Andreas Erlström

@anerlstroem.bsky.social

Economic Geographer with a PhD in Human Geography, Lecturer at the Department of Human Geography - Lund University Research interest in Urban & Economic Geography, Social & Economic Inequality, GIS & Planning

There is nothing quite like the feeling of putting a nail through your PhD Thesis and feeling that you actually managed to write something substantial for the field. Next up is the public defence on May 11!

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🚨 New working paper 🚨 In large cities, wages are higher. But so are inequalities. In fact, low-wage workers earn lower real earnings there. Why? What drives spatial wage disparities? Why some workers work at lower real wages in large cities?

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Our visiting fellow call is open again, have a look if you want to stay with us for a while!

INVEST Research Flagship Centre@invest-flagship.bsky.social · last yr.

🔍 Interested in #inequality, #interventions, or the future of the #WelfareState? The Spring 2025 call our #Fellowship Programme is open! Check out our five research themes — is there a good match with your own work. ✈️ Travel covered, grant provided, housing arranged 👉 invest.utu.fi/fellowships/

Text: INVEST Fellowship Programme Spring Call 2025 is now open! DL 30 April, 2025

Hiring again! Lecturer in Sociology. We're looking for someone strongly anchored in sociology through high-profile contributions, and with the ability to appeal to students and colleagues of various methodological orientations. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

ucl.ac.uk

This is bad. The US is going from having one of the better public data infrastructures to one of the worst in <3 months. Education, climate, and health data have already taken a massive hit, and with them research in these fields. Now Musk/Trump/GOP are coming after economic and population data.

Hansi Lo Wang (he/him)@hansilowang.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW: The Commerce Department is giving federal employees at the Census Bureau and most other parts of the department until April 17 to apply for a voluntary early retirement authority or voluntary separation incentive payments offer if they're offboarded by May 3, according to emails shared with NPR

📢 Our call for the PhD in Regional Science & Economic Geography is out 🧑‍🎓👩‍🎓12 fully-funded PhD positions 🎓 4-year program 💰€16,243 annual scholarship 🏠 🍽️ accommodation at GSSI facilities (or substitute grant) + board ⏰ Deadline: May 23, 2025 🔗 Apply: www.gssi.it/phd/ ℹ️https://tinyurl.com/yhaahejz

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I'm not an R person, but I totally agree with this point: we're doing students a disservice by teaching them stata. Even worse if you're teaching at a public university: using public money to create consumers for a private company.

Josh Merfeld@merfeld.bsky.social · 2y ago

We should care about students’ career outcomes. Teaching them R will be MUCH more helpful than Stata. Not only is R more highly valued, it also makes learning things like Python much easier.

OSMnx 2.0.0 has been released! 🎉 This has been a massive effort over the past year to streamline the package's API, re-think its internal organization, and optimize its code. Today OSMnx is faster, more memory efficient, and fully type-annotated for a better user experience. 🧵

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