Jennifer Houghton

The One Where All Our Hearts Are Broken 💔💔 To borrow Janice's saddest line - "Goodbye, Chandler Bing" 😭😭 Matthew Perry, 1969 - 2023

Applications are now open for UTA-Do African Cities Workshop (Jan, 2024). This year, we are in Dar. Scholars, artists and activists, apply!

It’s in the world …

Good work from a German ad agency which reads "protect the wildlife before it's too late"

why does zoom have offices

What the Frick is this X all about? Xweet?

Do more participatory decision-making processes lead to better environmental outcomes? This paper finds three factors that significantly influence environmental governance outcomes. Power delegation to participants is the most consistent predictor - sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@ProfDRoberts @IPCC_CH @_AfricanUnion Fantastic!

Issue 2 is out, and it contains a wonderful book review forum on @ShaneDPhillips The Affordable City: Strategies for Putting Housing within Reach (and Keeping It There). Commentary from Katrin Anacker, @AnnaGHansson, @stuhodkinson and Steffen Wetzstein

Thinking about doing a PhD vs actually doing a PhD

@richardosman my family thinks I've lost it. I'm giggling away to myself reading the interruption-filled book reading in #thebulletthatmissed. Delightfully funny.

@waitsi2011 @EgoliGas I really did not know this type of gas supply was available anywhere in South Africa.

@EgoliGas Hi Egoli gas please educate me .Who are your customers and why are you transporting gas through underground pipes?

Egoli Gas believes it is unlikely that the explosion in Jhb CBD, Bree Street, JHB was caused by a gas pipeline or leak. Our network has experienced no pressure loss which indicates the gas pipelines are intact. Our customers in the area continue to receive gas uninterrupted.

Calgro pulled out of the KwaMashu Bridge City project. #eThekwini suffering from poor municipal and a provincial governance that fails citizens at almost every turn.

@pjmeth1 another angle on boredom

One of the two 2023 @RegionalStudies Best Policy Debates Awards goes to Alessandro Sancino @DrMaxPolitics Alessandro Braga & Leslie Budd for their #openaccess paper 'What can city leaders do for climate change?' Find out more at bit.ly/3L3iFc3

How to make working paper series work (again) to help geographers and geography? If you have any ideas, please reply! @regstud @fingeonet @economyandspace @GCEG_Dublin2022 @econgeog

Social capital—and, especially, networking—is pivotal for #labour #productivity #growth. The firms that benefit the most from #SocialCapital are smaller #firms, with low capacity to innovate on their own, and operating in low-#technology sectors. doi.org/10.1111/jors.1…

As someone who speaks from having experienced the bottom of one of these traps (yup, all the way down to the sewerage), and is STILL suffering the consequences from having smashed my bone to pieces 10 YEARS LATER, I can only get behind this activism!!!! monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/na…

Institutional weaknesses in SA are largely a consequence of 4 policy developments: politicisation of administrations; indifference to skills, espec. technical skills; managerialism; and outsourcing gov to private businesses. ⁦@IChipkin⁩ ⁦⁦ dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/20…

Since writing a story on Queensland Police Services' recruitment call for SA police to join their force in Australia, I have received 42 emails from constables for more info and the application link. Before you comment on the demographic, let me tell you, its not what you think.