Sean Fox

Accepted but trapped: Why won’t the UK evacuate its students from Gaza? Palestinian students in Gaza who earned places at top UK universities are being stranded by political indifference.

Govt promised to help Palestinians get to UK to study- but I'm in touch with 7 young Palestinians with scholarships at
@bristoluni.bsky.social
who are trapped in Gaza because the Home Office isn't doing what was promised
Shocking neglect putting lives at risk
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

It’s party conference season – and bombastic statements on immigration are at the top of playlists.

I for one am tired of hearing the same old emotionally charged promises that just don’t relate to reality. You too?

Here are five things you should be hearing about immigration, but won’t be.

🌍📢 Call for Papers!! Urban Studies seeks submissions for a special issue on Climate Urbanism, Resilience & Justice — exploring how cities confront the climate crisis, risk, & inequality. @urbanstudiesjournal.com @acuto.bsky.social
 www.urbanstudiesjournal.com/callforpaper...

New in Demography: ‘How Is Fertility Behavior in Africa Different?’ Using DHS/MICS data, SSA–other-region fertility gaps rise through primary school and narrow at higher schooling; little difference among women with secondary+. doi.org/10.1215/0070... @readdemography.bsky.social @seattleu.edu

136: Urbanization and Inequality with Sean Fox and Gregory Randolph In this episode, Divya speaks with Sean Fox and Gregory Randolph about urbanization and how it is unfolding amid global shocks and affecting inequality. Sean Fox is a Professor of Geography and Globa

Really enjoyed taking part in this conversation with Divya Gupta & Gregory Randolph on #urbanization and #inequality in India on the In Common Podcast: www.incommonpodcast.org/podcast/136-...

Deadline is June 1st (23.59).

Reproductive milestones and oral contraceptive timing predict late-life mortality - npj Women's Health npj Women's Health - Reproductive milestones and oral contraceptive timing predict late-life mortality

"oral contraceptives may be lowering all-cause mortality in women: either through the modification of mortality risk at all ages or, possibly, by modifying aging rates and mortality rate doubling times through the synthetic modification of adaptive pathways" www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Graphic showing where various cities are placed relative to whether everyone walks their cycles, everyone uses public transit, or everyone drives.

This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

BRIEFING | The myth of “left behind”

❓How should government respond to the political discontent signalled by the vote to leave the European Union and the more recent rise of Reform UK?

buff.ly/g8K7EDQ 👇

𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲
New paper by K. Karaman, A. Henriques, & myself. Contrary to conventional wisdom we find that constrained government & state capacity were not systematically related. England stood out for combining both which helps explain its take-off

50 States, 50 Fixes A series about local solutions, and the people behind them, to environmental problems.

From state legislatures to community groups, from tribal lands to city parks to postage-stamp backyards, people are doing quiet, vital work to confront climate change and biodiversity loss. All year, @carabuckley.bsky.social and I will be writing about these efforts.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Global population data is in crisis – here’s why that matters When certain groups of people are systematically undercounted, they become invisible to policymakers.

Andy Tatem & Jessica Espey @worldpop-uos.bsky.social report on the growing global crisis in #population data in @theconversation.com. Please share across your networks 📨

"When people vanish from data, they vanish from policy... causing political underrepresentation & inadequate resource allocation"

Sewer access shapes developing world cities. New research shows effects on population density as large as for highways, but little on demographics, from Sean E. McCulloch, Matthew P. Schaelling, Matthew Turner, and Toru Kitagawa https://www.nber.org/papers/w33597

The mysterious statisticians shaping how we think about fertility Experts were wrong about overpopulation before. Could they be wrong about underpopulation now?

Nice article on population projections, making the point that one problem with population panics is that it’s incredibly difficult to predict population trends. Implementing drastic policy solutions on the basis of long-term population projections is therefore not a good idea

Venn diagram of low taxes, low density and stable services. The overlap in the centre is a scenario that doesn’t exist

My semi-regular reminder of a really important reality about cities, density, services and taxes.

Any questions?

Graphic recently cleaned up by @kathrynmathias.bsky.social. #CityMakingMath

Szechuan feast?

We got two in our ward and they got snapped up so quickly. I hope the combine authority take note of this and work hard to get more installed. Think how much space is dedicated to people parking cars in our streets, and how quickly a handful of cycle spots get snapped up when hangers are put in.

Top 25 Social Science & Human Behavior Articles of 2024 Browse the 25 most downloaded Nature Communications articles in social science and human behavior published in 2024

Nice to see our paper on integrating social vulnerability into global flood risk mapping hit the top 25 Social & Human Behavior Articles of 2024! @naturecomms.bsky.social www.nature.com/collections/...

Punctuated equilibrium Here we go. I have finally joined Substack. Science, history, politics, and possibly some pop culture.

Hey all, I started a substack, as I belive is a legal requirement for middle aged men. Warning: contains science, snark, light swearing. All free, for now. open.substack.com/pub/arutherf...

NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated.

The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west).

My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...

The demographic crisis has huge implications for economic dynamism, pensions & the welfare state

But currently this discourse is dominated by speculations, frustrations & nasty slurs.

I’ve been interviewing people all over the world.

This is what I’m finding 👇

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In many ways it's fitting that the showdown between monarchy and democracy ends up being over NYC congestion pricing.

Cities are where the power of kings were first challenged, and few things are more fundamental to government than control of public space.

The cameras are staying on!

FANTASTIC

ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?)

You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have

www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

The German left has lost its monopoly on class consciousness The German radical right has mobilised around a working class identity that pits hard-working “maker...

This is very interesting and more data-driven than you might think from the title. Also comes up with an actual idea what centre-left parties could do to build a new coalition. No idea if this would work, but at least it's something constructive #farright #Germany #btw25

Wow - excellent news! Congratulations!

Bradford clean air zone saves NHS over £30,000 a month in first year After one year of the zone, which is the second largest in England, GP visits for respiratory illnesses were down by a quarter

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“After one year of the zone, nitrogen dioxide from traffic was lower, GP visits for respiratory illnesses were down by 25% and those for heart problems decreased by 24%”

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A big debate in economic policy:

Should policy support already strong places to grow further, or help the strugglers turn themselves round?

Here are some numbers to show what each choice would mean 👇

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