secretmaps at @britishlibrary.bsky.social: "how maps and cartography are being used to reveal what those in power would rather keep hidden.” Sign-up: events.bl.uk/events/onlin...
The Lie of the Land: Who Controls the Map? | British Library
Technologist Ed Parsons, Dr Ollie Ballinger and Dr Pragya Agarwal join cultural geographer Mike Duggan in this panel conversation to explore how maps and c
events.bl.uk
November 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
This Friday (7pm) hear about our very own Ollie Ballinger’s work on #secretmaps at @britishlibrary.bsky.social: "how maps and cartography are being used to reveal what those in power would rather keep hidden.” Sign-up: events.bl.uk/events/onlin...
www.reuters.com/business/ene... — make charging infrastructure fast, cheap, and widely available and people will adopt EVs… Astonishing if true. 🤷♂️
EVs put an end to China's usual holiday surge in gasoline use
Tianyu Jiang took a 2,000-km (1,200-mile) road trip this month during China's national holiday week, driving in his electric vehicle from the southwestern Sichuan basin to Beijing for the first time.
www.reuters.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:58 AM
www.reuters.com/business/ene... — make charging infrastructure fast, cheap, and widely available and people will adopt EVs… Astonishing if true. 🤷♂️
Shout out to @knaaptime.com for being the only person in this thread to note that there no such thing as a singular neighbourhood. Closest useful approximation I’m aware of is the UK’s MSOA names database: houseofcommonslibrary.github.io/msoanames/ They leveraged census and crowd-sourcing!
November 10, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Shout out to @knaaptime.com for being the only person in this thread to note that there no such thing as a singular neighbourhood. Closest useful approximation I’m aware of is the UK’s MSOA names database: houseofcommonslibrary.github.io/msoanames/ They leveraged census and crowd-sourcing!
Struggling to know what to do with all the money coming in from the royalties on my book. Irritatingly, I still think it’s a damned good book.
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Struggling to know what to do with all the money coming in from the royalties on my book. Irritatingly, I still think it’s a damned good book.
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To be clear, what is being proposed here is to axe the main mechanism for getting Britain’s homes insulated - which is by FAR the best way to reduce household energy bills in the long term 🤦♂️
…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️
…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️
Reeves considers cut to green levies in effort to reduce cost of energy bills
Exclusive: Chancellor hopes to save up to £170 from average bill but industry insiders say move would be ‘disastrous’
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:17 AM
To be clear, what is being proposed here is to axe the main mechanism for getting Britain’s homes insulated - which is by FAR the best way to reduce household energy bills in the long term 🤦♂️
…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️
…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️
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Fully-funded UCL-EPSRC studentships 🌍
Applications now open for the 2026–27 Landscape Award four year studentships, including within BSSC, BSEER & CASA.
🔗 Apply by 05 January: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/epsrc-doctoral-training/prospective-students/ucl-epsrc-landscape-award-uela-studentships
Applications now open for the 2026–27 Landscape Award four year studentships, including within BSSC, BSEER & CASA.
🔗 Apply by 05 January: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/epsrc-doctoral-training/prospective-students/ucl-epsrc-landscape-award-uela-studentships
October 31, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Fully-funded UCL-EPSRC studentships 🌍
Applications now open for the 2026–27 Landscape Award four year studentships, including within BSSC, BSEER & CASA.
🔗 Apply by 05 January: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/epsrc-doctoral-training/prospective-students/ucl-epsrc-landscape-award-uela-studentships
Applications now open for the 2026–27 Landscape Award four year studentships, including within BSSC, BSEER & CASA.
🔗 Apply by 05 January: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/epsrc-doctoral-training/prospective-students/ucl-epsrc-landscape-award-uela-studentships
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A local authority has approved 1 bed flats for 2 people that are 16m2 under the Nationally Described Space Standard, noting that these could be detrimental to the living conditions of future occupants! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Flats approved for empty Wisbech hotel building despite concerns
Councillors approved the plans for the former hotel, wishing the developers
www.bbc.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 9:53 AM
A local authority has approved 1 bed flats for 2 people that are 16m2 under the Nationally Described Space Standard, noting that these could be detrimental to the living conditions of future occupants! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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'We’re told that the government will “for the first time seek to address the barriers faced by disadvantaged students in accessing and succeeding at postgraduate level.”
It’s fascinating to think about what this actually means.'
Quite a lot of excellent work in this space by learned societies.
It’s fascinating to think about what this actually means.'
Quite a lot of excellent work in this space by learned societies.
What’s in the post-16 white paper for postgraduate study?
There's a lot of references to postgraduate study in the white paper. Mark Bennett tries to make sense of how it all fits together
wonkhe.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:24 AM
'We’re told that the government will “for the first time seek to address the barriers faced by disadvantaged students in accessing and succeeding at postgraduate level.”
It’s fascinating to think about what this actually means.'
Quite a lot of excellent work in this space by learned societies.
It’s fascinating to think about what this actually means.'
Quite a lot of excellent work in this space by learned societies.
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Im speaking about our small homes research in an UGRG
webinar about housing, gentrification and financialisation of property 31 October 1300-1400. cuhk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #Housing #Inequality #Gentrification #planning @rgsibg.bsky.social
webinar about housing, gentrification and financialisation of property 31 October 1300-1400. cuhk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #Housing #Inequality #Gentrification #planning @rgsibg.bsky.social
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cuhk.zoom.us
October 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Im speaking about our small homes research in an UGRG
webinar about housing, gentrification and financialisation of property 31 October 1300-1400. cuhk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #Housing #Inequality #Gentrification #planning @rgsibg.bsky.social
webinar about housing, gentrification and financialisation of property 31 October 1300-1400. cuhk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #Housing #Inequality #Gentrification #planning @rgsibg.bsky.social
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Ready for a change in direction, want to step up your #gis and #giscience 'game', or interested in #AI, #datascience, #IoT and the #urban? Sign up to hear more about our four Masters programmes at a virtual postgraduate open data on 30 October from 1-2pm: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/eve...
The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis Virtual Postgraduate Open Day
Join our virtual open day to discover how you can pivot your career into AI, data science and urban technology, using spatial data to shape the future of cities.
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Ready for a change in direction, want to step up your #gis and #giscience 'game', or interested in #AI, #datascience, #IoT and the #urban? Sign up to hear more about our four Masters programmes at a virtual postgraduate open data on 30 October from 1-2pm: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/eve...
I maintain that in every household with a dishwasher there is the person who fills it, and the person who redoes the whole arrangement while muttering to themselves like a lunatic.
October 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I maintain that in every household with a dishwasher there is the person who fills it, and the person who redoes the whole arrangement while muttering to themselves like a lunatic.
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New open access paper on housing densification and the regulation of the 'shrinking' home in an increasingly neoliberal regulatory environment @kbrickell.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @jreades.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 9:46 AM
New open access paper on housing densification and the regulation of the 'shrinking' home in an increasingly neoliberal regulatory environment @kbrickell.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @jreades.bsky.social
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‘One in 38 single mothers are homeless, they represent one-third of all households in temporary accommodation’
@kbrickell.bsky.social on her new book Debt Trap Nation - pleased we were able to support her research
www.bigissue.com/opinion/debt...
@kbrickell.bsky.social on her new book Debt Trap Nation - pleased we were able to support her research
www.bigissue.com/opinion/debt...
Debt trap nation: How England is failing homeless mothers and children
We owe it to women and mothers to shift the national conversation on homelessness and debt, say academics Katherine Brickell and Mel Nowicki.
www.bigissue.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
‘One in 38 single mothers are homeless, they represent one-third of all households in temporary accommodation’
@kbrickell.bsky.social on her new book Debt Trap Nation - pleased we were able to support her research
www.bigissue.com/opinion/debt...
@kbrickell.bsky.social on her new book Debt Trap Nation - pleased we were able to support her research
www.bigissue.com/opinion/debt...
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'A new briefing from MillionPlus, which represents modern UK universities, highlights the economic benefits of “loyals” – a category of graduates who grow up, study and work in the same region.'
And degree options of "loyals" are shrinking: see @britishacademy.bsky.social Cold Spots data & report.
And degree options of "loyals" are shrinking: see @britishacademy.bsky.social Cold Spots data & report.
Modern universities help towns and cities retain talent and drive local growth, says new MillionPlus briefing - MillionPlus
www.millionplus.ac.uk
October 16, 2025 at 6:41 AM
'A new briefing from MillionPlus, which represents modern UK universities, highlights the economic benefits of “loyals” – a category of graduates who grow up, study and work in the same region.'
And degree options of "loyals" are shrinking: see @britishacademy.bsky.social Cold Spots data & report.
And degree options of "loyals" are shrinking: see @britishacademy.bsky.social Cold Spots data & report.
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This is a growing problem for cultural archives, heritage databases, social statistics and scientific databases. A number of charities have (wonderfully) been stepping in, but the scale is such that governments and NGOs will surely need to collaboratively work to preserve essential data.
Genetics database hit by Trump cuts bailed out by Wellcome.
Stopgap funds support UK-based researchers, but future of FlyBase in jeopardy after terminated NIH grant.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Stopgap funds support UK-based researchers, but future of FlyBase in jeopardy after terminated NIH grant.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Genetics database hit by Trump cuts bailed out by Wellcome - Research Professional News
Stopgap funds support UK-based researchers, but future of FlyBase in jeopardy after terminated NIH grant
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
This is a growing problem for cultural archives, heritage databases, social statistics and scientific databases. A number of charities have (wonderfully) been stepping in, but the scale is such that governments and NGOs will surely need to collaboratively work to preserve essential data.
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@gypjh2000.bsky.social speaking about our small homes research in an UGRG @rgsibg.bsky.social webinar about housing, gentrification and financialisation of property 31 October 1300-1400. cuhk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #Housing #Inequality #Gentrification #planning
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: UGRG Webinar by Prof Phil Hubbard on 31 Oct 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Title: "No space like home? Small domestic properties, compensatory urbanism and housing futures"
In this presentation, Phil Hubbard will consider the rise of micro-apartments in the UK as a potentia...
cuhk.zoom.us
October 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
@gypjh2000.bsky.social speaking about our small homes research in an UGRG @rgsibg.bsky.social webinar about housing, gentrification and financialisation of property 31 October 1300-1400. cuhk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #Housing #Inequality #Gentrification #planning
I do wonder if insurers won’t force governments to face up to their climate obligations. They will simply walk away from areas imposing too many losses and markets that try to compel cover: www.theguardian.com/environment/... More likely we’ll get ripped off through x-subsidy and gov does little.
Millions more homes in Great Britain at risk of flooding, investigation finds
Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I do wonder if insurers won’t force governments to face up to their climate obligations. They will simply walk away from areas imposing too many losses and markets that try to compel cover: www.theguardian.com/environment/... More likely we’ll get ripped off through x-subsidy and gov does little.
Oooh. Hen-of-the-woods is a new one for me.
October 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Oooh. Hen-of-the-woods is a new one for me.