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Jon Reades

@jreades.bsky.social
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Prof of Geographic Data Science & HoD @ CASA, UCL. Python, Housing, Neighbourhoods, Industrial location, and Text. Sometime DB, MTB & 🍄 nerd. Co-auth: “Why Face-to-Face still matters” (bit.ly/3cW5gSr)

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Luxury retailers want taxpayers to fund a 20% tax break for foreign tourists. They paid consultancy Cebr to claim this will raise £2.6bn for the UK. That convinced Sadiq Khan and Kemi Badenoch. But it's false: a free lunch. Four basic errors mask a £600m loss. Thread:
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Danish study finds after male managers had their first daughter, their hiring rate of women increased by 2.9% and promotions shifted in favor of women. The first-daughter effect also led to a relative earnings increase of 4.4% for their women employees. www.fastcompany.com/91613424/gir...
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Girl dads make better bosses, study suggests
When male managers have daughters, women are hired more, promoted more, and earn more.
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Jon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Was written by the bus lobby? Sure, let’s talk about the ‘problem’ of widening pavement and creating space for bikes *before* we get to the contribution of uncoordinated roadworks, rising deliveries, Uber and such, and lack of bus-only lanes www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...
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London buses in decline? Why public transport in global cities is slowing to a crawl – visualised
As experts fear for future of UK capital’s bus network, some commuters are giving up entirely. London is not alone – with worrying implications for poorest in society
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Andrew Bell @andrewjdbell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Want to work with me and others on a MAIHDA-related project? www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSZ206/r... We are advertising for two 3-month RA secondment positions, to do something related to the MAIHDA method. That might be:
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Research Associate at University of Sheffield
An academic position as a Research Associate is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Following on from my last post this may be of interest from 2022. www.uea.ac.uk/about/news/a...
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Research project tracks 420 years of English protest songs
A research project from the University of East Anglia (UEA) has found that English protest songs have been a vital form of political communication for more than 400 years.
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Jon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
LLMs are clearly doing a lot of bad things to student learning, but I will say that one area where it has helped me as a teacher is in talking about pedagogy: no one is going to be willing to spend as much time talking with me about my module and assessment design as an LLM.
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Centre for Economic Performance @cep-lse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Anna Valero (CEP, GSOS) discusses how innovation targeted at reaching net zero represents a real strategy to boost productivity and reduce regional inequality in the UK. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
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Jon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Wonder how Labour leadership feeling about a cap on donations now? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Christopher Harborne matches £36m Reform donation of Ben Delo
Party leader, Nigel Farage, says he is humbled by the contributions from cryptocurrency billionaires
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Jon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years ago today I was WFH in Brooklyn. I thought the bang I heard was a flatbed truck going over the potholes outside my building. I kept working. Then mum rang my mobile. From my roof I could see through the North Tower and watched them both collapse. 1/3
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
'“Such awards tend to favour more established researchers and those at research institutes who are not required to take on the additional and vital task of teaching undergraduates,” said Stephen Curry, director of strategy at the Research on Research Institute.'
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Jon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Aaaaaargh. 😱
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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
They make a product that must be doomed to obsolescence if we're serious about climate change. They aren't innovating in the EV market in the way Chinese companies are and deserve to suffer the consequences. Yet higher education is directly related to the government's desire to create a
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
'The number of students taking A-level music is at a record low: under 5,000, a drop of nearly half from 15 years ago....Music GCSE entries have also fallen. It has the widest attainment gap for disadvantaged students of any subject.'
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The Guardian view on music and drama education: reversing elitism starts at school | Editorial
Editorial: The number of students taking creative subjects at A-level and GCSE is at a record low. The arts must not become the preserve of the most privileged
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 01/09/2026
Summer 2026 is provisionally the UK’s warmest summer on record with the season’s mean temperature made around 130 times more likely due to human-induced climate change. Here, we delve into the numbers 🧵
Mean temperature for 2026 in the UK. The map shows widely above average temperature, particularly in the south. Rainfall amounts in summer 2026 in the UK compared to average. The maps shows widely dry conditions, though the west of Scotland is slightly wetter than averageSunshine duration in summer 2026 compared to average. The map shows widely sunny conditions in the season, with the south of the country particularly sunny.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“When mayors in other cities ask me how #Copenhagen afforded to invest in its cycling networks, I ask them how on earth they have been able to afford highway projects. We invested in bike lanes because that was the cheapest option.” What the world can learn from Copenhagen’s cycling revolution.
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Copenhagen Cycling Revolution: Lessons for Cities
Close to two-thirds of the city’s residents commute by bike to school or work every day.
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Jon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Probably not the book for a true beginner, but I found this #APA book by Thomas Sanchez on #AI for #UrbanPlanning a good, accessible intro for linking up types of deep learning with planning application areas.
Artificial Intelligence for Urban Planning
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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Guess what? 1) You can 3D print a crow and squirrel feeder that looks like a Flock camera 2) Crows are extremely good at pattern recognition 3) People are fucking hilarious and creative and I hope every Flock camera gets its own personal murder (of crows) www.printables.com/model/180491...
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Flock Camera with chamber; squirrel and bird feeder V2 by David | Download free STL model | Printables.com
Designed to look like a Flock camera, hollow with chambers and a removeable hatch for putting treats for your friends | Download free 3D printable STL models
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Prof Katherine Brickell FBA @kbrickell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The love letter in house buying - fascinating paper which I suspect is also used in some parts of the UK housing market
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Jon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Really enjoying a talk on software dev and decision making in an AI-age that has gone in a very different direction from what I’d expected (all about human communication and voice and being heard). #BITES20206 in Termoli
Slide says notice -> interpret -> voice -> be heard -> change the outcome
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show. Excellent work by the National Trust at Holnicote. #MakeBritainWetAgain www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show
National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding
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Jon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Summer is always a good time to #VisitScotland ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (for for scale)
A collection of very large boletes and lactarius mushrooms. At least one sadly no longer edible.
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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026
