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Gijs Westra

@gijsw4.bsky.social
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Forever explaining how to pronounce my name - PhD in Human Geography - Talk to me about neighbourhoods, mobility, and well-being

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Deutsche Errinerungskultur (Symbolbild)
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clementinecttn.bsky.social @clementinecttn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Tragedy of the Stack Overflow commons... A great article on the negative effects of LLMs on the development and maintenance of open source software. by Sam Learner
A graph of the total monthly questions asked on Stack Overflow's forum showing a sharp increase between 2009n and 2014, followed by a slow decline until 2022 and a sharp decline from the launch of ChatGPT
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Gijs Westra @gijsw4.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed of authoring one of the 10% most viewed articles in Population, Space and Place among works published in 2024. Now, I can say that dream has come true!
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GENUS @genus.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
While Sweden is making language a requirement for citizenship, new study shows immigrants engage with SFI differently, reflecting motivations, inequalities, and challenges in accessing SFI and integration opportunities. 👉 Check the new paper by Samaneh Khaef 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
I WAS LOOKING FOR A JOB AND THEN I FOUND A JOB AND HEAVEN KNOWS I’M MISERABLE NOW
The pope, at the head of a dense crowd of clergy, leaning into a microphone with his eyes closed as if singing.
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Tess Osborne @tessosborne.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Please sign and share this petition. I care deeply about geography and want to do everything I can to save our jobs and the school, and protect our students 🌍 #Geography #SchoolClosure c.org/Z2ZK6fQVgf
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Save Geography at the University of Leicester
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
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Gijs Westra @gijsw4.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
‼️New publication out! Together with @karenhaandrikman.bsky.social in @tesg-journal.bsky.social ! We use the Swedish neighbourhood study to explore how well-being is spatially sorted, finding heterogeneous spatial sorting of well-being, showing the importance of the neighbourhood for well-being
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Ida Borg @idaborg.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Visited Gimo Herrgård to discuss Segregation research, beyond academia. Amazing talks and discussions. Happy to have met Maria Krysan and Kyle Crowder.
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Gijs Westra @gijsw4.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Had a nice time presenting some preliminary work on residential mobility reproducing patterns of ethnic segregation at @rgsibg.bsky.social and BSPS. Thanks everybody for their questions and feedback!
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Matt Mason @mattgmasn.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
At #RGSIBG25 today? Make sure to check out the fantastic set of presentations lined up at @qmrg-rgs-ibg.bsky.social's early career session I'm co-hosting with @fangyuanli.bsky.social Teaching and Learning Building: Lecture Theatre 2 @ 14:40 #quantitative #geography @rgsibg.bsky.social #ECR #PhD
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Maël Lecoursonnais @lecoursonnais.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Thrilled to share my first publication! 🎉 Together with Maria Brandén and Erik Rosenqvist, we show that distance to higher education shapes academic aspirations in Sweden—well before their university education begins. (1/4)
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The Spatial Determinants of Academic Aspirations: Evidence From Sweden
Differences in access to higher education are a well-known contributor to socioeconomic inequalities. Yet, despite considerable interest from policymakers, we know little about the processes linking ...
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Åsa Plesner @asa.tsbalans.se · 17/07/2025
Doktorander som varit fyra år i Sverige kan söka om permanent uppehållstillstånd. Men de får ofta avslag, för efter fyra år som doktorand har man inte så lång anställningstid kvar, och då anses man inte ha varaktig försörjning.
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Reto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Quite a strong final statement: "Descriptive research is important and it is a pity that the general obsession with causal estimates disincentivizes researchers from attempting to publish careful and detailed description."
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Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
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Are rents affordable in Amsterdam? Not if you are a newcomer | Amber Howard
The city was once the pinnacle of inclusivity, with working- and middle-class people alike living in social housing – then the private landlords arrived, says social-policy researcher Amber Howard
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
This is 10-12 tenure-track assistant professors’ salaries at many places. A whole academic program’s worth of money, pissed away, In Times of Austerity, on rent-a-cops going after students who dared speak. Nobody behind this should have a career.
