Some good news here -- on the reduction of pollution (both PM2.5 and NO2) in major cities from 2010 to 2024. The analysis found interventions such as cycle lanes, uptake of electric cars and restrictions on polluting vehicles had helped to drive the improvements. Great to see.

📢 Call for Papers: PKES–IIPPE PhD Student Conference 2026 🗓 3 June 2026 📍 University of Hertfordshire (UK) ⏰ Deadline: 27 March 2026 🔗 Application form: shorturl.at/oI6az 📄Full details: shorturl.at/tmXfs PhD students working in Post-Keynesian, Marxist, and pluralist economics invited to apply. 🧵

Me too. Liverpool's wonderful library

After over 8 years, I'm finishing my term as editor-in-chief of Geopolitics. We're hiring two co-editors-in-chief to replace me. Please share widely and get in touch if you are interested

Powerful piece from @AdityaChakrabortty on falling life expectancies in the UK. An important reminder that the legacy of austerity and inequality will be with us for a long time. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🌟 Registration is now open for #RSA26 🌟 Join the RSA community in Gothenburg in June. 🔶 Regions as Arenas in a Changing World: Rethinking Spatial Theories 📆 15-18 June 2026 To benefit from the early bird rate, register by 31st March 🔗 bit.ly/4atPUlH 😊 🔁

⏰ FINAL REMINDER: Urban Urgencies Call There is still time to apply for our new grant supporting rapid-response, collaborative research on the most pressing urban challenges—from the climate crisis to AI and housing. 🗓️ Deadline: 23 March 2026 (23:59 UTC) Don't miss out! 🔗 ow.ly/FUIn50XGtgz

I absolutely agree. Also see the upcoming special issue on remunicipalisation (taking public services back into public control at the municipal scale) in the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. Already a number of advanced articles out: academic.oup.com/cjres/advanc...

Wonderful to see our PhD student, Chloe King, win this early career researcher prize for research impact and Engagement As a discipline, geography's research is often engaged and full of impact

Year 12s at UK state schools: Apply for the FREE @suttontrust.bsky.social UK Summer School at Cambridge! Experience life at Cambridge & dive into Geography—all for free. Deadline: 12 Feb (Midday) Apply: summerschools.suttontrust.com/course/university-of-cambridge/geography-4/

Is the UK’s industrial strategy really place based? New @rsablog.bsky.social blog on our recent @regionalstudies.bsky.social paper. Blog here: regions.regionalstudies.org/ezine/articl... paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @regstud.bsky.social @rsaibis.bsky.social

Check out our advance access content for our new issue on How Places are Contesting the Privatisation of Local Public Services Edited by @judithclifton.bsky.social @mia-gray.bsky.social, David MacDonald and Ron Martin academic.oup.com/cjres/advanc...

This looks interesting -- exploring regional cultures amps-research.com/livable-citi... Examining societies and cultures from varied regional perspectives. Regional Cultures Strand: Livable Cities 2026. University of Salford, MANCHESTER Dates: 17-19 June, 2026 Abstracts: 01 April, 2026

A timely call for papers for CJRES special issue on Revisiting the Economic Geographies of the Defence Industry Abstracts by 1st September 2026 academic.oup.com/cjres/pages/...

New Role, come work for us at End Austerity! endausterity.org/new-role-end...

The 2025 Budget changed student loan terms affecting those who started courses between 2012 and 2022. A repayment threshold freeze will see many repaying more each month. Over their lifetimes, those who started in 2022 can expect to pay £3,200 (6%) more on average.

Oh, come on ... Being computer illiterate is not an acceptable excuse for filling in your Universal Credit incorrectly or missing your council tax payment. The consequences are severe. Only the wealthly allowed to be a "computer illiterate oddball"? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Announcing the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series, featuring six brilliant speakers @rikjaz.bsky.social @ayonadatta.bsky.social Charlotte Lemanski @princeguma.bsky.social @maanbarua.bsky.social @profgillian.bsky.social Location: Small Lecture Theatre @camunigeography.bsky.social

One in five UK adults borrowed to cover Christmas holiday spending in 2025 yougov.com/en-gb/articl... With cost of living remaining a key concern for many households, a new survey conducted using YouGov Surveys: Serviced explores how many UK adults turned to borrowing to make ends meet.

"With record numbers of higher ed jobs under threat, it’s staggering university bosses continue to think their wage hikes should be way above the paltry 1.4 % rise they offered the people who keep their institutions running" @unison.org.uk @ucu.org.uk www.timeshighereducation.com/news/russell...

📣 Studying tephra in archaeology? Then submit an abstract to our #tephratastic session at the European Association for Archaeologists #EAAs in Athens this summer. 🌋🏛️ Session #203 “Advances in Tephrochronology for Archaeological Research”. 👉5th Feb deadline👈 More info: bit.ly/3LCcuyy

And I've just realised that the content of the book is free to download! www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...

Repeal of a policy that many called one of the most restrictive labor laws in the US (prohibitng public sector employees from unionising). A bit of good news from the US.

