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Visited Gimo Herrgård to discuss Segregation research, beyond academia. Amazing talks and discussions. Happy to have met Maria Krysan and Kyle Crowder.

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!

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

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 ...

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)

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.

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."

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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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.

If you want to know more about this project, my dissertation, or spatial patterns of well-being, feel free to drop me a line!

For what's next, I am so excited to announce that I have started a post-doctoral position at the COMFAM project at Bielefeld University studying family health and commuting with @annaoksuzyan.bsky.social (and many more)!

am extremely grateful to my opponent Nik Lomax for facilitating such an interesting and fascinating discussion and to all my colleagues, friends, and family who supported me through this day and the past years. The thesis can be read here: lnkd.in/dsgZ3Tee.

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!

I am extremely grateful to my opponent Nik Lomax for facilitating such a fascinating discussion and to all my colleagues, friends, and family who supported me through this process. You can read the entire thesis here: urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=...

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.

AI is going to revolutionize the way in which things suck

Norrköping campus at sunset

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

Tack Tack :). Een kopie bereikt je hopelijk volgende week!

apologies to american pope i was not familiar with your game

You can read all about it and check out my wonderful graphs in the comprehensive summary (or kappa in Swedish) here: urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=....

The defence will be held on May 28th at 13:15 in Universitetshus in Uppsala. Digital attendance is also possible, send me a DM if you want the zoom link!

The dissertation explores the spatial distribution of well-being in Sweden. I find that
- Well-being is spatially sorted at the neighbourhood level
- This overlaps with patterns of ethnic and socioeconomic segregation
- That this might be the result of both sorting and neighbourhood effects

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.

Annual Conference The British Society for Population Studies holds an annual conference in a different venue each September.

⏰ 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

thanks for writing this. i am always somewhat hesitant to tell people I work with populations out of fear they will get weird about fertility and this has provided some good ammunition for the next time this inevitably will happen

Below replacement fertility is fine Fewer people is a good thing

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.

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

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...

Had a good time presenting my posters at #paa2025 ! Thanks to everybody for stopping by and you questions

I really loved this interview and the other interviews lately. Dr Charlotte van Regenmortel was also a great guest!

far-right politicians HATE this one weird trick (simply prosecuting them for the serious crimes they are all constantly committing)

Congrats!!

Reviewer 1... my beloved... my guardian angel
Reviewer 2... my mortal enemy... my nemesis