Reposted by Mike RogersonCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 01/12/2025Listening to Mexican folk music on Youtube and they're running this horrible ad urging people to self-deport. Fuck you Kristi Noem, and fuck you Google for taking her money. 321244192
Mike Rogerson @csr-michael.bsky.social · 18/10/2025First away game with @afcwimbledon1889.bsky.social, won against my home town team, met @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social - now that is a day! 030
Reposted by Mike RogersonAndrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 28/07/2025I'm no football fan but delighted of course to see #Lionesses retain their #WEURO2025 title. Perfect opportunity to remember humanist Florence Dixie, who, unwilling to conform to the strictures of Victorian womanhood, became the 1st president of the British Ladies’ Football Club in 1895.heritage.humanists.ukHumanist Heritage: Lady Florence Dixie (1855-1905)Those who, like myself, are in communication with the advanced thought and thinkers throughout the world know that hundreds —nay, […] 214132
Reposted by Mike RogersonDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/07/2025The first global comparison of glacier mass change reveals a global loss of 273 billion tonnes per year, an amount equivalent to what the entire human population on Earth drinks in 30 years. 🧪eos.orgFirst Global Comparison of Glacier Mass Change: They’re All Melting, and Fast - EosBy systematically assessing data gathered by different methods, researchers refined estimates of global glacier melt and its contribution to sea level rise. 16520275
Reposted by Mike RogersonMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/06/2025How on earth can this country still hold the World Cup and Olympics next year?? 1042146454777
Reposted by Mike RogersonJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 03/06/2025I... oh my god. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...amandaguinzburg.substack.comDiabolus Ex MachinaThis Is Not An Essay 1571652594
Reposted by Mike RogersonMarc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 02/06/2025"If you build [protected bike lanes], [bikes] will come." —science, again www.nature.com/articles/s44...nature.comThe link between low-stress bicycle facilities and bicycle commuting - Nature CitiesBicycling offers a range of benefits for urban commuters, but the facilities that best facilitate bicycle lane use are still unclear. Using data from 28 US cities, this study found that bicycle lanes ... 15411
Reposted by Mike RogersonPeter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 29/05/2025As ever, the loudest voices calling for the collapse of universities, presumably in the post-92 sector, benefitted from privileged educations. 34337134
Reposted by Mike RogersonDoccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 23/05/2025A new KS3 BIG question from the @ministryofeco.bsky.social is "Can eating fish be sustainable?" for Biology & Food Tech. Including resources from @mcsuk.bsky.social & @proveguk.bsky.social to help children to understand there are ways to enjoy fish, or fish alternatives, while protecting the oceans. 053
Reposted by Mike RogersonLev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 26/05/2025This is going to sound incredibly earnest and preachy but fuck it. Support creative people. Buy their stuff. Share it on here. Music, art, words, whatever. Things made by humans for humans. 271261406
Reposted by Mike RogersonDiane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Here's a link (paywall free) to my @foreignaffairs.com article on the need for better economic measurement: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...foreignaffairs.comThe World Needs Better Balance SheetsTraditional measures fail to capture the complexity of the global economy. 06716
Reposted by Mike RogersonJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16/05/2025okay but the response will be 100% DEI free and each hurricane will get a name which leaves no ambiguity about whether it's a dude or a chick. 46732110
Mike Rogerson @csr-michael.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Just a reminder, in case anyone needs it, of the results of anti-migrant rhetoric. How many others aren't lucky enough to win 'protracted' (read: the Home Office is refusing to discharge its legal responsibilities) cases or are ignored and die in exile? www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...theguardian.comUK agrees to fly home wrongly deported Windrush generation man from JamaicaExclusive: Winston Knight’s deportation order revoked by Home Office after a decade living on streets in Kingston 020
Reposted by Mike RogersonDan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 13/05/2025My grandmas were immigrants, my mum & sisters in law are immigrants; my sister & nephews are migrants. My kids study maths, Shakespeare, dance, act & score tries alongside the kids of immigrants. My dad’s life was saved by immigrants. Immigrants have made us richer, wiser, stronger Win the fight 983434756
