@galonsosimon
Visiting Professor @uc3m.es | Adjunct Faculty @SLUMadrid | PhD from @warwickpais | AFHEA, Advance HE | Constructivist and European Political Economy | Fiscal Policy and Economic Governance in the EU
La gran pregunta de este 8M ha sido si los jóvenes son menos feministas.
La realidad es que los jóvenes son menos machistas, pero más antifeministas. ¿Por qué?
1.- Sí, ha aumentado el voto a la extrema derecha europea tanto entre hombres COMO MUJERES jóvenes.
Interested in how international inequalities are institutionalized? In the history of IOs? Please check our new paper in @isq-jrnl.bsky.social! 👇
Once again, the “sovereigntists” suffer from being strapped to the foreign policy of not one but two other powers.
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
The war on Iran likely brings a new oil price shock and windfall profits.
So, who stands to win?
Our research shows: Last time around (2022), the US reaped the largest fossil fuel profits of any country ($377bn). 50% went to the top 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵
Yes! Yes! Got both despicable Reform and gutter Labour.
I have spent the past several months studying the cutting-edge research on modern democracies that have defeated authoritarian leaders.
I've learned that the conventional wisdom on the topic is wrong — in ways that have clear implications for the US going forward
THREAD www.vox.com/politics/479...
The Starmer/McSweeney strategy followed the illusion of needing to win back the nativist-authoritarian worker and in the process alienated those who form their actual electoral coalition. This has been the story of social democratic parties across Europe. This won’t be easily reversible.
If he’d actually seriously taken on the recession, there wouldn’t have been a Trump. One day, we may finally be able to have that conversation. But almost no one is ready for that & probably won’t be for a generation:
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*Marx making a shocked face.jpg“
— @rheinze.myatproto.social
On the hellish detention and deportation system built by EU countries. With quotes from the current and the former German chancellors expressing their commitment to the inhumane cruelty of this apparatus, described here in forensic detail.
Research thrives on innovation and the diversity of ideas, yet our funding system often penalizes both. In our new study published in PNAS, we explore the hidden costs of competition in allocating scarce research funds. (1/10) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Amazing, the Starmerites who have squandered a majority in Parliament with such exquisite incompetence think a left Labour government would be the real disaster
Every accusation is a confession.
A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today.
Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
Very proud to share this piece with
@bolandeira.bsky.social for @jacobinmag.bsky.social, where we discuss the complicated relationship between the radical left and the nation, based on our article in JCES (doi.org/10.1080/1478...).
Updated EU Security & Defence Partnership tracker, to include yesterday's India deal
PDF: bit.ly/UshGraphic142
Synoptic datasheet: bit.ly/EUSDPs
@ukandeu.bsky.social @nvondarza.bsky.social @stevepeers.bsky.social
I'm honestly less mad at the President, who is clearly not well, that I am at his outriders and enablers.
They see messages like this and then, with straight faces, go on television or write op-eds retroactively constructing grand strategy justifications.
Pathetic.
If this tantrum doesnt move conservative European minds towards further integration, I dont know what will
Endogenizing the limits of ideas: a ‘how-to’ guide to understanding ignorance and failure in ideational political economy, by @jacquelinebest.bsky.social
A graph showing daily temperature anomalies since the 1940s
Not a single day in 2025 was cooler than the 1991-2020 average, on a global scale. @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
I can’t believe we’re doing this tone & curse policing again for Democrats. Trump calls people vermin & Vance dehumanizes minorities & immigrants all the time. What is wrong with the national media?
Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why." Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!" First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?"
Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization." Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces. Proud to be an American today! USA 🇺🇸"
Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster." Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City."
Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position" Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
Algunos nos quieren llevar a un mundo cada vez más hostil donde impere la ley del más fuerte.
Trump, Putin y Netanyahu son sus referentes internacionales pero tienen terminales en las derechas de cada país.
Hay que combatirlas tanto como a la ideología cotidiana que las justifica y hace crecer
Very excited to have this commentary article out in @ripejournal.bsky.social – Open Access!
. . . a short 🧵:
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In 1982, Hayek wrote a letter to Thatcher, suggesting that the UK should follow the example of Pinochet's Chile in implementing radical market reforms. Thatcher's response is quite telling.
Worth reading for lots of reasons, but particularly because it closes with something I see in my work and travels speaking on writing and AI. Many, maybe most students do not want AI-mediated schooling or lives. We can offer them something better. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
Happy to announce that I have successfully defended my PhD thesis! Thank you to @benrosamond1.bsky.social and Mat Watson for engaging so thoughtfully with my thesis; to @benclift.bsky.social and Özlem Atikcan for their guidance throughout the PhD; and to my friends and family for their support.
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
"Around Europe, labor parties have alienated their base by forming grand coalitions with the center-right . In Denmark, Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have pursued this strategy with the same dismal results."
From my analysis Jacobin on the state of Danish politics after the local elections