Truly extraordinary proposals from @BrightonHoveCC based on some very shaky pseudo-academic evidence. Surely no-one wants a return to council-led social engineering by busing? Maybe improving the weak schools would be a better strategy...

Be good if you were at the Secondary School admissions consultation event at the town hall tonight @BellaSankey - I did some work that might be useful context:

Data relating to 373 #BTR developments in #London shows that developments are clustered where transport-related infrastructural investments have opened '#RentGaps' that can be exploited by developers https://t.co/sxMab0HPfI @Bonnie_0000 @adam_dennett @jreades @PhilHubbard1

For those not on BlueSky: Nice little paper this which came out of @Bonnie_0000's PhD - https://t.co/pP0RpByWuF - on the rise of Build-to-Rent in London, with @jreades, @PhilHubbard1. Open Access too!

Here’s a sneak peek of what Oxford St could look like in the future 👇🏽

"We will start sharing your individual working location data with you" - I'm not sure I've ever seen spatial data used more manacingly in a sentence! Nice one PwC, or "Big Brother" as I'm sure you will make your drones call you!

Proud of the efforts of the @CASAUCL / Arup City modelling lab group for our first joint paper! https://t.co/sc9Iz9o3Yq - conceived and created by @EsraSuel with contributions from the rest of us. A review of the importance of transport in mediating urban inequalities - enjoy!

We are delighted to have @adam_dennett from @CASAUCL visiting us soon @AaltoUniversity and giving a talk at our GeoSPA Talk Series. 😃🌍Looking forward to this! 👏😊 @AaltoGeoinfo

All this news about the riots is pretty depressing. If only there were a way of figuring out where they might crop up next and how to police them. Oh wait, remember this classic?! @tobypeterdavies @FryRsquared

📣 Call for submissions! CASA will host the 19th International #CUPUM Conference on the theme of Cloud Cities in June 2025. @adam_dennett 📅 Deadlines: 11 Oct 2024 book chapters 10 Jan 2025 papers/posters Example topics and how to make a submission: https://t.co/YxoqkG5BAZ

📣 Our paper on detecting urban change from street images is out! Huge thanks to our amazing multidisciplinary team. Excited about using images to study urban change with self-supervised methods eliminating the need for labels https://t.co/gOnBJifM45

We're hosting CUPUM in UCL next summer- call for papers just out. It's going to be a blast, so please put it in your diaries and come along!

"Academic publishing is a lucrative scam" - find it hard to disagree with anything raised in this article. https://t.co/zAUAr4LDy6

🚨Job Alert!🚨 We have a 2-year post-doc opportunity at @CASAUCL with me, @adam_dennett, @gerardhughcasey, and Anna Sterrantino Our ESRC project with @turinginst will develop methods and data to support an equitable transition to net-zero. More info 👉

The Prince Albert need some help again. This is going on my to-do list today, be very helpful if others could have a go too.

As I'm watching various new MPs go into #10 to meet Kier to get their new ministerial jobs, so conditioned am I by UCL HR that all I can think is: "I hope he's checking their right to work!!"

Election Special 4: The Conservatives.

THREAD: Graph of poll margin (LAB-CON) vs final result, for gen elections back to 1964. Includes 8 elections with Labour ahead & 8 with Labour behind. Labour actually only received the most votes in 6 of these elections (though went on to form govt in 7). [1/n] #GE2024

They partied , they bet on elections , they crashed the economy, they broke every public service, they destroyed integrity and honesty in public office , they paid their mates billions , they put their friends in the House of Lords, they gave their cronies knighthoods, they went

Excellent to get some media interest in this piece of work we did. Thanks to @OrdnanceSurvey for funding support.