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Steven Bosworth

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Associate Professor of Economics, University of Reading He/him, autistic

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Steven Bosworth @sjbeconobot.bsky.social · Nov 20

I am very pleased to announce that long-running work with @mardelgiu.bsky.social, When Matthew met Larry: Explaining the persistence of gender underrepresentation in high status organizations is now available as an IZA Working Paper: docs.iza.org/dp17460.pdf

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Steven Bosworth @sjbeconobot.bsky.social · 3d

Anyways consultants are not paid because they possess useful advice. They are hired to stand behind what the buyer wants to do and accept blame / verify good money was paid for it.

Steven Bosworth @sjbeconobot.bsky.social · 3d

Weirdly lamentable that ai won’t after all be destroying jobs in the consulting industry.

Steven Bosworth @sjbeconobot.bsky.social · 3d

Weirdly lamentable that ai won’t after all be destroying jobs in the consulting industry.

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Steven Bosworth @sjbeconobot.bsky.social · 4d

JSM learning about incels: “and they can’t just wait wait for their one true love’s husband to die? Pathetic.”

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Steven Bosworth @sjbeconobot.bsky.social · 6d

How do you know this much about me??

Steven Bosworth @sjbeconobot.bsky.social · 7d

Bajorans: cause celebre of the galactic woke, internally a lot of shit to work through (v. Irish-coded)

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Steven Bosworth @sjbeconobot.bsky.social · 9d

Zionists will go on and on to diaspora Jews about how our safety hinges on the survival of a Jewish state when the reverse is much closer to being true.

Steven Bosworth @sjbeconobot.bsky.social · 9d

“..next week we are delighted to welcome to our seminar series..”

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Steven Bosworth @sjbeconobot.bsky.social · 10d

The U.S. health care system, leading the way.

Steven Bosworth @sjbeconobot.bsky.social · 10d

Discipline is for sissies, apparently.

Steven Bosworth @sjbeconobot.bsky.social · 11d

Begging Kier Starmer to extend the same consideration to all the Mexican nationals being kicked out of the US 🙏

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Steven Bosworth @sjbeconobot.bsky.social · 11d

The Boriswave HK exiles have demanded (and supplied) better, more tactfully named restaurants.

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Senior PowerPoint Engineer @ryxcommar.bsky.social · 12d

A friendly reminder as Nobel season approaches, the Nobel Prizes are not real Sveriges Riksbank Prizes in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 16d

@robfordmancs.bsky.social argues that the unpopularity of Reform's proposals offer the government an opportunity - but I'd add that they will squander that if they introduce what just looks like a watered-down version of those proposals.

y pushing for such a hardline policy, Reform may have over-reached and handed a powerful weapon to their political opponents, who can attack a potential Farage government as a clear and present danger to the rights and security hundreds of thousands of decent hard-working migrant families, including friends, neighbours and workmates. After years of making the running on immigration, Farage may this week have handed the initiative back to his opponents.

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Steven Bosworth @sjbeconobot.bsky.social · 18d

This is also basically Chuck Schumer’s approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Steven Bosworth @sjbeconobot.bsky.social · 18d

Listening Heads

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 19d

neurodiversity is Good Actually. just want to say that

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Steven Bosworth @sjbeconobot.bsky.social · 19d

A policy truly befitting a reality TV politician: Let’s just periodically vote people off the island.

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19d

Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.

Steven Bosworth @sjbeconobot.bsky.social · 22d

You jolt awake. It is 1932 Weimar Germany. You had gone to sleep determined to vote in the National Socialists. But the future must not come to pass. Only a reconciliation between the SPD and KPD can save the Fatherland from Anglo-American imperialism.

Steven Bosworth @sjbeconobot.bsky.social · 22d

But also as someone who lived in Pennsylvania and currently lives in England: I would blame this abomination on the British.

Steven Bosworth @sjbeconobot.bsky.social · 22d

As a non-native speaker of German I feel like it should be “Das Beste von der Insel together in einem Masterpiece Comes.” and I suddenly feel like maybe the AfD has a point. /s

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Steven Bosworth @sjbeconobot.bsky.social · 22d

This guy, of all people, is the voice of reason about immigration in UK politics.

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 22d

I have to speak my truth: you can't call Zack Polanski "Hypnoboobs"

Calling him "Hypnotits" is funny because it's a reference to the fact that he once claimed hypnosis can make breasts bigger and, crucially, it sounds like "hypnosis"

"Hypnoboobs" does not sound like it, it doesn't work

Thank you

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Jenny @pintmoss.bsky.social · 24d

Excellent point made in this article - "The government can, at any point, amend the 2010 Equality Act to clarify it. This could be as simple as passing a revised version with a single sentence added stating that its gender definitions include trans people."

www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

Britain’s Bathroom Ban

The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Steven Bosworth @sjbeconobot.bsky.social · 25d

One lesson to draw from Brexit is that Theresa May was not rewarded for delivering the most reasonable version of the bad idea she thought the British people wanted.

Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 25d

My most centrist dad take is that most governing politicians deserve sympathy because almost every policy that's actually any good for the country is unpopular, and almost every popular policy is probably bad.

Johnson's Brexit approach was far worse than Chequers IMHO but 20ppts more popular 1/

Steven Bosworth @sjbeconobot.bsky.social · 25d

also it just like me fr

Steven Bosworth @sjbeconobot.bsky.social · 25d

In knowing we are each of us mad but altogether sound but in doing we are each of us sound but altogether mad (Condorcet, Arrow). Is this how AI can know everything and still not be able to do anything?

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