Maria Abreu

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Professor of Economic Geography, University of Cambridge. My research is on labour markets, migration, urban planning, and regional policy. I'm also Fellow of Pembroke College and Chair of RSAI-BIS. My family is Cuban/German, but I was born in England and grew up in Venezuela. I love photography and baking, and have a crazy cocker spaniel called Fonzie.
Websitehttps://www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-maria-abreu
Birdsitehttps://twitter.com/mariaaabreu
SocArXivhttps://osf.io/nd9qc/
Google Scholarhttps://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=Mu5pd3kAAAAJ&hl=en
Maria AbreuAug 4, 2023
Frank SonderborgAug 4, 2023
This sudden U-turn only became inevitable because the UK didn’t have the capacity to issue UKCA marks. Varga’s products are still waiting for a new product safety mark after a year. “The inspectors were overwhelmed.” Worse, his suppliers in the EU couldn’t get UKCA marks registered either.
Now he has to tell suppliers and customers they need never have bothered.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/04/business-brexit-safety-mark-red-tape-
Business is haunted by Brexit – and this safety mark fiasco is its latest nightmare

Money, time, effort all wasted: you can wrap the new red tape three times around the world, one manufacturing boss told me, writes Polly Toynbee

The Guardian
Maria AbreuJul 31, 2023
Laura CochranJul 31, 2023
#photography #fotografia #fotografie #bloomscrolling #flowers #purple #Nature #naturephotography
#LauraCochranPhotography
Maria AbreuJul 31, 2023
Kriszta SatoriJul 31, 2023
Gosh, this is massive - unbeknownst to me the #BBC appears to have developed some presence on #mastodon - here are the first few accts I have come across:
@BBCRD
@BBCRadio4
@BBC_News_Labs
[email protected]
Maria AbreuJul 31, 2023
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Jul 31, 2023
BBC testing out the Fediverse with its own social.bbc domain and Mastodon server!! @BBC_News_Labs
#Mastodon #News #Journalism #Fediverse
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub
The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media

Trialling ActivityPub and the federated model for social media and it's possibilities for the BBC.

BBC R&D
Maria AbreuJul 31, 2023
Mastodon MigrationJul 31, 2023

Breaking #FediverseNews 💥

WOW! The BBC now has an instance!

BBC >>> https://social.bbc/about

"The team at BBC Research & Development are researching social technologies and exploring possibilities for the #BBC. One part of our work is to establish a BBC presence in the Fediverse... This is an experiment - we will run it for 6 months, and then look at how much value it has provided"

New BBC accounts you can follow: @BBCRD, @BBC5Live, @BBCRadio4, @BBC_News_Labs, @BBCTaster, @Connected_Studio

BBC Mastodon

This is an experimental Mastodon instance run by BBC Research and Development.

Mastodon hosted on social.bbc
Maria AbreuJul 30, 2023
Lee 🌏Jul 30, 2023
The joy of #Mastodon...
❤️
Maria AbreuJul 30, 2023
Antony CarpenJul 30, 2023
One for #Cambridge (UK) people on Michael Gove's plans for our city. (Nice of him to ask us all first before making his announcement...Oh.) https://cambridgetownowl.com/2023/07/24/michael-gove-plans-another-tier-of-government-and-sends-in-a-super-squad-of-experts-to-make-cambridge-europes-science-capital/ 😡 I've included a couple of maps from the emerging local plan - see if you can work out where all the homes will go.
Michael Gove plans *another tier* of government and sends in a ‘super squad’ of experts to make Cambridge ‘Europe’s science capital’

TL/DR? Read the Secretary of State’s statement here. Personally I’d have gone for Captain Planet and the Planeteers given Cambridge’s pollution problems. The announcement is confi…

The Cambridge Town Owl
Maria AbreuJul 26, 2023
Timo SeidlJul 26, 2023

This semester, I tried something new: instead of teaching an introduction to R or and introduction to comparative political economy, I combined the two in one course.

You can check out the syllabus as well as the slides here: https://timoseidl.com/teaching/r-and-cpe.html

Home - Comparative Political Economy - An Integrated, Hands-on Introduction Using R

Maria AbreuJul 26, 2023
frank_boughJul 25, 2023
The apostrophe, though. #Twitter #X #Elon #Musk
Maria AbreuJul 25, 2023
Victor CastonJul 25, 2023

I started an account at BlueSky because so many other academic #philosophers had signed up, but there is even less activity than here.

I'm especially interested in #GreekPhilosophy but also #philosophyofmind and #metaphysics.

Any others out there?