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mariaabreu.bsky.social
Prof. of Economic Geography and Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. My work is on labour markets, migration, planning, and regional policy. I also love photography and baking, and have a crazy cocker spaniel called Fonzie.
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In case you missed it, the Trump administration is making an end run around the court order that unfroze NIH spending: by not allowing NIH to place notices in the Federal Register, it has stopped them from holding any grant evaluation meetings. Basically, there’s no way to evaluate grants right now.

submitted 16 hours ago • 6 comments

A generation of research and development workers—slashed America’s ability to innovate, compete, and attract the best and brightest—diminished Not ‘savings’, not ‘efficiency’, just reckless cutting, no impact analysis Our Congress has the power reverse this destruction. But chooses to fuel it

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

This is exciting - look what just arrived (pre-orders help!):

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

The reason nobody in Whitehall is asking whether Trump might turn off Britain’s nukes is because he can’t. It’s a myth that he can. See: ukdefencejournal.org.uk/no-america-d...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Wenn die Ohrpinsel gut frisiert sind, kann der Tag beginnen. #sqrpix #wildlifephotographie

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Something tells me they're not going to be buying American frigates any longer. Good news for Clydeside.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

New job alert! 2-year post-doc in Housing Studies @liser.lu A chance to develop your research agenda and advance the analyses conducted in the Housing Observatory, a multi-annual collaboration with the Luxembourg Housing Ministry. Happy to answer questions! jobs.liser.lu/job/Esch-sur...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

One of my experiences as a government official was that when the UK and France agreed on something, joint progress could be made pretty quickly. Reading between the lines, this is happening with regard to Ukraine and Trump. A small ray of hope in an otherwise bleak day.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

We are advertising for two assistant professors in public policy, with digital policy know-how: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50248/

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

This is insane isn’t it? A senator saying that Congress may have to lobby Musk to see if they are allowed to spend money it has appropriated. (From @washingtonpost.com)

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Tata and Airbus may not have Wales-level accounts but March 11th sees the launch of the first ever official Welsh government Input-Output tables which will start to fill some gaps.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

294-page working paper anyone? www.iza.org/publications...

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

1/ The rocketing Council Tax burden at the bottom of the income distribution quietly recreating the worst problems of the Poll Tax www.resolutionfoundation.org/comment/risi...

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Employment rates by country of birth: historically, non-EU migrants to UK had relatively low employment rates, mostly reflecting low participation rates amongst women from some countries. No longer the case. [usual caveats on LFS data, but consistent with other sources.]

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

The sad thing is that email and admin have taken over academic life so much that many of us have to squeeze in the poisoning of minds on evenings and weekends.

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

Since the next step for people like Trump is to blame the consequences of his actions on others, the most effective response to people like this is "It sounds like they lied to you." You can't turn these people into overnight liberals; you *can* shake their trust in the people who deceived them.

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

Anyway, sort yourselves out America.

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This is pretty incredible. We live in very dangerous times. Unthinkable just a few months ago.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Excellent post. I saw all of this happen in Venezuela.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

An Attorney General prioritising fidelity to law and principle, instead of chasing cheap headlines with bogus and exploitative legal applications, is a welcome change.

submitted 6 days ago • 29 comments

Hearing that the DOGE chaos hurricane is hitting HUD soon, and the plan is to devastate federal housing funding. Let's be clear: this would cause a cascade of catastrophic impacts nationwide, shutting down housing and dumping families into the street.

submitted 7 days ago • 154 comments

Excellent piece by @tomcalver.bsky.social debunking the myth that migrants who come on "dependant" visas don't work/contribute (1/2) www.thetimes.com/article/48e9...

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments