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Maria Abreu
@mariaabreu.bsky.social
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Prof. of Economic Geography and Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. My work is on labour markets, migration, planning, and regional policy. I also love photography and baking, and have a crazy cocker spaniel called Fonzie. .. more

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Maria Abreu @mariaabreu.bsky.social · 4h
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Maria Abreu @mariaabreu.bsky.social · 4h
Thank you

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Maria Abreu @mariaabreu.bsky.social · 4h
Thank you, I’ll have a look!

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Maria Abreu @mariaabreu.bsky.social · 4h
Thank you!

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Maria Abreu @mariaabreu.bsky.social · 5h
Does anyone know of any shop in London selling music cassettes (second hand or new)?

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Maria Abreu, Pauline Stafford , and 2 more

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Katie Fuller @katiefullerart.bsky.social · 1d
✂️ Yesterday I finally responded to @agakowalska.bsky.social’s challenge to make a collage from a single piece of packaging. I present to you a green (tea) woodpecker, made from a big Yorkshire Tea box. It was fun and I’ll be rooting through our recycling bin for more materials later on ♻️
Green woodpecker collage, made from a Yorkshire Tea cardboard box. Collage assembly in progress - scissors used to dismantle box and cut pieces to form woodpecker shapes, and Pritt-stick used to fix pieces to paper

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Maria Abreu @mariaabreu.bsky.social · 2d
It’s a lovely article, worth reading!

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Maria Abreu @mariaabreu.bsky.social · 2d
Every day we wake up to a new horror or disaster in the making.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 2d
Investors anxious over make-or-break fight for the Fed reut.rs/3Z5d0bx
Investors anxious over make-or-break fight for the Fed
A U.S. Justice Department investigation at the Federal Reserve and a combative response by chair Jerome Powell have sharply raised the stakes in a long-running dispute that has put the independence of the world's most powerful central bank openly on the line, investors said.
reut.rs

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2d
'This year, one of the aims of the conservation charity will be to make people feel more at ease in its grand houses and, where practical, allow them to sit on historic chairs and use libraries and reading rooms rather than simply peer into them.' Excellent initiative.
‘We want people to sit, pause, relax’: National Trust to open its libraries for public use
Charity plans to make stately homes more welcoming by inviting visitors to use furniture and reading rooms
www.theguardian.com

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Robert Armstrong @robarmstrong.bsky.social · 2d
The Fed and markets have a very serious problem
ft.com/content/21b5...

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Federal Reserve @federalreserve.gov · 2d
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
www.youtube.com

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Maria Abreu @mariaabreu.bsky.social · 2d
I think this is the Telegraph stirring up trouble.

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Maria Abreu @mariaabreu.bsky.social · 2d
Thank you so much, I just ordered it!

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Maria Abreu @mariaabreu.bsky.social · 2d
Nevermind, just found it! Thank you! I don’t know how this passed me by!

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Maria Abreu @mariaabreu.bsky.social · 2d
I would love to read this, but can’t find it online. Is it a recent book?

Reposted by Steve Peers, Tim Bale, Maria Abreu

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 2d
Properly funding the court system would clear the backlog even more quickly.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Slashing jury trials could clear courts backlog within a decade, says Lammy
Exclusive: Lord chancellor urges MPs to back judge-only trials in thousands of criminal cases in England and Wales
www.theguardian.com

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Maria Abreu @mariaabreu.bsky.social · 2d
Really good programme right now on BBC 6Music about the making of David Bowie’s Low.

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Maria Abreu @mariaabreu.bsky.social · 3d
One thing that struck me is that Lamar is assuming that his adopted children will just conform and comply in the same way as the AI chatbot is. No notion that children have their own agency and don’t always respond to things in the way you expect them to (being human).

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Maria Abreu @mariaabreu.bsky.social · 3d
What have I just read?!

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Maria Abreu @mariaabreu.bsky.social · 3d
Wow, so jealous! When I lived in Amsterdam I used to drop in to the Concertgebouw, it wasn’t too hard to get last-minute tickets. Sadly I now live in the sticks 😩

Reposted by Kris Inwood, Maria Abreu, Kathleen Kennedy , and 1 more

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Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 3d
First trip on this lake for the season. It is been ages since last time we had such clear, transparent ice as this year.
View of a part of an ice-covered lake. In the lower right-hand corner, a black and white East Siberian laika is standing on the clear ice with her mirrored self right beneath her. She is looking towards a sunlit promontory covered in snow and trees which slopes into crags towards the upper right-hand corner. Beyond this promontory can be seen the blue light of the snow-covered forested mountains on the other side of the lake. Beyond the mountains, the sky is dark pale blue with some wisps of white clouds.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 4d
Very soon we’re going to have an island of not-enough-strangers.

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 4d
Sober, precise read of relevant law from Seth Stoughton (who I don't think is on here), a former colleague and the best police lawyer I know:

verdict.justia.com/2026/01/09/t...
The Legality of Deadly Force: Three Critical Questions about the ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
University of South Carolina, Joseph F. Rice School of Law professor Seth W. Stoughton discusses the legal standards and critical factual questions surrounding the use of deadly force by a federal ICE...
verdict.justia.com

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 5d
A headline to sum up our times:

Reposted by Valerie Mueller, Maria Abreu

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 5d
Postdoc Job

What: Two-year position looking at minority ethnic students in higher education

Where: Danish School of Education, Aarhus University

When: Starts 1st June 2026

More Info: au.career.emply.com/ad/postdocto...

#SocialPsyc #Ethnography #HigherEd #AcademicSky #PhDSky
The postdoctoral project investigates how educational aspirations and mobility are experienced, challenged and realised among minority ethnic students in higher education, with a focus on the collective resources developed among the young people and possible changes in institutional norms. The project includes six months of ethnographic fieldwork in two higher education programmes that are popular among minority ethnic students, as well as interviews with the students and their families.

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Brian Coulter @philabcoulter.bsky.social · 5d
Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

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Maria Abreu @mariaabreu.bsky.social · 5d
The university insists on it for online meetings. Although I guess I could use my phone for those.

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Maria Abreu @mariaabreu.bsky.social · 5d
I’ve switched to open source for everything else, it’s only the operating system now (and Teams 🙄)

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Maria Abreu @mariaabreu.bsky.social · 5d
I tried to install Linux on an old MacBook, but it didn’t work very well. I may need to borrow or buy a second hand laptop to try this out properly.