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Gijs Westra @gijsw4.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Last Wednesday, I successfully defended my dissertation, "Neighbourhoods, Ethnicity, and Moves: The Spatial Sorting of Well-Being in Sweden", and have therefore completed my PhD in Human Geography!
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Gijs Westra @gijsw4.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Last Tuesday, I posted (eller spikade) my dissertation "Neighbourhoods, Ethnicity, and Moves: The Spatial Sorting of Well-Being in Sweden" on the walls of the university, meaning that it is publicly available for you to read in preparation for my disputation.
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John @notheotherjohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
AI is going to revolutionize the way in which things suck
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Marc Keuschnigg @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
We are hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science 📍SweCSS, Norrköping, Sweden ⏰Deadline June 3 🔗https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/26854 Please apply // help us spread the word
Norrköping campus at sunset
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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
apologies to american pope i was not familiar with your game
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Gijs Westra @gijsw4.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Last Tuesday, I posted (eller spikade) my dissertation "Neighbourhoods, Ethnicity, and Moves: The Spatial Sorting of Well-Being in Sweden" on the walls of the university, meaning that it is publicly available for you to read in preparation for my disputation.
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Ruth Neville @ruthneville20.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
⏰ Submit your abstract for @bspsuk.bsky.social 2025! I am co-organising a session on 'Innovative Data and Methods for Population Science' with @fcorowe.bsky.social and @carmen-cabrera.bsky.social! We are looking forward to receiving your abstracts by this Friday (9th May)! ➡️ tinyurl.com/mzrsmpxz
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Annual Conference
The British Society for Population Studies holds an annual conference in a different venue each September.
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Mark Fabian @markfabian.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I wrote a short and simple thing. Lots of graphs and cartoons: profmarkfabian.substack.com/p/below-repl... I address the "how do we fund the welfare state?" question.
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Below replacement fertility is fine
Fewer people is a good thing
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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 24/04/2025
Vi var många som undrade var regeringens plötsliga intresse för "existentiell hälsa" kom ifrån häromsistens. Nu minns jag plötsligt att statsministerns hustru driver verksamhet inom just "existentiell hälsa" på den herrgård hon fått av en friskolelobbyist 🤷 www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/4o...
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Ulf Kristersson säljer sitt sommarhus – frun köper herrgård för ”existentiell hälsa”
Ulf Kristersson ska sälja sitt sommarhus vid Mälaren. Statsministern kommer istället äga ett hus på hustrun Birgitta Eds nya herrgård – som hon köper med konsu
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Gijs Westra @gijsw4.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Had a good time presenting my posters at #paa2025 ! Thanks to everybody for stopping by and you questions
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tranna karenina @einegeniesserin.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
far-right politicians HATE this one weird trick (simply prosecuting them for the serious crimes they are all constantly committing)
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Gijs Westra @gijsw4.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Reviewer 1... my beloved... my guardian angel Reviewer 2... my mortal enemy... my nemesis
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight
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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
i’ll do it for $10,000 a month
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Ruth Neville @ruthneville20.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Couple days left to get your submissions in! 🔥
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Gijs Westra @gijsw4.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Last week to apply!
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Sure my research is all about LLM and AI (local labor markets and area inequality)
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Mitch Travis @profmitchtravis.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Urghhhh got feedback on an article and it’s so clear, insightful and helpful. Lord, just kill me.
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Cody Hochstenbach @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Statushouders zijn een makkelijke zondebok om politieke problemen op af te schuiven. Keijzer had ook beleid kunnen maken om weer te investeren in volkshuisvesting, maar dit kabinet trapt liever omlaag om gemarginaliseerde groepen nog verder te marginaliseren nos.nl/artikel/2556...
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Kabinet klaar om statushouders voorrang op woning te ontnemen, gemeenten 'verbijsterd'
Het plan om asielzoekers die een verblijfsvergunning hebben gekregen geen voorrang meer te geven op een sociale huurwoning, stond al het coalitieakkoord en het regeerprogramma.
