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Gijs Westra
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Forever explaining how to pronounce my name - PhD in Human Geography - Talk to me about neighbourhoods, mobility, and well-being
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Gijs Westra @gijsw4.bsky.social · Jun 3
Last Wednesday, I successfully defended my dissertation, "Neighbourhoods, Ethnicity, and Moves: The Spatial Sorting of Well-Being in Sweden", and have therefore completed my PhD in Human Geography!
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Ida Borg @idaborg.bsky.social · 21d
Visited Gimo Herrgård to discuss Segregation research, beyond academia. Amazing talks and discussions. Happy to have met Maria Krysan and Kyle Crowder.
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Gijs Westra @gijsw4.bsky.social · Sep 3
Had a nice time presenting some preliminary work on residential mobility reproducing patterns of ethnic segregation at @rgsibg.bsky.social and BSPS. Thanks everybody for their questions and feedback!
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Matt Mason @mattgmasn.bsky.social · Aug 27
At #RGSIBG25 today? Make sure to check out the fantastic set of presentations lined up at @qmrg-rgs-ibg.bsky.social's early career session I'm co-hosting with @fangyuanli.bsky.social

Teaching and Learning Building: Lecture Theatre 2 @ 14:40

#quantitative #geography @rgsibg.bsky.social #ECR #PhD
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Maël Lecoursonnais @lecoursonnais.bsky.social · Aug 26
Thrilled to share my first publication! 🎉
Together with Maria Brandén and Erik Rosenqvist, we show that distance to higher education shapes academic aspirations in Sweden—well before their university education begins. (1/4)
The Spatial Determinants of Academic Aspirations: Evidence From Sweden
Differences in access to higher education are a well-known contributor to socioeconomic inequalities. Yet, despite considerable interest from policymakers, we know little about the processes linking ...
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Reto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social · Jul 9
Quite a strong final statement: "Descriptive research is important and it is a pity that the general obsession with causal estimates disincentivizes researchers from attempting to publish careful and detailed description."
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Toni Rodon @tonirodon.bsky.social · Jul 9
Local reactions to wolf attacks in Germany are not powerful enough to influence the election decisions of many voters www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The East in wolf’s clothing. Wolf attacks correlate with but do not cause far-right voting
The resurgence of wolves in Germany has sparked intense debate, particularly in rural areas where wolf attacks on livestock are frequent. Prior resear…
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Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · Jun 30
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Are rents affordable in Amsterdam? Not if you are a newcomer | Amber Howard
The city was once the pinnacle of inclusivity, with working- and middle-class people alike living in social housing – then the private landlords arrived, says social-policy researcher Amber Howard
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · Jun 6
This is 10-12 tenure-track assistant professors’ salaries at many places. A whole academic program’s worth of money, pissed away, In Times of Austerity, on rent-a-cops going after students who dared speak. Nobody behind this should have a career.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Jun 6
The University of Michigan spent $800,000 hiring private investigators--one of whom FAKED A DISABILITY--to surveil anti-genocide protesting students. I'm speechless.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Students say they have frequently identified undercover investigators and confronted them. In two bizarre interactions captured by one student on video, a man who had been trailing the student faked disabilities, and noisily – and falsely – accused a student of attempting to rob him. The undercover investigators appear to work for Detroit-based City Shield, a private security group, and some of their evidence was used by Michigan prosecutors to charge and jail students, according to a Guardian review of police records, university spending records and video collected in legal discovery. Most charges were later dropped. Public spending records from the U-M board of regents, the school’s governing body, show the university paid at least $800,000 between June 2023 and September 2024 to City Shield’s parent company, Ameri-Shield.
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Gijs Westra @gijsw4.bsky.social · Jun 3
If you want to know more about this project, my dissertation, or spatial patterns of well-being, feel free to drop me a line!
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Gijs Westra @gijsw4.bsky.social · Jun 3
For what's next, I am so excited to announce that I have started a post-doctoral position at the COMFAM project at Bielefeld University studying family health and commuting with @annaoksuzyan.bsky.social (and many more)!
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Gijs Westra @gijsw4.bsky.social · Jun 3
am extremely grateful to my opponent Nik Lomax for facilitating such an interesting and fascinating discussion and to all my colleagues, friends, and family who supported me through this day and the past years. The thesis can be read here: lnkd.in/dsgZ3Tee.
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Gijs Westra @gijsw4.bsky.social · Jun 3
Last Wednesday, I successfully defended my dissertation, "Neighbourhoods, Ethnicity, and Moves: The Spatial Sorting of Well-Being in Sweden", and have therefore completed my PhD in Human Geography!
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Gijs Westra @gijsw4.bsky.social · Jun 3
I am extremely grateful to my opponent Nik Lomax for facilitating such a fascinating discussion and to all my colleagues, friends, and family who supported me through this process. You can read the entire thesis here: urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=...
Neighbourhoods, Ethnicity, and Moves: The Spatial Sorting of Well-Being in Sweden
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Gijs Westra @gijsw4.bsky.social · May 8
Last Tuesday, I posted (eller spikade) my dissertation "Neighbourhoods, Ethnicity, and Moves: The Spatial Sorting of Well-Being in Sweden" on the walls of the university, meaning that it is publicly available for you to read in preparation for my disputation.
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John @notheotherjohn.bsky.social · Sep 24
AI is going to revolutionize the way in which things suck
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Marc Keuschnigg @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social · May 13
We are hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science
📍SweCSS, Norrköping, Sweden
⏰Deadline June 3
🔗https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/26854
Please apply // help us spread the word
Norrköping campus at sunset
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Gijs Westra @gijsw4.bsky.social · May 9
Tack Tack :). Een kopie bereikt je hopelijk volgende week!
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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · May 8
apologies to american pope i was not familiar with your game
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · May 8
An old X post from the new Pope is making the rounds:
Robert Prevost shared an article titled "JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn't ask us to rank our love for others" in February
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Gijs Westra @gijsw4.bsky.social · May 8
You can read all about it and check out my wonderful graphs in the comprehensive summary (or kappa in Swedish) here: urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=....

