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Steven Bosworth
@sjbeconobot.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Economics, University of Reading
He/him, autistic
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Wojak meme. Top sceptical wojak looks at text reading “gender: these clusters of correlated attributes are a social construct.” bottom grinning wojak looks at text reading “psychiatry: these clusters of correlated attributes are hard truths written onto your brain. trust science!”
November 14, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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September 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Saturn Devouring His Son, a painting by Spanish artist Francisco Goya
May 24, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Degrowthbrain:
“A lot of liberal commentators and academics will say we don’t have enough of [insert profession here] to build the houses we need – the need for which is partly due to huge immigration. So immigration needs to stay high so that we can have the people over to build those houses. It’s a circular, absurd argument.”
April 30, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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I've just written to my MP, @mattrodda.bsky.social with my concerns about the recent Supreme Court ruling and EHRC guidance. The law (Equality Act 2010) must be fixed before this state interference in the private sphere becomes normalised. Pleas contact your MP if you feel similarly.
Dear Mr Rodda, I am a constituent of yours, and I voted for you in the general election past, 2024. I write to you with concern about the recent Supreme Court decision and the initial guidance issued by the EHRC. The decision leaves ambiguity around whether transgender people have access to basic public facilities such as toilets. Such a situation is untenable and unnecessary – the status quo ante was perfectly workable and the exclusion which would be required is on its face repugnant to me as someone who values a free society. The Equality Act 2010 as currently interpreted under law cannot stand. The law must be amended to clarify that sex equality and gender (including transgender) equality are one and the same. It is your prerogative as a legislator to fix this injustice and prevent vulnerable people being excluded from public life. I trust you will do what is right.
April 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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April 17, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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From a recent paper (Doepke & Gaeta). Your impression of Germany is spot on. The story in UK is probably that top incomes have languished as well.
Labor protection and the education premium The chart below shows the percentage change in the college premium between 1980 and 2006 among some OECD countries against their OECD labor protection index in the 1990s.
March 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Logging back into Twitter for god knows why and I am presented immediately with this weapons-grade take from Noah. People were not kidding when they say he has lost the plot. The replies are chock full of hate directed at trans and (you guessed it) autistic people.
February 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Congressional Republicans right now
Lindsay Tobias meme. Panel 1: Right-wing parties can sometimes try enabling thugs and crooks in the hope that said thugs and crooks will carry out their agenda but be kept in check. Panel 2: Well did it work for those people? Panel 3: No, it never does, I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but... Panel 4: ...but it might work for us.
February 5, 2025 at 10:16 AM