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Scott L Greer

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Political scientist in a public health school. Health policy and politics, especially in Europe. Recent books on EU health policy, federalism and social policy, co-benefits. Ann Arbor, Michigan. Opinions personal. 🚲. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5288-0471 .. more

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · May 19

I’ve been writing about the politics and impact of Donald Trump on the US and world, with special attention to Europe and the University of Michigan, and most of it is free to read. This thread, in order, brings it all together. I hope it’s useful as a resource on the different issues.

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 1h

I’ll go for: other countries with more democratic political institutions (eg no unrepresentative Senate, better Supreme Court) regulated guns before the internet turned mass shooting into a severely contagious phenomenon

Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 1d

Mass shootings by year and country.

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 1h

To what extent can you say Biden was correctly and effectively focused on avoiding great power conflict at first, after which there is an inflection?

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 2h

There is a great deal of ruin in a university

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 9h

Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚

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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

www.dailytarheel.com

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 2h

Sam Houston, man. I don’t know. No moral reason whatsoever to admire him, but reading his life story reminds us just how strange as well as familiar a historic figure can be (governor- alcoholic drifter “living with Cherokee”- general- Texan secessionist- senator? In 20 years? Try that today)

Sam Houston - Wikipedia

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 2h

For all the noise I made about the problems of rational choice theory, I clearly never plumbed just how strange the means and ends could be. Hard to believe grad school me was *insufficiently* critical of the Americanists.

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 2h

Real question, not snark. How do we update this diagnosis to reflect the elimination of USAID, other US cuts (eg NIH), and big (~40%) overall cuts to health aid over other rich countries? Global health as we knew and could critique it in 2024 is mostly gone. What are productive ideas now?

Why global health research must stop treating communities as data sources and start honoring them as knowers - GHO

Professor Seye Abimbola joins us for the Expert's Voice where he discusses epistemic injustice, the stubborn legacies of colonialism in academic global health, and why meaningful change requires us to...

globalhealthotherwise.com

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 3h

“The US Treasury has intervened in Argentina’s currency market for the first time, as the Trump administration tries to help its ally President Javier Milei contain a run on the peso.”

I dare say “helping its ally” isn’t the only motivation… and wonder how this will play in the red plains states

US Treasury intervenes in Argentina’s currency market

Scott Bessent announces $20bn ‘currency swap framework’ with the South American country’s central bank

on.ft.com

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 3h

This is a very interesting and thought provoking article about an interesting and thought provoking life

Former Detroit U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick dies at 80

Former U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, a Detroit Democrat, served more than a decade in Congress and rose to lead the Congressional Black Caucus.

www.freep.com

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 7h

This is why I can’t be DM’d on Bluesky when I’m in the UK. No way I’m uploading a starter kit for identity theft to whatever obscure firm with unknown security promised to assure compliance with UK law

404 Media @404media.co · 14h

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 9h

This is a story about agreements made between politicians and drug traffickers and police and landowners and military officers, and about the lines that separate them, but which, in this part of Honduras, have long been erased. beta.elfaro.net/en/from-the-...

In Honduras, a Friend of Drug Lords Loses His Seat in Congress

Congressman Óscar Nájera admits that Honduras is a narcostate. He knows it because he has spent three decades representing a prominent province along the cocaine corridor. He knows it because he is…

beta.elfaro.net

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Reposted by Scott L. Greer, Lyn Robinson, Juan Cole , and 2 more Scott L. Greer, Lyn Robinson, Juan Cole, Sarah Roberts, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 9h

Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚

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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

www.dailytarheel.com

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Reposted by Scott L. Greer, Melissa R. Michelson, David C. Kimball , and 3 more Scott L. Greer, Melissa R. Michelson, David C. Kimball, Richard M. Carpiano, Nathan P. Kalmoe, David Darmofal

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 9h

Immigrants have been awarded 40% of the Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics since 2000. nfap.com/research/new...

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 10h

Ha! That proves circumcision + Tylenol causes aneurysms!

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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 10h

"...Trumpists...seek to entrap universities in a deal that ...gives the administration arbitrary power over them. The carrots serve to lure institutions of higher learning into a dark alley where, rather than just waiting with a big stick, the government can put a gun to their heads at any time."