The defence will be held on May 28th at 13:15 in Universitetshus in Uppsala. Digital attendance is also possible, send me a DM if you want the zoom link!
Neighbourhoods, Ethnicity, and Moves: The Spatial Sorting of Well-Being in Sweden
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Gijs Westra @gijsw4.bsky.social · May 8
The dissertation explores the spatial distribution of well-being in Sweden. I find that
- Well-being is spatially sorted at the neighbourhood level
- This overlaps with patterns of ethnic and socioeconomic segregation
- That this might be the result of both sorting and neighbourhood effects
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Gijs Westra @gijsw4.bsky.social · May 8
Last Tuesday, I posted (eller spikade) my dissertation "Neighbourhoods, Ethnicity, and Moves: The Spatial Sorting of Well-Being in Sweden" on the walls of the university, meaning that it is publicly available for you to read in preparation for my disputation.
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Ruth Neville @ruthneville20.bsky.social · May 6
⏰ Submit your abstract for @bspsuk.bsky.social 2025! I am co-organising a session on 'Innovative Data and Methods for Population Science' with @fcorowe.bsky.social and @carmen-cabrera.bsky.social!

We are looking forward to receiving your abstracts by this Friday (9th May)! ➡️ tinyurl.com/mzrsmpxz
Annual Conference
The British Society for Population Studies holds an annual conference in a different venue each September.
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Gijs Westra @gijsw4.bsky.social · Apr 29
thanks for writing this. i am always somewhat hesitant to tell people I work with populations out of fear they will get weird about fertility and this has provided some good ammunition for the next time this inevitably will happen
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Mark Fabian @markfabian.bsky.social · Apr 28
I wrote a short and simple thing. Lots of graphs and cartoons:

profmarkfabian.substack.com/p/below-repl...

I address the "how do we fund the welfare state?" question.
Below replacement fertility is fine
Fewer people is a good thing
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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · Apr 24
Vi var många som undrade var regeringens plötsliga intresse för "existentiell hälsa" kom ifrån häromsistens. Nu minns jag plötsligt att statsministerns hustru driver verksamhet inom just "existentiell hälsa" på den herrgård hon fått av en friskolelobbyist 🤷 www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/4o...
Ulf Kristersson säljer sitt sommarhus – frun köper herrgård för ”existentiell hälsa”
Ulf Kristersson ska sälja sitt sommarhus vid Mälaren. Statsministern kommer istället äga ett hus på hustrun Birgitta Eds nya herrgård – som hon köper med konsu
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