CJRES's 2026 conference “The New Economic Geographies of the Defence Industry” Exploring the changing military industrial complex implications for uneven regional development? Please share broadly cpes.org.uk/events/cjres...

Over the last years, business investment in the UK has been significantly lower than in peer countries. This new paper estimates that Brexit reduced investment by 12% to 18%, employment by 3% to 4%, productivity by 3% to 4, and GDP by 6% to 8%.

Excited to announce @leverhulmecal.bsky.social posts - we are looking for 7 interdisciplinary fellows to join our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life, closing date 30 January 2026 (1/3) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Interesting study about AI and autonomy & well-being at work - I like the different categories of "digital control". I'd love to see a sectoral breakdown of the data. The Algorithmic Workplace: How Platformisation Is Reshaping Work in Europe www.socialeurope.eu/the-algorith...

Are you an early career or established researcher engaged on original research intended to produce monographs, editions or studies of documents, texts or illustrations? Apply for the Neil Ker Memorial Fund 2026: https://bit.ly/4hO0Oo1

Thousands of Starbucks workers are on strike for a living wage and better working conditions. Stand with them by boycotting Starbucks until it can strike a fair contract. sbworkersunited.org @sbworkersunited.org

Welcome, but will be very curious to see the details (type of playground, geography, etc.) EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Reeves to plough millions into children's playgrounds after years of Tory neglect

Excited to share my first PhD paper which was based on my fieldwork at @thebotanics.bsky.social and just published on @geoopenaccess.bsky.social yesterday! 🌺

Together with my Green New Deal colleagues, Colin Hines and Larry Elliott we have published a document of hope and possibility in advance of the Rachel Reeves event on Wednesday: A Popular Budget to Fund a Social and Green New Deal. Please read and share…. greennewdealgroup.org/press-releas...

As I slipped and slid along slushy and icy pavements on my way to the metro, it feels like it’s worth resharing the story of how Swedish cities flipped the order of snow clearance as they reflected on how gendered normal practices were: usa.streetsblog.org/2018/01/24/w...

It was a real pleasure to write a chapter in the Handbook of Labour Geography. The editor, Andy Herod, was a joy to work with and the collection itself looks great. www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han...

Lords say employment rights will create unemployment, but the actual evidence shows an absence of rights kills jobs. If useless bosses can fire people without reason, that’s what damages the economy. It’s hereditary peers that need the boot. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If it’s all eyes on property tax, surely the time has come for a thorough overhaul of Council tax, which is grossly unfair. Split out the service charge, fairly tax the value of residential property, the majority win or break even… www.economicsobservatory.com/what-future-...

"Brexit has reduced GDP by 6% to 8%" So actually worse than 'project fear'. Great job everyone. cc @mrjamesob.bsky.social

EXC: English councils will still be poorer in 2029 than they were in 2010, according to the IfG. Report finds councils are increasingly providing social care and little else. Libraries, youth services, parks, all falling by the wayside. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

This won’t be the big thing everyone’s talking about today, but shows how little ministers believe in empowering English local government. Ministers decide where funding goes and MPs want a say in how it’s spent. Local government as delivery agents rather than instruments of local democracy.

We're hiring!💥 IPPR North are looking for a senior researcher who has big ideas for the future of our regions. Join us at this pivotal time for our economy and democracy. Based in Manchester, apply by 31st October. www.ippr.org/jobs/senior-...

TOMORROW: Next talk in the Infrastructural Geographies Michaelmas Term 2025 Seminar Series will be delivered by Beth Greenhough @oxfordgeography.bsky.social 16:00-17:30 in the Large Lecture Theatre. All welcome!

Tonight’s (nearly) the night! The British Academy Book Prize ‘shortlist showcase’ takes place this evening (winner revealed tomorrow). Don’t miss a glimpse inside the covers of six of the best works of non-fiction… www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/livin...

Pls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026 Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026

Reminder for this #AAG2026 session. Abstracts due October 20th!

✨ CfP AAG 2026, San Francisco ✨ Tabea Latocha and I are teaming up feminist fabulative futures and we’d love for you to join us. Our proposed session explores how storytelling, speculation, and fabulation can help us imagine housing otherwise — beyond ownership, extraction, and displacement. 🏡🌿💭

Join us for 'Imagining our Working Lives: A Creative Exploration' 💭🖍🪛🧤🥄🖱 1st Nov, Central Manchester. Part of ESRC Festival of Social Science 2025. Free to attend, places limited. Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imagining-... P.s. There'll be cake!🍰 With @amycbarron.bsky.social + @clarecourtney

Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State: @kbrickell.bsky.social (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) and Mel Nowicki (Oxford Brookes) as part of the Infrastructural Geographies Michaelmas 2025 Seminar Series on the 22nd October, 16:00-17:30 in the Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!

Our latest @safety-nets.bsky.social project blog is out. We reflect on spatial inequalities and disability benefit reforms. And the pickle UK gov changes might create for subnational and devolved authorities.

New RSA Blog 📉 “The Growth Gamble” explores how UK welfare reform, deindustrialisation & regional divides intersect. By Sioned Pearce, @haylesben.bsky.social, Mhairi Ross & @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social. 👉 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...