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Guillermo Alonso Simón
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PhD Candidate, @PAISWarwick | AFHEA, Advance HE | Comparative and European Political Economy | Fiscal Policy and Economic Governance in the EU
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Guillermo Alonso Simón @galonsosimon.bsky.social · Dec 12
🚨Publication alert! 🚨

Happy to announce the publication of my first solo academic work! I critique how 'convergence' is deployed in debates about the Eurozone crisis and beyond, offering a constructivist edge to discussions about capitalist restructuring in the Eurozone.

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Opening the Black Box of ‘Convergence’ in the European Monetary Union: A Discursive Analysis
‘Convergence’ stands out as a prominent signifier in discourse about the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), recently also gaining prominence in debates within Comparative Political Economy (...
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Emilio Santiago Muíño @esantiago.bsky.social · 1d
Ayer tuve comparecencia en la Comisión de Transición Ecológica del Congreso. Sus señorías de Vox intoxicaron el debate con bulos negacionistas. Esta fue mi respuesta. Y de paso, una reflexión sobre su falso patriotismo al servicio de Trump 👇👇👇
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d
Are we great yet?

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.
Antifa expert at Rutgers University says he is moving to Spain because of death threats
An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 2d
Jörgen Warborn, lead EPP negotiator on the file, repeated that if the Socialists and liberals don’t play ball, “then there is also another majority to build with.”
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 2d
🚨 BREAKING: Europe’s main political parties have agreed to roll back green rules for businesses after a whirlwind day of political negotiations that nearly collapsed the centrist ruling consensus.​

Full story: www.politico.eu/article/soci...
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Unlearning Economics @unlearnecon.bsky.social · 18d
THIS IS NOT A DRILL! My actual book launch event - which is only 6 months late - is at LSE October 13th, you can sign up here:

www.lse.ac.uk/events/why-w...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 6d
Palantir has pulled out of involvement with the UK Digital ID card, according to an interview with their UK CEO on Times Radio. They’re concerned about the reputational damage of being involved with an unpopular Starmer policy.
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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 11d
Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism
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Kiko Llaneras @kikollan.llaneras.es · 11d
¿Quién vota a Aliança Catalana y Vox? 🗳️

Dos fuerzas crecen muy por la derecha en CAT: suman casi 1 de cada 4 votos jóvenes. Uno catalanista, otro españolista.

Les une el rechazo a la inmigración.

¿Quién les apoya? Hilo con datos 👇
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Instituto Meridiano @institutomeridiano.org · 11d
🔆 CONSTRUIR EL FUTURO 🔆

LOS LÍMITES PLANETARIOS DEL LIBERALISMO
7 de noviembre, 17.00 h

Inauguramos la conferencia con una conversación entre @agarzon.substack.com y @xanlopez.xyz sobre los posibles escenarios futuros en un mundo en transición hacia un nuevo sistema de gobernanza y acumulación.
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 15d
Thank you to all who joined us in Cologne this week for the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy! A fantastic line-up of speakers and participants, thoughtful discussions and global perspectives. Huge thanks to organizers @palmapolyak.bsky.social and @dustinvoss.bsky.social!
Group photo of the participants Pauline Kohlhase speaking in a group setting Audience member speaking at a panel session participant speaking in group discussion
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Jan Fichtner @janfichtner.bsky.social · 19d
Kind of important finding.
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Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 19d
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 22d
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Benjamin Wilson @wilbenjamin.bsky.social · 22d
That is all that endogenous money really is: the courage to issue it, met by a public capacity that has already rehearsed its legitimacy.

moneyontheleft.org/2025/09/18/t...
The Case for Fiscal Insurgency
by Will Beaman A common refrain keeps surfacing among prominent journalists- and commentators-in-digital-exile on BlueSky. Commenting on the emergence of yet another shadowy centrist think tank, Ne…
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Benjamin Wilson @wilbenjamin.bsky.social · 22d
That is all that endogenous money really is: the courage to issue it, met by a public capacity that has already rehearsed its legitimacy.

moneyontheleft.org/2025/09/18/t...
The Case for Fiscal Insurgency
by Will Beaman A common refrain keeps surfacing among prominent journalists- and commentators-in-digital-exile on BlueSky. Commenting on the emergence of yet another shadowy centrist think tank, Ne…
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Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · 23d
⏳Beyond thrilled to co-launch the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy next week — with this *incredible* lineup of female talent

🙌 @dustinvoss.bsky.social @mpifg.bsky.social
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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 23d
🚨New First View Article🚨

"Susan Strange meets the everyday: The mundane sources of structural power" by Kasper Arabi is now available #OpenAccess!

