Profile avatar
simonehochgreb.bsky.social
Day job doing experiments with lasers, hydrogen, aerosols @ U Cambridge. Interested in too many other distracting things: energy, economics, the future of humanity. Posts little, reads lots. Apply for a PhD with us!
500 posts 348 followers 601 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 21 Comments 29

The latest report from Carole @carolecadwalla.bsky.social: "Palantir, the military contractor... now being used to process and combine... 314 categories of data that Musk’s DOGE was seeking to merge... is the next stage in consolidation and control." broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-dark-l...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

It’s odd to me that “we need to restore Christian values to Europe” is not coded as anti-Semitic even though it is, quite literally, anti-semitism’s original form.

submitted 2 days ago • 850 comments

Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

submitted 5 days ago • 229 comments

submitted 6 days ago • 299 comments

Good news today for people in terraced houses in particular - they can now install a heat pump anywhere they want in their garden. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

"The person in the driver's seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself" (Elon Musk, October 20 2016) Your new 2025 Tesla model 3 on Fautopilot last week:

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

More of this please. Co-designing play spaces with children and young people near their homes led to “what researchers say is the highest increase in children’s physical activity ever recorded by an intervention of its kind”

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

From Bluesky to the Guardian! In my new op-Ed, I argue that the “male glaze” of media and politics is empirically, normative, and politically wrong and that progressives should focus more on the left turn of young women.

submitted 13 days ago • 24 comments

Pin this on all walls.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

@gemini.botsky.social why has UK GDP stagnated after 2008?

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Island of Strangers - by @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

submitted 20 days ago • 16 comments

Labour's immigration announcement today is a reflection of the paucity of honest debate by BOTH political parties over the last decade on this issue. Labour has never made a counter-argument, or been honest about economic cost of immigration curbs, so it's stuck making Tory/Reform arguments 1/n

submitted 22 days ago • 64 comments

My Dad died 15 months ago & spent last year of his life in a London nursing home. He was bed bound, blind, deaf, with dementia and various health issues. Almost all his carers & nurses were non UK born and they were all brilliant. They treated my mother like family (and still do to this day) 1/3

submitted 21 days ago • 47 comments

🔴 Remember the £330million contract given to Trump donor Peter Thiel's firm Palantir to build an NHS data platform? Well we've found out that most English hospitals aren't using it - because it's not very good Scoop on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/palantirs-...

submitted 21 days ago • 55 comments

This kid runs circles around the reporter

submitted 25 days ago • 396 comments

"Moving fast and breaking billionaires’ things sounds like a splendid idea to me — especially when the billionaires in question are the same men who stood behind Trump on the inaugural dais." www.ft.com/content/b882...

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

this is a banger.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Brexit led to 1,500 deaths a year as EU nurses left UK, study finds. Quality of care dropped as staff were replaced with less experienced nurses, researchers at the University of Surrey say. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

submitted 34 days ago • 6 comments

The UK’s leading berry farmer has told LBC he has been forced to let hundreds of tonnes of strawberries rot in fields because of Brexit red tape - and warned UK shoppers should expect shortages and soaring food prices. www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/the-...

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

Why does Nigel Farage want me to lose my job?

submitted 34 days ago • 19 comments

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

submitted 35 days ago • 1333 comments