🎓 Congratulations to Dr Jens Carstens (@jenscarstens.bsky.social) and Dr Marcela Alonso Ferreira (@marcelaferreira.bsky.social), who both brilliantly defended their PhD theses in political science yesterday. All the best for the next stage of their academic journey! cc @edr-sciencespo.bsky.social

2️⃣ weeks left to submit an abstract to RC21 Vienna 2026 Conference next July, "Inequalities and the city" #RC21Vienna2026, organised by @rc21.bsky.social & @urbanfutures.bsky.social ⏩ rc21-vienna2026.org/call Several of our researchers co-chair panels (1/3)

#RC21Vienna2026 Panels - Call for Abstracts ⤵️ #9 - Wealth and the city: Urban territories and spatial trajectories of the economic elite, co-chaired by @brunocousin.bsky.social #85 - Political Lives of Policy Instruments in Land and Housing , co-chaired by @marcelaferreira.bsky.social (2/3)

"This doesn’t solve the problem,” said Rene Silva, from @vozdascomunidades.com.br “Rio’s crime problem needs to be combated in other places – not just in the favelas" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Operação no Rio de Janeiro é mais letal da polícia no país

Suite à sa publicisation sur la liste professionnelle des politistes, je me permets de vous partager un pétition contre la suppression des APL pour les étudiant(e)s étrangèr(e)s. Le droit d'étudier dignement vaut pour tout le monde. www.change.org/p/non-%C3%A0...

Guilty www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

About 2/3 of all own-account workers in Brazil appear to have taken this occupation as a result of a financial constraint, as opposed to their first-best economic choice. This is the key finding of a paper I co-authored with David Margolis, now in EDCC: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

looking forward to returning to the Cities are Back in Town seminar on 5 June to discuss @proftortuga.bsky.social's upcoming book on infrastructure politics in Latin America! info and registration 👇 www.sciencespo.fr/research/cit... @scpo-research.bsky.social

📢 Calling early career scholars! Submit your abstracts by 31/01 for our Workshop on Comparative Politics in Latin America, hosted @NuffieldCollege 🌎✍️ A unique chance to workshop papers with senior discussants. Spread the word!

mass incarceration meets depleted public service meets climate change www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/u...

After using podcasts in my Latin American Metropolis course, with Sur-Urbano as a key inspiration, I am thrilled to see one of the students, Grace, cohosting an episode! Thanks to @leiteflavia.bsky.social, Isabel, Lucia, and Grace, for this insightful conversation ✨ open.spotify.com/episode/2I7V...

A pedido da @folha.com fiz uma análise, a quente, dos resultados do primeiro turno das eleições municipais desse ano. Meu foco foi a consolidação da direita, que já tinha registrado crescimento em 2020. #Eleições2024 shorturl.at/Rz5W9

Publication Alert 🚀 ! Our paper on how bureaucrats act as entrepreneurs to advance urban agriculture policies in Brazilian cities has just been published in Urban Planning. www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplannin... @institutoescolhas.bsky.social

Earlier this year, I handed over my part in organizing the #CitiesAreBackInTown seminars to Eva Bossuyt, who’s been collaborating with Petra Samaha since. They’ve put together a super exciting program for the next academic year—check it out ✨👇! www.sciencespo.fr/research/cit...

Transforming passive learning into an active and engaging process can significantly improve educational outcomes. Check out my blog post on the roleplaying game I recently used in the Latin American Metropolis course I taught at Sciences Po's Urban School. 🎲 sites.google.com/view/marcela...

O desastre no Rio Grande do Sul escancarou o que muitos já sabiam ou desconfiavam: as cidades brasileiras não estão adaptadas às mudanças climáticas e o Estado brasileiro avançou pouco para além da resposta a desastres. Meu comentário no Valor: valor.globo.com/brasil/notic...

I am shocked, thrilled, ecstatic, and, most of all, honored to learn that I have been selected to receive a grant from the IJURR Foundation!

Mark your calendars for 29 Feb! Deborah Fromm will join us at the #CitiesAreBackInTown seminar for a talk on "Public Security, Private Interests: On Social Conflict in Contemporary Brazil." Register to attend online or in person from 5-7 PM CET 👇 www.sciencespo.fr/research/cit...

The #CitiesAreBackInTown seminar series is back! Our first session is scheduled for today, February 8th at 5-7 PM CET in Paris & Zoom. In this session, Marc Barthelemy will give a talk on the pillars of a research program for a "science of cities." Register here!👇 www.sciencespo.fr/research/cit...

o que chamamos de "jabuti" no Brasil (prática parlamentar de adicionar disposições não relacionadas ao objeto original de um projeto de lei), em francês chama-se "cavalier législatif" e em inglês, "rider" cada um com suas referências né ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Apply for a Paris Polisky PhD @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social, part of POLLOT HorizonEU ERC_Research with me @bvancoppenolle.bsky.social Deadline 10th January 2024 ➡️https://bit.ly/3TcJFKx PSJMInfo

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My paper "The Bureaucratic Politics of Urban Land Rights: (Non)Programmatic Distribution in São Paulo’s Land Regularization Policy" was just published in Latin American Politics & Society! doi.org/10.1017/lap.... 🚀

Hi bsky! Are there any fellow urban researchers around here? 🏙️📚 On 9 November, I'll host an exciting Cities are Back in Town Seminar: we're launching Patrick Le Galès and Jennifer Robinson's co-edited "Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies" + info👇 www.sciencespo.fr/research/cit...