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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 ...

www.tandfonline.com

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League of Women Voters of Ohio @lwvohio.bsky.social · 4d

⏳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 · 9d

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

Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · 10d

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 · 10d

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

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Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · 20d

🏙️ 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!

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League of Women Voters of the US @lwvus.bsky.social · 29d

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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Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · 23d

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Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · 26d

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 · 26d

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 · 26d

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 · 26d

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

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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

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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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Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · Sep 7

www.theverge.com/2024/10/18/2...

Penguin Random House books now explicitly say ‘no’ to AI training

www.theverge.com

Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · Sep 7

www.npr.org/2025/09/05/g...

Anthropic to pay authors $1.5B to settle lawsuit over pirated chatbot training material

The artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay authors $3,000 per book in a landmark settlement over pirated chatbot training material.

www.npr.org

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WIRED @wired.com · Aug 26

NEW: Anthropic has reached a preliminary settlement in a class action lawsuit brought by a group of prominent authors, marking a major turn in of the most significant ongoing AI copyright lawsuits in history.

Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought By Book Authors

Anthropic faced the prospect of more than $1 trillion in damages, a sum that could have threatened the company’s survival if the case went to trial.

www.wired.com

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · Aug 28

From superheroes to sewer heroes.
From dream team to stream team.
We're about to turn the page on a whole new era.

LAKE ERIE LEAGUE ISSUE #1 DROPS AT #CLEANWATERFEST SEPTEMBER 20.

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League of Women Voters of the US @lwvus.bsky.social · Aug 26

The League announces No Harm to Our Communities: Mapping Guidance for Elected Leaders, guidance on drawing mid-cycle maps that protect historically disenfranchised communities. Full statement: www.lwv.org/newsroom/pre...

League to Governors: Protect Communities, Draw Equitable Mid-Cycle Maps | League of Women Voters

LWV releases No Harm to Our Communities: Mapping Guidance for Elected Leaders, guidance on drawing mid-cycle maps that protect historically disenfranchised communities.

www.lwv.org

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · Sep 1

Let's give a shout out to the men & women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay.

Mandemosle un saludo a los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas.

Thank you Ignacio Gomez for letting us use this art

A beautiful piece of art of farm workers laboring in the fields

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Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · Sep 1

Yes! When this is over, there may be an(other) opportunity to do it. Do you know who (if anyone) is collating all this? I may be too far from the center of gravity to know but I worry our (currently much maligned) expertise is too distributed and we’ll compound the damage by being too slow (again).