US universities must reject Trump’s ‘compact’. It is full of traps | Jan-Werner Müller

The administration is trying to make nine universities an offer they seemingly cannot refuse

www.theguardian.com

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 10h

When they say politics is downstream of culture, they don’t always mean culture as a thing that is widely shared across the nation

shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 10h

the TPUSA alternative super bowl halftime show will cover the seven major musical genres www.americanhalftimeshow.com

TPUSA survey

What music genres would you like to see featured? *

Anything in English
Americana
Classic Rock
Country
Hip Hop
Pop
Worship

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 10h

the TPUSA alternative super bowl halftime show will cover the seven major musical genres www.americanhalftimeshow.com

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 11h

This is quite a 2 1/2 minute watch

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 12h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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UC Davis School of Law @ucdavislaw.bsky.social · 11h

We are looking forward to this talk next Tuesday with Dr.
@timnitgebru.bsky.social
about the history of the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) movement and its link to the 20th-century eugenics movement.

➡️ In-person and via livestream: bit.ly/42kxaQV

#AGI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 11h

“when people say that it is the job of college professors to keep students engaged but that we can also not ban devices, I want to sigh performatively—how, exactly, am I supposed to keep them hooked when Hollywood can’t keep them hooked?”

A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society

Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost

open.substack.com

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 12h

As an American watching our best & most crucial institutions crumble in less than a year under Trump, I suggest you make as many of these changes now, while you can.
We didn’t, obviously.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12h

Fascinating moment in the power of DC Think. Democrats are clearly *not* looking for an off ramp right now. They’re actually saying this. Which is a measure of how badly it’s going for the GOP. It’s the GOP that is actually looking for the offeamp.

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Reposted by Joe R. Feagin, Scott L. Greer, Philip N. Cohen , and 11 more Joe R. Feagin, Scott L. Greer, Philip N. Cohen, Eric Goldman, Rebecca Tushnet, Alan Richardson, David R. Miller, Jacob T. Levy, Samantha Brennan, James Goodwin, David Bartram, Jens Siegert, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 12h

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 12h

You could read it as: the Supreme Court arrogated unthinkable power to itself, which it then chooses to delegate to other branches as it deems suitable for its policy goals

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Reposted by Will Jennings, Scott L. Greer, Joseph Schafer , and 7 more Will Jennings, Scott L. Greer, Joseph Schafer, Kevin Carey, Smith, Alan Richardson, Andrew Jacobs, Scott A. Imberman, Simon Lester, David Darmofal

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Reposted by Martin McKee, Sari Kovats, Richard Betts , and 8 more Martin McKee, Sari Kovats, Richard Betts, Scott L. Greer, Elizabeth Stokoe, Peter Campbell, Alison Phipps, Ben Worthy, Max Nathan, Margot C. Finn, Graham Dutfield

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 14h

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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404 Media @404media.co · 14h

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

www.404media.co

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 15h

Good article. Among other things, nice to have Orban remind us that being popular is part of the initial autocratic formula

Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 15h

"Although family benefits remain popular, they have not achieved the stated goal of increasing births. In 2024, just 77,500 children were born in Hungary — the lowest number since 1949."

The Era of Orbánism as an Exportable Model May Be Ending - VSquare.org

Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán’s once-admired “illiberal model” is faltering — plagued by economic crisis, voter frustration, and collapsing governance. With the 2026 election looming, his future — and the...

vsquare.org

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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 15h

"Although family benefits remain popular, they have not achieved the stated goal of increasing births. In 2024, just 77,500 children were born in Hungary — the lowest number since 1949."

The Era of Orbánism as an Exportable Model May Be Ending - VSquare.org

vsquare.org

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 15h

#OpenAccess from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social -

Populist Attacks on Academic Freedom: How Populist Leadership Erodes Academic Freedom in Liberal and Electoral Democracies - https://cup.org/3W088TE

- @victorhernandez.bsky.social & María Inclán

#FirstView #populism

Banner with the text 'Perspectives on Politics' over a city skyline. Below, a mural features a quote about protecting journalists and combating 'fake news.' Hashtag OpenAccess at the bottom.

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Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) @dndi.org · 19h

‘What is already an innovation gap could become an innovation chasm.’

Large pharma companies withdrawing from R&D for infectious disease therapeutics has a growing impact on non-profit medical research orgs like DNDi, writes our R&D director in @statnews.com.

www.statnews.com/2025/10/09/p...

Pharma’s shift away from infectious disease research could spell disaster for the world’s poorest people

The number of “innovation champions” in the pharma industry working on infectious diseases is dropping — and that’s troubling, writes R&D director for Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative.

www.statnews.com

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