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Simon Arthur
@simonarthur.bsky.social
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In search of long walks and a post doc. Political economy maybe? Trying to write a book about the bank of England and become a real academic. Do I need to say I have a PhD? I have a PhD. Just recently!
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Jun 10
Views + reviews: our June issue gets the measure of six new books.

Steven Brown @academicdiary.bsky.social Stuti Roy @simonarthur.bsky.social Rachele Reschiglian @caryshill.bsky.social ‬on PhDs, @thewhitepube.bsky.social, class, neoliberal universities + more.‬

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · May 14
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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · May 13
“The purpose of education is so you can get a good job”

No it’s not…. Nooooooo it’s not

The purpose of education is so you won’t be a dumb ass
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · May 6
Augar is right that new regulations should include claw back pay from vice-chancellors in the event of financial catastrophe (defined as?). But is wrong to tie employment outcomes to tuition. At no point is there any mention of how basic and non-goal oriented research is an essential public good.
The English higher education market is broken
New regulator powers should include the ability to claw back pay from vice-chancellors in the event of financial catastrophe
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AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @askaubry.com · May 2
This is literally how toddlers act
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump BECAUSE MY POLLS AGAINST BIDEN ARE SO GOOD THAT INVESTORS ARE THIS IS THE TRUMP STOCK MARKET PROJECTING THAT I WILL WIN, AND THAT WILL DRIVE THE MARKET UP - EVERYTHING ELSE IS TERRIBLE (WATCH THE MIDDLE EAST!), AND RECORD SETTING INFLATION HAS ALREADY TAKEN ITS TOLL. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!! 4.94k ReTruths 19.5k Likes Jan 29, 2024, :07 PM Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump This is Biden's Stock Market, not Trump's. I didn't take over until January 20th. Tariffs will soon start kicking in, and companies are starting to move into the USA in record numbers. Our Country will boom, but we have to get rid of the Biden "Overhang." This will take a while, has NOTHING TO DO WITH TARIFFS, only that he left us with bad be numbers, but when the boom begins, it will like no other. BE PATIENT!!! 1.19k ReTruths 4.28k Likes Apr 30, 2025, 9:13 AM
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · May 2
Ronan the head-bobbing sea lion proves animals can keep a beat: ‘No human was better’
Ronan the head-bobbing sea lion proves animals can keep a beat: ‘No human was better’
Sea lion grooving along to hits such as Boogie Wonderland helps show scientists rhythm is not exclusive to humans Ronan the sea lion can still keep a beat after all these years. She can groove to rock and electronica. But the 15-year-old California sea lion’s talent shines most in bobbing to disco hits such as Boogie Wonderland. Continue reading...
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Philip Cowley @philipjcowley.bsky.social · May 2
This is the graph I've wanted to see all day... governments get kickings but this shouldn't be happening to an *opposition party*
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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · May 2
The other hand to Reform's gains are the Tories' horrific losses (41% of all seats). Not just poor for the opposition, but relative to total seats, it is the worst set of local election results for any party in British history, surpassing the Tory result in 1971 (losses at 38% of all borough seats).
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · Apr 18
Hans Poelzig’s Sulphuric Acid Factory in Luboń, Poland (1911-1912) #germanexpressionism
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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · Apr 18
You can’t argue with the peer review method. The conclusions are unanimous that Giorgia Meloni is a racist piece of sh
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Christopher Olk @christopher-olk.bsky.social · Apr 9
#Crypto began as an anti-state, anti-credit project. Now it's an integral part of the state-backed credit system - just think of Trump’s 'Bitcoin Reserve'. How and why did this happen?

Find answers in our new open-access article in @ripejournal.bsky.social:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A credit theory of anti-credit money: How the cryptocurrency sphere turned into a shadow banking system
Cryptocurrencies were designed to function as money without banks. How, then, could they run into a banking crisis in 2022? We argue that the evolution of the crypto sphere into a credit based syst...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 9
Trump on why he announced a tariffs pause: "I thought people were jumping a bit out of line. They were getting a little bit yipee."
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · Apr 9
Every day:
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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · Apr 9
"...as of 7 am on Wednesday, the signs are not good. There is good reason to think that we may be entering fullblown bond market meltdown. The headlines of Bloomberg and the FT and the WSJ all concur. The bond market is the story." -
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Chartbook 370: Is a "Treasury market unwind" in progress? Wednesday morning and the overnight fin-fi panic. (Part 2)
A specter is stalking global financial markets.
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Simon Arthur @simonarthur.bsky.social · Apr 9
It's a good book!
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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · Apr 9
Is a world democratic state possible? Though often dismissed as utopian, & despite rising political isolationism, a new book argues for the idea's feasibility & shares evidence of public support.

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The universal republic – a utopian ideal or a feasible mode of global governance? - LSE Review of Books
The Universal Republic: A Realistic Utopia? by Mathias Koenig-Archibugi explores the value and feasibility of a global government, an Enlightenment idea often dismissed as utopian and impracticable.…
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Rune Møller Stahl @runestahl.bsky.social · Apr 7
Economic crisis, a recession looming. We all know what comes next...

Articles in the financial press asking if Marx was right
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LSE Review of Books @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social · Apr 7
NEW✨ The universal republic – a utopian ideal or a feasible mode of global governance?

The Universal Republic: A Realistic Utopia? by Mathias Koenig-Archibugi @lsegovernment.bsky.social revisits an often-dismissed Enlightenment idea of a world democratic state.

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The universal republic – a utopian ideal or a feasible mode of global governance? - LSE Review of Books
The Universal Republic: A Realistic Utopia? by Mathias Koenig-Archibugi explores the value and feasibility of a global government, an Enlightenment idea often dismissed as utopian and impracticable.…
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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · Apr 4
@dkthomp.bsky.social: “The notion that taxing Lesotho gemstones is necessary for the U.S. to add steel jobs in Ohio is so absurd that I briefly lost consciousness in the middle of writing this sentence.”
There Is Only One Way to Make Sense of the Tariffs
The policy is absurd. It’s also an extension of Trump’s chaotic personality.
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Simon Arthur @simonarthur.bsky.social · Apr 4
I have just signed the contract to publish the book based on my PhD thesis, with R outledge books!! Titled "A Sociology of Institutional Banking Power: Elite Power at the Heart of British Banking" which I need to submit in October 2026. I am both excited and terrified!!
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The Onion @theonion.com · Apr 3
Concerning New Study Finds Nation’s Poverty Growing Faster Than Officials Can Build Prisons
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Concerning New Study Finds Nation’s Poverty Growing Faster Than Officials Can Build Prisons
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · Apr 2
It's only runaway inflation with a Democratic president; otherwise, it's sparkling positional gain.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Feb 3
Bruce MacKinnon, the editorial cartoonist at the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, drew this last November.

No newspaper would print it.

It now deserves an outing.
A cartoon is headed “How tariffs work”. It proceeds to show a cartoon of Trump in his suit and red tie taking a piss towards a fan with a Canadian maple leaf on it. The fan blows Trump’s piss back into his face. It was drawn and is signed by Bruce MacKinnon and is dated November 26, 2024
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