Reposted by Mike RogersonIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Starmer's anti-immigrant speech today wasn't just a moral and political embarrassment. It was also an intellectual embarrassment. inews.co.uk/opinion/star... 1683171880
Reposted by Mike RogersonAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 12/05/2025I hope you’re not waiting for some clever defence of Starmer’s speech. As you know, I try to be fair and have praised him on foreign policy. I don’t think the White Paper is terrible, but ALL of the language surrounding it is inexcusable, insupportable, and indefensible. He can kiss my migrant butt. 981904295
Mike Rogerson @csr-michael.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Starmer announces that immigrants should have degrees to get visas. But will reduce the number of foreign students who can come here and get degrees. So contradictory as well as small-minded then. 010
Reposted by Mike RogersonThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/05/2025‘Cheap foreign labour’ – this is how Keir Starmer denigrates the migrant carers looking after your loved onestheguardian.com‘Cheap foreign labour’ – this is how Keir Starmer denigrates the migrant carers looking after your loved onesThe government’s claims about immigration driving down wages are so demonstrably untrue, it’s hard to feel the appropriate level of outrage 1919266
Mike Rogerson @csr-michael.bsky.social · 12/05/2025The Labour Party talks big on economic growth, relying on increased GDP to fund its plans. In attacking education as it has today, it reveals that it is more interested in pandering to the nasties than making this a better country to live in. No one interested in a better Britain hobbles education. 100
Reposted by Mike RogersonThe Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 12/05/2025Should our employers feel like our family? Or can this approach make it harder to escape exploitative and abusive work? @elisabethwide.bsky.social @helsinki.fi on social obligations, feminist approaches to labour, and the experiences of au pairs in Finland. #OpenAccess buff.ly/TMmHkdo 062
Reposted by Mike RogersonDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 11/05/2025I wonder when we’ll again see an event as unexpected and jubilant as the fall of the Berlin Wall. The communal optimism in the archive footage hits so hard 3482
Reposted by Mike RogersonEmil Archambault @emilarchambault.bsky.social · 11/05/2025So, minister, should the free market universities respond by raising their prices (regulated by the government), expanding their customer base (regulated by the government), or change their product (regulated by the government)? 38022
Reposted by Mike RogersonJohn Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 08/05/2025I, for one, am tired of [gestures broadly]. I have grown weary of [points in all directions simultaneously]. 553508894
Reposted by Mike RogersonAFC Wimbledon @afcwimbledon1889.bsky.social · 09/05/2025📺 IT’S BACK & OUT NOW! Watch the second episode of Fan-Owned Football now on the AFC Wimbledon YouTube channel! 👉 tinyurl.com/3rdf5ffu ⚽️ Special visit from @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social, behind-the-scenes with The Dons Trust and the season run in. #AFCW | #FanOwnedFootball 🟡🔵 415810
Mike Rogerson @csr-michael.bsky.social · 07/05/2025This is a fascinating and quite beautiful topic. 021
Reposted by Mike RogersonKevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 30/04/2025Manufacturers with supply chains requiring aluminum will have 2 tons of aluminum instead of 30, and maybe these two tons will cost a couple more bucks. 27511
Mike Rogerson @csr-michael.bsky.social · 30/04/2025How long before we have WhiteHouseologists trying to discern what the hell is happening? 120
Reposted by Mike RogersonBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28/04/2025Mark Carney is asked how the lessons of Brexit apply to Trump's tariff policy. "When you break off or substantially rupture trade relations with major trading partners... you end up with slower growth, higher inflation, higher interest rates, volatility, a lower currency, a weaker economy." ~AA 271156398
Reposted by Mike RogersonUSI Institute of Economics (IdEP) @usiidep.bsky.social · 28/04/2025A.Chevalier (@royalholloway.bsky.social) presented "When Parents Work from Home", joint work w. P.Achard (@crestsociology.bsky.social) & @michelebelot.bsky.social (@cornelluniversity.bsky.social). They find a positive effect of parental right to work from home on children's educational attainments. 043
Reposted by Mike RogersonBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28/04/2025I think Mark Carney's campaign will have to declare this post as a gift. ~AA @mark-carney.bsky.social @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social 531321195
Reposted by Mike RogersonSarastro @financeguy.bsky.social · 25/04/2025We’ve know this for ages but it’s good that this kind of analysis in now on mainstream TV in the UK 39686242
