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Max Nathan
@maxnathan.bsky.social
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Professor of Economic Geography, UCL. Also CEP, IZA. Cities, economics, innovation, diversity, and public policy. Views here are mine, not those of UCL, funders, data providers, etc. https://max-nathan.github.io
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Max Nathan @maxnathan.bsky.social · 6h
See also: the great running joke in This Is London, where Ben Judah asks himself “where are the true Cockneys?” while being repeatedly mistaken for a Romanian / Spanish Bulgarian / Greek person
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Max Nathan @maxnathan.bsky.social · 6h
"Here’s what is not a measure of whether someone is integrated: the colour of your skin. No one who looks at me and my grandmother, a white South African, in the street, can tell which of us is more integrated (it’s me, for obvious reasons) or frankly even that we are related."

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Thank the Tories for keeping Robert Jenrick out of high office
Shadow justice secretary’s comment about not seeing a ‘white face’ shows he does not understand integration
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d
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Max Nathan @maxnathan.bsky.social · 2d
“Nobody knew health care could be so complicated”, 2025 edition
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Gavin Kelly @gavin-kelly.bsky.social · 2d
Some of the most thoughtful social commentary atm is coming via @manchestermill.bsky.social

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Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story
‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’
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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 5d
Very nice article co-authored by one of my former students, Mihai Codreanu, discovering how much of many documents eg press releases, job postings, have been written using LLMs (10-20% depending on type of document but it might have stabilised in late 2024) www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
The widespread adoption of large language model-assisted writing across society
This study explores AI-generated writing adoption across consumer complaints, corporate press releases, job postings, and international organization communications, revealing widespread use following ...
www.cell.com
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Max Nathan @maxnathan.bsky.social · 5d
Careful, powerful reportage by @manchestermill.bsky.social. Thank you for writing this.
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The Mill @manchestermill.bsky.social · 5d
On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’.

Our story about today’s attack.

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On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’
Amid fasting and prayer, terror comes to Crumpsall
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The Mill @manchestermill.bsky.social · 5d
On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’.

Our story about today’s attack.

manchestermill.co.uk/on-their-hol...
On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’
Amid fasting and prayer, terror comes to Crumpsall
manchestermill.co.uk
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 6d
Terrible news that two people were killed in Manchester attending their place of worship at the synagogue in Manchester, with others seriously injured.

Community Security Trust @cstuk.bsky.social who do so much to keep Jewish people safe at faith and community spaces have issued this advice.
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Max Nathan @maxnathan.bsky.social · 6d
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 16d
1/ So you’re thinking about applying for an academic job in the UK but don’t know how? This thread will walk you through the essentials.
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Max Nathan @maxnathan.bsky.social · 11d
There are eight million stories in the naked city; feels like the @londonermag.bsky.social is telling every one of them, and that’s good

www.the-londoner.co.uk/londons-braz...
London’s Brazilian Blood Couriers
'If you’re delivering food, nobody gives a fuck about you. With blood it’s more respect.'
www.the-londoner.co.uk
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Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · 11d
Hitting ambitious housebuilding and affordable homes targets will be key to reducing private rents.

Read the latest Housing Outlook here ⤵️ buff.ly/pQXp2Sc
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Andrea Morrison @andrea-morrison.bsky.social · 13d
📣 Want to know more about the links between #Migration and #Innovation? 🚀
Check out this new book I co-edited with Francesco Lissoni

👉https://lnkd.in/d6Eav8AW
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Max Nathan @maxnathan.bsky.social · 14d
“King of The Wirral”
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Max Nathan @maxnathan.bsky.social · 14d
From this very interesting FT piece on how Paris is doing social housing atm

on.ft.com/429d4sZ
The left’s radical plan to fix housing in Paris
Authorities are using an arsenal of interventionist tools to make city homes affordable. Critics call it an attack on property rights
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Max Nathan @maxnathan.bsky.social · 14d
Social housing stocks across the OECD. The UK is doing much better than I expected!
Graph of OECD data showing number of social rental dwellings as a % of total stock (2022 or latest year available, by selected countries). OECD average 7%, UK 16%.
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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 14d
Nothing in this acknowledges the economic reality of why many brownfield sites don’t get away as housing: they’re not financially viable unless someone (usually us, in some form) pays for them to be cleaned up and made ready
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14d
Almost 1.5m homes could be built on brownfield sites in England, report finds
Almost 1.5m homes could be built on brownfield sites in England, report finds
Exclusive: CPRE study suggests housebuilding targets can be met without encroaching on green belt land Almost 1.5m new homes could be built on brownfield sites in England to avoid encroaching on green belt and meet the government target for housing growth by the end of this parliament, new figures suggest. But despite the scale of brownfield land available, developers are pushing to build on green land, including increased housebuilding on and adjacent to areas of outstanding natural beauty. Continue reading...
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Max Nathan @maxnathan.bsky.social · 14d
@londonermag.bsky.social is also very good
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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 15d
A cool use of AI in newsgathering, this. US companies are talking more and more about the risks rather than the benefits of AI in their SEC filings (while still being super-optimistic in earnings calls). By @melissahei.bsky.social @chriscook.news & @claradoodle.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/e93e...
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 16d
Confessions of an Early Career Researcher. We've released a new 'warts and all' podcast, in collaboration with @leverhulme.ac.uk which might be of interest to anyone thinking of starting a career in research
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/confess...
Confessions of an Early Career Researcher: A new podcast by the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust
A new podcast for early-career researchers has been launched by the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust.
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Max Nathan @maxnathan.bsky.social · 16d
And this is asking about ILR for new arrivals. Imagine the polling if you asked about taking leave to remain from people *already here*.
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Max Nathan @maxnathan.bsky.social · 16d
Also: hardly anyone wants this 👇

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 16d
I'll have more to say on Reform's proposals to scrap ILR at some point but for now I'll just note this - anyone telling you this is a popular idea doesn't know the polling. Overwhelming majority of public back giving people who work and pay taxes most or all rights after 5 years or less
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 16d
I'll have more to say on Reform's proposals to scrap ILR at some point but for now I'll just note this - anyone telling you this is a popular idea doesn't know the polling. Overwhelming majority of public back giving people who work and pay taxes most or all rights after 5 years or less
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 16d
Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart.
Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point.
Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.
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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 18d
The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.
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