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Jennifer Clark

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Regional economic development; industrial restructuring; cities + tech; economic geography. Editor in Chief @regionalstudies Alum: Cornell, UMN, Wesleyan.

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Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · Nov 29

👋 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 ...

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Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · 4h

🫩Bonkers !! The advice/mentoring narrative is so…complicated!!! 😳😬

Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · 6h

I am so sorry. I appreciate the real pain that was behind this advice but it was so, so misguided. Thank you for breaking the cycle! Let’s keep going!

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Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · 6h

This wasn’t okay in 2005; it is not okay now. My journey has been long. But I have never worn baby blue polo shirts and I put my cards on the table. Passing on your pain is not a sign of power or strength; it is a screaming sign of tragic, deep damage. Don’t do this: as hard it is, lift people up!

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Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · 6h

When I was untenured female faculty a senior woman in the College (who supervised P&T) advised me to “wear pastels.” She told me to wear pink, baby blue, and aqua and “keep my palms on the table.”

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Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · 10h

🏙️ Thinking about a career in city and regional planning? 🤔 Want to learn more? Check out our info session for graduate students on Monday, October. 13th! @knowltonosu.bsky.social Details ⬇️ knowlton.osu.edu/events/2025/...

Master of City and Regional Planning Information Session

A virtual information session for those interested in applying to the MCRP program at The Ohio State University’s Knowlton School.

knowlton.osu.edu

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Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · 10h

👍 Engineering faculty do not have much patience for nonsense. There is work to be done. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

MIT rejects White House proposal to overhaul policies for preferential funding

Other universities still mulling proposal while MIT’s president said it would compromise academic freedom

www.theguardian.com

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League of Women Voters of Ohio @lwvohio.bsky.social · 1d

Join us Weds, Oct 15 at 7:30pm for a deep dive into Ohio's redistricting shenanigans! We're teaming with @redwineblueusa.bsky.social Ohio & our partners at @commoncauseohio.bsky.social to explore the real harm caused by the congressional map we already have.
Register: bit.ly/RedistrictingShenanigans

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League of Women Voters of Ohio @lwvohio.bsky.social · 6d

⏳Monday is the last day to register to vote for the 2025 election
🗳Visit vote411.org to register or to update your registration if you've moved or changed your name.
👀 Everyone should check their registration ahead of an election to make sure they're good to go

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Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · 12d

Very close. I don’t know if they have connected yet. But good thought.

Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · 12d

Seattle area friends: Peaceful protest corner of 8th & Madison every other Thursday. Attended as proxies for my Dad last Thursday (he’s less mobile). Anchor organizers are the retirement communities on First Hill. Let’s show them some love and solidarity and help keep these elders safe!

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Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · 12d

Happy Sunday Mount Rainier 🏔️. Looking good!!!🌞

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Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · 22d

🏙️ Thinking about a career in city and regional planning? 🤔 Want to learn more? Check out our 1st info session for graduate students tomorrow! Details ⬇️ knowlton.osu.edu/events/2025/...

Master of City and Regional Planning at the Knowlton School Information Session

Learn more about the City and Regional Planning program at Ohio State!

knowlton.osu.edu

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Regional Studies Journal @regionalstudies.bsky.social · 23d

New #OpenAccess paper: 'Role of universities in early graduate entrepreneurship: enablers or constrainers of ‘missing’ entrepreneurs?' by
@mariaabreu.bsky.social & Vadim Grinevich www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · 25d

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Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · 28d

Education and basic research require public funding. There is no way around that. But the model that developed over that last forty years is not the only alternative and we can and should do better. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · 28d

This is all about a revenue model that has come to dominate research universities not about research quality. It isn’t even a good revenue model. See "Who Bears the Growing Cost of Science at Universities?" www.nber.org/papers/w9627

Who Bears the Growing Cost of Science at Universities?

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

www.nber.org

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Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · 28d

It is complete nonsense to assert that external funding is a measure of research quality. Funding is an input to the research enterprise; it is not a measure of the quality of the output. 🙄 Why is this hard? 🫠

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Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · 29d

Excellent organizing! P.S. This is what a water bottle “problem” looks like 😬. You’re good!

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League of Women Voters of the US @lwvus.bsky.social · Sep 9

Student voters, an increasingly critical demographic, face hidden threats to their right to vote in "use it or lose it" laws.

www.lwv.org/blog/use-it-...

“Use It or Lose It” Purges Threaten College Students’ Right to Vote | League of Women Voters

Student voters are increasingly powerful — boasting some 40 million eligible voters. However, students face a hidden threat to their right to vote: “Use It or Lose It” voter roll purging laws.

www.lwv.org

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Regional Studies Journal @regionalstudies.bsky.social · Sep 8

New in our #UrbanAndRegionalHorizons section: 'Place-based leadership: advancing feminist, intersectional and anti-racist approaches' by @emmao.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @drjwharrison.bsky.social

Place-based leadership: advancing feminist, intersectional and anti-racist approaches

Leadership is often hailed as an antidote to a range of place-based problems. Yet it continues to be a slippery, highly political and deeply uneven practice, and area of study. At a time of authori...

www.tandfonline.com

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Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · Sep 7

This is sad.😔 I could do better than this. And I’m a planner😉! Of course, I’ve also actually been there. I guess they didn’t pirate enough architectural history books to properly train the AI? Speaking of… authorsguild.org/news/what-au...

What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement - The Authors Guild

Today, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems—the largest U.S. copyright settlement in history. The parties in Bartz v Anthropic...

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Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · Sep 7

Planning in the Face of Power 🧵7 openlibrary.org/books/OL2060...

Planning in the face of power by John Forester | Open Library

Planning in the face of power by John Forester, 1989, University of California Press edition, in English

openlibrary.org

Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · Sep 7

Putting Skill to Work 🧵6 mitpress.mit.edu/978026254791...

Putting Skill to Work

The United States has a jobs problem—not enough well-paying jobs to go around and not enough clear pathways leading to them. Skill development is critical ...

mitpress.mit.edu

Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · Sep 7

Justice at Work 🧵5 www.upress.umn.edu/978151791305...

Justice at Work

A pathbreaking look at how progressive policy change for economic justice has swept U.S. cities In the 2010s cities and counties across the United States w...

www.upress.umn.edu

Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · Sep 7

This Could Be the Start of Something Big: How Social Movements for Regional Equity Are Reshaping Metropolitan America 🧵4 www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801...

This Could Be the Start of Something Big by Manuel Pastor, Manuel Pastor, Jr., Chris Benner, and Martha Matsuoka | Hardcover | Cornell University Press

The authors show how momentum is building as new policies addressing regional infrastructure, housing, and workforce development bring together business and community groups who share a common desire ...

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu

Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · Sep 7

Equity, Growth, and Community
What the Nation Can Learn from America's Metro Areas🧵3 www.ucpress.edu/books/equity...

Equity, Growth, and Community by Chris Benner, Manuel Pastor - Paper

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · Sep 7

Here’s a short course reading list. Please add to this thread if you have suggestions. Harold Washington and the neighborhoods
progressive city government in Chicago, 1983-1987 🧵2 openlibrary.org/books/OL1531...

Harold Washington and the neighborhoods by Wim Wiewel | Open Library

Harold Washington and the neighborhoods by Wim Wiewel, Pierre Clavel, 1991, Rutgers University Press edition, in English

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