Typically thought-provoking from Branko: what if excessive profits in the West are the reason China outcompetes us?
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
'We’ve built a system where publicly backed finance is available on demand while private recruitment companies and financially stretched universities decide between them where volume expands, according to the economics of student acquisition rather than anything resembling national need.' 1/2
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The low-income parents funding the franchised recruitment market
Fraud headlines, franchise growth and a court defeat are dots that rarely get joined up. Jim Dickinson pulls together the data on the weekend delivery cohort - who was funded, by whom, and on whose te...
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Jon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Scotland delivering on the little pleasures of variable weather after months of frankly terrifying sun in London.
View from near Glencoe of actual weather.
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Jon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This maps on to my experience so far — well, for intelligence substitute experience: open.substack.com/pub/arpitrag...
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7. AI: A Normal Technology?
AI in the Workplace
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Fair enough; I’m all for it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on the two cultures: bridge the divide, starting with A-levels | Editorial
Editorial: Seventy years after CP Snow warned of estrangement between the sciences and arts, breadth in education should be encouraged
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Jon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The regressive gift that keeps on giving (if you’re the government, not so much for students entering most lines of work) www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Students face ‘ticking timebomb’ of debt and higher taxes
Exclusive: Analysis finds cost of higher education ‘falls overwhelmingly on the individual’
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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
💡 We're hiring for an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science Read more and apply before 11 October 👉️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
LSE Department of Methodology hiring — Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science; applications close 11 October 2026; apply at www.jobs.lse.ac.uk and follow @lsemethodology.
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Jon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It amuses me greatly when conference organisers ask for slides a week in advance. Makes me want to attempt an “Awww honey, let me tell you a thing or two about academics…” To be clear, I will not attempt this, but I can indeed promise mine will be ready about 10 minutes before delivery
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Creative & performing arts subjects received £16.8 million SPG 2024-25; £12.9 million in 2025-26; £ O million in 2026-27. The University of Creative Arts will thus lose half of its government funding this year; Art University Bournmouth 40.7%, Norwich U of Arts 40.4% and Leeds Arts U 30.3%. 1/2
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Arts institutions hit hard as OfS details teaching grant cuts
University for the Creative Arts loses more than half of its funding after support for creative subjects reduced to zero
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 30/07/2026
oh my god!!!! there's an actual answer!!!! Google Maps does hide Brighton!!!!!!! bsky.app/profile/robi...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
World-class UK anthropology, archaeology, area studies, chemistry, classics, English language and literature, geography, history, history of art, modern languages and philosophy, among other subjects, are also at risk, and have been for quite some time now. You don't need a telescope to see it.
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Jon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Important points here for councils (looking at you #WalthamForest!) signing off major projects where businesses are 'temporarily' displaced: www.theguardian.com/cities/2026/... (hello #BlackhorseLane).
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How Elephant and Castle risks becoming London’s gentrification ‘patient zero’
New £500m town centre welcomes its first tenant this month, but displaced traders say promises that they could return have been broken
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Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
“What is unfolding is what climate and forest scientists have been predicting for 30 years. That as the world gets hotter and drier, we are exposing forests to more and more risk, and the old strategies of fire suppression are simply being overwhelmed.”
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Canada’s Forests Will Burn and Burn
Once a wildfire starts, it can spread to an area too massive to control.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
"This is a crisis for social mobility, young people’s careers, the skills our economy depends on and the opportunities available in communities across the UK" Our newest data covered by The Guardian this evening and dropping tomorrow morning to our SHAPE Observatory. shorturl.at/Qpa9Q
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Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities
Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
'"Dysfunctionaler and dysfunctionaler!", cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).' Well, not surprised, but rather horrified. 1/2
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Levy to be charged even if student drops out, DfE confirms
Ministers decline to introduce more exemptions to new tax in its response to consultation
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Jon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Fascinating read about why fee reform has been so hard: it’s an accountancy trick with the same rationale as PFIs but probably orders of magnitude larger. post18.co.uk/silence-of-t...
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Silence of the Loans: How Loan Book Fictions Prevent Higher Education Reform
New thinking, ideas & policy solutions for post-18 education in the UK
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
'More than half of the free school meal pupils in inner London had entered higher education by age 19, compared with just 18.4 per cent in the south-west of England.' (Research Professional News, 8 am Playbook) Great time to cut course provision in the south-west of England, then.
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Widening participation in higher education: 2026
Annual statistics on participation in higher education by pupil and study characteristics.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
'Meanwhile, UU announced in April it needed to make savings of about £25m and would be making up to 450 staff redundant.' 2/2
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Ulster University to cut up to 450 jobs
It is not clear which parts of the university, which has campuses in Belfast, Londonderry and Coleraine as well as in Qatar, will be affected.
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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
EThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come www.bl.uk/stories/news/ethos-record…
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EThOS records restored
We are pleased to share that EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) is now available again following restoration work after the cyber-attack.
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Jon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Exciting new definition of ‘financially secure footing’ in which only one of your main sources of income has a substantial real-terms cut while everything else is flat after a decade in which it was *all* being cut: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
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Ministers confirm cut to Strategic Priorities Grant for universities - Research Professional News
Teaching funding reduction will be sharply felt by some institutions, says Office for Students
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
1000 evaluators given identical resumes & told candidate used AI. Only difference on resumes was candidate’s name: Emily vs James. Study found women using AI are evaluated as less competent than men who use AI...To evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Very useful to have advance notice of UKRI calls.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Revealed preferences suggest this 37% drop in small boat nunbers (first two quarters) is treated as ×10-x50 times less newsworthy than a 37% increase has been. Given high salience of the issue, should broadcasters try to check/balance that instinct?
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 27/06/2026
a rightmove description.. with prompts included
The property is offered freehold and would make an ideal purchase for families, first-time buyers or investors alike.

