THE DEATH OF US SCIENCE ☠️

Wyoming's young people are leaving, and we're asking them why. Join us on Thursday, February 5, at Noon MST for Building Wyoming's Future: The Exit Interview, a virtual community conversation in partnership with WyoFile & ENGAGE WYO. 🔗 Register at wbc.pub/BWF_Youth

“The AI campus is expected to open with a capacity of 1.8 gigawatts of electricity, over five times more than the roughly 238,000 homes in Wyoming currently use, with the potential to scale up to 10 gigawatts…One gigawatt can power approximately 750,000 to one million average U.S. homes”

Gabriel Zucman on the shocking concentration of extreme wealth in the United States…. gzucman.substack.com?r=nle0&utm_c...

Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist. I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵

It’s me! It’s my pub that’s OnlineFirst in EPA @economyandspace.bsky.social !

Only three months ago, Human Geography at Leicester was ranked No.1 in the UK for overall positivity in the 2025 National Student Survey. Any decent university management would be fighting to keep them. In solidarity, please sign the petition: www.change.org/p/save-geogr...

Why yes I am interested in rural policy and mission-led government. Looking forward to this read!

Help! Seeking a short documentary style film for undergrad class showcasing communing, community economies, diverse economies, or other alt-capitalist forms in action at the local level. Any suggestions?? #communityeconomies #altcapitalism

Incarcerated people in Wyoming can't vote, but are counted as residents of the legislative district where they're incarcerated, not where they actually call home, a new report finds. Reform advocates say Wyoming's "miscounted districts" are among the worst in the nation.

🔥 What are the biggest pressures facing regional researchers today? Find out in this new RSA blog by @rsachiefexec.bsky.social & @gretegans.bsky.social, based on RSA’s 2024–25 focus groups. Read: bit.ly/406UEb9 Also✨ Rolling call for blogs = OPEN! 🌍 Summer blog series lands soon—watch this space.

The so-called Department of Government Efficiency took a wrecking ball to the public sector. DOGE didn’t “save money.” It weakened science, consumer protections, and tax enforcement—while enriching billionaires. rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/w...

Look it’s me, feeling inspired from heaps of fascinating & high quality presentations at #GCEG2025. My thanks & congratulations to the organizers! For those interested in industrial strategy, consider our open special issue call w details below 😉 ed. w @prt1969.bsky.social @dgbailey.bsky.social

DOGE in the real world: direct job cuts in a program for low income adults which would be catalytic for their upward mobility, and ability to transition into “skilled” labor fields. Unbelievable.

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Want your NIH and NSF program officers and division directors to be fired and turned into political appointees? Deadline extended: 3 days left! Already 33,000+ public comments Comments can tank a proposed rule in court. 📣 Oppose the rule with a brief comment: shorturl.at/WKuBj

Elon Musk’s net worth is double the total wages for the executive branch workforce according to DOGE.

Thank you @rural-reconcile.bsky.social ! TL;DR = The taxonomy identifies growth-oriented “booster” policies vs. equity-oriented “builder” policies, and means of intervention + types of regions which stand to benefit *differ* based on policy aims. Now you want to read? Check out the summary!

@gretegans.bsky.social kicks off the afternoon session on present priorities/future directions @regstud.bsky.social #RSA2025

For those at #RSA25 - join EdgeNet for a happy hour with fellow peripheries researchers : 7 pm at Bar Aduela in Porto City centre. 🥂 raise a glass to ‘the rest’ with us! @regstud.bsky.social

happy to kick off my fave conference @regstud.bsky.social with friends old and new in Porto 🇵🇹! #RSA25 is a big deal, and this banner is here to prove it (pictured with me & @mia-gray.bsky.social for scale)

this is so stupid.

Leaders from rural communities in eight states traveled to Washington, D.C., last week to urge lawmakers to preserve federal funding that's threatened by the Trump administration.

So excited to share the weekend w @riaadams.bsky.social checking out rural communities in eastern #Wyoming. Statistics would call these places #LeftBehind, and their built environment might look like that too. But we found many local initiatives *building* community. More to come 🤎💛

Are you at #AAG2025 @geographers.bsky.social ? Join the panel discussion with @rsachiefexec.bsky.social ‘Publishing Regional Studies Research: from Blogs to Books’ tomorrow (27/03) morning. Full info at www.regionalstudies.org/news/rsa-at-...