Check it out here 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/JhgVo3k
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Kasper Arabi @kasperarabi.bsky.social · 25d
New paper out in @risjnl.bsky.social! 🚨

I explore the everyday foundations of structural power in the international system and advance a new theoretical framework that reconceptualizes the state as a mediator between the two levels.

Time for a short thread! 🧵👇
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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · Sep 11
📖 New Etched in Marble: Mark Blyth on Why AI Won’t Save Your Writing

The Brown University political economist talks irritation, PowerPoint & why the page is still the only place where real thinking happens.

Read → catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...

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Etched in Marble: Mark Blyth on Writing, Thinking, and Why AI Can’t Save You
Writers on the Forces That Shape Us and the Writing That Endures
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Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · Sep 7
Thread 🎯
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Sep 6
Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:
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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · Sep 5
Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

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Nada es Gratis @nadaesgratis.bsky.social · Sep 4
Inmigración y crimen: lo que dice la evidencia nadaesgratis.es/santiago-san... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía
Inmigración y crimen: lo que dice la evidencia
Entre otros temas, este verano ha estado marcado por la agitación del fantasma de la inmigración por parte de los partidos de ultraderecha. Primero alentando los progromos en Torre Pacheco, después ve...
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Aug 31
Today in the casual media normalization of lawless personalist authoritarianism
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · Aug 31
President Trump has created an ad hoc, centralized approach to national security decisions that is a departure from previous U.S. administrations.
Trump Turns to Small Group of Advisers, Shrinks National Security Council
The NSC’s role in overseeing national security decisions has been curtailed
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · Aug 29
Here, @lewisgoodall.com really describes the essence of how Labour (like other social democrats in Europe) contributes to the normalization of the far right and to shaping public opinion against immigration. Because they have given up on challenging far-right narratives...
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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · Aug 29
"There have been no counter narratives from Labour. There have been no attempts to fact check some of this stuff."

Rylan's TV rant about migrant hotels was packed full of right-wing misinformation – and our government have done nothing to stop its spread
Rylan’s migrant rant: Why Labour’s failures led us here | The News Agents
TV host Rylan Clark is facing criticism for sharing misinformation about migrants, and echoing right-wing lies, on ITV’s This Morning. Does this prove how far this dangerous rhetoric has spread?
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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · Aug 25
1/New in @financialtimes.com w/ @himself.bsky.social on the Brussels Defect. Europe's longstanding path to power -- market regulation -- now a source of vulnerabilities. Europe's national security and democracy are at risk. Defection might be the only escape.

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Europe urgently needs a remedy for the ‘Brussels defect’
The EU must stop thinking it can turn thorny political controversies into solvable technical issues
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Aug 22
Let's keep focused on the broader pattern here. I've outlined it in six bullet points below. Viewed all in one place, it's quite ominous:

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Ana Catalano Weeks @anacweeks.bsky.social · Aug 15
🎉 Delighted to share new research out today: The Political Consequences of the Mental Load

📄 European Sociological Review
doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf019
@europeansocreview.bsky.social

What happens to political engagement when the “mental load” of running a household gets too heavy? 🧵
The political consequences of the mental load
Abstract. How do levels of cognitive household labour—the ‘mental load’ involved in anticipating, fulfilling, and monitoring household needs—affect politic
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El Orden Mundial @elordenmundial.bsky.social · Aug 13
🧑‍🚒Estas son las generaciones de incendios en España.

Los fuegos forestales siempre han existido, pero la intervención humana y el cambio climático están provocando que estos incendios se descontrolen.  En España ya se han clasificado seis generaciones.

Una infografía de @alvaromerino.bsky.social
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