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Gijs Westra @gijsw4.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Only 2 weeks left!!
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Wooseong Kim (김우성) @wooseongkim.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The introductory chapter (Kappa in Swedish) of my doctoral dissertation, Unrealized Potential: Overqualification and its Consequences among the Children of Immigrants Born in Sweden, is available online (3/3): su.diva-portal.org/smash/record...
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Quantitative Methods Research Group @qmrg-rgs-ibg.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
🚩Are you working on spatial methods or with spatial data ?🌎✨Consider submitting your abstract to our sponsored session in collab/ with PopGeogRG organised by @ruthneville20.bsky.social & @gijsw4.bsky.social at this year's @rgsibg.bsky.social Annual Conference! Reach out to us with any queries! 💫
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Gijs Westra @gijsw4.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Looking forward to #PAA2025 / getting pancaked on the runway of Washington Dulles !!
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Matt Mason @mattgmasn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Excited to welcome submissions for an ECR session at the 2025 @rgsibg.bsky.social Annual Conference, sponsored by @qmrg-rgs-ibg.bsky.social 🌍 We’re keen to hear from #ECRs in #QuantitativeGeography! 📒 If you’re interested/have any questions, DM or email me/@fangyuanli.bsky.social Deadline 28th Feb
A call for abstracts for a PGR-led Early Career Session at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025. The session is aimed at early career researchers in quantitative geography, and the deadline for submissions is 28th February.
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Ruth Neville @ruthneville20.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
👋 @gijsw4.bsky.social and I are pleased to be welcoming submissions to our proposed @rgsibg.bsky.social session sponsored by @qmrg-rgs-ibg.bsky.social in collab w/ PopGeogRG! 🌏💫 We are excited to receive your work utilising innovative spatial methods or spatial data! Check out the details below 👇
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Stefanie Mollborn @mollborn.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Call for apps (in English and Swedish)--open Ph.D. position in sociological #demography at Stockholm University. Well-funded, great department, wonderful city. Due 1 Mar. Spread the word! su.varbi.com/what:job/job...
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Doktorand i sociologisk demografi
Sociologiska institutionen  grundad 1954, erbjuder en dynamisk forskningsmiljö med många ämnesöverskridande samarbeten och en stark internationell forskningsprofil. De engelskspråkiga master- oc
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Gijs Westra @gijsw4.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
‼️Do you work with spatial population data🌍📈 and /or spatial methods🌍🧮 ? ‼️Consider submitting your abstract to my & @ruthneville20.bsky.social 's QMRG-sponsored session in collaboration with PopGeoRG at the RGS-IBG 2025 conference! @rgsibg.bsky.social @qmrg-rgs-ibg.bsky.social
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Tim White @timwhite100.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I have an article in the Guardian today on the loophole pushing Berlin’s housing crisis to new extremes www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The strange loophole that transformed Berlin from tenant’s paradise to landlord’s playground | Tim White
Germany’s capital was known for its affordable rents. Now ‘furnished temporary’ flats risk destroying the heart of the city, says researcher and writer Tim White
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Ruth Neville @ruthneville20.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
New paper from my #PhD in @Data_and_Policy evaluating the impact of #Brexit and #COVID19 on international student applications to the UK w/ @fcorowe.bsky.social and @alexsingleton.bsky.social ! We find substantial declines in EU applicants as a direct result of #Brexit 📉 doi.org/10.1017/dap....
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Unraveling the Brexit–COVID-19 nexus: assessing the decline of EU student applications into UK universities | Data & Policy | Cambridge Core
Unraveling the Brexit–COVID-19 nexus: assessing the decline of EU student applications into UK universities - Volume 6
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Gijs Westra @gijsw4.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
Read my research! Or else! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Segregation and well‐being in Sweden: Geographies of well and ill‐being
Well-being is rarely considered in studies of residential segregation. This paper explores the spatial distribution of well-being and its relationship to various forms of residential segregation. Ext...
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