Just published @regionalstudies.bsky.social! Markus Grillitsch, @miorner.bsky.social, Daniel Schiller and I examine the role of #narratives in place leadership, their influence on perceptions of opportunity spaces and introduce a multiple-phase framework for their analysis. 💭 doi.org/10.1080/0034...

DOGE, which operates with a spirit of moving fast and breaking things across the rest of the government, says it cannot be expected to move fast and set up a FOIA operation.

Our March roundup highlights research on public health resilience, placed-based policies (by @gretegans.bsky.social), and the right to food, in addition to sharing recent news, an upcoming "Shaping the Future of Food" webinar from @iatp.bsky.social, and a podcast rec.

🎉 We're here! As #AAG2025 draws closer, excited to reveal our keynote: Malika Virdi on "Creating Spaces of Possibility"! Join Jonathon K London and me on March 25, 8:30 AM EST for Himalayan transformation insights. Register: bit.ly/AAG_RGSG_Spe... @geographers.bsky.social #JustRuralFutures

I just realized 2 of the Biden administration’s major industrial policy efforts meant to stimulate the largest economy in the world 🇺🇸—the CHIPS Act ($280B) & the Inflation Reduction Act ($500B)—are hauntingly close to Elon’s net worth ($334B). Govt spending isn’t the problem, private hoarding is.

Very @brettchristophers.bsky.social "our lives in their portfolios." When asset managers decide from afar an industrial facility doesn't make financial sense anymore, a community dries up. (I realize climate goals complicate this case. Still, exemplary of local, placed effects of financialization.)

Anonymously forwarded to me: an artifact of the ‘banality of evil’ from DOGE’s internal sabotage of the state. Wish I could say this email which looks more like phishing than govt communication is a joke but it’s apparently how once-legitimate institutions are run now.

⚡CFP⚡ EdgeNet, @regstud.bsky.social's research network on peripheral regions & why they matter, is hosting our 2nd summer paper workshop & field trip - this time in lovely Umeå, Sweden 25-27 June. Abstract deadline 28 Feb. More info 👇 edgenet-rsa.weebly.com/umearing-sum...

Rural communities–where the public sector is often a top, if not the top, regional employer–are likely to be devastated by mass federal layoffs of highly skilled workers. Basic economic functionality and land management depend on these community members. A whole new hollowing out

CFP! Special issue in Contemporary Social Science + Special Session at GCEG on the Re-emergence of Industrial Strategy in International Context coming down the line Shorter submissions welcome, so if you have 3,000+ words to share, join us ;)

To all #PhD students and early career researchers working on topics related to economic geography: Please take a look at our call and apply now for the next #YEGN Workshop on #agency and regional #transformation in Greifswald (Germany), 25-28 August 2025. 👇 yegn.wordpress.com/yegn-worksho...

I'm #hiring a M.S. track Graduate Research Assistant in Community #Sustainability to join me at University of #Wyoming, Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources. The GRA will choose between researching #renewable #energy, green #innovation or #rural development. Please share! Deadline 10 Feb

It’s happening: #infrastructure $ meant for ‘left behind’ places & bringing decaying water systems into compliance (100 yo wood pipes! Leaching from oilfield soils!) are leaving them behind again. Lack of planning capacity in #rural towns is a constraint, but policy needs to meet them where they are

🚀 New paper out w @andywestwood.bsky.social in @cssjournal.bsky.social Bidenomics place-based industrial policy experiments offer several lessons for future US and intl policymaking. Here we synthesize 5️⃣ ideas for the UK govt to take forward beyond leveling up 🧵 doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2024.2436977

Bidenomics showed how #IndustrialPolicy can revive neglected areas—but boldness alone isn’t enough. Without social infrastructure deprived places remain stuck, write @gretegans.bsky.social & @andywestwood.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1080/2158... A cautionary tale for UK & EU. doi.org/10.1080/0034...