My papers arguing that the "Abundance Movement" needs broadening to include place-based jobs policies for distressed places are being released today, with a long paper at the Upjohn Institute & a shorter summary at Brookings Metro.

#ERSA2025 #mobility #data #geographyofdiscontent #mobilityjustice #publictransport #rasterdata #accessibility /4

To whole Europe. What is great presenting this kind of data at a conference is, discussing with fantastic experts and get a ton of ideas for what you can use it. Policy evaluation, urban-rural differences or even in the context of mobility justice. A lot of topics to cover in the near future! /3

While there is some data available on this topic, granular data, especially for public transport, is still unavailable. Together with my colleagues Claire Duvernet and Florian Rödding I try to fill this gap. In the future, we want to try to expand our spatial focus from the German borders…/2

Last week I had the opportunity to present some of my latest research at the #ERSA2025 conference in Athens in the Session „All eyes on border regions“, hosted by @ollejarv.bsky.social , Matteo Berzi and Benedikt Herrmann. I showed the first preliminary results of our cross-border mobility data. /1

📰 New(s) Publication Alert! 📰

I'm happy to share that last year's joint work with @slosacker.bsky.social is now published as a working paper in the CIRCLE, Lund University WP Series! We introduce a geolocated dataset of 50 million German news articles.

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More or less, Interreg B programming areas are very successful in inclusing partners from economically weaker and rural regions than e.g. more competitive programs like Horizon and I3. But again, all depends on the governance of the programs. #EU #funding #InterregB #Horizon #I3

Furthermore, the different programming areas are more or less successful in integrating rural partners to their program in relation to their rural population. Comparing the distribution of partners with the GDP of regions in the corresponding period, there are also significant differences. /3

Our findings show that over the period from 2000-2020 the partner in the different Interreg B programming areas the amount of partners in rural, intermediate and urban regions is shifting related to the policy agenda at the corresponding period. /2

New online publication on our BBSR website. Together with Jens Kurnol, Jule Krolikowski and Sina Redlich we investigate the partner distributions of #Interreg across the urban-rural continuum and GDP related thresholds. /1 www.bbsr.bund.de/BBSR/EN/publ...

So - what's going on here, you might ask. This is Farhana's response to a post referring to two natural scientists - a physicist and an earth scientist - who are asking questions about humans - to each other. Farhana suggests (rightly) that these questions would be better put to social scientists 1/

One of the biggest shifts in housing policy over the past 50 years: we went from subsiding bricks and mortar, to subsidising landlords

Today I am moderating a panel discussion on regional circular economy. Let‘s see how far we have come with bridging the data problem on this topic and what we can expect for the future.

I tried out #NotebookLM by #google and just cannot believe how this will change how we will work as scientists in the future. The quality of the audio conversation is just insanely good 🤯

Here it is, the first? Starter pack for the Regional Sciences including Economic Geography, Regional Studies, Regioanl Economics. I probably miss many (sorry), I will add over time. Let’s get the community going here! go.bsky.app/SeJAZa6

Very pleased to share work on "The space-time geography of housing inequalities and policies" in journal #Cities led by Ruth Nelson.

👉🏽 Housing is ++ privatised in NL
👉🏽 Neighbourhood path dependencies play a key role in reproducing inequalities. #geosky

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