Jon Reades
@jreades.bsky.social
Prof of Geographic Data Science & HoD @ CASA, UCL. Python, Housing, Neighbourhoods, Industrial location, and Text. Sometime DB, MTB & 🍄 nerd. Co-auth: “Why Face-to-Face still matters” (http://bit.ly/3cW5gSr)
Significant spatial variation though so not sure this stat is hugely helpful for policy. Some Outer East London areas seem to have very little/no excess capacity. Presumably housing affordability for families a big factor in local demand for places. So could be challenges ahead beyond West LDN?
January 15, 2026 at 9:31 AM
Significant spatial variation though so not sure this stat is hugely helpful for policy. Some Outer East London areas seem to have very little/no excess capacity. Presumably housing affordability for families a big factor in local demand for places. So could be challenges ahead beyond West LDN?
It’s as if they don’t know that: 1) NI increases are the entire fee increase; and b) to my knowledge no one has yet confirmed universities are allowed to coordinate to avoid cold sorts without competition law issues; and c) foreign student numbers (and x-subsidy) are crashing b/c visa changes.
January 9, 2026 at 5:35 PM
It’s as if they don’t know that: 1) NI increases are the entire fee increase; and b) to my knowledge no one has yet confirmed universities are allowed to coordinate to avoid cold sorts without competition law issues; and c) foreign student numbers (and x-subsidy) are crashing b/c visa changes.
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Since Jan 1 2025, which feels like four trillion years ago, research has been shared on here 5 million whole-ass times. Bluesky recently passed 2 billion posts IN TOTAL.
So 0.25% of the entire site's traffic was citations to research.
That is actually massively high. Is it? Yes. Here's why.
So 0.25% of the entire site's traffic was citations to research.
That is actually massively high. Is it? Yes. Here's why.
January 8, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Since Jan 1 2025, which feels like four trillion years ago, research has been shared on here 5 million whole-ass times. Bluesky recently passed 2 billion posts IN TOTAL.
So 0.25% of the entire site's traffic was citations to research.
That is actually massively high. Is it? Yes. Here's why.
So 0.25% of the entire site's traffic was citations to research.
That is actually massively high. Is it? Yes. Here's why.
Argh, I keep being asked to review journal articles where Land Registry is referred to as ‘the universe of property transactions in the UK’. 🤦♂️ Shared Ownership, Social, BTR… almost none of it is in there. (BTR can, I think, if there’s a transfer between companies after build but as one transaction)
January 7, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Argh, I keep being asked to review journal articles where Land Registry is referred to as ‘the universe of property transactions in the UK’. 🤦♂️ Shared Ownership, Social, BTR… almost none of it is in there. (BTR can, I think, if there’s a transfer between companies after build but as one transaction)
I take your point! Sorry was a bit tired and musing on effects of AI in large classes where I can’t do 10 minute talks *and* probe for understanding in a 5 minute Q&A without that being the entire term! Maybe structured course progression: deck, deck+narration, live. All with live Q&A?
January 6, 2026 at 3:36 AM
I take your point! Sorry was a bit tired and musing on effects of AI in large classes where I can’t do 10 minute talks *and* probe for understanding in a 5 minute Q&A without that being the entire term! Maybe structured course progression: deck, deck+narration, live. All with live Q&A?
In that case can we just do away with the presentation? Submit a presentation (from PPT, reveal, whatever) 2-3 weeks in advance (assessment 1) and then come to the assigned time slot to answer questions (assessment 2). I really struggle with talks that are just people staring at their scripts.
January 5, 2026 at 9:23 PM
In that case can we just do away with the presentation? Submit a presentation (from PPT, reveal, whatever) 2-3 weeks in advance (assessment 1) and then come to the assigned time slot to answer questions (assessment 2). I really struggle with talks that are just people staring at their scripts.
Recover, IMO. Prep expands to fill the available space and there’s often a negative return to preparation anyway. FWIW, most +ve feedback I ever seem to get is from sessions for which I felt under-prepared but which therefore left more space for participation and adaptation.
December 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Recover, IMO. Prep expands to fill the available space and there’s often a negative return to preparation anyway. FWIW, most +ve feedback I ever seem to get is from sessions for which I felt under-prepared but which therefore left more space for participation and adaptation.
Wait until you get an allotment and it’s measured in rods. I feel like it should be Rods and they drag some poor guy around the borough to measure stuff but, sadly, it’s rods.
December 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Wait until you get an allotment and it’s measured in rods. I feel like it should be Rods and they drag some poor guy around the borough to measure stuff but, sadly, it’s rods.