If you’d like it slightly more premium, more concise, or more family-focused, I can tweak the tone easily.

yes its great but could you add a room description walk through with room sizes please too? xxx

Of course — glad you liked it! Here’s a fully “bumped-up” version with a smooth walk-through room description and room sizes worked in naturally. I’ve kept it estate-agent ready and easy to read ??

Offered for sale with no upper chain, this well-presented three-bedroom mid-terraced family home is located on a popular residential road in West Watford, conveniently positioned for local schools, shops and transport links.
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Vincent Geloso @vincentgeloso.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The much vaunted study regarding welfare magnets from immigration misestimated the elasticity of welfare benefits to immigration by a factor of 4 at least. Migrants dont decide much on basis of welfare payments. vgeloso.substack.com/p/welfare-ma... Cc. @mclem.org
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Welfare Magnet and Immigration in Denmark
An AER:Insights paper shows a smaller elasticity once replicated
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Jon Reades @jreades.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Love getting car ads next to my news article on the fact that SOUTHERN BRITAIN IS 12° ABOVE THE SEASONAL AVERAGE. 🥵🤯
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Reform UK councillors have introduced a motion to rescind King's Lynn and West Norfolk's climate emergency declaration and deprioritise decarbonisation efforts The council were going to vote on it on Thursday But the meeting has been postponed due to extreme heat
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Londoners, there is a webpage for you to see where your nearest "cool spaces" are when the extreme heat hits - places with water, air-conditioning & shade. Have a look and spread the word, especially to those who may need this but might not think to look for it: apps.london.gov.uk/cool-spaces/
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