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Jen Nelles
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Prof Systems and Spatial Analysis

metro regions | infrastructure | skills | productivity | innovation | systems | governance | bacon | proud Canadian | 50,000 unstoppable watts

Innovation & Research Caucus -Oxford Brookes Business School
Op ed published today on shifting mindsets about what #states and #cities can do to mitigate their increasingly uncertain relationship with the US federal government. In @washingtonmonthly.com with @philiprocco.bsky.social and Jay Rickabaugh washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/27/t...
Trump’s Washington Is Ghosting States and Cities
States and cities are being abandoned by DC. Here’s how local leaders are building new alliances to survive Trump’s unpredictable federalism.
washingtonmonthly.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
New paper on the ‘commercialization’ of arts, humanities & soc sci research; why that’s the wrong lens; and analysis showing that these fields have greater economic impact than assumed.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reimagining mechanisms of economic impact for knowledge valorisation of the arts, humanities & social science
Drawing on a comprehensive analysis of 105 Impact Case Studies from the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021, this paper challenges the prevailing narrative that knowledge valorisation should b...
www.tandfonline.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Understanding what policy makers need and communicating results effectively for their processes is a skill that is learned, not taught, in academia. One of the first lessons is that policy makers don’t always know what they need. So assuming the problem is only w/ academics is misleading.
November 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Reposted by Jen Nelles
Right now in NYC, this Hands Off NYC call is about to start. Please sign up and join RIGHT NOW.
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Hands Off NYC Citywide Kickoff Call · NYC Indivisible
American cities are under attack by the Trump administration. Instead of investing in schools, hospitals, and public services, taxpayer dollars are being spent to send National Guard troops and ICE ag...
mobilize.us
October 29, 2025 at 10:56 PM
A group of brilliant and good looking people should definitely write something about that! 😉😂
October 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
And that trend persisted after COVID. Men just say no more. And, in my observation, while that means that there’s more female viewpoints in review it also puts the burden on them more.
October 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I can see that argument. But anecdotally, that this is a trend that I started seeing during COVID when I was struggling with wfh with kids and got super sensitive about asking other women to do unpaid work. But when I had to women responded positively at way higher rates than men anyway.
October 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Me neither. Also, as a journal editor, women say yes to reviewing at way higher numbers than men and deliver their reviews at higher rates (men flake more). This is just my limited experience and might differ by field.
October 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM