This article about Madrid’s metro system has some great insights about how its growth was quick, cheap, and of good quality. They identified 4 key points that made it possible and successful. Great read. worksinprogress.co/issue/how-ma...

People and planet, not billionaires!! #MakeBillionairesPay 🌍 Thousands are gathered for the Make Billionaires Pay March in Manhattan! Join us in front Billionaires Row to make billionaires pay! 🔥🔥🔥 #ClimateCrisis #NewYork #Manhattan #SocialJustice #ClimateAction

Not seeing much on here about this but protests have been happening ahead of the UN meetings next week. The one in NYC today was significant: apnews.com/article/new-...

🚨 ATTN PA VOTERS‼️ Today is a great day to check your voter registration. Deadline to register is 10/20/25 🚨Vote YES to retain the Democratic Justices on the PA Supreme Court: Christine Donohue Kevin Dougherty David Wecht 🚨PHILLY: Please re-elect DA LARRY KRASNER www.pa.gov/agencies/vot...

Here are the eight disciplines. TRAM-Bowling is funny but I think my favorite is TRAM-Curling.

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

In @warontherocks.bsky.social @zenel25.bsky.social & I argue that Beijing may have strategic aims for port investments, but #SOE, provincial, & host-country goals & rivalries keep things complicated & not guaranteed. States retain #sovereign power to steer & control what happens tinyurl.com/4ratufkz

New content for the Mission-oriented Policy Special Issue: Enhancing environmental sustainability: the impact of mission-oriented innovation policies on green innovation and patent trends Felix Kurz doi.org/10.1093/cjre...

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

The ecological cold war: This is far and away the most important essay you will read this week. A staggeringly incisive and commanding thesis for how the 21st century will shake out.

NEW RESULT: Democrats have flipped a state Senate in Iowa. This was a seat Trump carried by 11%, but Democratic nominee Catherine Drey has just won it by 10.4%. This is the second legislative flip by Dems in Iowa this year. It also means the GOP loses its supermajority in Iowa’s senate.

Part of my role with @nichecanada.bsky.social involves discussing potential research partnerships with interested scholars. Please reach out to me if you'd like to arrange a conversation about your Insight Grant application or any other funding application.

Let’s Do This PA! Join us Sunday, August 24 for a state-wide protest to demand the end to inhumane conditions at the MOSHANNON ICE facility. Half the people being held there have NO criminal records. Time to get #GEOOutOfPA #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory

Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper! We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media. Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑 doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

📢 Call for Papers – London Experimental Seminar Series (LESS) in Political Science @lsegovernment.bsky.social. We are launching a new forum for experimental political science research: First seminar: 19/11/2025. Deadline: 31/08/2025. Submit here: forms.gle/ZUJcBbZoDoaY...

Went ahead and updated my map of cities with higher crime than D.C. to accommodate the two new states from the Deep South who are sending troops to the capital. In the five states there are 64 cities, home to 1.7 million people, that had more crime in 2024 than D.C. www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...

The recent DOE climate science report misrepresents the work of many researchers. Carbon Brief asked those cited to review the parts of the report where their work was used, and we collectively found 100+ misleading or false statements: interactive.carbonbr...

Grossly irresponsible of the Times to have this ludicrous credulous spin as the top story the morning after a president who rules by fiat proclaims a totally specious emergency to militarize the capital - an editorial insult to our intelligence and our democracy.

If you’re in DC and seeing National Guard/Federal agent activity, reach out via Signal at marisakabas.04

The Call for Papers for the first @epssnet.bsky.social conference is out. Please submit a paper or a panel.

This week, Ethan Zindler joins @mliebreich.bsky.social to discuss how renewables may push past Trump's his 'Big Beautiful Bill' as they are simply "the next quickest, and in many cases cheapest, thing you can get on the grid". Watch the full episode now for more 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQLk...

Whether you’re leaving #academia or staying, adopting an entrepreneurial mindset is essential. Learn more ⬇️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... @princetonupress.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social #AcademicSky #BookSky

Bruno Carvalho, The Invention of the Future: A History of Cities in the Modern World - @princetonupress.bsky.social, January 2026 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

📣 I've got Google Notebook to make a briefing note of our recent #research paper with Korneliusz Pylak and @tomekmickiewicz.bsky.social "KIBS’ and non-KIBS’ #business creation and closure: evidence from the #urban micro-space" in @regionalstudies.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/3

New Book Announcement! THE HIDDEN FACE OF LOCAL POWER: APPOINTED BOARDS AND THE LIMITS OF DEMOCRACY by Mirya R. Holman, develops a framework for understanding how cities use appointed boards and commissions, and what this means for local democracy.

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The results certified this week from New York City’s mayoral primary election provide the clearest picture yet — down to each voter’s ranked-choice ballot — of how Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani pulled off a major upset over former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. Here’s what the ballots show.

The Trump administration’s actions, whether it be sending ICE into our cities or cutting Medicaid away from working families, is making all of us worse off. The only solution in the short term is going to be dedicated local leadership that is willing to fight these efforts from the ground up.

I found a non-exhausted list of Indigenous radio stations that you can donate to in order to keep them afloat after the defunding If anyone has a better list, please let me know, and I will happily repost it (I couldn't find anything on here)

🧪Have a terminated NSF grant? Or been impacted by such a termination? Call your Senators, esp if they're Repub!! An amendment to restore killed NSF grants will later be debated on the *full Senate* floor, after it narrowly failed in committee today. 🧵 Brief thread 1/4

Trees are essential, but LA streets need cooling now. A new initiative, ShadeLA, is launching today — racing to fill shade gaps ahead of looming megaevents with a neighborhood legacy mindset

AI boosters, 2024: "AI will replace the need for most creative work within five years." AI boosters, 2025: "AI will no longer call itself Hitler."

#Weekend To-Do List 📝 ----> Sign up to our Public Lecture on Economic Measurement✔️ It will examine the industrial and technological transitions in the UK and will be delivered by @manchester.ac.uk Prof Raquel Ortega Argiles ⬇️ 🗓️Tuesday 15 July ⏰4:30 to 6pm

Online seminar tomorrow! Join RoRI's Alex Rushforth and Gunnar Sivertsen for a presentation based on a recent RoRI working paper exploring how national research assessment systems are evolving across 13 countries: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

Let’s fucking go.

An interesting conceptualization of the metascience space, not at all how I have organized it in my head.

NEW: In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson listed 27 grievances to prove that King George III was a tyrant. We looked at how many of those now apply to Donald Trump. Have a good Fourth of July and pass this on. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Some good summer reading! A new issue of the #InternationalProductivityMonitor (Spring 2025) with a Symposium of articles on the UK #productivitypuzzle. www.linkedin.com/pulse/sympos... Also a great article on #AI impacts on productivity by OECD. CSLS and @productivity.bsky.social

A major new report published for anyone interested in #innovation, #productivity, #industrialstrategy, #econsky. I'll now do a short thread that pulls out the main findings and recommendations...

We've been hearing a lot in #NovaScotia about "strong mayor powers." But what does that mean? I interviewed political scientist Tom Urbaniak to find out. Plus, 12 Halifax councillors and Mayor Andy Fillmore have their say on strong mayor powers. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/c...

OK, some more considered thoughts on the Industrial Strategy published on Monday and my comment on it. The first, inescapable point to make about this thing is that it is *huge*. Not "Bidenomics" huge, which translated to £ would have meant £100bns. But in detail 1/ www.gov.uk/government/p...

Eleven candidates ran in the Democratic primary for mayor, with former Governor Andrew Cuomo and state Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani leading the pack in pre-election polls. See how your neighborhood voted with our interactive map: buff.ly/tiqIaic

🆕 BRIEFING | Eight sectors, one story Our latest briefing sets out the geography of the eight chosen sectors in the Industrial Strategy and what this means for its implementation. Read the briefing 👇 buff.ly/eKA9qf4

Boulder CO #NoKings

What role can infrastructure play in delivering “the right kind of growth, shared by all”? In this @acadsocsciences.bsky.social blog, @michaelkenny.bsky.social and I explore some of the lessons that can be learnt from our @bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk work.

We have. www.aaup.org/news/aaup-co...

📢 New in The GJ! 📢 We've published 12 intervention pieces in a special collection reflecting on Trump's second term in the White House, and how geographers are responding. All pieces are free to read for the next 3 months - access them here ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Ahead of #UNOC3, PIK director johan Rockström and others write in @Nature calling for the permanent protection of international waters from fishing, seabed mining, and oil and gas extraction. ⬇️

The remarkable list of contributors to the "Messy Cities" book. We're expecting many to be at our book launch tonight!