My papers arguing that the "Abundance Movement" needs broadening to include place-based jobs policies for distressed places are being released today, with a long paper at the Upjohn Institute & a shorter summary at Brookings Metro.

Last week I had the opportunity to present some of my latest research at the #ERSA2025 conference in Athens in the Session „All eyes on border regions“, hosted by @ollejarv.bsky.social , Matteo Berzi and Benedikt Herrmann. I showed the first preliminary results of our cross-border mobility data. /1

📰 New(s) Publication Alert! 📰

I'm happy to share that last year's joint work with @slosacker.bsky.social is now published as a working paper in the CIRCLE, Lund University WP Series! We introduce a geolocated dataset of 50 million German news articles.

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New online publication on our BBSR website. Together with Jens Kurnol, Jule Krolikowski and Sina Redlich we investigate the partner distributions of #Interreg across the urban-rural continuum and GDP related thresholds. /1 www.bbsr.bund.de/BBSR/EN/publ...

So - what's going on here, you might ask. This is Farhana's response to a post referring to two natural scientists - a physicist and an earth scientist - who are asking questions about humans - to each other. Farhana suggests (rightly) that these questions would be better put to social scientists 1/

One of the biggest shifts in housing policy over the past 50 years: we went from subsiding bricks and mortar, to subsidising landlords

Today I am moderating a panel discussion on regional circular economy. Let‘s see how far we have come with bridging the data problem on this topic and what we can expect for the future.

I tried out #NotebookLM by #google and just cannot believe how this will change how we will work as scientists in the future. The quality of the audio conversation is just insanely good 🤯

Here it is, the first? Starter pack for the Regional Sciences including Economic Geography, Regional Studies, Regioanl Economics. I probably miss many (sorry), I will add over time. Let’s get the community going here! go.bsky.app/SeJAZa6

Very pleased to share work on "The space-time geography of housing inequalities and policies" in journal #Cities led by Ruth Nelson.

👉🏽 Housing is ++ privatised in NL
👉🏽 Neighbourhood path dependencies play a key role in reproducing inequalities. #geosky

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