Grete Gansauer

Is Wyoming's 'prison gerrymandering' overrepresenting some districts while depriving prisoners of political representation? - WyoFile Incarcerated people can’t vote, but are counted as residents of the legislative district where they're incarcerated, not where they actually call home, a new report finds.

Incarcerated people in Wyoming can't vote, but are counted as residents of the legislative district where they're incarcerated, not where they actually call home, a new report finds.

Reform advocates say Wyoming's "miscounted districts" are among the worst in the nation.

Researching regions: The Professional Challenges Experienced By Regional Researchers - RSA Main In 2024 and early 2025, a large number of Regional Studies Association (RSA) members participated in a series of focus group sessions convened by the RSA to understand the priorities of the regional s...

🔥 What are the biggest pressures facing regional researchers today?
Find out in this new RSA blog by @rsachiefexec.bsky.social & @gretegans.bsky.social, based on RSA’s 2024–25 focus groups.
Read: bit.ly/406UEb9
Also✨ Rolling call for blogs = OPEN!
🌍 Summer blog series lands soon—watch this space.

Researching regions: The Professional Challenges Experienced By Regional Researchers - RSA Main In 2024 and early 2025, a large number of Regional Studies Association (RSA) members participated in a series of focus group sessions convened by the RSA to understand the priorities of the regional s...

This @regstud.bsky.social blog summarises the challenges facing regional researchers. Thanks to all those who contributed their experiences and to @gretegans.bsky.social for working with me to put this together www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

Hi everyone

I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests

I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

What Musk's DOGE Really Cut: Trust, Safety, and Democracy - Roosevelt Institute The American public deserves a government that is fit for purpose and delivers on its promises. But Elon Musk never intended to create that. DOGE was built on the fiction of Musk’s mastery of all things, one of the many myths attributed to the ultra-wealthy. What it concealed was a public sector novice who failed to understand the basic mechanics of the institutions he railed against incessantly.

The so-called Department of Government Efficiency took a wrecking ball to the public sector.

DOGE didn’t “save money.” It weakened science, consumer protections, and tax enforcement—while enriching billionaires. rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/w...

Look it’s me, feeling inspired from heaps of fascinating & high quality presentations at #GCEG2025. My thanks & congratulations to the organizers!

For those interested in industrial strategy, consider our open special issue call w details below 😉

ed. w @prt1969.bsky.social @dgbailey.bsky.social

DOGE in the real world: direct job cuts in a program for low income adults which would be catalytic for their upward mobility, and ability to transition into “skilled” labor fields. Unbelievable.

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Want your NIH and NSF program officers and division directors to be fired and turned into political appointees?

Deadline extended: 3 days left! Already 33,000+ public comments

Comments can tank a proposed rule in court.

📣 Oppose the rule with a brief comment: shorturl.at/WKuBj

I cycled there - fascinating and beautiful ! …but would probably recommend driving 😂 yes, the drive would be worth it ;)

Elon Musk’s net worth is double the total wages for the executive branch workforce according to DOGE.

Thank you @rural-reconcile.bsky.social ! TL;DR = The taxonomy identifies growth-oriented “booster” policies vs. equity-oriented “builder” policies, and means of intervention + types of regions which stand to benefit *differ* based on policy aims.

Now you want to read? Check out the summary!

Thanks to everyone who came out! Always energizing to connect with fellow peripheries enthusiasts. Learn more and sign up for our email list at edgenet-rsa.weebly.com

@gretegans.bsky.social kicks off the afternoon session on present priorities/future directions @regstud.bsky.social #RSA2025

Got to be in the running for best photo with the banner !

For those at #RSA25 - join EdgeNet for a happy hour with fellow peripheries researchers : 7 pm at Bar Aduela in Porto City centre. 🥂 raise a glass to ‘the rest’ with us!
@regstud.bsky.social

happy to kick off my fave conference @regstud.bsky.social with friends old and new in Porto 🇵🇹! #RSA25 is a big deal, and this banner is here to prove it (pictured with me & @mia-gray.bsky.social for scale)

As @andywestwood.bsky.social can confirm , this is actually happening!

this is so stupid.

Rural leaders push Congress to unfreeze climate and environmental funds Leaders from rural communities in eight states travelled to Washington, D.C., last week to urge lawmakers to preserve federal funding that's threatened by the Trump administration.

Leaders from rural communities in eight states traveled to Washington, D.C., last week to urge lawmakers to preserve federal funding that's threatened by the Trump administration.

So excited to share the weekend w @riaadams.bsky.social checking out rural communities in eastern #Wyoming. Statistics would call these places #LeftBehind, and their built environment might look like that too. But we found many local initiatives *building* community. More to come 🤎💛

Eight front covers of RSA journal and publications

Are you at #AAG2025 @geographers.bsky.social ? Join the panel discussion with @rsachiefexec.bsky.social ‘Publishing Regional Studies Research: from Blogs to Books’ tomorrow (27/03) morning. Full info at www.regionalstudies.org/news/rsa-at-...

Shaping opportunity spaces: the role of narratives in place leadership This paper aims to identify micro-level processes shaping the narratives surrounding regional opportunity spaces. A process perspective is applied to examine how place leaders engage in shaping nar...

Just published @regionalstudies.bsky.social! Markus Grillitsch, @miorner.bsky.social, Daniel Schiller and I examine the role of #narratives in place leadership, their influence on perceptions of opportunity spaces and introduce a multiple-phase framework for their analysis. 💭
doi.org/10.1080/0034...

DOGE, which operates with a spirit of moving fast and breaking things across the rest of the government, says it cannot be expected to move fast and set up a FOIA operation.

Roundup: March 18, 2025 — The Rural Reconciliation Project A periodic collection of recent research, analysis, and other notable rural items.

Our March roundup highlights research on public health resilience, placed-based policies (by @gretegans.bsky.social), and the right to food, in addition to sharing recent news, an upcoming "Shaping the Future of Food" webinar from @iatp.bsky.social, and a podcast rec.

🎉 We're here! As #AAG2025 draws closer, excited to reveal our keynote: Malika Virdi on "Creating Spaces of Possibility"! Join Jonathon K London and me on March 25, 8:30 AM EST for Himalayan transformation insights. Register: bit.ly/AAG_RGSG_Spe... @geographers.bsky.social #JustRuralFutures

I just realized 2 of the Biden administration’s major industrial policy efforts meant to stimulate the largest economy in the world 🇺🇸—the CHIPS Act ($280B) & the Inflation Reduction Act ($500B)—are hauntingly close to Elon’s net worth ($334B). Govt spending isn’t the problem, private hoarding is.

Very @brettchristophers.bsky.social "our lives in their portfolios." When asset managers decide from afar an industrial facility doesn't make financial sense anymore, a community dries up. (I realize climate goals complicate this case. Still, exemplary of local, placed effects of financialization.)

(just kidding)

More flower boxes!