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Kristoffer Ekberg @krekberg.bsky.social · Jun 27

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!

Senior Lecturer in Human Ecology

Specific subject description The Human Ecology Division applies an inter-disciplinary definition of its research field. Research and education at the division deals with human-environmental relations

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Kristoffer Ekberg @krekberg.bsky.social · Jun 23

Job for social movements scholars, it would be great with someone interested in environmental/climate protests!

Assistant Professor in sociology of law with focus on law, rights and social movements

Vacancy announcement introduction: What we offer the successful candidate Those who want to become a research leader of tomorrow, through pioneering projects and research ideas, have the opportunity t

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Levi John Wolf @levijohnwolf.bsky.social · Jun 10

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!
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Episode 23: Navigating the Academic Job Market (Part 2)

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Hugo Lhuillier @hugolhuillier.com · Jun 6

🚨 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?

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Erik Hornung @hornungerik.bsky.social · Dec 13

📢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

Job announcement for Postdoctoral Researcher in Economic History

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Regional Studies Journal @regionalstudies.bsky.social · May 22

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....

Mind the gap: gender, geography and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on publication in Regional Studies Association (RSA) journals

The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic were deep and lasting, and the effects on research and researchers have been widely documented. This paper contributes to this literature through an investigati...

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Johan Pries @johanpries.bsky.social · Apr 14

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...

Cindi Katz: Social Reproduction and the Topographies of Hope

Lunds universitet. Abstract: Social reproduction encompasses the material social practices and relations that sustain production and social life in all their variations. It is the stuff of everyday li...

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Jani Erola @janierola.net · Apr 1

Our visiting fellow call is open again, have a look if you want to stay with us for a while!

INVEST Research Flagship Centre @invest-flagship.bsky.social · Apr 1

🔍 Interested in #inequality, #interventions, or the future of the #WelfareState? The Spring 2025 call our #Fellowship Programme is open! Check out our five research themes — is there a good match with your own work.

✈️ Travel covered, grant provided, housing arranged

👉 invest.utu.fi/fellowships/

Text: INVEST Fellowship Programme Spring Call 2025 is now open! DL 30 April, 2025

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Andreas Erlström @anerlstroem.bsky.social · Mar 22

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

Multiple Scales of Income Inequality: A Longitudinal Analysis of Swedish Regions

The subject of inequality and its geographical dimensions has seen a surge of interest in recent years. However, existing work tends to study inequality through single spatial scales, even though pro...

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Mar 21

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/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · Mar 19

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.

Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · Mar 18

NEW: The Commerce Department is giving federal employees at the Census Bureau and most other parts of the department until April 17 to apply for a voluntary early retirement authority or voluntary separation incentive payments offer if they're offboarded by May 3, according to emails shared with NPR

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GSSI Social Sciences @gssisocialsci.bsky.social · Mar 13

📢 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

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Fabian Pfeffer @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social · Mar 13

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

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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · Feb 25

We’re social scientists. We can’t solve everything, but we make sure you *really* get what’s wrong with it.

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Dani Arribas-Bel @darribas.bsky.social · Feb 17

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!

📜 lnkd.in/eBMHYe7G

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Auxmuel @auxmuel.bsky.social · Feb 16

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-...

Skärmdump från den länkade artikeln i inlägget: Svenskt Näringsliv och dess medlemmar företräder arbetsgivare i privat sektor

Svenskt Näringsliv är en huvudorganisation som företräder arbetsgivare i privat sektor. De organiserar närmare 61 000 små, medelstora och stora företag. Dessa företag anställer drygt 1,9 miljoner arbetstagare. Företagen är organiserade i 48 bransch- och arbetsgivarorganisationer. Av dessa är 33 arbetsgivarorganisationer eller organisationer som har förenat arbetsgivar-och branschroll. Övriga är branschorganisationer. De enskilda företagen är medlemmar i medlemsorganisationerna och samtidigt medlemmar i Svenskt Näringsliv.

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Gijs Westra @gijsw4.bsky.social · Feb 4

‼️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

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Dylan Connor @dyligent.bsky.social · Feb 5

🚨 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.

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Feb 5

“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.

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Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · Feb 3

🎙️ 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

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Episode 20: Street Smart — A Conversation with Geoff Boeing

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Kristoffer Ekberg @krekberg.bsky.social · Feb 4

Det som sker nu i USA är helt galet. Allt vad akademisk frihet och kritisk forskning heter slängs överbord.

Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · Feb 4

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Jan 15

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....

Parenthood and the Gender Gap in Commuting

Childbirth raises the opportunity cost of commuting and makes it difficult for both parents to work far away from home. Using detailed Norwegian employer-employ

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Pietro Biroli @pietrobiroli.bsky.social · Dec 14

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.

Josh Merfeld @merfeld.bsky.social · Dec 14

We should care about students’ career outcomes. Teaching them R will be MUCH more helpful than Stata. Not only is R more highly valued, it also makes learning things like Python much easier.

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Regional Studies Journal @regionalstudies.bsky.social · Dec 6

#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....

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Geoff Boeing @geoffboeing.com · Nov 26

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. 🧵

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