Reposted by Mike RogersonEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 25/04/2025I've just come back from the Cambridge Disinformation Summit where I gave the opening keynote, titled "Demanufacturing Consent - How Disordered Discourse is Destroying Democracy", featuring everything from Fake Hooves to Jackson Hinkle being the worst. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...youtube.comBelllingcat CEO Eliot Higgins, on how disordered discourse is destroying democracyYouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit 731855556
Reposted by Mike RogersonPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Water companies’ pollution incidents in England increased by 30% in 2024. Customer bills hiked. Shareholders extracted £1.2bn in 2023-24. Industry controlled by organisations with criminal records. No director prosecuted. Nothing will change until profit motive is removed. Nationalise.theguardian.comWater companies’ pollution incidents in England increased by 30% in 2024The sector, which had been set a target to reduce spillages by 40%, needs ‘radical reform’, campaigners say 10458213
Reposted by Mike RogersonStephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 09/04/2025"You boy! What tariff is it today?" 7562361320
Reposted by Mike RogersonProfessor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Excited to be launching Open Journals Collective today! We're working with librarians, academics & university-based publishers to replace commercial TAs with a community-led alternative. This is designed to save libraries money & tackle the rampant inequalities of global academic publishing. #UKSG25 38340
Mike Rogerson @csr-michael.bsky.social · 31/03/2025So *now* Orban believes in identifying as a different gender. 000
Mike Rogerson @csr-michael.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Daily @chess.com puzzle: 'Forego the fork'. Me: Ooh look, a fork. #chess 000
Reposted by Mike RogersonDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/03/2025What might be more evil than celebrating the decline of a stock price? www.theguardian.com/global-devel...theguardian.comAid cuts predicted to cause 2.9 million more HIV-related deaths by 2030 – studyReductions to overseas budgets by US, UK and EU countries will have ‘devastating consequences’, say researchers in modelling published in the Lancet HIV 42954250
Reposted by Mike RogersonAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Musk complies with Turkish autocracy’s requests to suspend pro-democracy accounts to “ensure X remains available” for Turks. He didn’t seem to care about X being shut for Brazilians last year when a democracy requested far-right account suspensions, which he rejected on the basis of “free speech”. 15380185
Mike Rogerson @csr-michael.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Can someone help me out here? @economist.com seems to be aligned with @teamlabouruk.bsky.social on benefits cuts. But 1) reducing money to the poorest seems likely to cut consumer spending, and 2) cutting benefits to motivate them to look for a job only works if there are jobs. (1/3) 100
Reposted by Mike RogersonIan Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 15/03/2025A gift from one would-be autocrat to those he regards as his peers. 1248
Reposted by Mike RogersonAnton Barbashin @abarbashin.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Trump is eliminating Wilson Center, a stellar US foreign policy study establishment. Along with it goes the Kennan Institute - one of the best Russia study institutions. I was fortunate to be a Kennan Fellow in 2017. Such a losswhitehouse.govContinuing the Reduction of the Federal BureaucracyBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose. 35801379
Reposted by Mike RogersonBlack Cloud Six @blackcloudsix.bsky.social · 15/03/2025This is a massive disaster for US soft power. 64717
Mike Rogerson @csr-michael.bsky.social · 15/03/2025An excellent Joshua Yaffa piece in @newyorker.com on the tight grip Russia has on cultural output. The Silencing of Russian Art www.newyorker.com/news/annals-... 010
Reposted by Mike RogersonAlex Andreou's Podyssey @alexpodyssey.bsky.social · 15/03/2025S1E1: Narcissus & Echo - The Influencer & The Follower Most of what you think you know about the story of Narcissus, is wrong. This isn’t a tale of pride or vanity. Let @sturdyalex.bsky.social take you on a journey. 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/13qu... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...podcasts.apple.comNarcissus & Echo - The Influencer & The FollowerPodcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 15/03/2025 · 59m 116340112
Mike Rogerson @csr-michael.bsky.social · 13/03/2025An exceptional Politics Weekly all round this week. Real hands-to-the-fire stuff. None of this policy makes sense internally and conflicts with much of what the government says it wants, e.g. on growth. You don't cut millions of people's spending power to fuel growth. 010